Tariq Nelson

Clarence Page writes:

It was a lot easier for the Islamist terror organization to frame the United States as a racist, anti-Muslim “crusader” nation before we elected a biracial American named Barack Hussein Obama to be our president.

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As a longtime student of his speeches and ghostwritten autobiography, I don’t think he would appreciate being exploited by fugitive jihadi terrorists any more than he’d want his face on Ku Klux Klan bedsheets.

Such irony. Just as Obama has made it cool to play by the rules and challenge the system at its own game — and win! — along comes Zawahiri to challenge his Negritude.

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With most of the world, including much of the Arab and Islamic world, enthralled with Obama’s election victory, it’s no surprise that al-Qaida feels compelled to assert itself back into world headlines. But the organization’s show is getting old, lame and increasingly irrelevant, even in the highly competitive Islamist terrorist world.

In short, killing thousands of Arabs and Muslims has not endeared al-Qaida to Arabs and Muslims. In Iraq, for example, al-Qaida’s attempts to take control of the Sunni insurgency backfired. Most of the rank-and-file insurgents actually have turned to make common cause with the American occupiers rather than put up with al-Qaida’s intruders.

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