A Malaysian brewery was told by police to be on its guard after
police told the brewing company, Carlsberg, that ISIS sympathizers had planned an attack on the facility.
A senior official from Malaysia’s Special Branch Counter Terrorism division told the South China Morning Post that his staff had arrested 19 people with links to ISIS over the past seven months.
The brewery was not the only target. The terrorists also wanted to attack the government and discussed attacks “planning attacks against a disco, pubs in Kuala Lumpur, and a Carlsberg factory in Petaling Jaya.”
Why target a brewery? ISIS endorses Sharia Law, which forbids the consumption of alcohol.
ISIS has been talked about a good deal for its rapid expansion of territory in the MidEast, but less has been focused on it as a possible international terrorist threat.
Some experts think that US airstrikes have made the US more of a terrorist target for ISIS.
Seth Jones, a terrorism expert with RAND Corporation, warned that strikes against ISIS “could increase the likelihood that ISIS or somebody inspired by ISIS, would strike against the homeland.”
Aaron Zelin of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy disagrees. Zelin said:
A senior official from Malaysia’s Special Branch Counter Terrorism division told the South China Morning Post that his staff had arrested 19 people with links to ISIS over the past seven months.
The brewery was not the only target. The terrorists also wanted to attack the government and discussed attacks “planning attacks against a disco, pubs in Kuala Lumpur, and a Carlsberg factory in Petaling Jaya.”
Why target a brewery? ISIS endorses Sharia Law, which forbids the consumption of alcohol.
ISIS has been talked about a good deal for its rapid expansion of territory in the MidEast, but less has been focused on it as a possible international terrorist threat.
Some experts think that US airstrikes have made the US more of a terrorist target for ISIS.
Seth Jones, a terrorism expert with RAND Corporation, warned that strikes against ISIS “could increase the likelihood that ISIS or somebody inspired by ISIS, would strike against the homeland.”
Aaron Zelin of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy disagrees. Zelin said:
I don’t think this changes [ISIS's] calculus. They are likely planning attacks whether the U.S. conducts targeted air strikes or not. We shouldn’t have reactionary policy when it comes to [ISIS] anyway — why would we let them continue to grow just because they aren’t attacking us now? In my opinion, we should destroy them as soon as possible.What do you think? Right now, it’s Malaysia; but could the US be next on ISIS’ terrorism target list?
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