Donald Trump features in Al-Qaida affiliate’s recruitment video

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>African affiliate has released a recruitment video targeting American black people and Muslims that includes a clip of presidential candidate Donald Trump calling for Muslims to be banned from entering the United States&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 51-minute video by the Somalia based al Shabab militant group presents the US as a country of institutionalised racism against blacks that also persecutes Muslims&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The video presents radical Islam as the solution&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The clip of Mr Trump on the campaign trail consists of his infamous proposal for the &&num;8220&semi;total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States&&num;8221&semi; to protect the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had earlier claimed that the Islamic State group&comma; another extremist organisation&comma; was using such quotes to recruit followers&comma; prompting Mr Trump to call her a &&num;8220&semi;liar&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The quotes from Mr Trump are bracketed by a recorded speech from Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki&comma; one of the most prominent English-language recruiters for al Qaida who was killed by a U&period;S&period; drone strike in Yemen in 2011&comma; warning that the US would turn against its Muslims&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The video was released on Twitter on Friday&comma; according to the Site Intel monitoring group and tells the story of several Americans from Minnesota that joined al Shabab and were killed in the fighting in Somalia&comma; holding them up as examples to be followed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Using footage from recent racial conflicts in the US as well as historic quotes from Malcolm X&comma; 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