Strangely quiet about the ~3000 American citizens who perished on 9/11 – when they weren’t blaming the victims for the crime committed against them – the Nation of Islam finally finds a reason to denounce al Qaeda:
Spiritual leaders of New York’s African-American Muslim communities lashed out Friday at a purported al Qaeda message attacking President-elect Barack Obama and, using racist language, comparing him unfavorably to the late Malcolm X.
The imams called the recorded comments from al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri “an insult” from people who have “historically been disconnected from the African-American community generally and Muslim African-Americans in particular.”
“We find it insulting when anyone speaks for our community instead of giving us the dignity and the honor of speaking for ourselves,” they said in a statement read during a news conference at the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial, Educational and Cultural Center.
Ideology is trumped at last.
“We find it insulting when anyone speaks for our community instead of giving us the dignity and the honor of speaking for ourselves.”
Huh. Am I the only one to find that sentence to be entirely devoid of meaning, beyond somebody feels insulted? As if *that* is anything to be worried about — there’s always some git willing to stand up and claim he’s upset.
I guess I’m just not seeing the groundswell of Muslim awakening in the USA that might quiet their Arab and Persian brothers. Or at least have them reconsider killing us.
Hope and change, you know.
– Max
It’s taken them a mighty long dang time to open their mouths at all! I’m not impressed.