Posted on 05/16/2010 6:54:07 AM PDT by opentalk
If you want to watch someone squirm, take a look at the two-minute videotape of Attorney General Eric Holder dodging Republican Rep. Lamar Smith's question whether "radical Islam" motivated the Times Square bomber.
Holder, who last year called America "a nation of cowards" for refusing to talk frankly about race, plainly didn't want to say what is plain to everyone else, that Faisal Shahzad, back from five months in Waziristan, launched his terror attack because of his Islamist beliefs.
Holder is not the only one who wants to shield us from this obvious truth. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, questioned about the bomber's motives, said he might have been acting out of opposition to the health care bill. Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein said he might have become unhinged by the foreclosure of his Connecticut home.
Similar dignitaries have advanced similar theories. The Christmas underwear bomber, Barack Obama initially said, was an otherwise unspecified "isolated extremist." Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan, we were told by journalists, may have been a victim of post-traumatic stress disorder -- although he never saw combat. Back in the Bush years we were told that the gunman who started shooting at the El Al counter at Los Angeles International Airport had just chosen his target at random, and the New York Times found nothing significant when the Mumbai killers targeted a Jewish community center.
Why the reluctance to state the obvious truth, that we are under attack from terrorists motivated by a radical form of Islam?
My theory is that these well-intentioned folk see the American people as a howling mob....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, questioned about the bomber’s motives, said he might have been acting out of opposition to the health care bill...
Revolting.
Islamist terrorism is a redundant term.
If Bloomberg really believes that then he’s retarded.If he’s throwing down that line of crap for political reasons then he needs to be removed from office.
And to think that the liberals lectured us about how Bush didn’t connect the dots to predict and prevent 9/11. Evidence of a plot was there, so the liberals say, but Bush didn’t connect the dots.
How many dots will Eric Holder and Obama connect, if they can’t use their reasoning abilities to see the threat of Islamic terrorism? Holder was asked about the three recent events (Ft. Hood, Christmas underwear bomber, Times Square bomber) and could not say out loud what these events had in common. What they have in common is so obvious, yet, the attorney general couldn’t bring himself to say what that connect was.
I didn’t see the possibility of a muslim terrorist sympathizer in the White House mentioned in the article.
--or in the DOJ. No media coverage of how a Muslim on the terrorist watch list for years is allowed to become a citizen.
Brett Winterble over at CovertRadio hammered this in the latest podcast. Also a great chat with Bill Roggio from LWJ over there.
http://covertradioshow.com/podcast.cfm?h=926AD4F75640C799175758817A587E9D
Holder was asked about the three recent events (Ft. Hood, Christmas underwear bomber, Times Square bomber) and could not say out loud what these events had in common. What they have in common is so obvious, yet, the attorney general couldnt bring himself to say what that connect was.
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No matter how you connect the dots, the line always leads back to the White House. Always.
Michael Barone asks, “Why the reluctance...?” Michael Barone KNOWS that it’s because Obama is a Muslim. Why can’t Barone speak the truth either?
Well said!
holder called Americans “cowards”? Just what is he, squirming and diverting. What a TOOL. He is trhe worst AG ever. Yet another affirmative-action hero.
There have been several articles posted to FR referencing this, but not one that I have seen that has an ACTUAL LINK TO THIS DARNED VIDEO.
I did not have to read past this apology but to realize that the author is a moron.
Eric Holder Refuses To Say "Radical Islam" video 2:06 min.
Of interest. Did the Irish hate the English because the Irish were radical Catholics?
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Ex Muslim Jihadist explains why there are no moderate Muslims:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vaoGSb2yv8
Eric Holder Refuses to Say 'Radical Islam' Is a Cause of Terrorism Committed by Muslims
NRO-The Corner ^ | 05-13-10 | Andy McCarthy
This YouTube clip from the attorney general's testimony today will be the most painful two minutes of video you will ever watch.
How can you ever hope to stop something when you refuse even to speak its name?
THREAD: Eric Holder Refuses to Say 'Radical Islam' Is a Cause of Terrorism Committed by Muslims
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