Ayman al-Zawahiri, left, and Osama bin Laden (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera/APTN)
Al Qaida’s racist insult
Al Qaida is doing our work for us, said Spencer Ackerman in The Washington Independent. The terrorist organization’s deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, appeared in a new video calling Barack Obama a “house Negro” who would continue what he said was a U.S. war against Islam. It’s hard to imagine a better way to discredit al Qaida in the heart of the diverse Muslim world than broadcasting the racism of its “intellectual architect.”
And “it doesn’t exactly harm” Obama politically to be insulted by Osama bin Laden’s No. 2 man, said Michael Tomasky in Britain’s The Guardian online. Clearly, this call for more attacks against the U.S. shows that “the al-Q boys are pretty panicked not to have a president of the United States the rest of the world despises. Bush was their hole card. Now there's a president who might render them marginal.”
“This insult will backfire,” said Michele McGinty in BeliefNet. “Bush was an easy target; he's pretty unpopular abroad and here at home, but Obama is much more popular among Muslims given that they believe he'll be much more sympathetic to the Palestinians.”
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He was not in favour of Hamas-led Palestinian democracy, when the Bush administration was. I'm wondering where this deluded thinking, apparently shared even by Israeli elements, comes from. Obama maintains the the U.S.-Israeli tradition as strongly as any administration's.
Could it be that Al Qaida is falling into irrelevance throwing insults and disrespect, much as has the Republican party?
It's a trick...everyone knows Obama is a secret Muslim. This is just a trick by radical islamists to make us think otherwise.
Haven't they got the word yet? Al Qaida needs to chill for a little, BO will be having them over for tea and dove cakes right after Jan. 20th, or he can go hang with them there. Don't worry about BO's treatment of Israel, he's already talking about giving all of the west bank, with all the water sources, back to the Palestinians using the borders prior to 1967 as his blueprint.
Ayman al-Zawahiri and his coward a.s Q boys had best watch their back and their jaw jacking. President (E) Obama has the full support of the American people and the World Bodies. In essence, President Obama means business and he is the wrong one to F.,k with.
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