Obama’s mulish resolve to steer clear of terms that identify America’s worst enemy, Islamic jihad, has been unexpectedly challenged by al Qaeda, of all groups. Since the Pulse massacre, Obama and his leftist comrades have erratically shifted blame to targets such as Republicans, national attitudes toward LGBT people, and gun owners. In the face of […]
Idaho Muslim migrant sex assault case: Obama-appointed prosecutor threatens community
“The Obama-appointed U.S. attorney for Idaho has taken the highly unusual step of intervening in a local criminal case involving an alleged sexual assault by juvenile Muslim migrants and threatened the community and media with federal prosecution if they ‘spread false information or inflammatory statements about the perpetrators.’” In what other sex assault case has […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: “That’s Who We Are”
On June 23, Barack Obama expressed some unhappiness with the Supreme Court. By a vote of 4-4, a tie that effectively upheld a lower court’s ruling, the Court blocked Obama’s attempt, through Executive Orders, to protect from deportation millions of illegal immigrants who were the parents of U.S. citizens, or permanent residents, and to institute […]
Stop minimizing the reality of lone wolf jihadists
The New York Post article below derides Obama’s diminishing of the seriousness of the lone wolf phenomenon. Obama dismissed Orlando jihad murderer Omar Mateen as “just another ‘lone actor’ operating in isolation, unconnected to any larger group of supporters.” Those who minimize the gravity of jihadist ideology have been the ones busy chanting about gun […]
Obama vs. Sun Tzu: The Deadly Price of Not Making a Threat Assessment
President Obama is very upset at his critics, who are taking him and his administration to task for refusing to use the term “radical Islam” to describe our enemy in the terror war. During his speech on Tuesday, in referring to the term “radical Islam,” the president stated angrily: What exactly would using this label accomplish? What […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: When a Petulant President Presumes to Give Lessons in Language
And let me make a final point. For a while now, the main contribution of some of my friends on the other side of the aisle have made in the fight against ISIL is to criticize the administration and me for not using the phrase “radical Islam.” That’s the key, they tell us. We cannot […]
Obama’s Post-Orlando Tirade: Islam is Sacred and Beyond Reproach
By refusing to name the enemy, the President continues to advance a new Edict of Milan, granting preferred status for Muslims and Islam over all other groups and religions, and over America itself. Three years ago, Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in for his second term as President of the United States. That same year […]
Confucius rebukes Obama
The Chinese sage has something to say to Obama about this story. “Obama slams Trump over Muslim ban, ‘radical Islam,’” CNN Wire, June 14, 2016: WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday unleashed a blistering verbal assault on Donald Trump and his proposal for a ban on Muslims entering the country, saying the suggestion violates […]
Video: Furious Obama defends his refusal to name the enemy: “What exactly would using this language accomplish?”
“What exactly would using this language accomplish? What exactly would it change? Would it make ISIL less committed to try and kill Americans? Would it bring in more allies? Is there a military strategy that is served by this? The answer is none of the above. Calling a threat by a different name does not […]
Obama: Orlando jihad killer inspired by “propaganda and perversions of Islam”
Exactly how was the Orlando jihad massacre a perversion of Islam? Obama didn’t say, of course. It would have been refreshing if he had deigned to address the fact that the Qur’an says: “If two men among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both. If they repent and amend, leave them alone; for Allah […]