Al-Qaeda – Offer That Can’t Be Refused

The newly released video, posted on an extremist Islamic Web site, contained footage of Al-Qaeda’s deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri and a man identified as Adam Yehiye Gadahn, an American convert to Islam, wanted by the FBI for his alleged role in developing Al-Qaeda propaganda in Pakistan.

“To Americans and the rest of Christendom we say, either repent [of your] misguided ways and enter into the light of truth,” Gadahn threatened, “or keep your poison to yourselves and suffer the consequences in this world and the next…But whatever you do, don’t attempt to spread your misery and misguidance to our lands. Muslims don’t need democracy to rid themselves of their homegrown despots and tyrants. What they do need is their Islamic faith, the spirit of jihad, and the lifting of foreign troops and interference from their necks. ” Gadahn read verses from the Koran in Arabic and then translated them into English, calling on Muslims to strengthen their faith and expel their rulers.

Robert Spencer, Director of Jihad Watch and author of several popular books on Islam, explained to Arutz-7’s Nissan Ratzlav-Katz that the tape “appears to be the call to Islam that the Muslim Prophet Muhammed requires to be extended to infidels before they can be lawfully attacked by Muslims. Once that call is rejected, Muslims are required to begin hostilities in order to subjugate the infidel population in question and bring it into the Islamic social order. Thus it seems likely that terror attacks and/or attempted terror attacks will follow Gadahn’s ‘invitation’—although there is no certainty that they will follow within a certain time frame.”

Al-Zawahri, also speaking on the tape, urged viewers to heed Gadahn’s “invitation to Islam.” He stated ominously, “To the American people and the people of the West in general…Allah sent his Prophet Muhammad with guidance and the religion of truth…and sent him as a herald. ”

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