ISIS releases new Dabiq magazine, "Break the Cross,"

Posted: Jul 31, 2016

attacks against Christians, urging its “hidden soldiers” in the West to unleash attacks “without delay.” In opening, Dabiq 15 references recent attacks by jihadis in the United States (Orlando), France, Germany and Bangladesh, before suggesting the “cross-worshipers and democratic pagans of the West” should contemplate the “reasons behind the animosity and enmity held by Muslims for Westerners,” and should therefore repent by abandoning Christianity and “accepting Islam. Attacking Christians: A general anti-Christian theme continues throughout the publication, with interviews from American, Canadian, Finnish, Trinidadian and Jamaican converts to Islam who have made Hijrah, successful migration to the Islamic State’s Caliphate in Iraq and Syria. The magazine also features a photo of the gravestone of a U.S. Muslim American solider, Army Captain Humayun Khan, captioned “Beware of dying as an apostate,” as part of an essay by “an American convert in the Islamic State,” who encourages Muslims in the West to migrate to the Caliphate, or if unable, to “serve a much greater purpose” by striking “behind enemy lines.” ;