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Newspeak in the Time of Obama

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The official position of the Obama State Department is that the Islamic State has absolutely nothing to do with Islam.

Yup, they actually said that.

Now, a person with reason and common sense at his disposal would hear this and say, “But it’s got Islam right in the name, y’daft bint! You can’t spell ‘Islamic State’ without ‘Islam.'”

But you have to remember something about the Obama Administration; these are the same people who tell us that the “Affordable Care Act” makes health care affordable, and that “the border has never been more secure” as illegals pour across it by the tens of thousands.

I guess they figure since they lie, so does everybody else.

 

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  3. Muslims, around the world, are also saying this; being mostly unable to understand the concept of English & the designation that the IS has given itself.
    The agenda, to distract from the high percentage of muslims around that world that fanatics, ripe for detainment & execution.

  7. The Left makes excuses for Islamic killers.
    The Left forgets what Iranian Muslims did to their Communist allies after the revolution was won.
    I’m not saying that there is anything bad about commies getting killed–after all, they would have done the same to the Muslims eventually–but it is funny how the Left keeps thinking that it can use Muslim fanatics without getting burned.

  8. Hey, pst314, it’s working for all the other “oppressed” peoples–blacks, hispanics, gays, women, and who knows who-all else. Maybe if the Leftists repeat it often enough, those poor oppressed ISIS sweethearts will become their friends and supporters.

    Or not.

  9. The US and the West won’t effectively deal with Islamic terrorists until they accept that Islam is indeed part of the problem and is a core motivation for these groups (ISIS has pretty clearly stated they want a caliphate and they are killing non Muslims and who they view as apostate Muslims as they seek this goal).

    It’s okay to say that not all Muslims are motivated to kill this way and not all Muslims want a caliphate but it is super naive or intentionally stupid to pretend like Islam isn’t part of the problem.

  10. And I’ll add that ISIS and similar groups aren’t similar to IRa terrorists where the bombs and fighting hinged more on cultural differences between the Catholics and. Protestants (many combatants weren’t especially religious either way) but more comparable to the Christian infighting during the reformation.

    The problem with ISIS and similar groups is that there doesn’t appear to be room for compromise-there isn’t really a way to put the killing aside and let everyone do their own thing.

  11. Is the Obama Administration any different than the failed massive propaganda effort by the APAs and the ABA during the last fifty years to attribute the neurotic behavior of the 2-3%ers to the general population? Not 10%, not 25-30%, not a majority of the population, 2-3%.

  12. This is straight from Wiki: “A caliphate (in Arabic: خلافة‎ khilāfa, meaning “succession”) is an Islamic state led by a supreme religious and political leader known as a caliph – i.e. “successor” – to Muhammad.”

    ISIS has declared the Caliphate. It is strictly an Islamic thing. Whether the rest of Islam is on board is of little importance. The whole concept of “supreme” is to hold the ultimate power and to control the people, events, history. The caliph is the grand pooh bah.

    If the White House and Department of State wish to challenge how ISIS relates to Islam, then the White House and the Department of State will just have to surround ISIS, pound the crap out of ISIS and go anti-ebola on it to wipe it out in the nursery. That is to say, the White House and Department of State will have to make total war on ISIS.

    Blaming radical Islam on videos, leading from behind, choosing to overthrow controlling dictators, promoting an amorphous Arab Spring, negotiating with radicals who are stalling as they build nuclear weapons seems to be all the more the White House and Department of State will throw at the caliphate.

    Meanwhile, the Great Community Organizer is mouthing Alinsky tactics on brutal murderers as if they can be shamed into submission. The Golfer in Chief has no stomach for any reality he has not created by and for himself.

  15. @ Seane-Anna: Well said. Christianity may have had its roots in violence through the crucifixion of Jesus, but the self-sacrifice of an omnipotent and sinless being stands in sharp contrast to the violent origins of Islam, which made conversion-by-the-sword SOP since day one.

  16. Funny how, since GWB first informed us that Islam is The Religion of Peace, the US Executive branch has been regularly offering theological assessments of a religion for which it has scant standing.

  17. The reason the WH says ISIS (or ISIL, or IS depending on the time of day) isn’t about Islam, is because they kill both Muslims and Christians. They don’t discriminate! /sarc off

  19. I think ISIS (I prefer it that way, with the reference to the Egyptian goddess, although ISIL is more consistent in language–all English) is to Islam as the Westboro Baptist Church is to Christianity. Maybe sorta, kinda related to the overall religion, but so focused on a small aspect that they have distorted the truth of the religion itself.