Global Jihadists Are Elated by Revolts, Cleric Says

“Doesn’t the West realize how the jihadi work would just take off as soon as the regimes of the Gulf start crumbling?” Anwar Awlaki

Imam Anwar Awlaki, the go-to imam for the NY TImes, the Washington Post and the media in general, the "moderate" imam for all things Islam right after 911 (and the go-to imam also for the 911 hijackers, for spiritual guidance), has addressed the revolts in a video message posted on the Web.

It also needs pointing out that Awlaki is a guest on Al-Jazeera, where he is described as a religious scholar. And Awlaki has defended, lauded Al Jazeera journalists.

"Islamists" — the most ridiculous term I have ever heard.

Islamists Are Elated by Revolts, Cleric Says NY TIMES

WASHINGTON — Anwar al-Awlaki, the Yemeni-American cleric who is a top propagandist for Al Qaeda, broke his silence on the uprisings in the Arab world on Wednesday, claiming that Islamist extremists had gleefully watched the success of protest movements against governments they had long despised.

Anti-government protesters marching in the central Yemeni city of Ibb. President Ali Abdullah Saleh has proposed to stay in office until elections are held.

“The mujahedeen around the world are going through a moment of elation,” Mr. Awlaki wrote in a new issue of the English-language Qaeda magazine Inspire, “and I wonder whether the West is aware of the upsurge of mujahedeen activity in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Arabia, Algeria and Morocco?”

Mr. Awlaki’s four-page essay, titled “The Tsunami of Change,” is among a handful of statements by Al Qaeda’s leaders countering the common view among Western analysts that the terrorist network looks irrelevant at a time of change unprecedented in the modern Middle East. In ousting the rulers of Tunisia and Egypt and threatening other Arab leaders, a core of secular-leaning demonstrators have called for democracy and generally avoided violence — all at odds with Al Qaeda’s creed as it tries to instill rigid Islamist rule across the world.

In an audio statement this month, the Egyptian deputy to Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahri, pleaded with the Egyptians who toppled President Hosni Mubarak to shun the United States, reject democracy and embrace Islam as the answer to their problems. Arguing that Al Qaeda deserved some indirect credit for the uprisings, he said the United States’ willingness to drop its support for Mr. Mubarak and other authoritarian leaders was a “direct result” of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Mr. Awlaki’s essay is more colloquial and confident, asserting that the momentous change in Arab countries left Western leaders “confused, worried, and unhappy for the departure of some of its closest and most reliable friends.”

He quotes American commentators who describe the uprisings as a refutation of Al Qaeda, including Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s assertion last month that “the success of peaceful protests has discredited the extremists.”

Mr. Awlaki, who is thought to be hiding in Yemen, argues that such conclusions are premature. “The outcome doesn’t have to be an Islamic government for us to consider what is occurring to be a step in the right direction,” he writes.

By “breaking the barriers of fear” and toppling leaders who protected “American imperial interests,” he asserts, the uprisings should play to the long-term advantage of Al Qaeda’s philosophy. He points to Yemen and Libya, where embattled leaders are clinging to power, as places where turmoil could open possibilities for jihadists to organize.

Mr. Awlaki’s statement comes as some American officials have expressed anxiety about just that possibility. In Libya, an American military official said this week that there were “flickers” of intelligence suggesting that Qaeda or Hezbollah operatives were among the rebels fighting Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. And in Yemen, President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s weakening grip on power could take pressure off Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

Expressing hope that revolution will spread from Yemen to Saudi Arabia, Mr. Awlaki asks, “Doesn’t the West realize how the jihadi work would just take off as soon as the regimes of the Gulf start crumbling?”

The Truth Must be Told

Your contribution supports independent journalism

Please take a moment to consider this. Now, more than ever, people are reading Geller Report for news they won't get anywhere else. But advertising revenues have all but disappeared. Google Adsense is the online advertising monopoly and they have banned us. Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have blocked and shadow-banned our accounts. But we won't put up a paywall. Because never has the free world needed independent journalism more.

Everyone who reads our reporting knows the Geller Report covers the news the media won't. We cannot do our ground-breaking report without your support. We must continue to report on the global jihad and the left's war on freedom. Our readers’ contributions make that possible.

Geller Report's independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our work is critical in the fight for freedom and because it is your fight, too.

Please contribute here.

or

Make a monthly commitment to support The Geller Report – choose the option that suits you best.

• $25.00 here
• $50.00 here
• $75.00 here
• $100.00 here
• $250.00 here

0 0 votes

Article Rating

8 Comments

Oldest

Newest Most Voted

Inline Feedbacks

View all comments

AuntieMadder

13 years ago

Ten UN Workers Slaughtered in Afghanistan Attack Over Koran Burning in US
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, April 1, 2011, 10:05 AM
“Ten foreign UN workers were killed on Friday in an attack on the UN headquarters in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif by demonstrators protesting at the burning of the Koran by a US pastor, police told AFP.
“Ten (UN) people have been killed by the protesters (…) All the killed are foreigners,” police spokesman Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai said.
A spokesman for the UN mission in Kabul, Don McNorton, said: “We are aware of an incident in our Mazar office, we are currently working to ascertain all the facts.”
Afghanistan had condemned the “disrespectful and abhorrent” burning of the Koran by evangelical preacher Pastor Wayne Sapp in a Florida church, calling it an effort to incite tension between religions.
President Hamid Karzai called on the United States to bring those responsible for the burning of the Islamic holy book on March 21 to justice.”
http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/04/ten-un-workers-slaughtered-in-afgahnistan-attack-over-koran-burning-in-us/

0

joetote

13 years ago

Of course they are elated by the current events. And what the hell, they have the supposed leader of the Free World leading the charge! Every action taken by this scum bag in the White house had in one way or another supported the very people who murdered not only 3,000 Americans and of course the Foegel family, but are in fact at the forefront of the charge to not only eradicate Israel, but Western civilization as we know it! As President Bozo dithered, Al Queada and the Muslim Brotherhood got a toehold in Libya! As he ignores Syria, Yemen and Jordan among others, these same radical are roiling the waters. All the while, out Anti-Israeli president sticks his head between his legs and allows the world to laugh at the weakness that is now the united States policy which is to do only the things that are against the very ideals this country was founded on!

0

Stephanie

13 years ago

Gobal Jihadists, the mujahedeen (true Muslims) not only elated by revolts,
rathe to the word of the sadist Allah:
ISLAM WILL CONQUEROR (61:9) & DOMINATE THE WORLD (2:193; 8:39; 9:33)

0

Chris

13 years ago

Methinks we are seeing the beginning of a massive new unification and reorganization of the Muslim countries against the West. These libtards in the gov’t and media who speak of it in terms of an awakening of democracy are deluded fools who have no knowledge of history or insight into the pattern of infiltration, subversion and global aspirations of the followers of the name now most popular among newborn babies in the U.K.,….”Mohammed”.

0

fern

13 years ago

Thank Mr Hussein Obama, David Cameron, Mr Hague, Mr Sarkozy et al for making this all possible.

0

When*Pigs8Fly

13 years ago

Of course they’re elated, they are well on their way to forming a Middle East caliphate, probably run by Iran. From that power base they will be able to spread more jihad, faster. This is the beginning of declared war on the kuffar around the world. They will wage war to make kuffar submit and to increase the size of their caliphate lands.
The pitiful part of all of this is that so many stupid Americans (just to feel good about themselves) elected the person who is orchestrating this and making all of it possible. It didn’t have to be this way. Fools!

0

ann

13 years ago

This go’s much deeper than just our Lying Traitor Dictator and Thief—I never was one of the people who went in for the shadow government and all that—but I was wrong, very wrong!

0

Mac-101

13 years ago

You are sooo right. It’s probablty to late, but PLEASE, get ALL your friends to vote out the DEMOs, RINOs and half the Tea Party candidates that are going back on their promises. They’re ALL MOST ALL owned by the Globalist ELITES! They’re just usin the insanely violent Muslims to take our freedom and rights.

0