AP defines “personal struggle” as “holy war”

That’s funny. I keep hearing all those Arab groups saying that jihad means “personal struggle,” and yet, the AP managed to translate it from an Al Qaeda tape as “holy war.”

Al-Zawahri did not threaten specific attacks, but warned Obama that he was “facing a Jihadi (holy war) awakening and renaissance which is shaking the pillars of the entire Islamic world; and this is the fact which you and your government and country refuse to recognize and pretend not to see.”

But—but—they keep telling us that jihad means personal struggle!

Maybe they’re lying?

This was deep within an article that carried the lead of al-Qaeda insulting Obama by calling him a “house slave.”

Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri insulted Barack Obama in the terror group’s first reaction to his election, calling him a demeaning racial term implying that the president-elect is a black American who does the bidding of whites.

The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites Wednesday, that Obama is “the direct opposite of honorable black Americans” like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.

So, if you don’t advocate violence, you’re dishonorable. Yeah, that sounds about right for al-Qaeda. And so does this:

Al-Zawahri also called Obama – along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice – “house negroes.”

Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term “abeed al-beit,” which literally translates as “house slaves.” But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as “house negroes.”

So, about that religion of peace, equality and freedom: That’s 0-for-3 so far.