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Hillary Is the Islamic State's Best Recruitment Tool
Townhall.com ^ | December 23, 2015 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 12/23/2015 6:17:43 AM PST by Kaslin

During the little-watched pre-Christmas Democratic debate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of being the Islamic State group's chief recruiter. Relying on her penchant for blaming videos for Islamic evil, she stated that the Islamic State is "showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists."

Well, no.

The Islamic State's videos -- the ones that actually exist, not the ones Clinton makes up in her fevered imagination during debate pee breaks -- show that the group uses three main themes in its recruitment. First, it talks about Islamic prophecy. In a video released Nov. 24, titled "No Respite," the narrator explains, in English, over hypnotic chanting: "This is our (caliphate), in all its glory, remaining and expanding. ... It's a state built on the prophetic methodology, striving to follow the Quran and Sunna. ... We are men honored with Islam who climbed its peaks to perform jihad, answering the call to unite under one flag. This is the source of our glory: our obedience to our Lord. ... We only bow to Allah."

So much for President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's jabbering nonsensically about the Islamic State's having nothing to do with Islam.

Second, it talks about its string of victories. The video brags that the group's territory is "already greater than Britain, eight times the size of Belgium and 30 times the size of Qatar." It directly challenges America: "You claim to have the greatest army history has known. You may have the numbers and weapons, but your soldiers lack the will and resolve. Still scarred from their defeats in Afghanistan and Iraq, they return dead or suicidal, with over 6,500 of them killing themselves each year." It claims that America's airstrikes have accomplished nothing and that the United States' $250,000 missiles will never be able to defeat the Islamic State and its 50-cent bullets. It adds that the United States lacks the power to put boots on the ground.

In other words, it mocks the Obama administration's agenda. Without losses in Afghanistan and Iraq -- both idiotic and precipitous pullouts by the Obama team -- and without the constant drumbeat from the left that military men and women are poor victims of circumstance, the Islamic State wouldn't have this particular talking point.

Finally, the Islamic State talks about the emptiness of the West. The group contrasts its own allegiance to Allah with the West's allegiance to "a secular state -- built on man-made laws -- whose soldiers fight for the interests of ... legislators, liars, fornicators, corporations and for the freedoms of sodomites." The video flashes pictures of Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. No Trump.

It concludes: "Bring it on, all of you. Your numbers only increase us in faith, and we're counting your banners, which our prophet said would reach 80 in number, and then the flames of war will finally burn you on the hills of Dabiq. Bring it on, for we echo the mighty call of our prophets. ... Show us no respite. Our ally is the greatest. He is Allah, and all glory belongs to him." The reference to Dabiq is to an apocalyptic site in Syria. According to Islamic teachings, it is supposed to host a battle between the Christians and the Muslims that will usher in Armageddon.

So as it turns out, it isn't Trump whom the Islamic State uses to recruit. It's the American government -- in particular the victories handed to the group by the American left. Hillary Clinton is a better recruiting tool for the Islamic State than Donald Trump, hands down.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: Arkansas; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Michigan; US: New York; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: 2008election; 2016election; arkansas; berniesanders; deltaplex; donaldtrump; election2008; election2016; grandrapids; hillary; hillaryclinton; hitlery; islamicstate; martinomalley; maryland; michigan; newyork; schlonged; trump; vermont; walker; wipewater

1 posted on 12/23/2015 6:17:43 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Obviously everyone over there will be signing up for victory - It’s laughable that Grandma is going to be the bulwark against the Caliphate. She’s too embarrassed to go into the bathroom stall with anyone else in the room, and she’s going to become Richard the Lionheart?


2 posted on 12/23/2015 6:23:25 AM PST by major-pelham
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To: Kaslin

To some degree the ISI clown are correct. If we had gone in and taken Afghanistan in a total victory campaign and tried and executed the Taliban and their sympathizers, ditto for Iraq, and then held it much as we have done in Germany and especially Japan, we would be in a much different position.

The essential rule that had to be upheld and wasn’t...NO SHARIA.


3 posted on 12/23/2015 6:28:29 AM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Kaslin

What? Every jihadi in the world had and will ROFLMAO at these jerkwads. Are you f’n serious? These scumbags in our government are surreal. Talk about a recruiting tool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuWEkUcS0lI


4 posted on 12/23/2015 6:47:52 AM PST by PGalt
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To: PGalt

Wouldn’t a woman running for elective office be used as an ISIS recruiting tool? Definitely not Sharia compliant.


5 posted on 12/23/2015 7:01:21 AM PST by FirstFlaBn
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To: Kaslin

Liar

Hillary liar
6 posted on 12/23/2015 7:05:22 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: Bon mots

Great animation


7 posted on 12/23/2015 7:09:28 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
Great animation

Thanks! It's going viral on Facebook. I figured out how to post animations to Facebook and that one has been shared well over 20,000 times since just over 24 hours ago when I first made it.

In case you want to share it on FB, use the URL below the image. Just cut & paste it into your FaceBook homepage and it will animate.

Hillary Clinton won't take truth serum
http://gph.is/1YrFF7y

8 posted on 12/23/2015 7:14:57 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: FirstFlaBn

Great question. Not necessarily IMO. Marxists and mohammedans operate on parallel totalitarian tracks. At some point the distance they converge. The secular totalitarians (marxists) will be no match for the “religious” totalitarians (mohammedans). Witness 1400 years of history. Hitler, Stalin, Mao are gone. Neo-marxists in the republic have cleverly aligned with Islam, its enablers, its apologists, its deceivers to squelch individual rights, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In the end marxist heads roll, too. Jihad in the republic has made unprecedented gains since 09/11/2001.

POSOTUS - half-frikken American. Half marxist, half mohammedan.

We are here.


9 posted on 12/23/2015 7:43:08 AM PST by PGalt
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To: Kaslin; Liz; SunkenCiv; sickoflibs; Jane Long; Travis McGee; stephenjohnbanker; MrB; Mr. K
Finally, the Islamic State talks about the emptiness of the West. The group contrasts its own allegiance to Allah with the West's allegiance to "a secular state -- built on man-made laws -- whose soldiers fight for the interests of ... legislators, liars, fornicators, corporations and for the freedoms of sodomites." The video flashes pictures of Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. No Trump.

I wish this Ben Shapiro piece could be pinged to Freepers past, present and future... Shapiro 'gets it'...

10 posted on 12/23/2015 8:31:30 AM PST by GOPJ (No one in power is on our side.No one in power is on our side. Absolutely no one. freeper marron)
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