WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's deputy leader accused Barack Obama of betraying his race and his father's Muslim heritage on Wednesday and urged more attacks, as the group tried to counter the incoming U.S. president's global popularity.
Osama bin Laden's second-in-command Ayman al Zawahri attacked Obama as a "house Negro," a racially-charged term used by 1960s black American Muslim leader Malcolm X to describe black slaves loyal to white masters.
"You represent the direct opposite of honorable black Americans like ... Malcolm X," Zawahri said in al Qaeda's English translation of his remarks. It was al Qaeda's first high-level commentary on Obama's election on Nov. 4.
Zawahri criticized Obama's support for Israel and plans to send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, where he said they were destined to fail. He called on Islamist fighters to keep striking a "criminal" United States until it withdraws from Muslim lands.
U.S. officials and analysts, alert for signs of an attack in the period leading up to the transfer of presidential power on Jan. 20, said there was no sign of an imminent threat.
They cast Zawahri's message as an attempt to shift al Qaeda's focus from U.S. President George W. Bush and maintain an enmity against the United States among its supporters.
"They're faced with what is by any accounting a change in this country," said one U.S. counterterrorism official who asked not to be identified.
"The way they're dealing with the change represented by the election of an African American as president of the United States is to insist that nothing has changed," he said.
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Re: Qaeda scorns Obama with racial slur, urges attacks
I guess AQ didnt get the memo.Silverback wrote:"The way they're dealing with the change represented by the election of an African American as president of the United States is to insist that nothing has changed," he said.
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Since Barry was brought up in Indonesia and spent time in muslim schools, do the mulsims consider him to be apostate.
I thought that this was funny in that the talking heads here said he could mediate with the knuckle heads because of his worldly experience and having lived abroad, but I wonder what the crazies think of him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam
I thought that this was funny in that the talking heads here said he could mediate with the knuckle heads because of his worldly experience and having lived abroad, but I wonder what the crazies think of him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam
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Re: Qaeda scorns Obama with racial slur, urges attacks
Silverback wrote:
"You represent the direct opposite of honorable black Americans like ... Malcolm X," Zawahri said
Yeah, he was a winner........
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Well it’s about time AQ started with the incumbent POTUS. Which means that President elect Obama will have to show his teeth and maybe flex a liberal muscle.
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As he was born to an Islamic father, he is considered to be Islamic by birth. Should he choose to become a Christain, he is considered an Apostate, and liable to be punished. Attached is an article from the Times of London discussing the fate of Apostates.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 510589.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 510589.ece
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Ah yes, the religion of Peace! Showing their peacefulness!!Jim wrote:As he was born to an Islamic father, he is considered to be Islamic by birth. Should he choose to become a Christain, he is considered an Apostate, and liable to be punished. Attached is an article from the Times of London discussing the fate of Apostates.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 510589.ece
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