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Obama Administration Refuses to Label London Attack as Terrorism
http://blog.heritage.org ^ | may 23, 2013 | Daniel Kochis

Posted on 05/23/2013 3:49:51 PM PDT by lowbridge

In stark contrast, the Obama Administration’s response has been to avoid calling the attack terrorism, let alone terrorism motivated by a radical Islamic ideology. Instead the Administration, via the State Department, said it stood with the U.K. in the face of “such senseless violence.”

Senseless violence? One can hardly term a targeted attack on a U.K. soldier in broad daylight — where the assailants gleefully admit the radical motivation behind their attack — “senseless violence.”

Yet, use of this terminology is nothing new for the Obama Administration. “Senseless violence” is the Administration’s catch-all phrase loyally called upon whenever motivations for a despicable act should not be ascribed, lest someone take offense.

Particularly troubling is that “senseless violence” is the same terminology the Administration used when describing the terrorist attack in Benghazi that killed the American Ambassador and three other U.S. citizens.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: london; muslimbrotherhood; obama; saudipuppet; sourcetitlenoturl; woolwich; wot
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1 posted on 05/23/2013 3:49:51 PM PDT by lowbridge
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It was NOT “terrorism”. Call it what it is — an Islamic Menace on society.


2 posted on 05/23/2013 3:51:26 PM PDT by sagar
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To: lowbridge

“It was as though some huge force were pressing down upon you – something that penetrated inside your skull, battering against your brain, frightening you out of your beliefs, persuading you, almost, to deny the evidence of your senses. In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable…what then?”

Winston 1984


3 posted on 05/23/2013 3:52:28 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: lowbridge

It happened in London; who cares what Washington thinks?


4 posted on 05/23/2013 3:52:41 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: lowbridge

Yeah, and all that Allah Akbar and threats of attacking the West was nothing. This man is a total ass.


5 posted on 05/23/2013 3:52:55 PM PDT by laweeks
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The guy stands over soldier’s headless body with bloody machete in his hand shouting “Allah Akbar”. Nope, doesn’t sound like a terrorist to me.

It was workplace violence.


6 posted on 05/23/2013 3:53:08 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: lowbridge

I’m surprised the Bamster didn’t warn the British not to discriminate against the Muslim.


7 posted on 05/23/2013 3:54:24 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: lowbridge

Obama is standing with the muslims, as he promised.


8 posted on 05/23/2013 3:56:51 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: lowbridge
Obama Administration Refuses to Label London Attacks as Terrorism.

Which by an odd coincidence is exactly the position of the Iranian Government. And the Egyptian government, and government of Libya.

9 posted on 05/23/2013 3:57:01 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: Norm Lenhart


10 posted on 05/23/2013 3:57:14 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

I read that book in 1983 and it seemed so far fetched back then. Not anymore.


11 posted on 05/23/2013 3:58:06 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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The Islamic murderers where obviously outraged over a disgusting, offensive video.

I’m sure Obama will say he called it terror one day one about 6 months from now.

Anyway, here we go again, same old sh*t...


12 posted on 05/23/2013 3:58:16 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: TurboZamboni

“Better to line on our headless knees than to offend a Muslim I say.


13 posted on 05/23/2013 3:58:25 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: lowbridge

Of course now. His fellow Muslims committed the atrocity.


14 posted on 05/23/2013 3:58:41 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: Inyo-Mono

Anyone who tells you the libs did not adopt it as a set of directions is a liar.


15 posted on 05/23/2013 3:59:30 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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Wow what a surprise....Not! Even the terrorists themselves called it what it is in their video: Islamic Terrorism. Pathetic Obamanuts.


16 posted on 05/23/2013 3:59:55 PM PDT by apro
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If only there were some clues, some hint, just anything at all that could connect them to that Muslim religion thingee.

What...could it be...?


17 posted on 05/23/2013 4:02:30 PM PDT by ansel12
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Yeah, and all that Allah Akbar and threats of attacking the West was nothing. This man is a total ass.

No no no. You heard wrong. They were saying "Piss ...uh I mean Peace Be to the West". ;-p

18 posted on 05/23/2013 4:02:42 PM PDT by apro
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To: lowbridge

>>where the assailants gleefully admit the radical motivation behind their attack — “senseless violence.”<<

This is NOT “senseless violence.” It is PURPOSEFUL violence with a specific reason — to further islam’s reach into normal people’s lives. That is the OPPOSITE of “senseless.”

God, obozo and his handlers are so incredibly stupid they don’t even know the meaning of simple words.


19 posted on 05/23/2013 4:05:06 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (To attempt to have intercourse with a hornet's nest is a very bad idea)
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It can’t be workplace violence because they weren’t at work. They were on a public street. It must be road rage.


20 posted on 05/23/2013 4:05:29 PM PDT by wny
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