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Team Trump’s Message: The Clash of Civilizations Is Back
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Posted on 11/20/2016 6:30:33 AM PST by traumer

Last February Mike Flynn, the incoming national security adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, tweeted: “Fear of Muslims is RATIONAL.” He urged his tweeps to “please forward” a Muslim-bashing video by one I.Q. al-Rassooli, a Britain-based, Iraqi-born polemicist who argues that Islam is less a religion than a cult in perpetual war with the West, that the Prophet Muhammad “committed crimes against humanity on a massive scale” and the Koran is “a rambling, incoherent, jumbled scripture of hatred and enmity that no true God would have ever revealed to anyone.”

Two years ago, in 2014, Steve Bannon, President-elect Trump’s incoming chief strategist, told an interviewer that “the Judeo-Christian West” is “in the very beginning stages of a very brutal and bloody conflict … an outright war against jihadist Islamic fascism”—an enemy that, unless harsher measures are taken, “will completely eradicate everything that we’ve been bequeathed over the last 2,000, 2,500 years.”

And this past May Mike Pompeo, President-elect Trump’s nominee to run the CIA, went to the Center for Security Policy, a hardline think tank that has accused Obama administration officials of being secret agents of the Muslim Brotherhood, for a sit-down with the head of the center, Frank Gaffney. Pompeo told Gaffney in a recorded interview that the fight “extends beyond those [Muslims] who are just engaged in violent extremism.” He added: “We don’t have to say that all Muslims are bad. But … we’re going to have to have a broader approach in order to keep Americans safe.”

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1 posted on 11/20/2016 6:30:33 AM PST by traumer
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It never stopped, but we’re going to start defending ourselves!


2 posted on 11/20/2016 6:32:22 AM PST by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: traumer

It is indeed true that “the Judeo-Christian West” is “in the very beginning stages of a very brutal and bloody conflict … an outright war against jihadist Islamic fascism”—an enemy that, unless harsher measures are taken, “will completely eradicate everything that we’ve been bequeathed over the last 2,000, 2,500 years.”


3 posted on 11/20/2016 6:32:46 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: traumer

We like our civilization and want to keep it.


4 posted on 11/20/2016 6:33:51 AM PST by independentmind
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To: traumer

Not a one of those statements is wrong. Boo hoo for the poor, oppressed muslimes. As Ann Coulter says, isn’t it time to start worrying about US for a change?


5 posted on 11/20/2016 6:34:45 AM PST by IronJack
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To: traumer

Note to Politico: Islam never stopped fighting. It’s just that progressive nitwits are so blinded by the idiocy of multiculturalism that they refuse to see such.


6 posted on 11/20/2016 6:35:49 AM PST by dirtboy
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“.....Islam is less a religion than a cult in perpetual war with the West, that the Prophet Muhammad “committed crimes against humanity on a massive scale” and the Koran is “a rambling, incoherent, jumbled scripture of hatred and enmity that no true God would have ever revealed to anyone.”

Yeah? So? The TRUTH is hard for liberals to grasp.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Islam and their scriptures (it’s not JUST the Qur’an).

Educate yourself about Islam

http://www.prophetofdoom.net/


7 posted on 11/20/2016 6:41:23 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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Wow! A positive article from politico... Oh, they didn’t mean it that way. Oh well, Go Trump!


8 posted on 11/20/2016 6:42:05 AM PST by Xenodamus (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. -TJ)
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9 posted on 11/20/2016 6:44:27 AM PST by traumer
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To: BenLurkin
It is indeed true that “the Judeo-Christian West” is “in the very beginning stages of a very brutal and bloody conflict … an outright war against jihadist Islamic fascism”—an enemy that, unless harsher measures are taken, “will completely eradicate everything that we’ve been bequeathed over the last 2,000, 2,500 years.”


10 posted on 11/20/2016 6:44:40 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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Works for me.


11 posted on 11/20/2016 6:46:11 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: dirtboy

Progressives pick fights with fake opponents and stay clear of real and dangerous enemies. They rail against “the weather” “conservatives,” “Christians,” they even have designated “warriors” to battle against “Social injustice.”

Liberals love to talk tough and work themselves into a frenzy about battling all of these phony wars that involve zero risk for any of their “soldiers,” but they are no where to be found when a real battle against a real enemy is needed.

That is because they are hateful cowards. Hatred and cowardice define progressives. I could go on and on...but you already know what I am saying.


12 posted on 11/20/2016 6:48:16 AM PST by Awgie (Truth is always stranger than fiction.)
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To: traumer

Time for Obama to stand with the muslims.


13 posted on 11/20/2016 6:49:24 AM PST by Defiant (The media is the colostomy bag where truth goes after democrats digest it.)
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To: traumer

islam is not compatible with the west. Period.


14 posted on 11/20/2016 6:58:46 AM PST by umgud (ban all infidelaphobics)
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"Gaffney, a frequent guest on Bannon’s Breitbart radio show, was reported to be advising the Trump transition team too, though he has denied such reports. "

LSM Fake News

15 posted on 11/20/2016 7:01:08 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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The cheapest, easiest, and most effective first step? Travel ban into the USA on anyone from approx. 20 mid-east, North African and South Asian nations.


16 posted on 11/20/2016 7:03:06 AM PST by PGR88
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To: traumer

Samuel Huntington changed academia with this in 1979:

“The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order”

https://www.amazon.com/Clash-Civilizations-Remaking-World-Order/dp/1451628978/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1479654259&sr=1-1&keywords=samuel+huntington


17 posted on 11/20/2016 7:03:39 AM PST by combat_boots (I no longer know what to say to put here. Pray for us.)
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Sorry, that was the 1993 book. I will hunt for the 1979 book by someone about this.

Here’s the NYT crib notes: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/opinion/04brooks.html


18 posted on 11/20/2016 7:06:40 AM PST by combat_boots (I no longer know what to say to put here. Pray for us.)
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To: traumer

None of that is controversial to most Americans especially most Trump voters. But to Pollutico, it’s blasphemy. Islam is the Progressive project’s chosen method to reduce dissent and surplus population.


19 posted on 11/20/2016 7:08:18 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (It's Morning in America. Again.)
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""I think Islam hates us," Trump told CNN’s Anderson Cooper last March. While he said he was speaking of radical Islam, he added: “It’s very hard to define. It’s very hard to separate. Because you don’t know who’s who.” "

Fake News. There is no "radical" Islam.

20 posted on 11/20/2016 7:09:50 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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