If Terror Group al-Shabaab Cites Trump in Their Video… So What?

NRO ^ | Jim Geraghty

[RoosterRedux]

Trump offends Muslims? Trump offends a lot of people. There was a time when it was okay to say offensive things in the country, before "Charlie Hebdo," before the President of the United States stood before the United Nations and declared, "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."

Immediately preceding the video's use of Trump is a statement from Anwar al-Awlaki, the American terror leader who was killed in a drone strike in 2011. Do you think drone strikes offend or rile up terrorist groups? Should we stop doing those, too?

In the debate, Hillary Clinton said, "I worry greatly that the rhetoric coming from the Republicans, particularly Donald Trump, is sending a message to Muslims here in the United States and literally around the world that there is a clash of civilizations, that there is some kind of western plot or even war against Islam, which then I believe fans the flames of radicalization."

How can you look at Paris, San Bernardino, or any ISIS video and not think that there is a clash of civilizations, or at least a clash of visions of what civilization must be? On one side, ISIS and al-Qaeda (yes, I know they see each other as rivals); on the other side, the West. Since 9/11, the Muslim world, a billion strong, has split, debated, flipped back and forth, and equivocated.

[RoosterRedux]

Ping

[Fightin Whitey]

Hillary organized or helped organize the jihad takeovers in Benghazi, in Libya at large, in Egypt and Iraq.

Why would it surprise anyone that she is also heading up their recruitment and p.r. operations?

[Gaffer]

Hollary paid them through the Clintoon Foundation to make the video.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

An Islamic radical group considers a US presidential candidate offensive? And this is a problem how? I want a president who frightens and offends Muslim radicals.

It's amazing how low both the Democratic Party and the GOP establishment have fallen in the last 50 years. Reagan Republicans and JFK-era Democrats would have worn the scorn of an Islamic terror group as a badge of honor - but these days, both mainstream Republicans and Democrats act as if offending Muslim radicals is too scary to contemplate.

[ScottinVA]

As the headline says... so what?

Trump offended muslims.. is THAT the intended message? BFD. Offend them some more.

[heartwood]

Trump says Muslims are dangerous.

ISIS says, Muslims! Join us and kill the infidel.

Point proved.

[moovova]

So, I'm guessing I should never buy another Toyota?

[Georgia Girl 2]

When it comes to indignation over Trump tell the Muzzles to get in line behind the MSM and the GOPe. LOL!

[Scrambler Bob]

ISIS knows how to get more views. Maybe go viral.

Donald should charge them.

[Let's Roll]

I’ve always thought it was a compliment and that Trump’s enemies should want to keep it on the downlow instead of calling attention to it. Could it be that the “smartest woman in the world”, isn’t?

[euram]

So, if Hillary or Jeb or anyone else, makes an ad featuring Trump, we should instantly accuse them of following the lead of ISIS or Al Shababb.

[kidd]

Do you think drone strikes offend or rile up terrorist groups? Should we stop doing those, too?

This is an effective counter-statement to the liberal crowd.

[V K Lee]

Assuming this vid-eo was directly from Clinton’s bathroom production company. The same room that housed her hidden server.