Islamic State threatens attack on Sydney Opera House, SCG, MCG, other Australian landmarks

The Islamic State has called on its followers to kill Australians at several Australian landmarks including the Sydney and Melbourne Cricket Grounds, where matches for the 2016 Australian Football League finals will be held this week.

The IS urged its supporters to target the SCG, MCG, Syndey Opera House, Bondi Beach and other landmarks to avenge the recent death of IS Australian fighter Ezzit Raad in Syria.

Through its propaganda magazine “Rumiya,” the IS urged its followers to “stab, shoot, poison and kill” Australians “wherever you find them.”

“Kill them on the streets of Brunswick, Broadmeadows, Bankstown, and Bondi,” IS magazine Rumiya reads (via Sydney Morning Herald). “Kill them at the MCG, the SCG, the Opera House, and even in their backyards.

“Stab them, shoot them, poison them, and run them down with your vehicles. Kill them wherever you find them until the hollowness of their arrogance is filled with terror and they find themselves on their knees with their backs broken under the weight of regret for having waged a war against the believers, and by Allah's will, and then through your sacrifices, this Ummah will be victorious."

IS calls for revenge on Australia

The chilling threat was issued after the IS confirmed Raad’s death in Aleppo, Syria. A former Melbourne citizen, Raad was reportedly killed after “a piece shrapnel struck him and tore his chest open” in the city of Manbij.

Raad had served four-and-a-half years in jail after being convicted in an operation named “Pendennis.” Raad left Australia in 2013 and flew to Syria to join the IS. Meanwhile, Ezzit’s brother Ahmad was jailed after the 2005 plot to blow up the MCG.

The IS refers to Australia as a "a land cloaked in darkness and corrupted by kufr, fornication, and all forms of vice.” Australia is a major part of the US-led coalition that is fighting the IS army in Iraq and Syria.