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Al Quada Says Obama Another "House Negro"?

Mike

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Qaeda scorns Obama with racial slur, urges attacks
Wed Nov 19, 2008 3:10pm EST Email | Print | Share| Reprints | Single Page |

By Randall Mikkelsen

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.

Obama's transition office declined to comment.

His election was greeted with broad hope in the Middle East, where relations with Arabic countries were deeply strained under Bush.

Daniel Benjamin, a counterterrorism official under former President Bill Clinton, said Obama's election on a platform of breaking with Bush policies was a boost to American "soft power," or nonmilitary international influence.

"I think they (al Qaeda) are deeply threatened by the fact there is a new American president and that he has come to office saying he wants to have a more constructive relationship with the one billion Muslims in the world."

Zawahri, he said, "feels like he has a competitor for the hearts and minds."

Zawahri referred to Obama's father, who was raised Muslim but became an atheist. Obama is a practicing Christian. "You were born to a Muslim father, but you chose to stand in the ranks of the enemies of the Muslims," Zawahri said.

The Malcolm X reference appears to reflect the influence of American-born al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn, believed to be close to Zawahri, said a U.S. terrorism monitor who goes by the pseudonym Laura Mansfield.

Zawahri has employed the "house Negro" insult before, when in 2007 he used the term to label Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her predecessor, Colin Powell, who are both black.

"And in you and in Colin Powell, Rice and your likes, the words of Malcolm X ... concerning 'House Negroes' are confirmed," Zawahri said in the message released on Wednesday.

His spoken remarks could also be translated as "house slaves," but the accompanying English translation used "house Negroes." (Additional reporting by Inal Ersan and Firouz Sedarat in Dubai) (Editing by David Storey)
 

alice

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This must have absolutely delighted you, Mike. Now, you have something in common with Bin Laden...

So much for all that worry about him being a radical Muslim and sympathizing with Muslim terrorists.

Alice
 

Texan

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I don't have any use for Barack Obama. I intend to point out every lie he tells and every promise that he breaks. But...

I'll be damned if I condone some no-good foreign terrorist SOB talking about MY President-elect. Surely we can ALL agree on that?
 

nonothing

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Texan said:
I don't have any use for Barack Obama. I intend to point out every lie he tells and every promise that he breaks. But...

I'll be damned if I condone some no-good foreign terrorist SOB talking about MY President-elect. Surely we can ALL agree on that?

Well said...I certainly think your free to have an opinion of your leader but you should also back your leader when it is warrented....
 

hypocritexposer

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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.

I thought the hate was against Bush, I was hoping it wasn't as the terriorists had said, that it was "against westerners".

At least Obama is going to pull the forces out of iraq and Afgani., Bring everybody home, we can surely fight the terriorsts here, on our home turf. It's worked out pretty well so far!
 

loomixguy

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Habib hates Negroes worse than Jews. That is why Habib goes in and slaughters Negroes at will in Afreaka.

Old Komrade's President elect is about to find out the hard way that in ways, he will be the victim of even more hatred from Habib than Bush 43 ever was.

It will be interesting to see how Chairman Maobama ages in the next 4 years.
 

SMN Herf

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I guess this dismisses the idea that once we got rid of George Bush and elect Obama, the rest of the world would love us. :wink:

I dont have anything against the President elect as a person, just his policies. I dont beleive that being soft against these fundamentalist organizations is good for anyone in the world except the fundamentalists. Obama and the Democrats would have had us cut and run out of Iraq and it would have only emboldened organizations like Al Quida. Despite the mistakes, I applaud George Bush and guys like John McCain for sticking it out through a very rough and unpopular time and finding a solution to the problem rather than just following the political winds like many of the Democrats did. The question remains if president Obama will have the same fortitude to do the right thing despite getting creamed in the media and by the rest of his party. Only time will tell.
 

TSR

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hypocritexposer said:
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.

I thought the hate was against Bush, I was hoping it wasn't as the terriorists had said, that it was "against westerners".

At least Obama is going to pull the forces out of iraq and Afgani., Bring everybody home, we can surely fight the terriorsts here, on our home turf. It's worked out pretty well so far!

Show me/us where he said he was going to pull the forces from Afghanistan (where Al Quaeda has flourished in recent months). All I have heard him say is that he is going to move forces from Iraq to Afghanistan because the commanders there say they need more troops and even then the war is probably "unwinnable" there militarily. If he has said it I missed it.
 

kolanuraven

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If it's as Bush & McCain said, we've won Iraq and the Mission is Accomplished....the troops need to move to Afghanistan as the situation there is as if we never hit the ground at all now as it's been ignored.
 

TexasBred

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Texan said:
I don't have any use for Barack Obama. I intend to point out every lie he tells and every promise that he breaks. But...

I'll be damned if I condone some no-good foreign terrorist SOB talking about MY President-elect. Surely we can ALL agree on that?

Well stated...thank you.
 

TexasBred

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hypocritexposer said:
If the US moves forces to Afganistan, they should dress them in Canadian uniforms, they seem to be getting more respect.

Wars aren't fought for respect and bullets don't discriminate by uniform.
 

hypocritexposer

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no, but hatred is expressed towards those who wear certain uniforms.

Never noticed that? The manner in which the Canadians deal in war torn countries are different. That's why we are known as "peace keepers", and not war mongers.
 
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