A source quoted below says that Anwar al Awlaki speaks to American Muslims: the West is turning on you…American will get you…You won’t be safe for long…
That message of Anwar al Awlaki is honed to create paranoia — people are out to get you so watch out!
Where are the American moderate Alarmist’s? They need to speak out against Anwar al Awlaki and other radical Islamists.
See the following:
“Al-Qaida and allied groups view American Muslims as a potentially valuable asset because they can mount attacks from within the United States. Army Major Nidal Hassan, the accused Fort Hood shooter, and Faisal Shahzad, who tried unsuccessfully to set off a bomb in New York City’s Times Square, are both American citizens whom investigators believe were drawn into radical Islam.
“In its message of violent global jihad, al-Qaida rails against U.S. support of Israel and what it calls apostate regimes in the Middle East. But Brian Fishman, a terrorism analyst at the New America Foundation, says American-born radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who now lives in Yemen, is now honing the recruitment message more directly for American Muslims.
“That message, that broad jihadi message, doesn’t seem to be resonating tremendously well with American Muslims. But what I worry about is that a guy like Anwar al-Awlaki has better insight into what will work here. And his message has been a little bit different over the last six to nine months,” Fisherman explains. “It has included all of those general themes. But it also discusses this idea that the West is turning on you, America is coming to get you, you won’t be safe there for long, you have to fight back now.”
Some Americans voicing anti-Muslim hate messages are providing even more ammunition for the Islamic radicals. Terry Jones, a fundamentalist Christian clergyman, calls Islam a religion of the devil and has pledged to hold a communal burning of Korans, the Muslim holy book, at his Gainesville, Florida church on Sept. 11. Analysts say Jones’ pronouncements have drawn even more chatter and threats of violence in jihadist chat rooms than the New York controversy.
Brian Fishman says that, unfortunately, the extremist views of people like Terry Jones draw more media attention than the opposition to the hatemongering. “There are 15 or 16 other churches in Florida, or in Gainesville where this is going on, that are going to do readings from the Koran that day and do sort of interfaith stuff as a response …”
