Terror threat

ISIS Inspires Rather Than Attacks, Study Shows

The growing threat of ISIS is not stemming from the extremists themselves, but from the terror group’s propaganda machine.

The boastful jihadi group has neither the logistics nor the resources to mastermind atrocities in other countries, but is inspiring growing numbers of youths unaffiliated to the group to attempt ‘lone wolf’ gun attacks.

Terror experts revealed the weakened cult is now relying on radicalised Westerners to do its dirty work after infecting their minds with its hate-filled ideology online.

A new report has found ISIS-inspired plots are on the rise even though the Islamist fanatics behind three quarters of them have never had any direct contact with the group’s fighters. In fact, of all the terrorist atrocities attempted worldwide in the last year ISIS itself was only involved in the planning of only one.