"Al Qaeda is Racist"

I suspect I won't be the only one to notice this report. It seems President Obama was interviewed by the South African Broadcasting Corporation and was asked, naturally enough, for his reaction to the bombings in Uganda that occurred during the World Cup. What the President chose to focus on, and White House officials later reinforced, was that Al Qaeda, targeting black Africans as it did, revealed a particularly racist strain to their already twisted ideology. The President:

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.

Are you finished shaking your head?

In the first place, the naivete of the President's observation is astounding. Al Qaeda, along with every Al Qaeda wannabe everywhere, is a demonstrably equal opportunity murderer. Did he honestly think black, brown, or anything other than white skin would somehow protect you from these killers?

In the second place, and I'm going to say it plainly, what is revealed hereby is not Al Qaeda's racism, but the President's. Deal with it!