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November 20, 2009
Al-Qaeda’s New Weapon - The ENGLISH language!
Following Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s shooting rampage in Fort Hood, Texas, last week, pundits advanced all sorts of theories as to how a member of the U.S. armed forces could have possibly been so influenced by al-Qaeda’s image of Islam that he took up arms against fellow soldiers. It soon became known that Hasan received inspiration (and e-mail instructions) from a charismatic al-Qaeda-linked cleric named Anwar al-Awlaki, currently in hiding in Yemen, whose sermons were readily available on militant web sites. What this means for us now is that potential jihadists in the U.S., who know only English, may still be effectively radicalized.
Al-Awlaki himself is a fluent English speaker with an American accent, and his sermons were made readily available through this increasing network of websites, all without the need for editing or sub-titles. This is a frightening development, as al-Qaeda is now able to get its message out to those people who were formerly out of reach linguistically.
posted by : Left Coast Conservative on November 20, 2009
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