MistyWaters
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Why ISIS claims responsibility for attacks it didn't commit
"There is a long history of terrorists trying to elbow themselves into the limelight and milk some horrible tragedy to claim some credit for themselves," said Hoffman, who serves as Georgetown University's director of security studies.
"For them, it's a quote-unquote 'freebie,' in the sense that they get attention, and people talk about whether it's them. For terrorist groups, being in the news is one of the validations that they have an impact," he said.
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Excellent quote, maybe people don’t realize how they might be unknowingly feeding ISIS with freebies. ISIS would only need a auto word search of their name via SM to notice crimes and comments that literally beg their acknowledgement.
It’s as if there was never a single horrendous deed known to North America prior to the Iraq war and the creation of ISIS. Now they are everywhere and their name is on top of many people’s mind each and every time a tragedy occurs.
I think it’s sad actually. Rather than society contemplating what’s gone wrong with people such as Hussain who suddenly become horrendous destructors, it’s much easier to assign responsibility to an outside entity that we have absolutely no control over.