Kerry is probably referring to the tissue of distortions, detours, half-truths and outright lies that I examined in depth here. But neither Kerry nor anyone around him will be troubled by the dishonesty and deception I exposed in that document, which was signed by 126 Muslim scholars. In fact, he will neither see nor hear about any objections to the Muslim scholars’ piece. The scholars’ friends and allies, and in some cases people who signed the document such as Nihad Awad of Hamas-linked CAIR, have worked for years to defame and demonize anyone and everyone who opposes jihad terror and Islamic supremacism. Those who have been thus smeared have no opinions or perceptions that the intellectual and political elites are bound to respect or even acknowledge. The question of whether or not those opinions are true and perceptions accurate is never even considered.
“Under US leadership, world will defeat ISIS,” by John F. Kerry, Boston Globe, September 26, 2014 (thanks to David:
THE UNITED STATES has long faced threats from a lethal brand of terrorism that perverts one of world’s great religions. We have been relentless in targeting Al Qaeda and its affiliates, but the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, now poses a profound and unique threat to the entire world.
What we are confronting is nothing less than a violent extremist enterprise. It has employed violence, intimidation, and genocidal brutality to impose its will across large swaths of Syria and Iraq. The Islamic State controls more territory than Al Qaeda ever has, which means it has access to money on an unprecedented scale to finance its mayhem.
With American leadership, the world is responding with a unity that shows these criminals that we will not allow them to divide us or force their nihilistic vision on helpless people, regardless of ethnicity, religion, or nationality. On Wednesday, the United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution condemning the gross abuses carried out by the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
There is a vigorous international debate under way about what it means to destroy the Islamic State, about how effective and resilient the growing coalition will be, and about how the strategy will unfold in the coming months.
Here at home, I understand why Americans are weary about US involvement in the volatile Middle East. People are right to ask tough questions, and we have a responsibility to answer them.
I am proud to work for a president who asks questions before using military force because, after all, I remember the words of the conservative Edmund Burke: “a conscientious man would be careful how he deals in blood.”
So let’s be clear about we’re doing — and what we’re not doing.
Let’s start by explaining what this fight is not. It is not a clash of civilizations. Muslim scholars are outraged about the Islamic State’s brutality and perversion of Islam, calling its savagery deviant and heretical. Sunni and Shiite alike have joined forces against this outrage. The coalition represents a unified response, as evidenced by the remarkable and unprecedented participation of five Arab countries in the air strikes in Syria. And that’s just the beginning. There is a role for every nation, from helping to dry up outside funding and stopping the flow of foreign fighters to taking direct military action and providing humanitarian assistance….
Truth says
John Kerry is an arrogant idiot.
Matthew Bracken says
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi holds a masters and a PhD in Islamic Studies, so I’m pretty sure he understands Islam better than Kerry. Which begs the question: why do our leaders go to such lengths to whitewash the bloody history and reality of Islam? IMO, they are just a new model of Quisling, traitors who are supporting our most deadly enemies.
John C. Barile says
They much prefer soft, incremental jihad waged by stealth and co-opted democracy to brutal, uncompromising jihad by naked force; slow sell-out in preference to absolute surrender and submission without any fig leaf.
kikorikid says
Our Leaders Sharia compliance is “Quisling” behavior.
Christ says
Obama Kerry and Cameron of the UK all talk sheiit the war should start on the streets of Europe UK USA this is where the terrorists are and protected by Idots like kerry the quarn is a pedophiles terrorists hand book all muslims are guilty of conspiracy by fact their muslims beleving in the quran…
Angemon says
Is Kerry the White House Official for Dawah? Is it his job to drone on about how wonderful islam is?
Mirren10 says
Whenever a politician says “let us be clear” (and they all say it, a lot), I know I’m just about to hear a monstrous lie.
Kerry’s just proved my point.
pdxnag says
And as a measure of their disgust with Islam several countries have withdrawn from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and removed the requirement that all their local laws must be Sharia-compliant.
Then they sang the old Coca Cola jingle:
“I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) ”
Soloview says
More and more Kerry looks like Inspector Clouseau of international politics:
Soloview says
Oops !
gerard says
Kerry: “Muslim scholars are outraged about the Islamic State’s brutality and perversion of Islam”
This fellow is beyond help. It is clear whom he serves and answers to by default. He does not serve the God of Light and Truth. He is a puppet of the Liar, the Prince of this World. Hence the lies that issue ceaselessly from his mouth. A terrible future awaits this liar if he does not repent and amend his ways.
The question we all ask again and again: What will wake him up? A knife at his throat? Probably not. He’s too far gone. In the Soviet Union Communists who were shot in the basements of the Lubyanka died shouting “Long live Stalin”! Kerry is of that mold.
Joan in Houston says
Can you believe that someone who, supposedly, is as well-educated — and politically connected — as Mr. Kerry, can be so mistaken. Or what on earth does he surmise he might obtain for our country by acting so mistaken??
jewdog says
Whew, I’m so relieved that ISIS is a minor fringe group ideologically speaking. I guess the fact that they control an area larger than Britain shows that there are too many Muslims who misunderstand their peaceful religion. Perhaps we should be air-dropping well-informed imams on them instead of bombs.
Don McKellar says
John Kerry is the manager of a used car lot who, through luck and circumstance, ended up rich and famous and as a puppet of the Obama regime. He has all the skills of a veteran used car salesman and will say anything to anybody and repeat it again and again if he thinks he’s making a sale.
No offence to used car salesmen.
Truth says
Junior Samples “BR549”, Hee Haw
Wellington says
A very useful useful idiot.
CogitoErgoSum says
If any Muslim scholars are outraged about the actions of the Islamic State it is because they prefer stealth jihad to open warfare. They know that the West was slowly crawling toward submission to Islam under the guise of PC/MC but now the “infidels” are beginning to wake up and realize just what is in store for them if Islam gains dominance in the West. In the not too distant future when Islam has been defeated men like Kerry, Obama and Cameron will be looked upon with scorn and disgust and young schoolchildren will be taught lessons about what poor leadership looks like. Not a clash of civilizations? What rubbish. This is all about civilization, culture, how we will live our lives, submission vs. freedom, good vs. evil.
Be confident that those of us who stand firm against Islam are on the side of good and be assured that evil, as it always has, will bring about its own destruction by men of good will. May the one true God grant strength and honor to us in the fight against this abomination called Islam.
John Stefan Obeda says
Yes, indeed. God have mercy on us and help us to fight this abomination, Islam. God’s ways are surely not my ways.
GP says
If muslim scholars did not finally see the light and gin up outrage over the Islamic States brutality and perversion of Islam, then the US could not continue to give billions of dollars to all of the other “Islamic States” (Pakistan, Egypt, Turkey, etc.)
Remember, moderate muslims do not actively participate in the atrocities. Instead, they just smile and nod. We pay such countries well for their moderation.
Boston Tea Party says
As others have mentioned on this site, if Muslims genuinely believed ISIS was “anti” Islamic, you couldn’t hold them back from fighting ISIS. As it is, you can’t hold them back from JOINING ISIS. No amount of whitewashing can obscure this reality.
Colleen Shelnutt says
Lurch is brain dead anyway and he will happily parrot the Obama BS line about islam being “peaceful.” Until we get a REAL President and normal Administration in, we will always be a huge wuss to the rest of the globe, thanks to Barry.
Pr126 says
There is a slight problem.
There is no such candidate onthe horizon, and even if there was one, Americans would never vote for such a “real president”.
watch for shillary in 2016.
somehistory says
One can read his soul and his heart in his eyes.
mortimer says
KHARAJITISM!
The Saudi religious philosophy of Salafist Wahhabism is the motivating force of the ISIS caliphate!
ISIS is Al Saud’s Frankenstein’s monster. People like Cameron, Obama and Kerry COVER UP the foundational philosophy to PROTECT SAUDI ARABIA FROM CRITICISM!
Most Shi’ites would call the Saudis KHARAJITES…members of an early sect that called everyone heretics but themselves.
Allan L says
“Muslim scholars are outraged about the Islamic State’s brutality and perversion of Islam”
No they are not you wanker. What they are outraged about is the fact that the true face of Islam is being exposed. These Muslim “scholars” are scared to death of the backlash against Islam that is slowly building momentum. The more outrageous Muslim behaviour becomes from those living in the West and the more they demand, demand, demand, the more the backlash builds.
kikorikid says
Each loss to Islamic Jihadi Terror is tragic but
each loss reinforces the obvious, Islamic Terror
is killing us. The only, singular, one(1) remedy is
FORCE.
Champ says
kerry is a traitor to the truth, and his eyes reveal this, as well …
“There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue …” — Proverbs 6:16-17
He is nothing more than a slave and mouthpiece for evil islam. For shame!
SpiritOf1683 says
Isn’t it time this idiot was sectioned?
Prinz Eugen says
Guess Hanoi hero “Father” Kerry will soon be getting an doctorate in theology
from Yale, Harvard and Berkeley. Such a brilliant scholar — the idiot mastered takkiya almost overnight. Of course,l he had some instruction from mullah Barry Sotero.
Notice the media in full agreement? When “W said that islam means “peace,” that was the one time they did not mock the misguided fool! “W” did evreything wrong but that poorly bungled phrase!
Ian Hatch says
I think you will find that Islam means submission – ostensibly to the will of their god, who seems to dwell in meteorite under a black tent in Mecca.
Christ says
Beautifuly put Kerry is a muslim convert Obama has them all converted kerry has sold his soul for a job in Obamas government. …
UneasyOne says
The key word unspoken in recent comments by Kerry and Obama, who are only parroting the Bush administration, is oil.
This is why Bush held hands with and kissed the Saudi royalty on tv for all of us to see! Oil.
We have a congress that is wholly owned by the oil industry, paying tax refunds (in the hundreds of millions of dollars) on billions of profits earned WITH NO ACTUAL TAXES PAID IN THE FIRST PLACE
We can be energy independent very quickly, we already have the technology. But as long as big oil controls congress, don’t expect that to happen.
Simon says
The world oil trade is what keeps the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency. As long as the Arabs and OPEC continue to demand payment only in the US dollar – then the dollar will remain high despite any huge debt problem the US may have. This has made the US and Arabs strange bedfellows, giving them huge influence. The world needs a strong America, but not at the cost of the destruction of the freedoms enshrined in the Constitution.
kikorikid says
Obama said, “No Religion teaches the murder of innocents.”
By design he neglected to tell us that, In Islam, the ONLY innocents
are “Believers. ALL the rest are open to slaughter.
John Adams says
The words of historian and author Serge Trifkovic may sound ruthless but they are the truth –and the sooner the West faces that painful reality the better:
“Islam is a collective psychosis seeking to become global, and any attempt to compromise with such madness is to become part of the madness itself. ”
John Kerry, Obama, Holder and Hillary are all living examples of this mind numbing psychosis.
prman says
Kerry is just another example of the ignorant, arrogant elite who think they know something when they don’t. And as policy makers, they continually lead the nation—also uninformed—down the wrong paths.
Barlie says
I am astounded at the ignorance of this man. Even more at Obama stating that ISIS is not Islamic! This has been coming for years but it was ignored because “we don’t want to offend the Muslims” and it is supposed to be a peaceful religion. Yeah right!
Jack Gordon says
No one who knows him can believe Kerry actually wrote this; more likely his rich heiress of a wife did the pen work. John is simply too dull to use the English language even this well. He is a ridiculous New England fop whose “opinions” don’t merit one second’s serious consideration.
Christine Godinet says
I only read the first line of what he said. That was enough.
‘Perverts one of the worlds greatest religions’.
Does this man know nothing about history. Is he really so ignorant about the religion he continuously applauds.
Islam has always behaved as ISIS is doing. ISIS is their history, their present and their future.
There is nothing perverted about what they are doing as far as Islam goes – and what on earth makes it a ‘great’ religion.
All it has ever done is cause destruction, death, hatred and violence.
The only ‘great’ about it, is that it is a ‘great’ terror and a ‘great’ evil.
One wonders if Kerry would suddenly do about face, if Obuma were no longer his commander and chief and he was about to lose his pay packet based on what he spouts.
gerard says
‘Perverts one of the worlds greatest religions’.
We’re in an “Emperor’s New Clothes” scenario. Clowns like Kerry are forever praising the new clothes of Mohammad while Mo stand s naked before all who are still able to see.
Bob Higginbotham says
Kerry is an elitist fool that vacillates between whitewashing Islam to promoting the anthropogenic climate change hoax. Like his boss he has purposely avoided any foreign policy decisions or pronouncements that might positively increase the status of the United States in the world scene. In his ignorance he refuses to recognize that the current turmoil created by Isis/Isil is the true face of Islam. He has obviously never read the Shariah.
dave1543 says
“THE UNITED STATES has long faced threats from a lethal brand of terrorism that perverts one of world’s great religions.”
Islam is not a great religion. It is completely demonic and anti Christ.
1Jn 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
1Jn 2:23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father:
Barlie says
I agree with Dave. Many are lead to think they worship the same God as the Jews and Christians. Not true. Mohommed saw an “angel of light” and at that time they had 390 gods, so Mohommed ditched the 289 and went with the “moon” god – hence the crescent moon on all Islamic flags. It brings death and destruction and women are treated like chattels. Its time to speak the true about it. Then again some will only listen to what suits them and one being who “owns the oil”