Note that the quotations at the beginning and the end of the statement are from the Qur’an (59:2 and 63:8). Note also that the entire document couches the Paris massacres in the framework of a supposed war by France and its allies against Islam and Muslims. Yet Western analysts and the mainstream media, in studying and discussing this statement, will first discount Islam as having anything to do with the motive for the attack, and try to read into this statement other meanings.