Posted on 02/27/2015 8:18:14 AM PST by jerod
A few days after the 9/11 attacks, George W. Bush began repeating what would become a mandatory presidential preamble.
"The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam," he declared, then quoted from the Qur'an to make that case: "In the long run, evil in the extreme will be the end of those who do evil.
"Islam," Bush concluded, "is peace."
For the rest of his time as president, Bush was careful to use similar language in his denunciations of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. And when Barack Obama took over, he used an identical set of talking points.
Last week, speaking to a gathering of some 60 countries about the need to counter and destroy ISIS, the jihadist group running amok in Iraq and Syria, Obama couched his message in the same Islam-is-peace language, fishing out another quote from Islam's sacred text: "The Qur'an says whoever kills an innocent, it is as if he has killed all mankind."
Obama, in fact, goes even further than Bush did. To the annoyance of his critics, this president conspicuously avoids in his descriptions of ISIS and al-Qaeda any adjectives pertaining to their declared religious motivation.
Obama will not speak the words "Islamic," and "extremist" in the same breath. He will not use "Islamist," or even "jihadist."
Why Obama and some other Western leaders frame their rhetoric that way is obvious.
They want to shield law-abiding Muslim citizens from popular anger as provocations grow more atrocious by the month. Plus, they are anxious to repudiate any idea of a war between the largely Christian West and the Islamic world.....
......Obama must know that his carefully laundered messaging is increasingly met with mockery. Even some Democrats are rolling their eyes.
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D is for Delusional
D is for DemocRat
DC is for Death Cult.
Won’t define the enemy because he’s one of them.
The point I was making was that it doesn’t take a majority to rule a totalitarian regime, it does take a majority either doing nothing or following to make a successful totalitarian nation.
Well said.
He won’t say “Islamic Extremists” because he is an Islamic Extremist.
ISLAM is the TRUE FACE OF OBAMNA
I am so glad that other people are pointing this out. Now if the radio hosts and the conservative pols would say it forcefully, too, the left/MSM couldn’t successfully ridicule it because enough Americans suspect it that the reaction would be that the liberals protest to much. Smoke/fire and all that.
The Crusades were necessary to stop Islam aggression and occupation of Europe.
Maybe Obama knows that Islamic extremists are just being good Muslims. What is extremist to us, is normal for them.
He cannot call it Islamic extremist because he believes the Quran says to do terrorism, if you believed that that is what the Scriptures told you to do you wouldn’t think it extremist at all. however somebody who might resist against terrorism would be an extremist, someone like the Tea Party.
Obviously Obama IS an Islamic extremist.
Indeed. The brainwashing is almost comprehensive in America and includes both lies and glaring omissions Especially when it comes to protecting the illegal alien in chief and his islamiNazi/moslem conrades
You can’t expect a muslim to talk ill of his fellow muslims doung violent jihad.
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