[RC] Deceiver-in-Chief

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Atlas Shrugs
September 11, 2014
 
 
Obama’s Big Speech: The Islamic State “Is Not  Islamic”AQ

 
America tuned in to hear how Obama planned to defeat the Islamic army  
conquering whole swaths of the Middle East. Instead, Obama took to the prime  
time airwaves to proselytize for Islam. 
Now let’s make two things clear: ISIL is not Islamic. No religion condones  
the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL’s victims have been 
 Muslim.
The bigger the lie, the better Obama is at telling it. Islamic texts and  
teachings command the oppression, subjugation and slaughter of the kuffar. 
Shia  Muslims are considered heretics. Obama was raised a Muslim. He knows 
this. So he  is lying — taqiyya — to the American people. And he speaks only 
about the  Muslims who are victims (shia and secular Muslims, considered 
apostates) — no  mention of the millions of Christian victims. Obama does not 
concern himself  with non-Muslims as well, and not just in aiding and abetting 
their defeat.  Obama insists that the Islamic State is not Islamic as 
Muslims from the US,  Canada, Europe, Australia flock to join them in the cause 
of Islam. 
As for defeating the Islamic State, that’s the next President’s problem 
(and  ours). He did his part. He created the vacuum to led to their success. 
But Obama  assures us that “America is safer.” He calls the millions of 
jihadists across  the world  a small group of killers — an Islamic army 
redrawing the maps of  the world and hurling a great many parts of the world 
back to 
the age of the  primitive under the sharia. 
This was the time to educate the American people about the Islamic threat.  
Instead, he scrubbed, deceived and dissembled. On the eve of September 
11th, the  threat is greater than ever.
 
President Obama delivered the following remarks at the White House on  
Sept. 10. _Transcript  courtesy _ 
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/full-text-of-president-obamas-speech-outlining-strategy-to-defeat-islamic-state/201
4/09/10/af69dec8-3943-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html) of Federal News 
Service. 
PRESIDENT OBAMA: My fellow Americans, tonight I want to speak to you about  
what the United States will do with our friends and allies to degrade and  
ultimately destroy the terrorist group known as ISIL. 
As commander in chief, my highest priority is the security of the American  
people. Over the last several years, we have consistently taken the fight 
to  terrorists who threaten our country. We took out Osama bin Laden and much 
of  al-Qaida’s leadership in Afghanistan and Pakistan. We’ve targeted 
al-Qaida’s  affiliate in Yemen and recently eliminated the top commander of its 
affiliate in  Somalia. We’ve done so while bringing more than 140,000 
American troops home  from Iraq and drawing down our forces in Afghanistan, 
where 
our combat mission  will end later this year. Thanks to our military and 
counterterrorism  professionals, America is safer. 
Still, we continue to face a terrorist threat. We can’t erase every trace 
of  evil from the world and small groups of killers have the  capacity to do 
great harm. That was the case before 9/11, and that remains true  today. And 
that’s why we must remain vigilant as threats emerge. At this moment  the 
greatest threats come from the Middle East and North Africa, where radical  
groups exploit grievances for their own gain. And one of those groups is ISIL 
—  which calls itself the Islamic State. 
Now let’s make two things clear: ISIL is not Islamic. No religion  condones 
the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL’s victims have  
been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state. It was formerly  al-Qaida’s 
affiliate in Iraq and has taken advantage of sectarian strife and  Syria’s 
civil war to gain territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It  is 
recognized by no government nor by the people it subjugates. ISIL is a  
terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the  
slaughter of all who stand in its way. 

In a region that has known so much bloodshed, these terrorists are unique 
in  their brutality. They execute captured prisoners. They kill children.  
They enslave, rape and force women into marriage. They threatened a religious  
minority with genocide. And in acts of barbarism, they took the lives of 
two  American journalists — Jim Foley and Steven Sotloff. 
So ISIL poses a threat to the people of Iraq and Syria and the broader 
Middle  East, including American citizens, personnel and facilities. If left 
unchecked,  these terrorists could pose a growing threat beyond that region, 
including to  the United States. While we have not yet detected specific 
plotting  against our homeland, ISIL leaders have threatened America and our  
allies. Our intelligence community believes that thousands of foreigners,  
including Europeans and some Americans, have joined them in Syria and Iraq.  
Trained and battle-hardened, these fighters could try to return to their home  
countries and carry out deadly attacks. 
I know many Americans are concerned about these threats. Tonight I want you 
 to know that the United States of America is meeting them with strength 
and  resolve. Last month I ordered our military to take targeted action 
against ISIL  to stop its advances. Since then we’ve conducted more than 150 
successful  airstrikes in Iraq. These strikes have protected American personnel 
and  facilities, killed ISIL fighters, destroyed weapons and given space for 
Iraqi  and Kurdish forces to reclaim key territory. These strikes have also 
helped save  the lives of thousands of innocent men, women and children. 
But this is not our fight alone. American power can make a decisive  
difference, but we cannot do for Iraqis what they must do for themselves, nor  
can 
we take the place of Arab partners in securing their region. That’s why I’
ve  insisted that additional U.S. action depended upon Iraqis forming an 
inclusive  government, which they have now done in recent days. 
So tonight, with a new Iraqi government in place, and following 
consultations  with allies abroad and Congress at home, I can announce that 
America 
will lead a  broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat. Our objective 
is clear: We  will degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL through a 
comprehensive and sustained  counterterrorism strategy. 
First, we will conduct a systematic campaign of airstrikes against these  
terrorists. Working with the Iraqi government, we will expand our efforts 
beyond  protecting our own people and humanitarian missions so that we’re 
hitting ISIL  targets as Iraqi forces go on offense. Moreover, I have made it 
clear that we  will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever 
they are. That  means I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria 
as well as Iraq.  This is a core principle of my presidency: If you threaten 
America, you will  find no safe haven.

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