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New Al-Qaeda Video for Americans: Convert to Islam or Else!

Al-Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri appears in a new video, along with a man alleged to be an American member of the terror network, urging Americans to convert to Islam.

The 41-minute video, posted on an Islamic militant Web site on Saturday -- nine days before the fifth anniversary of the 9-11 terror attacks -- had footage of al-Zawahri and a man the video identified as Adam Yehiye Gadahn, an American who the FBI claims attended Al- Qaeda training camps and serves as an Al-Qaeda translator.

Gadahn and al-Zawahiri do not appear together in the video, but were each featured on a split screen. Both are seen wearing white turbans and robes.

It was the second time Gadahn has appeared in the same video with al-Zawahiri. In a July 7 video marking the one-year anniversary of bombings against the London transit system, Gadahn said no Muslim should "shed tears" for Westerners killed by Al-Qaeda attacks, according to Fox News.

"To the American people and the people of the West in general ... God sent his Prophet Muhammad with guidance and the religion of truth ... and sent him as a herald," al-Zawahiri said in an introduction to Saturday's video.

He goes on to tell Americans to convert to Islam or "suffer the consequences."

He said "ignorance" of Islam "causes the people of the West to rapturously applaud when Israel perpetrates wholesale slaughter of Muslims in Lebanon and Palestine and leads them to give their consent to the atrocities that governments commit in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere in the Muslim world."

Did we expect anything less. This is the message that has been given by them from the very beginning of this. This is the message that their korna tells them to give to all nonmuslims.

Sorry but I am reminded here of a quote from a founding father of the U.S.

"Give me liberty or give me death."

Their is liberty in Jesus Christ not in islam. In and through Jesus Christ we have liberty from sin and eternal death. In islam their is nothing but slavery and the second death.

Al-Qaida releases new video:
Americans invited to convert 
California terror-group member,
Al-Zawahri issue call to Islam

A new 41-minute videotape released by al-Qaida's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri features California Muslim convert Adam Yehiye Gadahn calling on Americans to convert to Islam.

The video was posted on an Islamic militant website a week prior to the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks on New York City and the Pentagon.

This is the second time Gadahn, who disappeared from California seven years ago, and al-Zawahri have appeared in an al-Qaida video.

On July 7, the first anniversary of the London terror bombings, Ghadan, wearing a white robe and black turban, said no Muslim should "shed tears" for those killed by al-Qaida attacks.

On the video, he denounced U.S. soldiers in Iraq and claimed they had murdered and raped Iraqi civilians.

"Who are the real terrorists?" he asked.

He also seemed to advocate the killing of Marines back in his old home state.

"It's hard to imagine that any compassionate person could see pictures ... and not want to go on a shooting spree at the Marines' housing facilities at Camp Pendleton," he said.

In today's video, al-Zawahri began by praising Islam and the prophet Mohammed.

"To the American people and the people of the West in general ... God sent his Prophet Muhammad with guidance and the religion of truth ... and sent him as a herald," he said.

Gadahn's nom de guerre – "Azzam the American" – was shown in Arabic and English as he spoke.

"We invite all Americans and unbelievers to Islam," he said.

Gadahn said he wanted to correct Americans' image of Islam.

"Ignorance ... causes the people of the West to rapturously applaud when Israel perpetrates wholesale slaughter of Muslims in Lebanon and Palestine and leads them to give their consent to the atrocities that governments commit in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere in the Muslim world," he said

Gadahn accused America of showing more concern for the statues of Buddha destroyed by Afghanistan's former Taliban rulers, "than it shows of the people of Afghanistan and Iraq."

The West is "the civilization which enslaved Africa, slaughtered native Americans, fired bombs at ... Tokyo and Fallujah and nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki," he said.

As WND reported, Gadahn is a former California heavy metal music fan whose Islamic conversion testimonial was featured on the official website of the University of Southern California's Muslim Students Association for 11 years before he was revealed as a terror advocate last week.

Gadahn's story of "Becoming Muslim" was removed from the USC website shortly after he appeared in the July 7 al-Qaida video. A cached version is still available through the Internet archiving system called the Wayback Machine.

The MSA pages on the USC site attempt to portray Islam as a misunderstood religion of peace.

"As I began reading English translations of the Quran, I became more and more convinced of the truth and authenticity of Allah's teachings contained in those 114 chapters," he wrote. "Having been around Muslims in my formative years, I knew that they were not bloodthirsty, barbaric terrorists that the news media and the televangelists paint them to be."

He said in November 1995, he went to the Islamic Society of Orange County in Garden Gove and told the librarian he wanted to become a Muslim.

At the society, Gadahn was tutored by Muzammil H. Siddiqi, former president of the Islamic Society of North America.

Gadahn allegedly traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan to train at al-Qaida camps following his conversion while attending the Islamic Society of Orange County. Siddiqi is head of the mosque there.

Besides his appearance in the two recent al-Qaida videos, Gadahn is believed to be a masked figure in two videos delivered to ABC News in Pakistan in 2004 and 2005. In the 2005 tape, the masked speaker threatened terror attacks in Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia.

 

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To follow a Loving Jesus who died for us and Who wraps us in His Loving protective arms.. OR follow a Hateful killing machine Mohammed who uses people to kill.. kill... kill others who oppose him!!

I follow Jesus. The one who loved me before I was even born. I don't fear death.

Amen David! For those of that Jesus as our Saviour have no need to fear the death of this fleshy body for we know that we will live forever with our Lord and Saviour.

Amen Brother David!

Christians have something that the terrorists don't understand - "absent from the body and present with the LORD." I give thanks that we belong to JESUS and nothing can separate us from HIS Love. I really can't imagine what it would be like even in this short life without JESUS. For us, "it's another wonderful day that the LORD has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it." We are the children and heirs of the KING of KINGS.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Titus 3:4-7 NASB  But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.