Qaeda Affiliate Uses Video of Donald Trump for Recruiting
By LIAM STACK

Al Qaeda’s branch in Somalia released a recruitment video on Friday that criticized racism and anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States and contained footage of the Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump announcing his proposal to bar Muslims from entering the country.

The video, released by the militant group Shabab, appeared to be the first time that Mr. Trump was featured in jihadist recruitment material. During a Democratic presidential debate last month, Hillary Clinton said that Mr. Trump had been used in a recruitment video for the Islamic State, a claim that was later debunked.

Al Qaeda and the Islamic State are rival jihadist groups that compete for recruits and money among radicalized Muslims.

Representatives for the Trump campaign did not respond to requests for comment on Friday.

The video was part of a series dedicated to Somali-American jihadists from Minnesota and one Canadian who died on the battlefield in Somalia. The video was authenticated by the SITE Intelligence Group, which studies jihadist propaganda, and it appeared to be aimed at the African-American community.

Citing “historical injustices” against African-Americans, including police brutality and racial profiling, the video urged them to convert to Islam and engage in jihad at home or abroad.

In addition to footage of Mr. Trump, the video, which is 51 minutes long, included excerpts from speeches by Malcolm X and unnamed white supremacists, as well as footage of white police officers, African-Americans protesting police brutality and African-American men in prison. Some appeared to be performing Islamic prayers.

Using footage of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American member of a Qaeda affiliate who was killed in an American drone attack in 2011, the video also said the United States was gripped by a “malignant hatred” of Islam. It warned American Muslims that “there are ominous clouds gathering in your horizon.”

“Yesterday, America was a land of slavery, segregation, lynching and Ku Klux Klan, and tomorrow, it will be a land of religious discrimination and concentration camps,” Mr. Awlaki said in the previously recorded footage.

The video includes footage of Mr. Trump in front of a poster with his campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.”

“So remember this, so listen, Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on,” Mr. Trump said.

Mr. Awlaki then reappeared on the video.

“The West will eventually turn against its Muslim citizens,” he said, jabbing his finger toward the camera. Only two choices remained for Muslims in the United States, he said.

“You either leave or you fight,” he said. “You leave and live among Muslims, or you stay behind and follow the example of Nidal Hasan and others who fulfilled their duty of fighting for Allah’s cause.”

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was an Army psychiatrist who staged a one-man attack at Fort Hood in Killeen, Tex., in November 2009, killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 others. He once attended a mosque in Virginia where Mr. Awlaki had preached and exchanged messages with him before committing his attack.

Al Qaeda is in many ways the parent organization of the Islamic State, which split from the group over differences in strategy in the war in Syria. The two groups now compete for influence among radicalized Muslims, a competition that the Islamic State has dominated in recent years.

That contest has played out in acts of spectacular violence around the world. Analysts have said that recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Mali have been partly driven by the desire of one group to outdo the other.

凱達徵人 拿川普打廣告

紐約時報報導，索馬利亞的凱達組織「青年黨」一日釋出招募新血的影片，片中赫然出現美國共和黨總統參選人川普的反穆斯林言論。紐時記者針對此影片向川普陣營提問，未獲回應。

青年黨是以索馬利亞為大本營的凱達組織，青年黨募兵影片批評美國的種族歧視及反穆斯林情節，並插入川普主張禁止所有穆斯林入境的影片片段。經過青年黨剪輯的川普影片顯示，川普站在印有自己競選口號「讓美國再變強」的看板前方，並說「川普呼籲美國全面禁止穆斯林入境」。

這是川普的言論首次被聖戰組織當作招募題材。民主黨去年十二月舉行總統參選人辯論，希拉蕊說川普曾被「伊斯蘭國」用在招募影片中。但希拉蕊的說法後來被推翻。

美國智庫「搜尋國際恐怖主義實體」證實了青年黨招募影片的真實性，並指出這段影片的內容專門針對非裔美國人。

影片內容挑起非裔美國人承受的「歷史上的不公義」，包括警察暴力和種族刻板化等，青年黨企圖慫恿這些非裔美國人改信伊斯蘭教，並在本國或海外發起聖戰。

原文參照：
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/02/world/africa/al-qaeda-uses-video-of-trump-for-recruiting.html

2016-01-03．聯合報．A13．國際．編譯陳韻涵