Posted on 02/02/2015 8:24:44 AM PST by Para-Ord.45
After six years, it is no surprise that the Obama administration does not see the Taliban as “terrorists” or that it will not associate “violent extremism” with radical Islam or just Islam.
After all, when Maj. Hasan murdered U.S. soldiers it was nothing more than “workplace violence,” as if he were a disgruntled post office employee of the 1970s. Our two top intelligence chiefs assured us that the Muslim Brotherhood was “largely secular” and that jihad “was a legitimate tenet of Islam.” Add in “workplace violence” and the old “overseas contingency operations.” Do we remember that Ms. Napolitano’s Department of Homeland Security warned us about right-wing returning veterans as the most likely to terrorize us? When someone blows up people at the Boston Marathon, beheads a woman in Oklahoma, or puts a hatchet in a NYPD officer’s head, he is not a terrorist or proselytizer fueled by Islamic hatred of non-Muslims as much as mentally confused. (I suppose in a way that a Hitler or Stalin was not.)
The problem is not that the administration is just too fond of euphemisms. At times it can be quite candid. The Republican House has been characterized as “terrorists” in their efforts to stop more federal borrowing. The Tea Party was slurred as “tea-baggers” — a derogative sexual term. Mr. Netanyahu is variously a “coward” or “chickensh-t” — pejoratives not floated for even the vicious Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
So why the elaborate façade about the Islamic roots of global terrorism and spreading instability in the Middle East? There are a few possible explanations...
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Who cares? KTAN
OR THIS?
I never could quite see Obama seeing a secret Muslim. What he is, I believe, is a “transnational progressive”
Transnational progressivism is fundamentally authoritarian; it believes in the rule of the enlightened few over the unwashed masses, for their benefit. They are stupid and cannot be permitted to make up their own minds, and the enlightened few will do the right thing for them despite themselves. It is profoundly repugnant to every value I hold as a Jacksonian and a supporter of the fundamental principles on which the American system was founded.
The key concepts of transnational progressivism are:
-Groups are what matter, not people. You are “Black” or “Christian” or “Mexican” or “Afghan” or “Sunni”, you are not yourself. You also don’t get to choose your group; it’s inherent in what you were when you were born. Someone else will categorize you into your group, and you will become a number, a body to count to decide how important that group is. And your group won’t change during your lifetime.
-The goal of fairness is equality of result, not equality of opportunity. It isn’t important to let individuals fulfill their potential and express their dreams, what’s important is to make groups have power and representation in all things proportional to their numbers in the population. Fairness is for groups, not for individuals. The ideally fair system is based on quotas, not on merit, because that permits proper precise allocation of results.
-Being a victim is politically significant. It’s not merely a plea for help or something to be pitied; it’s actually a status that grants extra political power. “Victimhood” isn’t a cult, it’s a valid political evaluation. Groups which are victims should be granted disproportionately more influence and representation, at the expense of the historic “dominant” culture.
-Assimilation is evil. Immigrants must remain what they were before they arrived here, and should be treated that way. Our system must adapt to them, rather than expecting them to adapt to us (even if they want to). The migration of people across national borders is a way to ultimately erase the significance of those borders by diluting national identity in the destination country.
-An ideal democracy is a coalition where political power is allocated among groups in proportion to their numbers. It has nothing to do with voting or with individual citizens expressing opinions, and in fact it doesn’t require elections at all. A “winner take all” system, or one ruled by a majority, is profoundly repugnant because it disenfranchise minority groups of all kinds and deprives them of their proper share of power.
-National identity is evil. We should try to think of ourselves as citizens of the world, not as citizens of the nations in which we live, and we should try to minimize the effects of national interests, especially our own if we live in powerful nations....
http://denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2002/08/Transnationalprogressivis.shtml
VDH, like so many other conservative establishment intellectuals, simply cannot see the forest for the trees and writes “person of color in the woodpile” essays like this one. The “person of color” is that Obola is a bitterly anti-Anerican Islamocomunist traitor who is doing his absolute best to destroy the United States and our allies. Viewed in that very direct, honest way, all of his actions and policies are extraordinarily easy to explain. Any other explanation dissolves into confusion and unnecessary complexity, as does this one.
Not meaning to nitpick, but having read the article, I would suggest a better title would be “The Epistemology of Islamic Denial”.
William of Ockham would have discovered very quickly the one obvious reason, the one that would put totally in rational order all the otherwise seemingly jumbled and irrational actions and policies of this president. The man is Moslem and doing what he can to accomplish what the Koran mandates.
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Metaphysics? How does that enter into the discussion?
They don’t want to offend their best bosom buddies.
Yep. Obama has a soft spot in his so-called heart for muslims and will stand with them and support them and work against Israel. But he is a secular marxist and no evidence he is a practicing Muslim. Obama is above religion.
Any stick to beat a dog.
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