AL QAEDA CALLS OBAMA AN APOSTATE

We ran this story the other day, but it was from Debka, which I don't trust, so I didn't make that big a deal of it. But, now the BBC is reporting that Zawahiri is calling Obama out on the truth;

that he is the son of a Muslim father, who has converted to Christianity, and therefore, he is an apostate.

Of course, the BBC does not frame the story that way, either because they don't understand, or more likely, because they don't want to tell the truth,

but that's what Zawahiri is saying:

Zawahiri also criticised Mr Obama - whose father is Muslim - for betraying the Islamic world.

"You were born to a Muslim father, but you chose to stand in the ranks of the enemies of the Muslims, and pray the prayer of the Jews, although you claim to be Christian, in order to climb the rungs of leadership in America," he said.

Mr Obama was not an "honourable black American" like Malcolm X, he said, but an "abeed al-beit" - a word that translates as house slave but was rendered "house negro" in the message's English subtitles.

The audio was accompanied by footage of a speech by Malcolm X in which he distinguished between "field negroes" who hated their white masters and "house negroes" who, he said, were loyal to them.

The Arabic word Zawahiri used is "murtad", which literally translates as Apostate.

In Islam, an Apostate is subject to be stoned to death.

This proclamation by Zawahiri amouths to a death threat against Obama.

UPDATE: I have now seen video of the Zawahiri message. I did not hear the word "murtad", though Debka reported that that was the word used. Still, the message Zawahiri gives is clear, Obama is the son of a Muslim who has turned on the Ummah.