Azerbaijani citizen working for ISIS tried to attack synagogue in Baku

Here's a case the awful Rachel Avraham's quite possibly obscuring in all her attempts to make Azerbaijan look as safe as Turkey is at this point:

A youth in Azerbaijan affiliated with the Islamic State terror organization is being tried for attempting to attack a synagogue in the capital city of Baku in December, according to Azerbaijani media reports.

18-year-old Abdulla Aliyev is accused of attempting to attack the Mountain Jews Synagogue of Baku with a Molotov cocktail and other weapons on December 28. The State Security Service was able to prevent the attack and detain him.

An accomplice testified against Aliyev, saying he was recruited online. The two began speaking about ISIS on Instagram that November, and Aliyev sent him a link to join a secret group.

“Later, he told me that he was going to attack a synagogue and asked me for an axe, a knife, a Molotov cocktail, and gloves,” the witness said. “He said that after that, when the time came, he would bomb other places as well.”

The local authorities may have arrested all involved, but that doesn't excuse that the Religion of Peace was an influence on the culprit. That Azerbaijan continues to follow Islam is exactly why sooner or later, it will have consequences, and their hostility to Armenia is exactly why their ostensible respect for Israel can't be accepted in every way.