Sig Heil!
Bin Laden deputy uses racial epithet to insult Obama
Updated Wed. Nov. 19 2008 10:32 AM ET
The Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt -- Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted on the Internet on Wednesday, describing the U.S. president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites.
Ayman al-Zawahri's message appeared mainly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies.
He said in the message that Obama is "the direct opposite of honourable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.
In al Qaeda's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahri also called him -- along with former and current 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.
More
No comments:
Post a Comment