Obama and the Definition of ‘Islamic’

obamaOriginally published by the Jerusalem Post

In his speech on September 11 announcing that the US would commence limited operations against Islamic State, US President Barack Obama insisted, “ISIL, [i.e. Islamic State] is not Islamic. No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL’s victims have been Muslim.”

To be sure, it is hard to see how any human faith can countenance IS’s actions. For the past several months, on a daily basis, new videos appear of IS fighters proudly, openly and wantonly committing crimes against humanity. This week for instance, a video emerged of an IS slave market in Raqqah, Syria, where women and girls are sold as sex slaves to IS fighters.

Despite the glaring contradiction between divinity and monstrosity, the fact is that IS justifies every single one of its atrocities with verses from the Koran.

IS referred to its sex slave market in Raqqah for instance as the “Booty Market… for what your right hands possess.”

The phrase “what your right hands possess” is a Koranic verse (4:3) that permits the sexual enslavement of women and girls by Muslim men.

Whether it is mainstream Islamic jurisprudence or not to embrace the enslavement of women and girls as concubines is not a question that Obama – or any US leader for that matter – is equipped to answer. And yet, Obama spoke with absolute certainty when he claimed that IS is not Islamic.

Obama speaks with similar conviction whenever he refers to Iran as “The Islamic Republic of Iran.”

Obama’s consistent deference to the Iranian regime, exposed by his studious use of the regime’s name for itself whenever he discusses Iran indicates that at a minimum, he is willing to accept the regime’s claim that it is an Islamic regime. In other words, he is willing to accept that everything about the Iranian regime is authentic Islam.

And that the Islamic Republic then, in keeping with his assertion that “no religion condones the killing of innocents,” similarly does not condone the killing of innocents.

Of course, there is a problem here. In fact, there are two problems here.

First, in its treatment of its own people, the Iranian regime condones and actively engages in the killing of innocents, the vast majority of whom are Muslims. The Islamic regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran invokes the Koran to justify its killing.

Likewise, the political imprisonment, torture and general repression of Iranians from all faiths are justified in the name of Islam.

Consider two recent examples.

On October 25, 27-year-old Reyhaneh Jabbari was hanged for allegedly killing a man who was trying to rape her. Jabbari was imprisoned for seven years prior to her execution.

Although her suffering was a cause celebre for advocates of human rights in Iran, the regime didn’t care. In contempt of the international community, it murdered her a week ago.

As her attorney Mohammed Mostataei explained at a conference held by UN Watch in Geneva last week, Jabbari was tried under Islamic law – the law of the land in the Islamic Republic of Iran. And under Islamic sharia law, intent in adjudication of criminal offenses is irrelevant. As a consequence, once regime inquisitors force a person to confess, he or she is doomed.

Forced confessions are the stock in trade for Iranian investigators.

Last month, 25 women in Isfahan, Iran’s tourist capital, were reportedly victims of acid attacks.

The women had acid thrown in their faces while they were driving in their cars.

The public immediately suspected that they were targeted because their faces were not covered sufficiently to satisfy Islamic goon squads that drive around the city seeking – with the tacit if not open support of the regime – to terrorize the public into obeying their repressive, inhumane interpretation of Islam.

On October 22, human rights activists in Iran held demonstrations against the acid attacks outside the judiciary building in Isfahan and outside the Iranian parliament in Tehran. In both instances, protesters insisted that there is no difference between the repression inherent in the radical Islam propagated by IS and that practiced by the Iranian regime.

In both cities, demonstrators were attacked by regime forces with tear gas. Many were arrested.

After the acid attacks were first reported, the Iranian parliament passed measures to strengthen the authority of the regime’s Basij shock troop squads to enforce repressive, misogynist Islamic dress codes on women and enforce other socially repressive aspects of the regime’s Islam.

As Baron Alexander Carile of Barriew, a member of the British House of Lords and expert on terrorism explained last Friday in The Washington Times, “In essence, the regime responded to the acid attacks that have seriously injured 25 people so far by legitimizing the motives of their attackers.”

According to the UN, Iran executed 852 Iranians for various offenses from July 2013 through June 2014.

This of course is just the tip of the iceberg. The vast majority of the regime’s killing is carried out by its proxies.

IS’s persecution of those who have had the misfortune to fall under its control is a blight on the human race. And so is the persecution committed by Iran’s puppets – the Assad regime in Syria, and its Lebanese terror army Hezbollah.

Since the Syrian civil war began three years ago, the Iranian-controlled regime has killed somewhere between 120,000 and 200,000 people.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, nearly 10,000 of the dead are children, another 6,000 are women. Other groups place the number much higher.

More than 2.14 million Syrians are now refugees in neighboring countries. Half of the refugees are children. Another 4.25 million Syrians are internally displaced.

If it hadn’t been for Iran’s support for the regime, the vast majority of the victims of Syria’s civil war would still be alive and living in their homes.

Thanks to Iran and its Hezbollah army, Lebanon is on the brink of sharing Syria’s fate.

Hezbollah has played a major role in the war in Syria, and over the years, with Iran’s total backing, it has murdered thousands of people in Lebanon, Israel and throughout the world.

Hezbollah has trained sister Iranian supported or commanded terrorist groups like Islamic Jihad and Hamas. With the blessing, and often acting on direct orders from the Islamic Republic, these groups have killed hundreds of innocents. Like Hezbollah, Assad and the mullahs in Tehran, they have also repressed their own people in the name of their Islamic devotion.

And this brings us back to Obama and his insistence that IS is not Islamic, but the Iranian regime is Islamic. How are we to understand this seeming anomaly? Throughout his tenure in office, Obama has gone out of his way to mainstream Muslim extremists.

This has taken the form of granting senior appointments to people aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood. For instance, amid a Congressional investigation into suspected leaks, Mohamed Elibiary, a senior fellow at the US Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council, resigned his position.

Just before his resignation, Elibiary tweeted that the rise of the caliphate is “inevitable.” In 2004 he spoke at a conference in Dallas celebrating the legacy of Iranian dictator Ayatollah Khomeini. As Robert Spencer has reported, the conference was titled, “A Tribute to a Great Islamic Visionary.”

Moreover, Obama had befriended radical Islamic leaders who openly support terrorism, including Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.

And of course, as we see more and more clearly each day, the centerpiece of Obama’s foreign policy has been appeasing the Islamic Republic of Iran in the hope of achieving détente with the nuclear weapons pursuing state sponsor of terrorism.

The likes of IS, with its love of the video camera, discredit Obama’s narrative that radical, terror- supporting Muslims are peaceful. Since IS is openly evil, it is un-Islamic.

On the other hand, despite the fact that it is nearly as barbaric as IS, the Iranian regime is Islamic, because as far as Obama is concerned, it is good. And it is good because he wants to make a deal with the mullahs.

In other words, Obama is neither an expert on Islam, nor a man moved by moral indignation.

He opposes IS because IS makes it hard for him to defend Islam from bad public relations. And he coos about the “Islamic Republic of Iran” because he is dedicated to his mission of whitewashing and mainstreaming the regime born of an Islamic revolution.

  • Joycey

    Obama is a closet Muslim using taqyyia.

  • sandraleesmith46

    O is just backing and defending his Muslim brothers, and not appeasing Iran with intent to stop thei nuke program, so much as seeking to deceive Americans long enough to allow the Iranians’ successful development, with Russian assistance.

  • kafir4life

    President Chicken**** is garbage.

  • Hank Rearden

    Keep blowing the trumpet Caroline. We can’t see the way through yet, with a man as president who hates the country and loves the depraved death cult of Islam that was founded by a psychopath. Obama lives in some dream world where he doesn’t believe among other things that these Middle Eastern fanatics hate black people and that his neck would be the first to feel the knife if they were ever in charge.
    Obama grew up in the Land of Leftism, a land of delusions, violence, and hatred for the do-ers of the world. That is what America is. The MSM likes to refer to us as a “rich country.” That isn’t it at all. We are a land of do-ers. The do-nots hate us for showing them up. And Obama is their avatar.

  • http://johnnyangeladvocacygroup.net JohnnyAngel Advocacy Group

    Simply ….Obama makes us sick !!

  • SoCalMike

    How many Republicans actually get their brain around any or some of this?

    • Space Cowboy

      Zero. The truth is Republicans are as blind and mentally incompetent where Islam is concerned as the Dhimmicrats.

      • NSNZ

        If you’re counting on Branson, of the ‘Sir’ kind, for escape from this earthly crap, just might take awhile longer SC.. Our ONLY option?

        • Space Cowboy

          Help me out. I’m not quite sure I get what you are saying. Help me refresh my mind.

          • NSNZ

            Real Space Cowboys are sticking with Richard Branson despite temporary US $500m glitch, landing in the Mojave desert (with apologies for taking you literally;)

    • billobillo54

      Few: some examples who get some of it or a lot: Michelle BACHMAN….Louie Golmert…..Tom Rooney….all attacked by the Republican Party for their (i.e. BACHMAN, Golmert and Rooney’s) understanding of the Islamic jihad. Also, research Michelle Bachman’s resolution to declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. She has a few co sponsors. All Republican. They get it.

  • DontMessWithAmerica

    If America does not eventually try and convict Obama as a traitor, then America will have lost all credibility as a civilized nation.

    • A Disqus User

      In the 1960′s “Anti-racists” forced EVERY & ONLY white countries to open their borders to massive non-white immigration.

      Then “Anti-racists” FORCED ALL & ONLY white people to “integrate” or face consequences for being “intolerant”.

      Now “Anti-racists” are calculating that ALL and ONLY white children will become minorities and eventually EXTINCT!

      If “Anti-racists” did this to EVERY & ONLY black countries, IT WOULD be called a GENOCIDE!

      Anti-racist is a >code< for anti-White

    • Earthling

      It already has just as the UK has.

  • Space Cowboy

    The fatal flaw in the administration’s strategy of mainstreaming radical political Islam.

    Nonsense! Obama isn’t mainstreaming so-called radical political Islam since like so-called moderate Islam it doesn’t exists. There is only one Islam because there can only be one Islam. Indeed, since the texts contained in the Koran are universally considered by all Muslims to emanate directly from Allah as dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel, that text is considered to be divine, absolutely flawless, and perfectly just by all Muslims.

    Furthermore because that texts is divine, absolutely flawless, and perfectly just, as far as all Muslims are concerned it can only be understood and taken in its most literal sense possible.

    Meanwhile, if just one single word of that holy divine text is altered in any way, shape, or form, the person responsible for such outrageous blasphemy will be instantly executed. This is also one of the many reasons why reforming Islam is absolutely impossible.

    Thus, even though there are several sects of Islam and several major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Islam, the reality is that they all fully 100 percent agree on all the major substantial issues and it is only on some minor issues such as on marriage and divorce where they slightly differ.

    Hence, the existence of so-called radical Islam, just like the existence of so-called moderate Islam, are fantasy based politically correct myths created by PC multiculturalists to explain away why Muslims don’t behave in accordance with the way they are propagandized by them as behaving,

    The fact of the matter is there is only one Islam, mainstream orthodox Islam, because there can only be one Islam, and the sole fundamental purpose of mainstream orthodox Islam is the conversion or death to Islam of all infidels in the world through jihad, which is a so-called holy war waged universally by all Muslims, and through the eventual imposition of Sharia, which is draconian Islamic totalitarian law, to ultimately make Islam and its followers supreme throughout the world.

    Anything that suggest otherwise is PC multicultural propaganda!

    As a matter of fact, according to the Doctrine of Abrogation, which is universally accepted throughout Islamic totalitarian society, all the earlier issued peaceful verses of the Koran and the same verses of the Koran that at one time made Islam a religion, have all been abrogated by the latter issued infamous sword verses of the Koran in which they conflict with and that were also some of the very last verses of the Koran issued by Muhammad shortly before he died.

    Indeed, the Doctrine of Abrogation holds that when two verses of the Koran contradict each other and hence conflict, the latter issued verse of the Koran abrogates, i.e., supersedes and replaces, the earlier issued verse of the Koran it conflicts with.

    Hence, since all the earlier issued peaceful verses of the Koran and the same verses of the Koran that at one time made Islam a religion are no longer applicable because they have all been abrogated by the latter issued infamous sword verses of the Koran in which they conflict with and that also commands ALL MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD to wage jihad against ALL INFIDELS IN THE WORLD to ultimately make Islam and its followers supreme throughout the world, then it couldn’t be more obvious that Islam is not a so-called religion, but something else masquerading as being a religion to dupe its intended victims.

    And that something else is a very rabid and draconian form of totalitarianism. As the first and foremost prerequisite of Islam is the total, complete, and unconditional “submission” of all Muslims to the “will of Allah”, which in essence is draconian Islamic totalitarian law, under the penalties of death for apostasy and death for blasphemy.

    Therefore, since there is no freedom of conscience for Muslims to choose between adherence and apostasy and to choose between adherence to the tenets of Islam or blasphemy, then it is obvious that Islam more than it is just a so-called religion, is also a very rabid and draconian form of totalitarianism. As the tenets of Islam must always be very strictly enforced. Otherwise Islam quickly falls apart.

    Indeed, because Islam far more than it is anything else, is a very rabid and draconian form of totalitarianism that seeks to make itself and its adherents supreme, as opposed to being just a so-called religion, all non-conformers in Islamic totalitarian society are summarily executed for the capital offenses of apostasy, blasphemy, or both according to the dictates of Islam.

    Therefore and again, there is only one form of Islam, mainstream orthodox Islam, because there can only be one form of Islam.

  • Space Cowboy

    The fatal flaw in the administration’s strategy of mainstreaming radical political Islam.

    Nonsense! Obama isn’t mainstreaming so-called radical political Islam since like so-called moderate Islam it doesn’t exists. There is only one Islam because there can only be one Islam. Indeed, since the texts contained in the Koran are universally considered by all Muslims to emanate directly from Allah as dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel, that text is considered to be divine, absolutely flawless, and perfectly just by all Muslims.

    Furthermore because that texts is divine, absolutely flawless, and perfectly just, as far as all Muslims are concerned it can only be understood and taken in its most literal sense possible.

    Meanwhile, if just one single word of that holy divine text is altered in any way, shape, or form, the person responsible for such outrageous blasphemy will be instantly executed. This is also one of the many reasons why reforming Islam is absolutely impossible.

    Thus, even though there are several sects of Islam and several major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Islam, the reality is that they all fully 100 percent agree on all the major substantial issues and it is only on some minor issues such as on marriage and divorce where they slightly differ.

    Hence, the existence of so-called radical Islam, just like the existence of so-called moderate Islam, are fantasy based politically correct myths created by PC multiculturalists to explain away why Muslims don’t behave in accordance with the way they are propagandized by them as behaving,

    The fact of the matter is there is only one Islam, mainstream orthodox Islam, because there can only be one Islam, and the sole fundamental purpose of mainstream orthodox Islam is the conversion or death to Islam of all infidels in the world through jihad, which is a so-called holy war waged universally by all Muslims, and through the eventual imposition of Sharia, which is draconian Islamic totalitarian law, to ultimately make Islam and its followers supreme throughout the world.

    Anything that suggest otherwise is PC multicultural propaganda!

    As a matter of fact, according to the Doctrine of Abrogation, which is universally accepted throughout Islamic totalitarian society, all the earlier issued peaceful verses of the Koran and the same verses of the Koran that at one time made Islam a religion, have all been abrogated by the latter issued infamous sword verses of the Koran in which they conflict with and that were also some of the very last verses of the Koran issued by Muhammad shortly before he died.

    Indeed, the Doctrine of Abrogation holds that when two verses of the Koran contradict each other and hence conflict, the latter issued verse of the Koran abrogates, i.e., supersedes and replaces, the earlier issued verse of the Koran it conflicts with.

    Hence, since all the earlier issued peaceful verses of the Koran and the same verses of the Koran that at one time made Islam a religion are no longer applicable because they have all been abrogated by the latter issued infamous sword verses of the Koran in which they conflict with and that also commands ALL MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD to wage jihad against ALL INFIDELS IN THE WORLD to ultimately make Islam and its followers supreme throughout the world, then it couldn’t be more obvious that Islam is not a so-called religion, but something else masquerading as being a religion to dupe its intended victims.

    And that something else is a very rabid and draconian form of totalitarianism. As the first and foremost prerequisite of Islam is the total, complete, and unconditional “submission” of all Muslims to the “will of Allah”, which in essence is draconian Islamic totalitarian law, under the penalties of death for apostasy and death for blasphemy.

    Therefore, since there is no freedom of conscience for Muslims to choose between adherence and apostasy and to choose between adherence to the tenets of Islam or blasphemy, then it is obvious that Islam more than it is just a so-called religion, is also a very rabid and draconian form of totalitarianism. As the tenets of Islam must always be very strictly enforced. Otherwise Islam quickly falls apart.

    Indeed, because Islam far more than it is anything else, is a very rabid and draconian form of totalitarianism that seeks to make itself and its adherents supreme, as opposed to being just a so-called religion, all non-conformers in Islamic totalitarian society are summarily executed for the capital offenses of apostasy, blasphemy, or both according to the dictates of Islam.

    Therefore and again, there is only one form of Islam, mainstream orthodox Islam, because there can only be one form of Islam. However, the problem we all collectively have is Islam is universally accepted by all Muslims to be their religion. Thus, we have no other choice but to deal with it.

  • wileyvet

    There is only one Islam. It is an abomination. The Koran is a terrorist manifesto, and Islam’s prophet declared war on the whole world 14 centuries ago. Nothing has changed the goal of Islam, despite set backs over the intervening years. It is a belief system most foul and should garner no respect or tolerance. It needs total eradication, and its adherents removal, voluntary or otherwise from every western nation.

  • DemocracyRules

    “No religion condones the killing of innocents”

    Communism condones the killing of innocents. It is a faith-based metaphysical dogma. Its core belief is that business profits do not produce prosperity. Since this belief is counter-factual, Marxism/communism is not evidence-based, and it is a belief system.

    Communism has killed more than 100 million so far, and the majority of these were innocents.

    search terms:
    ‘profit is excess revenue’
    ‘The Communist Manifesto’
    ‘The Black Book of Communism’

    • Earthling

      The key word here is “innocents”. Since neither Islam nor communism considered its victims to be “innocents” but rather opponents to the peaceful organization of the state, infidels, those who insult Islam or who work to uphold injustice, etc., getting rid of them through murder, subjugation, enslavement or extortion is not only NOT a crime but a necessary step to bring about a peaceful society.

  • Yoda Dundar

    No matter how many times they prove Obama is not a US citizen, that he has lied repeatedly, is a Muslim, is Anti Semitic, pro MB, is in favor of Iran thought his and Soros involvement in Ukraine, so many deaths, the list as most here know is very long and there has been proof, even admitting his Muslim Faith, nothing has been done about it, same goes for Bush, both Clintons, they are all peas in a Pod, laughing right in your faces and shoving their stuck up chins at you, after all “What difference does it make” because they can lie and get away with it
    Ahhh doesn’t it just make you all warm and fuzzy hearing, WE ARE CHANGE, trouble is the change went from Count Dracula the blood sucking parasite, to a Frankenstein Monster with all the parts of evil attached to his body
    Nothing will be done, he will retire on a fortune, join an elite Golf course, or build his Own on tax payers money, and occasionally go home to Africa for a visit getting paid for by your taxes, sickening isn’t it, if was One of us, we would be first in line for the death penalty

  • bill reitzes

    If I am not mistaken, ISIS flies a flag, that clearly states the Shahada, that there is no god but allah, and that the perv Mo was his prophet.
    Operating under such flag, identifies them, without any doubt, as being Islamic.
    Perhaps POTUS Obama, et al, can’t read Arabic, and can’t afford an interpreter.

    • Earthling

      Excellent point! However Obama operates under the premise that if you don’t acknowledge a thing, it doesn’t exist — even if it is staring you in the face. The amazing thing is that many people the world over subscribe to that same philosophy. As POTUS, Obama appears to believe that he can not only order US policy, but he can decide what is fact and real no matter what occurs around him. His response to the mid-term election results bear that out. He does not acknowledge that this was a REJECTION of his policies and has convinced himself that Americans just want Republicans and Democrats to work together to enforce his policies and executive orders.

      • bill reitzes

        Next, POTUS Obama, will be telling American soldiers, serving under “the Stars and Stripes” that they are not American.
        The dude is delusional, and directly responsible for the violence that Israel has absorbed, since the failure of his “peace talks” with the Muslims.
        Just over 2 years until he just goes away.
        The question is, how much more damage will he cause.
        By the way, I am not American, but am for a strong America.
        I much prefer America’s being “the cop in the world” to the Chinese or Saudis.

  • http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/ John Prewett

    So to sum up, POTUS has further confirmed he is a proIslamist liar.

  • Jane Wegener

    “ISIL, [i.e. Islamic State] is not Islamic. No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL’s victims have been Muslim.” Barack Obama. Yet he claims that Iran IS and Islamic state even though they torture and kill many of their own citizens??? Barack Obama IS the biggest National Security threat currently to America!!

  • Bryan Schmick

    When it comes to religion, Catholics disagree with Protestants. Christianity is about love and forgiveness so you don’t see much violence between the two.

    When it comes to religion, Shiites disagree with Sunnis. Islam is about hate so you see much violence between the two.

    Ironically, they are both sects of Judaism. Christians believe that Jesus is the son of the Jewish god. Muslims believe Mohammed is the last prophet of the Jewish god (and that Jesus was the prophet before Mohammed).

    Judaists get along with Christians. Islamists want to kill both (along with other Islamists that disagree with who is the most Islamic). Makes you think.

    Somehow, it reminds me of sports. I’m a Seahawk fan and love to see the 49ers lose. 49er fans love to see the Seahawks lose. We both like football. I don’t want to see Kaepernick injured because sports aren’t really important. Religion should be more than seeing others lose. That’s what Islam is. A religion that wants to see others lose.

  • Earthling

    You got that right!