Islamic State and al-Qaida have "hailed" U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's win as the beginning of "dark times" for the United States, with some jihadis predicting America's "demise."
Shortly after Trump was declared the victor on Wednesday, several prominent ideologues linked to jihadi groups in the Middle East took to social media to cheer the prospect of a Trump presidency, The
Washington Post reported.
"Rejoice and find glad tidings in the imminent demise of America at the hands of Trump," the Islamic State-affiliated Al-Minbar Jihadi Media network was quoted as saying.
According to The Washington Post, Al-Minbar "is among several jihadi- linked online publications that sought to capitalize on Trump's controversial statements about Muslims during the election campaign,
saying that the alienation of ordinary Muslims is key to their recruitment of foreign fighters."
According to The Economic Times, the SITE Intelligence group, a private organization that monitors jihadi websites, said, "Trump's win of the American presidency will bring hostility of Muslims against
America as a result of his reckless actions, which show the overt and hidden hatred against them."
Another pro-al-Qaida Twitter account predicted Trump would "make the U.S. Enemy No. 1 again," in the Muslim Middle East.
"Trump will serve as the perfect straw man for the next four years, like Bush did before him," it said.
A Lebanese English-language website, Now News, also compiled a series of comments from prominent Salafist ideologues: "Trump's victory is a powerful slap to those promoting the benefits of
democratic mechanisms," tweeted a media spokesman for the Syrian jihadi group Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, formerly known as the Nusra Front.
Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, a jihadi ideologue linked to al-Qaida, gloated about Trump's victory, suggesting that it "may be the beginning of America's fragmentation and the era of its breakup."
In a second tweet, Maqdisi said that Trump "reveals the true mentality of the Americans, and their racism toward Muslims and Arabs and everything. He reveals what his predecessors used to conceal.
So his victory further exposes America and its appendages." Farther east in Afghanistan, The Washington Post reported, a spokesman for the Taliban said: "Our message is that the Americans should draft a policy not to take away the independence and sovereignty of other nations. Most importantly, they should withdraw all their troops from Afghanistan."
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