The imam Obama has spoken: “ISIL speaks for no religion. Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocents.” Yet Islamic law mandates death for heretics and apostates, and that is what the Islamic State jihadis consider their Muslim victims to be. Also, the Qur’an teaches: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (47:4). James Foley was certainly an unbeliever, and one from a state with which the Islamic State considers itself to be at war — thus they did not consider him innocent.
Obama excuses and apologizes for Islam every time a jihadist atrocity affects the U.S. in some way. He would do far better to confront the Islamic State’s Islamic justifications for its actions and call on Muslims in the U.S. and elsewhere to teach against these understandings of Islam that they ostensibly reject. But he never does that, and apparently has no interest in doing it.
“Transcript: President Obama’s remarks on the execution of journalist James Foley by Islamic State,” Washington Post, August 20, 2014:
President Obama delivered the following remarks in Martha’s Vineyard on the beheading of American journalist James Foley by the militant group Islamic State. Transcript courtesy of Federal News Service.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good afternoon, everybody.
Today, the entire world is appalled by the brutal murder of Jim Foley by the terrorist group ISIL. Jim was a journalist, a son, a brother and a friend. He reported from difficult and dangerous places, bearing witness to the lives of people a world away.
He was taken hostage nearly two years ago in Syria, and he was courageously reporting at the time on the conflict there. Jim was taken from us in an act of violence that shocked the conscience of the entire world. He was 40 years old, one of five siblings, the son of a mom and dad who worked tirelessly for his release. Earlier today, I spoke to the Foleys and told them that we are all heartbroken at their loss and join them in honoring Jim and all that he did.
Now, Jim Foley’s life stands in stark contrast to his killers. Let’s be clear about ISIL. They have rampaged across cities and villages killing innocent, unarmed civilians in cowardly acts of violence. They abduct women and children and subject them to torture and rape and slavery. They have murdered Muslims, both Sunni and Shia, by the thousands. They target Christians and religious minorities, driving them from their homes, murdering them when they can, for no other reason than they practice a different religion.
They declared their ambition to commit genocide against an ancient people. So ISIL speaks for no religion. Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocents. No just god would stand for what they did yesterday and what they do every single day. ISIL has no ideology of any value to human beings. Their ideology is bankrupt. They may claim out of expediency that they are at war with the United States or the West, but the fact is they terrorize their neighbors and offer them nothing but an endless slavery to their empty vision and the collapse of any definition of civilized behavior.
People like this ultimately fail. They fail because the future is won by those who build and not destroy. The world is shaped by people like Jim Foley and the overwhelming majority of humanity who are appalled by those who killed him. The United States of America will continue to do what we must do to protect our people. We will be vigilant and we will be relentless. When people harm Americans anywhere, we do what’s necessary to see that justice is done and we act against ISIL, standing alongside others. The people of Iraq, who with our support are taking the fight to ISIL must continue coming together to expel these terrorists from their community. The people of Syria, whose story Jim Foley told, do not deserve to live under the shadow of a tyrant or terrorists. They have our support in their pursuit of a future rooted in dignity.
From governments and peoples across the Middle East, there has to be a common effort to extract this cancer so that it does not spread. There has to be a clear rejection of this kind of nihilistic ideologies. One thing we can all agree on is that a group like ISIL has no place in the 21st century. Friends and allies around the world, we share a common security and a common set of values that are rooted in the opposite of what we saw yesterday. And we will continue to confront this hateful terrorism and replace it with a sense of hope and civility.
And that’s what Jim Foley stood for, a man who lived his word, who courageously told the stories of his fellow human beings, who was liked and loved by friends and family. Today, the American people will all say a prayer for those who loved Jim. All of us feel the ache of his absence. All of us morn his loss. We keep in our prayers those other Americans who are separated from their families. And we will do everything that we can to protect our people and the timeless values that we stand for. May God bless and keep Jim’s memory. And may God bless the United States of America.
wildjew says
You beat me to it. Except I see what he is trying to convey to the public a little differently.
“No just god would stand for what they did yesterday and what they do every single day.”
President Obama is either misinformed (I am dubious that he is misinformed) about the religion of his fathers or he is dishonest. Islam’s god does stand for what these devout Muslim did yesterday and what they do every single day.
islamisdeath says
The only people islam considers innocents are muslims of the same stripe as the group doing the killing. Killing everyone else is not murdering innocents in their depraved view. Obama must surely know this.
voegelinian says
Yes, with that pointed inclusion of “innocents” Obama here is reiterating with more fidelity than we usually see in the Western mainstream the boilerplate Islamic “condemnation of terrorism” we have seen trotted out now and then over the years since 911.
Shane says
Obama is not misinformed, he lived in a Muslim country during his childhood. Obama is lying about Islam not having anything to do with Islamic jihad groups like ISIS, but Bush also lied about it. Kerry also lied about Islam yesterday too.
Obama and the left think that by appeasing Muslims, Muslim will no longer want to destroy us. Idiots.
PRCS says
“President Obama is either misinformed (I am dubious that he is misinformed) about the religion of his fathers or he is dishonest.”
Change that just a little:
Everyone who makes excuses for Islam’s teachings is either misinformed or is dishonest.
President Obama is not alone in that.
Some other examples include:
All of CAIR’s membership.
The Pope.
Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and every Fox News “personality” I’ve seen.
Virtually every other network’s news personality.
President Bush II.
Every Imam in America.
Most of Detroit.
Way too many American university/college professors/instructors.
Way too many American university/college students.
Way too many everyday American citizens.
Feel free to add to this list.
Shane says
You are wrong about O’Reilly and Hannity. Hannity especially knows the truth about Islam and the left’s alliance with Islamic Supremacists, as he has had Brigitte Gabriel and Pamela Gellar on his show.
voegelinian says
Millions in the West, including many ordinary unfamous civilians who reflexively have swallowed and regurgitate (when they are bothered to have the time to do so between picking up the kids from soccer practice and meeting a client for frappaccinos at the local Starbucks, etc.), could be added to the list PRCS typed.
“Everyone who makes excuses for Islam’s teachings is either misinformed or is dishonest.”
Yes; and misinformed has to be understood to be quite a complex sociocultural phenomenon, involving a paradigm shift in the mainstream Western Weltanschauung over the past century, crystallizing more and more with each passing generation up into our own. Part of its complexity — and part of the explanation for how and why it has become so pervasively influential in Western societies — is that, in varying degrees, it reaches into the hearts and minds of relatively decent and intelligent individuals — including even quite a few of our fellow Jihad Watchers.
voegelinian says
Addition to my comment:
“…civilians who reflexively have swallowed and regurgitate…”
What so many (too many) of our fellow civilians around us have reflexively swallowed and continue to pollute the social air with is, of course, the various shibboleths and axioms of PC MC.
Christian Knight says
O’bummer and the rest of Western governments created ISIS and the rest of Islamic Jihadists.. By getting rid of Saddam,Gadaffi they have opened up Pandora’s box.. There’s a saying ” Better the Devil you know ” where were these people when the were alive.. They were kept under control, we’ll be fighting these fights for the rest of this century..
voegelinian says
“By getting rid of Saddam,Gadaffi they have opened up Pandora’s box.”
And by failing to support Mubarak and Assad; and generally speaking, aiding and abetting the “Arab Spring”, rather than aggressively opposing it with a policy of a Realislamik.
Beagle says
“The imam Obama”
Joined by the ayatollah David Cameron. I am amazed the way western leaders essentially conduct daw’ah for Islam when their job is to protect us from its consequences. How can anyone in good conscience shill for Islam when the penalty for leaving it is death? Not to in any way limit Islam’s pernicious attributes to that one thing. It’s a Kafkaesque / Orwellian nightmare every time one of our leaders speaks.
Jaladhi says
Islam taqiyya at work!!
Jaladhi says
Amazing this tragedy is being used to defend Islam – how pathetic !! What is obvious is being deliberately ignored so Americans don’t learn the truth about Islam.
Champ ✿ says
Bravo, Jaladhi! Great comment!
Michael Copeland says
See LibertyGB’s response to this murder
https://www.facebook.com/LibertyGBParty:
The bloodthirsty Muslim jackal who beheaded American journalist James Foley has a London accent. He and hundreds like him will soon be returning to Britain. A patriotic government would have them stopped at the border and deported together with their extended families, stripped of their assets. A patriotic government would close down the schools and mosques where they were radicalised. A patriotic government would halt all further Muslim immigration and remove every trace of Islam from British public life. What will David Cameron’s government do?
wildjew says
I posted this full comment on a left-leaning Mediaite piece attributing it to a scholar on Islam:
‘Obama has spoken: “ISIL speaks for no religion. Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocents.” Yet Islamic law mandates death for heretics and apostates, and that is what the Islamic State jihadis consider their Muslim victims to be. Also, the Qur’an teaches….’ etc.
Mediaite uses Disqus. Surprisingly I got three thumbs up so far.
Rob says
Is ISIS so removed from Islam?
The Yazidi refugees say that it was their Muslim neighbours who were the first to denounce then to the ISIS psychopaths.
Champ says
obama is a bald-faced liar!
mariam rove says
I am wondering who help me to buy Hashish? Secret Service? M
mariam rove says
Him I meant. m
somehistory says
He wants the future to belong to him.
Edward says
I wonder who wrote his speech…….if he did the chameleon has changed his colors for expediency sake!
islamisdeath says
He cant write he can only read so I feel sure imam obama did not write it.
gravenimage says
Obama: Islamic State “speaks for no religion. Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocents.”
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Obama—who spent much of his youth in Indonesia attending Qur’an classes—*surely* knows that for pious Muslims the only “innocents” are devout Muslims—and, moreover, just devout Muslims of their exact sect.
Hence their murderously targeting Christians, Yazidis, lax Muslim “apostates” and “heretical” Shi’ites is perfectly Islamic.
In the barbaric Islamic State, in fact, we are seeing Islam in its purest form—and what a sanguinary horror it is.
richard sherman says
Obama reveres the sociopath Muhammad who personally decapitated 900 unarmed Jews..if you revere a sociopath you are a ….oh well you fill in the blank…
Bezelel says
i miss presidents that wear cowboy hats. He is one ridiculous POS.
CogitoErgoSum says
He calls ISIL a cancer. ISIL is the ugly, disfiguring, putrescent tumor that has grown so large as to become obvious to everyone as being malignant. The cancer behind it all and the real cause is Islam. Obama is a bigger fool than Kerry.
JIMJFOX says
Hear hear!
Obama disingenuous? Surely not…
Are we not all sick of the appeasement, the smoke and mirrors & the transparent quivering terror of our ‘leaders’?
The REAL fear is that another such is elected in 28 months from now….
paddy! says
it’ s ‘here here’ ! Actually…but i like ‘Hear hear’ too
Champ says
No, it’s “hear, hear” …
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/6690/hear-hear-or-here-here
Hope this helps! 🙂
gravenimage says
Thanks, Champ—I was just going to post on that, as well. You’re quite right.
Leith Wood says
“Islam is an economic, military and political ideology, that uses religion as a method to obtain their ultimate goal: Islamic Ummah or Nation Worldwide and under Sharia law.”
Alice says
Oh, he KNOWS. That’s why he little white lied about innocents.
Transmaster says
Don’t you realize that Golf is the boogaloo’s Jihad.
JIMJFOX says
Cameron (NTDWI) & Obama (TFMNBTTWSTPOI), peace be upon them-
Same Shit, Different Day…
Angemon says
Hmmm, i must have missed the memo explaining why Sheik Hussein knows more about ISIL’s beliefs than ISIL members.
Sam says
Obama is the president of USA. I am an American and I am ASHAMED of this IDIOT, ARROGANT, KNOW NOTHING, BRAINWASHED COMMUNIST.
Myxlplik says
Why all the double talk Obama. Yes Islam, says killing innocent people is wrong, but what IS innocence, or how does one lose it?
From the Quran verse 5
We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person – unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land – it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our messengers with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses in the land.[Quran 5:32]
So here essentially the Quran says it’s okay to slay people who “spread mischief”.
Essentially, what ISIS is saying is that America spreads mischief in their lands (by killing Islamic fighters bent on genocide mind you), so now ISIS is at war with all Americans and it is okay to slay any of us anytime they like, because in their eyes we are not “innocent” due to the mischief we caused in their Caliphate. So, sure Obama is right, but relies on the stupidity of Americans not to dig for the deeper truth, which is yes the Quran sanctions this murder.
Joseph says
Has Obama been talking to Pope Francis again? Silly boy. Gotta find better advisers.
His Holiness stated officially last November, recall, that:
“Authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence” [Evangelii Gaudium #253].
Wellington says
I submit that when trying to gauge Obama, it is important to keep in mind that there’s not much there there. Too many are set on not underestimating Obama when, actually, they should be focused on not overestimating him.
Transmaster says
Read the book “Blood Feud” you will find out Obama is a back stabbing snake. The only thing this justification for abortion cares about is his reflection in the mirror. He has no convictions he does not like to make decisions. he puts everything off until he is forced into one and even then Valerie Garrett, and Michelle Moo Mama has veto power over it. The only bright spot is The Salton of Me, and Dos Bitches are destroying the Democrapic party. When Ran Paul gets multiple standing ovations during a speech at Berkley. California you realize how things have changed have changed.
MrIpe says
Hopefully people of USA will see this obvious contradiction and will kich BHO out asap!
In my small country in EU we, the freedom fighters, have flooded information about the disgusting things of Islam in the top media and thus our people know the truth. They would not accept the bullshit like this from our president.
maria says
the only translation of the verse quoted by Robert spencer is follows:
47.4. So, when you meet those who disbelieve in war, smite at their necks (without giving them the opportunity to defeat you). At length, when you have sufficiently suppressed them (without continuing fighting), bind a firm bond of captivity on them. Then set them free either as a favor without demanding anything in return, or for ransom (which may consist of a reciprocal exchange of prisoners of war), so that the war may lay down its burdens (and come to an end). That (is God’s command). Had God so willed, He would certainly exact retribution from them (Himself), but (He orders you to fight) in order to try you by means of one another. As for those who are killed in God’s cause, He will never render their deeds vain.\
There is nothing worse than misguided hatred… and it makes those who deride all Muslims and our religion no better than the mis-creants who commit atrocities in the name of our religion…. For those who consider themselves well read and educated, it is a shame to take such a myopic stance and I can see no other justification than an opportunity to perpetuate the growing hatred…. well I suppose if Muslims handed over their oil and other natural resources and lands and allowed themselves to be subjugated to slavery of some kind and accept being third class citizens after the Jews and Whites, then the world would lose interest in creating hate propaganda against us!
Angemon says
maria posted:
“the only translation of the verse quoted by Robert spencer is follows:
47.4. So, when you meet those who disbelieve in war, smite at their necks (without giving them the opportunity to defeat you). At length, when you have sufficiently suppressed them (without continuing fighting), bind a firm bond of captivity on them. Then set them free either as a favor without demanding anything in return, or for ransom (which may consist of a reciprocal exchange of prisoners of war), so that the war may lay down its burdens (and come to an end). That (is God’s command). Had God so willed, He would certainly exact retribution from them (Himself), but (He orders you to fight) in order to try you by means of one another. As for those who are killed in God’s cause, He will never render their deeds vain.”
This is, of course, blatantly false. There are several translations of the quran in english:
http://quran.com/47/4
All of them agree on the point of striking at the necks. The parts among parentheses are comments and not part of the quran itself.
“There is nothing worse than misguided hatred… and it makes those who deride all Muslims and our religion no better than the mis-creants who commit atrocities in the name of our religion…”
You heard it folks. Pointing out that ISIS is acting upon islamic orthodoxy is “deriding all muslims and their religion” and that makes you just as bad as the muslims who are killing non-muslims because of said islamic orthodoxy.
“well I suppose if Muslims handed over their oil and other natural resources and lands and allowed themselves to be subjugated to slavery of some kind and accept being third class citizens after the Jews and Whites, then the world would lose interest in creating hate propaganda against us!”
This is standard islamic anti-semitic paranoia. Notice that, according to maria, the Jews are at the top of the hierarchy. And she also tries to make it a racial issue, as if whites can’t be muslims. Why, just ask Ibrahim Hooper! Tell me maria, if muslims have oil why is it that many millions of them in Europe live on welfare? Also, what’s your stance on dhimmitude? Surely, if you’re against treating people as third class citizens you object to the treatment of jews and christians as ordained in islamic orthodoxy.
gravenimage says
“maria” wrote:
the only translation of the verse quoted by Robert spencer is follows:
47.4. So, when you meet those who disbelieve in war, smite at their necks (without giving them the opportunity to defeat you). At length, when you have sufficiently suppressed them (without continuing fighting), bind a firm bond of captivity on them. Then set them free either as a favor without demanding anything in return, or for ransom (which may consist of a reciprocal exchange of prisoners of war), so that the war may lay down its burdens (and come to an end). That (is God’s command). Had God so willed, He would certainly exact retribution from them (Himself), but (He orders you to fight) in order to try you by means of one another. As for those who are killed in God’s cause, He will never render their deeds vain.\
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Even with this laughably bowdlerized version, replete with “explanations” not found in the Qur’an itself, it is still quite clear that this is a verse—along with Qur’an 9:5, the Sura of the Sword—enjoining Muslims to behead and enslave “unbelievers”.
More:
There is nothing worse than misguided hatred… and it makes those who deride all Muslims and our religion no better than the mis-creants who commit atrocities in the name of our religion….
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Really? Even if we *were* misguided in considering Islam itself the core problem—which we are not—this means that you consider criticism of Islam as bad as genocide. Duly noted…
More:
For those who consider themselves well read and educated, it is a shame to take such a myopic stance and I can see no other justification than an opportunity to perpetuate the growing hatred…
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The usual—the idea that if Infidels have any problem with being oppressed, raped, enslaves, and butchered by Muslims that *we* are the ones ‘perpetuating” the hatred. In other words, don’t dare resist the Jihad or even draw attention to it…
More:
…well I suppose if Muslims handed over their oil and other natural resources and lands and allowed themselves to be subjugated to slavery of some kind and accept being third class citizens after the Jews and Whites, then the world would lose interest in creating hate propaganda against us!
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Grotesque projection. Did the Christians and Yazidis demand Muslim oil and lands? Is that why they are being mass-slaughtered?
What utter crap.
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paddy says
WOWeck outWchohoo PHRNAR…WHO HAS GOT ANICE…
Lauren says
During the primaries for the democratic nomination, Obama called Clinton a war-monger because she pointed out that even though the Bush Administration had led us into war using falsified intel, it didn’t mean that there was not just cause to enter. Second, she pointed out that now that we are there, to pull out before there was a stable government in place would make the whole of the Middle-east even more unstable and could have worldwide negative consequences. Obama and the other demo-boys ridiculed her and called he a war-monger.
When Kerry took over as Sec. of State, all hell broke loose. Clinton, they feared. Obama/Kerry they love because they will seemingly let them get away with anything.