It was a chilling prediction issued as part of a propaganda video intended to fuel hatred between Muslims and the West.

Now jihadis claim the words of American-born al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki are coming true — and it’s all thanks to Donald Trump.

In a video filmed in Yemen the year before his death and prior to the September 11 terror attacks, al-Awlaki warned that the war between Muslims and the West was escalating.

“You cannot count on the message of solidarity you may get from a civic group or a political party, or the word of support you hear from a kind neighbor or a nice co-worker,” he said in the video cited by the New York Times.

“The West will eventually turn against its Muslim citizens.”

Trump on Friday issued an executive order barring citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries — Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya and Yemen — from entering the US for at least 90 days.

The new president also imposed a 120-day suspension on the US refugee program and blocked Syrians from entering the US indefinitely.

The order has sparked backlash across the United States as well as global condemnation, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel telling Trump that the fight against terrorism was no excuse for banning refugees or people from Muslim-majority countries from entering America.

But jihadis online are using the development as a cause for celebration, with some calling it a “blessed ban” and others claiming it will help their recruiting cause, the Washington Post reported.

Other posters wrote it proves the “West hates Muslims” prediction made by al-Awlaki, who was killed in Yemen in September 2011.

The terror icon appeared in several videos advocating jihad, or holy war, with his main message being that Muslims are under attack and have a duty to carry out attacks on nonbelievers at home.

Several jihadis are using Trump’s order, and al-Awlaki’s 2010 message, as apparent proof that the West is at war with Islam.

Several social media posts said Trump’s order fulfilled the prophecy spelled out by al-Awlaki that the West would turn against its Muslim citizens.

Among messages posted to pro-ISIS social media accounts, one post hailed the US president as “the best caller to Islam.”

Others predicted the US president would spark a new war in the Middle East.

One post on a pro-ISIS channel on social media platform Telegram wrote: “(ISIS leader Abu Bakr) al-Baghdadi has the right to come out and inform Trump that banning Muslims from entering America is a ‘blessed ban.’”

One user said the “Muslim ban” was “the best caller to Islam” and would help bring Muslim Americans to the jihadis’ cause.

However, according to Dr. Rodger Shanahan, a research fellow at the Lowy Institute, postings such as these need to be taken with a grain of salt.

He said propagandists will use any excuse they can to promote their cause and the idea they are at war with the West.

Shanahan told news.com.au he believed such messages were simply preaching to the converted and doubted few people would take them seriously.

He said IS and al Qaeda were desperate and would use any propaganda they could to “fill copy,” but most people would be able to see their message wasn’t true.

“This (order) has been very unpopular and chaotic,” Shanahan said.

“But there’s been enormous widespread protest which has balanced that. There has been just as much coverage of the law (order) as the protests themselves.”

Shanahan said public backlash would show Muslims that Trump’s order wasn’t popular with everyone.

“I don’t believe this plays into the hands of ISIS, who are on the backfoot, or al Qaeda, who are too busy fighting ISIS,” he said.

“This isn’t a masterstroke of propaganda, it’s not a game-changer.”

Shanahan said jihadis have been saying the West hates Muslims for a long time and their messages were not new.

“Is this executive order ridiculous? Yes. Has it been shambolic? Yes,” he said.

“But will it have the intended (propaganda) effect jihadis believe? I doubt it.”

The order has not been received well in the countries affected by the ban, with Iraq threatening to do the same thing in retaliation.

Iran has also blasted the order, with Foreign Minister Javad Zarif warning Iran will take similar measures to protect its citizens.

On Twitter, Zarif called the move discriminatory and said he believed it would play into the hands of extremists.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who control the capital, Sanaa, released a statement saying, “All attempts to classify Yemen and its citizens as a probable source for terrorism and extremism is illegal and illegitimate,” the Associated Press reported.

ISIS deadline

Meanwhile, Trump has given his advisers 30 days to come up with a plan to defeat the Islamic State and wipe it off the planet.

Trump repeatedly pledged to eradicate the extremist group during the presidential campaign.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters the plan to defeat ISIS would involve cyber-activity, stopping money laundering as well as making a deal with Russia.

“The president’s view is, ‘I am not going to wait,’” Spicer said.

“’I am going to make sure we protect the homeland and the people with every measure. If ISIS is left in power, the threat it poses only grows.’

“We know that it has the ability to have chemical weapons and it attacks against our partner and allies continues to mount.

“The United States must take decisive action and is taking the necessary steps.”



Military strike

It also emerged that the first US service member has died in the first military action authorized by Trump.

Three service members were also wounded Sunday during the firefight with militants from al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s branch in Yemen, AP reported.

A fourth US service member was injured when a military aircraft assisting in the mission had a “hard landing” nearby, according to US Central Command.

The raid was planned as a clandestine operation and not intended to be made public, but the loss of a service member changed that, a US official said, adding that no detainees were taken in the operation.

An al Qaeda official and an online news service linked to the terror group said the raid left about 30 people dead, including women and children.

Among the children killed was Anwaar, the 8-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki.

Nasser al-Awlaki said the girl was visiting her mother when the raid took place. She was shot in the neck and bled for two hours before she died, he said.

Spicer expressed his condolences to the family of the soldier and said US forces “captured a whole host of information about future plots that’s going to benefit this country and keep us safe.”