Posted on 01/17/2015 6:24:51 PM PST by Libloather
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said Friday that Islamic extremists were at war with the United States, and urged the Obama administration to adopt the same view.
"I'm upset that the president and the White House...is not actually saying this is a war that the Islamic extremists are posing against the United States and against the West," she said during an appearance on CNN’s “The Situation Room” Friday.
In the same interview, Gabbard referred to the threat posed by “this radical Islamic extremist agenda."
The White House has tried to avoid using the phrase "radical Islam" when discussing the recent attack in Paris, in an attempt to disconnect the attackers from the broader religion.
"These are individuals who are terrorists. And what they did was they tried to invoke their own distorted, deviant view of Islam to try to justify them," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Tuesday.
But Gabbard, an Army National Guard captain, disagreed.
"We have to recognize that this is about radical Islam," she said.
She also said a recent raid to disrupt an imminent terrorist plot in Belgium showed that the U.S. and its allies need to do more to stem the flow of extremists from Syria and Iraq back to Europe.
She said "there's no question" that law enforcement in Western countries should be on heightened alert.
She also said the U.S. should immediately suspend a visa waiver program that allows for citizens of certain Western countries to travel to America without a visa.
"People are able to...get on a plane and come to States...who are part of this radical Islamic extremist movement," she said.
Gabbard, who served in Iraq, also said that she found the country's return to violence personally upsetting.
"It sickens me...like so many people I served with...we lost friends there that paid the ultimate price," she said. "Our administration refuses to recognize who our enemy is."
She’s a democrat??
Islam is at war with America and all of civilization.
Hard to believe.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said Friday that Islamic extremists were at war with the United States, and urged the Obama administration to adopt the same view.
maybe she has his real BC?
Correct. Wish our nitwit leaders would get it.
If a politician can pretend to be a Republican in order to win office in a Republican State / Congressional district (they seem as countless as the stars these days) then one in a State like Hawaii with a military background, courage, and common sense could certainly pretend to be a Democrat. Or she has sense enough to realize that the whole “Religion of Peace” song and dance is increasingly just making people angry. Or, possibly most likely, her party affiliation is based on one issue (abortion).
A woman who does not want to wear a burqa. Very rare on the Bolshie side.
I think she needs to change parties.
Our administration is part of the enemy.
OBAMA AUTHORIZES FIRST WAVE OF 9,000 UN-APPROVED MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS FOR US RESETTLEMENT..
“The United States accepts the majority of all UNHCR referrals from around the world. Last year, we reached our goal of resettling nearly 70,000 refugees from nearly 70 countries. And we plan to lead in resettling Syrians as well. We are reviewing some 9,000 recent UNHCR referrals from Syria. We are receiving roughly a thousand new ones each month, and we expect admissions from Syria to surge in 2015 and beyond.”
So, we should do the math. If 9,000 Muslim immigrants from Syria are let loose in the United States, how many of those 9,000 are either terrorists or have terror ties? And 9,000 is just the very beginning. The State Department clearly acknowledges that this number will surge dramatically in 2015 and beyond.
Aside from the obvious terror implications, what will all this resettlement cost..?”
(Comment I found on The Hill)
Courageous lady, how long before she gets an Obotomy?
So far the only muslims I see willing to fight the so called radicals are Egypt, Jordan, the Kurds and yes, Assad in Syria. Meanwhile our “allies” are as rabid as ever.
Pro abortion triumphs anti burkha, for now.
They are fighting the radicals for their own survival. It would be unfair to portray that fight as a fight between Islamic radicals and moderates.
I do not think that Hezbollah-backed Syrian Shite monsters are any less Islamic than the Sunni monsters of ISIS or Muslim Brotherhood.
Tell it to the Christians who rely on Assad for protection.
http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=HN.608011900315176442&w=123&h=184&c=7&rs=1&qlt=90&o=4&pid=1.7
“Tell it to the Christians who rely on Assad for protection.”
Just like the “protection” provided by the mob. They have no other option. It is either support Hezbollah or die at the hands of the Sunnis.
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