Al-Qaeda: Kill Whites or US Won't Think Its Jihad

Al-Qaeda has called on lone wolf terrorists in the West to make sure to target white heterosexuals so there is no doubt about the motive of an attack.

Wed, June 29, 2016

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is worried that people are misunderstanding the motives of jihadist attacks. They have urged their followers to make sure to attack white heterosexual Americans in order that their motives are not misrepresented as being an issue of gun violence or other hate crime.

The group became worried following the reactions to the Orlando attack, in which a gunman who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State killed 49 people at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando Florida.

"Avoid targeting places and crowds where minorities are generally found in America" Al-Qaeda wrote in the latest issue of its propaganda magazine Inspire, in a piece titled "Inspire guide: Orlando operation."

Otherwise "the federal government will be the one taking full responsibility” and people will not give the jihadi ideology credit for the attack.

In order to ensure the attack is properly labeled, Al-Qaeda recommends that jihadis strike "areas where the Anglo-Saxon community is generally concentrated. This class of the American community is the majority and it is the one that is in the American leadership."

AQAP, which carried out the attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine in January in 2015, killing 12 journalists and cartoonists, also said it supports jihadi attacks in the West regardless of which specific group carries them out. Al-Qaeda has been locked in a struggle for supremacy with the Islamic State since Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi split from Al-Qaeda in 2014, later declaring himself Caliph.

"We standby and support all Muslims who attack America in their homeland regardless of their affiliation to any group or loyalty" Al-Qaeda said.

For more information about Al-Qaeda's rival the Islamic State see Clarion Project's Special Report: The Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL)


Al-Qaeda: Kill Whites or US Won't Think Its Jihad