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State Department wishes ‘RIP’ to living captives of jihad terrorists

Jan 6, 2015 8:41 am By Robert Spencer

RIP Living captivesThis epitomizes how out of touch and frankly stupid the State Department’s Think Again, Turn Away program really is. State Department analysts continue to misdiagnose the problem of the global jihad and apply solutions that only make it worse — and since the mainstream media is just as clueless and compromised, these failed analysts are never called to account for their failed policies.

“State Dept. Wishes ‘RIP’ to Living Captives of Terrorists,” by Jeryl Bier, The Weekly Standard, January 6, 2015 (thanks to Anne Crockett):

The year began on a rough note for the U.S. State Department’s Think Again, Turn Away anti-terror program. On January 1, the State Department used the program’s official Twitter account to tweet a photo collage accompanied by the message, “Entering 2015, taking time to honor some of terror’s many victims of 2014 and their families – RIP.” However, none of the individuals appearing in the photos are believed to be dead, but rather held captive by terrorists.

The tweet, since deleted, appeared as follows, and is archived here:

The photo collage was part of a feature on December 17 on Al Arabiya New’s English website entitled “Remembering 2014’s captives still held by extremists.” Per the caption on the photo that accompanied the article, those included in the collage (a collection of Reuters, AFP, and YouTube images) are (clockwise from top left): Nigerian school girls, a captive Lebanese soldier’s mother, American journalist Austin Tice, British journalist John Cantlie, and Yazidi women and children….

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  1. duh_swami says

    Jan 6, 2015 at 9:00 am

    Think again turn away is a great way to get stabbed in the back. Unless you’re going to run away. Is the State Dept running away? Traveling down the bumpy, dirt road of appeasement at a high rate of speed? After ’40 miles of bad road’, the road to appeasement ends at a gate with a sign that says ‘Abandon hope all ye who enter here’…What now State Dept?

    • Darren says

      Jan 6, 2015 at 11:38 am

      The Islamic State Department even recruits from muslim brotherhood conferences.

      http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2013/01/state-dept-recruits-muslim-foreign-service-officers-at-jihadist-conf/

      This same Islamic State Department won’t even put the muslim brotherhood on the terror organization list.

      Here are photos of the muslim brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna and Adolf Hitler.
      http://www.billionbibles.org/sharia/hitler-muslim-brotherhood.html

      3 Star general says U.S government heavily infiltrated by Muslim Brotherhood.
      http://www.truthandaction.org/3-star-general-muslim-brotherhood-infiltrated-levels-us-govt/

      C.I.A head John Brennan muslim convert.
      http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/09/john-brennan-obamas-muslim-convert-stooge-jihad/

      A month prior to his swearing in, Brennan was outed by former FBI Islam expert, Marine and combat veteran John Guandolo as a convert to Islam. His conversion took place years ago in Saudi Arabia.

  2. Jay Boo says

    Jan 6, 2015 at 9:20 am

    If the State Department can bury them beforehand they can institute their “Just forgedaboutit” campaign.

    Notice how the tweet also buried the word Islamic before ‘terror’.
    “Entering 2015, taking time to honor some of terror’s many victims of 2014 and their families – RIP.”

    • martin says

      Jan 6, 2015 at 5:44 pm

      It’s because the article is actually about the Terrorish people who had many victims, they just left out the ‘ish’, purely a typo!

      The Terrorish have suffered so much, the poor little Terrors 🙁

  3. Angemon says

    Jan 6, 2015 at 9:44 am

    The year began on a rough note for the U.S. State Department’s Think Again, Turn Away anti-terror program.

    Perhaps it’s time to say “ta-ta forever, TA,TA”.

  4. Jay Boo says

    Jan 6, 2015 at 10:01 am

    The Islamic Temper Tantrum
    The State Department’s willingness to coddle the spoiled child (Muslims) is not only harming the West but is preventing Muslims from growing up into fully functioning human beings.

    Immature Muslims continually belittle themselves by their uncontrolled outbursts which in turn fosters a feeling of insecurity in the face of even the slightest criticism to the point that they “cling to guns and supremacist religion.”

  5. Jay Boo says

    Jan 6, 2015 at 10:27 am

    The State Department takes its cue from the White House.
    Michelle Obama is caught red handed fabricating a claim of racism.

    michelle obama target store racism

  6. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jan 6, 2015 at 10:32 am

    With friends like State, who needs enemies? And that applies not only to those killed by mujahidin, but to all of us. When it comes to Moslems, the State Dept should just shut down its operations because they’re dong more harm than good.

  7. mortimer says

    Jan 6, 2015 at 1:05 pm

    The deprogramming program won’t change any minds unless it focusses on foundational Islam and its lacking historicity. The normative Islam of the first two or three centuries of Islam was genocidal, barbaric, destructive, intolerant. How can you convince young men that that is wrong using Islam’s foundational texts? Can’t be done. The consensus of Islam approves of jihad.

  8. Lesley says

    Jan 6, 2015 at 3:34 pm

    Frankly, I want to know who dresses the folks at the State Department in the morning. This is so stupid that I have a hard time believing that the folks responsible for this are capable of dressing themselves…

  9. St. Croix says

    Jan 6, 2015 at 6:09 pm

    They are not even dead and being “remembered” and with a wish to Rest in Peace?? This is totally unconscionable and a real slap in the face to those held captive and their families. What an abdication of responsibility, a show of total insensitivity and an admission of incompetence/compromised loyalty.

  10. Deirdre says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 3:11 am

    It’s sad that our State Department could make such a thoughtless mistake.
    It’s even more unfortunate that it didn’t happen during Hillary Clinton’s tenure there.

  11. John Collignon says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 5:01 am

    Is State really that stupid or really that despicable ? Yes, that’s what I mean. They KNOW these people are still alive and are mocking them as captives of their beloved Islam. Far fetched ? Answer this, is ObaPutin a Muslim or a Communist ? Or both ? Believe it, there is more of a reason than being inept !!!

  12. Solange says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 5:59 pm

    This type of blind treatment of the obvious jihad situation only shows me more and more how part and parcel governments are to it.

  13. Liberals Against Islam says

    Jan 9, 2015 at 5:33 am

    test

  14. Liberals Against Islam says

    Jan 9, 2015 at 5:34 am

    test2

  15. Liberals Against Islam says

    Jan 9, 2015 at 5:34 am

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