What Zawahri's Message to Obama Says About Al Qaeda (flag)
www.democracyarsenal.org — Today, Al Qaeda's number 2, Ayman Zawahri released his first message since the election.  As the AP reported he used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites. Zawahri ...
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Al Qaeda, Obama, and "House Negroes"
The Reaction — ... are many reasons to be critical of the U.S. and its policies toward the Muslim world over the years, policies that led to a good deal of bloodshed and that, like it or not, contributed to 9/11, but attacking Obama as a traitor to his race (whatever race that is) and engaging in anti-Semitism and hatemongering generally is just reprehensible -- and just what you'd expect from al Qaeda. Still, there's more to this, as Democracy Arsenal's Ilan Goldenberg explains: More than anything [the statement] ...

Why Al Qaeda is Afraid of Obama
The Moderate Voice — ... are many reasons to be critical of the U.S. and its policies toward the Muslim world over the years, policies that led to a good deal of bloodshed and that, like it or not, contributed to 9/11, but attacking Obama as a traitor to his race (whatever race that is) and engaging in anti-Semitism and hatemongering generally is just reprehensible — and just what you’d expect from al Qaeda. Still, there’s more to this, as Democracy Arsenal’s Ilan Goldenberg explains: More than anything [the statement] demonstrates that Al Qaeda is ...

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