"In a statement to ABC News about Parsley's comments, McCain's campaign said the senator 'obviously strongly rejects such statements.'” -- from this article
Senator McCain both "obviously" and "strongly" rejects "such statements"?
Why "obviously"?
And why "strongly"?
If he wishes to object to "such statements," he should not fall back on the word "obviously," but tell us what about those statements he objects to. For it is not "obvious" at all what about them is objectionable.
He might distance himself, if distance himself he calculatingly must, in a much more nuanced and milder way. He could let it be known that he thinks the statements "raise issues that we will have to be addressing" about what prompts those who call for Jihad, and what instruments have received undue attention and what other instruments of Jihad need to be examined. Above all, Senator McCain could agree that this is primarily an ideological war, made on non-Muslims by those who claim that Jihad, as a "struggle" to expand the boundaries of what is called Dar al-Islam and to push back the boundaries of what is called Dar al-Harb, is not tangential but central to Islam.
What is clear is that the definition of the "war" being waged against us, and against many others around the world, has been far too narrow. Senator McCain, as someone who has spent a long time in the military, is keenly aware of the need not to see "war" purely in military terms, but to recognize, and prepare to check, instruments of warfare that go far beyond combat or terrorism -- which to its practitioners is legitimized as a form of combat, updated for the times and the circumstances.
But to reject "obviously" and "strongly" statements that are mostly true, disturbs. For what Pastor Rod Parsley wrote is, if not entirely true, or not as suavely put as it might be, is, at least far truer than what one routinely reads about Islam in The New Duranty Times or The Bandar Beacon, or hears from the mouths of pontificating members of the political and media elites, who blandly assume that the long-suffering members of the American public will forever take their word for it about Islam without doing a little investigation -- we are all Boston Blackies now -- of the texts and tenets of Islam. Look at how many who call themselves "conservatives" or Republicans are -- just look at some of the comments at Jihad Watch -- disgusted with the Bush Administration's continued empty vaporings about Islam as a "religion of peace." No, their authority is being questioned, and they are being openly mocked, for the things they would have us believe about Islam.
Question Authority? When it shows itself as idiotic, about Islam, about energy policy, about everything under the sun, as those who presume to instruct and protect us have shown themselves to be, over the past several decades? You bet.
Someone, or some group, must go to McCain, or get to McCain, and that means going around such pollyannish surge-supporters as Frederick Kagan and Max Boot, who fail to identify the Camp of Islam and the Camp of Jihad as the problem. They fail to see why dampening, rather than encouraging or at least doing nothing to discourage, the pre-existing fissures (sectarian and ethnic) in Iraq is the only policy that makes sense, if the goal is not to establish a Light-Unto-the-Muslim-Nations. And that Light-Unto-the Muslim Nations goal is not attainable.
McCain keeps defending the democracy project in Iraq. He keeps misunderstanding the need to clearly see the war in Iraq as merely one theatre in a much larger war. He continues to ignore the instruments of Jihad that are most effective -- Da’wa, the Money Weapon, and demographic conquest. He seems, like so many others in the Republican Party, intent on “supporting the President” or on “avoiding defeat” in Iraq. But the removal of American forces would not necessarily be a defeat. Rather, if executed properly and for the right reasons it could be an intelligent act of ruthless calculation, and would do a great deal to upset jihadists, including those in both Iran and Saudi Arabia -- the two most malevolent and powerful Muslim countries who are supporting the Jihad to spread Islam and to ensure its dominance.
The MSM does not seem as intent on presenting Parsley's anti-Islamic views as they are others perhaps for the fact that a lot of Americans would be in agreement with them. McCain objects to them because like the others he has swallowed the Religion of Peace pill and is hallucinating that there is no supremicist notions in Islam and the terror is being caused by a few misfits.
LOL ... a good rule of thumb: if a person, speaking or writing, begins with "obviously" or "clearly," what follows will be a highly dubious if not out-right nonsensical proposition. A corollary is, the speaker who begins with "obviously" or "clearly" is not analytic, and does not know what he is talking about.
1 John 4
Test the Spirits (New International Version)
1:Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2:This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3:but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
Muslims acknowledge Jesus as a prophet, but not as the Christ of all mankind. Verse 2 says Jesus is the Christ.The Spirit that Muhammad talked to, so he could spreed the message of Allah,therfore is of the antichrist. This is the word of God.
I contacted McCain's campaign office several months ago concerning his use of the phrase 'radical Islamic extremists'.
I asked the campaign worker at the other end of the line several questions:
Would Senator McCain be O.K. with 'moderate' Islamic extremsits?
Does he ever wonder what it is that Islamic extremists are being extreme about?
I also suggested to her that if Islam really is 'a religion of peace', Muslim extremists would surely be extremely peaceful.
Among her responses, several made it quite clear (if she was expressing the senator's Islamic knowledge) that he is quite clueless. Among them:
*I was the first person to raise such issues.
*I was the first person she had spoken with who knew so much about the subject.
And, the killer:
'Talking about Islam is touchy'.
Obviously.
casey92
I'll go you one better--Muhammed is a false prophet, and Islam is the Antichrist. For years, for most of my life, I've been on the lookout for the Antichrist (or the third antichrist, if you prefer), expecting "him" to be a person.
It makes sense that the final Antichrist would not be a person. That would be too obvious. However, this ideology as an Antichrist, with all of its slippery, silken lies which are unable to cover its true nature, is doing a very nice job of slipping under the radar.
Even the majority of people who see it, refuse to see it.
Hugh,
I sent Senator McCain a letter on 5/24 which I posted here:
post #5 @
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021159.php#comments
I will wait to see what, if any I response I get. Maybe I can get into some kind of dialogue with one of his staff (hope I am not dreaming here).
Hugh,
I sent Senator McCain a letter on 5/24 which I posted here:
post #5 @
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021159.php#comments
I will wait to see what, if any I response I get. Maybe I can get into some kind of dialogue with one of his staff (hope I am not dreaming here).
Abscedere:
Ditto. I remember reading a horrible book about the Holocaust when I was in eighth grade (Catholic school)and I vowed I would be on the watch for anything that resembled the barbarism of Nazism. Low and behold, after all these years, it is in Islam.
Abscedere,
And if Islam is the Antichrist then it would make sense that the Islamic savior, Al Mahdi, would be the religious commander (nagid) described in Daniel 9:25-27.
Even the majority of people who see it, refuse to see it.
Posted by: Abscedere at May 26, 2008 10:56 AM
Yes, Abscedere, that is what is so unnerving.
All the unabashed violence in the name of Islam. The 1400 year history of relentless pursuit of hegemony over the infidel. The Koran, with all the horrific exhortations to convert by the sword, in bold print for anyone to read, and yet the majority of people refuse to see it.
Instead what is being sold is the idiotic Bush mantra of "religion of peace."
This is folding out so improbably, so contrary to logic ... the obviously evil elements of Islam, cloaked in some kind of stealth shield so that the majority are unaware. In all seriousness, this could easily be played out as a script from one of the more downbeat episodes of The Twilight Zone.
I find myself praying to God that enough of us wake up in time.