Batarfi presents all the troubles that the U.S. is experiencing as punishment from Allah. Anyone can play that game: the setbacks of al-Qaeda itself, from the killing of bin Laden to the steady diminishment of the once-fearsome international threat it presented, could be interpreted as Allah’s negative view of the group. But when one believes … Continue reading Al-Qaeda: ‘Whoever thinks that somebody can stop the imminent collapse of America is mistaken’