ISIS Poll: What Colors Should the Eiffel Tower Turn to Next?

On a popular web forum for ISIS members, a poll was published asking “What will be the color of the Eiffel Tower in the next attacks?” Vocativ reports.
ISIS Poll: What Colors Should the Eiffel Tower Turn to Next?
A picture taken on March 22, 2016 shows the Eiffel Tower in Paris illuminated in colours of the Belgian flag in tribute to the victims of terrorist attacks in Brussels. LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP/Getty Images
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ISIS has claimed responsibility for the bombing of the Brussels airport and subway, which killed more than 30 people, and is threatening more attacks. 

“We vow to bring dark days to the crusader nations that have allied themselves against the Islamic State,” ISIS said in a statement, the Independent reports. “And what awaits you will be even harsher, even more bitter.”

The terrorist group said the same thing after the Paris attack in November, which killed 130 people, stating that it was just “the beginning of a storm.” 

On a popular web forum for ISIS members, a poll was published asking, “What will be the color of the Eiffel Tower in the next attacks?” Vocativ reports. 

The question is a colorful way of asking which country ISIS should strike next. The Eiffel Tower was lit up with the colors of the French flag after the Paris attacks, and with the colors of the Belgian flag after the Brussels bombing. 

French security forces guard Rue Royale in Paris in front of the Eiffel Tower illuminated in the colors of the French flag, Nov. 23 2015. (Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images)
French security forces guard Rue Royale in Paris in front of the Eiffel Tower illuminated in the colors of the French flag, Nov. 23 2015. Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images
This combination of pictures created on March 22, 2016 showing the colors of the Belgian flag being projected on to (from Top L) the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin; the Eiffel Tower in Paris; the town council building in Belgrade; the Trevi Fountain in Rome; the Royal Palace at Dam Square in Amsterdam; and Rome's Campidoglio in tribute to the victims of Brussels following the triple bomb attacks that killed least 34 people and left more than 200 people wounded. (Anderson, Lionel Bonaventure, Oksana Toskic, Gabriel Bouys, Evert Elzinga, Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images)
This combination of pictures created on March 22, 2016 showing the colors of the Belgian flag being projected on to (from Top L) the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin; the Eiffel Tower in Paris; the town council building in Belgrade; the Trevi Fountain in Rome; the Royal Palace at Dam Square in Amsterdam; and Rome's Campidoglio in tribute to the victims of Brussels following the triple bomb attacks that killed least 34 people and left more than 200 people wounded. Anderson, Lionel Bonaventure, Oksana Toskic, Gabriel Bouys, Evert Elzinga, Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images

Twenty users voted in the poll, with nine voting for the United Kingdom, six for Russia, and three for the United States. 

ISIS has made videotaped threats to the United Kingdom and the United States in English, for airstrikes in Syria that have targeted ISIS. ISIS has also made videos of executions of people who allegedly spied against the terrorist group. 

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