Obama Still Claiming Gitmo Is al-Qaeda’s “Number One Recruitment Tool” — Reality Begs to Differ…
Out of 34 al-Qaeda messages, Gitmo is mentioned 3 times compared to 652 references to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict…
(Weekly Standard) — During a press conference on December 22, President Obama was asked about the difficulties his administration has encountered in trying to close Guantanamo. The president explained (emphasis added):
Obviously, we haven’t gotten it closed. And let me just step back and explain that the reason for wanting to close Guantanamo was because my number one priority is keeping the American people safe. One of the most powerful tools we have to keep the American people safe is not providing al Qaeda and jihadists recruiting tools for fledgling terrorists.
And Guantanamo is probably the number one recruitment tool that is used by these jihadist organizations. And we see it in the websites that they put up. We see it in the messages that they’re delivering.
President Obama and his surrogates have made this argument before, but they have provided no real evidence that it is true. In fact, al Qaeda’s top leaders rarely mention Guantanamo in their messages to the West, Muslims and the world at large.
THE WEEKLY STANDARD has reviewed translations of 34 messages and interviews delivered by top al Qaeda leaders operating in Pakistan and Afghanistan (“Al Qaeda Central”), including Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri, since January 2009. The translations were published online by the NEFA Foundation. Guantanamo is mentioned in only 3 of the 34 messages. The other 31 messages contain no reference to Guantanamo. And even in the three messages in which al Qaeda mentions the detention facility it is not a prominent theme.
Instead, al Qaeda’s leaders repeatedly focus on a narrative that has dominated their propaganda for the better part of two decades. According to bin Laden, Zawahiri, and other al Qaeda chieftains, there is a Zionist-Crusader conspiracy against Muslims. Relying on this deeply paranoid and conspiratorial worldview, al Qaeda routinely calls upon Muslims to take up arms against Jews and Christians, as well as any Muslims rulers who refuse to fight this imaginary coalition. . .
By way of comparison, all of the following keywords are mentioned far more frequently: Israel/Israeli/Israelis (98 mentions), Jew/Jews (129), Zionist(s) (94), Palestine/Palestinian (200), Gaza (131), and Crusader(s) (322). (Note: Zionist is often paired with Crusader in al Qaeda’s rhetoric.)
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in the mind of obama and his band of deranged liberal idiots ,if you be nice to the muzzies they won’t hate you. only a moron could beleive this unless you are a muslim . we should ask obama the closet muzzie.
What a maroon!!!
Obama Still Claiming Gitmo is al-Qaeda’s “Number One Recruitment Tool”
He is also arguing that he is not a socialist intent on destryoing America.
Dear Obama,
Just so you know, al-Shabaab (Somalia Terror Group) just called for you to turn to Islam or they will attack the US! That’s a propaganda tool for “extremists” so according to your own logic… you better convert quick!
Love,
Your Adoring Multiculturalist Horde of Hippies
Obama is the #1 recruiting tool for terrorism! Because of his cowardice in the face of the enemy, there is no reason why the terrorists would ever consider any alternative to terrorism.
President Obama and co, are classic examples of the “culture of guilt”, the burden under which the western civilization struggles today. He and his ilk not only fail, but do not wish to see the vast gap between the guilt culture and the alien tenets which form the basic Arab way of life. They see the Arab/Islamic world under this hazy, sightless perspective of guilt. This intellectual arrogance does not allow them to see the Islamic culture for what it really is, an “Honor” based culture (it does not fit in with their conceptions, so cannot be true). This honor (Sharraf) based culture has to preserve honor and avoid shame to the exclusion of all else and is the primary foundation of the Islamic/Muslim way of life, ergo the pressure of acquiring honor gives the individual a carte blanche to engage in Jihad for the glorification of Islam.
Arabs have made no great strides in Agriculture, Economics, Industry, Technology, Medicine, etc., for the past 600 years. Think of the Arab student coming to a western university – what do they learn – the accomplishments of people who have developed in a western civilization, including Jews and Women. No wonder there is a radicalization of Muslim students in the west; they must fall back on Islam and terror which enables them to achieve a “spiritual” superiority over the shameful, commercialized western culture and so regain their so called “Honor”. This is also the reason why they subjugate their women, in the face of a dearth of the Arabic supremacy over western civilization; it helps the macho Arab male to fortify his shaky self-esteem and image.
Arab honor has suffered dramatic blows in the past years especially in the case of tiny Israel, which is why the avoidance of shame is necessary no matter what the cost, and the result has given rise to an increase of complete fanaticism and a resurgence of terror in the name of “honor” Only when the leaders of the west understand the enemy, will they know how to stand against it. Unfortunately there are none so blind as those who do not wish to see!
Uh, say there President Obama – y’all do know that we didn’t have GITMO until after 9/11 don’t you? You remember 9/11, some 3,000 people were murdered by Islamic Radicals.
Something recruited those Islamic Radicals to do that and it wasn’t GITMO.
You understand now?
And, guess what, when they bombed the USS Cole – that happened on Clinton’s watch so you probably don’t remember it – they killed a lot of U.S. Sailors and guess what? Yep, we didn’t have GITMO then, either.
So there must have been something that “recruited” those terrorists before GITMO – what do you think it was, hmmmm?!?
don’t you recognize Bush invented GITMO with his freeze ray honestly he Netanyahu and Augusto Pinochet made GITMO out of ice to imprison innocent mooslimes no wonder the left hated Augusto…………….:lol:
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Was Gitmo up and running before 9/11?
Rehetorical question Farley.
Drop and give me twenty
I think its a little bit further then Cuba. try the Sudan and then Tennesseeastan and Minisotastan
A double tap to the back of the head would stop recruitment cold.