Why Does the Left Continue to Insist that Islamic Terrorism Has Nothing to Do with Islam?

NRO  "If you Google “Christian terrorism,” you’re probably a jackass to begin with. But if you do — bidden not by your own drive to jackassery but by the natural curiosity inspired by this “news”letter — you’ll find lots of left-wing trollery about how the worst terrorist attacks on American soil have been committed by Christians. . . . 

"What I find interesting is that many of the same people who clutch their pearls at the mere suggestion that Islamic terrorism has anything to do with — oh, what’s the word again? — oh right: Islam, seem to have no problem making the case that “Christian terrorism” is like a real thing. Remember how so many liberals loved — loved — Obama’s sophomoric and insidious tirade about not getting on our “high horses” about ISIS’s atrocities in the here and now because medieval Christians did bad things a thousand years ago? They never seem to think that argument through. Leaving out the ass-aching stupidity of the comparison, it actually concedes the very point Obama never wants to concede. By laying the barbaric sins of Christians a thousand years ago at the feet of Christians today, he implicitly tags Muslims with the barbarism committed in their name today.

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THE BIG LIE

"Yesterday, Hillary Clinton said: “Let’s be clear, though. Islam is not our adversary. Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.”

. . . "In fact, I think it would be disastrous if our political leaders went around saying anything like “Islam is our enemy.”

Then comes the "however":

"It’s the second part of that Hillary quote that I have trouble with. Yes, some — most! — Muslims are peaceful. And while peacefulness and tolerance don’t necessarily go hand-in-hand (just look at opinion polls in the Muslim world on questions of sharia, homosexuality, women’s equality, free speech, and, of course, the Joooooooz), let’s stipulate that a great many Muslims are tolerant in their own fashion, too. " . . .

College agers who left their "safe space"

Hat tip to Jeff Hayden, Plano, TX

"The DNC just lost it's mind - and perhaps it's own base - with this new ad"

Legal Insurrection

Democrats prefer you fear Republicans more than radical Islamists

"Ridiculous. Embarrassing. The stupidity and blatant intellectual dishonesty of this ad makes me hostile. Normally, what the DNC says and does pales in comparison to the follies of the social justice warriors and 60s-era “activist” sect, but this is just too much.

"The DNC rails in this ad about “incitement,” saying that inciting fear “isn’t presidential”; the problem is that this very ad attempts to incite more fear than even the most radically offensive, white hood-wearing, backwoods racist could ever hope for.

"They don’t want you to be afraid of radical Islamists. They want you to be afraid of Republicans. I’m not sure how this messaging could get any stupider or more opportunistic, but I welcome the comments section to have some fun with it.

"Most importantly, as Alex Griswold points out, the DNC may have just alienated their own base:" . . .

Obama trashes America in a speech in Malaysia

Thomas Lifson 
"I am disgusted that President Obama disparaged the United States in a speech he delivered overseas, in Malaysia, of all places.  In doing so, he not only revealed his conspicuous lack of patriotism, but displayed an amazing lack of awareness about the country hosting him.

"Dave Boyer of the Washington Times reports:

President Obama discussed America’s faults Friday with young Asian leaders, saying the U.S. suffers from “pitfalls” such as income inequality, a political system controlled by the wealthy and political parties divided along racial lines.

"Obviously, Obama is unaware that the largest political party in Malaysia is race-based.  The United Malays National Organization (UNMO) has supplied all six of the prime ministers who have run the government since the country’s founding and have made Malaysia an Islamic state, despite the fact that Malays account for a bare majority of the population, with very large Chinese (22.6%) and Indian (6.7%) minorities.  The country enforces quotas designed to discriminate against the Chinese- and Indian-heritage citizens in favor of the Malays, who lag in education, income, and adaptation to the demands of an industrial and commercial society.

"Obama is almost certainly completely ignorant of Malaysia’s horrific history of race-based slaughter – i.e., in 1969, when Malays roamed the streets of Kuala Lumpur and elsewhere beheading Chinese.

"It is bad enough that a president demonizes his own country abroad.  But to disparage our race politics in a country like Malaysia is unforgivable."
Emphasis mine, TD

Hillary's tough talk can't cover up her role in ISIS' emergence

Investors.com

"After the Islamist carnage in Paris, however, his first-term secretary of state on Thursday called for ramping it up against ISIS in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations. Or sort of. "We must lead the world to meet this threat," Clinton told an assembly of liberals.

It's the foreign policy tag team of President Obama and Secretary Clinton that withdrew America from world leadership while shrinking the U.S. military. How credible is her call for "a new phase" against ISIS, with "a broader target set," "an immediate intelligence surge" and giving U.S. "troops advising and training the Iraqis greater freedom of movement and flexibility"?

"Without naming it, Clinton praised President Bush's 2007 Iraq surge, but charged that afterwards the Iraqis "were betrayed and forgotten." Betrayed by whom, Mrs. Clinton? By you and your boss, for whom withdrawal from Iraq was the only goal.
She refuses to consider sizable U.S. ground forces, but says "Congress should swiftly pass an updated authorization to use military force" — force the world knows we have no intention of using?

"Yet Clinton provides a wish list of Mideast diplomatic breakthroughs that a U.S. with no skin in the game will somehow bring about: "work with" Putin's Russia, get "our Arab and Turkish partners" to "step up in a much bigger way," bring in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, "counter Iranian influence across the region.' " . . .

These people - Sikhs - are not even close to being Muslims

‘Terrorist, go back to your country,’ attacker yelled in assault of Sikh man

“ 'Terrorist!” “Bin Laden!” “Go back to your country!” came the shouts from the other car.

"Inderjit Singh Mukker, a father of two on his way to the grocery store in his Chicago suburb, pulled over when the vehicle behind kept tailgating him, according to the Sikh Coalition. The 53-year-old Sikh man, who wears a beard and turban, expected that the person in the other car would just drive past.

"Instead, the Coalition says, the other driver got out and stormed toward him, reaching into Mukker’s car and repeatedly punching him in the face. Mukker lost consciousness and had to be taken to the hospital, where he received treatment for a fractured cheekbone, bruising and blood loss and six stitches for the lacerations on his face." . . .
Not, repeat NOT, a Muslim

NOT, repeat NOT, a Muslim:

"On Sept. 15, 2001, four days after 9/11, Balbir Singh Sodhi was shot and killed outside his gas station in Arizona. The gunman mistook the 49-year-old Sikh, an immigrant from India, for an Arab, and said he killed him in retaliation for the attacks. The attacker was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death.

. . .

 "This summer, the Sikh temple in Wisconsin where six people were fatally shot by a white supremacist in 2012 decided to lock its doors."

Sikhism: 5 Things To Know About The Sikh Religion

. . . 5. The Five Ks: The Five Ks are the articles of faith that Sikhs wear as ordered by the 10th Guru, Guru Gobind Singh. Most Sikhs wear one or more of the articles but only Sikhs who have taken amrit, a ritual analogous to baptism, wear all. They include:

• Kesh, or unshorn long hair, which is protected by a dastaar, or turban. The dastaar is worn by men and some women to cover their long hair. But most women keep their hair long and uncovered, except for when entering a gurdwara.

• A kangha is a small wooden comb meant to keep the hair combed twice a day.
• A kara is an iron bangle to be worn on the hand used most.
• A kachera is a specific undergarment for men and women.
• A kirpan is a short dagger.
  
  

You may notice that the word "jihad" appears nowhere, repeat: nowhere - in articles about Sikhs. The Tunnel Dweller

American Silliness Nov 20

Princeton to erase 'racist' Woodrow Wilson "Demonstrators calling themselves the Black Justice League (BJL) began an occupation of Nassau Hall Wednesday morning, demanding President Christopher Eisgruber sign on to a list of three major demands. Their first and most notable demand is the school acknowledge the “racist legacy” of famed alumnus Wilson by renaming the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, renaming the Wilson residential hall, and removing a mural of Wilson that decorates Wilcox dining hall. " . . .

In a 7th grade class in Huntington Beach, California, students were forced to learn a song promoting Islam.

"The school administrators said they did not approve it but the teacher just wanted the students to understand the goals of a terrorist group. It seems it would be better to teach it without putting the children in the position of empathy with the terrorists." .. .

BHO’S FULL OF BS: Obama Says, ‘Only 2% of Syrian Refugees Are Fighting Age Men’  "Obama is lying right through his teeth about the Syrian refugees to Americans. So here are the facts." . . .

DNC Ad Attacking Republicans for Saying ‘Radical Islam’ Is Laughably Stupid  "I’ve seen my share of nasty, bizarre, and over-the-top political ads. But this may be the first that I can honestly say is just plain stupid."

Well, This IS A Great Country. Sorry, WAS.   "A question for poor, oppressed Americans from a poor and oppressed person living in one of the countries your ancestors were stolen from:"

The End Game

Could the Syrian refugees be an ISIS Trojan Horse?

http://legalinsurrection.com/author/afbranco/

Krauthammer: After Paris, Obama Refuses to Lead

"Barack Obama, titular head of the free world, has responded to Paris with weariness and annoyance." 

Charles Krauthammer 
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. . . "His news conference in Turkey was marked by a stunning tone of passivity, detachment, and lassitude, compounded by impatience and irritability at the very suggestion that his Syria strategy might be failing. The only time he showed any passion was in denouncing Republicans for hardheartedness toward Muslim refugees. One hundred and twenty-nine innocents lie dead but it takes the GOP to kindle Obama’s ire."
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"Obama’s priorities lie elsewhere. For example, climate change, which he considers the greatest “threat to our future.” And, of course, closing Guantánamo. Obama actually released five detainees on the day after the Paris massacre. He is passionate about Guantánamo. It’s a great terrorist recruiting tool, he repeatedly explains. Obama still seems to believe that — even as the Islamic State has produced an astonishing wave of terrorist recruitment with a campaign of brutality, butchery, and enslavement filmed in living color. Who can still believe that young Muslims are leaving Europe to join the Islamic State because of Guantánamo?"

Black Lives Natter

Black Lies Natter at Mount Holyoke  " . . .Those in the know surmise Mount Holyoke has abandoned any pretense of educational standards enabling women to live useful lives, and devolved into a psychosexual playpen for lesbians from wealthy families and international students. This theory explains why the brownshirt bratocracy is running wild at Mount Holyoke College.

"In January 2015, the girls gave the boot to a performance of The Vagina Monologues because it was insufficiently "transgender inclusive." By that standard there would never have been a play produced in human history." . . .

Student leaders who didn't 'proclaim that Black Lives Matter' face impeachment   . . . "It then claims that impeaching officials “because of a difference of opinion … sets a terrible precedent for future democratic processes,” and urges those who have differences with the executives to pursue their removal through the democratic process." . . .

Wild Wings Cafe (@WildWingsCafe) Fires Student Worker After She Declares “All Lives Matter” 
"Emily Faz, a student at Georgia Southern University, finally had enough of the “Black Lives Matter” nonsense circulating on college campuses. She took to her personal Facebook profile to declare that “all lives matter” and that nonsense better not start on Georgia Southern’s campus or she’d let them have it. She called it “B.S.”

"Naturally, college activists with no real jobs made sure she lost her job. Wild Wings Cafe fired Emily Faz from her job. Luckily, despite harassment, the local college President says Emily was just exercising her First Amendment rights. "

Valerie Jarrett: Obama not a lame duck, big things are coming

PJ Media

. . . "Jarrett predicted “really big things” would happen during Obama’s final year in office.

“ 'Even though we only have one year left, it’s the second half of the fourth quarter but really big things happen at the end of the game as we all know. Just look at this last year, we’ve had a terrific year, and if you recall not that long ago the press was calling the president a lame duck – I believe it was – it doesn’t feel much like lame duck to me,” she said."

Weasel of the Week, 11/20/2015

Nice Deb

"Yes, once again, It’s time to present this week’s statuette of shame, The Golden Weasel!!

"Every Tuesday, the Council nominates some of the slimiest, most despicable characters in public life for some deed of evil, cowardice or corruption they’ve performed. Then we vote to single out one particular Weasel for special mention, to whom we award the statuette of shame, our special, 100% plastic Golden Weasel. This week’s nominees were all slimy and despicable, but the votes are in and we have our winner by a nose…the envelope please…"

Charlie Sheen, Actor, Blowhard And Irresponsible Jerk

"JoshuaPundit : I rarely pay attention to Hollywood or what passes for  celebrities there, but it’s finally come out that Charlie Sheen is HIV positive and has been for quite some time. While I sympathize with anyone who has this illness, Sheen apparently hid it from the world for quite some time, even paying millions to blackmailers. And he also hid it from a number of his sexual partners. 

"Lawsuits will of course ensue, but how much money can ever compensate for someone infecting you with HIV and potentially taking your life and the lives of others whom never made the choice to have sex with Charlie Sheen, never even met him? How much would you settle for?" . . .

Comedian Argus Hamilton commented on this:

"Charlie Sheen set off a wave of fear in Hollywood after admitting on the Today Show Tuesday that he’s been diagnosed as HIV positive. It didn’t go unnoticed by the administration. President Obama announced that under his leadership, HIV has been completely eradicated in the United States."