Not to MY President!

[Chicopee John]

Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama in new audio message

 

 

AIRO,Egypt – Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri insulted Barack Obama in the terror group's first reaction to his election, calling him a demeaning racial term implying that the president-elect is a black American who does the bidding of whites.

 

The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites Wednesday, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.

 

Al-Zawahri also called Obama — along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice — "house negroes."

Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term "abeed al-beit," which literally translates as "house slaves." But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as "house negroes."

 

The message also includes old footage of speeches by Malcolm X in which he explains the term, saying black slaves who worked in their white masters' house were more servile than those who worked in the fields. Malcolm X used the term to criticize black leaders he accused of not standing up to whites.

The 11-minute 23-second video features the audio message by al-Zawahri, who appears only in a still image, along with other images, including one of Obama wearing a Jewish skullcap as he meets with Jewish leaders. In his speech, al-Zawahri refers to a Nov. 5 U.S. airstrike attack in Afghanistan, meaning the video was made after that date.

 

Al-Zawahri said Obama's election has not changed American policies he said are aimed at oppressing Muslims and others.

 

"America has put on a new face, but its heart full of hate, mind drowning in greed, and spirit which spreads evil, murder, repression and despotism continue to be the same as always," the deputy of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden said.

 

He said Obama's plan to shift troops to Afghanistan is doomed to failure, because Afghans will resist.

 

"Be aware that the dogs of Afghanistan have found the flesh of your soldiers to be delicious, so send thousands after thousands to them," he said.

Al-Zawahri did not threaten specific attacks, but warned Obama that he was "facing a Jihadi (holy war) awakening and renaissance which is shaking the pillars of the entire Islamic world; and this is the fact which you and your government and country refuse to recognize and pretend not to see."

 

 

He said Obama's victory showed Americans acknowledged that President George W. Bush's policies were a failure and that the result was an "admission of defeat in Iraq."

 

But Obama's professions of support for Israel during the election campaign "confirmed to the Ummah (Islamic world) that you have chosen a stance of hostility to Islam and Muslims," al-Zawahri said.

[calfoxwc]

I figure, it's pitiful, because they are only trying to manipulate Obama. By criticizing him before he is even

president, they hope to put him on the defensive, and hope to get him to do the opposite of whatever Bush

has been doing.

 

How can they totally insult him for what he is doing as president when he isn't president yet?

 

so, they are just tweaking him to give up on fighting them.

 

This terror group has to be wiped out for as long as they ever exist.

 

BTW, now that Obama is pres elect, some Dems are deciding that instead of ridiculing Bush

for not finding and killing Obama, they are deciding that Osama is dead, and that Obama

should not keep going after him.

 

Bin Laden is dead as soon as Obama takes office. whoopee.

 

 

[Earle]

is this propaganda in an attempt to justify placing more troops in afganistan?

[DTBH]

I thought I read an article on CNN about Obama's plan to "ratchet up" the hunt for Bin Laden? As in, not claim he's dead, but just the opposite?