President Obama’s speech last week at the National Defense University made clear the governing idea of his foreign policy. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323855804578508984038618290.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_BelowLEFTSecond Nations in decline—democratic ones, at any rate—tend to be nations in retreat. When Britain informed the Truman administration that it could no longer prop up the governments of Greece and Turkey in the winter of […]
Another Islamist terror attack, another round of assurances that it had nothing to do with the religion of peace.
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I’ve seen this before. A Muslim terrorist slays a non-Muslim citizen in the West, and representatives of the Muslim community rush to dissociate themselves and their faith from the horror. After British soldier Lee Rigby was hacked to death last week in Woolwich in south London, Julie Siddiqi, representing the Islamic Society of Britain, quickly stepped before the microphones to attest that all good Muslims were “sickened” by the attack, “just like everyone else.”
This happens every time. Muslim men wearing suits and ties, or women wearing stylish headscarves, are sent out to reassure the world that these attacks have no place in real Islam, that they are aberrations and corruptions of the true faith.
But then what to make of Omar Bakri? He too claims to speak for the true faith, though he was unavailable for cameras in England last week because the Islamist group he founded, Al-Muhajiroun, was banned in Britain in 2010. Instead, he talked to the media from Tripoli in northern Lebanon, where he now lives. Michael Adebolajo—the accused Woolwich killer who was seen on a video at the scene of the murder, talking to the camera while displaying his bloody hands and a meat cleaver—was Bakri’s student a decade ago, before his group was banned. “A quiet man, very shy, asking lots of questions about Islam,” Bakri recalled last week. The teacher was impressed to see in the grisly video how far his shy disciple had come, “standing firm, courageous, brave. Not running away.”
Bakri also told the press: “The Prophet said an infidel and his killer will not meet in Hell. That’s a beautiful saying. May God reward [Adebolajo] for his actions . . . I don’t see it as a crime as far as Islam is concerned.”
http://tundratabloids.com/2013/05/the-audience-and-daniel-pipes-the-people-are-just-not-buying-the-islamism-thing.html Trashing Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer and Andrew Bostom is not the way to go Daniel, impressing upon our leaders to confidently articulate and promote Western values, and their superiority to all else, is the way to go. There is no moderate Islam, only Islamic societies more influenced by non-Muslim culture and values. When […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/the-great-race-card-getaway/print/ “Don’t be afraid to see what you see,” President Reagan counseled in his farewell address. We would do well to heed his advice as President Obama attempts to lead America backwards, to September 10. Make no mistake: That was the not-so-subtle message he sent last week during his speech at the National Defense University—a […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/alan-w-dowd/obama-surrenders-the-war-on-terror/print/ “Don’t be afraid to see what you see,” President Reagan counseled in his farewell address. We would do well to heed his advice as President Obama attempts to lead America backwards, to September 10. Make no mistake: That was the not-so-subtle message he sent last week during his speech at the National Defense University—a […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/steven-plaut/inventing-jewish-terrorists/ News headlines in the US over the past few weeks have focused on political targeting there by the Internal Revenue Service against conservative groups. But Israel is now experiencing a far worse form of political targeting by the state. In Israel the Attorney General is leading an initiative to have a small group of […]
