{The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab has released a propaganda video featuring footage of the US presidential hopeful, Donald Trump.}<\/p>\n
It shows his recent call for Muslims to be barred from entering the US.
\nIt also shows al-Shabab – which is linked to al-Qaeda – urging African-Americans to convert to Islam and to take part in holy war.<\/p>\n
It says racism, police brutality and anti-Muslim sentiment are rife in the US.
\nMr Trump’s campaign team has not responded to the video.<\/p>\n
In recent years, several Somali-Americans from Minnesota have gone to fight for al-Shabab in Somalia.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump is shown 10 minutes in the 51-minute film making his December call for the US to bar all Muslims, in the wake of deadly California shootings in San Bernardino on 2 December.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump said a “total and complete” shutdown should remain until the US authorities could “figure out” Muslim attitudes to the US. His comments were widely condemned in the US at the time.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump’s statement is shown between two clips of militant leader Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in a drone strike in Yemen in 2011.<\/p>\n
The film was distributed on Twitter on Friday by the al-Kataib media foundation, an Islamist militant organisation, intelligence agency SITE Monitoring reported.<\/p>\n
Al-Shabab, which seeks to overthrow Somalia’s Western-backed government and impose a strict version of Sharia (Islamic law), has carried out attacks in Kenya and Ethiopia.<\/p>\n
Source:BBC:[Al-Shabab militant group uses Donald Trump in propaganda film->http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-35213286]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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