Cairo, Egypt – A U.S.-born spokesman for al-Qaida on Saturday urged Muslims living in the United States and Europe to carry out attacks there, calling it a duty and an obligation. In a 48-minute video posted on militant websites, Adam Gadahn directed his appeal to Muslim immigrants in what he called the “miserable suburbs” of Paris, London and Detroit, as well as those traveling to the West to study or work.
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“It is the duty of everyone who is sincere in his desire to defend Islam and Muslims today, to take the initiative to perform the individual obligation of jihad … by striking the Zio-Crusader interests,” he said, referring to Western and Jewish interests.
Gadahn, who has been hunted by the FBI since 2004, also sought to discredit attempts by moderate Muslim leaders to suppress the “jihadi awakening.”
He spoke in Arabic in the video, which was made available by the U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist activity.
Gadahn grew up on a farm in California and converted to Islam before moving to Pakistan in 1998 and reportedly attending an al-Qaida training camp.
Dawud Walid, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Michigan chapter, called Gadahn’s video “a desperate plea for attention” that will be ignored in the Detroit area — home to one of the largest Muslim communities in the U.S.
“I see little to no chance of such sentiment taking root in metropolitan Detroit. … We’re not a group of people who feel powerless,” Walid said.
“If any Muslim community has grown in civic engagement and empowerment, it would be this community. He invoked the wrong population to try and stir up.”
why doesn’t Walid show his followers a video how he blows himself up in the name of Islam. I’m sure he will gain pleanty of supporters & fans. To me he sounds like a person who likes to tell others what to do.
This Moslem spokesman was born Adam Pearlman, son of a Jewish father and Christian mother and raised as a Christian.
The day he dies will be a jewish holiday!
Poster # 1 (toolee); You’re mixing up the names. Wallid is the spokesperson for CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relationship), who are speaking out against the video of the al-qaida gang.
I am sure that his family are oh so proud of him – especially his Jewish grandparents. I only hope that the FBI or Interpol can find this idiot and put him where he belongs. I wonder if he ‘found’ Allah while he was a prison inmate as it seems that is where most conversions to Islam occur. They obviously have a wonderful outreach program in the prison system.
The solution is called an assassination team.
Now that Al Queida has declared war on United States (and other countries), it is time that we issue a statement declaring war against Al Queida. We can then just find them, kill them, and not have to bother with all the nonsense about trials, prisons, etc.
Adam looks too well fed to be working for Al Qaida in Afghanistan. More likely he works out of a studio in Miami. What does this guy and his friends do besides blab on the internet??? Al Qaida doesn’t do anything or even exist outside of some TV studio.
If this was a Jew in Israel saying to do stuff, chas v’Shalom, to Islamic citizens in the US, the US and the world would act a lot more forcefully.