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 […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Ramadan in Orlando, 50 Dead, 53 Wounded
In FrontPage today I discuss the familiar denial and obfuscation from the Left in the face of the jihad threat: It was the worst mass shooting ever on American soil: Omar Mateen, 29, opened fire at the Pulse, an Orlando, Florida gay nightclub, on Saturday night. Mateen murdered at least fifty people and wounded another […]
Stealth Jihadists are Hiding Their Identities Behind the Islamic State
An American-born man, reported to be 29-year-old Omar Mateen of Fort Pierce, Florida, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and went on the deadliest mass shooting in American history, described as the worst terror attack since 9/11. Robert Spencer has been following the media in its the defense of the indefensible, including: ACLU lawyers blaming […]
Trump: Obama should resign, Hillary withdraw over refusal to say “Radical Islam”
Jihad killing is not “radical” but mainstream in Islam: all the mainstream sects and schools of jurisprudence teach the responsibility of the Muslim community to wage war against and subjugate unbelievers. But Trump is right: in a sane body politic, the denial and willful ignorance about the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat that […]