Posted on 08/31/2015 11:58:28 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
This argument is so stupid that it really ought to come with its own frontal lobotomy. But that doesn't stop assorted Muslim Brotherhood front groups and their lefty useful idiots from making it anyway.
"With this, Scott Walker is actually enabling ISIS by characterizing their acts as being Islamic terrorism," said Robert McCaw, government affairs manager for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "He is taking a peaceful religion of 1.6 billion people and misappropriating it to ISIS, allowing them to wrap themselves in the religion's name and stake a claim to it."
McCaw was referring to Walker's first foreign policy address as a presidential candidate, delivered on Friday at The Citadel military college in South Carolina, during which he referenced Islamic extremists or radical Islamic terrorism 11 times.
What exactly should he be calling the Islamic State?
Let's set aside the stupid premise of the CAIR argument that the Muslim world is sitting around waiting to decide whether ISIS is Islamic based on what the governor of Wisconsin says. (I'm pretty sure it isn't.)
ISIS is an Islamic terrorist group in the most literal sense possible. It engages in acts of terror in order to impose Islam on others and fulfill Islamic goals. It defines itself as an Islamic organization in both nature and mission.
We can pretend, like John Kerry, that it's un-Islamic, but based on what exactly? ISIS is probably more faithful to the Koran than most Muslim groups out there. And is it really the role of the US government to decide what real Islam is and isn't? What exactly happened to the left's hallowed dedication to separation of church and state? Or does that not apply? Is there to be no separation of mosque and state?
And isn't that kind of ISIS-like?
Walker didn't decide to call ISIS the Islamic State. Its leaders did. And it's in keeping with the commonplace placement of Islam in the name of Islamic terror groups. Shooting the messenger doesn't change the message. The Islamic State is Islam. If McCaw wants to change that, he can take his case to an Islamic theocracy which is qualified to decide the issue.
The United States isn't one of those. Yet.
About 70 million people voted for Barry. That was neither intelligent nor displaying common sense for reasons we all know and thus need not rehash.
About another 70ish million people on the right who supposedly value life, integrity, honesty, economic solvency, freedom...all the traditional American values, K N O W I N G L W and O N P U R P O S E voted for a man who drive his state into crippling debt, legislated abortion and homo marriage, profits from BBQing babies post abortion, lied at the drop of a hat to their daces, bounced around issue positions like popcorn in a frying pan and was a devout gun grabber.
That’s 140 plus million voting age Americans that physically demonstrated the polar opposite of intelligence. There was nothing in that massively important choice that was looked at or decided on intelligently and as we see, they did the same again in 14 and are geared up to repeat in 16. They reacted on fear and propaganda. Thats functioning on a less that high level. Call it a mistake. Call it whatever. But it was not an intelligent choice/choices. Nor their only one. Not learning from ones mistakes is a sure fire indicator of low intelligence and has been since the idea of intelligence was discussed.
If you do not see the massive devolution in American intelligence on your TV, on your street, in your supermarket and in all aspects of life around you then there is a serious problem here. There are entire youtube channels devoted to displaying the idiocy that happens in Walmarts. I also present to you “World Star Hip Hop”.
Now for the younger crowd, I present to you Black Lives matter, Occupy whichever Street, Hipsters, Environmentalists, Social Justice warriors flooding every high school and college campus and the pro homo/Tranny / Race industries.
Lastly I present to you the Coup de’Grace. Twitter and Facebook.
Now I don’t really think any of us need an itemized list of TeH StupIdZ to instinctively understand how many people and how little intelligence those two alone total. In sum you have most of America’s population function like Idiocracy and it’s pretty parent to anyone with eyes.
In reality, you’re speaking to emotion, not intelligence despite the anecdotal exhibits of unmitigated social stupidity.
An unrelated thought enigma... is it ever advantageous for one to abandon intellectual conviction for the benefit of intuition?
From our perspective of hindsight it looks like emotion. From theirs it was an intelligent decision. They all provided hundreds of millions of collective man-hours ‘reasoned discourse’ describing in detail why their choice was correct and ours was wrong.
Where I think we differ is that I believe -liberals- don’t have ‘intelligence’ to begin with. Sure some of them remember to use toilet paper when wiping. But these are people that throw logic to the wind every time a liberal introduces the current truth to their worldview. History begins every morning when they awake and they run from ‘crisis’ to ‘crisis’ all while proclaiming they have the way the truth and the light. And they CANNOT be taught. By us at least.
I agree there is emotion involved. But they have no intelligence to keep it in check. It’s like an ongoing 2 min. hate from 1984 with these ‘people’ (and I use that term in only the broadest sine since they belong in cages, bot amongst rational humanity).
Acting on lizard brain emotion, which is the being of their existence, precludes intelligent thought or action by definition, right?
Now when it comes to OUR side of the fence, we are supposed to know better. We are supposed to be people of reasoned thought. Isn’t that what we claim? It pretty much stands to that ‘reason’ that when you look at documented factual info and instead of acting on it accordingly, flush it and everything you spent a lifetime supporting, believing and claiming to be about, you have devolved to the lizard brain level of a liberal. Because you have not acted with intelligence. You consciously had to make a decision to disregard intelligent thought and ‘react’.
>> Now when it comes to OUR side of the fence, we are supposed to know better
Indeed, we should know better.
Emotion and intelligence are relatively easy traits to describe for most any individual. But deceit is far more complex especially in the realm of politics — championing abortion for example. But why are so many willing to embrace depravity and lie about it?
I occasionally make the point that existence is intrinsically evil; not in a personal way, but as a continuous threat to life. Existence is by nature destructive. But when such destructive behavior is inflicted from within humanity, it is horrific. Why? Likely for instinctual reasons.
Those that are committed to argue for abortion surely have a different set of instinctive priorities. And for better or worse, instincts aren’t negotiable.
At least 50% of which support Shariah, so that's 800 million people who would at the very least shrug while the ISIS thug saws your head off, or at most actively cheer it on. So take your Hamas support, your antisemitism and your lies and blow them out your ass.
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