(CNN)We have all seen a great deal of hypocrisy from politicians, pundits and the like. But there's a new king of hypocrisy: al Qaeda. On Wednesday, al Qaeda released a video featuring Nasr Ibn Ali al-Ansi, one of its top commanders in Yemen, claiming responsibility for the horrific attack last week on the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. He gave two reasons for the attack. First, he claimed it was in revenge for Charlie Hebdo's printing of cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammed. Al-Ansi then went on to state in much greater detail that the attack was in response to France and the West killing Muslims: "We will tell you once again ... stop spilling our blood." And then he urged Muslims across the world to "take vengeance for Muslim blood spilled."
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Well, if spilling Muslim blood is the deciding factor for us Muslims to decide who we should take vengeance against, then @placeholder and others in al Qaeda should immediately go into hiding.
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Well, if spilling Muslim blood is the deciding factor for us Muslims to decide who we should take vengeance against, then al-Ansi and others in @placeholder should immediately go into hiding.
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-- you name any type of @placeholder, and al Qaeda has butchered them.
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In December 2014, for example, an al Qaeda bomb killed 15 children and 10 adults when the bus they were on was blown up by an @placeholder car bomb intended for a competing militia leader in the area.
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And back in December 2013, @placeholder launched an attack on a hospital, killing 52 people and wounding 167 with two car bombs before gruesomely shooting patients and doctors in the hospital.