Yesterday started out like any other day; waking the kids (or did they wake me), breakfast, onlinenewspaper…alleged radical terrorist referred to Barack Obama as a “House Negro”.. Pump yer breaks, come again?
CAIRO, Egypt — Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obamain a message posted Wednesday, 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 literally translates as “house slaves.” But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as “house Negroes.”
The message also includes old footage of speeches by Malcolm X in which he explains the term, saying black slaves who worked in their white masters’ house were more servile than those who worked in the fields. Malcolm X used the term to criticize black leaders he accused of not standing up to whites. From the Ap.
WTF? You want me to believe that? Apparently so, because I woke up yesterday, as did everyone else, to this story being plastered across all the mainstream, and many not so mainstream news outlets, as if the damn sky was falling.
But, it just doesn’t smell right. You want me to believe that this is a message targeting Muslims? Says the white, non Muslim American government people. C’mon.
It bothered me all day yesterday, never too far from thought, and spurred along in online converstions with my evil facebook friends. It bothered me like the phrase “they hate us because we are free” bothered me (and still does).
That whole concept of “they hate us because we are free” is a Euro-centricfear tactic that was literally birthed by talking points issued by OUR federal government. That doesn’t make it fact; it makes it spin. And look what has been done to, ahem, “protect” our freedom.
No one hates Americans because they are free; certainly not Muslims. People hate Americans, and our government, because of their fucked up policies around the world. We can be some arrogant, do-whatever-we-want-and-get-away-with-it-because-we’re-America little bastards.
Spreading democracy? Please. That’s just another talking point. And don’t bother to write me and tell me that I’m anti-American or that I don’t get it; Do YOU know what it was like to live in this country in the faith and service of Islam on September TENTH? Were YOU a Muslim on 9/11? Then please, just listen and learn.
Is Al Qaeda a threat? I mean I guess, that’s what they keep saying, time and time again. But I don’t think they became a threat just because we’ve been sitting over here being pretty perfect and minding our own business. No, I don’t believe that at all.
And I am HARD pressed to believe that their so called #2 would sit up and compare Condi, Colin, Malcolm and Obama. i could be wrong. After all, I wasn’t in the studio, in the cave, there.
But it…I mean it is a bit odd, is it not? For a few reasons. First of all, Muslims, by no means, are monolith like that.
Secondly, it seemed late. As in, if you were gonna push this message, you should have pushed it a long time ago. Like before he was elected President. Like before he was named the Democratic nominee. Like when millions of voters were TRULY unsure about who his was, or what faith he held. But now? Today? No.
That message did not target ALL Muslims. When you think about it, that message is more on point if it just targets black folk in general. I mean, he called him a House Negro. He compared him to the one of the biggest Uncle Tom’s in DC; that being Condi (why didn’t he just toss in Clarence?). He questioned his blackness. he tried to invoke Malcolm in an attempt to divide. Divide who? Muslims? I’m sorry, did I miss something? When did orthodox Muslims start reciting the X doctrine? It’s laughable.
Finally, a voice over still photos? How hard is it to create something like that? As a matter of fact, I could make the same video by the end of the week, in my basement with the dude at the 7-11 down the street.
But I’m supposed to bet on that sorry little offering? Nope. Take the Kool Aid back, I’m trying to cut down on my daily intake of bullshit.
Wow. Denial isn’t a river in Egypt after all.
People like our friend pictured above were primarily responsible for ramping up the African slave trade in the late Medieval period. African slavery still exists in a less overt form along the East Coast of Africa, due to the demand from Saudis and other Muslim Arabs for non-Muslim African slaves. This still goes on.
This statement shouldn’t have surprised you. That it does says much more about you than it does about Al-Zawahiri.
Oh of COURSE! Let’s blaim him for SLAVERY, that’ll help the black girl see the light, right?
You might as well add me to the list of domestic terrorists dude, coz that ain’t phasing a sista ONE BIT.
The statement didn’t surprise me one bit. But it did make me laugh. As did you.
I think a more accurate statement would be:
They don’t hate us because we are free, they hate us because we are not muslim.
Please open your eyes to what radical Islam means to the entire world.
The terrorists are coming, The terrorists are coming !! This guy Al Zawari has been killed, maybe two or three times now (at least in the main stream media). I don’t beleive the hype either.