Posted on 06/14/2016 8:14:43 AM PDT by Lera
Trump's supporters are angry that Obama has made stating the obvious illegitimate. And they are right to be angry.
Is Islamic State opposed to gay marriage? Was anger at the US Supreme Court's decision mandating recognition of homosexual marriage what prompted Omar Mateen to massacre fifty Americans at the gay nightclub in Orlando on Saturday night? What about gun control? Is Islamic State, to which Mateen announced his allegiance as he mowed down innocents like blades of grass, a libertarian group that abhors limitations on private ownership of firearms? In other words, are Islamic State and its fellow jihadists from Iran to Hamas, Hezbollah, Boko Haram and al Qaida adjuncts of the Republican Party? Is Omar Baghdadi, the self-declared caliph at the helm of ISIS a social conservative, a libertarian and a card carrying member of the GOP, or just one of the three? Because President Barack Obama seems to think that this is the question most Americans should be asking. In his statement on the massacre on Sunday, Obama placed Mateen's action in the context the partisan debate on gay rights and gun control.
With regard to the former, Obama said that the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, which was the site of the attack was more than a mere nightclub. It was, "a place of solidarity and empowerment where people have come together to raise awareness, to speak their minds and to advocate for their civil rights." In other words, Obama intimated, the victims were murdered because Mateen opposed all of those things, specifically.
America must not become Europe. And the most urgent step that must be taken to preserve America as America is to make discussing reality legitimate again. ]]
Worth reading every word
We now know the shooter was gay. What if he pretended to be ISIS and shot the nightclub to promote gay victimhood?
Good post.
Great piece. Even in Israel they can see that this battle over political correctness is the fundamental one fueling Trump’s rise. The contrast between Obama and Trump in the wake of Orlando shows that it’s existential: if we don’t properly identify our enemy because it wouldn’t be politically correct to do so, we’ll die.
[[We now know the shooter was gay. What if he pretended to be ISIS and shot the nightclub to promote gay victimhood?]]
No
We know the shooter was a muslim and the son of a muslim Taliban supporter . We know he was married and his wife admitted that he was scouting areas to target including the club and some Disney venues .
They say he visited the club on multiple occasions but have you actually seen any pictures of him having any physical contact with gay men ? Nope
They are trying to rewrite history and stop helping them.
“What if he pretended to be ISIS and shot the nightclub to promote gay victimhood?”
If he was trying to do that he would have registered as a Republican and worn a “Make America Great Again” baseball cap during the shooting.
“The same Obama who was quick to blame permissive gun laws and anti-gay discrimination for the bloodbath, refused to mention the fact that Islam was Mateen’s expressed motive for committing the carnage.”
That’s the money line
His folks are Afghani....If you haven’t heard any of his fathers rants you should make a point of doing so....then you wouldn’t ask such an Infowars type question
That whole gay thing is a canard promoted by the progressives to give Obama cover, bank on it.
P.S. It seems to be working.
One of the best pieces I’ve seen...no, mark that...THE best piece I’ve seen on this incident and the Democrat effort to forbid reality from the public square.
Innocents?
I disagree...it is not working for them at all. Just because you see the leftist networks promoting those ideas don’t mean they are connecting. They will try and try and try but they will never disconnect this from Islam.
An ex-wife, a son, a current wife...what was he, a glutton for punishment?
What evidence is there that he might have been a homosexual?
I haven’t had time to read it but it’s posted to Drudge
Truer words were never spoken, and Europeans need to revolt to regain their rights as humans.
I think we’re throwing the gay word around rather loosely. He was married (or divorced) with a kid. More likely, he was a typical muslim with a wife for procreating and a boy to dance with and...do what gays do so well.
We are looking at this with a western point of view rather than an Islamic one.
He is of afghan origin.
While not all muslims have dancing boys, in fact, buggery is their main way of communicating with other guys. They loathe unclean women.
Afghan he is and it is their culture to dance with other men . They have wives for children and little boys for sex .
Openly gay men are murdered .
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