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State Dept. Official: ‘Just Not Accurate’ to Characterize Boko Haram as Muslim
PJ Media ^ | May 15, 2014 | Bridget Johnson

Posted on 05/16/2014 11:00:18 AM PDT by xzins

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To: xzins
The proper follow up question by Senator Rubio should have been..

"In that case, do you believe that it is accurate to describe Al-Qaeda's philosophy as a Muslim one?"

and then this....

"Why do you claim to understand the true philosophy of Islam better than the leaders of Boko Hiram and Al-Qaeda? Have you studied the Koran more than they have"

41 posted on 05/16/2014 11:57:58 AM PDT by nitzy
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To: nitzy

THERE ya go!


42 posted on 05/16/2014 12:03:00 PM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: MrB

If so, that was good advice.

You don’t declare war, even informally, on 1.2B people if you can avoid it.

Even if it’s a transparent political ploy, a legal fiction that Islam itself is not the problem can be useful.

That should not, of course, blind us to the fact that it very largely is the problem and should not impact our actual strategy and tactics.

It appears that many of our political and possibly even military leaders have fully bought into our legal and diplomatic fiction, which is really, really stupid.

You should never start believing your own propaganda.


43 posted on 05/16/2014 12:15:15 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

Actually, I don’t think they believe their nonsense about Islam,

but are actually in support of Islam as an anti-Christian movement.


44 posted on 05/16/2014 12:16:27 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: xzins

See? They’re not Muslim.

Later, Obamugabe and his thugs will get to define what “Christian” means, too...and that’ll be anything John Shelby Spong says along with that homosexual Episcopal bishop whose false marriage just ended in false divorce.


45 posted on 05/16/2014 12:40:25 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

These communist traitors in wdc sure seem to believe that everyone else is an idiot. These degenerates in wdc need brought to Justice.


46 posted on 05/16/2014 12:42:33 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: xzins

Then call him Muslim trash.


47 posted on 05/16/2014 12:46:23 PM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: MrB

That’s indisputably true of many liberals and leftists.

However, I think their bête noire is wider than Christianity.

They hate and despise all Western Civilization, with of course America, capitalism and Christianity in many ways the most visible symbols of that civilization.

Christianity, of course, is the foundation of Western Civ. But we could all become atheists tomorrow, and these guys would still hate the rest of Western Civ.


48 posted on 05/16/2014 12:55:00 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: xzins

‘BH ain’t Muslims’

Comrades, this is glorious news! We must stream from our offices, factories and homes carrying banners praising Comrade Obama and the Inner Parties for their wise leadership and our new, happy lives ...


49 posted on 05/16/2014 12:55:12 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Sherman Logan

We’ll never know for sure,

but I would assert that the flipside is the real truth.

They hate Western Civ because it is based on God’s moral Law.

I wonder if they’ll realize what they’ve lost when we’re all gone.


50 posted on 05/16/2014 1:00:58 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB

There is an old saying about, “The perfect is the enemy of the good.”

Just the other day it struck me that this could be expanded to explain at least some of the otherwise illogical hatred for Western Civ out there.

“The perfect is the most deadly enemy of the (pretty darn) good.”

Western Civilization objectively (simply using common units of measurement) simultaneously provides much greater personal freedom AND prosperity for more people and for a larger percentage of its people than any other that has ever existed.

Because it isn’t perfect, that some people are still oppressed or in poverty, its opponents insist it must be destroyed and the (prsumably) perfect civilization built on its ruins.

Yet surely any logical person should be able to recognize that when you destroy a pretty darn good civilization, what replaces it is much more likely to be pretty darn crappy than perfect. Or even as good as what you just destroyed.

I guess there is a shortage of logical thinkers around.

Or Obama could not have campaigned successfully on “Hope and Change,” implying that ANY possible change will by definition be an improvement.


51 posted on 05/16/2014 1:25:30 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

It’s the humanist worldview that leads them to believe that they can do better, if only the existing order was destroyed.


52 posted on 05/16/2014 1:31:00 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: xzins

These bastards took the girls!


53 posted on 05/16/2014 1:43:47 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: xzins

Proving once again that the greater threat to freedom is Progressivism not Islam.


54 posted on 05/16/2014 1:47:27 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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To: Covenantor

That hashtag will do the trick. The State Department has to stop confusing non-Islamo-fascist Procol Harum with terrorist Boko Harum.

This is evident, of course, in “Whiter Shade of Pale” where procol harum admits to only 16 vestal virgins while boko harum has about 300.


55 posted on 05/16/2014 2:01:02 PM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: TexasCajun

#ReligonOfLove

*********

Yeah. They *love* you to pieces.


56 posted on 05/16/2014 2:03:18 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: xzins

LOL!


57 posted on 05/16/2014 2:07:12 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: xzins

So now our State Dept. is telling muslims whether or not they are muslims?
We are surrounded by IDIOTS!
Of course they are muslim. The Country is predominately muslim. Nothing they do is outside of the teachings of islam.
Stop trying to cover for these animals.............


58 posted on 05/16/2014 2:14:21 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American - Not a Rama gets electeepublican or a Democrat.)
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To: Gene Eric
Islam is a war plan.

Correct. That's exactly what it is.

59 posted on 05/16/2014 2:29:15 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: xzins

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3156896/posts


60 posted on 05/16/2014 2:37:10 PM PDT by samtheman
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