Trump Muslim Ban Comments Featured In Al-Qaeda Propaganda Video
Early last month, Donald Trump shocked the American electorate by “calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until [the] country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”
While it wasn’t entirely clear what Trump meant by “until lawmakers can figure out what is going on,” the message was unequivocal: the GOP frontrunner was calling for the nation to filter those entering the country based on religion.
In the wake of Trump’s declaration, many analysts, commentators, and pundits assumed the brazen billionaire had finally crossed the line. That is, up to that point, Trump had proven to be largely “gaffe proof,” so to speak. Nothing he said - from calling illegal immigrants “rapists” to suggesting Fox anchor Megyn Kelly was “bleeding out of her wherever” - seemed to dent his run for the White House and in fact, his poll numbers seemed to rise with each passing insult.
The Muslim ban however, would be another story. Or so many people thought.
As it turns out, Trump’s lead over the rest of the field only widened as his message with regard to combating radical Islam resonated with many Americans who are struggling to discern how best to ensure what happened in Paris doesn’t happen in New York or Washington DC.
Irrespective of one’s take on Trump’s Muslim diktat, it was fairly obvious from the beginning that extremists around the world would use it to recruit. Here’s what Hillary Clinton said during the third Democratic primary debate: "He is becoming ISIS's best recruiter. They are going to people, showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists."
That’s not so much a politically-motivated attack on Trump from an entrenched member of America’s political aristocracy as it is an objective assessment of reality. That is, if you were a member of an extremist group and you were in charge of recruiting, you’d be remiss not to mention Trump.
For his part, Trump denies the allegations. Here’s what he said in the wake of Clinton’s comments:
“Nobody has been able to back that up. It’s nonsense. It’s just another Hillary lie. She lies like crazy about everything, whether it’s trips where she was being gunned down in a helicopter or an airplane. She’s a liar, and everybody knows that. But she just made this up in thin air. No fact-checker has been able to back up her claim on that.”
Well, no fact checkers are needed now because al-Shabaab (al-Qaeda's Somali arm) has released the following video featuring Trump:
Besides Trump, the video stars Anwar al-Awlaki, the top al-Qaeda recruiter who was killed in a US drone strike in 2011. "There are ominous clouds gathering in your horizon," al-Awlaki says. "Yesterday, America was a land of slavery, segregation, lynching, and Ku Klux Klan. And tomorrow it will be a land of religious discrimination and concentration camps," he continues.
Will Trump shake this off with the ease he's shed each and every controversy surrounding his campaign thus far? Probably.
However, it's worth noting that al-Awlaki gives Muslims living in the West "two choices": "Either you leave, or you fight," he says. How would voters respond if this particular video were to serve as the inspiration for an attack on American soil by a US citizen? Would it cause the portion of the electorate who supports the notion of a Muslim ban to reconsier their position or, would such a tragedy only strengthen Trump's hand by reinforcing the link between Islam and violence?
We'll leave it to readers to decide.
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I got booted, I suppose. One day I posted a reply to an article posted about the so called imminent fall of Glencore. So I replied " GREAT. Finally we'll have a new meme to replace "SINCE LEHMAN !!"
And then right after that, when I tried to log in the next day, it said my username had either NOT been registered yet or has been blocked.
Guess I caught one of the new Tylers on the rag that day. LOL !!
No matter. I've been booted out of better places ; ) Happy New Year, brother !
lol...apparently one of the Tylers has no sense of humor.
Even the old black stone in Mecca, they are required to circle around, is an old pagan site.
And I'm damn mad the Muslims have stolen it from my ancestors.
They were hating the west long before the US existed. The shit we do over there may fan the flames but muslims have been killing people, including muslims, for their entire history.
If I have made an enemy, I like to stop, examine my own conduct, maybe apologize if I find I have misunderstood or been in error and fix it. Only then, after trying to make amends to the other party I hapen to KNOW I have fucked over, do I decide that it is on them to reflect on my extended hand or reject it. If in rejecting it, they insist on attacking, then yeah, gotta wipe em out, there is not a lot else to do. But only then.
We have done nothing to shore up our own conduct. NOTHING.
The high ground is made of heady stuff, like integrity, like owning when you are wrong. We have no high ground, no integrity. Until we do, we can't sort shit out at all and we will continue to be attacked because the rest of the world sees us as no better than them and does not give a shit about us or our fucking empire.
Just sayin'...
If more people were like this.... Itd be a better world.
MsCreant, my love.
Integrity is a Western concept. "insha' Allah" the will of God/Allah is kind of like the Christian concept of God works in mysterious ways- that whatever you do, free will is not part of it.
No free will, no responsibility. No personal responsibility, no integrity.
K
Dear one,
Doubt you will see this, but I will see you around.
Isn't the point that we should try to live up to our own standards first, then defend ourselves if we have to (be damn ready to do it in fact). We have not even tried. We diminish ourselves conducting ourselves the way we are then acting surprised when they come back at us. In this way, we are no better than them.
Ron Paul would pull us out and have us ready to defend, if he was the real deal.
How do you explain them going into countres like Swden, Finland, and Norway and raping women? Those countries never did anything to them.
I partially agree with you. They hate us because they are ass backwards losers and morons who have devolved for the past 1300 years. They know their culture sucks, their society sucks, and their cult religion sucks. Everywhere that there is a large number of Muslims, there is no peace, whether it's in France, UK, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, or Turkey. You can't blame all of those clusterfucks on the West.
Sure some Western governments are stirring up shit, but what if their countries weren't full of shit to begin with? Islam has been a violent cult since its beginnings. They invaded West and FORCED the Persians, Afghans and others to convert or die. That is why to this day, Iranians hate Arabs. Buddhists were wiped out in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They invaded north into Europe all the way to the gates of Vienna. People only want to talk about the Crusades when the Christians fought back against those invasions.
"How do you explain them going into countres like Swden, Finland, and Norway and raping women? Those countries never did anything to them."
Rape culture. I don't forgive it; I'd be out there ready to blow away anybody who messed with me, mine, or anyone who was being unjustly attacked; but I can explain it. Education may not be able to help this, I get you. I am not sure that this is not deliberate:
A. 1.Send in all the fuckers you would have in prison, just let em loose. They cause chaos, you don't have to pay to have them in prison. Win/win.
A. 2. Send in folks you train to do this.
A. 3. Do both.
B. This then contibutes to the negative image of Muslims, they are all rapists and neer do wells.
C. This then influences public opinion to be afraid on the individual level and "go to war" at the macro level. They become fine with "turning the ME into glass." No objections, (kind of like 9/11, huh?).
D. Arms dealers sell everyone arms.
E. Economies get a boost, jobs, certain stocks go up, profits, bonuses etc.
F. Somewhere in all of this, a pipeline goes through.
G. Somewhere in all of this, western oil companies profit.
H. Somewhere in all of this, we help them rebuild and help them form their own corporation sympathetic government.
You know all this. Your namesake would never fight like this. We do.
Sure they have been fighting forever. So have we. MIC. We do it bigger, badder, and better (till we don't).
"Sure some Western governments are stirring up shit, but what if their countries weren't full of shit to begin with?"
That does not give us permission to go in there and do as we please. See my post above. We should be bad assed defenders, not manipulators and assailants.
Read up on your ancient Middle East history MsCreant. They were doing exactly what you described (minus the oil pipeline, but were dealing in oil and pitch found on the surface) 6000 years ago. WAY before Moo-Ha-Med came around and WAY before the West became more than barbarian tribesman.
The Middle East has been a mess for all of time. It's only been recently that they haven't exclusively been fucking themselves over.
Fuck 'em. If in 6000 years they can't come up with a united front against manipulation from the outside, not to mention them fucking themselves over internally through tribal warfare, then they deserve everything they get.
Fuck 'em.
Well, Jeez...
Nobody's perfect.
The lame stream media told us the world would love and respect us if 0bozo was president. LOL
Well, as Sec. of State, Hillary fellated them. and our embassy still came under attack.
Technique of the Clinton woman unfortunate and was ill-fated usage of teeth.
Whoa, whoa there. I thought the requirement was to fellate Hiliary. Jeez, I get so confused.
Especially our belief that slaughtering people in foreign countries is a good thing to do. Those motherfuckers hate America and its stooges for what is done by its invading armies. Can't you see that?
Yep that Langley alright
Say it again Donald, it took too long for them to start using it!
Do unto Muslims as they would do unto you.
"America doesn't want us sneakily blowing up things like the cowards we are. Now they won't let us in. Let's get them!"
Sure makes a lot of sense. /sarc
I Call Bullshit. fakery afoot
Wow Hillary made a video. Cankels is getting desperate.
Reckon this should be good for another 1-2% bump up in Trump's popularity, depending how many voters actually see it.
10 % more at least (dangerous to predict, I know). The story will be that he is confronting them like other politicians won't. The world is being whipped into a frenzy to "go after them."
If only the world had the same take on central banking...and we let the chains off...wow!
<<If only the world had>>
heh - after so many years on the Hedge, Ms, we should know better than to wish for crowd sanity. At least we are waking up slowly, one by one... maybe that's the best we can hope for. That slow drip seems to be pushing the cabal toward panic, so they are pulling more and more obvious stunts like this. (Al Qaeda as a proxy spokeshead - really, cabal, really?) So maybe there's a sun coming out somewhere. Shit, there I go using that word, "hope"...
Not an American, so there's no sense my forming strong opinions on Trump, but at least he brings a little colour into an otherwise pointless political campaign. Ours are so crashingly dull. Prime Minister Bieber fades right into the wall alongside your political stars & villains.
A ziocon or neocon sponsored video because......
Bushie and the zio puppet Rubio need Trump eliminated, because......
THE FUCKING SHEEP MAY WAKE UP!!!!!!!
even if Republican elites allow a Trump presidential nomination which fractures the base, it still leaves Hillary and the Democrats with the demographics on their side to win the Presidency again.
not that it makes much difference anyway, only slowing the descent of a dying empire.
Not so fast. The post menapausal battle axe has nowhere near the excitement level of Obama, and people will not turn out for her. Black communities have been decimated during the Obama years and people are pissed off. Gay people are waking up to the fact that the muslims will kill them given half a chance. Hispanic folk want an F150 pickup and a place to live and raise a family, and continued unfettered immagration doesnt support that plan. White males hate the battle axe, and will vote in droves against her. Women may sit it out.
when stuck with the worst of all possible choices, Americans continue to impress the world with its wisdom of selecting US Presidents...
Hillary does not even know how to drive much less start a car. So no one should expect grandma to win this election...
I know most you won't like the fact that Donito brought it on himself and as a demagogue he will sell you out faster than you can say motherfucker. I will agree he is no worse and no better than any of the other corrupt piss-ants that are running to be emperor. Democracy in America is a fucking joke and charade. One day I hope 'we the people' pull our collective head out of our collective selfish narcissistic assholes and revolt! Nearly 60 fucking years as an unwanted citizen/farmed tax stock I have watched and tried to educate people to no avail. I recommend a tax revolt, direct democracy, a serious revolt and chase the money changers from the temple and the temple is America! Now it's your turn.
Teh Donald is a predictable actor. The most distressing thing about him is how many people believe he's the real deal.
He is at least marginally better if only because he makes the media choke on their PC bs.
Massive comment.
You sir hit the nail on its head precisely three times. Root of the problem.
"he is no worse and no better than any of the other corrupt piss-ants that are running to be emperor"
The point about The Donald is that he is (or seems to be) actually not running for Emperor but merely for President. Every else is running for Emperor, in order to bomb the world's billion and a half Moslems - or at least all the Middle-Easterners among them. (Israel's leaders don't really care whether the Indonesians are slaughtered or not.)
http://barlowscayman.blogspot.com/2015/12/trump-president-or-emperor.html
I'm supposed to give a fuck what Al-CIA-Dugh says?
I'm supposed to be afraid of some assholes called ISIS?
really?
Nope...I don't give a fuck. Sorry. I'm much more worried about getting smoked by some roided out Barney Fife type when he pulls me over for a tail light bulb out.
Don't forget bail outs; bail ins; a special tax to pay for all the wars; printing; stocks, bonds and commodity market manipulations...IOW the fuckers with their hands in your pocket while you can do fuck all about it, as they then take the money and bomb the fuck out of brown people you don't know, who did nothing to you, in your name so they can turn a buck.
Don't forget to worry about that.
Afraid of ISIS? Exactly right.
Dropping the kids off at my mom's last night. She had ABC news on her TV. Right then when I looked at it, it was an ABC spokesporter telling me that Barack Obama was going to bypass Congress to help protect Americans. Then they went to the clip of O'bozo saying "I am going to bypass Congress".
"I AM GOING TO BYPASS CONGRESS" to take away your inalienable rights via executive order. That is what he said.
Israeli Secret Intelligence Service is not a threat here. Muslims could be eliminate from this continent in 30 days if that was what we wanted to do.
But the 'goverment is good and protects us' virus is much more pervasive and dangerous.
al-Awlaki was dead before Trump's speach, I can only wonder if Ms. Clinton had to pay for this campaing add?
I'm sure HiLiary has a good tale to tell how a dead (Barry ok'd the drone stike) American terrorist put out a video about Trumps border comments a few years after he was splattered inside his Toyota.
Looks like the Muslim's took the idea straight from Hillary's play book! Wonder if she called them or just paid them to do it?
Butt hurt John MacDaddyCain made the call for her. She'll owe him. He be Pimp smakin' The Don for dissing his Hero status. He'll Pimp her later.
Well, if I was a powerful nation with tendrils of control worldwide and I wanted to destroy the Muslims, here is what I would do. First , I would try to cause a major humanitarian crisis in as many muslim country's as I could, knowing that this would cause a huge wave of refugees. I would facilitate loose imigration policies and force the acceptance of as many young, undocumented and hopefully extremist males as I possibly could. Of course this will cause clash of cultures and a huge backlash from the natives. Then my captive media would spread all the inevitable violence with a highly one sided spin. The racists and the xenophobes would pick this up and run with it. Soon, I would have the whole Continents mistrusting and hating muslims .Once the masses are whipped up into a frenzy it will be easy to declare total war. Ethnic cleansing would not only be accepted but would be seen as the only solution.
I will let you figure out which powerful nation.
I choose answer B, several powerful nations working together.
ya know... its gonna be hitlary v. trump-- unless one of the back`street boys, comes up with a vp candidate that resonates
i'd luv to see trump change parties like sanders has, and become a democrat
Trump is beholden to jews.
They always back both sides in a war.
What makes you goys think things are different in elections?
http://youtu.be/G59mNNfLZx8
GoD...was is your input dude? Sometimes mildly interesting... mostly low brow man. Raise your standards mofo.
Oh who's idea to make a video was it? I think Hilary put the seeds in their heads for this one. I'm sure they have an "I love Hilary" tee shirt they pass out to new recruits, after all it was Hitlary and Obombme that made sure ISIS had lot's of new military toys, oil and money to create their caliphate. I would wear this as a badge of honor if I was Trump. The terrorists hate me, fuck them and the camel they rode in on.
Anybody that doesn't see Clinton money behind this must not know the Clintons or is a lemming. She talked about a video before there was a video and "voila" one suddenly appears. They couldn't have her lie about a video a second time now could they. The Clintons and their foundation have world wide connections. Haven't they shown that with all huge payoffs for Bill's "speeches." This would be nothing for them to accomplish.