Could you comment, Dr. Pipes?

Submitted by Peter Herz (United States), Nov 19, 2008 at 14:30

Dr. Pipes:

Al-Zawahiri, OBL's 2d in command, has just called President-elect Obama an "Abeed al-Bayt" (House slave/ House black); any comment on the linguistic significance of this?

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