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Obama’s failed Islam narrative

Aug 12, 2015 7:54 am By Raymond Ibrahim

obama-finger-“However, when State Department spokeswoman Mary Harf appeared on live television and asserted that the best way to defeat the Islamic State was by offering its members better ‘job opportunities,’ the idea that the State Department is run by fools became increasingly plausible.”

“Critic Blasts Obama Narrative on Islam,” by F. Michael Maloof  for WND, August 8, 2015:

WASHINGTON – The persecution and slaughter of Christians throughout the Middle East has become a major humanitarian crisis, with Pope Francis warning that the atrocities border on “genocide,” according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

Yet critics say the U.S. State Department just apologizes for the terror and never seems to find a good reason to go to bat for Christians.

One reason, a prominent Middle East expert explains, is that the U.S. State Department, as well as other government offices, “are infiltrated by Islamists and their sympathizers.”

But Raymond Ibrahim, author of “Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians,” told G2 Bulletin in an interview there’s another reason, too.

“I believe the greatest reason is that for whatever reason the Obama government has a ‘narrative’ that it’s trying to sell to the American people, one that maintains that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance – so it’s not in the State Department’s favor to allow persecuted Christians to expose the truth about Islam.”

Ibrahim said the problem isn’t just with the State Department but exists throughout the Obama administration.

“It seems more systemic,” he said. “Again ‘The Narrative’ – that is, the lie – must prevail, and most politicians who often care little for truth and/or reality are willing to go along with the ‘Narrative’ in the hopes that they gain favor from on high, that is, the Obama administration.”

ISIS’ attacks on Christians have been horrific in recent months. They’ve included recordings of mass beheadings, crucifixions and worse. There even have videos of children under the control of ISIS firing guns point-blank into victims.

But in spite of the atrocities against Christians, Ibrahim said, he’s never received any communication from the State Department acknowledging the attacks on Christians.

“No, any criticism of Islam is not welcome by this government,” he told G2. “For example, back in February 2009, I was asked to testify about Islamist and counter strategies before the U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee. Although my testimony was posted on the Armed Services website, it was later removed (but can be read on my website).”

At the time, the U.S. House of Representatives was run by Democrats, with Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the House Speaker. The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee at the time was Ike Skelton, D-Mo.

Ibrahim went on to say State won’t even acknowledge that the attacks by the Islamic State on Christians and their churches are part of an overall religious conflict between Christianity and Islam, whose leaders repeatedly have vowed to establish a worldwide caliphate and force everyone to either be Muslim or be punished.

The reason for that, Ibrahim said, is that the State Department “is either composed of fools or it is lying. There are no other alternatives.

“I generally believe that the State Department is merely lying,” he said. “However, when State Department spokeswoman Mary Harf appeared on live television and asserted that the best way to defeat the Islamic State was by offering its members better ‘job opportunities,’ the idea that the State Department is run by fools became increasingly plausible.”

A request to the State Department for comment on Ibrahim’s allegations went unanswered.

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  1. ich says

    Aug 12, 2015 at 9:06 am

    the silence is deafening

    Its like we are all under a spell.

    • mortimer says

      Aug 12, 2015 at 9:54 am

      The frustration of the American people against this false narrative is being heard in their support for the mindless Trump megalomania. The American people hate being told they are evil and have to be replaced by Islamic terrorists.

      • terry says

        Aug 13, 2015 at 8:53 am

        Sir, you are a very wise and intelligent person, for i have read many of your comments, and was just pondering; have you read this man’s book? And would it be so terrible to have someone who could negotiate in our favor, and was not unwilling to “fire” people who held positions in our government that were hostile and borderline traitorous to our nation?

  2. mortimer says

    Aug 12, 2015 at 9:52 am

    Michael Maloof wrote: “when State Department spokeswoman Mary Harf appeared on live television and asserted that the best way to defeat the Islamic State was by offering its members better ‘job opportunities,’ the idea that the State Department is RUN BY FOOLS became increasingly plausible.”

    Obama’s consistently FALSE NARRATIVE that Islam is ‘the religion of peace’ and that Islamic terrorism ‘has nothing to do with Islam’…is so transparently false that only a fool or a manipulator without a conscience would use those words.

    To be charitable, it appears Obama and co. are Leftarded cultural Marxist fools. They began with the premise that European civilization is the enemy that must be destroyed for the New Jerusalem to be implemented. Anyone who disagrees with the demolition of Western civilization is considered a racist who must be ethnically cleansed through population replacement.

  3. ECAW says

    Aug 12, 2015 at 9:53 am

    “the idea that the State Department is run by fools became increasingly plausible.”

    Same in Britain.

    Cameron repeatedly tells us ISIS is not Islamic etc etc.

    Theresa May (Home Secretary) said “I never thought I would see the day when members of the Jewish community in the United Kingdom would say they were fearful of remaining here.”

    Bernard Hogan-Howe (head of the Met) recently said “It is impossible to understand why anyone would want to take their children to Syria to join ISIS”.

    A quick guided tour round the Koran would enlighten them in all cases but I don’t imagine any of them has thought it worth their while to look.

    Ironically, the politician who claimed that he read the Koran was found out to have been lying when in an interview on a Middle Eastern TV channel the interviewer took him up on the claim and asked him what his favourite verse was. Blair couldn’t produce one and flannelled until the interviewer moved on.

  4. Angemon says

    Aug 12, 2015 at 11:40 am

    Obama does what in practice is taqqyia. On other news, grass is green, sky is blue and snow is white.

    • AL says

      Aug 13, 2015 at 8:57 pm

      You are so right, Obama is doing just that, he repeats the Mecca verses and being a Muslim he knows full well they were replaced by the Medina verses.
      Most of the US population and i would think many in the Government do not know any better.
      He can lie at will, even say he not Muslim as long as his lies are to further the islamic cause of world domination.
      He has infiltrated the very top of the US government, it goes to show how insidious Muslims can be.
      He must think the US population are fools.
      Everything he does is with Islam in mind, ISIS is a threat yes, but the Islamization of the world is more threatening.
      According to Obama the US has the most Muslims of any country in the world, it is just a matter of time.
      We will not see it in our lifetime but everyone who does not see what is happening is sentencing their future family members to the horrors of Islam .
      Muslims almost wiped out Christianity in 732 AD but were stopped in France at the Battle of Tours.
      The west is blind and too politically correct, and Muslims do everything they can to silence those who tell the truth

  5. Wellington says

    Aug 12, 2015 at 1:24 pm

    “The Narrative” is indeed a lie. In fact, it’s a lethal whopper of a lie. The silver lining in this very dark cloud, however, is that fewer and fewer people are buying the lie. The numbers keep increasing of those who think there is something really screwed up and dangerous about Islam, not diminishing. And they will only continue to increase. They will NEVER diminish, no matter how much the Liar-in-Chief and his minions continue to insist upon Islam being a religion of peace and tolerance.

    Meanwhile, Christians die because of this lie and Obama and other Western leaders definitely have blood on their hands because they won’t accurately identify Islam for the spiritual fascism which it surely is. Profound shame on all of them for all time for this.

  6. somehistory says

    Aug 12, 2015 at 3:18 pm

    It’s that *image* thing again. Just have to keep promoting it, building it, bowing to it.
    But like an image in the mirror, it only lasts for a limited time. When the beast is gone, so will be its image.

  7. duh_swami says

    Aug 12, 2015 at 3:48 pm

    The Rasool Obama doctrine from the beginning, is ‘Protect the image of Islam at all costs’…and the costs of doing that from the beginning have been lives and treasure, sacrifices at the alter of Allah.
    What the kuffar who go along with this farce, get out of it, I don’;t know.. A secure paycheck maybe?
    If they go along with the lies that enable jihad then they are enabling jihad, which makes them all jihadists…
    Poor Marie Harf, probably didn’t know what she was getting herself into when she applied for the job…
    Now she is forced to make many inane statements in public. I bet she just hates doing that…

  8. abad says

    Aug 12, 2015 at 5:58 pm

    Just like Cameron in the UK.

    Obama is the most dangerous man in the United States of America right now.

    • Wellington says

      Aug 12, 2015 at 6:26 pm

      Absolutely, abad. In fact, easily so. Moreover, I would argue Obama has done more damage to the USA and in more ways than has any single person in all of American history. Bar none.

      His Presidency has been a disaster, and not just for America but for the forces of freedom, sane economics, common sense, the value of controlling one’s borders, accurately recognizing evil and a sophisticated geopolitical understanding of the world in general. Whether a doofus or intentionally malevolent is actually of little consequence, except for intellectual and academic reasons, since his many deficiencies and policies, whatever the genesis and intent behind them, have had an enormously destructive effect on America and what is left of the free world.

      Were I a tyrant and leader of a nation, I would cherish Obama. Herein lies, I submit, what should be his true epitaph. This is the ultimate reason why the man disgusts me.

      • Avenger says

        Aug 15, 2015 at 11:15 am

        I’ll put my money on George W Bush as being the worst and most dangerous US President of all time.
        He made war on the wrong nations, couldn’t finish or win the war in any of those theatres of engagement, allowed the wholesale slaughter of Christians, allowed the same terror organizations that we complain about Obama doing business with to operate in our borders, allowed Muslim immigration into the U.S., squandered our national treasure nation building countries that couldn’t be “built”, worked hand in hand with the Sauds, wanted Dubai to manage our U.S. ports, celebrated Muslim holidays in the White House, gave millions to the Pakis, allowed Osama Bin Laden to slip out of Tora Bora, began the brainwashing of America that ” them Muslims are a peaceable people”.
        Do I need to write a book?

    • underbed cat says

      Aug 12, 2015 at 7:24 pm

      Did he not say, ” I will stand with the muslims, whenever the( political) dark clouds gather….”, it seems a nice thing to write…if you believe that they need to be protected, which can also be true, or a future policy mindset. He used his popularity and power to prevent the information about sharia and Islam to be known in my opinion, which would allow for him to operate within our government and with his charming smile he mastered the technique of unrattled misdirection.

      So I think he will stand with the muslims as long as no one gets the message out that he cannot defeat or wave away. Maybe those e-mails are important…

  9. kay says

    Aug 12, 2015 at 11:40 pm

    This administration narrative will collapse. And so will the pseudo-progressive Islam collaboration line.
    And I am one of the ( numerous ) reasons why. I know how to solve the Last Mile Problem: I reach lots of people and make Robert Spencer and Jihad Watch even more well known. 🙂

    Cultural warfare is more than half this fight. Gotta go out there and reach people.
    Doing so is not hard. You just have to know how to leverage the social media infrastructure.
    An English-speaking high school student can easily do this.
    People simply have to recognize the severity of these issues and develop a bias for action.

    “We are men ( and women ) of action. Lies do not become us.”
    — Westley, in the Princess Bride

    • ECAW says

      Aug 13, 2015 at 3:58 am

      “Cultural warfare is more than half this fight. Gotta go out there and reach people.
      Doing so is not hard. You just have to know how to leverage the social media infrastructure.”

      kay – if you could give more concrete details I would be grateful. I try to contact neutrals and antis in hopes of changing minds but find myself talking mostly to the already converted.

      More than that, and rather depressingly, I cannot get my own personal contacts to actually look at the links I give them, even those who know there’s a problem. It’s as though Ayaan Hirsi Ali is right – the West is sleepwalking to its own downfall.

  10. Baucent says

    Aug 13, 2015 at 5:14 am

    “The reason for that, Ibrahim said, is that the State Department “is either composed of fools or it is lying. There are no other alternatives.”

    Actually they are composed of left wing ideologues, that means they are both fools and lying.

  11. Linda Rivera says

    Aug 13, 2015 at 3:27 pm

    I suggest that the entire State Department take the next plane and visit with ISIS leaders and explain to ISIS that they have better job opportunities for them in the U.S.

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