BBC NEWS | Middle East | Al-Qaeda vows to hurt Obama's US

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Not Ready to Make Nice
Published 11/19/2008 by lex at Neptunus Lex
Al Qaeda seems unimpressed with our president elect: The second-in-command of Islamic militant network al-Qaeda has hit out at US President-elect Barack Obama. In a message purportedly from Ayman al-Zawahiri, the al-Qaeda deputy called Mr Obama a “house negro” - a demeaning term implying he served white people. Mr Obama’s plan to bolster the US military presence in Afghanistan would fail, Zawahiri said. Yeah, well. You just let us worry about that.

AQ’s Race Card
Published 11/19/2008 at Jules Crittenden
... car bombs and send them into marketplaces, so who cares what kind of slurs they sling? This message, which praises black Muslim Malcolm X, is in fact a racial slur, but it is less about the racial disparagement of Obama than it is about telling its constituency that even if a black guy is in charge, the United States still has a white  Christain racist crusader imperialist formerly slave-holding power structure calling the shots, and therefore is an enemy to brown people everywhere. BBC notes  that al-Qaeda also is slamming Obama for turning his back on his father’s Islam. ...

AL QAEDA CALLS OBAMA AN APOSTATE
Published 11/19/2008 by Pastorius (noreply@blogger.com) at THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
... but that's what Zawahiri is saying: Zawahiri also criticised Mr Obama - whose father is Muslim - for betraying the Islamic world. "You were born to a Muslim father, but you chose to stand in the ...