Posted on 05/29/2013 8:32:34 AM PDT by don-o
Fundamentally Freund: President Barack Obama and much of the Western press seem to have difficulty saying in close proximity to one another: ‘Islamic’ and ‘terror.’
The past few weeks have been difficult ones for the United States and its allies, as they received some painful reminders that the war on terror is far from over.
In a dastardly attack on April 15, two bombs went off at the Boston Marathon, killing three people, wounding 264 others and leaving more than two dozen amputees. A week later, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced that they had arrested two people in a plot to attack a passenger train heading to Toronto from New York.
There were other incidents as well. On April 18, gunmen stormed a hotel in the Kenyan town of Garissa and sprayed bullets into the restaurant, killing 10.
And on April 28, two assassins opened fire on army intelligence officers in the town of Lamitan in the Philippines, killing two people.
What all these episodes have in common is one highly conspicuous fact: they were all carried out by Muslim terrorists bent on killing as many “infidels” as possible.
Indeed, despite an ongoing avalanche of violence being perpetrated around the world by Muslim extremists, there are two words President Barack Obama and much of the Western press seem to have difficulty saying in close proximity to one another: “Islamic” and “terror.”
They would rather soothe themselves – and us – into complacency, as if refusing to call something by its name will magically make it go away.
Take, for example, a May 4 Associated Press story about the prison sentence being sought by US prosecutors against Manssor Arbabsiar for his 2011 plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington. Arbabsiar, who admitted that he had been sent by Iranian intelligence and that he had “no problem” with the possibility of causing mass casualties, is described by the AP as a “Texas man” and a “US citizen with an Iranian passport,” as though either of these had anything to do with his motivation.
Nowhere in the story does the vaunted news agency bother to state what we all know: Arbabsiar was an Islamic terrorist.
This kind of self-deception and denial might provide some fleeting sense of comfort, but it obscures the very nature of the threat that we are all facing. It is bad enough that the media is playing this game, but it is far more worrisome that the Obama administration is doing so as well.
As commentator Charles Krauthammer recently pointed out, Obama “won’t use any words that might imply a connection between radical Islam and terrorism, which anyone over the age of nine knows is the single greatest cause of terror in the world today. This matters because you have to be clear with your own people about who the enemy is.”
Making matters worse is the fact that we like to lie to ourselves and stress repeatedly that moderation prevails in the Muslim world and that only a small band of Islamic extremists support the use of violence.
If only that were the case! But the facts most assuredly indicate otherwise.
On April 30, the Pew Research Center issued the results of a wide-ranging survey, “The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society,” which entailed more than 38,000 face-to-face interviews conducted in over 80 languages with Muslims on four continents.
Among the more chilling findings – and there are plenty – relate to the question of support for suicide bombings. It turns out that 40 percent of Palestinians, 29% of Egyptians and 15% of Jordanians say they believe suicide bombings and other attacks targeting civilians are justified to defend Islam.
At first glance this may look reassuring; a majority of those surveyed disagree.
But consider how vast the number of people supporting such attacks is: out of Egypt’s population of 82.5 million, a whopping 24 million think it is OK to strap explosives to one’s chest and detonate them in a crowd of innocent people. If even 1% of these Egyptians are willing to actually carry out such an attack, it would mean there are a potential 240,000 suicide bombers in the Nile state alone.
And the problem is not confined to the Middle East.
According to Pew, nearly 1 in 5 Malaysians, 1 in 4 Bangladeshis and 1 in 7 Pakistanis also endorse suicide attacks. That translates into 5 million Malaysians, 37 million Bangladeshis and 23 million Pakistanis who see nothing wrong with suicide bombings.
Sure, there are plenty of honest and decent Muslims out there who want peace and quiet. But it is time we stop deceiving ourselves into thinking that moderate Islam is more prevalent than it really is. To win the war of civilizations that is currently taking place, we need to recognize the cold, hard truth that is staring us all in the face: there are tens of millions of Islamic extremists out there who support jihad against Israel and the West.
And no amount of wishful thinking or political correctness is going to make them go away.
I’m an(a) Islamophobe here. If they don’t speak out and actively condemn their murdering bretheren, I can’t accept them. Some say I’m narrow-minded. Yep.
And how many of the other respondents were lying to the infidel interviewers? Takiya.
Wrong.
Phobias are irrational fears, it is not irrational to fear islam. They are a death cult.
Well, what does one do when the _resident is an islamist and relishes in the murder of Americans?
“Sure, there are plenty of honest and decent Muslims out there who want peace and quiet.”
Yes, until they get the phone call that threatens to kill their families if they don’t follow instructions. Remember the Muslim who ran the tire store in Arlington, TX for years. He had a wife and a 13 year old son. People in the community respected him. Then he got the call to plan the embassy bombings in Africa. The last I heard, his family was trying to get him out of solitary confinement in a Florida prison. Islam is evil. Just wanting to have peace and quiet is not guaranted to a so-called “moderate muslim” because it is a political system designed to take over the world any way it can. It is dictatorial. It is the opposite of the values of the West, and Obama is a muslim.
the pew research poll is a great tool to expose the lies. It is always made to seem like muslim extremists are the equivalent of Adam Lanzas, a few lone mentally ill nuts out of millions. It isn’t a small amount. proof at the pew research poll.
Crowder better watch it or some muzzie will pull a fatwad against him and cry jihad.
People who follow extreme Islam want to kill me.
People who follow moderate Islam want people who follow extreme Islam to kill me.
Be kind, polite, and have a plan to kill anyone you meet.
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bkmk
Me too.
I wasn't always, but when younger, I knew enough not to make a serious judgment in ignorance. I was well versed in the outline of history, cultures and societies worldwide in the general sense, but lacking detailed specifics, primarily of islam and its history as well as the history of "Zionism."
So I educated myself, reading dozens of books, and other historical references. One of my favorites is the 1771 Encyclopedia Britannica, under Mahometans. One of the items on my bucket list is transcribing that long, educational entry onto a PDF, for wider accessibility. But I digress.
I can't waste time arguing, or even discussing the Israeli-muslim conflict with those whose only frame of reference is the popular press or other forms of relentless muslim propaganda.
I absolutely believe in the one state solution, but not the most popular one. The Brits betrayed their words, as well as their trust, when they established Israel as a minute portion of the original Palestinian Mandate (in its original definition, nothing to do with the "Palestine" invented in 1974.)
Even including all of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the State of Israel, is still about a quarter of the original area defined as the future Jewish homeland, in the Balfour Decklaration.
The reason behind that profound betrayal by the British?
Oil.
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