World Islamic State recognizes Taiwan in new propaganda video

[tom_mai78101]

The Islamic State has already attracted an angry response from China after it executed a Chinese captive last week. Now the militant group, known as IS or ISIS, could rile Beijing again, this time by recognizing Taiwan as an independent nation.

In its latest propaganda video, ISIS lists the flags of countries it says are part of a global coalition against it. Among these is the Taiwanese flag. All the other flags are of sovereign nations.

Taiwan's Central News Agency linked ISIS's sudden recognition of Taiwan to a statement made by U.S. President Barack Obama at an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Malaysia last week. Obama said that Taiwan was one of the Asia-Pacific countries in a coalition against ISIS.

The Hong Kong Standard reported that SWAT teams were patrolling the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport on Thursday after video prompted the Taiwanese government to step up security measures. Meanwhile, President Ma Ying-jeou urged the public not to panic.

Here is a screenshot from the video, which was posted on Wednesday.

Islamic State recognizes Taiwan in new propaganda video

In its latest propaganda video, ISIS lists flags of countries that it says are part of a global coalition against it. Among them: the Taiwanese flag.

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[tom_mai78101]

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[Accname]

Just ignore them. The terrorists just want attention. If you ignore them they will go away on their own.

 

[Varine]

Or just go all Russia and bomb the fuck out of whatever you want and not give a shit about anything other than killing someone they wanted to.

 

[KMilz]

Yeah, they seem to go about things in a much more direct manner than we do. They tend to get results a lot faster because of it.