Despite the narrator’s ignorant surprise throughout the whole video, this is quite interesting — in a very sad way.
Al-Qaeda is intelligent. They see an opening and they’re going to try to fill it.
Somalia might not be such a hotbed for recruitment, though, if the West weren’t so set on supporting Ethiopian troops, propping up anti-Muslim warlords for the artist formerly known as “War on Terror” and doing all in our power to neglect the region and then scratch our heads and wonder “why” when pirates take an American hostage.
Of course the diaspora is fed up. And it is through this that al-Qaeda is capitalizing on a recruitment opportunity.
But maybe we can continue being surprised when things like this happen and conveniently forget that violence breeds violence. Torture breeds torture. Hate breeds hate.
