“We ask Allah to bless the operation by the lions of the Caliphate, we ask Allah to kill the Crusaders…a metro to hell for the worshipers of the Cross.”

Once again we see that the Islamic State casts its conflict with the nations of the world solely in Islamic terms. It has never done anything else. Yet in examining its motivations and ideology, Western analysts routinely dismiss Islam as a factor.

“ISIS Celebrates St. Petersburg Metro Blast That Killed 10,” by Shira Rubin and Gilad Shiloach, Vox, April 3, 2017: