Al Qaeda is Racist!

[applecorped]

http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2010/07/is_alqaeda_racist.php

"To begin with, the claim that al Qaeda is racist because of its willingness to kill Africans ignores the fact that the terrorist group has shown a real lack of regard for the value of life of virtually every ethnic group and nationality on the planet. The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) maintained by the University of Maryland's START program attributes 105 terrorist incidents to al Qaeda through the end of 2008. These attacks struck Afghanistan (31 incidents), France, Great Britain, Indonesia, Iraq (24 incidents), Kenya, Morocco, Pakistan (18 incidents), Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, the U.S., the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and Yemen. This GTD list does not include attacks carried out by al Qaeda affiliates, nor does it include foiled plots, or the country list would be far longer. But one common thread that the various attacks have in common is the "willingness to sacrifice innocent life to reach their targets" and to "kill innocents without regard to long-term consequences for their short-term tactical gains"; in no way can it be said that al Qaeda is uniquely dismissive of the value of African life."

That does it! Now I'm really mad at Al Qaeda!!

 

[applecorped]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/07/president-obama-white-house-al-qaeda-is-racist.html

"In an interview earlier today with the South African Broadcasting Corporation to air in a few hours, President Obama disparaged al Qaeda and affiliated groups' willingness to kill Africans in a manner that White House aides say was an argument that the terrorist groups are racist."

Oh noes! Murdering terrorists are racist!!!

 

[applecorped]

Thanks Tricky.

 

[Tricky]

In the words of Avenue Q, "Everyone's a little bit racist." I agree with that. The questions are, "How racist are they," and "Are they trying to do anything to combat their racism?" I'm really not seeing any hopeful signs for either.

 

[Darth Rotor]

I don't think their racism, or lack thereof, has much of anything to do with their being a canker on the arse of the planet Earth.

 

[Tricky]

I don't think their racism, or lack thereof, has much of anything to do with their being a canker on the arse of the planet Earth.

Racism is just one of the many forms of xenophobia, and hating people "not like us" is probably the main reason AQ is an arse-canker.

 

[geni]

I don't think their racism, or lack thereof, has much of anything to do with their being a canker on the arse of the planet Earth.

Arab supremacism was at one point at least part of their idiology though.

 

[applecorped]

Where they only racist for the attack in Africa, or were they always racist?

 

[WildCat]

Where they only racist for the attack in Africa, or were they always racist?

Always, I remember writing about that here years ago.