“The Best In The English Language”: Al Qaeda’s PR Man In America - With Video
Samir Khan runs an Al Qaeda blog from his home in Charlotte, N.C., which experts say is the best in the English language.
Fox:
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In a quiet, upscale neighborhood in Charlotte, N.C., rows of custom-style homes and neatly landscaped lawns represent the American dream.
But one local resident has shattered that image, calling for the death of American troops in Iraq and supporting Al Qaeda through his Web site, which he reportedly runs from his parents’ home.
Samir Khan is the man behind Revolution.Muslimpad.com — a radical Islamic site that praises Usama bin Laden and asks for Allah to “curse more American soldiers.”
The site posts videos of U.S. Humvees being blown up by roadside bombs in Iraq. It aims to inspire young Muslims to wage war against the West.
Terrorism experts say the Web site, written in English, is one of the premiere sites for Western audiences to get access to radical Islamist propaganda.
Khan, 22, declined requests for an interview, even when approached outside his home with cameras rolling. When asked if the messages on his site represent Islam, Khan would say only that “they represent Muslims.” ( Continued below video)
In an e-mail sent to FOX News, Khan lashed out at the “arrogance” of the media, saying it should focus instead on converting to Islam. “When you go down in to the earth six feet deep, nothing will matter except what Religion you died upon,” he wrote.
Following a FOXNews.com report last month profiling his Web site, Khan railed against “the Kuffaar” — non-believers — who wrote the article and affirmed his belief that jihad is “an Islaamic obligation” rooted in Muslim texts.
Words like those stir mixed emotions in Charlotte, among the general public and among the 8,000 Muslims who live there.
Imam Khalil Akbar, a religious leader in Charlotte, condemned Khan’s site, saying its views do not reflect “mainstream Islamic thinking” and do not represent the Muslim community at large.
“I would reject categorically those kinds of encouragements to look up to people like bin Laden,” Akbar said.
Neighbors described Khan — who immigrated to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia when he was 7 years old — as “friendly” and “reserved.” They said he launched his Web site while taking classes at Central Piedmont Community College and selling Cutco knives.
Abdullah Mahmud, an acquaintance of Khan’s who attends the same mosque, the Islamic Center of Greater Charlotte, defended Khan’s viewpoints, saying his anger stems from the United States’ foreign policy and occupation of Iraq.
Mahmoud said the blood-drenched videos Khan shows of U.S. soldiers injured in combat “serve the purpose of making the reality of the Iraqi scene visible to people.”
“Those videos are not much different than videos involving American soldiers targeting Iraqi civilians,” he said. “You have to look at both sides here.”
One of Khan’s neighbors, Ron Williams, also defended Khan’s right to free speech.
“Our actions (in Iraq) were interpreted broadly in the Muslim world as an attack on Islam,” Williams said, “I defend his right to speak out.”
But Jarret Brachman, director of research at West Point’s Center for Combatting Terrorism, said Khan’s call for violence takes his anti-American views one step further.
“To be unhappy with U.S. foreign policy is one thing, but to advocate violence by promoting Al Qaeda is another,” he said.
“This is the most sophisticated and aggressive Web site in English that really puts out bin Laden’s ideology and the message that’s promoted by Al Qaeda,” he added.
Brachman said Khan’s site “raises the threshold for what it means to be a good, pro-Al Qaeda Web site” and is “the best in English.”
A graphic prominently displayed on the site shows a picture of Abu Yahya al-Libi, a prominent Al Qaeda spokesman whom Brachman calls “Bin Laden 2.0.”
“He’s the guy poised to take over the movement after bin Laden fades away,” Brachman said. “The fact that Khan would display him like he does means he’s trying not only to show he’s an insider, but also to model himself after him.”
The exact dangers his site poses are difficult to assess, experts said.
“It doesn’t necessarily move someone to action immediately, but it primes the pump,” Brachman said. “It gets somebody motivated to think more about Al Qaeda and so over the long term this is a very threatening message that he’s promoting.”
• Click here to see more reactions from Charlotte’s Muslim community.
Be respectful of others and their opinions. Inflammatory remarks and inane leftist drivel will be deleted. It ain’t about free speech, remember you’re in a private domain. My website, my prerogative.
If you can't handle using your real email address, don't bother posting a comment.
Juat repeating, from when it was linked earlier, some folks would say you might not want to link to him, publicize him, or drive traffic to his site.
Go moon his parents, maybe, but don’t give him publicity.
June 6th, 2008 at 4:26 pmMoon his parents???
There has got to be something illegal about this?
I mean come on… we can’t have a baby Jesus in the school yard but this guy can do this?????
June 6th, 2008 at 4:57 pm22, and ~ 200 milies from my current location. Well I have a Garand and Colt .45, the question is, could I get away with it? The reality is a billion leftist lawyers (many of them the very Jews whose throats he would like to see slit) will rush to prosecute me, thus ending my prospects for killin’ all his friends in the Sandbox, as a Marine officer. Fucked up society we’re living in.
June 6th, 2008 at 4:59 pmThis scum bag needs to have an FBI file opened on him.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:00 pmThis guy just needs to be opened.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:07 pmLast time I looked we were at war with Al Queda. I would say what this asshole is doing definitely comes under the heading of sedition. Somebody call the Klan….
June 6th, 2008 at 5:10 pmThose videos are not much different than videos involving American soldiers targeting Iraqi civilians,” he said. “You have to look at both sides here.”
This might be true….that is, if we even were targeting Iraqi civilians. But we’re not. Al Qaida is. End of discussion. Kill him. We know where he lives and the authorities won’t do it. I’m f*kin serious.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:35 pmA quick search:
Samir Ibn Zafar Khan
Zafar and Sarah Khan (parents)
11231 Tradition View Dr.
Charlotte, NC 28269-1416
Ronald C. Williams (neighbor)
June 6th, 2008 at 6:05 pm11226 Tradition View Dr.
Charlotte, NC 28269-1416
We’ll just spread this MF’s name and MO around, results expected. This turd will be flushed out. The activity he’s engaged in make one susceptible to accidents.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:06 pmJak, I’m with you…this bastard doesn’t deserve to live. What makes it worse is the fact our government allows for this shit. Really pisses me off that he isn’t being tried as an accomplice to terrorism. We have a few insane murderers in this country, why don’t we guide one his way?
June 6th, 2008 at 6:27 pmThis guy needs to be put down.
And his neighbor Ron too.
Hopefully Samir kills Ron exercising his free speech rights and then Samir is promptly killed by the local police….
Two birds with one stone.
Justice served.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:28 pmThis is the kind of fucked up absolute bullshit that is and will continue to undermine this country.
There should always be freedom of speech but that is not what is being displayed here with this asshat. That is what the libs just don’t understand. They have become so complacent that they do not care that his actions are a direct threat to our soldiers, all Americans, and our country. WTF
That POS should be deported
June 6th, 2008 at 6:51 pmTell Bash to get all Louie’s decendents together and throw the bastard in with them.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:09 pmA frontal labotomy is in order. No jihadi should be welcomed in this country with anything but a pair of handcuffs or a bullet.
Nor should they be allowed to hide behind the rubric of religion in order to get away with their crimes.
This guy has sown to the wind. Let him now reap the whirlwind. Show him the front door to hell.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:16 pmThis guy needs to have an ‘accident’.
“No officer, I don’t know how I ran the jihadi goat-fucker over, it must have been that my gas pedal got stuck and my brakes didn’t work … three times.”
June 6th, 2008 at 10:05 pm“through his Web site, which he reportedly runs from his parents’ home.”
MAAAAA!! We’re out of milk!! How am I supposed to wage Jihad when I can’t have my cereal in the morning? MAAA!!! Are you listening??
June 7th, 2008 at 1:27 amFrom his parents home,another non productive Muslim.Deport the worthless bastard,or better yet………..
June 7th, 2008 at 6:14 amHey folks, you can post comments on his website. Should be fun.
June 7th, 2008 at 7:10 amNext time a faggot liberal starts to whine about the Patriot Act and how it “takes away our rights,” just direct them to this story and the fact that this jihadi fuck is running around free and happy.
June 7th, 2008 at 7:51 amI’m starting to think that Milosovic wasn’t such a bad guy after all.
June 7th, 2008 at 10:48 amSteve - Doesn’t this piglet live in your neck of the woods?
Happy hunting!!!
June 7th, 2008 at 11:04 amOn behalf of “Steve in NC”, whom I know and directed me to this site, YES, this piglet goat-fucker is in our AO. I actually drove down the main road past his subdivision 2 days ago.
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/11231+Tradition+View+Dr+CHarlotte++NC+28269/
What a piece of crap…
June 7th, 2008 at 12:23 pm1. No usage of foul language or curses.
2. No usage of sarcasm against Islaam.
3. Any elements of arrogance will not be tolerated.
4. No insulting or bashing of Islaam and the Muslims.
DAMMIT…I can’t post a word about the back-asswards dickheads of the “religion of peace”
because I live in the greatest country in the world, and once wore the Army uniform as part of the greatest military in the world.
Did I cover all 4 of those rules from that donkey-dicks website?? I sure as hell fucking hope so!
June 7th, 2008 at 12:42 pmThose are the exact opposite rules of Pat Dollard.com
June 7th, 2008 at 12:51 pmLarry in NC…I live here too and am the reason he reposted his “rules”, evidently he didn’t like being called a cowardly piece of shit that spent too much time sucking uncle Habeeb as a child. Was it the way I said it? I meant it in the nicest way! All these dickheads that hide behind the freedoms WE have fought and died for, enjoying the benefits of living in a society where they are protected need to “man up” and carry their ass on out to join their “brothers” getting their asses handed to them on a daily basis. This dumbass doesn’t deserve the air here in North Carolina. I think it’s time to open up an internment camp and stick every one of these jihadi dickheads in it. We need to hammer bamboo splinters underneath their fingernails, waterboard them on a daily basis, force them to eat pork at least 4 times a day, rap music should blare constantly, their “holy book” should be ripped, page by page, and shoved up their ass until the sheets get stuck in their throats and they choke to death, only to realize the “virgins” they were promised are really 72 four hundred pound gay men with 20 inch dicks.
But that’s just me…
June 7th, 2008 at 1:15 pmMr. Dollard, thanks!! I’ve found a home!
Agreed…agreed…agreed… Nah, it’s just not you.
I work for a well-known overnight delivery company…I had a delivery one time to a house…letter was from Bahrain with “Understanding Islam” on the company line. A guy with Amercan type name on label, but when door opens it’s a Johnny Jihad-looking motherfucker complete with raggedy-ass beard. Sickening, but it’s part of the growing group of “home-grown” ASSHOLES who are converting to this bullshit.
June 7th, 2008 at 3:29 pm“Agreed…agreed…agreed… Nah, it’s just not you.”
Sorry, that was for Angry Redneck..
June 7th, 2008 at 3:31 pmThis oinker is from Saudi Arabia. Why am I not surprised?
June 7th, 2008 at 4:14 pm