Mitt Romney: "Islam is not an inherently violent faith"

Atlas Shrugs ^ | 2/9/12 | Pamela Geller

[Nachum]

Apparently, unlike most everything else, Mitt Romney has not flip-flopped on his position on jihad and Islam. Back in July 2009, I wrote in a post entitled, "Why Romney Won't be President" that Romney would not be president because he said something so fundamentally and unabashedly wrong about America's greatest mortal threat that he was unfit to be President: "Jihadism Is not part of Islam." Yes, he said that. That is frightening coming from a Presidential candidate. Instead of spending the ensuing years studying jihad, Romney appears hardwired for delusion in his latest remarks.

The fact that Romney knows peaceful Muslims is purely anecdotal. I believe that most Muslims are secular and have no desire to strap one on. But that does not mean that Islam is not inherently violent. The ideology is the most violent and radical on the face of the earth. What history books is Romney reading......Dr. Seuss? How did Romney miss over 270 million victims in over a millennium of jihadi wars, land appropriations, cultural annihilations and enslavements? How did Romney miss the close to 18,000 Islamic attacks since 911? How did Romney miss the revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, etc.? How did Romney miss the jihad on the Jews and Christians and Hindus and Sikhs?

There are hundreds of millions of jihadis, what's Romney smokin'?

Mitt Romney: Islam is not an inherently violent faith

Cedar Rapids, Ia. – Mitt Romney responded today to a call for a tougher stance against Muslims by saying that most Muslims are peaceful people who deserve respect.

The issue came up during a question-and-answer session at a campaign stop here this morning. A man rose from the audience, claimed he had many Muslim friends, but said, “I have never heard one Muslim condemn Islamic jihad or terrorism.

[ari-freedom]

Romney: Did you notice in Lebanon what Hezbollah did?

[LucianOfSamasota]

UPDATE: Bachmann and Santorum are best on this issue. They understand the global jihad and the threat it presents.

[N. Theknow]

Wonder when the Romney Hope & Change ads will appear on TV?

[Ramius]

In fairness... you’ll hear the same thing from any of the candidates, and we already have, to one extent or another. Does anybody really think a President or candidate is going to call out all of Islam as inherently violent or evil? It’s just not gonna happen.

[JSDude1]

Mitt Romney: “I am an idiot..and further ignorant of the true tennants of Islam”!

[CT]

Mormonism: It's not just a religion created out of the rituals of Free Masonry. It's also a business with no true 'good deeds' like hospitals, schools, etc. Their conversions are for the money.

[combat_boots]

Not if everyone everywhere is muslim. Only then is there the ‘peace’ of islam.

[Cicero]

Interesting. There was a lot of violence in the early days of the Mormon Church, but they seem to have grown out of it.

On the other hand, the LDS church does have one thing in common with Islam. It draws upon Judaism and Christianity, but it is INCOMPATIBLE with them and with the Bible in numerous ways. Islam starts out by distorting the stories of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, basically turning the whole thing upside down. And LDS likewise completely distorts the Christian version of history.

Or, for that matter, like Islam it distorts history, period. But that’s another story.

[Capt. Tom]

What can you expect from the logic of someone who can “believe” in the absurdities of Mormonism. If someone understands Mormon theology and “accepts” it—there is a real question about their analytical skills, since their basic statements conflict not only with history, but scientific fact.

That pretty well sums up my take on Mormonism. I have avoided expressing that opinion on FR, but you put it out there very nicely.- Tom

[philman_36]

Yep, it was Mormons was responsible.
Oh wait, it was Quakers what did it.
No, no @the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

[trisham]

"America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition.

Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. "

~Barack Obama

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[Jewbacca]

Well, he does come from a violent, polygamous, cult founded by a criminal himself.

[Little Ray]

They can’t be lying to us. We KNOW differently. Are they lying to themselves?

[Mr_Peter]

Romney is a fool. If he is the Republican nominee I will stay home.

[greyfoxx39]

Ping

[CatherineofAragon]

Mitt Romney is not someone I’d go to for advice on religion. Just saying....

[PapaBear3625]

Mormonism: What the Latter Day Saints think of Islam [Indicator of how Mitt perceives Islam?]

[bayouranger]

$ quote:

“The Obama camp wants Romney to be the GOP nominee so they can butcher him on the Mormon church’s racist past. Just Google “Brigham Young and blacks” and read to your heart’s content. Axelrod and Team Scum Bucket is going to have a field day with Romney on this.”

Yep.

[pallis]

Mitthamed Oromney is an idiot.

[Pollster1]

I looked at pictures of women being beaten for exposing their ankles or stoned for adultery (i.e., for being attacked against their will). I looked at pictures of Americans being beheaded for being American. I moved on to the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, the Spanish trains, the London Underground, the Embassy attacks in Beirut, in Tanzania, and in Kenya, the underwear and shoe bombers on aircraft, the British liquid bombers, and a list of literally thousands of other attacks that I just skimmed. A hasty person might generalize and conclude that Islam is inherently violent, but I know better. I know that diversity is our strength and I should not generalize about a group as if I was prejudiced, even if there is isolated support for that generalization. There is no real pattern there, is there?