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WASHINGTON—The radical Somali group al-Shabab has released a recruitment video in which it encourages Muslims in America to travel and join the jihad or stay in and face religious discrimination, featuring Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.The video contains footage of Trump’s speech last month where he calls for registering all Muslims in America and barring them from entering the US.Liam Stack of the New York Times wrote on Friday that the al-Shabab video “was part of a series dedicated to Somali-American jihadists from Minnesota and one Canadian who died on the battlefield in Somalia.The video was authenticated by the SITE Intelligence Group, which studies jihadist propaganda, and it appeared to be aimed at the African-American community.”In a speech following the shooting of 14 people in San Bernardino, California, by a Muslim couple last month, Trump said, “Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life.”The recruitment video cites other injustices against African-Americans and police brutality and urges “them to convert to Islam and engage in jihad at home or abroad.”The 51-minute video also features speeches of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen and Al-Qaeda commander who was killed in Yemen in 2011, warning Muslims that “The West will eventually turn against its Muslim citizens.”“Yesterday, America was a land of slavery, segregation, lynching and Ku Klux Klan, and tomorrow, it will be a land of religious discrimination and concentration camps,” the al-Shabab video shows al-Awlaki as saying.