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Obama’s Multipronged Assault on Truth and Reality
commentarymagazine.com ^ | Peter Wehner

Posted on 02/23/2015 5:44:43 AM PST by RoosterRedux

The most obvious is the president’s repeated insistence that militant Islam is utterly disconnected from the Islamic faith. As this much-discussed essay in the Atlantic points out:

Many mainstream Muslim organizations have gone so far as to say the Islamic State is, in fact, un-Islamic. It is, of course, reassuring to know that the vast majority of Muslims have zero interest in replacing Hollywood movies with public executions as evening entertainment. But Muslims who call the Islamic State un-Islamic are typically, as the Princeton scholar Bernard Haykel, the leading expert on the group’s theology, told me, “embarrassed and politically correct, with a cotton-candy view of their own religion” that neglects “what their religion has historically and legally required.” Many denials of the Islamic State’s religious nature, he said, are rooted in an “interfaith-Christian-nonsense tradition.”

The author, Graeme Wood, adds this:

According to Haykel, the ranks of the Islamic State are deeply infused with religious vigor. Koranic quotations are ubiquitous. “Even the foot soldiers spout this stuff constantly,” Haykel said. “They mug for their cameras and repeat their basic doctrines in formulaic fashion, and they do it all the time.” He regards the claim that the Islamic State has distorted the texts of Islam as preposterous, sustainable only through willful ignorance.

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1 posted on 02/23/2015 5:44:43 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Delusional.


2 posted on 02/23/2015 5:45:17 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: RoosterRedux

Listening to Obama reminds me of the scene from “Mars Attacks” where the Martian soldiers are marching through the streets, shooting the place all to hell while a recording repeats over and over, “We come in peace!”.


3 posted on 02/23/2015 5:50:27 AM PST by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dreyfus)
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To: RoosterRedux

The Kenyan’s increased “approval ratings” in the “polls” tells me that either the leftist pollsters are lying or the people now living in this country appreciate someone who pees on their legs and tells them that it’s raining.


4 posted on 02/23/2015 5:55:32 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Bush "hates black people" but don't you dare accuse Barry of not liking Americans!)
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To: RoosterRedux

Obama’s love and loyalty for Satan is not being questioned here.
Isis in Egyptian mythology was the god that gives life to the god of the underworld Osirus.
Many occultic practices come from ancient Babylon and Eygpt as the mystery religion.
Many of today’s religion in some form honor Isis and have her in their practices, beliefs not to be left out feminism.
Yes indeed, radical Islam with Isis and feminism have a lot in common than one would think.
Occult practices require to summons and bring forth the god of the underworld Satan is violence and shedding of innocent blood.
Obama and his minions are lying to the world and our county with the help of the media on the true nature of radical Islam and Isis, and it isn’t because they don’t have jobs and compassion.


5 posted on 02/23/2015 5:56:49 AM PST by American Constitutionalist (The Keystone Pipeline Project : build it already Congress !)
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To: RoosterRedux

The longer ISIS is allowed to persist and grow and influence, the more their particular brand of Islam will flourish until, eventually, the ISIS brand of Islam will be the only brand of Islam. Isis, if unchecked, is the future of Islam.


6 posted on 02/23/2015 5:57:14 AM PST by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a politically correct way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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To: RoosterRedux
The most obvious is the president’s repeated insistence that militant Islam is utterly disconnected from the Islamic faith.

Then why did he make sure to say Bin Laden was afforded a traditional Muslim burial at sea?

7 posted on 02/23/2015 5:57:34 AM PST by optiguy (If government is the answer, it was a stupid question.)
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To: yldstrk

We may question his love for America, but we certainly don’t question his love and loyalty for Satan, the god of the underworld.


8 posted on 02/23/2015 5:58:31 AM PST by American Constitutionalist (The Keystone Pipeline Project : build it already Congress !)
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To: RoosterRedux
And just WHO is it that hates Truth?


9 posted on 02/23/2015 5:58:41 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: MrB

As it is written, the Father of Lies.

There definitely IS an assault on truth and reality.

Amazing that most Americans cannot discern it. Seems to be a supernatural veil over many.


10 posted on 02/23/2015 6:24:02 AM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: SaveFerris

Yeah, something like a “strong delusion”...

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

I just re-read it. Spooky in light of current events.


11 posted on 02/23/2015 6:27:41 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: RoosterRedux
What our President said about Mohammed... the capitalization is his, in his original essay:

"He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST - TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE…. Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. The war is yet flagrant ... While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men."

Excellent students of history will wonder about the "1200 years" comment, since Islam began 1400 years ago. The trick is that this was written by our President... our 6th President... John Quincy Adams, in 1830.

Our problems with Islam are not new, and they are not about jobs.

12 posted on 02/23/2015 6:34:54 AM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: MrB

I think we’re in the opening stages of it. Yes it is indeed spooky.


13 posted on 02/23/2015 6:36:23 AM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: MrB

This and Romans 1 seem to explain a lot of what we are witnessing.


14 posted on 02/23/2015 7:15:24 AM PST by kosciusko51 (Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
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To: Teacher317

Interesting quote. Thanks. POSOTUS, the “peace prize” winner, and the “religion of peace” peaceniks have our backs…and soon our heads.


15 posted on 02/23/2015 8:47:30 AM PST by PGalt
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