Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri made a new video that appeared on September 9. It offers little that is new: 9/11 is again praised and portrayed as a product of Muslim grievances and payback for Western crimes; he vows a “thousand more” 9/11s and warns against apostates being more dangerous than original infidels.
Only one angle stands out—again, not because it is new, but because it sheds light on a growing phenomenon: black violence against police in general, in the context of Black Lives Matter in particular. In last week’s video, Zawahiri called on American blacks to convert to Islam, asserting that they will never receive justice and will always live in “humiliation” until they convert to Islam and rebel against the “white majority.” He even showed footage of the Nation of Islam’s Malcolm X preaching.
While the talking heads interpreted Zawahiri’s new video as opportunistically trying to exploit groups like BLM, the reality is that BLM has long been influenced by al-Qaeda type rhetoric and propaganda (which, as usual, is quietly disseminated on the ground, not by al-Qaeda, but by its many Muslim sympathizers in America). Zawahiri has been calling on American blacks to turn against whites and quoting Malcolm X for years.
Nearly a decade ago, Zawahiri issued a similar message:
That’s why I want blacks in America, people of color, American Indians, Hispanics, and all the weak and oppressed in North and South America, in Africa and Asia, and all over the world, to know that when we wage jihad in Allah’s path, we aren’t waging jihad to lift oppression from Muslims only; we are waging jihad to lift oppression from all mankind, because Allah has ordered us never to accept oppression, whatever it may be…This is why I want every oppressed one on the face of the earth to know that our victory over America and the Crusading West — with Allah’s permission — is a victory for them, because they shall be freed from the most powerful tyrannical force in the history of mankind.
American blacks, however, were Zawahiri’s primary targets. He again praised and quoted from Malcolm X: “Anytime you beg another man to set you free, you will never be free. Freedom is something you have to do for yourself. The price of freedom is death.”
Surely it’s not a coincidence that, a decade after this theme started to be hammered out by al-Qaeda and America’s Nation of Islam—who are ever telling blacks that Christianity is the “white man’s religion,” made to keep blacks passive, whereas Islam is the religion of equality, strength and dignity—that blacks, many associated or even converted to Islam, have begun to engage in violence and murder, including in the context of Black Lives Matter, that is, in the so-called name of “social justice”?
Sounding just like Malcolm X, last year Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan spoke words laden with the same “jihadi/martyr” rhetoric that Zawahiri and others are constantly invoking:
I’m looking for 10,000 in the midst of a million. Ten thousand fearless men who say death is sweeter than continued life under tyranny. Death is sweeter than continuing to live and bury our children while the white folks give our killers hamburgers. Death is sweeter than watching us slaughter each other to the joy of a 400-year-old enemy. Death is sweeter. The Quran teaches persecution is worse than slaughter. Then it says retaliation is prescribed in matters of the slain. Retaliation is a prescription from God to calm the breasts of those whose children have been slain. So if the federal government won’t intercede in our affairs, then we must rise up and kill those who kill us; stalk them and kill them and let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling!
Surely police are meant by “those who kill us”? Unsurprisingly, then, Muslims and the Nation of Islam—even ISIS apparently—were “on the Ground [in Ferguson] and Active Since Day One.” Likewise, Gavin Eugene Long, a self-styled “social justice warrior,” who murdered three Baton Rouge police officers last July, was a member of the Nation of Islam. Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley, the original Black Lives Matter cop killer, who gunned down two NYPD officers as they ate lunch in their patrol car in December 2014 posted on his Facebook an image of Koran verse 8:60, where Allah calls on Muslims to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah.” Edward Archer, another black convert to Islam, shot a Philadelphia police officer and later cited “following Allah” as his motive. There are many other relevant examples.
The aftereffects of al-Qaeda’s propaganda—which was regularly disseminated by Western media far and wide soon after September 11, 2001—are still with us. Such propaganda always had several faces: if it was meant to make liberal Americans feel guilty and try to appease “aggrieved” Muslims, it was simultaneously also meant to incite American blacks to violence against American whites. And it worked, even if its rationale is often hidden beneath the surface.
Good article Raymond Ibrahim.
Conversion takes place unmolested in prisons and the military as well. Whatever we do will be fodder for militants and the grievance industry, so do we just keep giving until nothing is left or do we act like adults understanding that with either action or inaction there will always be a reaction?
If nothing else we desperately need to recognize the reality regardless of what steps are taken. Until that happens we’re going to be frozen in place for the sake of propaganda and votes.
There are VERY few mahometans in the military. I knew one, an African (not an American black). He wasn’t a convert. He was a giant turd and I heard he got kicked out.
I knew none, though I’ve read of them. Glad the “giant turd” was kicked out.
Another racist article
….another witless, knee-jerk, will never know any better, response and judgement. As you did, you can just comment and boogie never being further edified.
You don’t have to take it as fact, but you’d be wise to give it some thought beyond the simplistic response you made.
Easy to hate and remain ignorant; for some it’s the only thing their psyche can take. Discounting out of hand ain’t too swift.
Didn’t know Islam was a race, genius.
Every enemy of America has realized that the Great Black Anger is the Achilles heel of our power and prosperity. Before Al-Qaeda, the Communist International sought to exploit this vulnerability with a long term strategy. Islam has inherited this strategy.
Khalilah Sabra speaking on Black Lives Matter at the 14th Annual MAS- ICNA Convention Dec 28, 2015
[MAS-ICNA : Muslim American Society-Islamic Circle of North America]
As the text onscreen indicates she has access to the Board of Immigration Appeals and to Homeland Security.
Chicago, IL topic: Black Lives Matter: Standing for Justice
Just to be clear, Sabra is encouraging her Muslim audience to join up with Black Lives Matter movement along with Hispanic grievance movements for the purpose of bringing about an Islamic revolution in America.
Text on screen:
“Khalilah Sabra is Executive Director and Project Developer for Muslim Society of America (MAS) Immigrant Justice Center. MAS is a Muslim Brotherhood front group. This is confirmed by Citizens for National Security.
Khalilah Sabra is also an accredited representative who appears before the Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review and Board of Immigration Appeals, as well as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).”
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PORTION OF THE TRANSCRIPT
Following is a short transcript of a portion of Sabra’s speech that t can be watched on the video about 2/3 of the way through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_wOOOa_7Ak&app=desktop
“…and if we are prepared to unite for struggle for blacks, for Hispanics; for Muslims; if we are prepared to waste the struggle, then we will fail, but first we need to make a conscious admission to ourselves that black lives matter.
And right now we are feeling the effects of religious racism and intolerance that we have not seen for over a hundred years. [the Caliphate fell a hundred years ago; ISIS is starting a new one.]
Basically, you are the new black people of America. You are the people being imprisoned; you are the people being denied rights; you are the people being denied the dream. And join hands with other Africans who are struggling for the rights of blacks, Hispanics and other marginalized people of color –and just as these black brothers and sisters have been murdered in the streets, if we don’t stand, you will see Muslims murdered in the streets for no other reason than we say [saying probably in Arabic ]; that we are the community that staged a revolution across the world. If we can do that, why can’t we have that revolution in America? (CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE)
You are the children of the greatest man in history, Mohammed [arabic]. You don’t need another message [Mohammed is the messenger of Allah] ; you don’t need another blueprint about what you should do; you know what you should do. And if we do it, Allah has promised us the same victories that he granted to those who came before us. [in the Muslim Conquest].
And today must be that start. I don’t want any of you leaving here without dedicating yourself to a cause for civil rights. We are the community that staged a revolution across the world. If we could do that why can’t we have that revolution in America?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_wOOOa_7Ak&app=desktop
Raymond, and after “….every oppressed one on the face of the earth to know that our
victory over America and the Crusading West — with Allah’s permission —
is a victory for them, because they shall be freed from the most
powerful tyrannical force in the history of mankind.”, then what happens to the freed non-Muslim oppressed? Is there a verse(s) in the Quran that says what Allah tells Muslims to do with them and freed apostates? I understand they are all (people of the book are given an option of submission/jizya) to be murdered (Likely in some ruthless and macabre manner given what has been reported about “peace loving” Muslims to date.).
“Retaliation is a prescription from God to calm the breasts of those whose children have been slain.”
That’s not God’s words. That’s Satan speaking and we all know it.
Both Moses and Jesus climbed mountains to speak with God. Mohamhead got his info in a bat cave; the ‘fire’ of his ‘angel’ terrifying him.