Lover of death
Youssef al-Khattab, the vile jihadist who glories in the deaths of Americans, is making threats against Jewish sites across the country — although he claims, rather disingenuously, that they aren’t threats at all.
More on this story. “U.S. Jewish targets listed on Muslim website,” by Aaron Klein for WorldNetDaily, February 5 (thanks to Pamela):
JERUSALEM — A U.S. jihadi website has issued a series of videos targeting the New York headquarters of Chabad, a Jewish outreach movement, just two months after the group was rocked by a deadly terrorist attack in Mumbai, India.
The videos also ask viewers to “give the Islamic message” to Yeshiva University, a Manhattan-based Jewish college, as well as “Jewish Federation buildings all over the U.S.” in response to the institutions’ purported funding for Israel amid its recent offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The Islamic threats already resulted in a New York Police Department investigation and a beefed-up police presence outside the Chabad headquarters, WND has learned.
“When an atrocity is done like what was done in Gaza, indiscriminately killing women and children, we know who the source is,” stated Yousef Al-Khattab, the CEO of RevolutionMuslim.com in a video address posted on the website.
“These are definitely the sources,” Khattab stated, citing Chabad and the other Jewish institutions.
“We think it’s imperative to hold these people responsible, speak in front of their homes, give them the Islamic message. Leave them the message of Islam. That’s not a threat, that’s what it is,” Khattab said in the video.
While Khattab, who spoke to WND today, claimed his website is not issuing threats against Jewish groups, a second video posted on the site contains what can easily be interpreted as lightly veiled threats of violence against Chabad.
The video features a slideshow of images of wounded Palestinians and then repeatedly switches to pictures of Chabad’s main headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. It then presents a picture of a blood-stained Jewish prayer book taken from inside a Jerusalem seminary following a deadly shooting massacre there last March that killed eight Jews.
The video ends with the sound of gunshots.
Yeah, sure, that’s not a threat.
Asked whether the video montage was implying Chabad’s headquarters should be targeted by Islamic violence, Khattab told WND, “It is what it is.”
Khattab said he did not have the authority to issue a directive to carry out specific attacks.
Further petitioned to explain the intended meaning of the blood-soaked prayer book interspersed with images of Chabad’s headquarters, Khattab replied, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
He told WND he supports Hamas’ suicide bombings against Israelis, including attacks targeting cafes, restaurants and nightclubs.
“There is no such thing as Israeli civilian,” he said. “I pray to Allah for the complete destruction of Israel.”
In a video on his website, Khattab states he normally advises others to “just ignore [the Jews]. That’s not racist. We don’t like to deal with them … but when there is a terrorist war of destruction, killing of kids … [Israeli] genocide, then we have to take to the forefront.” […]
Realizing his statement may attract the attention of U.S. law enforcement agencies, Khattab delivered a direct message to the NYPD, CIA and FBI: “You can put me in jail for the rest of my life. As long as I got that information out there for people, I did something. I didn’t sit on my behind.”
Khattab also lashed out against any website that may pick up on his statement.
“It just attracts Drudge, the JAWA report, Atlas Shrugs (blog), and Robert Spencer (Jihad Watch blog) and just other whining little queers and stuff like that.”
I’m honored to be in that company.
Leftist/Jihadist alliance update:
But he celebrated what he said is his website’s non-Muslim following of “progressive Americans, socialists, anarchists, communists … people who can really contribute, they give us dialogue and send us nice e-mails.”
Khattab, a 39-year-old New York taxi driver who converted to Islam from Judaism, said he launched RevolutionMuslim.com with the mission of “preserving Islamic culture,” “calling people to the oneness of God” and asking them to “support the beloved Sheik Abdullah Faisal, who’s preaching the religion of Islam and serving as a spiritual guide.
He told WND his site’s main goal is to establish worldwide Islamic dominance. He runs the site from his home in Queens, N.Y., and even advertises his personal phone number….