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‘ISIS is Weak and They Don’t Want You to Know It’: Australian-Egyptian’s TV Segment Goes Viral

November 17, 2015
Picture distributed by ISIS, showing militants including a commander known as Abu Waheeb.

Wherever terror strikes, there will be ISIS – or at least that’s how the terrorist group has made it seem during the past few months. During October and November alone, ISIS claimed responsibility for at least 10 terrorist attacks around the world, most notably the recent Paris attacks, Beirut bombing, Russian plane crash in Sinai and others before that, such as the Texas shooting. However, Egyptian-Australian Walkley Award-winning journalist and co-host on The Project Waleed Aly pointed out a game changing scenario on Monday, suggesting that “ISIL is weak and they don’t want you to know it.” “They take credit for any act of terrorism on Western soil, so they appear bigger and tougher than they actually are,” said Aly, adding that, “ISIL don’t want you to know they would quickly be crushed if they ever faced proper army on real battlefield.” “They want you to fear them. They want you to get angry. They want to start World War III: A global war between Muslims and everyone else.” Since the rise of the refugee crisis in Europe, many Muslims have praised how some European countries were accepting of the war-fleeing Syrians, as opposed to…


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