Posted on 10/28/2019 8:45:50 AM PDT by SJackson
Just in time for Halloween, one of the most famous undead people in the world, the Islamic State (ISIS) caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been reported dead yet again, and this time it actually appears to be true. President Trump announced the news in an address on Sunday morning, and predictably, the Left is now furious. Any enemy of Trump is a friend of theirs, and suddenly Leftists are deeply concerned about Trump’s affronts to the dignity of the fallen leader.
Trump said of al-Baghdadi that the United States had “brought the world’s number one terrorist leader to justice.” Al-Baghdadi, according to Trump, fled his pursuers and finally blew himself up in a jihad suicide bombing. Said Trump: “He was a sick and depraved man, and now he’s gone. He died like a dog, he died like a coward.” He died “crying, whimpering and screaming.”
Barack Obama’s former Ambassador to Qatar, Dana Shell Smith, was furious – not at the man who had committed mass murder of innumerable innocent civilians, and had sanctioned the seizure of non-Muslim women and their use at sex slaves, but at the man who oversaw his killing. She tweeted: “This gruesome, vivid and probably exaggerated description of dogs chasing down Baghdadi will endanger our personnel in the region. When bin Laden was killed, we were careful to be clear that he had been given a proper Muslim burial. Not because we gave a damn about him but because it was important for our relationships in the region and safety of our military and diplomats.”
In reality, that was totally incoherent. On the one hand, Obama was insisting that jihad terrorists had nothing whatsoever to do with the peaceful religion of Islam, and then he turned around and gave one of the world’s leading Islamic jihadists a respectful Muslim burial. This didn’t gain the US any respect or save any lives; it just made us look ridiculous.
Does Dana Shell Smith actually think that some of the jihadis in the Middle East will think, “Well, I was going to go easy on the Americans, but now that they have shown al-Baghdadi disrespect, I will crush them”? They were already trying to kill Americans, and will keep trying. In reality, it is the exaggerated respect shown to those who have vowed to destroy us that makes jihadis see us as weak and ripe for the taking. The only thing they respect is strength, and the only thing Obama and Dana Shell Smith projected was weakness.
The establishment media reaction was even worse. The Washington Post headlined its story about the killing as if Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was one of their favored anti-Trump intellectuals, dead at a tragically young age: “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48.” Bloomberg wrote that “Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi transformed himself from a little-known teacher of Koranic recitation into the self-proclaimed ruler of an entity that covered swaths of Syria and Iraq.”
The respect! The deference! The admiration! Imagine what the Washington Post and Bloomberg will say when Trump dies. There is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that the headlines will be scathing, not remotely as adulatory as they are for the caliph. And imagine if a prominent foe of jihad terror died, and the Washington Post was writing about his death. Imagine that this individual had never called for or condoned any violence, much less terrorism, and had stood all his life for the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, and the equality of rights of all people before the law. And he wrote about how Islamic jihadis used the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and oppression. Do you think the Washington Post would headline his obituary in such a respectful manner?
Of course they wouldn’t. They would headline their story, “Far-Right Islamophobic Extremist Dies” or some such. If such a person were murdered, they would suggest in their story that he brought it on himself with his “extremist” rhetoric.
But al-Baghdadi, a mass murderer, enslaver of Infidel women, villain of history? An “austere religious scholar.” That’s where we are today.
Also, it’s likely that the Post’s propaganda masters were unhappy with this headline for implying a negative view of Islam. Al-Baghdadi, a twister and hijacker of the true, peaceful Islam, a “religious scholar”? Actually, it was accurate: he had a PhD in Islamic theology. But that fact doesn’t fit the narrative, and so must be deep-sixed.
Anyway, the reaction on the Left to al-Baghdadi’s death is telling, but it is more for their having to deal with yet another success of a President they’re determined to destroy than for any actual love for al-Baghdadi. Then again, the “austere religious scholar” did hate America as much as they do. Maybe behind all the self-righteous indignation over Trump’s rhetoric, there is some real grief.
Bammy must be mad. He knew islamic state was growing and did nothing.
al-Baghdadi, a mass murderer, enslaver of Infidel women, villain of history? An “austere religious scholar.” That’s where we are today.
Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, also called on the president to show more strength in the aftermath of the execution of American hostage Kayla Mueller.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of Kayla Mueller who was murdered by radical Islamists,” Sekulow said in a statement.
“President Obama’s response is woefully inadequate. His pledge to ‘bring to justice’ the terrorists who are responsible for Kayla’s captivity and death is misplaced and misguided.”
“President Obama needs to understand that battling ISIS is not confined to a courtroom - but instead, requires a well-coordinated and aggressive strategy to pursue and destroy the radical jihadists,” he added.
“Mr. President, stop telling America we will bring these terrorists to justice,” Sekulow said. “Mr. President, it’s time to confront and destroy the enemy, not take them to court.”
https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2015/February/President-Says-Media-Overstating-Terror-Risk
This fact is being avoided reported as media portrays Moslem cleric was following God’s command beheading unbelievers heads off is a saint....
FLASHBACK: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Was Held at US Prison Camp Bucca in 2009 Until Obama Let Him Go The Obama administration shut down the Bucca prison camp and released its prisoners, including Abu Dua in 2009.
GP ^ | October 27, 2019 | JIM Hoft Posted on 10/27/2019 8:44:55 AM PDT by mplc51
Hussein was raised in a Muslim county. He no doubt knows that Osama and Al-Baghdadi ARE true representatives of Islam.
Claiming they weren't was just part o keeping the American people in the dark as along as possible.
I find it interesting that Baghdadi chose to use suicide as a way to get out of having to go the way of Saddam. Both missed their virgins by not being killed by the infidels so their actions of murder and terror that got them killed actually amounted to nothing for them they didn’t have on earth. And it should be advertised that way that doing acts like this amount to nothing except their forever trip to pain and torture. There is no positivity to it for anyone in the end.
So it actually accomplishes nothing on earth for the thousands of members of the top 300 terrorist groups that actually accomplished attacks in the world last year and the top 130 of those attacks that constituted deaths within them. Many the members themselves.
rwood
That’s because the Leftist coalition is united solely by what they hate, not by what they love.
Actually, she lied... If I recall correctly, the reason we buried Obama Bin Laden at sea was because the military didn’t want any body or burial site (or even pictures) that Al Queda could rally around and use as propaganda.
It was not so much out of “respect” for Bin Laden.
Anybody have the same recollection?
Fortunately he blew himself to bits, or the Democrats would probably have tried to put him in the Capital Rotunda.
That’s my recollection. Neither died at sea. Body could have been left, or given to a third party. We’d have two new shrines to terror.
These facts are being avoided when MSM reports and media portrays Moslem cleric as a saint. Those facts are; He was following their book of God’s commands one of whichs orders beheading unbelievers and chopping their heads off. So by US stopping him and he dies when doing so. That makes him a hero and a saint. . Even the Pope thinks when dealing with moslems it’s OK he’s never says anything about what’s in that book and some claim even kissed their book and praises them because they believe in the same God..
No, Smith, you sniveling twit. It will cause fear in our enemies at how strong and forceful we are. They will run from us like dogs (with our dogs chasing them!)...
“OBL should have been dumped in the sea after being properly mutilated. “Proper Muslim burial’ my behind.”
I live in one of the largest pork producing areas in the world. I could name a dozen farmers who would have been honored to host a proper service, after skipping a feeding or two so the hogs were good and hungry.
Wish you all had been invited to the sea-dumping.
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