Islamic State Editorial on Donald Trump's Electoral Victory

A huge number of hot-takes on Donald Trump’s victory in the recent U.S. presidential elections have attempted to explain why he won, offering a whole range of purported reasons that have often seemed to be premature in not waiting for the final vote tallies (e.g. the claim that Kamala Harris received 15 million fewer votes than Joe Biden did), too aligned with commentators’ pre-existing pet causes (e.g. ‘disinformation’ or Gaza) and disregarding the bigger picture that the country’s voters are still more or less split evenly between the two major parties in a pattern that has held since around 2000, with ‘swing voters’ in a small number of states being the decisive factor in the actual electoral result and satisfaction or disillusionment with the existing administration’s policies playing a big part in what way those swing voters go.

For the Islamic State however, Trump’s attainment of power and his ability to exercise that power are ultimately a reflection of God’s will- something that too many commentators and groups do not recognise! It is a reflection of a ‘Jahiliya’ (pre-Islamic ignorance) mindset that Trump is treated as though he were master of the world, when it is God who is the real master. In so far as God grants him power, it is only on the model of previous ‘Tawaghit’ (idolatrous tyrants) to whom Trump should be compared, as God wishes to lure them into a false sense of security and establish the proofs of their tyranny and arrogance against them in order to punish them.