Obama plays al Qaeda race card

Jake Tapper:

In an interview earlier today with the South African Broadcasting Corporation to air in a few hours, President Obama disparaged al Qaeda and affiliated groups' willingness to kill Africans in a manner that White House aides say was an argument that the terrorist groups are racist.

Speaking about the Uganda bombings, the president said, "What you've seen in some of the statements that have been made by these terrorist organizations is that they do not regard African life as valuable in and of itself. They see it as a potential place where you can carry out ideological battles that kill innocents without regard to long-term consequences for their short-term tactical gains."

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This is nonsense. The Somalis who perpetrated the attacks are black Africans. Al Qaeda and its affiliates attack in Uganda for the same reason they attack in Iraq, Afghanistan and the US. They are religious bigots and not racial bigots. They attack those who do not submit to their weird religious beliefs no matter their color. Obama seems to be tied in knots over his attempt to avoid the religious issue, but suggesting that attacks by black al Qaeda operatives against other blacks is racist is ridiculous.

Andrew McCarthy has more thoughts on the Obama race card.