Al-Qaeda on al-Awlaki killing: Hey, now, that's not cricket

An international jihadist group committed to killing as many Americans as it can chides the U.S. for taking action against it. Obviously, they would object in any case.

The irony that a group that would destroy the U.S. Constitution if it had its way is invoking its tenets in protest is exceptionally rich. "Al-Qaeda joins those questioning legality of U.S. killing of citizen Anwar al-Awlaki," by Jason Ukman for the Washington Post, October 10 (thanks to Kenneth):

Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen has confirmed the deaths of American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, the young American propagandist killed alongside him in a U.S. drone strike late last month.
Al-Qaeda has also criticized the Obama administration for killing U.S. citizens, saying doing so “contradicts” American law.
“Where are what they keep talking about regarding freedom, justice, human rights and respect of freedoms?!” the statement says, according to a translation by SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist Web sites.

Said the pot to the kettle.

The Obama administration has spoken in broad terms about its authority to use military and paramilitary force against al-Qaeda and associated forces, and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula would find itself hard-pressed to claim the moral high ground in the debate over the killing of Awlaki and Khan.
But the killing of two U.S. citizens has prompted outrage among civil liberties groups, as well as a debate in legal circles about the basis for the administration's position.
The Washington Post’s Peter Finn reported after the strike that Awlaki’s killing had been authorized in a secret Justice Department memo, a revelation that later prompted senior Democratic senators and scholars to call for its release. Over the weekend, The New York Times quoted people who have read the document as saying that the memo found it would be lawful to kill the cleric only if it were not possible to take him alive. The memo, the Times said, was narrowly drawn to the specifics of Awlaki’s case.
Among those who have raised legal objections to the strike: Samir Khan’s family in Charlotte, N.C.
In a statement, the family said that, Khan was a “law-abiding citizen of the United States” and “was never implicated of any crime.”
“Was this style of execution the only solution?” the family said. “Why couldn’t there have been a capture and trial?”
Khan’s relatives also described themselves as “appalled by the indifference shown to us by our government,” saying they had not been contacted by a U.S. official.
After the release of the statement, the Charlotte Observer reported, an official from the State Department called the family last week to offer the government’s condolences.
“They were very apologetic [for not calling the family sooner] and offered condolences,” Jibril Hough, a family spokesman, told the Observer.
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Jihadism is turning gradually into effeminate Islamism, it seems. Crying foul when things don't go your way...Deep down those guys are all wusses, really.

Maybe that's not such a bad thing to know about them...

I couldn't agree more, Anushirvan. The shame that comes from Muslims being embarrassed and their insistence on lashing out every time they are is their Achille's Heel and knowing that fact we should carefully fan and exploit this insecurity and go on the offensive in our own countries whenever we see it. In America we will have to wait one more year in hopes that we will get a leader that will act to put down that kind of cowardly behavior, instead of rewarding it and accusing and abusing the people who oppose it.

Now that the Al Wacky case has established a precedent, let's take out dozens more. Bombs away! :)

Bullies are cowards, whiners and complainers when they don't get their way. The history of mohammedanism is rife which such examples. I'm not surprised.

Al-Qaeda is being hypocritical for theater...

But I don't like this precedent either...It is too much power for any government, especially a tyrannical one...

Has anyone given the news to Umar Farouk "Anwar is alive" Abdulmutallab?

Will the weenie roast Abdulmutallab then switch to the conspiracy theorists' line that Al-Awlaki was killed to conceal CIA involvement in 9/11, or would that be too close to Ahmadinejad's view.

“Where are what they keep talking about regarding freedom, justice, human rights and respect of freedoms?!” the statement says, according to a translation by SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist Web sites.

Cherry picking laws to suit one's murderous world domination ambitions is not cricket either. We have laws to "protect our human rights and freedoms", not to enable jihad predators who would destroy them and us. It just shows how little they understand our modern constitutional freedoms. These troglodyte 7th century Pagan Moon-god worshipers enamored with the exploits a a slave raiding, booty taking, misogynist delusional Bedouin warlord, whose fevered acromegalic brain dictated the whole world conquered and dominated for his bloodthirsty malevolent god Allah, have zero understanding of what our natural freedoms and human rights are all about. The first caliphs did a monumental disservice to the billion Muslims around the world by keeping them rooted in Koranic/Sharia ignorance for all time. These ignorant critics have no reasonable argument and are the least qualified to lecture us on our laws. Killing Awlaki was just cause, by law. Khan kept bad Al-Qaeda company, so died too. Fair play.

The irony that a group that would destroy the U.S. Constitution if it had its way is invoking its tenets in protest is exceptionally rich.
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Actually, this is only ironic for us—Jihadists will use *any* tool to enable Jihad and Shari'ah—even ones we provide them with.

More:

"Al-Qaeda joins those questioning legality of U.S. killing of citizen Anwar al-Awlaki"

Al-Qaeda has also criticized the Obama administration for killing U.S. citizens, saying doing so “contradicts” American law.
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This has another purpose, as well—to attempt to make Americans look like "hypocrites"—to say we are not living up to ethical standards that Jihadists would never adhere to themselves.

In this way, it is very much like the hard left—Here's "Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules" from Saul Alinsky's book "Rules for Radicals".

"When pressed to honor every jot and tittle of every law and statute; every Judaeo-Christian moral tenet; and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system's failure to "live up" to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether..."

Alinsky sought a Communist utopia, and the Jihadists an Islamic one—apart from that, their methods are often quite similar.

Isn't the very nature and extreme level of their violence, in the end, counterproductive to their cause. What do we remember and is the worst thing about Nazism? The ovens. The mass murder. The hatred of the Jooooze. Its the total lack of any humanistic compassion for their fellow humans. The fact that they whine at a somewhat minor victory is the Achilles heel. Aw, you didn't play fair. Right! The very nature of your total disregard forces us to do what it takes to stop you when we can. Don't do the crime unless you can do the time. The key is to continually compare their behaviour to history's worst. They are total hypocrites. Murder and rape in the name of your religion or "ism" has always failed in the end. Pray for many more sites like JW to enter the education race to the end. It is, somewhat slowly, working in the national consciousness.

The sheer utter shamelessness of this gang of murderers beggars belief.

hypocrites of the highest order.

G K Chesterton, from his 1915 essay, 'The Barbarism of Berlin', on the subject of what constitutes real savagery:


http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Barbarism-of-Berlin.html

From part II, 'the refusal of reciprocity'.

"The definition of the true savage does not concern itself even with
how much more he hurts strangers or captives than do the other tribes of
men.

"The definition of the true savage is that he laughs when he hurts you;
and howls when you hurt him."

"He laughs when he hurts you, and *howls* when you hurt him".

That's the Ummah, or Mohammedan Mob, to a T.

They feel entitled to *hurt* us as much as they like; but they believe they should be able to do so with absolute impunity, without ever getting even their pinkie hurt in return.

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