Adam Gadahn Urges U.S. Muslims To Start Killing Americans

Adam Gadahn, a highly influential al Qaeda figure born in America, has issued a call to arms for U.S. Muslims.

In a newly released video (scroll down to view), Gadahn tells Muslims in the West to stockpile assault rifles and "target major institutions and public figures."

"Do not rely on others, take the task upon yourself," Gadahn said, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute. "What are you waiting for? America is absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms."

The two-hour incendiary video began popping up on jihadi websites Friday. In addition to offering tips on how to obtain firearms, Gadahn gives examples of potential targets: Merrill Lynch, Bank of America and Exxon.

"It's just a matter of entrusting the matter to Allah and choosing the right place, the right time and the right method," Gadahn said.

Fear of getting caught should not be a deterrent, according to Gadahn: “If it's Allah's will that you be captured, then it's not the end the world and it doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to spend the rest of your life in prison," he said.

Gadahn, 32, was born in California in 1978 to a Jewish father and Christian mother. At age 17, he converted to Islam and was recruited by a mosque that had links to al Qaeda. Gadahn later fled to Afghanistan, where he joined up with al Qaeda, met Osama bin Laden and became the terrorist group’s main propagandist.

A U.S. court indicted Gadahn in absentia for treason in 2006. The FBI considers him one of the "most wanted terrorists" in the world, and the State Department is offering a $1 million reward for his capture.

"Muslims in the West have to remember that they are perfectly placed to play an important and decisive part in the jihad against the Zionists and crusaders, and to do major damage to the enemies of Islam, waging war on their religion, sacred places and things and brethren," Gadahn said. "This is a golden opportunity and a blessing."

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Comments

[Roy Samir]

11:34 AM on 06/20/2011

think about your survival first, you fool terrorists.

[Jan Allen McDaniel]

06:03 PM on 06/10/2011

Brits dealing with their own Adam Gadahns:

Update to this post on the UK anti-terrorism strategy, Prevent:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Jan_Allen_McDaniel/adam-gadahn-urges-muslims-kill-americans_n_871190_91488777.html

But what is an extremist? Annex A helpfully includes a glossary:

"Extremism is vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs. We also include in our definition of extremism calls for the death of members of our armed forces, whether in this country or overseas."

This definition embraces a fair number of grass-roots organisations, presently operating with impunity and, in some cases, subsidy.

http://www.islamicpluralism.org/1805/on-uk-government-strategy-vs-radical-islam

American authorities should consider the American branch of Hizb ut Tahrir as extremist by this definition.

[nicothebaker]

02:29 PM on 06/09/2011

Have we detained and questioned this guy's parents yet.

[Mark Webber]

02:54 AM on 06/09/2011

Doug you are missleading people as usual your link contains nothing on human rights just propaganda. "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZL32fm-uoI"

Islam and Human Rights
http://www.ntpi.org/html/humanrights1.html

Ann Elizabeth Meyer, in her book Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics discusses the Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights of 1981 and compares its provisions with those of the UDHR. The UIDHR has been published in two versions: in Arabic and in English. We are told in the English version that the Arabic text is definitive. What is not at all evident is that the Arabic version is actually different from the English in several respects, with the Arabic version being substantially more conservative in tone. In no sense would the English version be acceptable as a certified translation of the Arabic. One is left with the impression that the wording of the English version has been watered down for western consumption.

[The Knocker]

02:02 PM on 06/09/2011

While you use the "Christain Broad Network" of Pat Robertson as you reference for your source, you accused other of misleading people.
Pat Robertson, a known hate-monger, has made many hateful and misleading remarks on other religion and culture.
"HATE SPEECH!!!! CHRISTIAN COMMENTATOR PAT ROBERTSON SAYS THAT HAITI IS CURSED . . . MADE A PACT WITH THE DEVIL . . . AND THAT'S WHY THE EARTHQUAKE HAPPENED!!!"
http://cdn.mediatakeout.com/38192/hate_speech_christian_commentator_pat_robertson_says_that_haiti_is_cursed____made_a_pact_with_the_devil____and_thats_why_the_earthquake_happened.html

[Doug Sandlin]

08:45 PM on 06/09/2011

You're mistaken, Mark.

(Shaykh) Dr. Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri is one of the most popular Muslim leaders in the world (his organization, Minhaj ul-Quran, operates in over 90 countries, and has 1000 centers in Pakistan, alone).

He also spent his entire professional career in Islamic jurisprudence.

Attempting to dismiss his talk as "propaganda" is meaningless.

I think it's fair to say that he knows far more about Islam than content published on "No To Political Islam"-dot-org.

[Mark Webber]

02:37 AM on 06/09/2011

Islamists raise fears of violent 'clash of cultures' in Europe

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40336911/ns/world_news-europe/t/islamists-raise-fears-violent-clash-cultures-europe/

"It's a mathematical certainty there will be a successful attack in Europe at some point," he told msnbc.com. "The amount of attempted plots we see is not decreasing. I think what we have seen is a ... strengthening of attempted attacks that in some cases have come pretty close."

Le Beau, who cautioned that putting a figure on the number of Islamists was a "soft science," estimated there were between 5,000 and 10,000 people in Europe "willing to engage in violence."

[Mark Webber]

04:26 AM on 06/09/2011

Lovers of the religion of peace want you to believe otherwise. Deception is the primary tool they use. They aim to open the US to embrace their believes and eventually hope to consume the west and eradicate it's civilization that contradicts with them and declare themselves the dominant culture and religion.

[Doug Sandlin]

08:47 PM on 06/09/2011

LOL!

Mark - that's a story about Anjem Choudary ..... the Terry Jones of Islam.

Please.

[Robert SF]

02:03 PM on 06/10/2011

Funny... Muslims in general don't treat Choudary with the scorn and contempt that Christians in general expressed for Terry Jones. Not even close.

[Dead Che]

06:55 PM on 06/08/2011

Don't look now Adam, but there is a Hellfire with your name on it circling over head.

[Mark Webber]

05:02 PM on 06/08/2011

How does anyone trust such a believe system and it's followers?

HUMAN RIGHTS IN ISLAM

http://www.islam101.com/rights/index.htm

...when we speak of human rights in Islam we really mean that
these rights have been granted by God; they have not been granted by
any king or by any legislative assembly.

But since in Islam human rightshave been conferred by God, no legislative assembly in the world, or any government on earth has the right or authority to make any amendment or change in the rights conferred by God.

[Doug Sandlin]

05:45 PM on 06/08/2011

Your view of Islam is very narrow.

Here's one of the foremost Islamic leaders and legal scholars in the world, speaking on Islam and Human Rights:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZL32fm-uoI

True leaders like Shaykh Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri will help everyone, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, to have correct perceptions about the principles of Islam -- which includes complete support for human rights.

[Mark Webber]

06:09 PM on 06/08/2011

“Your view of ... is very narrow."

- You mean the religion it self is narrow. I merely cited a well known source on a fact.

[Robert SF]

02:08 PM on 06/10/2011

Wiki says: With respect to constitutions, Tahir ul-Qadri says: "This was the constitution, which provided the guarantee of fundamental human rights in our history." He believes that "a constitution is a man-made law and by no means it can be declared superior to a God-made law."

Sorry, not good enough.

[Mark Webber]

07:38 AM on 06/08/2011

Man charged with killing soldier says he's no thug

Muhammad has told The Associated Press that he shot the soldiers as retribution for the U.S. going to war in Muslim countries. He said in the note to the paper that the shooting was a act of war, not a crime.

Read more: http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Man-charged-with-killing-soldier-says-he-s-no-thug-1408006.php#ixzz1OgRWtEFG

[Doug Sandlin]

01:26 PM on 06/08/2011

Truly terrible.

And yes, as I've said many times: terrorists do what they do because they feel they're fighting a war - not because of religion. If it was because of religion, we'd see terrorism that doesn't have a 1:1 correlation with this view of fighting a war -- and we don't. We'd also see a lot more terrorism -- we can't reasonably expect that the vast majority of the world's 1.6 Billion Muslims would ignore a key teaching of their religion.

For details on the "terrorism as war strategy" data:

http://cpost.uchicago.edu/

[sandalwood]

02:34 PM on 06/08/2011

Times have changed and Muslim conquests and Christian conquests are a thing of the past. As I have mentioned before, even Ghazali stated the orthodox position as going on a conquest Jihad once a year. Christians have accepted the violent history of Christianity, whereas Muslims generally think of Islam as "the religion of peace" as if it didn't have the same sort of history. Recall that one commenter even took exception to you once stating that Christianity and Islam both have violent histories, and wished you to only speak on Christianity this way... such was the lack of objective knowledge there.

Yes, its a fact that holy texts which espouse violence on the 'other' exist within the Monotheist corpus. And its a fact that in the case of Islam, there are many worldwide who follow this teaching, and will not allow temples, churches etc. and will tear them down in fact.

Now, the worry is that this type of Islamist in his huge worldwide network is continually looking to enlist Western Muslims towards this approach, as even this blog story shows. We have to be very diligent that society in general and the Muslim society in particular keeps this in check. For this, Saudi funded mosques and materials are the most toxic.

[The Knocker]

03:20 PM on 06/08/2011

Thanks for the link Doug.

[Doug Sandlin]

05:20 PM on 06/08/2011

It's also very important to point out that this shooting happened in 2009; it's not directly connected to Gadahn's call to violence, at all.

This also means that the terrorist referenced in the story was one of the 161 American Muslims arrested on suspicion of involvement with terrorism in the last decade -- out of millions of American Muslims.

For key facts on American Muslims and Terrorism in post-9/11 America, please see:

http://sanford.duke.edu/centers/tcths/about/documents/Kurzman_Muslim-American_Terrorism_Since_911_An_Accounting.pdf

[European1919]

03:52 AM on 06/08/2011

More rewards for ca. 65 years of gunboat diplomacy. But America refuses to learn.

[Doug Sandlin]

01:30 PM on 06/08/2011

Straight from the There Are (At Least) Two Sides To Every Story Dept.:

http://www.youtube.com/user/CAIRtv

... where anyone can simply see for themselves what CAIR is like, and reach their own conclusions.

[Robert SF]

02:15 PM on 06/10/2011

Ibrahim Cooper did indeed say that he wishes to see the US under Sharia law. I don't care what he thinks Sharia law means. The fact that he said it makes him just another Islamist.

[The Knocker]

03:31 PM on 06/08/2011

Enough of your false and misleading info. demonizing a legit Muslim civil right org.
Apparently, you have more connection of spies than the FBI.

[altoplano]

05:22 PM on 06/08/2011

Funny you should bring up the FBI. They discontinued their long-standing relationship with CAIR in 2008 due to its involvement with Hamas.

[BoudiccaBlanc]

04:18 PM on 06/07/2011

Hopefully this rant will fall on deaf ears.

[Mark Webber]

03:05 PM on 06/07/2011

Abdul-Halim Vazquez wrote:
"Even the 10 Commandmen­ts only ban perjury against your neighbor, and not lying in general."

- Are you advocating lying? Because that is not what Christians believe in. I am an atheist ,and even if Christianty allows lying that doesn't make it ok for others to lie. Mslms should get over comparing themselves to Christians and should stand responsible for their own acts and believes. Otherwise why did you convert if you always compare yourself to the low acts of other religions?

Colossians 3:8-10 “But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:” Lying is not from God, but Satan. It is from one who has not been renewed in the Spirit of their mind.

Proverbs 12:22 “Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.”

[Jan Allen McDaniel]

08:28 AM on 06/07/2011

More on the UK%u2019s Prevent program on the connection between Sharia law and terrorism:

Abdur Raheem Green, a Muslim convert and former public schoolboy, told students at University College London that a %u201Cpermanent state of war exists between the people of Islam and the people who opposed Islam%u201D. [Koran 9:29]

%u201CAn Islamic preacher told students it was difficult to argue with the views of Osama bin Laden and said %u201Cterrorism works%u201D in a speech at the university attended by the Detroit bomber, it can be disclosed.

Referring to bin Laden in his 2005 UCL speech, Mr Green said: "His rational [sic] is ? we are going to keep on killing your women and children until you stop killing our women and children. How do you argue with that?
He gave the speech, seen by The Daily Telegraph, to the university%u2019s Islamic society while Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab, the Detroit bomber, was a student there in 2005.%u201D

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/8560456/Terrorism-works-preacher-told-students.html

[Jan Allen McDaniel]

05:20 PM on 06/06/2011

It appears that British PM Cameron has discovered the relationship between Sharia compliance and the creation of British Muslims like America's Adam Gadahn:

"Central to the Prevent strategy is a broader definition of extremism that will be extended beyond groups condoning violence to those considered non-violent but whose views, such as the advocacy of sharia law, fail to "reflect British mainstream values".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jun/04/pm-nick-clegg-muslim-extremists


If they can get past the limitations of political correctness, citizens of the UK can now have the conversation we have been having here about the appropriateness of unreformed Sharia law in any liberal democracy--without broadsides about Islamophobia, racism and bigotry.

[Doug Sandlin]

08:10 PM on 06/06/2011

"unreformed Sharia law"

The key, I think, is clarifying terms.

No one I know of wants any extremist form of Sharia law, implemented. Any attempts to implement extremist Sharia law should be prevented, and my understanding is the both the U.S. and the U.K. have laws in place to do this (if something is outside the bounds of our own laws -- it's illegal).

However, the term "Sharia law" also applies to Muslim religious law in general, which has led to a lot of confusion.

I would hope the British government can learn from some of the glaring errors we've seen here in that regard (mistakenly labeling all "Sharia law" as something extremist, totalitarian and barbaric, and mistakenly citing Muslims' inclinations to promote this type of Sharia law).

There may be some Muslims who do wish to promote extremist Sharia law, and if so, the key to keeping it in check, in my opinion, is to be precise:

*What Sharia law are we talking about?
*Who is "promoting" it, specifically?
*How are they promoting it?
*What actions have they taken?

Etc. Etc. Etc.

Unfortunately, this issue has become very clouded, because some people have made up a lot of things about Muslims, including in relation to the imagined threat of extremist Sharia law (in the U.S.; I don't know of the actual situation, in the U.K. - but it sounds similar to the situation here).

http://www.publiceye.org/liberty/training/Muslim_Menace_Complete.pdf

[Jan Allen McDaniel]

07:11 AM on 06/07/2011

The results of a new investigation into the literature available in American mosques is out:

"Mosques as Barracks in America
Posted By Andrew Bostom On June 5, 2011

I) Is there a robust association between observable measures of religious devotion, coupled to Sharia-adherence in US mosques, and the presence of violence-sanctioning materials at these mosques?; and

II) Is there a robust association between the presence of violence-sanctioning materials at a mosque, and the advocacy of jihadism by the mosque's leadership via recommending the study of these materials, or other manifest behaviors?
[%u2026]
The study's results provide clear-and ominous-affirmative answers to the a priori questions posed. Sharia-adherence was strongly associated with the presence of jihad-violence sanctioning materials, and the presence of jihad-violence sanctioning materials was in turn robustly associated advocacy of jihadism by mosque imams-religious leaders. This key summary finding was highlighted by the authors:

...51 percent of mosques had texts that either advocated the use of violence in the pursuit of a Shari'a-based political order or advocated violent jihad as a duty that should be of paramount importance to a Muslim; 30 percent had only texts that were moderately supportive of violence like the Tafsir Ibn Kathir and Fiqh as-Sunna; 19 percent had no violent texts at all.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/mosques_as_barracks_in_america_1.html

[Jan Allen McDaniel]

10:52 AM on 06/07/2011

because some people have made up a lot of things about Muslims, including in relation to the imagined threat of extremist Sharia law (in the U.S.
=============

Doug,

You present yourself as an unbiased observer of Islam in America who feels that American Muslims are being subjected to unfair criticism which you want to rectify with objective facts. I present myself as a polemicist and a critic of Islam, especially of Islamism.

In your conversation with me you have proven yourself, in my opinion, to be a dishonest propagandist for Islam.

I offer two typical examples:

1) I offered proof that Sharia law approved of female circumcision. You found a secondary Western source that claimed that Al Azhar had reversed centuries of law by declaring FGM to be un-Islamic. Since then, I have included that claim with mine.

2) You claimed that there was no evidence that American Muslims wanted to follow Sharia law. I produced evidence from sunnipath. com to the contrary, which you claimed to accept as valid. Every post of yours since has repeated the same untrue claim about American Muslims not wanting to follow Sharia. That%u2019s dishonest.

When I subsequently asked if you had ever accepted any evidence I have produced as valid, you finally admitted that you had not. Whatever else you may be, unbiased and objective you are not.

You sometimes offer valuable evidence for American Muslims here. Your dishonest tactics demean that worthy effort.

[emulsifier]

03:30 PM on 06/06/2011

It's funny because the Prophet described people called Khawarij and warned his people about them. The characteristics describing Khawarij is pretty close to the Wahabis, and Taliban and Al-Qaeda of today. He warned that they will recite the Quran with fervour and passion but its spirit will not go beyond their throats. And that will practice extremism. In a hadith in Sahih Bukhari, he said that they would come from Iraq.

In any case, they are described as appearing to be very good in their prayers, speech and recitation of the Quran, but have poor understanding of it. After all, he said the following :

"They are the losers, those who make the religion hard and tough. They imperil themselves who enforce tough practices of Islam. They destroy themselves, those who are extremes." (Reported by Ibn Masud in Sahih Muslim)

"Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, 'Religion is very easy and whoever overburdens himself in his religion will not be able to continue in that way. So you should not be extremists, but try to be near to perfection and receive the good tidings that you will be rewarded; and gain strength by worshipping in the mornings, the nights.' " (Bukhari Vol 1, Book 2, Number 39)