Terror group uses Donald Trump soundbite in purported propaganda video

[ProudToBeLiberal]

Source: CBS News

Terror group al-Shabab, al-Qaeda's Somalia-based affiliate, is using a clip from Donald Trump in a purported Islamist propaganda video -- and it's gaining traction among Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) online channels.

The nearly hour-long video, produced by al-Shabab's media arm al-Kataib, uses a soundbite from the Republican front-runner's speech in December calling for the "total and complete shutdown" of Muslims entering the country.

Preceding the Trump clip, a bite from the now-deceased al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Yemen in 2011, warns "Muslims of the West" to be cautious and "learn from the lessons of history."

"There are ominous clouds gathering in your horizon," al-Awlaki says in English. "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. "

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/al-shabab-terror-group-uses-donald-trump-soundbite-in-purported-propaganda-video/

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Hillary Clinton was right. Jihadists are using Donald Trump's hate rhetoric as a recruiting tool.

[Gothmog]

1. Trump is helping ISIS recruit

[truthisfreedom]

2. trump is totally anti-American

And he's too stupid to realize it.

[davidpdx]

3. Trump is an embarrassment to our nation

[DesertRat]

4. Exactly what Hillary Clinton was talking about

Trump's rhetoric is dangerous.

[SunSeeker]

5. K & R for exposure. nt

[Thinkingabout]

6. It has been said this was going to happen, after the debate it was said

There wasn't any evidence and of course Trumps statement calling Hillary a liar. She understands more about foreign policy than his mouth will ever know. It is bad when Dick Cheney does not agree with Trump.

[billhicks76]

7. The CIA Supports ISIS

[yurbud]

12. I have a hard time believing guys involved in a hot war spend a lot of time following pre-primary

American politics.

I remember some Bin Laden videos like this that seemed like transparent attempts to embarrass critics of the Bush administration, which is also something someone running for their life while planning terrorists attacks would not give half a fuck about.

[TomCADem]

17. Really? How Do You Think They Sign-Up Recruits?

Do you believe like Trump think that Muslims just organically gravitate toward ISIS? Or, is it more reasonable to believe that extremist groups actively develop propaganda and pursue sophisticated recruitment programs to attract potential recruits to their cause?

Heck, you need only review the recruitment propaganda during WW II to see the need to recruit potential fighters. Likewise, it does make sense for extremist groups to base their propaganda on actual soundbites, because it makes the propaganda more believable even if it is still distorted. You need only look at Fox News and James O'Keefe with their purported sting videos.

[yurbud]

18. How hard was it to recruit Americans into the military after 9/11 or Pearl Harbor?

And we have made a lot of Pearl Harbors and 9/11's in that neighborhood.

An apocalyptic, brutal militant group might seem like a reasonable alternative to a shell-shocked, barely surviving population that might have had several family members killed in the Iraq War or the Civil War in Syria, or various drone attacks.

It also doesn't help that we and our allies have given and may still be giving money and weapons to these assholes so they have the resources to spend on making fancy videos.

[billhicks76]

23. We Helped ISIS

Because we wanted to use them to take down Asad. He is our real target as he runs a nation, has banks and controls resources.

[LiberalLovinLug]

24. Interesting isn't it how a rag tag army of 20k can stll be operational?

Saudi Arabia has 500,000 troops. Egypt has about the same. Both are American allies. hmmmm.

The neighbouring states all by themselves could take out ISIS fairly rapidly. But for some reason ISIS thrives and dominates our news broadcasts every night now for years.

[cstanleytech]

8. I feel a pot meeting kettle moment is going on here with this group calling out Trump for something

he said.

[nitpicker]

9. Link to Reuters

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-somalia-trump-idUKKBN0UG02X20160102

[Gregorian]

10. America's ignorance and hate have a cheerleader.

That's all he is. The rest is being done by our military, and the idiots who hate. Let's not blame one person for a country's illness.

We bombed and robbed the world, and the world decided it had enough. Now look where we are. Do we blame Donald, or do we take the Pentagon and turn it into an outhouse.

[yurbud]

13. Ironically, the Pentagon has a more realistic assessment of what we have done in the world than

our elected officials.

The Pentagon is subordinate to elected officials who in turn are subordinate to the wealthy individuals who own them.

Turn oil companies, transnational corporations, and banks into outhouses, and you'd see real change.

[Gregorian]

22. I think they're two separate problems.

Those uniformed men walk into the Oval Office and give orders, essentially. That's always been my feeling since before I could vote.

As for the corporations, they're just doing our bidding. Stop filling up with gas, and they die. I know! Don't yell at me. But that is the truth. It gets complicated when we throw in lobbying and election funding, but the principal is the same. We outnumber them, we consume, and the machine supports that. This all boils down to personal responsibility, but no one ever wants to hear that because it isn't based in reality. And we now know that it takes more than a few million hitting the streets like we did back in the Bush years. I support Bernie partly because I think he has the right emotional/moral intensity and direction to unify Americans so that we are again a threat to the powers. Then we can also use politics to change how corporations behave. But that's the stupid way. The better way is to design our lives so that we aren't dependent upon them. And that's always where more yelling occurs.

[George II]

11. This is what Hillary Clinton was talking about - using Trump's hate for propaganda and recruiting.

[yurbud]

14. yep. She wants to do it by killing people instead.

[TomCADem]

15. Doesn't Matter. Trump Still Demands That She Apologize

In today's echo chamber media world, truth is optional.

[wryter2000]

19. I'm glad she hasn't apologized

Now, she has the proof. Of course, that won't sway his brainwashed followers. They have no use for truth.

[yurbud]

20. Trumps followers would have a hard time spelling truth.

[yurbud]

16. the dude in the photo looks suspiciously like this guy...

With some ethnicking make up.



He probably needs the work.

[Kennah]

21. Seems Politifact owes Hillary a correction

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/dec/19/hillary-clinton/fact-checking-hillary-clintons-claim-isis-using-vi/

[daybranch]

25. And you don't think Clinton's we came, we saw, he died is not a rallying cry?

It is astonishing to me that our country installs and works with strong men to as Hillary says to support our interests, and we provide weapons to oppress their people, and then we can act so smug that our partners in such murderous activities are violently killed by the very people we helped oppress. We need to to wake up. No more neocons. Vote for Bernie!

[Gothmog]

26. Trump is not suited to be POTUS