Al Qaeda has officially added President-elect Barack Obama to its hate list. In the terrorist group’s first video message to Obama since his election, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al-Qaeda’s number two, calls Obama a “House Negro” who “claims” to be Christian so he could be elected to high office. The new video says that because Obama has chosen to support Israel and has threatened to strike Pakistan and send thousands more troops to Afghanistan, he has decided to continue “the crimes of the American crusade.”
The 11-minute, 23 second video in Arabic with English subtitles, contrasts what Zawahiri calls “House Negroes” like Obama –- along with Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell, who preceded her –- with Al-Qaeda’s hero –- Malcolm X, or Malik al-Shabazz, as the video repeatedly calls him — Obama’s “exact opposite.” In fact, Zawahiri apparently borrowed the term “House Negroes” from Malcolm X. According to the Associated Press, the video includes footage of Malcom X’s speeches in which he argues that black slaves who worked in their white masters’ houses were more servile and less confrontational than slaves who worked in the fields.

Zawahiri also says that by choosing to abandon the faith of his Muslim father in favor of Christianity and to continue waging America’s War on Terror –- albeit by different methods –- Obama has agreed to “pray the prayer of the Jews.” As such, Zawahiri says, Obama has become “captive” to the “same criminal American mentality towards the world and towards Muslims.”

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