{"id":277703,"date":"2016-11-07T00:17:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T23:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/islamic-state-calls-for-attacks-on-election-day-voters\/"},"modified":"2016-11-07T00:17:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T23:17:29","slug":"islamic-state-calls-for-attacks-on-election-day-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/islamic-state-calls-for-attacks-on-election-day-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic State Calls For Attacks On Election Day Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>The Islamic State\u00a0is calling for the &#8220;slaughter&#8221; of\u00a0U.S. voters on Election Day and demanding Muslims not participate in the democratic process, according to a U.S.-based terrorist monitoring group.<\/p>\n<p>Ritz Katz, director of the\u00a0SITE Intelligence Group, said Saturday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rita_Katz\/status\/794976959101014016\" target=\"_blank\">on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0that the threats appear in an essay carried by the Islamic State&#8217;s Al\u00a0Hayat\u00a0media center that\u00a0declares militants &#8220;have come to slaughter you and smash your ballot boxes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>1)Breaking: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ISIS?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\">#ISIS<\/a> special Hayat media doc calls for attacks on voters on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ElectionDay?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\">#ElectionDay<\/a> demands Muslims not participate in Democratic process <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w2UKmsQIxo\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/w2UKmsQIxo<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Rita Katz (@Rita_Katz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rita_Katz\/status\/794976959101014016\" target=\"_blank\">November 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;May Allah make this year\u2019s U.S. presidential election a dreadful calamity like no other to have struck America throughout its pathetic history,&#8221; the\u00a0seven-page manifesto, entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/ia601509.us.archive.org\/31\/items\/afdfadf_201611\/TheMurtaddVote.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Murtadd Vote<\/a>,&#8221; read. Murtadd is an apostate who turns his back on Islam.<\/p>\n<p>The essay, which uses lengthy religious arguments\u00a0in an effort to justify such attacks, also declares there is\u00a0no difference between the Republican and Democratic parties in their \u201cpolicies against Islam and Muslims\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Katz posted excerpts\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rita_Katz\/status\/794976959101014016\" target=\"_blank\">on Twitter<\/a>, saying\u00a0the Islamic State, also known as\u00a0ISIS or ISIL, was inciting attacks\u00a0on Election Day &#8220;in an attempt to disrupt the election process and gain media attention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The full\u00a0essay, in English, includes a photograph of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/islamic-state-calls-for-attacks-on-election-day-voters\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Islamic State\u00a0is calling for the &#8220;slaughter&#8221; of\u00a0U.S. voters on Election Day and demanding Muslims not participate in the democratic process, according to a U.S.-based terrorist monitoring group. Ritz Katz, director of the\u00a0SITE Intelligence Group, said Saturday on Twitter\u00a0that the threats appear in an essay carried by the Islamic State&#8217;s Al\u00a0Hayat\u00a0media center that\u00a0declares militants &#8220;have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-277703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}