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| The Lessons of Adam Gadahn |
| 2010-03-09 |
| By Robert Spencer The first American to be charged with treason since World War II was back in the news Sunday, both for a new videotape he released and for reports of his capture that turned out to be false. In the videotape, al-Qaeda operative Adam Gadahn, an American convert to Islam, praised the Fort Hood jihad murderer and called upon Muslims to carry out jihad attacks in the United States. The reports that Gadahn had been captured caused widespread excitement until the arrestee turned out to be a different American convert to Islam, Abu Yahya Mujahdeen Al-Adam, who like Gadahn is an al-Qaeda leader. The videotape and the arrest of the other American-born Muslim demonstrate yet again the cognitive dissonance that prevails at the highest levels regarding the nature of the jihad threat. In the videotape, Gadahn called Nidal Hasan, who murdered thirteen people in the name of jihad and Islam at Fort Hood in November 2009, “Brother Nidal' and held him up as “the ideal role-model for every repentant Muslim in the armies of the unbelievers and apostate regimes.' And not just military personnel: Gadahn added that “Nidal Hasan is a pioneer, a trailblazer and a role-model who has opened a door, lit a path and shown the way forward for every Muslim who finds himself among the unbelievers.' |
| Posted by:ed |
| #1 I'm still trying to figure out what lessons this POS has to teach. That some screwed up kid from California converts to islam and sells out his country? That there are others of his ilk out there? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-03-09 10:16 |