Gay jihadis: Western media’s latest scam
By: Rachel Marsden
Terrorists on the offensive in Aleppo seem to be attempting to give themselves a facelift, suddenly embracing diversity
Al-Qaeda is back on the rampage once again in Syria, and sounding like their
monkey bar training exercises were replaced with a social justice brainwashing
course.
So what have they been up to lately since they dropped off the radar a few years
ago? “How Syria’s ‘diversity-friendly’ jihadists plan on building a state,”
reads a headline from Britain’s Telegraph. Well, that explains it. The piece
also cites “torture” documented by human rights groups in the areas of Idlib
that the Al-Qaeda successor group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), has controlled
for the past few years. Which may also describe the meetings required to come up
with diversity policies.
Facelifted Al-Qaeda in Syria now sounds like it swallowed an equity and
inclusion manual written by a nose-ringed, purple-haired, gender-fluid Western
activist. “Diversity is a strength,” said the group’s head, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani,
after rampaging through Aleppo.
Does the CIA now require proof of quotas and an equity and inclusion policy for
proxy groups getting billion-dollar contracts to do its regime change dirty work
abroad – like the much-hyped “moderate Syrian rebels,” many of whom then turned
around and defected to Al-Qaeda?
What a hassle to have to worry about all that window dressing when you’re trying
to do terrorism. Not to mention a distraction. This sounds like something that
only the Western national security complex could come up with.
It’s not like those “moderate rebels,” who just happened to have abandoned
their US-supplied weapons to this group the last time they tried and failed at
Syrian regime change in a billion-dollar CIA operation, were a resounding
success when all they really had to focus on was the mission. Now it sounds like
they’d want to make sure to get everyone’s pronouns straight, too.
Also, don’t call them terrorists. That hurts their feelings, according to a
recent piece published in Britain’s Telegraph, in which the group’s leader
called the label “unfair.” I guess he has a point. It would be like showering
someone with cash and gifts (weapons, in this case) and then describing them as
a crazy stalker the minute you’re caught in public together.
So out goes Al-Qaeda, saddled with all the pesky baggage of being accused by the
West of bringing down New York’s Twin Towers and dive bombing into the Pentagon
with a passenger jet on September 11, 2001. In comes a whole new look to soften
their image, presumably in the hope that Westerners will embrace regime change
efforts if it’s done by guys who sound like they’re on the brink of raising the
rainbow flag above Damascus.
Maybe the locals will also welcome terrorists attempting to overthrow President
Bashar Assad’s government if they promote a “looser regime than, for example,
the Taliban in Afghanistan,” as the Telegraph suggests they’re trying to do.
Wow, that’s quite a high bar.
He talks a good game but still ends up sounding like the uptight guy who just
can’t shake loose on the dance floor. They’re reportedly allowing people to
smoke and ditch the hijab, and insisting that fighters “not scare children.” So
then why do all the circulating images of him and his posse make it look like
they’re straight out of central casting for the movie Zero Dark Thirty? Or was
that all before he the reputational botox?
Also, too bad about that whole government overthrow thing and the running around
with machine guns. Kind of ruins the whole vibe. Or the fact that the group’s
leader was allied with the head-choppers known as ISIS, with another Telegraph
piece last month referring to them as “allies.”
But hey, maybe I’m just a massive bigot who can’t fully appreciate his
conversion into a social justice warrior because there’s the small matter of
Washington’s $10 million bounty on his head for terrorism blocking my view.
He’s been under a United Nations arms embargo for association with Al-Qaeda and
ISIS since 2013, but the US is also conveniently allowing him to continue on his
merry way in taking over Syria while periodically just tossing out insults.
Jolani spent years in US military prisons after fighting in Iraq and before
ending up in Syria in 2011 where he started his Al-Qaeda terrorist venture –
around the same time that the Western cash started rolling in and the CIA showed
up to work with Turkey in training and staging their “Syrian rebels.”
And now he’s organizing a bread delivery of 65,000 loaves to locals in the city
he just took over, Aleppo, calling the campaign, “Together We Return.” Because
he self-identifies as a statesman. Sounds like the kind of hearts and minds
campaign that’s ripped straight out of a Pentagon playbook.
The Pentagon is also handing out millions annually to transgender persons
fighting for Uncle Sam’s interests, according to Defense Department data. When
can we expect to see the first Al-Qaeda gender reassignments?
“Aleppo is a meeting place of civilization with culture and religious diversity
for all Syrians,” he said. He seems to be desperately trying to suggest that
he’s already undergone ideological reassignment from his days in ISIS when the
group was killing Christians.
All these efforts are “meant to assure that the group was ready to govern as
well as fight,” noted the Telegraph. Alright, so if Al-Qaeda is up for some
Western-style governance, then when’s the inaugural Aleppo Pride Parade compete
with jihadists in fetish gear?
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