Hillary Clinton recently charged that Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric had made him the chief recruiter for ISIS. Trump responded that this was just another Hillary lie. But Think Progress reports that Trump’s anti-Muslim ranting is being used with potentially devastating effect in a new recruitment video by Al-Shabab, an al Qaeda-linked terror group in Somalia.
Presidential candidate Donald Trump is featured in a new recruitment video from the terrorist group Al-Shabab, according to numerous experts. Evan Kohlmann, analyst with NBC News and Chief R&D Officer for the private intelligence firm FlashPoint was one of the first to identify the new video.
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This is being reported by other outlets, including UPI and CBS news. CBS states:
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. . .
The video . . . cuts to a clip from Trump's South Carolina rally, where the GOP contender's comments are met with loud applause: "And so remember this. So listen. Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what the --- is going on."
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The CBS article says the 51-minute video exhorts black youths in the U.S. to convert to Islam and become jihadis, citing recent police shootings, including Michael Brown and Walter Scott.
Traditional right-wing sources are on the story, too. The Wall Street Journal reported:
The propaganda video shows a clip of Anwar al-Awlaki, a now-deceased al Qaeda figure killed by a drone strike in 2011, warning “Muslims of the west” that they are not welcome in places like the U.S.
“There are ominous clouds gathering in your horizon,” he says. “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.”
The video then cuts to a clip of Mr. Trump, speaking shortly after the Dec. 2, 2015 terror attacks in San Bernardino, Calif., when he proposed a temporary but “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the U.S.”
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Trump will certainly have a response. I can’t wait to ignore or ridicule it.