Al Qaeda Attacks Obama

Ayman al Zawahiri, second in command of Al Qaeda, said Barack Obama was a “domestic black.” The Jihadist organization, which employs terrorist methods to achieve its goals, seeks to present the President Elect of the United States as a “child of the mandates” of whites. In this way, it seeks to alert certain Muslim and black communities about what the fundamentalists perceive as continuity in the politics of Washington.

Given that a considerable number of blacks in North America have adopted Islam as their religion, Zawahiri referenced one of the icons of the African American community: he said that Obama “was the absolute opposite of black North Americans” like the revered Malcolm X who, in the 60’s, fought for the emancipation of people of color. Following, the leader of Al Qaeda reminded [Obama] that he awaits him on the battlefield: “You have reached the Presidency with a heavy inheritance of failures and crimes. Defeat in Iraq that you have already admitted to, and failure in Afghanistan that your military leaders recognize.”

Anticipating the announced strategy to withdraw troops from Iraq in order to concentrate forces in Afghanistan, the Jihadist command warned with its conceited language: “Keep in mind that the dogs of Afghanistan find delicious the flesh of your soldiers, so send thousands and thousands of them.”

The international enthusiasm awakened by Obama’s election has reached the Middle East and worries Jihadists. Several political leaders of the agitated region have manifested their enthusiasm about what they consider the end to a chapter of immobility. Instead, they await new initiatives that allow them to implement their already-designed plans for peace with their respective waybills. Hopes for change have received an early impulse with the awaited announcement about the closure of the penal base at Guantanamo and the end of the CIA’s secret prisons, which already mark a veering point in relation to the government of President George W. Bush.

In the same way that Obama accused the Republican candidate John McCain of simply continuing the same policies as Bush, now Zawahiri has accused him of the same role: “America has elected a new face but his heart is full of hatred, his mind soaked with ambition, with a spirit that spreads evil, crime, repression, and despotism that continue being the same.” But despite all of the disqualifications, even Zawahiri believes that something has changed: “The Bush Administration has gained nothing and is now transferring the North American disaster with its predicaments to his successor. But the American public, upon electing Obama, has declared its anxiety and fears about the future that the politics of Bush and his relations can lead to.”

As would be expected of a religious fanatic, Zawahiri unburdens himself in Obama’s beliefs even though they are without any basis. First, he accuses him of abandoning the Islamic faith: “You are the son of a Moslem father but you chose to close ranks with Islam’s enemies, pray the prayer of the Jews, regardless of the fact that you claim to be Christian to climb the rungs of leadership of the United States.”

In reality, Obama never professed Islam, on one occasion he visited a synagogue and prayed with a Jewish ceremonial hat but his Christianity has never been denied. Al Qaeda’s angry reaction is a symptom of the fear felt by those who have based their proselytism and actions on the polarization of conflicts.