Posted on 09/17/2014 7:51:27 AM PDT by upbeat5
In one press conference after another, when referring to the Muslim terror super-group ISIS, United States President Barack Obama will use the term ISIL instead of their former name ISIS or current name Islamic State. Have you ever wondered about that? We have.
ISIL stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant. Now, to us Westerners we don’t really make much of a distinction, do we? No, honestly from our perspective its all about the same. But how would a Muslim living in the Middle East view it? Just what is the Levant anyway? Let’s take a look.
The geographical term LEVANT refers to a multi-nation region in the Middle East. It’s a land bridge between Turkey to the north and Egypt to the south. If you look on a map, however, in the near exact middle of the nations that comprise the Levant, guess what you see? Come on, guess!
It’s Israel.
Now you know why Obama says that he has no plan, no goal, and no stated aim for dealing with ISIS. But he does have a plan, and it’s a really nasty, diabolical one. Obama’s plan is to drag his feet for as long as he can, doing only the bare minimum that Congress forces him to do. His “plan”to buy ISIS as much time as possible to make as many gains as they can.
Listen as Obama painstakingly spells out the letters I-S-I-L so there is no doubt in your mind:
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Oh, they’d behead him, but he still supports them as the chief weapon against those he hates.
He’ll just support them from cover. Kinda like releasing the hounds.
It depends on what the meaning of ISIS ISIS?
Should be Pastor JD, or Pastor JD Farag.
Whatever happened to “The Umma”? Packed away with Bombay, Peking, and Burma?
yes he will and they will gladly give money.
Actually, they behead Moslems, too. Anyone not in their club.
I can’t stand Obama, but the belief at any level that he wants ISIS to succeed makes no sense to me.
+1
The whole idea of coded messages is tin foil hat territory.
I do. Obama is a muslim.
Even if he were a Muslim, why would he want a group to succeed that would surely murder his entire family?
The notion fails the logic test.
You assume logic where there is none. Plenty of people willingly sacrifice themselves and even their families for a ‘higher cause’.
Yet, many times, people will send coded messages.
Obviously, you don’t believe in coded messages.
Unfortunately, people send these messages all the time.
And what are we to make of that?
Reflexively dismissing the concept does not serve us well.
Entertain that these messages may exist.
Another clue that coded messages exist, is their frequent appearance.
Never think that a simple post isn’t sending two messages.
I would suggest that you can find coded messages everywhere.
Depending upon your ability to percieve, you may find more messages.
It depends, of course, on you and your intelligence.
Otherwise, you might miss the very clear and present ‘second meaning’.
Tin-foil? Not at all, it is all around you.
Aboul Gheit said he had a one-on-one meeting with Obama, where the US President told him that He was still a Muslim, the son of a Muslim father, the step son of Muslim stepfather, that his half brothers in Kenya are Muslims, and that he was sympathetic towards the Muslim agenda.
Aboul Gheit claimed Obama told the Arabs to show patience. Obama promised that once he overcame some domestic issues, like the Health care reform, he would show the Muslim World how to deal with Israel.
LOL!!
On top of it, today.
Very clever.
Excellent, indeed.
I love it!
Too many won’t see the point, though.
Israel said if IS so much as set toe in Lebanon, it’s on. Zero has to keep IS safe from Israel.
That's a stretch.
After capturing Mosul, Iraq, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) announced "the beginning of the end of the Sykes Picot agreement," as the Guardian put it. The arrival of better-armed critics of the agreement seemed to herald a fundamental transformation of the Middle East's borders -- but behind ISIS's recent success lie a number of ironies inherent in both the group's rhetoric and our own assumptions about the Middle East.
For all the imagination with which we've mentally remapped the region, we remain strangely wedded to the notion that political upheaval could reveal a new, more authentic set of Middle Eastern borders -- based on ethnic and sectarian divisions, perhaps, or the re-emergence of some pre-imperialist geography. But recent developments suggest that if things do change dramatically, force and chance will play a greater role in determining what happens next than demography, geography, or history.
Consider the moniker "Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham." Both Iraq and al-Sham are place names with their own historical and political cachet, but it's telling that ISIS's leadership couldn't come up with a single geographical term to describe its current area of operations. Al-Sham -- which has sometimes been translated as Syria, though perhaps "Greater Syria" or "the Levant" gives a clearer sense of the geography -- was most recently the name of an Ottoman province based in Damascus. Iraq, by contrast, was a geographical term that came into its own with the arrival of the British in the 1920s.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/06/17/there_is_no_al_sham_iraq_isis_syria_levant_maps
Karl Rove also uses the term. I flipped through channels the other night, and he was on Fox. I cannot believe they keep resigning his contract. He’s a complete putz. Even more so, for using the Islamic State/Levant term.
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