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The Left’s Dangerous Denial About Radical Islam
* 6/13/2016
War On Terror: America is in for a rough time in its War on Terror, based
on what we’ve seen after the Orlando, Fla., terrorist attack that killed 49
people. How can you even hope to stop something like radical Islamic
terrorism if you won’t even call it by its right name?
President Obama’s response after the attacks was not only disappointing in
its failure to recognize the ongoing threat from radical Islam, but likely
endangered future American lives with its obtuseness. He couldn’t even
bring himself to use the most obvious words of all to describe what happened: “
Radical Islamic terrorism.”
“I think we don’t yet know the motivations” of the murder, Obama said.
Except, as _Britain’s Daily Mail_
(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3637414/Everyone-running-Gunman-bursts-gay-nightclub-Florida-shoots-20-people-t
aking-hostages.html) points out, the terrorist “pledged his loyalty to
ISIS in a 911 call as he carried out the attack.” The loyalty wasn’t one way:
Islamic State radio called the terrorist, Omar Mateen, a “soldier of the
Caliphate.”
Yet, our president, who is charged under the Constitution with protecting
the nation from all enemies, foreign and domestic, seems to think that we’re
talking about a simple case of homophobia here. “The fact that it took
place at a club frequented by the LGBT community I think is also relevant,”
Obama said.
Relevant? Well yes, given that Shariah law punishes homosexuality with
death. So Mateen, the “soldier,” killed 49 and injured 53 others merely to
fulfill this mandate by his religion. Why couldn’t Obama mention that? Is he
so steeped in the twisted ideology of multiculturalism that he is unable to
face reality? Even Hillary Clinton was moved to use the word “radical Islam”
in response to this sick attack. Obama wouldn’t.
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Unfortunately, this multi-culti sickness — a form of mass delusion on the
left — extends well beyond the White House.
The left went into a bizarre frenzy of blaming the horrible deaths of those
murdered at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando on anyone but Islamist
terrorism. As our friends at the _Media Research Center noted in a
to-the-point
headline_
(https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2016/06/13/anything-islam-media-attack-guns-men-christians-gop-instead)
: “Anything But Islam:
Media Attack Guns, Men, Christians, GOP Instead of Ideology in Terror
Attack.”
In case you’re wondering, that was followed by seven printed pages of
examples. So they weren’t cherry-picking.
Sadly, denial is everywhere in our society these days.
Likely Republican nominee Donald Trump has called for a halt to immigration
from Muslim lands, which has been falsely portrayed as “racism.”
He has made clear he would only keep a ban in effect until we find out just
who we’re letting into our country. Remember, by our government’s own
startling admission, we don’t know if the recent refugee stream from North
Africa and the Middle East contains dozens of Islamic State or al-Qaida
operatives. So why wouldn’t we halt the flow until we can better tell who’s
coming into our country?
Aha, the left says, but Omar Mateen is a native-born American, born in New
York. How do you keep him out? Well, you can’t. But his father — an
Afghani who has delivered pro-Taliban propaganda on U.S. cable television —
clearly should never have been allowed in. Radical mosques that inculcate hate
into young, impressionable minds should be investigated, at a minimum. Those
that continue to abet terrorism overseas in the name of Islam should be
closed.
In April, an imam speaking at an _Orlando mosque_
(https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2016/06/12/orlando-night-club-attack-by-known-wolf-terrorist-p
reviously-investigated-by-fbi/) said that killing gays under Islamic law
would be done “out of compassion.”
We should add that FBI Special Agent in Charge Ronald Hopper told ABC News
that the FBI had twice looked into Mateen: In 2013, after he made what
Hopper called “inflammatory” comments to co-workers, and again in 2014, after
he was linked to Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha, another American who became a
radicalized Muslim, who became a suicide bomber in Syria.
Given that Mateen worked for G4S, a Department of Homeland Security
contractor, shouldn’t this have raised significant questions?
One of Mateen’s co-workers at G4S, _Daniel Gilroy_
(http://miami.cbslocal.com/2016/06/13/former-co-worker-calls-orlando-shooting-suspect-angry-profane/
) , told the Tampa Bay Times: “He talked about killing people all the time.
”
Yet, Mateen was interviewed by investigators three times in relation to
those probes, but the FBI determined Mateen was no threat, Hopper said.
Finally, on Monday, _FBI Director James Comey_
(http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NIGHTCLUB_SHOOTING_FBI_INTERACTIONS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMP
LATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-06-13-13-20-35) said Mateen showed “strong
indications of radicalization” and was likely inspired by foreign terrorist
organizations.
In short, he was a “known wolf,” not a “lone wolf.” This is a disturbing
pattern with terrorist mass murders, whether in Boston, San Bernardino or
Ft. Hood, Texas. A pattern of behavior emerges, and is ignored. Ties to
extremists are viewed as harmless. Then people are slaughtered.
This problem will not go away. Indeed, the world has been repeatedly
drenched with the blood of radical Islam’s victims since 9/11 and before. As
the
observant _Roger L. Simon_
(https://pjmedia.com/diaryofamadvoter/2016/06/12/why-obama-still-refuses-to-name-radical-islam/)
noted, “Total deadly
terror attacks in the name of Allah since 9/11 stand at 28,576 with
who-knows-how-many corpses.”
But we’re told over and over by far left that “Islam means peace.” Until
we have a president and national security officials who take the threat of
radical Islam seriously, we will all be endangered
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