The one area of apparent agreement is the belief that both candidates are bad men. Recent Web posts have mocked McCain as “impetuous” and “more stupid and more extreme than Bush,” while others have prayed for Obama’s death. One prominent commentator whose views have tracked closely with al-Qaeda’s predicted that the next president, whoever it is, would be forced to withdraw from the Muslim world…

The Islamists’ cyber-community generally has had less to say about Obama, who, as an African American with a Muslim grandfather and pro-Israeli views, appears to be regarded as something of an enigma. Several commentators have expressed doubt that U.S. whites and “Zionists” would ever allow a black man to assume the presidency.

Yet, after a major speech in February in which Obama pledged to defend Israel, the Democrat was repeatedly reviled on the al-Hesbah site. “He follows the steps of his predecessor,” one writer said, according to a transcript provided by SITE. “We will not find anything other than what the previous dog has left.”