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Militants use Trump Muslim remark in recruitment video
(MENAFN- Arab News) NAIROBI: Republican White House frontrunner Donald Trump's call for a 'shutdown' on Muslims entering the US have been used by Somalia's Al-Shabab in a militant recruitment video a US group that monitors extremist propaganda said Saturday.
The Al Qaeda-affiliated Al-Shabab use an excerpt from Trump's Dec. 7 speech calling for a 'total and complete shutdown' on Muslims entering the US to try woo Muslims in the West to wage jihad the SITE Intelligence Group reported.
In the speech Trump proposed barring Muslims from entering the US until the US was 'able to determine and understand this problem' of militant violence following the killing of 14 people by a radicalized couple in California.
In the Al-Shabab video the Trump soundbite is preceded by a speech by US-born radical imam Anwar Al-Awlaki calling on Muslims in America to 'flee the oppressive Western atmosphere.'
Al-Awlaki who Washington alleges was a senior Al-Qaeda operative was killed by a US drone strike in Yemen in September 2011.
The Al-Shabab video was uploaded onto Twitter by the Al-Kataib Media Foundation a regular conduit for the group's propaganda material SITE said.
The Al-Shabab was born out of the Islamic Court Union which controlled central and southern Somalia for six months in 2006 including the capital Mogadishu.
The Al Qaeda-affiliated Al-Shabab use an excerpt from Trump's Dec. 7 speech calling for a 'total and complete shutdown' on Muslims entering the US to try woo Muslims in the West to wage jihad the SITE Intelligence Group reported.
In the speech Trump proposed barring Muslims from entering the US until the US was 'able to determine and understand this problem' of militant violence following the killing of 14 people by a radicalized couple in California.
In the Al-Shabab video the Trump soundbite is preceded by a speech by US-born radical imam Anwar Al-Awlaki calling on Muslims in America to 'flee the oppressive Western atmosphere.'
Al-Awlaki who Washington alleges was a senior Al-Qaeda operative was killed by a US drone strike in Yemen in September 2011.
The Al-Shabab video was uploaded onto Twitter by the Al-Kataib Media Foundation a regular conduit for the group's propaganda material SITE said.
The Al-Shabab was born out of the Islamic Court Union which controlled central and southern Somalia for six months in 2006 including the capital Mogadishu.
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