U.S. President-elect Donald Trump gestures as Vice President-elect Mike Pence applauds at their election night rally in Manhattan, Nov. 9, 2016. REUTERS/Mike SegarDonald Trump's presidential election victory has already been cheered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, a constellation of right-wing European populists, a former Ku Klux Klan leader and a Middle Eastern strongman. Dabiq, the Islamic State’s English-language magazine, said its terrorist campaign in Europe was intended to spark an anti-Muslim backlash by Western governments that would force European Muslims to choose sides. 1 again” in the Muslim Middle East. Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, a jihadist ideologue linked to al-Qaeda who has close to 60,000 followers on Twitter, gloated about Trump's victory, suggesting that it "may be the beginning of America’s fragmentation and the era of its breakup."

Source: Washington Post November 09, 2016 18:39 UTC