John Kerry’s Paean to the Religion of Peace

kerry-syria-chemical-attack.siSecretary of State John Kerry should have extended his Nantucket vacation.  That would have spared him and the nation from his embarrassing remarks praising Islam as a “peaceful religion based on the dignity of all human beings,” which he delivered just a day after ISIS released a video showing American journalist Steven Sotloff being beheaded.

Kerry was speaking at a ceremony honoring the State Department’s new special representative to Muslim communities, Shaarik Zafar. Rather than call on Muslim leaders around the world to publicly condemn ISIS in the strongest possible terms and do everything possible to counter ISIS’s recruitment campaign, ideology and financing, Kerry coddled them.

“I want to take advantage of this podium and of this moment to underscore as powerfully as I know how, that the face of Islam is not the butchers who killed Steven Sotloff. That’s ISIL,” Kerry said. He added that the real face of Islam is “one where Muslim communities are advocating for universal human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the most basic freedom to practice one’s faith openly and freely.”

Where exactly in Muslim-majority countries today is a non-Muslim free to practice his or her faith “openly and freely”?  Ten out of the sixteen countries deemed of particular concern regarding their abuses of religious freedom are Muslim nations, according to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s 2014 Annual Report. The governments of these countries engage in or tolerate particularly severe violations of religious freedom, the report states.

The Commission makes policy recommendations to the President, the Secretary of State, and Congress. Evidently, Kerry has not read the Commission report’s findings regarding the state of religious freedom in Muslim-majority countries or did not take them seriously.  It also appears that Kerry has not read or understood the implications of the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights, based on Sharia law, which is diametrically opposed to the principles underlying the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The Universal Declaration’s organizing principle is that “[A]ll human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”

The Universal Declaration promotes the ideal that self-governing human beings all have certain inalienable rights such as the right to life and liberty, freedom of expression, and equality before the law. These universal rights apply to all human beings equally, whichever geographical location, country, race, culture or religion they belong to.

As the Islamic response to the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) foreign ministers adopted the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam in 1990.

The Cairo Declaration reaffirmed “the civilizing and historical role of the Islamic Ummah which God made the best nation that has given mankind a universal and well-balanced civilization in which harmony is established between this life and the hereafter and knowledge is combined with faith.”  After reciting a litany of human rights that it pledged to protect, the Cairo Declaration subjected all of its protections to the requirements of Islamic law:

Article 22 (a)

“Everyone shall have the right to express his opinion freely in such manner as would not be contrary to the principles of the Shari’ah.”

Article 24

“All the rights and freedoms stipulated in this Declaration are subject to the Islamic Shari’ah.”

Article 25

“The Islamic Shari’ah is the only source of reference for the explanation or clarification to any of the articles of this Declaration.”

By making Islamic law the sole authority for defining the scope of human rights, the Cairo Declaration sanctioned limits on freedom of expression, discrimination against non-Muslims and women, and a prohibition against a Muslim’s conversion from Islam. Such restrictions are completely at odds with the fundamental human freedoms spelled out in the Universal Declaration.

“The reality,” Kerry said, “is that our faiths and our fates are inextricably linked.” He is right about that, but not for the reasons he suggests.  Jihadists with access to sophisticated weapons, money and willing recruits, including from the West, are seeking to determine our fates, which in their minds is a stark choice between subservience to Islam or death. The supremacism that permeates the Koran itself provides the jihadists with “moral” justification in their perverted world view. The sayings and actions of their Prophet Muhammad provide the jihadists with their roadmap. As an example, Islam’s prophet was quoted as saying, “Fight everyone in the way of Allah and kill those who disbelieve in Allah.” (Ibn Ishaq 992)

Secretary of State Kerry, perhaps suffering from a case of post-vacation sunstroke, used part of his remarks at the ceremony to connect what he called the “duty or responsibility” to confront climate change with the “scriptures, clearly, beginning in Genesis.” Then, remembering that he was speaking at a ceremony honoring his new special representative to Muslim communities, Kerry immediately tried to tie his elevation of climate change to Biblical heights with his concern for the fate of Muslims. He said that “Muslim-majority countries are among the most vulnerable.”  Right after that, he added: “Our response to this challenge ought to be rooted in a sense of stewardship of Earth. And for me and for many of us here today, that responsibility comes from God.”

The Koran quotes the Muslim supreme deity Allah as declaring:  “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.” (Koran 8:12) Is Allah the “God” whom Kerry looks to as the source of responsibility for our “stewardship of Earth”?

John Kerry takes his cue from President Obama. The president has focused his attention on the United States’ supposed failure to adequately protect Muslims’ human rights and recognize their sensibilities, instead of holding the Muslim world to account for its own problems. While ISIS’s barbarism does not represent the behavior of most Muslims, ISIS is not an isolated phenomenon as Obama and Kerry would try to have us believe. ISIS is an outgrowth of Islamic supremacism, which many so-called mainstream Muslim imams and teachers believe, preach and teach. They do so not only in Muslim-majority countries, but also in mosques and schools in the West. Until the United States leads the free world in directly confronting and defeating the ideological wellspring of jihad that feeds violent groups such as ISIS and stealth jihadists seeking to infiltrate our institutions from within, we will be deluding ourselves while playing whack-a-mole against the violent threat du jour.

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  • camp7

    As much as John Kerry desires to be recognized as a leader and statesman, he will embellish the archives of history as a putz. He has the money, he’s in the club, in his world he deserves the esteem of distinction, only he doesn’t have the character to discern honor over disgrace.

    He sucked up to the Obama regime after failing as a presidential candidate. A last ditch effort to be superficially honored as a Secretary of State, then totally blows it in his assessment of jihad Islam and the security of this country. Money couldn’t buy integrity for John Kerry, he works for a traitor. He will write his long jaw memoirs on the soapbox of fiction.

    • wesley69

      “The real face of Islam is a peaceful religion based on the dignity of all human beings.” LOL if it wan’t so pathetic.

      Kerry, the spokesman of “wimpism.” The biggest problem in the world is not terrorism, but global climate change – another gem and an example of “wimpism,” This is the foreign policy of the US under King Barack. Don’t deal with the major problems in the world, rather focus of things that are truly not as important such as the treatment of gays in other countries. How about the treatment of women under the “peaceful religion: of Islam???

      Now, if Kerry has said that stopping the spread of the Ebola Virus was an international concern, he would have made sense. Instead, we get appeasement or “wimpism.”

    • pupsncats

      And he will make a ton of money selling his book of lies.

  • Docs357

    You can’t walk with God and hold hands with the Devil. That’s what his doing. No one kept count of the Christian and Jews the kidnaped children this administration did nothing to help ? Obama did nothing to help these slaughtered victims not even verbally acknowledge. A USA major general is killed in combat not only does he skip the funeral he plays golf. He had nothing to say about him after all he has to honor his real people Islamic terrorist. May his love affair with our sworn enemy make him a victim of his own evil.

  • Dallas25305

    Kerry is just a buffoon. The Supreme Leader Hussein Obama has made sure to surround himself with a bunch of fools who will grovel at his feet and not question his insane actions. That is why the U.S.A. no longer has a real government. Just a criminal organization that is attacking, vandalizing, destroying and robbing their country and anyone with white skin who isn’t a lap dog for Hussein.

  • William James Ward

    What drives Kerry, I wonder about this, maybe just being the center
    of attention no matter the circumstances. He would make the most
    outrageously false statements to gain attention, betray anyone for
    the center spot, kneel before Satan for a place in the parade to
    destruction if out front and visible. This is a sick individual and
    morally corrupt as is every person attached to Obama. America is
    in the hands of evil and evil that is growing day by day and festering
    beyond belief. It must have been awful in the days of Noah and
    today in the chaos of horror after horror we may be there and
    looking at America’s so called leaders. I know that we are in for
    a storm unlike any ever experienced due to the foul hand of
    betrayal and ascendancy of vile creatures masquerading as
    good people. Good will be called evil and evil good, Kerry is
    exactly there, all like him should have to wear a sign, ‘ warning
    may explode into fire and brimstone at any moment ‘. God have
    mercy on America………………………..William

  • namberak

    Personally I used to ascribe JFK’s words and deeds to a hatred of the US, I mean after all, it goes all the way back to his perjury in front of Congress in the 70s. But lately I’ve come to decide … he’s just a dumbass. Someone tells him something and he believes it and repeats it. Intelligent people have intellectual filters to separate flotsam from jetsam but let’s face it, he’s not as smart as Chauncey Gardiner.

    • johngvanvliet

      They all say JFK was a great president ….Why?? he did not finish one term for he was assassinated! What is his greatness?? to stop the USSR at the Bay of Pigs ???..He was a womanizer and his record was not that clean he got in trouble with the UNIONS so I think it is more the emotional events that say He was a great president then his tenure during his sort time as President of the USA,…..

      • knowshistory

        he was referring to John F. Kerry.

  • JVictor

    People who are delusional can be amusing; that is, until their delusion threatens the safety of the people they are responsible for. The delusional are then debunked, provided with facts and given a chance to change their minds. If the delusional refuse to accept and engage reality, they are treated, voluntarily or involuntarily. During their treatment, a diagnosis is made as to whether or not they continue to pose a threat to themselves and others. If it is determined that they are threats, then they are institutionalized, if not for their own safety then for the safety of those around them. Since Obama, Biden, Kerry, Hillary, heck, everyone in the Obama administration and MSM refuse to change their minds despite the mounds of evidence and American heads, it is time for them to be institutionalized where they can live in their own little make believe world while the rest of us clean up their mess.

  • carpe diem 36

    And this POS, ignorant is representing the USA?? why is this man still talking and walking????

  • Hank Rearden

    Islam is an evil political philosophy. It isn’t a religion at all if religion is taken to mean a private contemplative relationship with God which calls the believer to do things for the benefit of others that they would not otherwise do.

    Islam is what you would get if Charlie Manson had started a religion.

    What is Kerry? Hard to say exactly. As was said of Talleyrand, he has no principles, only appetites. Kerry’s appetite is to be thought of as a great man while betraying all those around him and the values of the country in which he lives. He has done a couple of days’ work here and there, but essentially he shares with Obama not knowing what intellectual work is. It’s not so much that he is lazy, although he is, as that he is as ignorant as a stone of the human condition and how the US of A exalted and exalts that condition in a way few countries, possibly excepting the other English speaking countries, have done.

    So he takes off his clothes and lays with the whore of Islam imagining this is the stuff of legend. He should take care that he does not end up like James Foley.

    • pupsncats

      Manson did start a religion-worship of himself.

  • Softly Bob

    Those who whitewash evil are complicit in it. Kerry is an example of a deluded blind man who cannot see what is blatantly obvious to anybody with even one ounce of the Common Sense that God gave them..

    And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they
    received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
    And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.
    2nd Thessalonians 2:10-11

  • wileyvet

    Here is something I found on the internet. Does not have a date attached, so I don’t know whether this has come about or not. The audacity and unmitigated gall of these Muslim stealth Jihadists knows no limits. This particular Muslim is an Egyptian and runs tours of Washington and operates The Zohery University, which among other courses taught are Muhammad classes at The Islamic Centre of America in Washington. This apparently was the first Mosque in America opening in 1957. In fact I have a photo of then President Eisenhower at its opening. The Mosque as far as I have ascertained is Saudi funded. This crap has been going on right under the noses of America’s law makers and mere minutes from the White House for decades. Also this May 12, a new group held a press conference in the Murrow Room of the National Press Club announcing the formation of an umbrella group of Muslim organizations to be called the US Council of Muslim Organizations, consisting of the usual Muslim Brotherhood outfits. I wonder if anyone in the Obama administration took notice?
    ISLAMIC WORLD MUSEUM OF
    WASHINGTON
    http://www.islamicworldmuseumofwashington.org
    Project Proposal
    By Ali Zohery, Ph.D.
    Email: ali@zohery.com

    Problem Statement: More and more people are having
    misconception about Islam and Muslims after the
    tragedy of 911 and the ongoing fight against Muslim
    religious extremists around the world. An educative and
    informative center like the International Islamic Museum
    especially in Washington DC will help disseminate
    literature and other educational facilities to the larger
    public

  • mark

    It’s amazing that such a traitor can have a position of authority but then so does ovomit (obama).

    Same sickness going on in the uk with traitors like camerloon, blair, most members of parliment it seems, sadly.

    And of course filth like george galloway and red ken muslim lover livingstone.

  • ratonis

    What a freaking DOPE! Obviously an Ivy League guy.

  • Libslayer

    In an administration packed with dim bulbs, Kerry is easily one of the dimmest.

  • Fritz Kohlhaas

    Every time Kerry opens his mouth something more idiotic comes out!

  • weirdpeter

    The real face of Islam is a severed “infidel’s” head on his own orange jumpsuit.

  • knowshistory

    finally, after all these years, our dear liberals have found something about George W. “religion of peace” Bush that they agree with. in response to the worst attack on the united states in 2 centuries, bush called the aggressor a “great religion of peace”. Kerry has done the impossible—made himself a bigger fool than gwb.

  • tagalog

    If John Kerry really believes what he said in Nantucket, that Islam is a “peaceful religion based on the dignity of all human beings,” will he call upon all the peaceful Muslims to join with the non-Muslim nations threatened by ISIS and put a stop to their warlike aggression?

  • guyjones

    “Fundamental freedoms and dignity?” Such as ignoring (or, even killing) rape victims, treating women as chattel and evincing general hostility towards non-Muslims? More dhimmitude and fallacious apologias for Islam’s litany of bad acts and bad actors.

  • pupsncats

    Has Kerry said anything to support Christians in the U.S. who want to practice their faith open and freely, which unlike in the Muslim world, is a pillar of our Constitution, but are constantly getting sued when they attempt to do so or forced to keep quiet and out of sight if they want to keep a job or be safe from attacks from the “tolerant” people who say they do not have this right?
    Of course not.

  • AbsolutelyRight

    Why is this no-good traitor taken seriously by anybody?

  • andrewwhitehead

    Their is NO Muslim-majority country on the planet, or ever was, where universal rights for all are upheld. Islam, as a government, is not compatible with human rights and nothing can be done to make it so.
    Wake up.

  • LibertyWriter

    All mooslims will eventually be thrown into the lake of fire. Believe it…or not. I do not care.

  • LibertyWriter

    He is not speaking of the peaceful practitioners of the religion, he speaking of the religion itself which is decidedly NOT peaceful.