Posted on 01/11/2016 5:22:39 AM PST by SJackson
Philadelphia comedian Jim Kenney has a flair for absurdist humor, and his talents were on abundant display Thursday, when a local jihadi, a convert to Islam named Edward Archer, shot and seriously wounded police officer Jesse Hartnett, and then explained: âI follow Allah. I pledge my allegiance to the Islamic state. That is why I did what I did.â Kenneyâs response was as dazzling a sendup of the willful ignorance of todayâs public officials as youâll ever see.
Pretending to be the Mayor of Philadelphia, Kenney, one of the most daring and imaginative comedians on the scene today, said this after showing a surveillance video of Archer garbed in Islamic dress and shooting at Hartnett: âIn no way shape or form does anyone in this room believe that Islam or the teaching of Islam has anything to do with what youâve seen on the screenâ¦.It is abhorrent. It is terrible and it does not represent the religion or any of its teachings. This is a criminal with a stolen gun who tried to kill one of our officers. It has nothing to do with being a Muslim or following the Islamic faith.â
Brilliant! Kenney had the audience laughing, clapping and howling for more with his poker-faced impersonation of an intentionally clueless contemporary public official. His performance recalled some of the career highlights of Barack Obama, John Kerry, and their British colleague in comedy, David Cameron, such as Obamaâs classifying the Fort Hood jihad massacre as âworkplace violenceâ and Kerryâs suggesting that all jihadis needed to discard their romantic dreams of being a modern-day warrior for Allah would be a chance to say âWould you like fries with that?â
Kenney, however, went them one better by issuing his risible claims even in the face of Archerâs own claims about why he shot Hartnett, as well as Police Commissioner Richard Rossâ statement about Archer: âAccording to him, police bend laws that are contrary to the teachings of the Qurâan.â
Contrary to the teachings of the Qurâan? How could that possibly have anything to do with Islam? Clearly Kenney has a bright future on the comedy circuit.
Thereâs just one catch: Jim Kenney really is the Mayor of Philadelphia. His statements represent the official position of his administration: that despite Edward Archerâs explicit avowals to have acted in the name of Allah and Islam, he wasnât really doing so. He just thought he was.
Poor Archer! What does he have to do to get taken seriously as a jihadi? If shooting a police officer multiple times and pledging allegiance to the Islamic State, which has called on Muslims in the U.S. to attack police officers, wonât do it, what will? Would it help if he had passed out Qurâans on the morning of his shooting, told a neighbor that he was going to do something great for God, and screamed âAllahu akbarâ as he was firing? No, Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan did that as he murdered thirteen Americans in Fort Hood on November 5, 2009, and that one, as we have seen, was âworkplace violence.â How about if he said, as Boston Marathon jihad murderer Dzokhar Tsarnaev did, that he and his brother cooked up the entire jihad mass murder plot to âdefend Islamâ? No, everyone knows that one happened because Americans werenât friendly enough to the immigrant brothers. How about if he had been reading literature by jihad mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki and spoke about Islamic martyrdom, like Chattanooga jihad murderer Mohammed Abdulazeez? No, that one has proved a real head-scratcher, with authorities puzzled as to the motives for months.
So what could Archer possibly have done? Trying to think of anything he could have said or done to convince Jim Kenney that he was acting in the name of Islam and in accord with its teachings of warfare against unbelievers simply beggars the imagination. For the Jim Kenneys of the world are simply certain that people just do not do such things, despite any amount of evidence to the contrary. For Kenney and his ilk, Muslims are victims, no matter what. They are never at fault, no matter what they do, and in the unlikely event that they commit an act of violence, it was because they were mentally ill, or pushed over the edge by âIslamophobiaâ and the unkindness of white Americans.
Jim Kenney and others like him donât need the facts of any particular case to arrive at this conclusion. They know it already, and could have a form handy: âThe terror attack on [date] at [place] had nothing whatsoever to do with Islam, the noble religion of peace. We call upon all people to reject racism, bigotry and Islamophobia, and we stand with the Muslim community in condemning backlash attacks against innocent Muslims during this difficult period.â
FDR could have used one of these forms in 1942 or 1943: âThe military attack on [date] at [place] had nothing whatsoever to do with Germany, the noble nation of Central Europe. We call upon all people to reject racism, bigotry and Germanophobia, and we stand with the German community in condemning backlash attacks against innocent Germans during this difficult period.â
If the President had had such forms during World War II, would the United States have won the war? Probably not. And the denial today makes it harder for us to win this one: instead of calling the Muslim community in the U.S. to account and making sure that jihadis are not operating within it, officials pander to it and deny the stated motive of our enemies, and thus condemn us to ignorance about the motives and goals of those enemies at a time when they are more active than ever.
Jim Kenney is not concerned about any of that. He doesnât even think weâre in a war, so why should he care if weâre waging it all wrong? And if the voters of Philadelphia ever catch on to how theyâre being lied to and throw him out of office, heâs got a great career ahead in standup comedy.
No one expects the Islamic Inquisition ?
Yes, the Dead Parrot sketch!
By his own words, the Philly mayor has shown he is just as much an enemy as Islam.
And he should be treated as such when we actively react.
It is far past time to make these idiots chose their words wisely.
An enemy is an enemy.
And liberals are the enemy.
The mayor is on his kneepads in front of moozlums. What a complete fool.
....he’s not dead...he’s PINING......
:-)
Kenny’s jizya tax must have been due.
Oh No, He Didn't !@*
The mayor sounded like Baghdad Bob in his ridiculous democrat propaganda statement. How would you like to get up each day knowing it just might be your job today to make yourself look so ridiculous and idiotic covering up motives of islamic men in murder to hide the treason of your party in importing these type of men by the thousands?
He wants people to believe him, not their own lying eyes. Perhaps someone has threatened him. Someone who works for Barack Hussein, or Barack Hussein himself.
Only Philly (were 70% of the people vote and of those, 110% of them vote democrat) could elect Baghdad Bob as the mayor.
“Oh yeah, that shooting the other day. Did you hear about that? Everyone is out there blaming Allah. How could that be when it was the gun’s fault and we all know a gun has no religion!!! I love this crowd!!! Don’t forget to tip your waiters folks!!”
bump
Amazing how once they are elected to office, Democrats become experts on the Koran.
Perhaps the idiot mayor could have a debate with him on live TV.
Is there any way the local voters can recall this idiot???
For his next act, Kinney will have the precincts in Philly routinely delivering more votes than the number of registered voters in November.
Yes I did. No you didn’t I did too. You did not.
Did too.
The last Ig Nobel Peace Prize was in 2013:
PEACE PRIZE: Alexander Lukashenko, president of Belarus, for making it illegal to applaud in public, AND to the Belarus State Police, for arresting a one-armed man for applauding.
— http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/
No hate crime here. MoveOn.org. /s
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