Posted on 12/07/2015 3:56:22 AM PST by markomalley
The “millions of patriotic Muslim-Americans who reject their hateful ideology” are not doing anything to counter it. There is no program in any mosque or Islamic school in the U.S. teaching young Muslims why they should reject the understanding of Islam that the Islamic State propagates. Obama’s solicitude for these patriotic Muslim-Americans rules out any possibility of understanding the ideology, motives and goals of the jihad terrorists — and that in turn rules out any possibility of defeating them.
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“FULL SPEECH: Obama says ‘Freedom is more powerful than fear,’” PBS, December 6, 2015:
…Here’s what else we cannot do. We cannot turn against one another by letting this fight be defined as a war between America and Islam. That, too, is what groups like ISIL want.
ISIL does not speak for Islam. They are thugs and killers, part of a cult of death. And they account for a tiny fraction of a more than a billion Muslims around the world, including millions of patriotic Muslim-Americans who reject their hateful ideology.
Moreover, the vast majority of terrorist victims around the world are Muslim.
If we’re to succeed in defeating terrorism, we must enlist Muslim communities as some of our strongest allies, rather than push them away through suspicion and hate.
That does not mean denying the fact that an extremist ideology has spread within some Muslim communities. It’s a real problem that Muslims must confront without excuse.
Muslim leaders here and around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like ISIL and Al Qaeda promote, to speak out against not just acts of violence, but also those interpretations of Islam that are incompatible with the values of religious tolerance, mutual respect, and human dignity.
But just as it is the responsibility of Muslims around the world to root out misguided ideas that lead to radicalization, it is the responsibility of all Americans, of every faith, to reject discrimination. It is our responsibility to reject religious tests on who we admit into this country. It’s our responsibility to reject proposals that Muslim-Americans should somehow be treated differently. Because when we travel down that road, we lose. That kind of divisiveness, that betrayal of our values plays into the hands of groups like ISIL.
Muslim-Americans are our friends and our neighbors, our co- workers, our sports heroes. And, yes, they are our men and women in uniform who are willing to die in defense of our country. We have to remember that….
No mozlums in the USA
BS.
Robert Spencer is late to this fight?
Have you been living under a rock?
I have been reading and listening to Robert Spencer for at least 10-12 years and I can assure you. “Late to the fight”
is not the phrase to describe him.
More than that, they have to actively engage in the fight. Being neutral is not enough.
AMEN
And just as soon as I see a major effort by Muslims to rewrite portions of the Koran I will start to believe him.
The aged 1960s campus radical, psycho spoiled brats and their ideological issue today occupying buildings on campus Beltway, and the MSM employees are the ones lumping everything together.. if you oppose Islamism you hate Muslims, if you oppose ILLEGAL immigration you hate immigrants, . . . .
I have oft-posted images and news stories of millions of Turkish citizens opposed to Islamism and Sharia Law.. why don't the psycho spoiled brats occupying buildings in Washington, D.C. condemn them.. well actually BO supports his pal Islamist Erdogan. So I guess he does condemn them.
And just as soon as I see a major effort by Muslims to rewrite portions of the Koran I will start to believe him.
You misjudge Robert Spencer. Along with Pamela Geller, he is one of the original speakers/writers to warn us of the contemporary threat from Islam. He was perhaps one of the earliest proponents of vigilance against resurgent Islam. His web site is jihadwatch.org.
Islam is not compatible with our Constitution or our form of government. So why would they want to come to the United States except to “fundamentally transform the United States of America” as our muslim president is trying to do!
... because if it is, we might actually treat it as a war, and America might win.
To the title.
POtuS is right.
It’s a fight between modern civilization and Islam.
There is ONE Koran.
There are over 1 Billion Moslems.
Even if only 10% are so-called radical extremist jihadis, that's over 100 Million!!
Who's going to find and then separate those 100 Million from the over 1 Billion?
“We can’t let “this fight be defined as a war between America and Islam”
That’s not his choice to make. Isis has decided that this a war between Islam and the US.
We didn’t define it. They did. All terrorists are Islam followers.
Precisely.
As is usual fare, Obama reads from his teleprompter that there are millions of law abiding and peace loving Muslims in the USA without any facts to back up the statement.
How many mosques have an active program to teach young men and women that killing Christians and Jews for the sake of the Koran is wrong?
How many Muslims alert the police regarding suspicious activity among their ilk?
How many radical imams are removed from the mosques for preaching hatred?
Obama has no facts to back up his statement that Muslims are peace loving and thus Obama’s comments need to be ignored.
We are not defining it that way; they are.
Right-It’s a war between civilization and Islam.
Fixed it :)
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