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Sudanese Islamist: Obama Should Win, ‘Baraka’ Means Blessing (enemy endorsement)
IsraelNews ^ | November 5, 2012

Posted on 11/05/2012 6:20:00 AM PST by NYer

A Sudanese opposition leader and prominent Sunni Muslim who had links to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the 1990s said he hopes President Barack Obama will get re-elected in Tuesday’s much anticipated election, AFP reported.

“You know what ‘Baraka’ means in Arabic? Blessing,” said veteran Islamist leader Hassan al-Turabi, who served as the secretary-general of the Islamic Charter Front, a political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood that advocated an Islamic constitution and opposed western secularism.

“Obama of course,” Turabi told AFP, when asked about his U.S. presidential preference during an interview.

“He’s gentle towards the Muslims generally,” Turabi said, and referred to Obama’s childhood spent in Muslim-majority Indonesia, and his Kenyan father who was raised as a Muslim.

Obama uses the word “terrorism” far less than his predecessor George W. Bush, and his name is a variant of the Arabic word “Baraka,” Turabi told the news agency.

Turabi has been a force in Sudanese politics for six decades, and was a key figure behind the 1989 coup, which brought the Islamist regime of President Omar al-Bashir to power.

Sudan then became a notorious refuge for Islamic terrorists, including bin Laden, who was killed by U.S. special forces in May 2011.

“He’s a media image. He’s not the true bin Laden I knew here,” Turabi said of the man whose terror organization has been tied to dozens of atrocities around the world including the September 11, 2001 attacks which killed around 3,000 people in the U.S.

Turabi, whose daughter studies in Philadelphia, fell out with Bashir about a decade after the Islamist coup and now leads the opposition Popular Congress Party.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alqaeda4dnc; alqaeda4obama; obama4jihad; obamavsamerica

1 posted on 11/05/2012 6:20:06 AM PST by NYer
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To: NYer

So a “blessing” for the muzzies is what for Americans?


2 posted on 11/05/2012 6:22:40 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer
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To: NYer

Well, that’s comforting.


3 posted on 11/05/2012 6:25:41 AM PST by The Conservative Goddess
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To: NYer

When all of America’s enemies endorse Obama, shouldn’t that tell even the most brain-dead voter something? But Democrats are like lemmings, marching over the cliff to drown in the sea, driven by their instinct for destruction.


4 posted on 11/05/2012 6:27:30 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: NYer

Another reason to vote 0bama out.


5 posted on 11/05/2012 7:24:25 AM PST by I want the USA back (The Holy Couple has got to go back to Chicago.)
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To: txrefugee

Sudan endorses Obama: Darfur, female circumcision, zero rights for women. And Romney is waging a war on women?


6 posted on 11/05/2012 7:42:25 AM PST by Mad_as_heck (The MSM - America's (domestic) public enemy #1.)
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To: NYer
Except he's not "Barak", he's "Baraq". That's the way it was transliterated into Hebrew when they papered the Kotel with his campaign signs in 2008.

Just so's ya know, Baraq is "lightning", not "blessing".

7 posted on 11/05/2012 11:34:28 AM PST by thulldud (Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
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