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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Philly Shooter: I Did It For Allah. Philly Mayor: No, You Didn’t.

Jan 11, 2016 9:27 am By Robert Spencer

In FrontPage today I explain why Philly Mayor Jim Kenney would be the funniest man in the City of Brotherly Love, if the stakes weren’t so high.

Jim Kenney

Philadelphia comedian Jim Kenney has a flair for absurdist humor, and his talents were on abundant display Thursday, when a local jihadi, a convert to Islam named Edward Archer, shot and seriously wounded police officer Jesse Hartnett, and then explained: “I follow Allah. I pledge my allegiance to the Islamic state. That is why I did what I did.” Kenney’s response was as dazzling a sendup of the willful ignorance of today’s public officials as you’ll ever see.

Pretending to be the Mayor of Philadelphia, Kenney, one of the most daring and imaginative comedians on the scene today, said this after showing a surveillance video of Archer garbed in Islamic dress and shooting at Hartnett: “In no way shape or form does anyone in this room believe that Islam or the teaching of Islam has anything to do with what you’ve seen on the screen….It is abhorrent. It is terrible and it does not represent the religion or any of its teachings. This is a criminal with a stolen gun who tried to kill one of our officers. It has nothing to do with being a Muslim or following the Islamic faith.”

Brilliant! Kenney had the audience laughing, clapping and howling for more with his poker-faced impersonation of an intentionally clueless contemporary public official. His performance recalled some of the career highlights of Barack Obama, John Kerry, and their British colleague in comedy, David Cameron, such as Obama’s classifying the Fort Hood jihad massacre as “workplace violence” and Kerry’s suggesting that all jihadis needed to discard their romantic dreams of being a modern-day warrior for Allah would be a chance to say “Would you like fries with that?”

Kenney, however, went them one better by issuing his risible claims even in the face of Archer’s own claims about why he shot Hartnett, as well as Police Commissioner Richard Ross’ statement about Archer: “According to him, police bend laws that are contrary to the teachings of the Qur’an.”

Contrary to the teachings of the Qur’an? How could that possibly have anything to do with Islam? Clearly Kenney has a bright future on the comedy circuit.

There’s just one catch: Jim Kenney really is the Mayor of Philadelphia. His statements represent the official position of his administration: that despite Edward Archer’s explicit avowals to have acted in the name of Allah and Islam, he wasn’t really doing so. He just thought he was.

Poor Archer! What does he have to do to get taken seriously as a jihadi? If shooting a police officer multiple times and pledging allegiance to the Islamic State, which has called on Muslims in the U.S. to attack police officers, won’t do it, what will? Would it help if he had passed out Qur’ans on the morning of his shooting, told a neighbor that he was going to do something great for God, and screamed “Allahu akbar” as he was firing? No, Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan did that as he murdered thirteen Americans in Fort Hood on November 5, 2009, and that one, as we have seen, was “workplace violence.” How about if he said, as Boston Marathon jihad murderer Dzokhar Tsarnaev did, that he and his brother cooked up the entire jihad mass murder plot to “defend Islam”? No, everyone knows that one happened because Americans weren’t friendly enough to the immigrant brothers. How about if he had been reading literature by jihad mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki and spoke about Islamic martyrdom, like Chattanooga jihad murderer Mohammed Abdulazeez? No, that one has proved a real head-scratcher, with authorities puzzled as to the motives for months.

So what could Archer possibly have done? Trying to think of anything he could have said or done to convince Jim Kenney that he was acting in the name of Islam and in accord with its teachings of warfare against unbelievers simply beggars the imagination. For the Jim Kenneys of the world are simply certain that people just do not do such things, despite any amount of evidence to the contrary. For Kenney and his ilk, Muslims are victims, no matter what. They are never at fault, no matter what they do, and in the unlikely event that they commit an act of violence, it was because they were mentally ill, or pushed over the edge by “Islamophobia” and the unkindness of white Americans.

Jim Kenney and others like him don’t need the facts of any particular case to arrive at this conclusion. They know it already, and could have a form handy: “The terror attack on [date] at [place] had nothing whatsoever to do with Islam, the noble religion of peace. We call upon all people to reject racism, bigotry and Islamophobia, and we stand with the Muslim community in condemning backlash attacks against innocent Muslims during this difficult period.”

FDR could have used one of these forms in 1942 or 1943: “The military attack on [date] at [place] had nothing whatsoever to do with Germany, the noble nation of Central Europe. We call upon all people to reject racism, bigotry and Germanophobia, and we stand with the German community in condemning backlash attacks against innocent Germans during this difficult period.”

If the President had had such forms during World War II, would the United States have won the war? Probably not. And the denial today makes it harder for us to win this one: instead of calling the Muslim community in the U.S. to account and making sure that jihadis are not operating within it, officials pander to it and deny the stated motive of our enemies, and thus condemn us to ignorance about the motives and goals of those enemies at a time when they are more active than ever.

Jim Kenney is not concerned about any of that. He doesn’t even think we’re in a war, so why should he care if we’re waging it all wrong? And if the voters of Philadelphia ever catch on to how they’re being lied to and throw him out of office, he’s got a great career ahead in standup comedy.

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Filed Under: American jihadis, converts to Islam, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Jihad in the U.S., Useful idiots, willful ignorance Tagged With: Edward Archer, Jim Kenney, Philadelphia


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  1. Jay Boo says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 9:40 am

    “In no way shape or form does anyone in this room believe that Islam or the teaching of Islam has anything to do with what you’ve seen on the screen…”
    ————–

    — It is not enough for them to flaunt their ‘enlightened tolerance’.
    — Nor is it even enough to tell us — (what they believe).

    MIND READERS
    They are shamelessly compelled to tell us — (“What we believe”)
    As if saying that it is so — will make it all come true.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Jan 11, 2016 at 10:50 am

      Let’s do a group pushback against mayor Kenney, for a very good reason: His denial of reality about Islam puts our fellow citizens in danger of more attempts at jihadist slaughter.

      The Philadelphia Inquirer has a website version, http://www.philly.com. As this new week starts, it will have more articles about the shooting, AND PROBABLY OPINION COLUMNS BY WRITERS WHO MIGHT BE AS MUCH IN FANTASYLAND AS THE MAYOR.

      So, bookmark the website, read relevant articles and columns. Then, please take a few minutes to post actual reality about Islam in the article comment sections, and email the most delusional opinion writers.

      Some of those articles might have hundreds of comments before you get in line, so one trick I use to get nearer to the top of the stack is TO REPLY TO THE TOPMOST COMMENT — EVEN IF YOUR MESSAGE IS REALLY NOT A STRICTLY RELEVANT REPLY. But, that will be forgiven by readers if you actually pass along truth which they are not ever given by the typical Leftist trolls who jump in ceaselessly with idiot remarks.

      We have some very knowledgeable experts here at JW, and you all can send leads to web resources with extensive content about Islam. My own favorites — beside Robert, of course:

      www [dot] citizenwarrior [dot] com / www [dot] inquiryintoislam [dot] com / www [dot] thereligionofpeace [dot] com / www [dot] barenakedislam [dot] com.

      In a reply just below, I will put up one ESPECIALLY CONCISE ITEM AT CITIZENWARRIOR, but I have to retrieve a hotlink for it and do not want to risk losing the content I just typed. Back in a moment . . .

      • jihad3tracker says

        Jan 11, 2016 at 11:03 am

        This is the link I mentioned above in the last sentence. Take a look at it — supberb — about the Qur’an’s 2nd to last chapter, written in 631, just a year before Muhammad died, and filled with verses abrogating previously peaceful ones regarding non-believers.

        http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2010/09/qurans-last-word-on-non-muslims.html

        And, if you email columnists, BE SURE TO TELL THEM ABOUT THE PHILLY CHAPTER OF CAIR DOING ITS TYPICAL LYING ABOUT ISLAM.

        Finally, 3 excellent videos by Islam-expert David Wood, to bring the Philadelphia Inquirer’s clueless columnists into the sick world of Allah’s pathology: “The Jihad Triangle” (5 minutes), “Taqiyya” (seven minutes), and “Three Stages of Jihad” (24 minutes).

        Pass along the path to David’s blog — www [dot] answeringmuslims [dot] com, tell those columnists to use the search box, OR EVEN BETTER, FIND THEM ON YOUTUBE. Also, very important, let them know that David uses some humor to make unpleasant truth slide a bit easier into our Western-liberty minds, BUT HE IS COMPLETELY SERIOUS IN MESSAGE.

        • PRCS says

          Jan 11, 2016 at 12:28 pm

          Here’s a tweet I send to politicians and “journalists”:

          Extremism or compliance? http://quran.com/5/33 tinyurl.com/j2hflyq quran.com/5/38 tinyurl.com/zvjvy5s

        • E Ward says

          Jan 13, 2016 at 1:14 pm

          This is a good idea. I will do my part. I hope everyone will make a commitment to post at least one cogent spell checked comment. I have learned so much from this site, but we don’t always get to “preach to the choir”. A little preaching elsewhere might do some good.

  2. Jaladhi says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 9:47 am

    Who elects such a moronic mayor?? They deserve him and then its consequences!!

    • miriamrove says

      Jan 11, 2016 at 12:07 pm

      PC liberal Americans! M

  3. tom says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 9:58 am

    Bring in the National Guard to protect the Police. Change the Posse comitatus law and bring in the Army to protect the National Guard. Arm the citizens to protect the Army.

    Sound ludicrous? Remember your flash mobs of angry Black youth terrorizing and robbing White people not so long ago?

    Now you have Muslims targeting Police Officers and the Mayor denied it happened.

    What do you think is running through the mind of every Philadelphia Police Officer to day?

    Sad day to humanity and the LAW ABIDING citizens of Philly!!

  4. ICH says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 10:02 am

    Its like they think if we keep repeating it
    the world will hold hands like a coca cola commercial

    • Ernie says

      Jan 11, 2016 at 5:18 pm

      Are they fooling themselves ? Look at the picture : NONE of them has the guts to look the people in the eyes . Words can deceive , but their body language says it all : GUILTY !

  5. ICH says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 10:15 am

    bizarre how we continually blame ourselves and appease
    a culture of people who shoot maim destroy and kill
    over a silly cartoon

    how fragile are they

    ticking time bombs

  6. Linde Barrera says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 10:38 am

    Ok then. How about Philadephia Mayor Kenney mouthing off this new, never heard-of excuse: “The perpetrator suffers from a garment disorder. Seems he put on that long shirt and loose pants and something snapped in his brain.”

  7. Diane Harvey says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 11:12 am

    One is reminded of Monty Python.

    Muslim: “I did this in the name of Islam!”
    White Liberal: “No you didn’t.”
    Muslim: “Err, Yes I did. This is expressly in our books, our holy Quran.”
    White Liberal: “No, you are mistaken. Islam is a religion of peace.”
    Muslim: “WTF are you talking about? I’ve studied Islam quite thoroughly and I’ve been taught these things by my imans and other imans. I pray 5 times a day. I know what the Quran says! And what is required of every Muslim to advance the spread of Islam throughout the world.”
    White Liberal: “No sorry, You are wrong. You simply don’t understand Islam like I do.”

    • mortimer says

      Jan 11, 2016 at 11:38 am

      Kudos to Diane. Very amusing 😉

    • Westman says

      Jan 11, 2016 at 12:14 pm

      How about:

      Philly Shooter: Islam changed me into a radical jihadist newt!

      Police chief: And see, you got bettah..

    • William says

      Jan 11, 2016 at 12:57 pm

      That was good. Diane, with your indulgence, I’ll take the dialog a little further.

      Muslim: “Well, let me show you what the Quran says.”
      He opens the book, turning the pages to Quran 2:191-193
      Muslim: (He continues) “Ok, see here! (pointing to the verse in the book and reading) “And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. And disbelief is worse than killing…”
      White Liberal (now downright flustered): “No, no, no! You got it all wrong. Wherever it says kill, it really means love. Read it again! But this time say ‘love’ where you see ‘kill’. Just imagine how beautiful it will sound if you read it now. Go ahead and read it.”
      Waiting, but there is no response from the Muslim.
      White Liberal (looking around as if lost): “What happened? Mr. Muslim, where are you?”
      The Muslim is nowhere to be seen.
      White Liberal: (with a puzzled look on his face) “Oh dear! Wonder if I offended him?” (Shrugging and walking away) “Well, maybe next time I’ll find a real Muslim.”

    • Tom says

      Jan 12, 2016 at 7:51 pm

      Thanks Diane, you made me laugh!

      Mayor Kenny

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 15, 2016 at 1:08 am

      Spot on, Diane.

  8. @MikeNews1 says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 11:12 am

    The liberal response to Islamic terrorism is cowardice and hypocrisy. They are afraid of Islam. They are afraid of the Islamic State. They do not believe anything is worth dying for. They fear that if they tell the truth, that Islam is NOT a religion of peace, then that will only increase the support that Muslims give to Islamic State and other Islamists. It’s as if they believe that their lies will become true, if only they insist on it being true. But their strategy is hypocritical. If Islam were really the religion of peace, then there’d be no cause for concern. There’d be no reason to worry that Muslims will support Islamic terrorism. How ridiculous it all is!

    • Westman says

      Jan 11, 2016 at 12:22 pm

      It’s like cancer for which the most dangerous phrase in the English language is “maybe it will go away”.

  9. Thomas says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 11:27 am

    The mayor most likely would say that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a leader of ISIS, does not do what he does because of Islam.

    There must be some other reason for his conduct.

    Notwithstanding his education (BA, MA, and PhD in Islamic studies from the Islamic University of Baghdad) per the mayor, he must be ignorant about Islam.

    It seems that the liberals and socialist have not respect for the Islamic educational institutions.

    • mortimer says

      Jan 11, 2016 at 11:44 am

      Stephen Colbert said: “You don’t need truth, when you have TRUTHINESS. Truthiness is what you feel in your GUT. When you have truthiness, you don’t look something up in a book. You look it up in your GUT!’

      Kenney thinks Islam is similar to his own Leftist liberalism. It is not. Islam is a highly codified system and not a matter of personal, private opinion…especially not the opinions of an American Leftist liberal cultural Marxist.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 15, 2016 at 1:13 am

        Alas and alack, Stephen Colbert is himself rather a dhimmi, and recently sneered at American governors who were concerned about safeguarding their constituents against violent Muslim “refugees”:

        “Stephen Colbert brutally mocks anti-refugee GOP candidates: Are they Christians or terrorists?”

        http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/stephen-colbert-viciously-mocks-anti-refugee-gop-candidates-are-they-christians-or-terrorists/

  10. mortimer says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 11:34 am

    A scholar of Islam, is he? Philly Mayor Jim Kenney? Has Kenney added ‘ISLAM EXPERT’ to his résumé?

    Or is Philly Mayor Jim Kenney just an arrogant, presumptuous liar? Or is he using the ‘argumentum ad ignorantium’?

    He knows nothing about Islam, therefore he is right? That’s clueless.

    Recap…Shooter: 1) dresses like an Arab Muslim 2) quotes Koran 3) attends mosque 4) says ‘I did it for Allah’.

    So obvious conclusions, 1) he is not a Muslim 2) Islam has nothing to do with Islam.

    • Jaladhi says

      Jan 11, 2016 at 11:50 am

      Now a days the meaning of a “liberal” is a liar as exemplified by the entire Democratic party leadership. You see day in and day out whenever there is Islamic jihad terror attack on US soil or any where else , these liars come out en masse proclaiming the terror attack has nothing to with Islam and Muslims as if they are the ultimate authority on Islam. Of course Muslims jump with joy at such silliness of our leaders!

  11. Gene says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 11:54 am

    In other news, Philly mayor Jim Kenney ordered the dismissal of assault, attempted murder, and other related crimes in the Archer case. Archer will now face perjury charges for claiming that he did it for Allah.

    • Shmooviyet says

      Jan 12, 2016 at 10:01 am

      It’s becoming more difficult to recognize the /sarc around here, as these national and local ‘leaders’ display more and more INSANE ‘pansy-ass-edness’ in their remarks.

      Looking at @Gene’s 1/11 comment at 11:54 and @Grace’s below at 12:19, I’m almost sure which is sarc and which is truth– but not completely sure. Gene’s comment just sounds too close to how Mr Mayor would prefer to follow up.
      The Philly policeman must feel so reassured to have this foolish cowardly clown for a superior.

  12. grace says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 12:19 pm

    The (non elected) Australian Prime minister says the same bs about islam. He stood in parliament and called the Paris terror attacks bladphemy, because the killers claimed to be working for allah.

  13. Atheist Kaffur says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 12:34 pm

    this is unbelievable!. Does this mayor think everyone is a maroon. Does he think because the politians don’t educate themselves in the teachings of the Quran that one else does?

    • Peggy says

      Jan 11, 2016 at 8:34 pm

      He knows that not everyone is a moron but the majority must be because they keep electing them.

  14. pongidae rex says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 12:49 pm

    It is called ‘magical thinking’. This is the inability to process factual information because it contradicts deeply held or politically inviolable convictions. It distorts the reality of one consumed by it so that factual information is dismissed in favor of elaborate conspiracy theories or improbable coincidences. The entire leadership of the Western world is consumed by this affliction. It may very well destroy our civilization.

  15. Georg says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 1:45 pm

    One of the funnier headlines I’ve seen anywhere.

  16. JawsV says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 2:47 pm

    Mayor Kenney – Yours is PC ignorance and idiocy about Islam.

    • Tom says

      Jan 11, 2016 at 5:36 pm

      I disagree with most of the reasons posted here for his behavior. There is more to this than we know. This guy is not stupid, he is a graduate from a prestigious high school and a very good college.

      He may be a closet Muslim as demonstrated by so many Democrats in our Government.

      He could be a Muslim sleeper. Islamist Mantra: deny everything; admit nothing!

      • JawsV says

        Jan 11, 2016 at 5:50 pm

        No one is saying he’s stupid. He’s just ignorant about Islam. Doesn’t know and doesn’t want to know. I don’t think he’s Muslim. He’s a leftist and in the early 21st century the liberals love Islam and Muslims, no matter how many atrocities they commit. I can’t figure it out, but there you go.

        • Nimrod says

          Jan 11, 2016 at 7:34 pm

          It’s simple neo-Marxist “guaranteed equal outcome” strategy. Whoever is “disadvantaged” (Muslims) keeps getting special treatment and their crimes are ignored until they attain equal outcome with everyone else.

          Telling lies is also basic Marxist Philosophy except that they would say something like “history must be revised in order to achieve social change”. This is nothing more than a fancy way of saying “tell lies so you can get whatever you want”.

          The core problem is that according to the Marxist beliefs of democrats, all conflicts are Marxist class struggles. This belief is expressed as “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” (quote from the communist manifesto). This belief, known as conflict theory, has almost completely taken over the field of sociology.

          Once you realize that Marixt philosophy is alive and well, as much as the neo-Marxists attempt to deny any connection between their beliefs and Marxism (“nothing to do with Marxism”?), many things suddenly make sense.

          Yes, it does have something to do with islam.

          Yes, it does have something to do with Marxism.

        • DAI says

          Jan 11, 2016 at 7:36 pm

          JOB. End of.

        • billybob says

          Jan 11, 2016 at 7:38 pm

          I disagree with all you good folk saying “He’s just ignorant about Islam”. Politicians are not that stupid. My take on it is that he is being an astute (and perhaps expedient) politician. For one thing, he is a Democrat, and has to toe the party line. For another, he has Muslim constituents. Likely he must be getting pressure from the Muslim Brotherhood (CAIR) and we have no idea what form that pressure can take. Who knows they may have contributed to his campaign or there may be other unspecified benefits? Remember, many of these politicians have no scruples. They will do anything for power or profit. You think they are there out of some magnanimous notion of serving the People?

        • Geoffrey Cooper says

          Jan 12, 2016 at 5:04 am

          I have an idea as to why the left love immigrants in general and Muslims in particular. After the elections of populist new-right leaders like Reagan and Thatcher, the left felt they had been ‘betrayed’ by the white working class, their traditional support, and they (the left) have never forgiven them. They pander to the Muslims at home for votes an d political power and abroad for the most cynical of ideological reasons.The Muslims hate ‘the west’, the USA, Europe and Israel, Jews and ‘world capitalism’, all things that the left generally hate too, so, my enemy’s enemy is my friend etc.They choose to completely ignore the fact that Islam is really a form of fascism that detests feminism, gays, freedom of expression, diversity and everything else that left/liberals hold sacred!

  17. Edward says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 3:38 pm

    IT HAS DEFINITELY BEEN PROVEN NOW:

    For what has happen in Philly is an absolute fact that AMERICA and all of HUMANITY HAS POSSESED PROXIES of EVIL living amongst us PERIOD!

    The actors: VIOLENT ISLAM and VIOLENT LIBERALISM.

    These are the number 1ranking identifiable enemy’s of GOD’S CREATED HUMANKIND that need to be eliminated NOW!

  18. Champ says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 4:20 pm

    In his spare time Kenney works tirelessly trying to fit a square peg in a round hole …

  19. eduardo odraude says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 5:27 pm

    The Philadelphia mayor is a liar. It’s one thing when someone mouths the PC Islam lie with a straight face. But the mayor really bends over, and even says none of Islam’s teachings were involved. He bends over so far it’s as if he were saying, “Please, Islam, I’ll let you rape me if you just don’t kill me.” The ultimate sycophant. And while spouting an idiotic boot-licking lie, he has that stupid sad look on his face, which intensifies the deception and makes it unbearable to watch him.

    • Shmooviyet says

      Jan 12, 2016 at 10:15 am

      First reaction to these remarks for many seemed to be the old “he doth protesteth too mucheth” line. The sputtering, defiance and repetition was suspect.

  20. eduardo odraude says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 5:35 pm

    I suppose the mayor is getting lots of input from Muslims telling him terrorism has nothing to do with Islam. He may think that those giving him input represent a true version of Islam, and therefore should be supported.

    That would show that he knows nothing about taqiyya and has little or no acquaintance with the core Islamic texts.

    Here’s an excellent vid — The Three Stages of Jihad

    • billybob says

      Jan 11, 2016 at 8:04 pm

      This guy is brilliant!

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 15, 2016 at 1:16 am

      More great stuff from David Wood.

  21. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 5:54 pm

    That mayor needs, to wake up and have a reality check about the every violence and deadly essence of that religion that is Islam. For example, the Koran instructs in 9:123. “O you who believe ! Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you, and let them find harshness you.” Shooting a man is a powerful way of showing him harshness. Likewise,the Koran teaches in 9:111. “The believers fight in Allah’s cause,they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” So even that dangerous jihad-minded Muslim who was the shooter more honest then mayor of that city . For that jihadist Muslim came right out and said it .That he did it “In the name of Islam.” Those words he said were not empty words he spoke. As as just seen, they are Koranic based. In addition, this is a very fitting to reiterate the wisdom found written in the book by Thomas Paine which is entitled THE AGE OF REASON. Which reads that “Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be a true system.”

  22. Bezelel says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 6:44 pm

    Maybe kenney could take up Bob Hopes job and go entertain our troops overseas.

  23. Elisha says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 7:23 pm

    The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. – 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12

    Hellooooo?

  24. sidney penny says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 8:50 pm

    “If the President had had such forms during World War II, would the United States have won the war? Probably not. And the denial today makes it harder for us to win this one: If the President had had such forms during World War II, would the United States have won the war? Probably not. And the denial today makes it harder for us to win this one: instead of calling the Muslim community in the U.S. to account and making sure that jihadis are not operating within it, officials pander to it and deny the stated motive of our enemies, and thus condemn us to ignorance about the motives and goals of those enemies at a time when they are more active than ever. officials pander to it and deny the stated motive of our enemies, and thus condemn us to ignorance about the motives and goals of those enemies at a time when they are more active than ever.”

    “… instead of calling the Muslim community in the U.S. to account and making sure that jihadis are not operating within it, officials pander to it and deny …..”

    Similiarly in Australia.
    http://www.meforum.org/5757/australian-minister-wrong-on-islam.

    “If what Fierravanti-Wells implies is true, namely that most Australian Muslims want a moderate form of Islam preached in their mosques, then let them take steps to ensure this happens.

    If they are unhappy with their imams, let them replace them, or else vacate those mosques to frequent other mosques they like better, with imams whose teachings they find more congenial.

    This is how religious freedom works. It is precisely because Australian Muslims do have religious freedom that it is reasonable for Australians to hold the Muslim community to account for the utterances of their leaders.”

  25. Dan Jones says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 9:07 pm

    Our country was taken down from within just like Kruschev said it would…

  26. somehistory says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 9:41 pm

    Such arrogance, attempting to speak for everyone in the room as to what is believed about islam and its teaching.

    Such foolish arrogance. Was there not a *Joe Wilson* in the room?

    So many in the political world are so eagerly giving themselves over to the beast, opening their mouth and praising the image of the beast, and trying to put the same words in the mouths of others, by making these claims for everyone. Are they not, then, a part of the “false prophet” that is causing the people of earth to bow down to the image and the beast behind it?

    This guy, with what looks like a pained expression as he makes his foolish, arrogant proclamation, should read what happens to the “false prophet”…(Revelation 19:20; 20:10), the “wild beast” and devil.

  27. pumbar says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 11:44 pm

    • Tom says

      Jan 12, 2016 at 6:02 am

      Has anyone in Philly asked a Police Officer about this outrageous statement by the Mayor?

      Also, I want Archer charged with a Federal Hate Crime. He attacked a White Police Officer and that falls under the purview of the FHC statute.

  28. pumbar says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 11:45 pm

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  29. Rich says

    Jan 12, 2016 at 12:52 am

    I called the Philadelphia Mayor’s office today to complain about this son of a bitch. Spoke with a live person, but she was not the Mayor’s administrative assistant, so not sure how effective it was. She also claimed there was no other number to call, only emails and U.S. mail.

    Anyway. I think it’s important to call/contact these sons of bitches every time they do something OUTRAGEOUS like this, to at least let them know that they absolutely SUCK as human beings.

  30. Carolyne says

    Jan 12, 2016 at 10:10 am

    Until recentlyt, it was Bill Cosby who was the funniest man to have come from Philadelphia. But with his recent troubles, and with the statements of this mayor, Cosby has been dethroned as funniest Philadelphian. All hail the new king of Philadelphia funnymen.

  31. zerodown32 says

    Jan 12, 2016 at 11:05 am

    In the Great Book “The Philosophy of Right” the author Hegel argues one of the most disrespectful and condescending actions anyone, including government, can make is to disregard the actions and assertions of an individual. Acknowledging the individual thoughts and actions is the foundation of the American Form of Government (Virtue Before Honor – Montesquieu).

    In the realm of crime and punishment, we must not be disrespectful to administer punishment. Two wrongs don’t make a right. As ye mete, so ye shall be meted; one shall reap as one sows.

    Show respect for this individual . Acknowledge the man and his crime for what he says it is. Put him to death with the dignity all individuals deserve.

  32. FOLEY says

    Jan 12, 2016 at 6:25 pm

    Well, they all have the obsequious, head-bowed, dhimmi attitude. Yeah, they look like American politicians. I’m sure they’ll go far.

  33. gravenimage says

    Jan 15, 2016 at 1:05 am

    Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Philly Shooter: I Did It For Allah. Philly Mayor: No, You Didn’t.
    ……………………..

    Isn’t it great when dhimmis naysay the Jihadists themselves to assure us that violent Jihad terrorism is not really Jihad at all?

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