Somali extremists use Donald Trump clip to recruit followers

The video released by al-Shabab featured a clip of Mr Trump calling for a temporary ban on Muslims coming into the United States in the wake of the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California.

The al-Kataib Media Foundation released the video on Twitter on Friday, according to NBC. So, while Hillary Clinton may have been premature in her accusation last month (this recruitment video appears to be the first featuring Trump), it turns out she wasn’t exactly wrong either.

“Muslims of the West…there are ominous clouds gathering in your horizon”.

Al-Awlaki, who Washington alleges was a senior Al Qaeda operative, was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in September 2011. “If ISIS was using Trump for recruitment videos, we would expect a frenzy of media coverage over it. We rate this claim False”, the site wrote.

The 51-minute video, which is aimed at African Americans and Muslims, depicts the USA as a country of institutionalised prejudice against blacks and Islam.

Al Qaeda and the Islamic State are rival jihadist groups that compete for recruits and money among radicalized Muslims.

Following Trump’s declaration to ban Muslim immigrants from entering the United States, CNN’s Chris Cuomo got heated during an interview and called the plan “stupid”.

While Hillary Clinton’s claim that Trump was “ISIS’s best recruiter” may not have been totally verifiable a few weeks ago, she didn’t have to wait long for that to change.

Clinton’s campaign declined to comment on the video.

Representatives for the Trump campaign did not respond to requests for comment.

The video, confirmed to be genuine by experts, has footage of the USA police using force against black people as well as speeches of the African-American activist Malcolm X, who was killed in 1965.

Back from the dead…Anwar al-Awlaki.

“They really don’t care about the lives of or future of these young people or the problems they create and fear and agony in the hearts of our community”, Abdi Bihi, a Somali community leader in Minnesota, said.

The al Shabaab group emerged in 2006 from the now-defunct Islamic Courts Union that controlled Mogadishu and launched an insurgency on major Somali cities beginning in 2009.