Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama with racial epithet

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What Zawahiri Has Done By Insulting President Elect Obama
Published 11/19/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (lawhawk) at A Blog For All
Al Qaeda's number two thug, Ayman al Zawahiri has issued a statement insulting President Elect Barack Obama weeks before he is to become President of the United States. Depending on the translation used, Zawahiri calls Obama either a house Negro or a house slave . The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights ...

Al Qaeda Number 2 Calls Obama A "House Negro"
Published 11/19/2008 by DrewM. at Ace of Spades HQ
... But this? This is fighting words! Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader 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. The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader. In al-Qaida's first response to ...

Carol Platt Liebau: Back Off, Al Zawahiri
Published 11/19/2008 at Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog
Bin Laden henchman Ayman al Zawahiri has released a message today that refers to President-elect Obama in denigrating racial terms . Let's hope this doesn't represent some sort of "test" for the President-elect. And just in case it isn't clear to some of our enemies overseas, let's spell it out. Republicans didn't support Barack Obama, and we are vociferously opposed to much of what he stands for. Even so, he is our President. And when you insult him, you insult all Americans -- whether we voted for him or not. What's more, stooping to use racial epithets only tells us more about the moral cretins that populate al Qaeda's ranks . . . as if we ...

House Negro, Please
Published 11/19/2008 by matt.welch@reason.com (Matt Welch) at Reason Magazine - Hit & Run
Al-Qaeda is trying to taunt the president-elect, drive a wedge between post-racial transcendence and Malcom X, or both: Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader. In al-Qaida's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect—along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice—"house negroes." Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term "abeed al-beit," which ...

Pretty Big Talk
Published 11/19/2008 by Tom Maguire at JustOneMinute
Trash talk from Al Qaeda: The second-in-command of Islamic militant network al-Qaeda has called on Muslims to harm "criminal" America. In a message purportedly from Ayman al-Zawahiri, the al-Qaeda deputy accused US President-elect Barack Obama of betraying his Muslim roots. He likened him to a "house slave" - who had chosen to align himself with the "enemies" of Islam. That "house slaves" translation may be ...

Things That Matter
Published 11/19/2008 by Joe Klein at Swampland - TIME.com
Well, I'm back from a long, cloud-ridden, sleep-clotted weekend holiday and ready to blog. But there's a problem: the things that seem to be exercising the residents of Blogadelphia this week don't seem very exciting to me. You want my opinion on Hillary for Secretary of State? Don't have much of one. She'd be fine--I've traveled with her overseas ...

Sticks and Stones
Published 11/19/2008 by Bill Jempty at Wizbang
Ayman al-Zawahri, al Qaeda's #2 man, insulted President elect Barack Obama. The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader. In al-Qaida's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect--along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice--"house negroes." ...

Al Qaeda, Obama, and "House Negroes"
Published 11/19/2008 by mjwstickings@yahoo.ca (Michael J.W. Stickings) at The Reaction
By Michael J.W. Stickings In case you missed it, Al Qaeda's #2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has issued a video statement directed at President-elect Obama: You have reached the position of president, and a heavy legacy of failure and crimes awaits you. A failure in Iraq to which you have admitted, and a failure in Afghanistan to which the commanders of your army have admitted. The statement, as you might expect, also criticizes Obama for his support for Israel and for being "captive to the same ...