Obama: Islamic State “Speaks For No Religion”

ObamaKenyaThe imam Obama has spoken: “ISIL speaks for no religion. Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocents.” Yet Islamic law mandates death for heretics and apostates, and that is what the Islamic State jihadis consider their Muslim victims to be. Also, the Qur’an teaches: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (47:4). James Foley was certainly an unbeliever, and one from a state with which the Islamic State considers itself to be at war — thus they did not consider him innocent.

Obama excuses and apologizes for Islam every time a jihadist atrocity affects the U.S. in some way. He would do far better to confront the Islamic State’s Islamic justifications for its actions and call on Muslims in the U.S. and elsewhere to teach against these understandings of Islam that they ostensibly reject. But he never does that, and apparently has no interest in doing it.

“Transcript: President Obama’s remarks on the execution of journalist James Foley by Islamic State,” Washington Post, August 20, 2014:

President Obama delivered the following remarks in Martha’s Vineyard on the beheading of American journalist James Foley by the militant group Islamic State. Transcript courtesy of Federal News Service.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good afternoon, everybody.

Today, the entire world is appalled by the brutal murder of Jim Foley by the terrorist group ISIL. Jim was a journalist, a son, a brother and a friend. He reported from difficult and dangerous places, bearing witness to the lives of people a world away.

He was taken hostage nearly two years ago in Syria, and he was courageously reporting at the time on the conflict there. Jim was taken from us in an act of violence that shocked the conscience of the entire world. He was 40 years old, one of five siblings, the son of a mom and dad who worked tirelessly for his release. Earlier today, I spoke to the Foleys and told them that we are all heartbroken at their loss and join them in honoring Jim and all that he did.

Now, Jim Foley’s life stands in stark contrast to his killers. Let’s be clear about ISIL. They have rampaged across cities and villages killing innocent, unarmed civilians in cowardly acts of violence. They abduct women and children and subject them to torture and rape and slavery. They have murdered Muslims, both Sunni and Shia, by the thousands. They target Christians and religious minorities, driving them from their homes, murdering them when they can, for no other reason than they practice a different religion.

They declared their ambition to commit genocide against an ancient people. So ISIL speaks for no religion. Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocents. No just god would stand for what they did yesterday and what they do every single day. ISIL has no ideology of any value to human beings. Their ideology is bankrupt. They may claim out of expediency that they are at war with the United States or the West, but the fact is they terrorize their neighbors and offer them nothing but an endless slavery to their empty vision and the collapse of any definition of civilized behavior.

People like this ultimately fail. They fail because the future is won by those who build and not destroy. The world is shaped by people like Jim Foley and the overwhelming majority of humanity who are appalled by those who killed him. The United States of America will continue to do what we must do to protect our people. We will be vigilant and we will be relentless. When people harm Americans anywhere, we do what’s necessary to see that justice is done and we act against ISIL, standing alongside others. The people of Iraq, who with our support are taking the fight to ISIL must continue coming together to expel these terrorists from their community. The people of Syria, whose story Jim Foley told, do not deserve to live under the shadow of a tyrant or terrorists. They have our support in their pursuit of a future rooted in dignity.

From governments and peoples across the Middle East, there has to be a common effort to extract this cancer so that it does not spread. There has to be a clear rejection of this kind of nihilistic ideologies. One thing we can all agree on is that a group like ISIL has no place in the 21st century. Friends and allies around the world, we share a common security and a common set of values that are rooted in the opposite of what we saw yesterday. And we will continue to confront this hateful terrorism and replace it with a sense of hope and civility.

And that’s what Jim Foley stood for, a man who lived his word, who courageously told the stories of his fellow human beings, who was liked and loved by friends and family. Today, the American people will all say a prayer for those who loved Jim. All of us feel the ache of his absence. All of us morn his loss. We keep in our prayers those other Americans who are separated from their families. And we will do everything that we can to protect our people and the timeless values that we stand for. May God bless and keep Jim’s memory. And may God bless the United States of America.

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  • Z Force

    Obi the Wan Kenyanobi:

    You don’t need to see their religious affiliation.
    These aren’t the muzloids you’re looking for.
    You can go about your over-regulated business.
    Moveon. Dot org.

  • Yehuda Levi

    So what we have now is a president who is an apologist for the intolerant and violent religion of Islam.

    A big thanks to all of those who voted for this fool.

    • curmudgeon

      They owe the rest of us a huge apology!

      • RMThoughts

        They are the “new normal”. You can’t put toothpaste back in the tube. The America we all love is no more.

    • Americana

      WHAT??? Pres. Obama is accurately describing the ratio of Muslims killed to victims of other religions. Does no one recognize what tactics are on display here to rouse the region’s Muslims to act as military allies against ISIS even if they are acting against fellow Muslims?

      • Webb

        Does no one recognize . . . ? No, moron, you’re the only one who knows anything about being roused. I’d hate to see it though. Hate to see it. Phewwww!

      • Drakken

        Your hero Obummer tactics aren’t working!!!! WTF is goddamn wrong with you? Those bloody savages might hate each other, but when it comes to us infidels, they hate us more. Unfuc* yourself.

  • http://loganswarning.com/ Christoper Logan
  • Docs357

    He is in fact one of them thief slaughters are his victories the sooner he’s gone the better off the world will be. The world has not seen such evil either before the first advent of Christ or after calling this man a monster is being kind. All who think straight no his peer must be cut off.

  • curmudgeon

    Demonstrates how stupid and uninformed Obonzo thinks we are and it’s hard to argue with his view. After all he was reelected.

  • Sharps Rifle

    Obama is merely practicing taqiyyah. We should expect him to lie for islam, as it becomes increasingly open that he IS muslim.

    • RAM500

      It’s not necessary to believe that Obama is Muslim. He supports them because he and they share a destructive mission aimed at us.

      • Michael Copeland

        “When I look in the mirror I realize I am no longer the strapping young muslim socialist that I used to be.”
        Barack Hussein Obama, after-dinner speech at White House.

  • wildjew

    “Why Does President Obama Condemn ISIS But Ask Israel to Accept Hamas?” Algemeiner

    “ISIS and Hamas: The Double Standard
    Hamas and ISIS are two sides of the same Islamic terror coin, yet while the West has rightfully united in condemnation and action against ISIS, it has applied a different standard towards Israel, who has been faced with the incessant terror of Hamas…. (Huffington Post)

    • IslamDownpressesHumanity

      It’s strange that the zero has nothing to say about Hamas’ repeated attacks against Israel — I guess some islamic terrorism is acceptable as long as the right innocents are being targeted.

  • notme123

    and the 0 speaks only for himself….

  • AnneM040359

    ISIS is the TRUE FACE of Islam, PERIOD.

    • BRUSHSTROKES

      I agree with you 100%—-PERIOD—

  • http://www.GodAuthoredBible.com geneww1938

    Strange, ISIL or ISIS have not violated any edict of the Koran … or the Muslim religion. Where is their peacemakers and peaceful towns? And we, you, and our leaders ignore Muslims in our community!!!
    Where have they deviated from that Satanic Cult to which Obama [and the rest of the Muslims that have infiltrated our government] live by?
    Do you know of any Muslim that will pledge allegiance and fully support our Constitution. Please post a simple yes if you do?

  • RAM500

    The “no religion” ISIS speaks for is the same one Muhammad (or good impersonators) created.

  • Debbie G

    Foley supported the Syrian terrorists. So Obama is just praising his own kind again. From Front Page:
    http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/james-foley-went-looking-to-support-terrorists-in-syria-instead-they-cut-off-his-head/

    • William

      Obama is a Syrian terrorist? WOW> better call the DHS.

      • Debbie G

        Don’t be an idiot. If you didn’t get the drift of my comment, why say anything?

        • Western Canadian

          Because, besides being an idiot, the poor quality of drivel he posts suggests that he is a muslim, muddying the waters in the hopes of conning anyone ignorant enough not to see through his fabrications, distortions, and inversions of truth and logic.

          • Debbie G

            Thanks for the troll alert. William the Muslim’s picture also demonstrates some gender issues.

          • Webb

            Yeah, you can’t tell what the heck it is can you? Willie Boy by day, or Big Wilhelma by night!

          • keyesforpres

            Muslims are so easy to spot…aren’t they?

      • keyesforpres

        Nah. O is a domestic terrorist…along with his good buddy Bill. Ya have heard of Bill…right?

  • RMThoughts

    Obama and the West feigns an adversarial position regarding ISIS while it was the West itself that created it to confront the Iranian arc of influence stretching from Tehran, through Baghdad, Damascus and along the Mediterranean in Lebanon. The elimination of ISIS and other terrorist organizations fighting under or alongside its banner without first achieving regime change in Damascus would effectively mean defeat for the neocon agenda of the United States and its collaborators in the Middle East.

    Enter the death of James Wright Foley and the outrage of public opinion, just as the downing of MA17 in Ukraine, creates a “game changer”. We now have the illusion of confrontation between ISIS and the United States. The Washington and the media is still struggling to maintain the illusion that ISIS stands apart from other terrorists operating in Syria, and with that narrative, the West is simultaneously bolstering ISIS in Syria under the guise of arming and aiding “moderates,” while it conducts token airstrikes on ISIS

  • Harry_the_Horrible

    I’d say that IS speaks pretty eloquently for Sunni Islam. Their Moslem victims are Shia Moslems.

    • William

      I lived in a Sunni dominated part of the world for years, and they are some of the most decent and honorable people I’ve known. Think of Isis and the ‘Aryan nations’ of Islam, an extremist fundamentalist ultra-conservative fringe of the fringe. Those terrorists think more along the lines of Michele Bachmann or Louie Gohmert than any Sunni I’ve ever met.

      • Western Canadian

        You have no cred, so why bother lying….. and smearing Bachmann or anyone else, does not help make you look anything other than dishonest.

        • William

          It was a comparison and not a smear. Bachmann has said that she is living in the ‘end times’ when there will be a global war of Armageddon and the end of the world. Not dissimilar to radical Islamists who are waiting for the return of the 12th Imam and expect a world war.

          • IslamDownpressesHumanity

            Duh, except Bachmann isn’t calling for the slaughter of non-Christians everywhere.

          • Drakken

            Bachmann isn’t going to kill you dumbazz, the muslims will, there ya go libtard logic at its finest.

          • JIMJFOX

            Here’s the ‘expert’ who lived in Sunni Islam telling us about radical Islamists who are waiting for the return of the 12th Imam. This is Shia belief!

          • IslamDownpressesHumanity

            Well, sunna or lata, shiite happens!

          • Western Canadian

            A comparison like that, IS a smear, which is why you did it.

      • reader

        You mean, 5 miles outside Deaborn, Michigan?

        • William

          Nope, another continent away.

          • reader

            Tripping on acid?

      • Webb

        Yeah, they just chopped the head off a magic boy in Saudi Arabie. He might have begged to differ with you.

        • IslamDownpressesHumanity

          Nah, I’m sure “william” found that honorable and decent.

      • IslamDownpressesHumanity

        I’ll bet you particularly enjoyed the head choppings and persecution of anyone not-a-muslim. Then again maybe it was the lack of freedom of speech or freedom of religion that you really found honorable and decent. Why don’t you move back there?

      • Drakken

        Obviously you were the Sunni’s little bitch.

      • keyesforpres

        Really?
        I was not aware that Michele or Louie were into sawing peoples’ heads off.
        Well now, ya learn something everyday now don’tcha?

  • Americana

    The American President is not all that omnipotent… Hate to tell you and shake the pillars of your political belief system but that’s the principal fact you should take away from current events.

    • reader

      He thinks he is (I have a phone and I have a pen). But you really do hate to tell, do you? That damned Constitution! Or whatever’s left of it.

    • Underzog

      However, George Bush is that omnipotent since Obama blames him for everything bad that goes on in Obama’s administration?

      Give me a break!

  • William

    Obama needs to grow a pair. Sunni Islam is a branch of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic religion, of which he is a member (Episcopalian).

    • Western Canadian

      Since there is no such thing as ‘the Judeo-Christian-islamic’ religion, you have made it clear you are staggeringly ignorant, or totally dishonest. islam has no roots or similarity with Jewish and/or Christian beliefs and history. It is a polar opposite to these two faiths….. Jewish god is one you can argue with, Christian god is one who forgives and loves, islamic ‘god’ is a blood thirsty hate filled and sadistic tyrant, who glories in rape, slavery, and murder, the more viciously executed, the better.. And don’t bother claiming otherwise…. the vast majority of people on this site are no where ignorant enough to believe you lying about it….

      • reader

        You’re casting pearls before swine. Almost literally.

      • William

        Educate yourself on the religion. Don’t be afraid. Start by googling origins of Islam.
        Or read a book.

        • JIMJFOX

          Read a book you might understand- how about the koran? What Islam CLAIMS to be and what it actually IS are not quite co-incident…or, hadn’t you noticed?
          The blissfully ignorant always resort to “educate yourself” as a last resort.

        • Western Canadian

          I already have, but a muslim like you will lie, lie, lie and lie again about their vicious anti-human, anti-life, anti-love cult.

        • IslamDownpressesHumanity

          James Foley wasn’t afraid, neither was Daniel Pearl and some of the najjis kaffir saw what that got them.

  • William

    White Christians should just be happy that Obama doesn’t treat them as he treats Muslims, and sends drones after them.

    • Western Canadian

      Since not all Christians are white, that is a rather stupid distinction. As for treating muslims badly….. wrong again. He fails to take strong and decisive action against violent and hate filled thugs of all varieties, and in the case of muslims (such as the muslim brotherhood and others), sends them massive amounts of money, high tech weapons, and verbally attacks those who oppose them.

      • William

        Yah, sending the world’s most powerful military after them is sooooo weak..

        As for money send to MB, that was part of the military aid given to Egypt every year, for their military. The same military that got rid of Morsi on Obama’s insistence. That’s the power that 1.3 billion dollars a year can buy you.

        • Western Canadian

          Sending a few drones is hardly sending the most powerful military, but someone as dishonest as you would not be willing to admit the difference. And offering f-16′s to the muslim brotherhood is hardly pulling the plus on them. As for the billions flushed into the toilet in Pakistan, armaments sent…. Yeah, really hard on them, isn’t he…

        • reader

          “the same military that got rid of Morsi on Obama’s insistence”

          William, you must have learnt your animal farm habits of distorting reality from your marxist grandpa. Tell us more lies about him.

          • William

            Look it up. Obama called Egyptian military leaders and told them Morsi had to go.. and the next day he was under house arrest. That’s what 1.3 billion dollars a year can buy.

          • reader

            Just did. Obama threatened them with sanctions for dislodging Morsi. That’s why they’re talking to Russians now. Your lying is quite primitive. But marxists always got away with it.

          • William

            You really believe Obama wanted to keep Morsi in power..

            No wonder he bothers you so much, loL!

          • reader

            I really believe that you are just another mindless troll. Lloll.

          • Drakken

            We don’t believe, we know that Comrade Obummer wanted Morsi to stay, that is fact, but please continue your libtarded delusions.

          • JIMJFOX

            When morons resort to LOL, you know they’ve raised the white flag…

    • Drakken

      What an effing scrunt! Keep up the great work spreading your stupidity, Darwin loves winners like you.

    • IslamDownpressesHumanity

      Why do you single out “white” Christians? Are you a racist?

  • https://twitter.com/LibsHateUs Ban Liberals

    Obama proving again that Obama is an idiot.

    • keyesforpres

      Nope. Just a taqiyya meister.

  • wileyvet

    “Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocents. No just god would stand for what they did yesterday and what they do every single day. ISIL has no ideology of any value to human beings. Their ideology is bankrupt.”

    Wrong, Hussein. Islam teaches exactly that. Allah is not a just god, he is a pagan idol. Allah is vicious, wicked, capricious, sadistic but not just, loving or compassionate. The Koran is replete with Allah’s twisted punishments, perverted justice and licentious allowances to Muhammad. The prophet himself orchestrated 73 raids, rampaging, killing men women and children. He enslaved and sold as slaves women and children. Some of the harshest reprisals occurred after his death during the Apostate Wars led by Abu Bakr, against lapsed Muslims, following the prophets death. Muhammad claimed he was made victorious through terror, and instructed that anyone who changed his religion was to be killed. ISIL’s ideology is Islam to the core, thus does not have any value to human beings. Islam is ideologically bankrupt as it is the great destroyer. So what does Islam offer the west. America, Britain et al managed just fine without Muslims. I ask therefore, what benefit does Islam bring to our nations, culture etc.? What did we lack that could only be remedied by Islam? Does Islam bring more tolerance, less bigotry and more social cohesion? I think not. Does it share western values of equality, freedom of conscience, thought and speech? No, it does not. Why then could anyone think importing millions of people who share the same belief as ISIS, drawn from the same doctrine, preached the same way in every mosque in the world, could possibly enhance and benefit our culture, our cities and countries as a whole? Islam is the cancer that must be destroyed. Muslims are the carrier of this deadly pathogen. Until every last one is removed from western nations, every host will just become sicker and weaker, until the patient is dead. Time for a radical mastectomy, and severe radiation treatment to rid us of this disease.

    • keyesforpres

      O was just spouting some taqiyya.

  • Lanna

    Why do you think the President is so unemotional about the deaths of Christians, and supportive of Hamas, blaming the war on Israel? He goes back to his golf game, right after announcing the beheading of an American citizen, while David Cameron leaves his vacation and speeds back to get on top of the situation!

  • billinghamboy

    Very good article from Robert Spencer.This president frightens me with his pro Islamic rhetoric.Most Western leaders seem clueless in this area,maybe they should have Jihad Watch training sessions?

    • IslamDownpressesHumanity

      Are you kidding? The 0 would like to see counter-jihad websites outlawed.

  • Mike in VA

    Now that ISIS has overrun large swaths of Iraq, Obama and his ANSWERnik base’s investment in that country’s failure has become as great a threat to our national security as the jihadists themselves. Wake up and stand up America – Obama and ISIS must feel the wrath of our righteous indignation over the brutal murder of our compatriot James Foley. Get on your representatives in Washington NOW.

  • Dan Nowotarski

    No matter what American’s think of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin was correct in asking countries to put their differences aside and come together against the genocide of Christians by Muslim Terrorists that is going on around the globe. President Obama ignored this request because he supports some of the very Muslim Terrorists committing these brutal acts. President Obama says in his above speech the following: ["They (ISIL) have rampaged across cities and villages killing innocent, unarmed civilians in cowardly acts of violence. They abduct women and children and subject them to torture and rape and slavery." He further states:"ISIL speaks for no religion, and their faith teaches people to massacre innocents." "ISIL has no ideology of any value to human beings." "Their ideology is bankrupt."] This very same speech can be said of the Obama supported Muslim Brotherhood Terrorists in Egypt. President Obama’s contribution to Islam was releasing the Muslim’s from the shackles of dictators, thus contributing to the genocide of Christians and other minorities. God Bless America, Israel and all Real Freedom Fighting Patriots.

  • Anco

    thISISIslam

  • keyesforpres

    Hmmmmm…our first clue would be “Islamic”! Doh!
    Notice O said no religion condones the killing of INNOCENTS.
    Remember folks, all muslims are taught that we infidels are NOT innocents.

  • keyesforpres

    I believe the Germans did vote for Hitler.

    • Underzog

      Franz von Papen appointed him Reich Chancellor. That was no vote. There was a ja plebiscite confirming him after he was already in office, but that is not the same thing as voting him into office. Likewise, the Bolsheviks took third place in the 1920 elections in Russia. They ignored the results of the elections and stayed in office anyway.

      America has a lot of shame to live down.

    • Jim

      Hitler was not voted into power with a 50-plus% majority as the stupid half of America did with Oba-ma. I believe Hitler got only around 33% of the German vote, and that was not for the top position…. a position he ascended to after von Hindenburg died in office.

    • IslamDownpressesHumanity

      I thought Hindenburg appointed Hitler to the position of chancellor.

  • Dyer’s Eve

    Obama the criminal got the Nobel peace prize for one reason. Why? We all know why, but I can’t say it. I will say this: Obama is not the Antichrist, but he is a facilitator. He is helping to prepare the ground for the arrival… of the Third Antichrist. The individual who will be AC3 has walked among us for many years. Islamic State is not permanent, yet it is not fleeting. It will grow while all those in power in the USA, the greatest democracy that has ever lived, will sit by with their hands on their dicks. Rome will be destroyed. Only then will ‘the Fleet’ gear up, take aim, and destroy Islam. ‘The Fleet’, is a coalition. “The Fleet will take aim and the barbarian will be driven back” – quote from Michel de Nostradame.

  • chrissie

    found on YT as a comment:
    Looks like we are all being betrayed and on our own:

    We have hijacked your maternity wards, outbreeding you two to one
    We have hijacked your politics and all political arguments
    We have hijacked national religion through building 1600+ mosques
    We have hijacked all forms of media and freedom of speech
    We have hijacked your National Health Service
    We have hijacked your primary schools by taking over with Trojan Horse
    We have hijacked your universities with Islamic Studies
    We have hijacked your banks and use them for terrorist money laundering
    We have hijacked your Tax system to promote Muslim causes
    We have hijacked your Charity Commission to pay for our social demands
    We have hijacked your legal system by promoting Sharia Courts
    We have hijacked your legal profession by the Muslim Lawyers Association
    We have hijacked your Legal Aid by defending terrorists and immigrants
    We have hijacked your government by changing British Laws and Statutes
    We have hijacked your Welfare system by being unemployed and breeding
    We have hijacking your Public Housing allocation with big families on Benefits
    We have hijacking your Benefits system by you paying Kufrs Jizya tax
    We have hijacked whole city communities and displaced British folk
    We have hijacked town councils to promote Muslim values
    We have hijacked your Politically Correct police who are afraid to touch us
    We have hijacked your prisons and use them for recruiting Holy Jihadis
    We have hijacked the EU Parliament replacing pro-Christian laws in Europe
    We have hijacked the United Nations by making Islam beyond criticism
    We have a Muslim President in the White House
    We will win by ‘Every-Means-Possible Jihad’
    We glorify Death for Allah while you celebrate Life for Jesus
    You let us into your countries knowing we hate you and want to destroy you
    WE ARE PATIENT. WE ARE LEGION. WE WILL OUTBREED YOU.
    Your dhimmified home is ours now, Insha’Allah.
    Takfir! Takfir! Takfir! Allah au Akbar
    All the above can be proved by copious news reports.

    • IslamDownpressesHumanity

      The truth that no one wants to see. The truth that lends credence to OYM’s warnings about stealth jihad.

  • Simon

    Taqqiya.

  • http://twitter.com/WinstonCDN WinstonCDN

    Obama is embarrassed by his fellow Muslims?