Posted on 06/27/2016 9:17:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
San Francisco has the unfortunate honor of appearing in a new propaganda video for the Islamic State released Sunday, no doubt to coincide with the city’s massive Pride celebration, since persecution of LGBT people is a hallmark of deranged fundamentalists.
Several alleged terrorists appear on screen to praise Omar Mateen, the Orlando gay nightclub shooter, and Larossi Abballa, the man who attacked a French police officer and his family June 13, the day after the Orlando shooting.
The trio reportedly encourages more attacks in the U.S. and Europe, and this is when the footage of San Francisco starts to roll (Las Vegas is also threatened, likely for its questionable buffet restaurants). Were we recently visited by some famous fundamentalists?
Scroll toward the end. There’s footage of the Golden Gate Bridge taken from the bicycle path on the west side, then Pine Street looking east toward the Financial District, and finally Powell Street heading north on a cable car — because what kind of terrorist would come all the way out to San Francisco and not ride a moving monument?
Conservative media outlets have been sharing each other’s story on the story, posting supposed screen shots from the video that look an awful lot like Google Street View captures.
The stories are run-of-the-mill right-wing fear-mongering we’ve come to expect from such enlightened news sources. Aggregation site Inquisitr was kind enough to point out that terrorists are prone to making empty threats all the time, which is about the most news we can derive from any of the stories.
It’s certainly unpleasant to think a would-be terrorist is either in San Francisco now or came here to record video footage.
Of course, media-savvy outfits like ISIS could get simple tourist video of basic tourist locations from anywhere. It’s also possible the video was made for some other reason and ISIS in Mosul just obtained the footage or stole it. Many questions.
This is far from the first time San Francisco has been subject to terror threats. Going all the way back to 9/11 and the Golden Gate Bridge, they have been numerous and without merit each time.
Nevertheless, we’ve reached out to the Police Department for comment and are awaiting a reply.
Apparently ISIS agrees with you.
Max, you need to worry a lot less about the “right wing” (whatever you think that is) and start worrying a lot more about Muslims.
And yes, that includes all those “moderate” Muslims living in the Bay area.
These people are ridiculous! “ISIS is posting video of San Francisco, right wingers say there may be a threat implied, therefor there must not be any threat!”
How delusional can people be?
Although now that I think of it, there was that recent directive against attacking gays and minorities...okay never mind, S.F., carry on!
The type of thinking evidenced in that SF Weekly article is so delusional but typical of the Left that you really have to wonder if there remains any reasonable consensus that unites Americans. Frankly would not want to have any substantive interactions or even superficial contact with such people.
The murdering rapists attacking the queers.
I knew this was going to happen.
There are so many of them running all over that area, they own Palo Alto at night.
“The type of thinking evidenced in that SF Weekly article is so delusional but typical of the Left...”
The irony is that even the author may not truly believe his own spin, but he knows the cabal he’s writing to, and calculates his expressions to get the most out of them.
I’ve entertained the notion of freelancing leftist tripe from time to time. It’s HELLA easy to write like a leftist; you’re not at all constrained by factual realities, and if you toss in “Monsanto” or “Bush” or any of a thousand other buzzwords you can never fail to get a smoggy, leftist “Yeah, man!” for your trouble.
On a prepper forum someone has “You may not be interested in islam, but islam is very interested in you” for a tagline.
We very very rarely saw them in our town.
In the past year they are suddenly everywhere.
I believe there are many many of them being brought over here and the official numbers are just the very tip of the isisberg.
Yes see them over there a lot, have to go to VA over there, Tracy, Stockton, Modesto, Sacramento etc all over there recently. Then flee to the Mountain and hide not bad here yet. Will not say that to loud they will hear me. lol
Why would ISIS threaten SF?
Even they should be smart enough to see that San Francisco’s liberals are doing a great job of destroying it without any help from them.
I see your Monsanto and I raise you an Enron.
Who, queers or murdering rapists?
Maybe the RATs done such a good job, the goat-raping head-choppers are ready to take it away from them.
The Arabs
LOL! Yeah, Enron works, too, but not with the millennials; gotta goad their parental units with that one.
Yeah, the murdering rapists.
Yep looks like they own El Camino Real
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