Al Zawahiri critices Obama.

[soulfish]

I think what he is doing probaly trying to make a point that the civil rights movement is not really over and a new America that is still very divided socially and racially with a power structure where Obama is control only in name and will look to his special advisors who are the ones who will be really controlling the states and its foreign policy.
It may be hard for him to swallow that after years of calling the states the great Satan that they elected a Black man to the head post and thus leaving them with nothing.

 

[clusterflux]

I think its typical of these types of people (those who see violence as a medium for bringing about a desired change) to say things that show their ignorance to some people in an effort to sway the opinions of others. I would guess that a large number of african americans have read Alex Haileys' (sp?) autobiography of Malcolm X, given this fact I would surmise that the intended audience was Muslims living outside of the U.S.A. Anyone who knows anything about Malcolm X would know he would reject any hatred cloaked in Islam, he gave his life declaring this.

 

[soulfish]

Malcolm X would have been against the war on terror and also would have held the US to account I believe.

 

[Miss Caphat]

I think what he is doing probaly trying to make a point that the civil rights movement is not really over and a new America that is still very divided socially and racially with a power structure where Obama is control only in name and will look to his special advisors who are the ones who will be really controlling the states and its foreign policy.
It may be hard for him to swallow that after years of calling the states the great Satan that they elected a Black man to the head post and thus leaving them with nothing.

yeah, it's called "grasping at straws"

 

[clusterflux]

Malcolm X would have been against the war on terror and also would have held the US to account I believe.

Malcolm X was against violence in any form, after Mecca, he declared this, knowing he would be killed because of it.

 

[soulfish]

Whether or not Malcolm was against violence is not really at issue, at points in his life he was pro violence for a cause and as a reaction to oppression. I do believe however that he would have been against the war on terror and held the US to account on their foreign policies whilst still having a dodgy record on domestic issues.