This was first reported yesterday by local newspaper The Yorkshire Post, who failed to mention that the victims were to be the ‘infidel’ ie non-Muslim pupils, or that the threat was made by “daesh’ invoking Allah. This information has been made public by the national newspapers this morning. As ISIS, al-Quaida, the Taliban and Boko Haram don’t (unlike the IRA) go in for pre-attack warnings I suspect that the threat itself is the act of jihad. As Mohammed said “I have become victorious through terror” We had bomb threats daily during the 70s (the IRA, the Real IRA, some renegade Protestant groups, some were genuine, some were not, some were malicious hoaxes); you have to carry on and be vigilant. Its one of the tactics.
From the Yorkshire Post, the Express and the Daily Mail
Anti-terror police are investigating threats of a massacre against a South Yorkshire Catholic school were made online. A Catholic secondary school in Doncaster was placed on alert today after an Instragram post threatened to kill ‘every infidel student’ on the campus.
The sick message showed a Google Maps image of McAuley Catholic High School accompanied by the hashtag #McAuleySchoolMassacre. The threatening message came from an account named 81daesh48.
According to the post: ‘We have our sights set on you, and by Allah we will kill every infidel student at this school inshallah) #McAuleySchoolMassacre.’
Parents have been informed and pupils at the school have been urged not to respond to the message. The school, which will remain open, has released a statement which read: “The matter that has been reported is currently being investigated by the police. At this time pupils and parents are advised to not reply to any unsolicited emails or social media and to report anything of concern to the school/police.”
Police have been drafted in to patrol the school and a specialist officer will be present to give advice to parents, teachers and pupils.
An image of a ‘malicious’ post on Instagram went viral hours before the school contacted parents, prompting concern from both parents and pupils at the school. After learning of the incident on social media, Doncaster mother Shanie Varley pulled her 15-year-old daughter Alisha Hesketh out of the school, and has criticised the school for not making parents aware of the situation until later. She said: “I found out when Alisha phoned me panicking because she’d seen it on Facebook, but no-one was explaining what was going on. “The post had been seen and then sent on through Snapchat and then Facebook so all the kids knew but the parents weren’t told.
A statement from the North East Counter Terrorism Unit said: “We can confirm that police have received a report regarding potentially unauthorised and malicious posts made on a social media account. “This information has now been passed to the North East Counter Terrorism Unit. “Inquiries to establish the origin of this content are under way and the circumstances will be fully investigated.”
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