One of ISIS's goals is to inspire people to commit attacks on their own. These are self-starters, but ISIS can claim responsibility as having spurred them on. If Trump gave a speech on Thursday saying "Kill all Black Lives Matter protestors", and his supporters went out and started actually killing them, would that not be laid at the feet of Trump? Of course it would.
The bigger issue than who deserves credit is that having self-starters being the main source of violence in the west makes it very difficult to predict when and from where an attack like this is coming.
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