Guides comes after Attorney General Loretta Lynch has characterized the attack as a hate crime against the LGBT community

to avoid areas with minorities so there's no confusion it's a terrorist attack

Al Qaeda are calling on radicalized Lone Wolves to target whites so there can be no confusion over the nature of the terrorist attack.

The group have published a guide for would-be terrorists in the wake of the Orlando mass shooting which encourages extremists to attack white Americans to avoid the 'hate crime' label, Foreign Desk News reports.

'Inspire guide: Orlando operation' advises jihadis not to target areas which have a high number of minorities because if gay people or Latinos appear to be the targets, 'the federal government will be the one taking full responsibility.'

Al Qaeda are calling on radicalized Lone Wolves to target whites so there can be no confusion that it is a terrorist attack (pictured is the front cover of their 'Inspire guide: Orlando operation')

Omar Mateen killed 49 people and injured 53 when he opened fire inside a gay nightclub during the Orlando attack earlier this month.

During the June 12 rampage, Mateen told hostage negotiators and a news station that he was carrying out the attacks in the name of ISIS.

But US authorities believe it was a combination of factors that led to the mass shooting - which has sparked fierce debate on gun laws and hate crimes.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch has characterized the attack as a hate crime against the LGBT community.

Omar Mateen (right) killed 49 people and injured 53 when he opened fire inside a gay nightclub during the Orlando attack earlier this month. Attorney General Loretta Lynch (left) has characterized the attack as a hate crime against the LGBT community

'I cannot tell you definitively that we will ever narrow it down to one motivation,' Lynch told reporters last week. 'People often act out of more than one motivation.

'This was clearly an act of terror and an act of hate,' she continued. 'We will look at all motivations and hope to come to a conclusion there.'

Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) celebrates the atrocity yet said that while targeting a gay people is 'the most binding duty and closer to human nature,' it suggests to 'avoid targeting places and crowds where minorities are generally found in America,' to ensure that terror was the focus of any attack.

'This is in order not to deviate the essence of the operation and letting it be termed as a small issue as the American media is trying to portray in the case of Mateen,' the article continues.

It claims that Western media focused on the testimony from Mateen father - who said that his son hates homosexuals and that terrorist ideas had no place in his motives - 'in order to turn the American public away from the real motives of the operation.'

Terrorists were advised instead to target 'Anglo-Saxon' communities because the ethnicity is 'the majority and it is the one that is in the American leadership.'

The document was released alongside the group's periodical 'Inspire' magazine, which is used as a tool of propaganda to incite rage against non-believers and the West - and has even featured articles on how to make a bomb.

The first issue appeared in July 2010 and provided translated messages from Osama bin Laden to English-speakers.

During the June 12 rampage at Pulse nightclub (pictured) Mateen told hostage negotiators and a news station that he was carrying out the attacks in the name of ISIS

The attacks shocked America and sparked debated about US gun laws and hate crimes against the LGBT community

Al Qaeda, the group behind the 9/11 attacks, does not take credit for Mateen's attack but supported anyone who committed an atrocity against the West.

'We stand by and support all Muslims who attack America in their homeland regardless of their affiliation to any group or loyalty,' the guide states.

'Lone Jihad is not monopolized by al-Qaida or any other group, therefore we call upon all active Jihadi groups, to adopt and build upon the idea of Lone Jihad and call towards it.

'We call upon every single Muslim in Western countries or in other countries who are able to travel to the West to follow upon the footsteps of our hero Umar Mateen.'

Al Qaeda also praised the shooting as one of 'the most successful Lone Jihad operations' and said that it will undoubtedly 'inspire others to wage similar operations.'

However, the group criticized Mateen's choice of target and weapons, saying that he would have caused more chaos if he'd also been carrying guns.