Posted on 12/08/2015 1:50:03 PM PST by Louis Foxwell
Calling Out Islam Terrorism Truthers
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
Each and every act of Muslim terrorism is followed by a wave of denial. The politicians who have done the most to cause the latest disaster are the eagerest to blame it on something, anything else.
The San Bernardino Muslim massacre was blamed on postpartum depression at CNN. Bill Nye blamed the latest Paris attacks on Global Warming. According to Hillary Clinton, Benghazi was a movie review with artillery. Islamic terrorism was blamed by the State Department on a lack of jobs, but Syed Farook had a good government job and his wife was the daughter of a wealthy family.
After rummaging through their big brass chest of excuses, Obama and his media allies have settled on gun control as their latest weapon of mass distraction.
California has the toughest gun laws in the nation. Unlike Ted Kennedy, the terrorists werenât on the no-fly list that has become the latest desperate meme of mass distraction. And, despite Obamaâs claim in Paris that mass shootings donât happen in other countries because of gun control magic, they most certainly do. European gun control didnât stop a Muslim mass shooting in Paris that killed 130 people.
Syed Farook and Tasheen Malik had built pipe bombs. The latest attack in the UK involved a knife. So did quite a few in Jerusalem. The Boston Marathon massacre used fireworks and a pressure cooker.
The Muslim mass murder of 3,000 people on 9/11 was carried out with box cutters.
If only we had some way to ban terrorists from buying pressure cookers, knives and box cutters.
Gun control is a distraction. A way to make something other than Islam into the problem that needs solving. If we banned guns, then the problem would be foreign policy. If we spent all our time working to aid Islamist political takeovers, then it would the weather. Obama has tried to aid Islamists and lower sea levels, so he has been reduced to blaming the inanimate objects of the latest terror attack.
Gun control, foreign policy and global warming are denialist gimmicks that reframe the problem.
Denialists will ignore the allegiances of terrorists like Nidal Hassan and Syed Farook to Jihadists to focus on individual pathologies. If that doesnât work, theyâll pull back to a planetary focus and blame the weather patterns of the entire planet. Theyâll zoom in with great detail on weapons purchases while ignoring the ideology that motivated the attacks. Theyâll have a hundred different explanations for each attack that fail to account for the phenomenon of Islamic terrorism as a whole.
These arenât reasonable arguments. Taken together they form a pattern of conspiracy theories.
The most basic aspect of the conspiracy theory is that it bypasses the obvious reasonable explanation and vanishes down a rabbit hole of complicated alternative explanations that make no real sense but allow the conspiracists to avoid dealing with the implications of the actual event that took place.
Leftists did not want to deal with the fact that JFK had been murdered by one of their own. So they invented a bunch of alternative conspiracies involving the CIA, Cubans and other âright-wingâ villains. These conspiracies allowed them to avoid dealing with the violence at the heart of the left. But that violence continued to spill over anyway leading to riots and terror plots. In their alternate reality, none of it was their fault. The âFall of Camelotâ was caused by some âmiasma of right-wing hatredâ in Dallas.
Their response to 9/11 flirted with conspiracy theories.
A poll found that more than half of Democrats believed that George W. Bush had carried out the 9/11 attacks or knew about them beforehand. 1 in 4 Democrats believed that the World Trade Center attack was staged. 1 in 5 believed that the Pentagon attack was carried out by the United States government.
Democratic politicians, with some exceptions, usually knew better than to openly air blatant 9/11 conspiracy theories. But they instead embraced a âsoftâ left-wing Trutherism that shifted the focus away from Islamic terrorism to alternative explanations that were meant to distract Americans from what really happened by finding sideways angles for blaming the attack on Bush and Republicans.
Bush may not have masterminded it, but Republican foreign policy caused it. Or worsened it.
Itâs 2015 and the Terrorism Truthers have been reduced to frantically scrambling for any explanation from postpartum depression to the weather to explain the persistence of Islamic terrorism.
Trutherism works best when the Truthers arenât in power. Muslim terrorism canât be blamed on the government when both France and America are run by ridiculously notorious leftists. All thatâs left is a âsoftâ Trutherism that seeks alternative explanations without being able to consistently answer the central question of why these attacks are taking place.
And this lack of a plausible central conspirator is the weak point of leftist Terrorism Denial.
Leftist Truthers like Obama are forced to constantly substitute new âright-wingâ villains. Today itâs the NRA. Yesterday it was a Coptic Christian who made a YouTube video. But like the USSRâs efforts to blame its economic failures on a shifting gallery of villains, these explanations are unsatisfying. And they leave even leftists, never mind ordinary Americans, uneasy about a crisis they donât understand.
There is something of Orwellâs âWe have always been at war with Eastasiaâ to these deceits.
Today Muslim terrorists are attacking us because of the NRA. Yesterday it was because it was too hot. Before that, it was because of Israel. And before that, it was because of Bush.
But what if Muslim terrorists are attacking us because theyâre Muslim terrorists?
What if we canât beat them by banning guns, changing the weather, supporting Islamists or any of the other magical answers that completely fall apart at even the most casual examination?
The leftâs response to Islamic terrorism has been built around a frantic effort to distract and divert us from exactly that question, blaming anything and everything but Islam, while sharply denouncing anyone who ignores the distractions and addresses that central question.
Attorney General Lynch responded to the San Bernardino terror attack by assuring Islamists that she intended to crack down on criticism of Islam. Criticism of Islam is dangerous, not because it leads to a mythical anti-Muslim backlash that we are constantly warned about as if it were more dangerous than Muslim terrorism itself yet never actually materializes, but because it destroys Terrorist Trutherism.
If Islamic terrorism is the problem, then the left and the Democrats who handed over their party to it are guilty of ignoring, minimizing and lying about a serious problem.
They have to go on lying, ignoring and minimizing, and even threatening to dump the First Amendment along with the Second, because they have long since become complicit in the crimes of their Islamist partner organizations.
Yesterday they blamed the weather. Today theyâll blame guns. Tomorrow, itâll be something else.
We are always at war with Eastasia, unless itâs Eurasia. We are never however at war with Islam. The issue may be anything so long as it isnât Muslim terrorism. Those are the words that no Democrat will utter. They will call it âman-caused disastersâ or âviolent extremismâ or âhybrid workplace Jihadâ.
Itâs time to call this what it is, denialism, trutherism and conspiracism.
The famous epigram, âTreason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treasonâ, expressed the absurd hypocrisy of a government of traitors. But what happens when there is a government of conspiracy theorists? Then conspiracies exist to divert attention from the failures and crimes of those in charge. The conspiracy theory itself becomes the conspiracy.
Itâs time to take away Obamaâs weapons of mass distraction and expose his Trutherism for what it is.
Islamic terrorism isnât caused by a thousand different problems, conditions, conspiracies and excuses. Itâs caused by Islam. Every attempt to distract from that is Denialism and Trutherism.
And we owe it to the victims of the latest attack and all the attacks to end the denial and the lies.
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I KNEW it wasn’t Jeff Greenfield.
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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
“Gun control is a distraction.”
Sorry Dan. Disagree. Gun Control is the goal.
The San Bernardino Muslim massacre was blamed on postpartum depression at CNN. Bill Nye blamed the latest Paris attacks on Global Warming. According to Hillary Clinton, Benghazi was a movie review with artillery. Islamic terrorism was blamed by the State Department on a lack of jobs, but Syed Farook had a good government job and his wife was the daughter of a wealthy family. After rummaging through their big brass chest of excuses, Obama and his media allies have settled on gun control as their latest weapon of mass distraction... Unlike Ted Kennedy, the terrorists weren't on the no-fly list that has become the latest desperate meme of mass distraction. And, despite Obama's claim in Paris that mass shootings don't happen in other countries because of gun control magic, they most certainly do. European gun control didn't stop a Muslim mass shooting in Paris that killed 130 people. Syed Farook and Tasheen Malik had built pipe bombs. The latest attack in the UK involved a knife. So did quite a few in Jerusalem. The Boston Marathon massacre used fireworks and a pressure cooker. The Muslim mass murder of 3,000 people on 9/11 was carried out with box cutters. If only we had some way to ban terrorists from buying pressure cookers, knives and box cutters. Gun control is a distraction. A way to make something other than Islam into the problem that needs solving. If we banned guns, then the problem would be foreign policy. If we spent all our time working to aid Islamist political takeovers, then it would the weather. Obama has tried to aid Islamists and lower sea levels, so he has been reduced to blaming the inanimate objects of the latest terror attack. Gun control, foreign policy and global warming are denialist gimmicks...
Government spends most of its time distracting people from its failures.
No, gun control is not the goal. Gun control is a tool.
Blabbering about it can be used to distract from islamic terrorism. Implementing it can be used to render a population helpless. Either way, gun control is an "issue".
And The Issue is never the issue. The Issue is always The Revolution. Gun control is a means to an end. The end is absolute totalitarian tyranny.
Daniel Greenfield must be considered for at least an advisory position within the next CONSERVATIVE presidency.
“Of course there are members of the Ku Klux Klan that have done terrible things. But the overwhelming number of Klansmen haven’t. They have jobs, families, live peacefully and share the same values as other Americans. It’s unfair to blame the vast majority of peaceful, moderate Klansmen for the actions of a few. Klanophobia is unacceptable and un-American.”
Now just substitute Islam and Muslim for Klan and Klansmen.
“And The Issue is never the issue. The Issue is always The Revolution. Gun control is a means to an end. The end is absolute totalitarian tyranny.”
True.
The Muslim mass murder of 3,000 people on 9/11 was carried out with box cutters.
If only we had some way to ban terrorists from buying pressure cookers, knives and box cutters.
Gun control is a distraction.
A way to make something other than Islam into the problem that needs solving. If we banned guns, then the problem would be foreign policy. If we spent all our time working to aid Islamist political takeovers, then it would the weather. Obama has tried to aid Islamists and lower sea levels, so he has been reduced to blaming the inanimate objects of the latest terror attack.
Gun control, foreign policy and global warming are denialist gimmicks that reframe the problem.
Greenfield gets it.
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