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Posted on 05/13/2014 8:21:08 AM PDT by Dqban22
Obama’s Alliance with Boko Haram
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On May 13, 2014 @ 12:58 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 30 Comments
Leftist policy is the search for the root cause of evil. Everything from a street mugging to planes flying into the World Trade Center is reduced to a root cause of social injustice. Throw poverty, oppression and a bunch of NGO buzzwords into a pot and out come the suicide bombings, drug dealing and mass rapes.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s Boko Haram, the Islamic terrorist group that kidnapped hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls, or a drug dealer with a record as long as his tattooed arm.
Obama and Hillary resisted doing anything about Boko Haram because they believed that its root cause was the oppression of Muslims by the Nigerian government. Across the bloody years of Boko Haram terror, the State Department matched empty condemnations of Boko Haram’s killing sprees with condemnations of the Nigerian authorities for violating Muslim rights.
Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton haven’t championed #BringBackOurGirls because it’s a hashtag in support of the kidnapped girls, but because it undermines the Nigerian government. They aren’t trying to help the kidnapped girls. They’re trying to bring down a government that hasn’t gone along with their agenda for appeasing Boko Haram and Nigerian Muslims.
The hashtag politics aren’t aimed at the terrorists. They’re aimed at helping the terrorists.
There’s a reason why the media and so many leftists have embraced the hashtag. #BringBackOurGirls isn’t a rescue. It denounces the Nigerian government for not having already gotten the job done even as the State Department stands ready to denounce any human rights violations during a rescue attempt.
State Department officials responded to Boko Haram attacks over the years with the same litany of statistics about unemployment in the Muslim north and the 92 percent of children there who do not attend school. When Hillary Clinton was asked about the kidnappings by ABC News, she blamed Nigeria for not “ensuring that every child has the right and opportunity to go to school.”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/obamas-alliance-with-boko-haram/print/
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Did he not state, early in his presidency, that he would side with Islam?
He kept his word.
From the start I questioned their motives in starting the hashtag. I knew it wasn’t a real determination to suppress bearded terrorism. I knew they didn’t care about the “girls.”
These people are truly evil. They are actively engaged in helping the bearded pre-humans gain power and spread their violent ideology.
Original Obama Quote from his book "The Audacity of Hope":
"Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this
easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani
Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of
detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken
their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the
history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need
specific assurances that their citizenship really means something, that
America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during
World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift
in an ugly direction."
I like Daniel Greenfield. I respect him. I think that he is brilliant. But, he’s wrong about the Democrats. He keeps thinking that they are over-zealous and misguided do-gooders. They aren’t. They are ruthless thieves out to loot the public treasuries for their personal gain. They want us to think they are just misguided. That keeps us arguing with them on a debate-team format. They are a bunch of thieves. They need to be dealt with on a criminal level. They keep inviting us to a debate where they then pick our pockets. They aren’t debating to make a point. They are debating to get access to your wallet.
Obama is a black nationalist whose philosophy is aligned with the ideologies of the Nation of Islam and the New Black Panthers. They are Pan-Afrikanists who seek a united Africa with black Muslim leadership. Groups like Boko Haram and Koby 2012 are hired boogiemen whose job is to intimidate the public and destabilize local governments until the people beg for outside help.
Your comment is interesting and often relevant.
Yet here, Greenfield rather explicitly states that the administration is working to support the islamists by working against the Nigerian government:
“They’re trying to bring down a government that hasn’t gone along with their agenda for appeasing Boko Haram and Nigerian Muslims.”
I don’t think that is attributing their motives to mis-guided do-goodism.
For the past five years, I have seen people attribute Obama’s (and the Democrat Party’s) motives to being pro-socialist or pro-Islam. This is what the Democrats want. It’s a smokescreen. They are out to loot the public treasuries and they want us to diffuse our energy and actions chasing their socialist/Islam smokescreen.
“I have seen people attribute Obama’s (and the Democrat Party’s) motives to being pro-socialist or pro-Islam. This is what the Democrats want. It’s a smokescreen. They are out to loot the public treasuries...”
I don’t think there is a dichotomy there. Rather than being mutually exclusive, they are synergistic.
Rush on this now.
I think you are right on, there.
But I also think they are pro-socialist and pro-Islam as well.
They are "all of the above" and there are plenty of other evil descriptions which will fit as well.
This is as easy as laying out the real planks in the Democrat Party platform. All one needs to do is take the list of the Ten Commandments and advocate the opposite of each one. Think about it. It will fit perfectly.
I agree with you.
It is blueunicorn6 who questioned whether they were pro-Islam and thought they use those things solely as a smoke screen for their looting.
STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL: “JUST NOT ACCURATE” TO CHARACTERIZE BOKO HARAM AS MUSLIM
Robert Spencer
5/15/2014
More fantasy-based analysis from the Obama Administration.
As I explained in this article, in abducting and enslaving the schoolgirls, Boko Haram is operating in accord with widely accepted understandings of the Qur’an and Islamic law. Muslim writers who have claimed that Boko Haram is in violation of the Qur’an have not even mentioned its verses sanctioning sex slavery of captive women. Similarly, here the State Department official, apparently Robert Jackson, flatly asserts that Boko Haram’s philosophy is not Muslim, but doesn’t support his claim. It would be refreshing to see it supported for once, but don’t hold your breath.
“State Dept. Official: ‘Just Not Accurate’ to Characterize Boko Haram as Muslim,” by Bridget Johnson, PJ Media, May 15, 2014 (thanks to Anne Crockett):
A State Department official told a Senate hearing on terrorism in Nigeria this morning that “Boko Haram is trying to portray its philosophy as being a Muslim philosophy, and that’s just not accurate.”
Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs Chairman Chris Coons (D-Del.) referenced a hearing that he held two years ago, in which lawmakers learned that Boko Haram was training with Al-Shabaab and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in an area the size of Texas.
“The hearing that we conducted two years ago could almost literally be repeated today in terms of ongoing structural challenges that have led to this insurgency and have created the conditions and sustained, and in some ways accelerated, the conditions for Boko Haram,” Coons said.
Ambassador Robert Jackson, principal deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs, stood in on the panel of witnesses for Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who was reportedly traveling. Thomas-Greenfield acknowledged to a House panel last November that while Boko Haram has a “religious bent to what they do, they are non-discriminating in their attacks on people.”
“We join the world, the people of Nigeria and the parents of these children in expressing our outrage at Boko Haram’s shocking acts and its perverse ideology,” Jackson said. “This tragic kidnapping calls us to redouble our efforts to defeat a malicious terrorist organization that has troubled Nigeria for more than a decade.”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) questioned Jackson about whether the administration is properly characterizing the threat.
“Is the prime motivator here of this instance, in your opinion — is the prime motivator the desire to deny young women access to education and empowerment?” Rubio asked.
“Senator, I actually think the prime motivator is to raise more funds for Boko Haram through ransom,” Jackson replied. “However, the fact that Boko Haram opposes Western education is certainly a reason why these girls were targeted.”
“Can I suggest that I think there’s another motivation that’s not getting nearly enough attention, and that is that this is clearly motivated by an anti-Christian attitude of this group,” Rubio continued, citing “a grotesque statement” from Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau: “It is either you are with jahideen, or you’re with the Christians. We know what is happening in this world. It is a jihad war against Christians and Christianity. It is a war against Western education, democracy and constitution… This is what I know in Quran. This is a war against Christians and democracy and their constitution. Allah says we should finish them when we get them.”
“I don’t think there’s any doubt about what’s motivating them,” Rubio said. “One of their leading motivators here is this is not simply — and there’s no doubt that this is a part of it, but this is not just about girls going to school and it’s not just about raising money. There is a strong anti-Christian element of this organization and of this activity. Am I right in saying that?”
“Senator, there is a strong anti-Christian element, but I would offer that more of the thousands of people who have died as a result of Boko Haram’s activities are Muslim than Christian,” Jackson said.
Rubio stressed “we should not ignore the fact that there is a religious persecution aspect of this that is very significant and deserves attention, especially in light of what we are seeing not just in this part of the world but multiple areas of the world, where we are seeing horrifying instances of religious persecution against Christians, which, in my opinion, has been underreported.”
“Senator, I respectfully suggest while anti-Christian sentiment is a strong motivator, the fact of the matter is that Boko Haram is trying to portray its philosophy as being a Muslim philosophy, and that’s just not accurate,” Jackson said.
“I’m not claiming that this is somehow driven by legitimate teachings of Islam. What I’m arguing is that there is a strong anti-Christian element to this and that it is part of a broader anti-Christian persecution that we are seeing repeatedly throughout the world. Would you disagree with that statement?” the senator asked.
“I do not disagree, but I continue to want to emphasize that Boko Haram terrorizes all people,” the State Department official responded.
Jackson said about 85 percent of the more than 200 teens taken from the Chibok secondary school are Christian. Nigeria’s population includes about about 60 million Protestants and 20 million Catholics, according to Pew.
Rubio stressed that a crime against Muslims “is no less worse or less bad than a crime against Christians.”
“What I’m trying to put aside — what I’m trying to put forward here is that we cannot continue to ignore that persecution of Christians is a leading motivator not just of what’s happening in Boko Haram but in other parts of the world, as well, but in this specific instance, they are clearly motivated by anti-Christian attitudes and anti-Christian beliefs,” he said. “And I don’t think that’s even debatable, given their very own statement.”…
Thanks.
The double-talk of this Jackson fellow s maddening.
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