Al Qaeda Leader Running Syria Says America is the Real “Terrorist”

“What is the definition of terrorism or a terrorist?”

by Daniel Greenfield | July 7, 2025

Abu Muhammad al-Jolani. Photo by Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=176752685Abu Muhammad al-Jolani. Photo by Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

Qatar’s Islamist regime showed off its global power at its ‘Doha’ summit attracting everyone from Bill Gates to Tucker Carlson to current Syrian leader and former Al Qaeda leader Ahmed al-Sharaa.

The former terrorist leader who had a $5 million reward on his head when he was going by Al-Jolani was asked by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour about his terrorist past.

And Ahmed al-Sharaa predictably replied that it’s really hard to define what a terrorist is and that America, the UK and Israel are the real terrorists.

“What is the definition of terrorism or a terrorist?” Al-Sharaa, who had been originally backed by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the original caliph of ISIS, asked. “Saying that I was a terrorist and judging me as a terrorist is politicized.”

“Judging people as terrorists needs to be proven,” the head of a terror group that massacred numerous civilians argued. “There’s been 25 years of us hearing this word in the world, but there’s a lot of confusion in understanding the word terrorist. Terrorists, in my opinion, are those that kill innocent people, children and women. And that use illegitimate means to harm people.”

And if there’s one thing that Al Qaeda and ISIS were known for, it was their firm refusal to ever harm innocent people, children and women.

Ahmed al-Sharaa then claimed that the term ‘terrorist’ would be better applied to the non-Muslim countries targeted by Islamic terrorists.

“The number of victims in Gaza … most of them are innocent,” Al-Shara said, referring to the dead terrorists in his fellow Muslim Brotherhood terrorist groups. “We saw wars in Afghanistan, in Iraq, all of those that were killed were innocent – and it is the killers that describe others as terrorists.”

The last part is true. We’ve got an Al Qaeda terrorist now trying to flip the definition of terrorists to mean the United States and those countries resisting Islamic terrorism.

Al-Shara argues that most of the terrorists killed in Gaza were innocent, and apparently “all of those that were killed were innocent” in Afghanistan and Iraq. Including presumably Al Qaeda.

This does show real appreciation by Ahmed al-Sharaa for the way President Trump honored him by inviting him to the White House.

“Now, on a personal level, I have never harmed a civilian, I fought on several fronts and I fought for more than 20 years, with honour,” Al-Sharaa falsely claimed. “People now know that this description is not accurate, that is why I am no longer listed as a terrorist by the Security Council.”

Whatever his ‘personal’ level is, he headed a terrorist organization responsible for killing plenty of civilians. The only reason he was delisted by the Security Council was because Turkey’s Islamist regime helped him seize power, at which point he was no longer a terrorist leader, he was now the leader of a terrorist state.

Can anyone please help this man define ‘terrorism’?

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  1. Avi Abelow on FB:

    “ America’s Delusion in Syria — And Israel’s Moral Responsibility to Stand Strong

    When I read the message posted by the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy for Syria, Tom Barrett, on his X account, I honestly could not believe it. With great fanfare, he declared:

    “To every Syrian, Sunni, Alawite, Kurdish, Christian, Druze, Arab, Turkmen, Circassian, and everyone who calls this ancient land home, after so many years of pain, today we celebrate your shared hope rising again: a new opportunity for peace, unity, and prosperity. The future belongs to all of you.”

    Beautiful words. Empty words. And tragically disconnected from reality.

    Because while the ambassador celebrates a “new opportunity for peace,” the facts on the ground in Syria paint a horrific picture.
    The Druze in Suwayda are being slaughtered. The Alawites are being massacred and forced into strikes.
    Christians are threatened with death unless they convert, and terrorists bomb their churches.
    And Erdo?an is openly coordinating with al-Jolani’s ISIS-style militias on all of this, especially against the Kurds.

    What “hope” can any minority have under an al-Jolani–dominated Syria?
    How detached from reality can the Trump administration be, ignoring the atrocities, the jihadi domination, and the collapse of every minority community in the region, that Israel can save when given the room to do so.

    I will never forget what Dr. Mordechai Kedar told me when I interviewed him after the signing of the Abraham Accords. His words were prophetic:
    “Every deal made with the Arab Middle East is like the sand in the wind.”

    Nothing is permanent. Everything is subject to change. Today’s friend can be tomorrow’s jihadi warlord. Today’s “peace partner” can collapse into chaos overnight. Today’s “good” tyrant can be overthrown and be replaced by a worse one.
    Syria proves that in the most painful way.
    And that brings us to Israel’s strategic choices.

    For decades, Israel faced massive international pressure to hand the Golan Heights over to the Assad regime. Every Western diplomat lectured us about “land for peace.”
    Imagine, just imagine, if Israel had given in.

    Today, instead of the IDF protecting our northern border, we would have an ISIS-affiliated Jolani/Turkish regime sitting on the cliffs overlooking Tiberias.

    The same people slaughtering minorities across Syria would be planting rockets and machine-gun nests just meters above Israeli communities on the Golan Heights.

    Israel’s refusal to surrender the Golan Heights saved the Jewish state.

    Israel cannot and must not shrink itself to fit Western illusions.

    The Middle East is not Europe. It is not governed by liberal ideas.
    It is governed by force, tribal survival, and jihadi Muslim ideologies that are based on conquering all kafirs/infidels (non-Muslims).

    And while Western officials play diplomatic fantasy games, the Jewish state is the only force in the region capable of defending:
    * the Kurds,
    * the Christians,
    * the Druze,
    * the Alawites,
    * and every minority targeted by both Sunni and Shia jihadis.

    For Israel to fulfill that stabilizing role, it must be larger, safe, strong, and territorially secure, not squeezed into indefensible borders to satisfy Washington talking points. That is the only language of deterrence the jihadi world understands, loss of land due to their aggression.

    A larger, stronger Israel is not only moral; it is necessary.

    And only a larger, stronger Israel will deter the jihadi Muslim powers in the Middle East from torpedoing Trump’s historic plan for a shipping corridor through Israel and Saudi Arabia, a corridor meant to break China’s monopoly and reshape global trade.

    A larger Israel is the only deterrence to push back against the rising red-green axis, the global jihad, and the barbarism now tearing Syria apart.

    And for anyone still worried over “international law,” let’s be honest: Sykes–Picot is dead. The borders drawn by European diplomats a century ago exist only on outdated maps.

    Hezbollah controls Lebanon.l, not the Lebanese government, that can’t even agree to disarm Hezbollah after tremendous pressure from President Trump.
    Jolani ISIS Al-Qaeda forces, under orders from, Turkey control parts of Syria. And everywhere else, it’s nothing but ethnic warfare, tribal militias, and collapsing regimes.

    Lebanon and Syria no longer function as sovereign countries in any meaningful sense.
    So the idea that Israel must endanger itself to preserve imaginary borders that the region itself has already abandoned is absurd.

    And it is the way we help safeguard the free world, because the Middle East’s jihadi evil no longer stays in the Middle East.

    We will achieve what we need to achieve to protect all the minorities in our area persecuted by the Sunni and Shia jihadi Muslims. Not a question of if, but when.

    Am Yisrael!”

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  2. Typical of Muslims: they are always the victims and the infidel is always the “terrorist” or “committer of genocide.” Then, when they act as mass murderers, they say those they killed (yes even infants) are the “colonizers” and are part of the “army of colonizers.”

    This is a good example of perversion, a perverse mind-set: everything they do is justified because they are “victims.” The world is turned upset down.

    Similarly, this was how Hitler thought: the Jews had been predators or like rats and needed to be exterminated. The Nazis were victims and the Jews were the aggressors.

    It should be noted that when people experience themselves as victims, they cannot regulate their aggression: everything they feel like doing to the “aggressor” feels 100% justified. So they do not have their aggressive impulses in any kind of control.

    This dynamic is similar to the way a psychopath’s mind work: a psychopath always feels like a victim and the aggression is always on someone else’s side of the line.

    Now we’ve got psychopathic mass murderers like Al Jolani opining on how the US is the aggressor. And we have a US President who appears to accept this person as head of state. As his National Security brief says, the US accepts the positions of each country and is not in the business of trying to force regime change.

    Is this an improvement over US foreign policy up to now?

    • Typical of Muslims is that are always heroes. If they happen to be killed while following orders, they immediately become martyrs. If a person is not a Muslim, they must be converted or suffer the consequences. If an infidel is currently too strong to be converted, he must be killed. This is called, fulfilling duty or following orders. This makes the Muslim into a hero.
      The worrying part of this story is that if you as an infidel resist your forced conversion, you are more than likely to be punished by your infidel neighbors.