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| 2007-07-04 | |
| As Americans celebrate the 4th of July today, Al Qaeda's top deputy Ayman Zawahiri is appearing in a new internet video praising jihadi fighters in Iraq and elsewhere. Dressed in all white and sitting before a news studio background, Zawahiri warns Americans that "Today, the wind - by grace of Allah - is blowing against Washington." In the hour and half long video, which surfaced today on the website Strategic Translations, a translation and terror analysis firm, Zawahiri urges his followers to hurry to Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, and Somalia. He also offers a message of confidence to the jihadi fighters in prison saying that victory in Iraq and Afghanistan will come soon. "You must be patient and steadfast," he says. "Rejoice, for victory is near, with Allah's permission, and the herds of crusaders have begun to split up and their sole concern has become searching for a way out." Entitled "The Advice of One Concerned," the video has English subtitles and includes clips from other videos and news broadcasts, including one from Al Furqan, the video production arm of the Islamic State of Iraq. There is a brief clip of Thomas Kean, chairman of the 9/11 Commission, speaking about the security challenges facing the United States. Also appearing on the tape is a clip of Abdul al-Bari Atwan, the editor of a London-based Arabic newspaper. In the clip, from an appearance on an Arabic news channel, Atwan declares that al Qaeda has become stronger since the September 11th attacks and that is truly an international organization. The video does not reference the thwarted in attacks in London and Glasgow, but appears to be more of a 'state of the ummah' style address intended to try and provide advice to the Muslim world in a manner similar to the fireside chat. Zawahiri offers what he calls his "reflections" on the scene in Iraq, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere. Sometimes using charts or referring to lengthy excerpts, including one from Bob Woodward's book "Plan of Attack," the video is part-seminar, part-call to jihad. At one point, Zawahiri even pauses to crack a joke about an article he read in an Egyptian newspaper that refers to a fax allegedly sent from a political prisoner there who renounces his extremist views from prison. "Do the prison cells of Egypt now have fax machines?" he asks disbelievingly, "and I wonder, are they connected to the same line as the electric shock machine or do they have a separate line?"
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| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #9 I would say that outlawing Islam as a whole is out of the realm of possibility. We require an alternative at this point. Sorry for posting so late. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2007-07-04 23:51 |
| #8 Would that I could always be so succint: TAQIYYA AND THE GOLDEN RULE ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-04 23:43 |
| #7 I don't see you as being an apologist. Certainly not in the light of your posts over the last few days. I would just as much hope that you do not think I was demanding mass deportation as a first step. I'll ask that my stance about outlawing shari'a law and the banning of Islam be duly noted. I remain convinced that Muslims in general will need to be exiled back to their native lands only because of how their willing embrace of taqiyya makes it impossible to determine who among them are our true enemies. I refuse to blush about this. So long as Islam cannot summon the least embarrassment about such an intellectual travesty as taqiyya, Muslims have no place in American society. The Western social contract is built upon mutual trust that each of us would do unto each other as we would see done to ourselves. This is not the case with Muslims and they are out of the loop. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-04 23:41 |
| #6 I've always been for reasonable deportation measures. its just that ive been engaging in discussion recently because of the abundance of comments that called for the drastic as the first step. I've been fairly aggressively trying to counter these calls which has probably made me look like an apologist, but that is not the case. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2007-07-04 23:16 |
| #5 Agreed on the "progressively lighter causes" notion. Forgive me any condescending tone, Mike N., but I feel as though I may had some small part in shepherding you towards the light. Goodness knows that others here at Ranburg have patiently done the same for me. Are we now in agreement that Islam and shari'a law are inextricably conjoined? Please rest assured that I'm not trying to rub this in. You've demonstrated some admirable loyalty to your neighbors, I just do not want to see such valuable sentiment misplaced when push comes to shove. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-04 22:54 |
| #4 I'm against blanket deportation of people who are citizens or are currently in the process. Beyond that I'm with you on stopping future immigration, at bare minimum of military aged males. Getting back to deportation, I would check on everyone with a student visa. If they're not going to school, they're gone. If they've overstayed, they're gone. If they're going to school like good boys and girls, they can stay until their schooling is done, then they're gone. And that's only if their finances don't smell like fish. Beyond that, I'm for deporting people for progressively lighter causes until the toilet is flushed. If we have to go as far as deporting someone for a paperwork error like forgetting to dot an I, so be it. I'm not ready to start at that point though. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2007-07-04 22:30 |
| #3 We have to win America first, then we can take on terror. I'm not entirely opposed to that, Mike N. While I'm confident we can prosecute terrorism in a parallel mode, domestic security should always take a front seat. Closing our borders and shutting down immigration from all Muslim majority countries would go a long way towards that end. I know we disagree about deportation so I'll suggest that we should at least make a formal declaration that shari'a law institutionalizes human rights abuse and begin economic sanctions against all countries that support it. I realize that Iraq and Afghanistan are included in that group but it's better if we begin discouraging such backsliding now than wait for it to become thoroughly entrenched. Finally, I'd like to see an ultimatum issued to the MME (Muslim Middle East) that they must install religious freedom or face the shuttering of all mosques in our country. Reciprocity must come about or Islam goes behind the eight ball in progressively harsher phases. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-04 21:59 |
| #2 their sole concern has become searching for a way out. I wonder where he got that idea. I'm tellin ya, Zen. We have to win America first, then we can take on terror. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2007-07-04 20:22 |
| #1 Let's make sure to backtrack the distribution channels of this filth so that we can flood them with a video of Zawahiri's bullet-riddled corpse when we finally nail his Islamic ass. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-04 19:46 |