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CAIRO,Egypt (AP) - 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."
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."
Originally posted by Crakeur
it's in their worst interest if we pull out of Iraq. then they've got no justification for their acts.
...calling him a demeaning racial term implying that the president-elect is a black American who does the bidding of whites.
Originally posted by nyk537
Originally posted by Crakeur
it's in their worst interest if we pull out of Iraq. then they've got no justification for their acts.
Are you somehow suggesting that our presence there gives them justification for their acts?
Originally posted by nyk537
I don't think they need an excuse Crakeur.
I think their "excuse" is that they hate America and what it stands for.
They don't require an excuse or justification for their actions. They will continue to attack and terrorize others regardless of what we do or do not do. Simply ignoring them is not the answer.
They must be stopped.
Originally posted by mybigunit
We tick these guys off when we get in their business and occupy their lands.
Originally posted by nyk537
Originally posted by mybigunit
We tick these guys off when we get in their business and occupy their lands.
Oh really?
So these radical Islamists never had a problem with us before the war in Iraq?