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New DNC ad hits GOP for using term “radical Islam”

Nov 21, 2015 3:01 am By Robert Spencer

As the world still reels from jihad mass murder attacks in Paris and Bamako, and Israeli civilians are under daily siege from murderous Islamic jihadists, the Democratic National Committee is trying to make a virtue of willful ignorance, making a hero of the man they relentlessly doused with contempt and hatred for eight years, George W. Bush, and holding up as exemplary his denial of the nature of the jihad threat. “It’s a war against evil people,” Bush says of the war on terror in this ad — apparently that is as far as the DNC is willing to go and wants anyone else to go in naming the enemy in this war.

Meanwhile, Muslim clerics call for jihad murder from their pulpits. Muslims who commit mass murder scream “Allahu akbar” as they do it, and use Qur’an tests to determine who they will kill and who they will set free. But for the DNC, if you notice the Islamic character of the war against us even to the degree of using the weaselly term “radical Islam,” you’re “inciting fear.”

The DNC claims that to say “radical Islam” is to say that all Muslims are terrorists. That is tantamount to claiming that to say “Italian mafia” is to assert that all Italians are mafiosi. The distinction is not really that difficult: not all Muslims are terrorists, but Islamic terrorism derives from Islamic principles. Islamic advocacy groups have labored for years to obscure that simple truth, and the DNC is now working enthusiastically in service of their agenda.

“DNC Ad Attacking Republicans for Saying ‘Radical Islam’ Is Laughably Stupid,” by Alex Griswold, Mediaite, November 20, 2015:

A new ad from the Democratic National Committee attacks Republican presidential candidates for using the term “radical Islam.” Entitled “Inciting fear isn’t presidential,” the ad argues that the use of the term is offensive to Muslims.

I’ve seen my share of nasty, bizarre, and over-the-top political ads. But this may be the first that I can honestly say is just plain stupid.

To begin with, the ad is horribly tone-deaf. I don’t doubt that the decision-makers in the Democratic Party are horrified by the phrase “radical Islam.” But a new poll released today on the issue found that a supermajority of Americans agree that the United States is at war with radical Islam, including 56% of Democratic voters. Only 24% of the country agrees with the president. So right off the bat, the Democratic Party is attacking Republicans for a stance their own voters agree with.

But of course, the ad attacked Republicans for just saying “radical Islam,” not saying we’re at war with it. Well, 92% of Americans also say “radical Islamic terrorism” is a serious threat to the United States. But hey, at least the DNC is making inroads with that 8%.

To say nothing of the timing behind the ad. Literally any other time of the year, voters might have just rolled their eyes at the unbearable PC-ness of it all. But the DNC ad comes after a series of major terrorist attacks across the globe… and after President Barack Obama gave a speech in response that left the impression that he was more fired up about attacking his domestic critics than taking on ISIS. To attack Republicans for “inciting fear” about radical Islam in the wake of nonstop news about radical Islamic terror is just an unbelievable misfire….

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  1. Linda says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 3:19 am

    I’m sick of the Liberals imposing MORE of their POLITICAL CORRECTNESS. Find something more worthy of your time, like stopping the influx of refugees or finding $ to help those on ObamaCare or better yet, create better conditions for our veterans…and speaking of better conditions…let our soldiers completely annihilate ISIS instead of pussy footing around. I’m sick of DEMOCRATIC INPUT when they’ve FAILED this country by putting this traitorous POTUS on the ballot for president…YOU’VE RUINED THIS COUNTRY! So take your ad and stick it where the sun don’t shine!

    • Bamaguje says

      Nov 21, 2015 at 8:52 am

      Democrats keep shooting themselves in the foot – massive importation of Syrian “refugees”, Iran nuke deal, amnesty for millions of job stealing illegals, Obamacare, and now this brazen idiotic Jihad denial.
      Unfortunately, the RINO GOP establishment is too dumb and in bed with Leftists to take advantage of the unpardonable Democrat idiocies.

    • Spot On says

      Nov 21, 2015 at 8:56 am

      We have Zero Tolerance for toy knives, toy guns, pointing fingers, saying pow pow, etc., etc,. etc. This stupid crap is all around us in schools and various institutions but children are taught Muslims are the greatest and Islam is a religion of peace.

      Somehow we Tolerate every bad behavior including ISIS, Al Qaeda, and terrorism all around us. Yet we hear people endlessly tell us how Muslims are peaceful while the same people are trying to eliminate Christmas. Synagogues get targeted and these same people don’t care. Who are these people, anyway. They are chameleons and go by many names. Liberals, Communists, Marxists, Stupid, Dope, you name it.

      Islam is an ideology (like Nazism) and cannot be stamped out but Muslims can be held to account like Nazis were. Without Muslims there would be no terrorism and certain war, death, and destruction. I keep waiting to hear someone tell me that the Christians are gathering to attack.

      BTW, just look at Belgium today. They invited the Muslim invasion force into their country the last few months and today they are on lock down high alert (and scared to death). Somehow they still can’t connect the dots.

      • Michael Copeland says

        Nov 21, 2015 at 5:21 pm

        Christians are gathering to defend their nation in Poland.
        http://www.barenakedislam.com/2015/11/21/poland-upwards-of-150000-people-came-out-to-defend-christianity-against-the-muslim-invasion/

    • jihad3tracker says

      Nov 21, 2015 at 11:21 am

      ******* AS I HAVE SAID BEFORE HERE ON JIHAD WATCH, I AM A LIFELONG DEMOCRAT (AGE 67 CURRENTLY) *******

      Keep that in mind as you read this :

      MY FELLOW DEMS ARE ENGAGING IN TREASON WITH THIS AD BECAUSE THEY WANT MUSLIM VOTES TO PUT HILLARY CLINTON IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

      I urge you in the strongest possible way to tell that to every elected official you can possibly contact — especially Democrats. Republicans probably already know it.

      • Spot On says

        Nov 21, 2015 at 11:42 am

        Politicians have been lying, cheating, and stealing forever it seems to get into a “low paying” political positions. They will go as far as their voters will allow them to go. It is the Democrat voters that allow Obama and Hillary to pander to Muslims for votes. Same thing has happened in Europe with their politicians over the years and Obama is busy playing “catch up” with the Europeans.

      • jihad3tracker says

        Nov 21, 2015 at 11:42 am

        OOOPS ! ! ! I forgot to mention one essential asset for documentation of Islam’s mandate for violence and subjugation of non-believers.

        Go to Robert’s older posts and find the brilliant David Wood’s video with Jamie Glazov, posted November 19 at 6:28 AM, titled “Top Ten Qur’an Verses to Understand ISIS . . .” Here they are, with a couple of citations by respected Muslim commentators after Muhammad’s death.

        Apology for not giving them strictly in the order David lists them. Qur’an 9:5 / 47:35 / 3:32 / 48:29 / 4:24 / 5:33 / 9:73 / 9:111 / 9:123 / 9:29 / Sahih al-Bukhari 6924 / Sahih al-Muslim 30.

        YOU CAN ALSO WATCH ANOTHER OF HIS SUPERB VIDS TITLED “THREE STAGES OF JIHAD” TO SEE MANY OF THOSE IN QUR’AN CHAPTER NINE WHICH ABROGATE EARLIER PEACEFUL SURAS.

        Go to David’s blog, http://www.answeringmuslims.com and type the title of that video in the search box. Also, for visitors to JW here who have parachuted in for the first time on a weekend when the usual taqiyya lies about Islam get incinerated by the rodeo of slaughter in Paris, Mali, etcetera, these are other excellent vids from David Wood: “The Jihad Triangle” (just 5 minutes), “Taqiyya” (also brief).

        Sit down to view them when you are not distracted or multitasking, please. David is one of our best counter-jihad truth tellers, and takes the effort and time to help clueless privlilege-guilt Americans wake up to reality. Send him a comment of thanks — on his blog — after watching the videos.

  2. sidney penny says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 3:47 am

    “ad argues that the use of the term is offensive to Muslims.”

    OK tell me what is not offensive to Muslims.

    movies,
    cartoons.
    drawings
    art contest
    free speech meetings
    infidels
    add your own here

    • sidney penny says

      Nov 21, 2015 at 4:26 am

      what about going to a restaurant
      or a cafe
      or a concert
      or a football game.

      To not be offensive we would have to abandon all life as we know it..

    • ? says

      Nov 21, 2015 at 11:23 am

      1. The Bible

      2. Jews

      3. Freed Women

      4. Children

      5. Each other

      6. Everything really…

      This is the reaping 666

    • somehistory says

      Nov 21, 2015 at 12:19 pm

      Loose hair, bathing suits, women sitting on chairs, unmolested children,
      bacon, ham, pork chops, foods not sacrificed to satan and preyed over by imams
      beer, blind people with dogs,

      And anyone telling the truth about their loathsome, evil, direct from the devil, death cult.

  3. ECAW says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 3:55 am

    Inciting fear in a theatre on fire is a laudable act.

    Last weekend a friend of my wife came to visit…resolutely head in sand, thinks there might be a problem with something called fundamentalist Islam etc. No sooner had we started the usual argy bargy about the threat, or otherwise, to Europe than the Paris attacks happened. She went home at least worried. I call that progress.

  4. duh_swami says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 5:17 am

    There is no such thing as ‘radical’ Islam but there is
    divine liberal logic’…That’ why I never vote for anyone with a D behind their name…
    ‘

    • Spot On says

      Nov 21, 2015 at 9:14 am

      “D” for Dope..

  5. Amy Soldier says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 6:03 am

    Obama will never, ever, as in forever do anything to bring contempt and disrespect to his father’s religion:

    http://www.answering-islam.org/Shamoun/prepubescent.htm

    If one is so inclined to, imagine what their Mo was doing with Aisha from her sixth to twelfth birthday. Yes, he was playing with her at times, but go ahead and imagine, within the safety of your mind, what occurred on any given day or night during a six year period.

    Western academic, political, and religious institutions are infested with spineless, gutless, intellectual cowards. Pure, total puss.

    Donald Trump is the last hope for the word to get out about their Mo. He could accomplish what scores of nations armies did not. ?

    • Amy Soldier says

      Nov 21, 2015 at 6:06 am

      President Donald Trump’s pen could be mightier than a sword. – Amy Soldier

  6. duh_wami says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 6:24 am

    ‘Radical’; Islam has been generalized into the population by repeated use by MSM until people who should know better also use it…
    It is a device used to keep us from the truth…’Radical Islam is word magick and word trickery..if you don’t believe that, try and find a listing for it in the phone book…

  7. Jaladhi says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 7:02 am

    I would say DNC and many many RINO’s are laughably stupid!! How does calling radical Islam responsible for terrorism tar all Muslims? They need a lesson i logic! On one hand they say radical Islam is not followed by mainstream Muslims and they don’t even consider it Islam and on the other hand they will find it offensive if if we say radical Islam is responsible for terrorism. They can’t have it both ways!!

    It only goes to show there is no difference in radical Islam and mainstream Islam other wise why they would find it offensive!! Islam is Islam and there is no moderate mainstream or radical Islam. Islam is all radical that is why they find it offensive if we hold radical Islam as a cause of terrorism!!

    The plain fact is Islam and Muslims are responsible for terrorism!

    • Havoc says

      Nov 21, 2015 at 1:38 pm

      All Muslims & all Islam have earned a tarring & feathering. This ideology and its adhrrents have no place in our country or the West. Ship them back to the Middle East. All of them.
      .
      No Muslims. No Mosques.

  8. Peter says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 7:20 am

    There are “good” Muslims, but that does not mean that Islam is good, from a non-Muslim perspective.

    Islam, like Fascism and Communism, which also had “good” adherents, is totalitarian, supremacist, and predatory (“to be made superior to other systems of belief,” per Kuran 9:33). Islam, in its essence, is a declaration of war on humanity.

    We are at war with Islam because its doctrines declare us to be its inherent enemies, whether we recognize that or not. Muhammad declared himself to be a terrorist: “I was made victorious with terror.”

    Clearly, the DNC is clueless, delusional, and incapable of perception outside of its increasingly narrow worldview or ideological blinders.

  9. Michael Copeland says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 8:08 am

    Regrettably the word ”radical” is persistently misused. The root teachings of an ideology are the core, the heart, the essence. The Latin for root is “radix”. The root teachings are “radical”: hence the term. They are not erroneous: they are the base, the core.
    “Radical Islam” is, in fact, basic root Islam. The one who is radicalised is the one who has the best understanding of the ideology’s teachings, true to the original texts.

  10. PRCS says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 8:13 am

    Yes, the term “radical Islam” is laughably stupid; because there’s no such thing.

    Why do so many politicians, so-called “journalists” and other members of the chattering class perpetuate that style guide crap?

    Because they either don’t know what they’re talking about, because others do, or they are engaged in an orchestrated deceit. Because they either don’t realize that Keith Ellison’s Qur’an reads the same as every other copy—amputations and all, or they are desperate to keep our clueless neighbors and friends clueless.

    Because they don’t want to suffer the usual name calling that telling the truth incites.

    Many of them are fostering an Orwellian illusion, a placating fairytale that unlike bad, radicalized, Muslim extremists, good Muslims know how wrong and ugly Islam’s barbarities and hatreds are and abhor and reject them.

    Republicans are creating the factually bankrupt notion that Islam can be divided into radical and moderate “versions”.

    Democrats can’t accept that division because it directly contradicts HRC’s declaration that ALL Muslims are peaceful and tolerant and have nothing whatsoever to do with “terrorism”.

    There’s no “radical Islam” because there’s no “lite” version of Qur’an.

    There is Islam.

  11. Islam_Macht_Frei says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 8:37 am

    I also object to the term “radical Islam.”
    For the same reason I would not say “radical Nazism.”

    The qualifier is some mixture of redundant and confusing.

    “Islam” and “Nazism” alone get the job done.

    If calling “Islam” “Islam” is still more than some can handle, then I recommend “Orthodox Islam” or “Muhammadan Islam” if that makes it easier. (That later phrase is as opposed to “Kerryian Islam” “Clintonian Islam” or “Cameronian Islam” etc.

  12. Sam says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 9:25 am

    It is amazing that EVIL ISLAM is protected by the victims to this level. Yes I understand the liberal mind of hating America and all that. But still people go out of their way not to see Islam and try to defend it at all costs. This is a mental disease, right?

    Maybe Allah is really out there screwing the brains of infidels.

  13. mortimer says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 9:33 am

    How did the Democratic National Committee define what is Islam? Did they read the Islamic source texts? No. Did they read the canonical writings of the Islamic consensus? No. Did they read the fatwas of Al Azhar University’s fatwa department? No.

    Did they make up a fantasy version of Islam? It appears they did…and without reference to anything but they ‘opinions’ of writers who are not established authorities of Islam…such as the fatwa department of Al Azhar.

    The Democratic National Committee are unacquainted with Islam’s sources of authority, but present themselves as know-it-alls. They are so lacking in correct information about Islam that they don’t even know where to begin.

    • mortimer says

      Nov 21, 2015 at 9:43 am

      ISIS follows canonical Islam’s fatwas to the letter. Even Al Azhar University finds no theological grounds for criticizing ISIS because ISIS is doing Islam by the book.

      The instant experts of the Democratic National Committee are clueless about the basis of canonical Islam.

    • PRCS says

      Nov 21, 2015 at 10:00 am

      “How did the Democratic National Committee define what is Islam?”

      Simple.

      Most Muslims are Democrats and that’s where their talking points come from.

      Who do you think told HRC that [ALL] Muslims are peaceful, tolerant people who have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.

    • wildjew says

      Nov 21, 2015 at 10:29 am

      They relied on scholar on Islam, George W. Bush. What greater authority could they appeal to?

      • Michael Copeland says

        Nov 21, 2015 at 5:39 pm

        The great learned guru spoke.
        Follow the hushed voice trail:
        http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/6720-the-duping-of-cameron

  14. mortimer says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 9:52 am

    ALL OF ISLAM (though not all Muslims) is at war with freedom.

    Sharia law demands dirty kafirs submit to Islam under pain of death. The death of resisting kafirs may be legally procured by Muslim vigilantes.

    Non-practicing Muslims are in the majority. Only ISIS is fully implementing Islam today…meticulously and by the book.

  15. mortimer says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 10:15 am

    I personally don’t mind the term ‘radical Islam’ because ‘radical’ means thoroughgoing, thorough, complete, total, comprehensive, exhaustive, sweeping, far-reaching, wide-ranging, extensive, across the board, profound, major, stringent, rigorous … as in a ‘radical reform’. ‘Radical’ doesn’t mean ‘excessive’.

    ‘Radical Islamists’ are merely implementing Islam ‘thoroughly’ according to Islam’s normative Sharia rules.

    Lax Muslims ‘opt out’ of most of Sharia rules, but they haven’t the authority to do so on their own initiative.

    65% of Muslims around the world want a caliphate and stringent Sharia…so most Muslims are ‘radical’ in theory, but not in practice. They are mostly hypocritical Muslims saying one thing and doing another.

  16. wildjew says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 10:21 am

    It is infuriating watching this traitorous George W. Bush in this video. I deeply regret voting for this apologist for Islam in 2000. Bush helped elevated this America-hating, Muslim-born nightmare to the White House. Not only did Bush repeatedly lie about the religion of Islam, he altered decades of Republican party policy by making the establishment of a Muslim-enemy state in Israel a formal goal of U.S. policy. Please do not claim to be a Christian (I am talking about George W. Bush) and then spit in my face.

    • Don McKellar says

      Nov 21, 2015 at 10:52 am

      America and the world has suffered greatly with the George the Idiot / Barry bin Obama tag team. We really, really need a whole new direction hallmarked by integrity and an educated and non-politically correct approach to Islam and moslem terror. World War 3 is slow burning in the Middle East and Europe is under invasion thanks to those two, and the whole world picture is grim indeed.

      • wildjew says

        Nov 21, 2015 at 11:06 am

        In the years to come, you might want to get your passport up to date. I worry about the trends I see in this country (long term), don’t you? The world of Islam has this country in its cross-hairs. When they have hundreds of nuclear weapons and other deadly gadgets in the coming decades, this country might not be a good bet.

        • PRCS says

          Nov 21, 2015 at 11:58 am

          I don’t think GWB lied about Islam.

          To lie about something, one has to know what ‘s being said or written is not true.

          I think his “Islam is peace” speech was written and provided by Uncle Nihad. Clueless George merely parroted it.

          Of course, the legacy of that nonsense remains.

  17. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 10:32 am

    Is the logo at 0:50 the new logo of the Democratic National Committee?
    Was it patterned after the Comedy Central logo?
    Aren’t they worried about trademark infringement of the circle-D brand?
    http://www.circledhorses.com/circle_d_horse_marketing.htm

  18. pdxnag says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 10:39 am

    My personal friend Mohammad Mohammad is a swell guy, therefor all Mohammads are swell guys.

    • Don McKellar says

      Nov 21, 2015 at 10:45 am

      Well, of course! It’s simple logical deduction!

    • wildjew says

      Nov 21, 2015 at 10:47 am

      My Muslim neighbors seem perfectly decent and respectable. Only customers who know the family (the wife is ‘Palestinian’) say they hate Israel and the Jews and they believe in a Jewish world conspiracy, etc.. Many years back I met my ‘Palestinian’ neighbor at a Library Advisory Board meeting. She was there in support of an anti-Israel Children’s fiction book (entitled: “A Stone in my Hand”) that a patron had filed a complaint against after she found it in her child’s possession. My neighbor was very polite.

  19. Don McKellar says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 10:44 am

    The only good part of this is that the Democrats are truly destroying themselves with this ad — as would anybody foolish enough to laud George the Idiot! It’s as if we’re watching a video that tells us how stupid we were back then and how we’ve become a whole lot wiser.

    Hell, look at the almost insurmountable handicap Jeb Bush has had to try and overcome to distance himself! This is SINKING Hillary putting shit like this up! It’s a good thing for America’s future to see this.

  20. Laurence says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 11:28 am

    Islam is Islam. And from Islam springs forth a variation of interpretation and implementation that, depending upon which school of thought a Muslim adheres to, is to be believed and practiced in their daily life. And the worst of those schools of thought are those which take a literalist, fundamentalist approach to the reading, understanding, and practice of the Islamic source texts.
    How to scrub incitement to wrath, hate, fear, and physical violence found within writings; or how to get all adherents to wholly and totally dismiss those particular passages; or how to get all adherents to interpret those particular passages in a peaceful, loving, calming way, and generously accepting of others of different beliefs, etc. . . . very, very difficult; if surmountable at all, it would entail a massive, lengthy undertaking. I certainly wish anyone and everyone who seeks to do so all the very best in their lofty and generational efforts.
    And in the meantime we need to rightly understand and face what is right in front of us and decide how best to deal with it: Islamism and Political Islam. (Of course we need also unveil political correctness and the denial and suppression of that which is true.)

    • Michael Copeland says

      Nov 21, 2015 at 5:51 pm

      It is not possible to “interpret … in a peaceful, loving, calming way” the instruction “Kill non-muslims wherever you find them” Koran 2:191, 9:5.
      Many share the wish to reform the Koran. It will not happen. It is not permitted.
      The Koran is part of Islamic law.
      The Koran itself says it is “perfect”.
      “The word of your Lord is complete, in truth and justice. There is none who can change His words.”, 6:115.
      To “reform”, or change any verse is to deny it. One who denies any verse has to be killed. The killing can be performed, penalty-free and vigilante style, by anyone “since it is killing someone who deserves to die” (Manual of Islamic Law, “Reliance of the Traveller” o8.7(7), o8.4). The Manual is available as a free download.

      Martin Luther’s reformation was of the non-Biblical practices of the Roman Catholic Church. He did not reform the Bible.

  21. Jay Boo says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 11:29 am

    Muhammad humped a nine year old girl.
    Muhammad had sex slaves.

    It takes a lot of innocent lives and bloodshed to cover up Islam’s rank stench.

  22. Sybil St Clair says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 11:53 am

    Why are we taking in any of these people? People already here who are NOT part of the global corporate wealthy elite are hurting! Let’s take care of our own poor and collapsing so called middle and “blue collar” classes first!

    I agree with Bernie Sanders when he advocates for economic, social, and environmental justice, return of genuine business ethics, a living wage for all workers, worker owned businesses and industries, etc.

    However I do not agree with Sanders support of bringing in Syrian “migrants” at this time!

    Why are Middle Eastern and Asian countries refusing to take in these people? Because they know there are terrorist cells hiding behind their women’s hijabs and babies’ blankets! And perhaps Muslim countries have a hidden agenda for pushing these people onto Europe and North America? What a perfect strategy to spread the global caliphate!

    Such “migrants” are the perfect “shock troops” to take global caliphate ambitions to the next level in crushing cultures and peoples that are slated for slavery and dhimnitude.

    Rape epidemics in countries where these peoples’ populations have reached an effective percentage are also a battle strategy, used by all savage conquerors. If you can own the women and children, you will break the mens’ spirits that much faster.

    At the same time, western and Asian corporate and social elites need to stop abusive corporate colonization of the Middle East and Africa. We need to stop using our military rank and file to fight, die, and get permanently disabled for corporate power interests.

    Corporate elites need to stop murdering people in the middle east and Africa to further their own addictions to power and wealth. (For a historical perspective on corporatized war, read “War Is a Racket” by General Smedly Butler, written in the early 1900’s)

    If global power elites do this and genuinely withdraw, then let’s see what the Middle East populations will do. Since their holy book instructs them to kill/enslave all “infidels”, they will probably continue to conduct terrorism and slaughter, not only in their own territories, but also everywhere else (the “house of war”).

    If our corporate elites conduct ethical business practices and cease all totalitarian colonization of resource (oil, rare earths, etc.) owners in these countries, then our radical left and progressive groups won’t have a “leg to stand on” in their criticisms of European and USA behaviors in Muslim countries. Their arguments will collapse.

    The global caliphate’s ambitions and strategies will then be much simpler to see and address if “our side” makes commitments to ethical business practices globally. Otherwise, the immorality of Western/Asian wealth elites will continue to confuse and contaminate Western responses to the global caliphate’s violent agendas.

  23. More Ham Ed says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 12:38 pm

    It’s all about words for the academic left. You can magically fix the world’s problems with words (by changing the language) and you can magically make problems go away with words (by changing the language and changing the definition or meaning of words). I think the root of it stems from leftist professors planted some 30 or 40 years ago in major academic institutions. It plays right in to the leftist’s and marxist’s wild imagination of some utopia on earth, where the government “parents” everyone like children and it is also very similar to the jihadi “paradise on earth” fantasy. Hillary will try and force particular speech rules on everyone just like islamists!

  24. somehistory says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 12:38 pm

    Before the current wave of stupidity, they complained when anyone with knowledge said *islam.*
    So, those who didn’t want apples to fall from the carts all over, began saying *radical islam.*
    None of them wished to use a *broad brush* so they quit just saying moslims and terrorists became *silamists.*
    Then, islamist was out.

    In the UK, Asians are maligned due to the press using that word to keep from writing “moslim* when one of those who target children are caught for rape or committing other acts of terror.

    Mentally ill people are maligned when some moslim goes out to take care of his internal struggle involving a sharp knife or machete meeting the neck or body of a non moslim…non mentally ill person.

    One can’t point out what the unholy book says, can’t mention how many terrorists are named with some variation of *mohamed,* and so many other things, words, and terms are now in the *no-no* category.

    moslims are the only group about which no one is allowed to tell the truth without coming under fire for *hurting feelings* …being *offensive*…and the favorite of some *causing a backlash.*
    And their votes are so important that bending over backwards is the most frequent exercise in which these politicians are engaged.

    They are bowing to the beast and insisting that the rest of us do the same. In Revelation, the one insisting that others bow…under pain of death…to the beast and its image are called the *false prophet.* The false prophet works alongside the devil and the beast to enslave all of mankind to the image.

  25. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 1:11 pm

    It’s important to be fair and truthful. To let be clear. Not all Muslims are Islamic terrorists. Nevertheless, all Islamic terrorists are Muslims. To put in another way there are many peaceful people who are Muslims yet they are peaceful in spite of and not because of their religion. Moreover,it might the those peaceful Muslims are in a state of religious denial about the violent nature about Islam and they may even go to a mosque where the imam of that mosque is also in a state of denial of the violent essence of Islam and therefore he teaches a watered -down form of non-violent Islam. Furthermore, It also should be make clear that the term “radical Islam” is what is in reality actual hard core, violent and non-watered down Islam.

  26. Dave J says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 1:25 pm

    All Muslims, be they lazy, “moderate” or devout, read the SAME BOOK. So they all share and approve of the vile instructions contained within it.

    The Quran needs to be widely exposed as the hate speech and criminal incitement to violence that it is.

    Then let them try to defend it.

  27. somehistory says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 1:29 pm

    There is an article on the web stating that the coming census will show, due to a change in questions and categories, that whites are in the minority. Don’t recall the site where the article is that I read, but there are several that mention the fact. Especially in view of that information, this is interesting:

    First Amendment under siege: Government should ban speech that offends minorities, millennials say

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/21/millennials-government-should-ban-speech-offends-m/

    Those who consider themselves some of the smartest people on Planet Earth, are fighting to have the freedom of speech taken away. One thing in the article cited above is that a poll by Pew said, if remembering it correctly, 50% agree with the statement that government should take away the freedom to speak about minorities in ways that *offend.* And…democrats were twice as likely to think it.

    The dnc is appealing to these young voters. Especially, democratic and moslim voters.
    We here may see this as stupid, foolish, dumb,…and dangerous, but many are falling for the idea.

    • خَليفة says

      Nov 21, 2015 at 2:08 pm

      Agree. Even our founding fathers foresaw that the people, in their own ignorance, could vote away their freedoms and everything else, including the security of the nation itself.

    • Pixup says

      Nov 22, 2015 at 1:20 am

      And, like that is going to happen.
      You have to come up a different answer.

  28. aaccv says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 1:31 pm

    —-It is the belief in extremism of a ‘moderate’ muslim that makes the moderate muslim extreme—-

    —-It is the extremist beliefs that incriminate and warrant condemnation of moderate muslims—-

    • خَليفة says

      Nov 22, 2015 at 2:56 am

      It is the actions of Muslims that lead to self-incrimination. If you act like a terrorist, and say you support terrorists, are affiliated with organizations that support terrorism, are dismissive and apologetic of other terrorists and terror attacks, engage in taqiya and complain about the kuffar and wave ISIL flags and go around killing people and yelling Allah Akbar or demanding special accommodations because you are a Muslim, then people will be suspicious of you. Especially if you do not speak out about terrorism acts. The same would be true if you were wearing a Nazi uniform, waving a Nazi flag and making the Nazi salute – people would think you are a neo Nazi. The same if you were walking in a dog park and something stinky seemed to be following you – you might just look at your shoe. There is something called cause and effect and pattern recognition – just because YOU don’t see the pattern or recognize the cause and effect DOES NOT MEAN THAT it does not exist OR that others do not see it. To those that understand, the patters and cause and effect ( of jihadi motivation ) are as obvious as the noon day sun – sadly, so many Muslims don’t recognize them ( and remain ignorant of Islam ) and like little children believe if they don’t understand, no one else can either.

  29. pennant8 says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 1:33 pm

    One’s ability to recognize empirical evidence has nothing to do with one’s political leanings.

  30. خَليفة says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 2:01 pm

    Bush family also friends with Saudis thru oil. Irrelevant to this add but explains why he didn’t say “radical Islam”

    Seems like Harry Potter stories have taken hold in liberals and democrates- the enemy is “he who can’t be named” ( Lack of freedom of speech ) Come on, that’s just a storey, go ahead say it “Voldemort” say it again, now come back to the real world and say it again “radical Islam” that wasn’t so hard, now wake up completely and say it again “Islam” there, now you got it.

  31. gary fouse says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 2:03 pm

    Thirty years ago, we were calling them fundamentalists. Seems that is the proper label. It is not radical. It is Islam.

  32. R Cole says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 2:07 pm

    I think you can almost feel depressed listening to that ad.

    It’s below the belt!!

    Bush also said ‘Islamofascism!!

    It was only after – did he say ‘Islam meant peace!!’

    Think Bush was right the first time!

    ::

    Islamic Terrorism

    To say it’s wrong – that is interesting –

    the Left barely want to condemn the terrorists and their sympathizers but the simple words used – when we connect the Islamic scripture the jihadists use – to the Koran they got it from – they loudly call ‘wrong.’

    This is the deal – as Obama lazily explained during that atrocious press conference in Turkey — Linking Islam to terrorism leads to terrorism.

    Which is an attack on western freedoms.

    Where what is behind such campaigns is that western freedoms and fundamental rights should be compromised – in the name of ‘preventing terrorism’ – or the radicalization that leads to terrorism.

    Because if you can’t argue that the tenets of Islam can be used to radicalize – the only thing left is that Muslim radicalization stems from western society. The onus therefore is on western society to make changes – while Muslims and Islam held as above question.

    It is a very dangerous and hostile route.

    ::

    For more than a decade – we have been denying the Islamic connection – starting with the Taliban, Al Qaeda and now we have Islamic State – it is not working.

    The very definition of terrorism is to carry out violent or aggressive acts towards a political end. Then Islamic terrorism would be directed specifically towards the creation of an Islamic state.

    ::

    Shameless!!

    The Dems are boldly going after the Muslim vote!!

  33. Angemon says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 8:27 pm

    “DNC Ad Attacking Republicans for Saying ‘Radical Islam’ Is Laughably Stupid

    “Patronizing” is more like it…

  34. Jimmy says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 3:40 pm

    Everything about islam is absurd, repulsive and dangerous. I don’t want any thing of or about islam in the USA! Islam is a murder cult, that has slaughtered millions of people in its 1400 years of existence. The Christian Crusades were a timid and very tardy response to the centuries of muslim butchery that rolled over half the known world from the 7th to the tenth centuries. They were a good idea but stopped way short of success.

  35. underbed cat says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 8:29 pm

    The republican party could actually do the same ad, style, piano……. slightly change video….. with arrows pointing at the influence group at the end……to counter. words could be talk about case. Just a thought.

    I realize that there is no such thing as radical islam.

  36. Ted Tyler says

    Nov 23, 2015 at 3:04 pm

    Several years ago, Hamtramck, Michigan, allowed many Muslim refugees to settle in their town. Over the years, the Muslim population grew and now they have a majority in the population. This was followed by a majority on the city council, And this was followed by passing Islamic laws and broadcasting “Call to Prayer” five times a day. Here we have an example of how an indigenous culture can be replaced by an Islamic culture. The process is slow and sure. Now it is easy to see the carnage when Islamic Terrorists blow something up, but it is difficult to see the small tree growing in your backyard. We have a problem with the time scale. Perhaps this is why the Democrats cannot see what is happening and do not consider Islam itself to be a threat.

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