Al Qaeda Response to Obama

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Wow! Just reading some of the comments on this YouTube video is enough to get me riled up. Don't get me wrong - I am for equal treatment of people from all religious backgrounds. What I dislike are religious extremists, whether they are right-wing Christians or Islamic fundamentalists. In my opinion, both members of these groups share more in common with each other than they do with moderate members of their own groups (ironically, this similarity seems to result in them hating each other MORE!).

These kind of polarizing remarks are made not with the intent of unifying people despite different views but with the intent of creating more divisiveness and hate between different religious and national groups. Ayman al-Zawahiri probably spews these kinds of insults in order to make sure that HIS power as an Islamic fundamentalist isn't threatened by more moderate Muslims who might even see Barack Obama as an American leader who could reach out more to the Muslim community.

I also take major issue with his assertion that the "Muslims of Afghanistan" will defend themselves against the American soldiers. The Muslims of Afghanistan have no choice! They are forced to live under the corrupt and fundamentalist governing power of Al Qaeda, and most Afghanis are incredibly poor and uneducated because they have been deprived of any kind of government that looks out for the needs of the people other than using them as human artillery to fight the evil West. ARGHH!! And it is people like this second-in-command al-Zawahiri who are at least partially responsible for all the bloodshed, not only of Americans but Afghanis and Iraqis. He is NOT trying to be a voice of diplomacy; instead, he is perpetuating his own twisted religious and political agenda because he would rather see the downfall of Western civilization than he would see his own country become more developed by creating a good relationship with the U.S.