More Beheadings, More Denial

67035_54_news_hub_60072_588x448All you have to do is change the name of the victim, and this could be a story from August, or September, or October: the Islamic State has beheaded yet another hostage, this time Peter Kassig, aka Abdul-Rahman Kassig, and Barack Obama has declared yet again that the beheading has nothing to do with Islam. Obama might as well have a form ready for the next jihad beheading or mass murder attack: all he will have to do is fill in the blank and then take to the airwaves to say that the latest bloodshed has nothing to do with Islam. If the victims are British, he can lend his form to David Cameron.

But all this repeating of the political elites’ “Islam is peace” meme will never make it so. And the constant repetition of this falsehood is doing nothing less than endangering Americans. It keeps people ignorant who might otherwise get a clear idea of the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat. It fosters complacency. It makes all too many Americans assume that this kind of behavior is restricted to the “extremists” of the Islamic State, and could never happen here.

It could happen here. It could happen anywhere that people read the phrase “when you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (Qur’an 47:4) as if it were a command of the Creator of the Universe. But to point out that simple and obvious fact nowadays only brings down upon one’s head charges of “hatred” and of “demonizing all Muslims,” when in a sane society it would bring honest explanations from Muslims of good will of what they were doing to ensure that no Muslim ever acted on that verse’s literal meaning.

In reality, they’re doing nothing. No Muslim organization, mosque or school in the United States has any program to teach young Muslims and converts to Islam why they should avoid and reject on Islamic grounds the vision of Islam – and of unbelievers – that the Islamic State and other jihad groups offer them. This is extremely strange, given the fact that all the Muslim organizations, mosques and schools in the United States ostensibly reject this understanding of Islam. And even stranger is that no American authorities seem to have noticed the absence of such initiatives, much less dared to call out Muslim groups about this.

On the contrary, instead of calling on Muslim groups to take some action to prevent this kind of thing from happening in the future, Obama’s latest denial was even more strenuous in its dissociation of the beheading from Islam: “ISIL’s actions represent no faith, least of all the Muslim faith which Abdul-Rahman adopted as his own.”

“Least of all”! As if it were possible that the Islamic State’s actions represented Buddhism, or Methodism, or Christian Science, or the Hardshell Baptists, or the Mandaeans, to greater or lesser degrees, but the most far-fetched association one could make, out of all the myriad faiths people hold throughout the world, would be to associate the Islamic State’s actions with…Islam. The Islamic State’s actions represent no faith, least of all Islam – as if it were more likely that the Islamic State were made up of Presbyterians or Lubavitcher Hasidim or Jains or Smartas than that it were made up of Muslims.

Why do not just some, but all of the political leaders in Western countries cling to this outlandish fiction? Because reality indicts them. Not only do they insist that Islam is a religion of peace despite an ever-growing mountain of evidence to the contrary; they have made that falsehood a cornerstone of numerous policies. They have encouraged mass immigration and refugee resettlement from Muslim countries, without even making an attempt to determine whether or not any of the people they were importing had any connections to or sympathies with jihad groups. Their governments have for years partnered with and collaborated with groups with proven ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. They have favored and aided the Brotherhood and groups like it to attain power in the Middle East and North Africa, deeming them “moderate” because they claimed to eschew violence, and blithely ignoring that their goals were the same as those of groups such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State.

If Barack Obama or David Cameron admitted that Islam was not a religion of peace, all these disastrous policies and others would be called into question. Cameron’s government might, quite deservedly, fall, and Obama’s would be crippled.

However, the primary reason why Obama and his cohorts continue to stand athwart the pile of beheaded bodies shouting that Islam is a religion of peace is because if they didn’t, the mainstream media – following its own policies as delineated by the Society of Professional Journalists – would immediately denounce them as “racists,” “bigots,” and “Islamophobes,” and their career not just as politicians but as respectable people would be over. It’s not that bad, you say? Just look at how the sharks are circling Bill Maher and tell me that.

Nonetheless, the Big Lie, however ascendant it may be today, is foredoomed. The fact that it is repeated, and must be repeated, so often is evidence of that. No one has to run around insisting that Christianity is a religion of peace, because Christian leaders are reacting to the escalating Muslim persecution of their brethren by opening up their churches to Muslim prayer and muting their criticism of that persecution out of deference to their Muslim “dialogue” partners. If anything says “religion of peace,” it’s Christians forcibly ejecting a Christian woman from a Christian cathedral for proclaiming Christ, so that Muslims could deny him there.

“Religion of abject surrender” might be more apt, but in any case, no one thinks contemporary Christianity is a religion of war. All too many Muslims worldwide, however, energetically go about illustrating every day that Islam is not a religion of peace, and so they keep Obama’s printer busy turning out denial forms, ready for him to fill in the blanks with the name of the next victim: “The murder of _________ has nothing whatsoever to do with the great religion of Islam…”

But this is a counsel of despair. The truth will get out; indeed, it is already abundantly out. We can only hope that not too many more will have to feel the blade at their necks before Obama and the rest can no longer avoid taking realistic and effective action.

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  • truebearing

    Perfectly stated. There is no sane or coherent argument against this truth. To dispute these points is to immediately begin lying.

    Terrorists commit acts of terror to gain power over cowards. Cameron is exactly what they are hoping for in foreign leaders. Obama is another story. He is a collaborator and is congenitally incapable of telling the truth about Islam…or anything else, for that matter.

  • Bamaguje

    ““Least of all”! As if it were possible that the Islamic State’s actions represented Buddhism, or Methodism, or Christian Science, or the Hardshell Baptists” – Robert Spencer.

    Indeed “Least of all the Muslim faith” implies there’s a more likely culprit of Jihad violence… as in “most of all.” Doncha know right wing conservatives, Veterans and evangelical Right are the real threat? So said the misnamed Homeland insecurity.

  • Alan

    Obama grew up a Moslem in indonesia until age 10. He then went on to be a leftist. His “church” of 20 years was founded by a Moslem who preached “God damn America”…under Obama, the Moslem supporter, the lie will continue to repeat.,,

    • Boots

      The only difference between Islam and liberalism is that Islam demands submission to Allah and liberals demand submission to government. That’s why liberals face Washington and chant “Obama akbar” five times per day. It also explains why liberals are so forgiving of jihadi behavior. Liberals covet the power Islam has over it’s population and wish they had that power over us.

  • http://raycaruso.com Ray Caruso

    “No Muslim organization, mosque or school in the United States has any
    program to teach young Muslims and converts to Islam why they should
    avoid and reject on Islamic grounds the vision of Islam – and of
    unbelievers – that the Islamic State and other jihad groups offer them.”

    • Bamaguje

      Given the threat to would-be reformers, Muslims are unlikely to reform Islam on their own.
      The pressure to do so will have to come from we non-Muslims.
      Unfortunately that’s not happening, as our dhimmi leaders suck up to Islam instead of standing up to it, and insisting on the values that made Western civilization great.

      Muslims must be compelled to abide by the values 21st century modernity. Any Muslim nation that doesn’t uphold religious freedom, end barbaric religious laws and stop hateful incitement in Madrassas should be sanctioned, boycotted and ostracized.
      Military action to remove Islamist regimes and impose secular law should also be on the table.

      • doug

        you are right on the mark.

    • Ammianus

      “Following Muhammad is a choice—a choice to model oneself after a child molester, rapist, robber, murderer, and tyrant—and those who make that choice are, put it simply, bad human beings. We must not sacrifice ourselves and our children for their sake.”
      Succinct and well put–bravo.

  • tacheles

    I am waiting for Obama’s latest pronouncement : Islam has nothing to do with Islam

    • mezcukor

      That is very funny

  • EamonnDublin

    It woz the Christians wot done it!! (Maybe the Jews also.) How dare anybody even suggest that Muslims did it.
    I Stand with Right. I stand with Peace. I Stand With Honour, Dignity, and Democracy. I STAND WITH ISRAEL.
    Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.

    • Navy8R

      That’s a fine Irish name ya have there laddie! As a third gen Irish American, I stand where you stand! Sláinte brother

      • EamonnDublin

        Navy8R, Go raibh maith agat, a chara! The United States is also a great, GREAT, country. I love it, always have done. But I think you need a new guy in charge in order to sort out the terrorist mad lunatics.
        Sláinte and Best Wishes to You and Yours! Éamonn.

        • Navy8R

          As is the Emerald Isle! So beautiful and friendly, but don’t cross the boyos! They will surely give you what for! I must confess that me Gaelic is a bit rusty, a translation would be appreciated. We have needed a new guy in charge since 2008! As a TEA Party Patriot, I (we) have done our part to overcome with sweeping victories in 2010, and 2014 all the way down the ballot to dog catcher. Now, the squeamish, elitist leaders of the Republicans still need to find their spines. We’re here to help them do just that. The islamo losers hit in Jerusalem again today. A pox on their satanic cult. Don’t Tread On Me! (Do you have a Gadsden flag ?) I saw pics of them being flown even during the street battles in Ukraine. Liberty knows no borders….after 25 yrs in Naval Aviation, my oath to the Constitution has no expiration date.
          Blessings friend, Sean Patrick

          • EamonnDublin

            Thank you, Navy8R ! “Go raibh maith agat” means “Thank you”. Literally translated it is “May you have good” (that’s “good” with a double “O”. It’s pronounced “Guh rev moyh agut”. “A chara” (with a hard “C”, but also, because of the “h” after the “c” it should sound very gutteral – as if you are clearing your throat!) thus “akharra”. It means “friend”.
            As for the Gadsden flag, no, I don’t have one – but I think the legend “Don’t tread on Me” is terrific. Saw it advertised on a few sites and often thought I should get one.
            Twenty five years in Naval Aviation!! Congratulations! That’s some life you’ve had so far!

            Dia dhuit, a chara. (“May God be with you, my friend”)
            Éamonn.

          • EamonnDublin

            “Dia dhuit” is pronounced “Deeya gwith”. I omitted to put that in my last note!
            May God Bless the United States of America – the saviour of Western civilization (with Israel, and very little else!).
            Éamonn.

  • http://ironburka.blogspot.com/ Mullah Lodabullah

    Our leaders have willingly exchanged the truth for a lie – telling such whoppers about islam destroys their own credibility and integrity.

  • sundance69

    TIME FOR US TO PLAY COWBOYS AND MUSLIMS……

    • Headed4TheHills

      Yippie kai yay

  • Atikva

    “Obama and the rest” will never take “realistic and effective action”. They can’t, they are too far gone into la la land. It will up to “we the people” to keep our feet
    firmly on the ground and stop that muslim insanity.

  • wildjew

    Two observations.

    1) R. Spencer wrote: “the Big Lie, however ascendant it may be today, is foredoomed.” Foredoomed, meaning “condemned beforehand to certain failure or destruction.”

    When will this happen? After many millions die in a world-wide nuclear conflagration? Since Islam means peace, why can’t Iran and her proxies have a nuclear stockpile like Israel / the Jews do? This (nuclear armed Israel / nuclear armed Iran) argument is pervasive. Will the Big Lie be foredoomed (as William Shirer wrote in the forward his ‘Rise and Fall of the Third Reich’) in the wake of charred bones on a dead, uninhabited planet?

    2) Spencer: “the primary reason why Obama and his cohorts continue to stand athwart the pile of beheaded bodies shouting that Islam is a religion of peace is because if they didn’t the media would immediately denounce them as “racists,” “bigots,” and “Islamophobes…”

    In his June 2009 speech to the Muslim world in Cairo, Mr. Obama boasted:

    “….my father came from a Kenyan family that includes generations of Muslims…So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed…..And I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”

    For seven plus years post 9/11/2001 former President George W. Bush (I voted for him in 2000) assured the American people Islam is a religion of peace that had been hijacked by a few terrorists who were traitors to their faith. Americans saw fit seven plus years after 9/11 to elect the first Muslim-born president the history of the United States. Is it a coincidence much of the region is in chaos, with authoritative Islam on the ascendancy under Obama’s watch? Or is it possible it has something to do with Obama’s background and his ideology?

  • Adheeb

    “How many more will feel the blade at their necks before Obama and the rest embrace reality?”

    Jeremiah 13:23, “”Can the Ethiopian change his skin Or the leopard his spots? Then you also can do good Who are accustomed to doing evil.”

    In other words, it will never happen.

  • Hard Little Machine

    Maybe we just have to give the Obamaloons their head, as it were. Let’s sit back and watch as the US gets to experience Lee Rigby-type public beheadings. Let’s hope that the next 40 suicide bombers target the NYT, CNN, MSNBC, Pelosi and so forth.

  • David Gray

    There are two different worlds, Obama’s world of denial with lies and the real world that the rest if us live in. The Emperor is truly naked!

  • steve b

    THEY KNOW WHERE THESE ISIS GROUPS ARE – DROP A NUKE IN EVERY LOCATION THAT THEY ARE IN. AND THEN ANNOUNCE THAT THIS WAS JUST A WARNING AND THAT IF THEIR SURVIVORS CONTINUED TO ACT IN THE SAME MANNER, WE WILL GET SERIOUS ABOUT EXTERMINATING THEM. YOU WOULD DO NO LESS FOR ANY GROUP OF COCKROACHES.

  • Rosasolis

    As the Islamic terror is increasing to nightmare proportions, and also the problems
    that Islam communities are causing throughout Europe, I hope that more people
    in our Western World realize that the time to prevent a total Islamic Take-over
    is rapidly drawing near! We cannot afford to ignore this Islamic threat which
    will only spread and worsen, any longer. Now is the time to take action… before it’s too late and our Western Civilization no longer exists. The recent events are so terrible and beyond reality for most people.
    Although this barbaric terrorism has existed for centuries, it is incredible that some of today’s world leaders refuse to speak up against it. How must the families and friends of all these beheaded men feel, when their president shows only a mild reaction to all these increasing acts of terror?! The governments of North-America and Europe must now join together to discuss the Islamic Threat and Terrorism and to make definite plans to put a stop to this war against our non-Islamic civilization, before it spreads much further than the Middle-east and Africa. If Obama refuses to acknowlegde the increasing Islamic threat, (for whatever reason he might have), then he should be forced to resign. This is no time to tolerate COWARDS, and it is a crime of HIGH TREASON for a president and world leader to show weakness and turn his back to this terrible problem. Instead of working together with military experts and leaders of other countries to make necessary plans to stop the Islamic Take-over. You now have a strong Republican government in both houses. They can take action if your president refuses to co-operate.

    • Hewlett Harris

      The Republicans are not strong. A bunch of weak cowards who will not fight. They will tale no action at all.

      • Rosasolis

        If the Republicans are so weak as you suggest, then America
        is in trouble! What will your govvernment do when the Islam
        terrorists start to organize attacks against innocent people and
        riots throughout every city in America. What will your government
        do when they break into churches, synagogues during services,
        and break into shops and set them on fire? This is going on in
        Europe now, everyday!

        • Hewlett Harris

          You are 100%, Our Gov’t will do nothing at all.

  • Hewlett Harris

    It’s simple, Not enough of us have been killed yet to force a change and accept the reality that these people are evil bastards and mean what they say. Maybe we will wake up after about 2-4 million Americans have been killed. But I doubt it. Obama and the media will still be singing the praises of Islam. The 911 attack did nothing to wake us up…absolutely nothing.

    • Rosasolis

      I fear that what you have written is the truth! I hope it will awaken
      many Americans to the growing danger of the Islam. Perhaps a few
      intelligent folks follow the news reports about the terrible problems that
      the rise of the Islam has been causing during the past months
      throughout Europe.

    • Capt Bob

      HI Hewlett,

      You are 100% correct. the 3 Americans that were killed are just 3 less that Obama has to deal with. The Muslins in the National church is just a beginning. Soon Christians are going to meet like the French Underground.,

      • Hewlett Harris

        Capt Bob…I will make a prediction right now. Laugh if you want, it is OK. The Muslims will take over the National Cathedral and destroy all signs of Christianity in that bldg.
        It is OK to laugh. Just watch what happens.

        • NSNZ

          Not that they havn’t done it thousands of times before.

        • Capt Bob

          I am not laughing because you may be right. And Obama will hold the first service after the changes are made. Christians will be meeting in undergrown locations.

  • thult

    Do you think that Barack Hussein Obama’s FIRST foreign visit/speech, in support of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, which underscored his support for the “Arab Spring” in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and ALL across the Middle East, his WAIST-DEEP bowing to the Saudi King, his $$$BILLIONS of support given to Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and circuitously to Hezbollah, PLUS his INCESSANT bad-mouthing and apology for American motives heretofore, coupled with his insistence that, “[I]f you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world,” this in addition to declaring, “America is no longer a Christian nation,” have ANYTHING to do with encouraging Muslim terrorism?

    Who do you suppose it was who said, the Muslim call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth” at sunset? What do you suppose all of this means relative to the STATED objective of Barack Hussein Obama, that being to “fundamentally remake America?” WAKE UP, America!

  • Ellsworth Toohey

    Correct me if I am wrong but I feel that for barack hussein, the more they behave like muhamed, the less muslim they are ??????

    • nightspore

      The problem is that these Muslims don’t know what Islam is. Unlike Obama, Cameron, Kerry and McCain.

  • Ellsworth Toohey

    Saw your post too late. Anyway, seems we feel the same. We can’t be wrong then :)

  • http://www.GodAuthoredBible.com geneww1938

    Do not expect a response from the POTUS … he is one of them. He has
    placed Satanic Muslims in every position he can to over throw our
    constitution and our government as to promote one world under Sharia
    Law.

  • Pepe Turcon

    People are afraid to criticize islam . A Briton , long ago in 1923, warned about the savagery and intent of islam , his name was Winston Churchill . By that time though the die had been cast . Briton and France after defeating the Ottoman Empire in WW 1 , proceeded to divvy up the middle east creating Iraq , Saudi Arabia , Jordan yet failing to adhere to their own Balfour Declaration . Ironically under the Ottomans the geographic area we call Iraq was divided in much the same way according to tribes -Kurds in the North ,Shia in the South ,and Sunni in the Center . However even under the Ottomans , oddly enough , they gave preference to the Sunnis . After all the Turks behaved in the same way slaughtering over a million Armenian Christians at the turn of the 20th Century , thus the term and word GENOCIDE was first coined . And it should be no surprise that Turkey is reluctant top do anything against ISIS . The only reason Turkey is doing anything at all is to keep it’s NATO status and to keep the possibility of membership in the E U alive . Today the British are playing with fire , and they are already getting burnt . USA – TAKE NOTE .

  • RMThoughts

    The Islamic State forces grew to 200,000 so the US will now need to put boots on the ground. The Islamic State kills another and provokes Obama to put boots on the ground. Assad, by hook or by crook you are going to be removed.God must be a neocon.

  • Metatrona

    They are not in denial. They are applauding the Muslim actions. They are getting off on it.

  • Michael Durham

    These criminal DemonRAT terrorist vermin deny for one reason, and for one reason alone:

    They APPROVE of these beheadings.

    That is the only conclusion to be drawn.

  • tom

    Every time these Muslim fanatics act like Muslim fanatics, you can cue the stampede of western apologists to reassure us this sort of behavior has absolutely nothing to do with Islam. But if Obama thinks this act is pure evil, is he ready to say that Mohammed beheading over six hundred of his enemies was also pure evil? The Koran admits that Mohammed beheaded those who dared defy him. This is not disputed, even by the most respected Muslims theologians. Obama can redefine Islam every day of the week and twice on Sunday, but Islam is as Islam does. If you want to know why these lunatics are doing the things they are doing, just listen to them. They will tell you right out they are acting on their interpretation of what they believe their MUSLIM religion commands them to do. It’s high time to take them at their word.

    I realize these inconvenient truths are beyond the pale for the politically correct poltroons who appease and rationalize all things Islam. It takes a lot of willful obliviousness and denial to somehow explain away the fact that, by beheading people, ISIS is simply following the example of their prophet. Facts are facts. The things written in the Koran are there for anyone who cares to have a look….”When you meet the enemy, strike them in the neck.” It is what it is. There may be moderate Muslims (and unicorns for that matter), but there is no such thing as moderate Islam. Until we come to grips with what is motivating our enemies, grow a backbone and call them out for what they are and get real about what it will take to win this war we are in (declared %100, by them), defeating the totalitarian, supremacist, collectivist, freedom nullifying, anti civilization creed of political Islam, is a highly unlikely proposition.

  • tacheles

    Very good point. If Islam is a religion of peace as Obama and his cohorts say, then the hallucinating, bloodthirsty decapitator ( a.k.a. the Prophet) could not possibly have been Muslim.

    • Gamal

      This point should be publicized everywhere

  • iluvisrael

    it’s much worse than that – since he and the wildebeest he’s married to began squatting in the WH, the world has had a weakened America – he’s coddled and emboldened our enemies and has told our allies to go eff themselves – he’s a very dangerous useful idiot.

  • Nagesha

    This music video is appropriate here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydBD-6izYfE&spfreload=10

  • Nagesha

    Thanks Robert. You should be president! Here’s my music video that is appropriate here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydBD-6izYfE&spfreload=10

  • jon

    Cowards…….all of the “free world”. Spineless. Quit whining……

  • EamonnDublin

    Thank you, Carol!

    Yes, it’s time for the West to wake up – instead of committing suicide. Civilizations are never “defeated” – they commit suicide. By ignoring the threat of Islamism, that is exactly what we are doing right now. Sadly, the attitude appears to be that, because of our cossetted and comfortable lives, as individuals we try to comfort ourselves by saying “ah, shure, everything will be grand”. Also the attitude that “if we take them on, I could lose my good lifestyle” seems to prevail. It’s time for Western civilization to think of our grandchildren, and granddaughters in particular! If we do not totally exterminate this evil (and that’s a very difficult proposition now as our so-called “leaders” have left it far too late) our grandchildren would be quite entitled to curse us all for allowing them to be ruled and “owned” by evil lunatics. Dia dhuit, Carol.
    Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.

  • boobaloo

    Why do these Congress people and officials accept Islam? Islam is not a religion. It is a system of control, governance and enslavement, through the use of fear, violence and murder. Islam is not of God. It is of Satan!

  • Hard Little Machine

    You assume Obama doesn’t actually endorse this. He does. It’s simply another step along the way for him and his mindset.

  • LibertyWriter

    followers of satan