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Term “Islamic extremism” off limits at White House terrorism summit

Feb 17, 2015 3:44 pm By Robert Spencer

obama-shhh1“We are not treating these people as part of a religion. We’re treating them as terrorists.” In other words, we’re ignoring their stated motives and goals, thereby ensuring that our analysis will be entirely faulty, and our recommendations about what to do to end this threat, if implemented, will create more problems than they solve.

“‘Islamic extremism’ off limits at White House terrorism summit,” by Marisa Schultz, New York Post, February 17, 2015:

WASHINGTON — The White House will kick off a three-day summit Tuesday on combating violent extremism on social media — but the administration won’t focus on Islamic extremism and won’t even mention the term.

“You can call them what you want; we’re calling them terrorists,” a senior Obama administration official said Monday….

“There is absolutely no justification for any of these attacks in any religion, and that’s the view of the vast majority of Muslims who have suffered huge casualties from the likes of [ISIS] or al Qaeda,” the official told reporters. “We are not treating these people as part of a religion. We’re treating them as terrorists.”

President Obama will speak twice at the summit.

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  1. southernwoman says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 3:55 pm

    It does not matter if he takes it off eventhough he shouldn’t. Americans are waking up to what is going on. They’re tired of him not calling it what it really is which us Islam.

    • AJ Liberphile says

      Feb 18, 2015 at 2:30 am

      I’d like to see more surveys of how many people are still subscibing to sharia taqiyya in various places.

  2. William Lucas HarveyJr. says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 4:00 pm

    Our very obvious, Islamic, Muslim, Jihadist, Sympathizing, Pandering, Apologist, Obama and his Administration Strikes again !

    Head in the sand, OR protecting HIS own – refusing, OR Gutless afraid, to refer to Islam, or Islamic Terrorist, or even insult Islam.

    Forcing an Islamic Caliphate on America.

  3. silvergreycat says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 4:00 pm

    *…“You can call them what you want; we’re calling them terrorists,” a senior Obama administration official said Monday….

    “There is absolutely no justification for any of these attacks in any religion, and that’s the view of the vast majority of Muslims who have suffered huge casualties from the likes of [ISIS] or al Qaeda,” the official told reporters. “We are not treating these people as part of a religion. We’re treating them as terrorists.”* The official hasn’t been reading his/her Quran… http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/quran/023-violence.htm

  4. jihad3tracker says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 4:23 pm

    Saturday Night Live’s VICTORIA JACKSON explains the main reason White House officials and our dear president ” are not treating these people as part of a religion “.

    HER SINGING ? NOT SO GOOD. HER COURAGE IN PUTTING UP THIS VIDEO ? ASTONISHING !

    HER BALLS ARE ALMOST AS BIG AS PAM GELLER’S. PLEEEEEEZE WATCH THIS AND TELL YOUR FRIENS : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0cuVeuQ73s

    As of about 4:20 Eastern time, there are about 57,000 hits. Let’s make it go viral and try for a million hits eventually.

    .

    • jihad3tracker says

      Feb 17, 2015 at 4:28 pm

      I forgot to mention the most incredibly wonderful thing about the video : GELLER AND SPENCER ARE IN THE LYRICS ! ! ! !

      At around 1 minute 24 seconds . . . I kid you not.

    • Doglicka says

      Feb 18, 2015 at 2:30 am

      Haha, cheers. Funny song. There’s some pretty salient points in that little tune.

      Reading you tube comments is mind boggling though. Farkin hell, there are some dumb, willfully ignorant people in America. So many seem to be running around trying to out-politically correct the next person. Bizarre!

      • jihad3tracker says

        Feb 18, 2015 at 4:58 am

        Yes, Doglicka, you are correct about the comments —

        There are literally tens of millions of our fellow Americans who will NEVER admit how clearly the evidence from BHO’s OWN MOUTH AND CONDUCT prove that his “faith” is Muslim.

        • TheCountess says

          Feb 18, 2015 at 5:26 pm

          I’m venting……
          The outcry at the time of campaigning was that he was a Muslim and unqualified to the articles applying to the presidential candidacy, while he denounced any relationship to muslim all the while appearing to be Christian. Never once attending church on Sun, or speaking for God and not against. And I mean God and not a man made one. I predict a book is in his future in the which he will clearly and plainly state the facts, from his religion of choice, to the death of his grand mother, to his nationality disqualifying him as applicable to the office of President, his mother’s whereabouts, several deaths that have taken place to hide his identity, his sealing his records, which have never been exposed, his wife’s true identity, their background and history in politics, from Chicago’s mafia to his cousin in Kenya. All of which have gone by the way side, including Hawaii’s trumped up birth certificate. He is having no difficulty in clearly stating his viewpoints right now, without any subterfuge. He is not for America. He is not for our Constitution. He is not for either the God of the gentile or the Jew. He could care less to defend our laws, unless he personally has brought them into law, undermining what is already on the books. His goals are becoming clearer and clearer who and what he stands for. And he makes no pretense about it. He is not our commander in chief, defending what others paid their lives for. He is a leveler though. And America is the playing field. Right now, we are a people of such diversification that nothing American is left. No one is united. Our very existence is at stake. And what would have brought out our ancestors with pitch forks in hand is passively being smoothed away, bit by bit under this guise of this or that for the sake of what? If it is not about world dominance, then what is it? Money? Property? Ruler-ship? What is it? I also predict, he will surpass Harding, as he is now becoming more infamous than Harding ever was, as this nation’s all time worst President. And not from a policy standpoint. But from out and out treasonous actions against both the populace and the Constitution of this nation. At truth, what constitution? He is writing his own. While Nero fiddled, Rome burned. It sickens and saddens me to have lived and watched this dilemma in the making. I am not proud of him. He holds no reverence of gratitude from me. Only disdain. And I am chomping at the bit for his exit. God help us in this our hour of need.

        • Roy C says

          Feb 18, 2015 at 7:27 pm

          It’s almost funny watching conservatives, – even on Fox – avoid the obvious when it comes to the messiah’s true religion. Shows just how effective political correctness is in a country where freedom of speech is supposedly a sacred right. It is beyond strange that Bill Maher is almost alone in holding the religion of Islam directly responsible for all the violence occurring in this world. No Fox host dares to venture into this forbidden territory.

  5. boakai ngombu says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 4:27 pm

    “You can call them what you want; we’re calling them terrorists,” a senior Obama administration official said Monday….

    and what shall we call y’all?

    • Jerry says

      Feb 18, 2015 at 12:20 am

      I shall call them Obamist Obaminations.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Feb 18, 2015 at 4:18 am

      Non-violent extreme denialists

  6. Angemon says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 4:57 pm

    The White House will kick off a three-day summit Tuesday on combating violent extremism on social media — but the administration won’t focus on Islamic extremism and won’t even mention the term.

    Huh, what? I had to read that three times to convince myself I’m not going crazy and that it says exactly what it says: that a White House summit against terrorism won’t eve mention the term “islamic terrorism”, thus overlooking the overwhelming majority of active terrorist groups on the globe.

    I wonder if it’s too late to apply to the Mars colonization project… I don’t want to live in this planet anymore 🙁

    “You can call them what you want; we’re calling them terrorists,” a senior Obama administration official said Monday….

    Because accurately naming their stated motivation is a terrible thing to do, isn’t it?

    “There is absolutely no justification for any of these attacks in any religion

    Bollocks. We’re not talking about “any religion”, we’re talking about a specific religion, a religion which has ample justification for terrorist attacks.

    and that’s the view of the vast majority of Muslims who have suffered huge casualties from the likes of [ISIS] or al Qaeda,” the official told reporters.

    That’s like having the Bloods and Crips saying “no, no, we’re not a gang, but those guys are, and they’re killing us”. The difference here is that the US government (be it Democrip or Rebloodlican) wouldn’t openly take sides with any of them.

    “We are not treating these people as part of a religion. We’re treating them as terrorists.”

    This is a staggering display of ignorance from someone who should know better. “Religion” and “terrorism” aren’t mutually exclusive terms, like this unnamed administration official would have us believe, especially when terrorists groups extensively quote from religious texts to justify their actions and are successfully recruiting, even in the West, based on their adherence to said texts. Weren’t we recently told not to get in our high horse because of the Crusades and the Inquisition? If “terrorists” aren’t to be treated like part of a religion why were the Crusades and the Inquisition brought up for the sake of false moral equivalence?

  7. Spot On says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 5:00 pm

    “The White House will kick off a three-day summit Tuesday on combating violent extremism on social media …”

    The WH will probably consider JW as “violent extremism” right along with those clinging to God and their guns. Oh, I almost forgot, the WH included our war veterans as extremists that need to be watched.

    This boils down to the question of which side is Obama really on?

    • Jerry says

      Feb 18, 2015 at 12:22 am

      The Antichrst is alive and well and living in the WH

  8. Neil Jennison says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 5:16 pm

    Two years ago I would have laughed at those “lunatics” who claimed Obama was a Muslim.

    I apologise ……Obama is a Muslim. No question…..in as much as he has any faith, he is a Muslim.

    I say that because I believe people like the Clintons professed Christianity while championing abortion as a “woman’s right to choose” (to murder her unborn child).

    • Neil Jennison says

      Feb 17, 2015 at 5:19 pm

      I would add, that this means Obama’s loyalty is to the Ummah, not to the USA.

      This is becoming plain to see.

      • jihad3tracker says

        Feb 17, 2015 at 7:28 pm

        Hello Neil —

        Like you, a couple of years ago I thought that people who said BHO’s true faith was Islam — were nut jobs with a wacko mindset.

        Now, I (a lifelong Democrat and “senior citizen”) am convinced that he cannot possibly be a Christian . . . such deception was to advance his career in political life in America.

        And here is where that fact gets REALLY SERIOUSLY IMPACTFUL FOR AMERICANS : As that lie evaporates — and with almost two years left in power — there really is no way to anticipate how BHO will get revenge for our discovery of the truth.

        I do not scare easily or jump to unmerited conclusions, but anything could be coming. Many of the frequent commenters here at Jihad Watch are of the same opinion.

  9. Don McKellar says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 5:37 pm

    Such colossal politically correct idiocy would be actually be quite funny — like a SNL skit — if it were not that so many people are being murdered, so many millions of dollars are being wasted, so many civil rights and liberties being compromised and taken away, and entire countries being thrown into civil war and chaos in the name of jihad, BECAUSE OF OBAMA’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH ISLAM! He has more blood on his hands than any other American president. More than George the Idiot.

  10. Don McKellar says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 5:42 pm

    What side is Obama really on? He made that clear a long, long time ago in his own words from Audacity of Hope: ‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’

    And this means standing against America and Americans’ interests.

    • somehistory says

      Feb 17, 2015 at 6:13 pm

      islam is ugly, no doubt about that. And it takes its adherents in a very ugly direction.

  11. Richie says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 5:59 pm

    This is a variation of ‘The Emperor Wears no Clothes’. Anyone with half a brain knows that Islam and terrorism go hand in hand. The evidence is everywhere.Muslims are the ones committing these acts of mass murder, the middle east is an unending war zone because of the barbarity of the muslim death cult- but any mention of islam is not permitted?

    Seems to me if Obama had any interest in stopping these Islamic terrorists, he’s name the enemy.

    I wonder what will happen if Obama is asked by a journalist why he refuses to acknowledge the connection of Islam and terrorism? I suspect such journalists would face arrest

  12. Georg says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 6:17 pm

    This just in: McDonald’s sells is not food, it’s entertainment, so no ill-health effects ought be associated with it… Because it’s not food, you see.

  13. Baucent says

    Feb 17, 2015 at 9:53 pm

    This is like having a Malaria convention and refusing to talk about Mosquitoes.

    The blind leading the blind!

  14. CogitoErgoSum says

    Feb 18, 2015 at 1:26 am

    How can anyone say there is no justification in any religion for the actions of ISIL or other terrorists? Justification CAN be found, not only in the Quran but also in the hadiths and in the example of Muhammad’s life. I can read, Mr. President, and I’ve always done quite well on reading comprehension tests. I can’t believe that your reading comprehension skills could be so bad that you can’t also see what I see in the Quran. And I’m sure you must have read at least some parts of the Qurant, especially those that have been quoted by terrorists to justify their actions. You have checked out those quotes, haven’t you? I mean if you have time to play golf you must have time to look up some passages in the Quran. So why do you keep saying there is no justification in any religion for terrorism? I am not stupid and I don’t think you are stupid, Mr. President. However, I can’t help but think you are a liar. It’s too bad that history is going to remember you that way also. What a shame.

  15. Salah says

    Feb 18, 2015 at 1:34 am

    “Term “Islamic extremism” off limits at White House terrorism summit”

    That’s because the Islamic extremists themselves are the true masters in the White House.
    The Muslim Brotherhood thugs (i.e. ISIS, Boko Haram, Hamas, etc.) have infiltrated ALL levels of almost ALL Western governments, including the Oval Office.
    We need a powerful popular uprising like the one they did in Egypt.

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-end-of-muslim-brotherhood.html

    • AJ Liberphile says

      Feb 18, 2015 at 2:28 am

      “President Obama will speak twice at the summit.” – In other words, doublespeak.

      He says that we can call them anything we like. I’d like to take to oportunity to do just that:

      Arselifter: Pislam artist with a penchant for young untouched virginal boys who are fresh like pearls.

      Bad: Anything proscribed by Allah or not done by Mohammed: Includes reading and writing (unless praising pislam), innovation, freedom, mercy, beauty and love.

      Blancaphobia: An irrational fear and loathing of white people.

      Cerebraphobia: An irrational fear and loathing of rational thinking. Often caused by korandoidism.

      Durka Durka Mohammed: Nom de plume of Satanic State Caliph ‘Jihad Alf’ Aku Bakr, who actually runs Celeb Jihad as a hobby.

      Education: See Bad.

      Fartwa: Religious edict eminating from the koranus of a renowned scholar of Satan and the Religion of Death.

      Freedom: Liberation from the unjust rule of man, under the Moon God’s eternal and just laws of decapitaion, stoning and beheading for slipping up on any one of a byzantine collection of rules for 7th century desert life.

      Good: Anything proscribed by Allah or done by Mohammed. Includes murder, rape, slavery, torture, extortion, paedophilia and genocide.

      Hatred: Tone of dialogue and basis of all relations with the kafir. May be tempered by taquiyya during periods of temporary weakness. To be practiced and cultivated in five 5-minute hate sessions banging head on floor each day on pain of justice.

      Inner struggle: That process by which, through deep spiritual effort, the soul may be elevated to a big free brothel in the sky.

      Jew: Pig

      More at http://liberphile.com/2015/02/13/a-modern-dictionary/

  16. Ephesian says

    Feb 18, 2015 at 3:10 am

    Surely satan stalks the earth today……..

  17. TJFreedomjihad says

    Feb 18, 2015 at 4:04 am

    See what kind of crackpot outrageous topics will be addressed, courtesy of Danes, here, from a CNN video interview: http://moonbattery.com/?p=55273
    Yep, rehab mujahedeen, and first question them to see if they’ve been bad, and trust them to be good boys, when rehabbed.

  18. Lia Wissing says

    Feb 18, 2015 at 9:03 am

    Dear Liberphile, your dictionary is brilliant.

    • AJ Liberphile says

      Feb 20, 2015 at 8:25 am

      Thank you, Lia

  19. Gea says

    Feb 18, 2015 at 3:46 pm

    Barack Hussein Obama is not only a Muslim, but most likely a member of his Muslim Brotherhood, He probably joined in 1979-1981 in Loc Aneles when he was studying at Occidental Colleger. that is when Mohaemd Morsi also joined, because Muslim Brotehrhood was illegal in Egypt (as it is now agin) but legal in USA. in 1981

    Obama went to Pakistan with his Pakistani Muslim “roomate” and one does not know what he was between 1981-1983, when he was purportedly studying at Columbia uninversity but nobody ever saw him there…It would not surprise me if Obama spent thsoe 2 years at his Saudi King court. Sounds crazy but everything we now now about this demagogue is crazy!

  20. daniel says

    Feb 18, 2015 at 5:52 pm

    I think they were germans topping other guests at the coastal holiday resort because they nicked all the sun loungers before the krauts could get down to the beach after eating to many bratwurst for breaky!!

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