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Shut Up, Because the Crusades-Obama’s new tactic to silence criticism of Islam.
FrontPage Magazine ^ | February 11, 2015 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 02/11/2015 5:34:07 AM PST by SJackson

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To: Biggirl

You probably ought to. I kept screaming inside my own little brain “THE CRUSADES WERE DEFENSIVE!” But no one on the tele seems to know that.

I hope most here at FR know their history...but there are a few who I am sure would say it was all just a false flag.


21 posted on 02/11/2015 5:57:38 AM PST by Nifster
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To: Wage Slave

“Because Crusades” is a colloquialism whose purpose is to convey contempt for excusing the inexcusable. Its use is fairly frequent.

What information does “In the hospital” convey as opposed to “In hospital”?


22 posted on 02/11/2015 6:00:44 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: IronJack
Bravo. Also, he - and other Muslims - cannot reasonably claim that ISIS committing this atrocity or that is ok because some other group did something in the past. If they do claim "Well, X isn't so bad because Y did Z..." Then they are legitimizing Z. In other words an atrocity is an atrocity. If it was wrong then, it is wrong now. If you try to claim it is excusable now, then you are also excusing, some might say even supporting and promoting it in the past too.

I'm sure bammy didn't really want to say he thinks slavery and the crusades and such were ok. You would expect someone versed in law and argument to do better. Maybe bammy should stop letting his ignorant a**-clown sycophants write his speeches for him.

23 posted on 02/11/2015 6:00:54 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: jjotto

Wow, thanks for the education. I had no idea. Not.


24 posted on 02/11/2015 6:05:24 AM PST by Wage Slave
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To: Wage Slave
I believe all those are British idioms.

The English have such a strange way with the English language.

It also sounds strange to hear the phrases like "Parliament have" instead of "Parliament has" and "The RAF have flown sorties."

25 posted on 02/11/2015 6:06:27 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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The Crusades were a necessary response to the war Islam thrust upon the World.


26 posted on 02/11/2015 6:06:53 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Old Sarge
All the logic of a six-year-old at daycare: “HE STARTED IT!”

It's even more childish than that. It's more like "So? He did it too!" Or "I know you are but what am I?" Or "Takes one to know one."

Seriously, this is the level of "discourse" in which the Chief Executive of the United States indulges. He must have learned his forensic skills at Harvard.

27 posted on 02/11/2015 6:09:11 AM PST by IronJack
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To: SJackson

I’ve never heard ISIS, al Qaeda or the Taliban refer to the USA as engaging in a new crusade. Leave it to our President to out propagandize our enemies.


28 posted on 02/11/2015 6:11:40 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: MrB
What they really want to “prove” is that the standard by which their opponents are judging their behavior is invalid.

Which is the whole point of the tu quoque "argument." It avoids the criticism of an act by redirecting the argument at the critic rather than his target, thereby absolving himself of any moral accountability.

I'm willing to be that the "Everyone's doing it" argument didn't work for you when you were a child. It's nothing less than an embarrassment that a US president would adopt it to defend barbarism.

29 posted on 02/11/2015 6:13:28 AM PST by IronJack
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To: SJackson

Great Post. Thanks. What boggles my mind is how does one develop this kind of mindset? And how the hell did he become President? Man, did we get f#(%ed.


30 posted on 02/11/2015 6:14:59 AM PST by deweyfrank
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To: Wage Slave

“in the hospital” become “in hospital”

This one is relatively easy. The first usage is American English. The second is how the Brits mangle it ;0


31 posted on 02/11/2015 6:15:50 AM PST by Nifster
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To: ThunderSleeps

Good points. I guess the apologists could defend islime by saying “Hitler murdered Jews too. What’s so wrong about that?”


32 posted on 02/11/2015 6:16:40 AM PST by IronJack
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To: SJackson
Shut Up, Because the Crusades-Obama’s new tactic to silence criticism of Islam.

Ha haaaa! Yet another Ohola "red line" that has worked like a charm.

33 posted on 02/11/2015 6:18:29 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: jjotto

“Its use is fairly frequent.”

Where? Have never heard such linguistic construction before.


34 posted on 02/11/2015 6:18:57 AM PST by Nifster
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To: central_va

That is because they are still fighting the OLD fight to have a caliphate


35 posted on 02/11/2015 6:20:21 AM PST by Nifster
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To: Nifster

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2015/02/mike-mcdaniel/guns-less-crime-racism/


36 posted on 02/11/2015 6:26:32 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

“What information does “In the hospital” convey as opposed to “In hospital”?”

An understanding of the english language. “In hospital”
is slang and incorrect. Laziness.


37 posted on 02/11/2015 6:26:59 AM PST by Slambat
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To: Slambat

As has been pointed out, it’s proper British useage.


38 posted on 02/11/2015 6:28:03 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: IronJack

Was it Mel Brooks who said, in sarcasm,

that we couldn’t criticize Hitler for sending kids to camp,
because Americans send their kids to camp?


39 posted on 02/11/2015 6:29:50 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: jjotto

How does that answer my question. A little known or read blog piece which doesn’t use the construct that you claim is nearly universal is not proof.


40 posted on 02/11/2015 6:39:46 AM PST by Nifster
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