Apparently Honest Ibe Hooper will say anything, no matter how preposterous, to deflect attention away from the global jihad and Islamic supremacism. In any case, for years al-Qaeda has been trying to recruit white converts to Islam, in the belief that they'd elude the racial profiling that the group evidently believed was going on. So while the group is indeed targeting black Americans, that is just one part of a larger and multifaceted strategy. "Osama Bin Laden's Anti-U.S. Strategy: Exploit Minority Converts," by Pierre Thomas, Richard Esposito and Lee Ferran for ABC News, May 7 (thanks to Undaunted):
Osama bin Laden aspired to damage the United States not only through persistent terror attacks, but also by attempting to inflame race and class tensions in hopes of tearing down the country from the inside out, according to officials briefed on the evidence trove recovered from the al Qaeda leader's Pakistan compound.According to materials in the cache of documents recovered in the U.S. Navy SEAL raid that brought down the terror leader, bin Laden planned to specifically recruit African-American Muslim converts to carry out attacks on the homeland. The goal was to not only kill and maim in the actual operations, but to create a divisiveness that would cause more damage than al Qaeda could ever hope to do on their own.
"Because there were many blacks in the U.S., he wanted to capitalize on them to further the jihadi cause," one U.S. official told ABC News. "Al Qaeda sees the black convert community as ripe for recruiting."
While it has long been known that radical preachers and some prison imams have targeted the convert community for jihad recruitment, the references show core al Qaeda's keen interest in the tactic. [...]
Minority groups have previously suffered in the aftermath of terror attacks or attempted attacks, though most of those incidents have been directed at Muslim-Americans. Ibrahim Hooper, National Communications Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said those incidents are not indicative of the American people and any belief by bin Laden that he could prompt widespread violence in such a way between any groups was a "fantasy."
"I think the viewpoint reflects more of a Neo-Nazi, white supremacist outlook on American whites than anything based in reality," he said. "I think it's fantasy based on a fundamental misunderstanding of American society."...
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"CAIR Attempts to Silence Raymond Ibrahim"
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/05/cair-attempts-to-silence-raymond.html