In the view of al-Qaeda, Biden’s leadership amounts to a victory for Allah in the jihad against America. Writes Christine Douglass-Williams
Biden is a global humiliation, and he has taken America with him. Even al-Qaeda is touting his failure. Al-Qaeda’s official central media has released an issue of its Arabic-language magazine which contains a lengthy article entitled “America Burns 3: A Year of Biden’s Rule and a Succession of Setbacks.”
In the view of al-Qaeda, Biden’s leadership amounts to a victory for Allah in the jihad against America. And it is. America is now viewed by America’s worst enemies as weak. Jihadist and Communist bullies escalate in the face of weakness and appeasement.
Imagine, al-Qaeda giving a truthful analysis of what America has become.
Under the subtitle: “Democracy is Dying,” al-Qaeda states:
Jihadi scholars and clerics defined democracy as “opposing the true shari’a and violating [the teachings] brought by the Wise Revelation [i.e. the Quran], and its consequences are losing this world and the Hereafter.”
Let’s hope that America’s functioning democracy is restored and that it wakes up to the truth about how it is viewed by its enemies, and about the goals of its enemies. At present, its leaders have imbibed the arrogant Leftist assumption that the jihad is somehow all about them and can be appeased.
“Article In New Issue Of Al-Qaeda Magazine Calls First Year Of Biden Presidency A ‘Succession Of Setbacks’ For The U.S.”, MEMRI, March 1, 2022:
On February 19, 2022, As-Sahab, Al-Qaeda’s official central media outlet, released the sixth issue of its Arabic-language magazine, Ummah Wahidah (One Ummah).[1] The 148-page magazine, which focuses on the August 2021 “manifest victory” of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Afghan Taliban), contains a lengthy article titled “America Burns 3: A Year of Biden’s Rule and a Succession of Setbacks.”
The fifth issue of the Arabic version of the magazine, which was released in April 2021, was also titled “America Burns,”[2] and this was also the title of the editorial which was published in the second issue of the English version, which was released in June 2020.
It should be noted that Al-Qaeda has sworn allegiance to Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and considers him the “Commander of the Believers” with authority over all Muslims worldwide.
The article “America Burns 3: A Year of Biden’s Rule and a Succession of Setbacks” spans 15 of the magazine’s 148 pages and was written by Muhsin Al-Rumi, which is also the alias of the author of an article in Ummah Wahidah 1 titled “The American Economy toward the Abyss.”
The article casts the Biden presidency as the latest episode in the continuing decline of the U.S., focusing on the humiliating U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan as the Taliban took over the country, the polarization of the U.S. and the threat it poses to U.S. democracy, the damage the U.S. has suffered from the COVID-19 pandemic and Biden’s perceived failure in handling the pandemic, and an economic crisis in the U.S. involving rising inflation. Al-Rumi criticizes Biden’s handling of the above issues, while claiming that Al-Qaeda intentionally chose to target the U.S. on September 11, 2001 in order to cause prolonged economic damage to the U.S. economy.
Taliban Victory in Afghanistan was a “Devastating Defeat” to the U.S.
Noting that previous articles in the “America Burns” series discussed “America’s closeness to the abyss,” Al-Rumi adds that “the most optimistic of us did not expect that the collapse would happen with such astonishing speed and on all levels.” Discussing the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and the U.S. withdrawal, the article states that the U.S. suffered a “devastating defeat” when Allah “granted His servants the mujahideen – and at their head the brave Afghan nation and the mujahideen of the Islamic ummah on all fronts – power over the necks of the Americans and the taghouts [literally “false deities,” a term used to refer to rulers who govern by manmade law] of the Arabs and the foreigners who supported them.” He continues: “Then the citadels of unbelief collapsed, and the pillars of tyranny went up [in smoke], and the Muslims – and all the oppressed on earth – rejoiced.”
The article notes that “failed” President Biden promised Americans that the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan would not be like the humiliating exit from Vietnam, but “Allah willed that their flight from Afghanistan would a greater failure and more humiliating, and live on the air.” It further claims that even after “the enemies fled to their lairs across the oceans,” the number of U.S. casualties continued to increase as a result of “mass suicides,” while not even one of the “soldiers of the Merciful One” committed suicide. Al-Rumi writes: “May Allah have mercy on the sheikh [Osama bin Laden], for Kabul has been liberated like he predicted. Soon – Allah willing – Al-Aqsa, Mecca, Medina, Delhi, and other lands of Islam will be liberated.”
U.S. Democracy is Collapsing as America Grows Increasingly Divided
The next part of the article, titled “Democracy is Dying,” notes that jihadi scholars and clerics defined democracy as “opposing the true shari’a and violating [the teachings] brought by the Wise Revelation [i.e. the Quran], and its consequences are losing this world and the Hereafter.” The article celebrates the January 6, 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol as a sign that American democracy is collapsing: “Praise to Allah! The strongest democracy of the world was unable to protect its democracy from part of its own people whose revolt was led by a former president, who has not accepted Biden’s legitimacy until today – neither he nor his supporters – so how can it defend it [i.e. democracy] against its enemies?”
The article notes that even U.S. politicians have warned that democracy is at risk, quoting Biden’s statement that American democracy is “fragile.” The article also cited “the spiritual father of modern Democrats in America,” former President Jimmy Carter, who wrote that America “teeters on the brink of a widening abyss” and is “at genuine risk of civil conflict and losing [its] precious democracy.” Al-Rumi writes: “We give Carter the tidings that the civil war has indeed begun. Trump, the Hitler of America, sounded its starting whistle on the day that he ordered his militias to attack the fortress of their democracy on Washington.” The article asserts that former President Trump continues to issue threats, such as: “If these radical, vicious racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal, I hope we are going to have in this country the biggest protest we have ever had […] because our country and our elections are corrupt.” In addition, the article says that Biden warned at a press conference that if voting reform is not passed, the 2022 midterm elections are not “going to be legit,” asking: “Who will guarantee their legitimacy if the greatest authority in the country, the president, casts doubt on their credibility?”
