Biden to Pakistan: "We are not the enemies of Islam"

He doesn't seem to have addressed the question of whether or not large segments of Islam are at war with us, and what the implications of that might be. He doesn't seem to have addressed how it is that Pakistan can be a "key anti-terror ally" when it has funneled much of the money it has received from the U.S. to fight jihadists to those same jihadists. He doesn't seem to have addressed the involvement of Pakistan's spy service in jihad activity, including the Mumbai jihad massacre. Instead, he yet again reflected the core Obama Administration assumption (shared by many on the other side of the political fence as well) that it is incumbent upon the U.S. to reassure and mollify the Islamic world, as if the causes for the suspicion and conflict were all our fault.

"Biden tells Pakistan: 'We are not the enemy of Islam,'" by Claire Truscott for AFP, January 12:

ISLAMABAD -- US Vice President Joe Biden delivered a bold message of support for key anti-terror ally Pakistan during a trip to Islamabad Wednesday, telling the country that America is "not the enemy of Islam"....

"There are... some sections in Pakistani society and elsewhere that suggest America disrespects Islam and its followers," Biden told reporters at the prime minister's residence.

"We are not the enemies of Islam and we embrace those who practise that great religion in all our country," he added.

As Biden wrapped up his visit, a suicide blast in the northwest town of Bannu killed 18 people, most of them security officers, and injured 15 in an attack claimed by the Taliban as revenge for US missile strikes in the area.

Biden said militancy in Pakistan was a threat to both countries, and he referred to the killing last week of Punjab governor Salman Taseer, who was shot dead by his bodyguard over his outspoken opposition to strict blasphemy laws.

The confessed killer has been hailed a hero by religious conservatives and rallies have been held across the country in his honour.

"Societies that applaud such actions end up being consumed by those actions," Biden said....

US officials have announced they will fast-track part of a 7.5-billion-dollar five-year aid package to help the country recover from devastating floods last year....

Pakistan won US praise after it mounted an offensive against homegrown Taliban extremists in the South Waziristan region in late 2009.

But a White House report to Congress in October stated bluntly that Pakistan had not confronted Afghanistan's Taliban, in what experts see as a bid by Islamabad to preserve influence over its northern neighbour....

Yep.

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did you know that only 2% of pakistanis pay taxes? we are giving them money and we are getting blown.

No state that muzzles free speech, a core US right, as Pakistan does, merits any US aid. As a minimum requirement for even a free cup of coffee, Pakistan needs to show that it has repealed the anti-blasphemy law. And if they can stop the periodic persecution and murder of religious minorities, they also get a free donut.

US officials have announced they will fast-track part of a 7.5-billion-dollar five-year aid package to help the country recover from devastating floods last year....

US aid...

How in the &%$@#*! hell are we in the position to to give ANYONE aid?!? Let alone aid people who use it to aid our enemys in their war against us.

"The confessed killer has been hailed a hero by religious conservatives and rallies have been held across the country in his honour."

I wonder if it was hard for Joe to say this? Or wait, is he talking about Arizona?

US officials have announced they will fast-track part of a 7.5-billion-dollar five-year aid package .
The porkies can now relax and don't have to be moderate muslim as they have portrayed themselves in the last few years. Now they can be themselves.

sarc off.

Yeah, we are not the enemies of Islam but, but the reverse is true --- that is Islam considers all humanity as its enemy!!! Biden forgot to tell Pakistanis this little secret!!!

This Hussein Obama and his crooked gang (emboldened to exploit so deceitfully the shooting of the Demcratic law-maker in Arizona, by a Nazi-lover), I suspect are Nazi-lovers! Imagine Biden calling Islam a "great religion" despite of mounting evidence through historical facts including by scholars, of the how Islam was created by Mohammed, the Arabic Pedophile, who became the first one in history (so Hitler wasn’t the first – he might have been inspired by Mohammed since Hitler loved Islam) to SYSTEMATICALLY racialize the Jews as a race as different from the Arab race, to justify their mass-murder, in order to commit the first racial Genocide of the Jews, in order to create supremacist and savage Nazi-like Arabic empire. These suspected Nazi-lover traitors in the White House must be defeated; the Rep. Party must mobilized for Presidency candidates as soon as possible (fiery & patriotic anti-Islam Allen West is a great potential). And how Arab/Turkish-Muslims were Hitlers' main collaborators or advisers!

Joe please stop talking for Americans on the public forum. Your hollow rhetoric is meaningless.

It's stories like this that I like to shove in front of anti-Americans to show them that America isn't run by Joos...

It's such a simple concept.. What do Jews have to gain from a world that is all muslim?

I wish a troll would answer that one.. I would love to see that...

((( "We are not the enemies of Islam and we embrace those who practise that great religion in all our country." )))

Speak for yourself, Biden. Have you heard any of the "great" teachings, in any of the "great" mosques, of this "great religion", in our country lately?

Nimrod.

Americans are giving a hooping 7.5 billion dollars FREE aid to Pakistan,when so many local Americans are reeling under poverty. The Conservatives should stop this unwanted squandering of tax payer's money. ... BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor: "There are new numbers out tonight on the state of ... 43 1/2 million Americans now living below the poverty line , which, .... It is estimated that 6 of every 10 U.S. adults will be poor for one "....God bless(Save) America.

"Speak for yourself, Biden. Have you heard any of the "great" teachings, in any of the "great" mosques, of this "great religion", in our country lately?

Nimrod."

Right, if he wanted to get a real good impresion of the so called "great religion" he would go catch a sermon in one of the "great mosques" in Pakistan.

Know what would be even better? If Joe got into politics over there, and stayed out of my wallet. That would be grrrrrreat!

yes, where are thes ebrave tea partiers and other conservatives, they should be raking the Obowman government over the coals for this, but instead we seems to be getting a silent approval for this jiyza to a failed radical islamic state.

I think that Joe is using "we" in a very narrow sense, and to that extent, quite accurately. His "we" is not America nor the American public; his "we" is the Obama adminstration, which has shown itself on many occasions to be pro-Moslem and anti-American.

"US officials have announced they will fast-track part of a 7.5-billion-dollar five-year aid package ...."

Attention, Republican Congressmen looking for places to reduce government spending! Here's one place to start.

That's $173 for each of those people. It may not be much, but it could be food for 2 weeks, or rent for a week, or some soap or toothpaste or any number of sundries that could take the sting of poverty away, even for a short time. Instead, the US government has decided to give it to a country of murderers to do what: murder innocent people, propogate jihad against its own people as well as infidels, and prop up blood-thirsty, self-serving pedophilic imams who want nothing less than the total destruction of the infidel world.

Lt. Col Alan West for President!

Ima

G'Day Mr. President, it's me, Australia. You may remember how we've actually been fighting jihadis alongside your servicemen. We've been in iraq, afghanistan, we even aided your home country of indonesia. I won't go so far as to say we're BFF's but...

You may have heard we're having some floods over here. No big whoop, just some cities destroyed and an area more than twice the size of texas declared a disaster zone. I know what you're thinking mate, we've only had 13 people die so how can we call it a tragedy?

The cost of rebuilding Toowoomba is ~$6B, wouldn't it be nice for the hundreds of diggers from this community to know that our allies have our backs, to know that their families and homes are safe while they are fighting jihadis?

With Australian diggers, you won't have to worry about us doing backhanded deals with local imams to conveniently look the other way. You won't have to worry about aiding poorly trained, unreliable, and downright shifty local militia that "support" you. We know what we're doing, we're equipped for the job, and our track record has been impeccable. You won't have to worry about infiltration, all of the Australians over there come from Australia. We tend to stick out!

I don't want to tell you how to do your job, mate. Maybe you think that because your dollar is now worth the same as our's the money won't go as far. Honestly we'll take whatever we can get.

Please.

We'll get along fine without you, I'm sure you're busy. We're Australian and we look after our own just like we always have. I know you're far away and we won't call you Aussiphobic if you don't but just...

Please.

Sincerely,
Australia (and Tasmania...*sigh*)

"There are... some sections in Pakistani society and elsewhere that suggest America disrespects Islam and its followers,"

Disrespect Islam? Given what America stands for, America naturally must abhor Islam and hold it beneath contempt. And it does so the more Americans learn about this totalitarian, fascist evil. This goes for Mr. Biden too.

"We are not the enemies of Islam and we embrace those who practise that great religion in all our country,"

Given again what America stands for, America must be the natural and mortal enemy of this totalitarian fascist evil, as it was of Hitler's fascism. Mr. Biden either lies or is mindless.

I would pose the eminent Mr. Blowhard two riddles:

1. Define respect.
2. Define islam.

Until then Joe, we have nothing left to believe from you regarding our enemy, "shared" or not.

Hear me Joe?

Read the Koran and Hadeeth next Sunday, instead of the Old Testament, please.

Oh, and by the by...Pakistan is a hopeless Islamis shi***e.

I would hope that these clowns in government would spend the 7.5 billions at home where we need it badly but if needs to so someplace than lets take care of a real friend like Australia.

Biden and Obama are whta we would call in England `A right pair of tits!'

Joe Biden is an idiot--seriously

I strongly suspect that once the mikes were off and Biden seen off, one Pakistani official turns to another and says,
"Allah be praised that the miserable, seven-times-accursed, filthy, Jew-loving Kufr dog is so naive!"

But, isn't it interesting that this Veep is sent out by the same President, who, as a candidate, advocated bombing Pakistan to help the Afghan war effort?

Giving financial aid to any country ruled by Sharia law is just paying jizya (non-Muslim) tax. It is the plunder that Sharia law guarantees to Muslims from non-Muslims.

Somebody should send Mr Biden a copy of the following interesting historical text:

“Unsigned essays dealing with the Russo-Turkish War, and on Greece, written while JQA was in retirement, before his election to Congress in 1830”

[Chapters X-XIV (pp. 267-402) in The American Annual Register for 1827-28-29. New York, 1830.]

of which we may read many extended excerpts in this article:

http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=F3F5C99B-338A-4BC1-A4B2-585EFE643619

'John Quincy Adams Knew Jihad
By Andrew G. Bostom
FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, September 29, 2004

In those essays, this is just part of what Mr Adams Junior, one of America's greatest statesmen (and a staunch opponent of slavery) had to say about Islam:

"In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar [i.e., Muhammad], the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius,

"with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor,
"proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven,

"and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth.

"Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God;

"he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle.

"Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution,

"he humbled it to the dust by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion.

" poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy;

"**and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind.** {my emphasis - dda}

" THE ESSENCE OF HIS (Mohammed's) DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE...".

(and Andrew Bostom, who so far as I know was one of the first people to unearth this interesting piece of writing by Mr Adams, notes that the capitals in the excerpt I have just quoted, are Mr Adams', presumably intended for emphasis).

Now, ladies and gentlemen, having listened to this voice from the depths of America's past, let us contemplate once more the words of Mr Vice-President Joe Biden:

"We are not the enemies of Islam".

That may be so, Mr Biden.

But if JQA got it right - and I think he did - then *Islam*, or more properly, the Ummah, the Mohammedan Mob, is an implacable enemy to, and *permanently at war with* the USA...and every other person, or organisation, or polity, that refuses to submit to Islam.

More, from John Quincy Adams (and note his sympathy with those who, such as the Russians, are unfortunate enough to live next door to Mohammedans and suffer from their aggressive depredations and malevolent deceits. I think I can safely predict what JQA might have said about the Pakistani Muslim assault upon Mumbai)

“As the essential principle of his [i.e. Mohammed's] faith is the subjugation of others by the sword; it is only by force, that his false doctrines can be dispelled, and his power annihilated.

"They [The Russians] have been from time immemorial, in a state of almost perpetual war with the Tatars, and with their successors, the Ottoman conquerors of Constantinople.

"It were an idle waste of time to trace the causes of each renewal of hostilities, during a succession of several centuries.

"** The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God.** {my emphasis - dda}.

" The vanquished may purchase their lives, by the payment of tribute [i.e. jizya - dda};

"the victorious may be appeased by a false and delusive promise of peace {i.e. by a hudna, a 'treaty of Hudaybiyya' - dda};

"and the faithful follower of the prophet, may submit to the imperious necessities of defeat:

"but the command to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always obligatory, when it can be made effective.

"The commands of the prophet may be performed alike, by fraud, or by force.

"Of Mahometan good faith, we have had memorable examples ourselves. {JQA is being sarcastic - dda}."
END QUOTE.

Well, Pakistan is pretty damn good at the 'fraud' part of that, so far as I can see.


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