Over at PJ Media today I discuss John Brennan’s hypocrisy in lamenting the “global reach” of the Islamic State when he has done so much to enable it: While testifying in an open session of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, CIA director John Brennan admitted Thursday: Despite all our progress against ISIL on the […]
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 […]
Ben Rhodes: “Will be more effective combating ideology” of Islamic State “if we don’t describe them as religious org”
This is so counterfactual that it boggles the mind — and it’s official U.S. government policy. Ben Rhodes is actually saying that we will be more effective in combating the Islamic State’s ideology if we pretend that it is other than what it is. Meanwhile, the Islamic State continues to win recruits among Muslims around […]
Muslim who said 9/11 “changed the world for good” is on Homeland Security Advisory Council
How by any stretch of anyone’s imagination can Laila Alawa be seen as someone who cares in the slightest degree about “homeland security”? She is quite obviously on the other side, and if we had a sane political and media culture, her presence on the DHS Advisory Council would be a major scandal. “Syrian Immigrant […]
DHS whistleblower: “Self-radicalization” is myth, “concept of operating alone is anathema to the Islamic worldview”
Phil Haney on Orlando jihad mass murderer Omar Mateen and his mosque: “Imagine what it must have been like to be an active-duty subject matter expert in counter-terrorism. I had my own superiors making these kind of statements incessantly. When I was sitting there with evidence, for example, about the Ft. Pierce mosque – not […]
Two days before Orlando jihad massacre, DHS told officials not to use words “jihad” and “Sharia” to avoid offending Muslims
The Obama administration is deeply committed to the proposition that it would be wrong and harmful to identify the jihad threat for what it is. In reality, its politically correct willful ignorance is hamstringing proper analysis of the problem, and endangering Americans. “DHS report before Orlando massacre: Don’t offend Muslims while combating extremism,” by Douglas […]
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 […]
FBI top dog “confused” about Orlando jihadi’s motive because he supported both Sunni and Shia jihad groups
“The lie in the government goes like this: ‘Sunni and Shia hate each other and don’t work together.’ That is wrong on so many practical levels.” So said former FBI agent John Guandolo, and he was right: Shi’ite Iran funds Sunni Hamas and Islamic Jihad, as well as other Sunni jihad groups. As the old […]
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 […]
Robert Spencer in the Detroit News: Orlando reveals our willful ignorance about jihad
In the Detroit News today I discuss the price of the prevailing denial and willful ignorance: In the wake of the Orlando jihad terror massacre, a counter-terror analyst revealed that denial and willful ignorance about the jihad threat have permeated law enforcement at all levels. “I spent eight hours with a Midwest police force — […]