AQ’s Race Card
It’s a bit of a double-reverse, double-blind poker bluff. Al-Qaeda’s No. 2, piping up at last, calls Obama the “House Negro.” Nice. Gateway with links denounces the racism.* We already knew they were bigots* as well as murderers, and what is more interesting is that AQ has begun its campaign of establishing that the Great Satan is still the Great Satan.
About the racial slur, reportedly variously as ”house slave” and “house negro,” it’s worth noting that Arabs and Muslims in general aren’t exactly blameless in the slavery game, far from it, and considerably more recently than the United States. Insults from terrorists are interesting only in for they say about the message the terrorists are trying to put forward. After all, we’re talking about people who strap bombs on retarded children, and wire the hands of “martyrs” to the steering wheels of car bombs and send them into marketplaces, so who cares what kind of slurs they sling?
This message, which praises Malcolm X (and claims he was killed by white bigots though it appears to have been an entirely Nation of Islam affair), is in fact a racial slur, but it is in the main less about the racial disparagement of Obama and more about telling its constituency that even if a black guy is in charge, the United States still has a white Christian racist Crusader imperialist formerly slave-holding etc. power structure calling the shots, and therefore is an enemy to brown people and Muslims everywhere. Any expectations or objectives it might have regarding Obama aside, the last thing AQ wants anyone to think is that America is actually a society where anyone can advance, prosper, and even attain their loftiest goals. Even the biracial son of an African man and a white woman from Kansas. The effort to undercut that could be a message aimed directly at American blacks, and/or black American Muslims,** and not simply at Americans in general, global Jihad, and the larger Umma, or earthly body of Islam.
Speaking of which, BBC notes that al-Zawahri slams Obama for turning his back on his father’s Islam. As expected. If that weren’t bad enough, al-Z points out, he prays with Jews! Very haram.
Jawa has the transcript, from which it is apparent al-Zawahri is very worried about Iraq and Afghanistan. He’s calling Obama’s election an acceptance of defeat in Iraq, something even the Dem Cong aren’t pushing anymore, and warns of quagmire in Afghanistan … a message more likely to resonate in certain quarters around here. It’s a headsup he’ll be chiding them for failing to surrender before too long, if they don’t get on with, much as he did when in 2007 when the Demo Cong failed to exercise its mandate.
It’s a complicated game. Of course it is in al-Qaeda’s interest for Obama to go soft, try to make nice, ease of on the bad cop. The last thing al-Qaeda wants is for Obama to actually be guided down the Bushite Crusader path, because that has been working. Al-Qaeda has been hamstrung financially and operationally, its leadership decimated. Now that al-Qaeda has been discredited in Iraq and largely run out of there, the next order of business is dealing with the flareup in Afghanistan … where there are signs the locals are losing their appetite for jihad … and tightening the noose on Waziristan, continuing the long process of eliminating safe havens. But al-Qaeda also has a pressing need to re-establish its international jihad props, and needs an enemy for recruiting purposes. Al-Qaeda also recognizes it is going to have to do more than just wag its beard from some cave in Waziristan, and al-Zawahri states, regarding us, ”America, the criminal, trespassing crusader … we must continue to harm it in order for it to come to its senses.”
Most of the rotten regimes have endorsed Obama, which was entertaining if ill-advised on their part … they’d do better to paint Obama as the enemy like al-Qaeda, let him look tough and then back down a little so he can make concessions to them without looking too wimpy. Maybe they are figuring that out: Ahmadinejad may have welcomed Obama’s election, but Khatami squawked up last Friday, no worries, it’s still “Down with the US” … the election won’t change U.S. policies and woe awaits Obama if he goes down Bush’s hated Crusader path. Maybe he’s worried about the Kumbayah camp’s Clintonward shift. That has everyone guessing, though even if Hillary is scarier than Bill, history suggests the Clinton Lite administration won’t be such a big problem for any of the above and it’s a little early to make any judgments on Obama’s stalwartness as anti-Jihadist Crusader. Sorry, I used the C-word again.
In any case, al-Qaeda, like the Iranian mullahs, has no plans to like us better. Unless and until our new leadership surrenders to them.
Ace: what a shock it will be for the left to find out racism exists outside America.
Joyner at the New Atlanticist rounds up some thinking on whether Obama should hunt Osama. Simple answer. Of course he should. But Juan Cole’s fretting about the “danger of failing” like George Bush is precious. The Bush administration has captured a Crusader Gulagful of AQ, killed a big pile more, and prevented AQ from striking within the United States again. He didn’t get the cherry on top. The last thing you want to do is demonstrate that, rather than yet another Chimpy failure, maybe catching Osama is harder than it looks. Quitting is clearly superior option to having that albatross around your neck.
Goldfarb at Weekly Standard, on Obama’s discussions with Gates about staying on. Good news, as Goldfarb notes, as Obama shows signs of following a Bushier path than promised. Michael thinks it will give Obama cover to pull out troops sooner than 2012, and still look like he knows what he’d doing. I think it might give him cover to keep them longer if he needs to, in addition to maintaining continuity with a team that is working. Either way, it’s bad news for AQ if Cindy Sheehan isn’t getting the job.
Malkin: Empathy lacking.
Hot Air: Al-Z gets all Belafonte on Obama. Meanwhile, also at Hot Air, German outreach to Muslims backfires. There’s apostasy.
Surber: AQ, direct to DVD.
Toldjah wonders if this will finally recruit the left in the GWOT.
QUESTION: Will American conservative talk radio (which is still talking about the Reverend Wright and William Ayers) still suggest Obama is some kind of a Islamic terrorist enabler or mole? (Most likely, yes…).
I dunno. Whether Obama wants to enable al-Qaeda or not is his business. “House Negro” just gives him one more reason to ask why they hate him. Hey, Moderate Voice may have hit on something … maybe they are goading him into trying harder to understand them. Kumbayah chorus louder please! Either that, or maybe they’re giving POTUS (Pal of Terrorists in the United States) some cover.
* Re Osama’s color barrier: A Jihadi in Love.
** Good luck with that, AQ. American blacks are loving Obama, don’t think he’s anyone’s House Negro, and with the exception of a handful of wackjobs such as mentally unbalanced John Mohammed and the pathetic and inept Sears Tower plotters in Miami, have shown no more interest in global Jihad than white America, which produced John Walker Lindh and Azzam the American. When the choices are occupying the White House and sharing your cave …
Topics: Obama, al qaeda, racism
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:25 am on Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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November 19th, 2008 at 11:18 am
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November 19th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
I wonder how long it will be until the Lunatic Left start echoing the slurs.
November 19th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
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November 19th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
AQ and the other cluster gaggles of inbred murdering morons of the islamo world didn’t advocate for Obama’s victory because they liked or respected the guy.
Nope, they pegged him as the weakest possible horse most easily played in assisting them, the AQ, in causing as much harm to America as possible.
I don’t mean to imply that AQ doesn’t see Obama as an ally in their campaign either. After all, Stalin and Churchill were allies against a common enemy back in the day, and they didn’t much like or respect each other either.
November 19th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Al. Zawaqueeri is still stuck in a cave buggering goats. The bigger problem is these pirates off somalia who are running riot. What good is a MOAB if you don’t use it. If we are going to defeat the islamopirates, Al queda et al we need to stop playing by the rules put down by a bunch of idiot liberal lawyers. they are to all intensive purposes terrorists and therefore there are no rules. If we continue to fiff and faff (I think they are words) every two bit asshole will challenge us because they know we will not stand up and fight.
November 19th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Nice try, al-Z, but the Iraq war is over. We won. You can sulk while the rest of us celebrate VI day on on November 22nd:
http://www.zombietime.com/vi_day/
November 20th, 2008 at 1:21 am
Quite right Theo. We have a carrier battle group there. If it sank everything along the Somali coast that floated the pirates would have a hard time getting at the ships passing by. Capture several pirate crews and hang them from the yardarms too.
The seizure of the Saudi tanker, 500 miles off the coast of Tanzania, shows that this problem is metastatizing. If firm steps to put down the pirates are not taken soon things will get very bad there. Expect the Islamic Courts clans to start getting involved in it, if they aren’t already. We might soon see the mix of jihad and piracy for profit that used to characterize the Barbary states of North Africa. If it proves successful the idea could spread. So we need backbone and strength and a lot less wimpish ROEs or lawfare about this.
Somalia is an area where no soveriegn state exercises control. In such a case powers harmed by activities there are justified in taking whatever action they deem necessary to prevent further trouble.