Hillary: Muslims 'Have Nothing Whatsoever To Do With Terrorism'

Townhall.com ^ | November 20, 2015 | Guy Benson

[Kaslin]

Behold, the woman who shall soon be crowned Queen of the endlessly self-righteous and self-congratulatory "Reality Based Community:"

"Let's be clear: Islam is not our adversary. Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism." Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 19, 2015

This is pure claptrap. Everyone understands that the West is not at war with Islam broadly, and that an overwhelming percentage of Muslims reject violent extremism.  It's been beaten into our heads by politicians of all stripes since 9/11, and we're generally bright enough to draw the relevant distinction: "These Muslims over here are just peaceful, faithful people living their lives, whereas those Muslims over there are radical and seek to impose a toxic strain of their faith via terror and violence. We have no quarrel with the former group, which thankfully represents the large majority; the latter group must be confronted and defeated."  This dynamic isn't hard.  It can be quickly and easily explained, yet we are constantly bombarded with dumb, sanitized denialism like Hillary's second sentence above. Instead of treating us like adults, we're infantilized.  And to what end?  Muslims are peaceful and tolerant, we're instructed, and they have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.  This last bit is insultingly preposterous.  Some Muslims have quite a lot to do with terrorism, actually.  Like the ones who were led by their hardcore theology to kill 3,000 people on 9/11.  Or blow up trains in Spain.  Or target London's public transit system with bombs.  Or slaughter students at a Kenyan university.  Or Devastate a nightclub in Indonesia.  Or shoot up a shopping mall in Nairobi.  Or lay siege to a hotel in Mumbai.  Or terrorize Nigerian schoolgirls. Or, you know, take hostages in Mali. I could go on for some time.  But those aren't real Muslims, our Thought Leaders inform us.  Islamists loudly beg to differ -- and wouldn't they know a lot more about their motives and religious teachings than Western purveyors of bumper sticker feel-goodery? Try this: Ask someone who's convinced jihadists shouldn't be considered Muslims whether or not Osama bin Laden's corpse should have been discarded with no regard for Islamic traditions.  Or whether the terrorists at Gitmo should be deprived of prayer mats, or Halal meals, or Korans.  Maybe some enterprising reporter will ask Hillary these questions someday.  In any case, the "nothing to do with terrorism" line is plainly nonsense.  The more difficult part is the "peaceful and tolerant" phrase.  It's absolutely true that a huge preponderance of Muslims worldwide abhor and reject religious violence.  But as I explored in a piece after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, there is a worrisomely sizable strain of abject illiberalism that runs through mainstream Islam. Data from Pew, a respected global pollster, gathered two years ago:


Shall we count the 86 percent of Egyptian Muslims, or 62 percent of Malaysian Muslims, or the 17 percent of Turkish Muslims who believe leaving Islam is punishable by death among the "tolerant"?  Do the millions of Muslims who express support for suicide bombings against civilians "in defense of Islam" qualify as "peaceful"?   Or mustn't we ask such questions when there's a vapid slogan to be spouted, or a politically-correct tweet to be disseminated?   The concern, of course, is that leaders who are unable or unwilling to comprehend and properly identify a threat will be ineffective in neutralizing it.  Hillary's defenders will say that President Bush also refrained from directly naming the enemy.  True, but the current administration of which Mrs. Clinton was a part has taken euphemism-deployment to another level.  More disconcerting is the increasing evidence that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have no earthy idea how to achieve victory over threats that gravely imperil America and her interests.  Consider this anti-ISIS  "plan" touted by Clinton's campaign chairman:

Hillary's strategy to defeat Isis: ?Defeat Isis in Syria & Iraq ?Disrupt & dismantle terrorist infrastructure ?Harden our defenses John Podesta (@johnpodesta) November 19, 2015

Step one in Hillary's plan to defeat ISIS is: "Defeat ISIS." It's even got a check mark next to it. Say, what would happen if ISIS launched a successful terrorist attack on US soil, as they clearly want and intend to do? Would she deploy American forces to fight them on the ground in Iraq and Syria (just where her "plan" calls for them to be "defeated")?  Apparently not:

Hillary Clinton: "A Mistake" to Send Troops if ISIS Attacks U.S. Homeland

So even if ISIS infiltrated the United States and carried off a sophisticated, deadly attack, it would be a "mistake" to send American soldiers to go fight them.  This from the woman who voted yes on Afghanistan and Iraq.  If that's the case, at what point and for what reason would "boots on the ground" be justified, anywhere in the world?  Her political answer, for the moment, appears to be 'never.'  She does have a Democratic primary to win, after all, and the electorate is still war weary (although less so than she may suspect; our would-be Commander in Chief's answer may change once she sees more polling).  But wait, didn't she just endorse American boots on the ground against ISIS, in an abrupt about-face from her recently-stated opposition?  Why yes, she did -- when Obama left her no choice.  To recap, this woman -- whose plan to defeat ISIS entails "defeating ISIS" -- is against boots on the ground to, uh, defeat ISIS, even in response to a catastrophic terrorist attack in America.  Except actually she's for some boots on the ground, just not a lot of them, even though she was against those, too, just a little while ago.  And what she really wants you to know is that Muslims had "nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism." I'm Hillary Clinton. I engineered Obama's foreign policy. Now make me president.

[austingirl]

Repeating the lie does not make it true, Shrillary.

[AmericanInTokyo]

She’s right! 100%. But not in the way she meant it. Hear her words again.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

[FlingWingFlyer]

Just a bunch of good old boys out barhopping who say, "Let's go kills some Americans", right Hillary?

Dumbsh*t.

[immadashell]

Liberals have nothing whatever to do with sanity.

[MeganC]

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[Dilbert San Diego]

but then why do these same liberals lambast all of Christianity when a Christian shoots an abortion doctor?? The liberals were all over that case and blamed Christians and Christian theology for that.

So if a deranged Christian does something, liberals are ok wtih condemning Christainity, but when Muslims do anything, we need to split hairs and make sure we make sophomoric statements about how Islam is not to blame for any actions by the Muslims. This is how liberals view the world.

That great liberal icon, Rosie O’Donnell, once said that “radical Christianity” is an equal threat to the threat of radical Islam.

[Jim W N]

Hillary, the Muslims have as much to do with terrorism as you do with tyranny. Terrorism and tyranny go together like peas and carrots, do of course you support these people and deny their terrorism just like you deny that your violation of your oath of office to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution is tyranny.

[NRx]

If prevarication were a virtue, she would be a saint.

[BitWielder1]

But somehow a school shooting by one crazy idiot has everything to do with all white male Christians and their NRA gun culture?

[bray]

But if one drug addicted shooter has a Confederate flag on his Facebook the entire South is guilty.

Pray America wakes

[maine-iac7]

Whew. Glad to know that - no more worries - s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUDoog0noxY

[rjsimmon]

and that an overwhelming percentage of Muslims reject violent extremism

Incorrect premise. What the overwhelming percentage of Moslems reject or accept is a public mystery. What they want is patently obvious and codified within the pages of the Koran. Were they true to their faith, no civilized person could abide their living within the First World. They simply are waiting for their cancer to metastasize and spread. Already their disease is presenting on the surface and in areas that cannot be covered by a veil.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

What a dumbass fool!!!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Any other candidate would be D-E-A-D after saying that.

But not a Clinton. They are bound and determined to find some way of dragging her sorry carcass across the finish line.

[PeterPrinciple]

She isn’t reading the reports either. I have posted this link a few times now.

http://researchseniors.wikispaces.com/file/view/Islam+Advocates+Suicide+Terrorism.pdf

[Jack Hydrazine]

B’hai maybe?

[baddog 219]

Brain dead Bitch...

[struggle]

Lol, keep that one for the campaign ads.