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AG Loretta Lynch: Orlando gunman’s motive may never be known

Jun 21, 2016 5:34 pm By Robert Spencer

His motive may never be known? He declared it straightforwardly: “I pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi may Allah protect him, on behalf of the Islamic State,” said Omar Mateen on the night he murdered 49 people and wounded 53. The Islamic State has called for the murders of American civilians during Ramadan.

But of course, this is Loretta Lynch, who initially released a transcript of Mateen’s statement that had him saying: “I pledge allegiance to [omitted] may God protect him [in Arabic], on behalf of [omitted].” So it’s no surprise that she would profess not to know what motivated him — and indeed, profess that his motivation cannot be known.

This insanity in the corridors of power is going to kill many, many more people.

Loretta Lynch

“AG Loretta Lynch: Orlando gunman’s motive may never be known,” CBS News, June 21, 2016:

After meeting with prosecutors, first responders and victims of the Orlando terror attack, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said that the investigation is still ongoing, and a motive has yet to be established….

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  1. Wild Bill says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 5:42 pm

    May never be known by this administration is what she meant. The rest of us know he was a jihadist.

    • Dean says

      Jun 22, 2016 at 1:43 am

      What we knew instantly will be denied forever by this Admin and the dhimmitude. What encourages the savages more, Trump’s words or this denial of the attacks by the people that are supposed to protect us?

      • Jay Boo says

        Jun 22, 2016 at 3:11 am

        She is dripping soggy wet with motive here.

        Loretta Lynch in the first few minutes says:
        Again and again what the motive was for this So Carolina gunman.

      • Shane says

        Jun 22, 2016 at 10:11 am

        This comes from the top down, Obama refuses to admit that Muslim terrorists are killing in the name of Allah, just as Mo ordered in the Koran and the Hadiths. This shooter was a good Muslim who carried out the death sentence for infidel gays, just as Mo commanded. It is not violent muslims who are perverting Islam, but peaceful muslims who are perverting the Religion of Jihad.

    • Mo The Canadian says

      Jun 22, 2016 at 11:14 am

      Based on the Islamic teaching in order to go to heaven your good deeds should be much bigger than your sins, but the sure and fastest way to go to heaven regardless of the number of your sins is to kill a non muslim (infidel or Kafir) in the name of ALLAH, this way you are guaranteed heaven and enjoy having sex with 72 virgins, young boys, wine, …..etc.if he is killed during this mass killing.
      Mateen was a gay man and he thought that for sure he will to go to hell after his death so he planned to kill group of infidels and to guarantee heaven and the 72 virgins if he is killed during his attack, he called the police during his attack to guarantee his killing to go to heaven and enjoy endless sex with virgin women and boys.

    • Bobby Mason says

      Jun 22, 2016 at 12:56 pm

      Yes He was a Muslim Terriost,Thay don’t want to asmit it….

  2. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 5:45 pm

    Has the audio of Mateen’s phoned-in statements been released? Even if the transcript is complete, is it in his original spoken language, or is it a translation? In particular, did he say “God”, or “Allah”?

    • Polk1970 says

      Jun 21, 2016 at 6:57 pm

      They INSULT the Intelligence of The American People as a whole,,and each individual American personally

      • mortimer says

        Jun 21, 2016 at 7:23 pm

        The problem is this: When EVERYONE knows Obama is lying about jihad, WHY LIE?

        All Muslims know jihad is normative Islam. The filthy, dirty kafirs now know jihad is normative Islam. Everyone gets it now.

        No one is tricked by Obama’s doubletalk.

        Everyone is thinking: Obama is full of doubletalk. Can any of his words be trusted? Even one?

        Hillary’s chances of election will be reduced by every bit of double talk. She already has a credibility problem as Crooked Hillary.

        • PRCS says

          Jun 21, 2016 at 8:22 pm

          “Everyone gets it now”

          Bull!

          You can’t possibly believe that’s true.

        • Jim says

          Jun 22, 2016 at 8:29 am

          I suggest you read John 8:42-47.

      • Dean says

        Jun 22, 2016 at 1:47 am

        Your are a little optimistic. IF there weren’t legions of the clueless, deniers and these enablers and the media, Trump would already be a shoe-in.

      • IQ al Rassooli says

        Jun 22, 2016 at 3:09 am

        Polk

        Not really an insult to the intelligence of the American people BECAUSE it was THEY who elected this Criminal Organization TWICE and at least 49% of them (if not more) would rather elect Hillary than Trump!

        The American people have literally only one LAST chance to redeem themselves and hopefully enough of them will Wake Up and do so

        IQ al Rassooli
        Kafir & Proud!

        • TH says

          Jun 22, 2016 at 7:26 am

          About 50% f Americans don’t even bother to vote. Then, the candidates they get to vote for are what they are. The system is lousy.

      • Shane says

        Jun 22, 2016 at 10:14 am

        You can’t insult the intelligence enough of liberal twits who refuse to believe the abundant evidence that Islam is a violent and misogynistic religion and that muslims do not share our Western values of freedom of speech, the press, and religion, and equal rights for women. Ignorant and willfully blind Americans are harming our once great country by not crying out against Obama’s pro-Islam polices, such as denying that muslim terrorists are muslims and adding 100,000 more muslim immigrants every year to our population.

    • rara says

      Jun 21, 2016 at 8:58 pm

      I tried to reconstruct what he actually said. The Arabic phrases he said (my guess, possibly inexactly translated to make them appear less typical) are used very, very regularly by the Muslims:

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/06/doj-releases-unredacted-orlando-jihad-transcript-after-criticism#comment-1462210

      • Dean says

        Jun 22, 2016 at 1:51 am

        For them to go to such lengths and revealed duplicity, he must have gone on quite a rant with specific and convincing Islamic claims and grievances. I became suspicious that it was much more than the FBI revealed when they went so far as to translate Allah into God.

    • The Vilest of Creatures says

      Jun 22, 2016 at 10:52 am

      This would have been like announcing you have no suspects after Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered on national TV

  3. Jimmy says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 5:45 pm

    Just compensation for Muslims low self esteem living in the west, they always want there religion mentioned on news headlines to boost there low self esteem. Are you aware the guy who did the Lindt cafe shooting in Sydney turned to just want attention and was in seek of having his photo and name published on the news. Compensation of low self esteem. When people are suffering from low self esteem they enjoy terrorising people with joy for no reason.

  4. Angemon says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 5:46 pm

    After meeting with prosecutors, first responders and victims of the Orlando terror attack, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said that the investigation is still ongoing, and a motive has yet to be established

    Well, of course – just because he told you the motive doesn’t mean that he meant it…

    • Norger says

      Jun 21, 2016 at 6:29 pm

      Exactly. When it comes to Islamic terrorism, the stated motivation can NEVER be taken at face value, no matter how clearly articulated.

  5. Christianblood says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 5:46 pm

    (Loretta Lynch: Orlando gunman’s motive may never be known).

    Is she covering up the motives of the islamic jihadist killer intentionally or is she
    honestly ignorant of the fact that the killer was purely motivated by islamic jihadist hatred?

    • Christianblood says

      Jun 21, 2016 at 5:50 pm

      if she is covering up the motives of the islamic jihadist killer intentionally then she is a traitor and a criminal and she deserved to be hanged but if she is ignorant of the fact that the muslim jihadist killer was purely motivated by islamic hatred of jihad then she needs to be fired immediately!

      • Judi says

        Jun 21, 2016 at 5:59 pm

        Christianblood – she won’t be hanged or fired. She’s under instructions from the Liar in Chief.

        • Santa Voorhees says

          Jun 21, 2016 at 6:21 pm

          She should be lynched (sarcasm not intended).

        • mortimer says

          Jun 21, 2016 at 7:49 pm

          …pants on fire.

          We all know that it’s a lie. Why tell it?

    • Jaladhi says

      Jun 21, 2016 at 5:59 pm

      A person who will lie for the sake of his boss has no self respect among many other things!!

      • mortimer says

        Jun 21, 2016 at 7:52 pm

        Degrading. The chief lawyer of the country lying…SHAMEFUL.

  6. Jaladhi says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 5:57 pm

    Only a brain dead will say that!1 The motives are very clear – kill the infidels on the orders of allah the criminal! And this is our AG entrusted with the protection of US citizens!1 Ha, ha,.. we are doomed!!

  7. Westman says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 5:58 pm

    All the lying erodes confidence in government. The citizens already know; try reading the message boards. It’s too late for spin.

    Jay Leno may have walked around town and found young Americans who know little, however, that is not indicative of the general population. The US has never before had this level of general education.

    Government can only fool most of the people some of the time before most of the people know they are being manipulated. There is some intelligent life emerging at the Washington Post that, hopefully, will be followed soon by other media.

    Motive? only a Dhimmy could miss it:

    http://creepingsharia.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/b5a1a8fiuaes1bb.jpg?w=468&h=310

  8. Veritas says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 6:01 pm

    I pledge allegiance to the [omitted], and to the [omitted] for which it stands, one [omitted], under [omitted], [omitted], with [omitted] and [omitted] for all.

    • Cecilia Ellis says

      Jun 21, 2016 at 6:48 pm

      Veritas, most impressive! ? That’s why transcripts of Obama’s speeches were redacted to following:

      “[omitted] need to get off your high [omitted].”

      “[omitted] who cling to their [omitted] and [omitted].”

      “We are not at war with [omitted].”

      • Angemon says

        Jun 22, 2016 at 5:58 am

        Here’s one Obama speech edited for accuracy:

        • Cecilia Ellis says

          Jun 22, 2016 at 10:57 am

          Ange, before viewing this video, I ensured there was no beverage near my iPad, thus ensuring that replacement, due to spillage, would not be required . . . at least on this day. I did not account for the cat, which, when startled by an outburst of laughter, has an amazing capacity to leap long distances in a single bound . . . even those distances that exist between sofas and bookcases. Fortunately, I was able to catch my mother’s antique clock before it fell to the floor, as if to follow the full cup of coffee that preceded it. The carpet will dry in about an hour.

          This video is perhaps one of the funniest I have watched, if not the funniest. Hopefully all JW readers will interrupt their day, for a well-deserved respite from relentless disgust and revulsion, to see the Redactor-in-Chief.

          Rating for video: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

          Rating for Ange: ?????

          Rating for Obama: ☪☪☪☪☪

          My friend, you have raised the humor bar with this post! My sincere congratulations and thanks!

        • Angemon says

          Jun 22, 2016 at 2:05 pm

          🙂

    • Westman says

      Jun 21, 2016 at 7:03 pm

      LOL!, Veritas & Cecilia.

  9. Atheist kaffur says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 6:05 pm

    Of course she knows the motive why else would she hide it.

  10. IQ al Rassooli says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 6:08 pm

    Dear Americans

    I sincerely hope that Obama and his stooges continue to publicly and relentlessly DECEIVE the people because the more they do so, the more Trump will have the votes to CRUSH these TRAITORS!

    More Americans are WAKING up daily about the Islamic threat and Obama’s utter enmity to the American people and the constitution of the Republic.

    IQ al Rassooli
    Kafir & Proud!

    • mortimer says

      Jun 21, 2016 at 7:56 pm

      Obama thinks he’s lying to the people FOR THEIR OWN GOOD.

      This is paternalistic, condescending, disdainful, haughty and patronizing.

      When will Obama get off his HIGH HORSE and stop LYING and pretending HE KNOWS BEST?

      • Frank Courtney says

        Jun 22, 2016 at 4:18 am

        Obama thinks Allah knows best.

      • Angemon says

        Jun 22, 2016 at 6:24 am

        Like C.S. Lewis wrote:

        “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

        • linnte says

          Jun 22, 2016 at 9:15 am

          Ange, that’s pretty profound thinking of Lewis. So little time and so much reading to do! Thanks!

  11. Santa Voorhees says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 6:10 pm

    Had Omar Mateen been a follower of any other faith, his motivations that led him to kill 50 would have been very clear….

    • Norger says

      Jun 21, 2016 at 11:35 pm

      Funny how when it comes to tallying up “right wing extremist” crimes the motive is always clear….

  12. biff says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 6:24 pm

    The depths of Loretta Lynch denial and lying to the American Public will also likely never be know.

  13. John Johness says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 6:28 pm

    As all lawyers know, in a criminal case the burden of proof is on the government. If the defendant says ‘I killed him, your honor because…..’ it is pretty well taken as fact, including the motive.. Astounding what is happening here.

  14. Dennis says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 6:29 pm

    The FBI isn’t allowed to protect the country from people like Omar.

  15. 7%Solution says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 6:47 pm

    She (Lynch) also mentioned offhand in her statement that it happened to be “Latino night” at the club, as if to suggest (i.e., attempt to confuse the issue even more) that the jihadi may just as well have been after Latinos. (Like someone can’t be gay and Latino.) So, apparently, we can’t know what the shooter’s motivation was or exactly who his targets were.

  16. Raptor says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 7:23 pm

    Can someone please define the mental illness that our American society is under ? Motives of this killer unknown ???

    • Frank Courtney says

      Jun 22, 2016 at 4:24 am

      I’m no psychiatrist but I am quite capable of using Google appropriately:

      Delusional disorder, previously called paranoid disorder, is a type of serious mental illness called a “psychosis” in which a person cannot tell what is real from what is imagined. The main feature of this disorder is the presence of delusions, unshakable beliefs in something untrue or not based on reality.
      Mental Health: Delusional Disorder

      • Frank Courtney says

        Jun 22, 2016 at 4:27 am

        This applies, of course, not to all of the citizens of the USA because many are capable of critical thinking, but it does apply to Obama, Lynch and the rest of his cronies.

  17. Wellington says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 7:24 pm

    Might as well have urinated on those killed in Orlando. Loretta Lynch, you are a disgrace to your country.

  18. mortimer says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 7:28 pm

    The dithering, deceitful, dissembling DISINFORMATIONISTS of Obama and Hillary are PROFESSIONALLY GULLIBLE and hopelessly NAIVE POLLYANNAS who have learned about of JIHAD since 9/11. They have finally realized with horror that this continued POSING will cost Hillary the election. But they do not stop!
    Americans are tired of the lies, half-truths and red herrings. They are becoming well-read, well-informed and rather sophisticated about jihad. In large numbers, Americans are reaching out for REAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION ABOUT ISLAM to learn, read and listen about jihad and more than ever before. Americans will no longer tolerate the sort of rubbish AG Loretta Lynch is shoveling.

    Obama’s corps of elite disinformationists are destroying their credibility permanently.

    • mortimer says

      Jun 21, 2016 at 7:49 pm

      correction: who have learned NOTHING about of JIHAD since 9/11.

      • Raptor says

        Jun 21, 2016 at 8:11 pm

        That seems to be the case……but what do law abiding citizens do in this situation –
        Options seem limited….

        • linnte says

          Jun 21, 2016 at 11:22 pm

          Write news papers and call bull on their denial of the Islamic facts. Email CNN and do the same, saying they should be ashamed to even print news like this! And lastly, load ’em and lock ’em and be prepared!

    • Alien Republican says

      Jun 21, 2016 at 8:04 pm

      I hope you are right. The level of moral and intellectual corruption is mind boggling.

  19. WorkingClassPost says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 7:38 pm

    Aside from their usual motive of defending islam, there may now be a more pressing reason for the cover up.

    With the election getting closer, this could be nothing more than keeping facts hidden that benefit Trump.

    It’s up to the Republican party to get together and expose stuff like this, or prepare for another term out of the WH.

  20. Idania says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 7:40 pm

    I will never understand why, why, there is so much apologies, and excuses for Muslims. Who protect them knowing the threats they mean to the US? Why they are given so much say in everything? They are a meager minority, for so much power. WHY, why, why. Who is doing the push after them? Whoever they are they are treasonous to our Judeo/ Christian culture.

    • Russ says

      Jun 21, 2016 at 9:18 pm

      It’s Obama (Barry) he is a closet Muzzie. The Presidential Cabnet is made up of all Muslims. They are destroying America .

    • linnte says

      Jun 21, 2016 at 11:28 pm

      My theory is the New World Order is giving Muslims a free pass to immigrate and spread their Ideology. They already want the world to submit to them, and you can’t get a more passionate supremacist than a Muslim who KNOWS that “they are the best of all people”. So Islam takes over, eventually, and then the REAL Supremacist steps in to subdue the Muslims. What the NWO will then have is a world of people who are already trained to be submissive and obey the Masters of the elite.

  21. Georg says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 7:47 pm

    Will his motive for celebrating 9/11 ever be known? What about his motive for scouting Disney? How about his father’s motive for supporting the Taliban? When will we find out why he told a flower seller who responded to his question about transexuals by saying God will not accept them with “Do you know that just saved your life?”

    One can either come up with a rube goldberg line of reasoning for each instance, or go with the common denominator. It’s a dastardly state of affairs that this administration chooses the former and insults the American people, endangers them, errs on the side of protecting Islamic supremacists over us, and needlessly, in fact harmfully, expends extra resources to confuse us and deflect blame from those who wish us harm.

  22. billybob says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 7:59 pm

    • linnte says

      Jun 21, 2016 at 11:34 pm

      Such a good laugh! Thanks Billy!

      • jamesmi says

        Jun 22, 2016 at 11:36 am

        Too close to reality by a long way LOL

  23. Mockingjay says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 8:11 pm

    Hey *Dumbledoresarmy*, if you read this – have you noticed yet that Maajid Nawaz just kinda stole your idea?

    – He now calls this total refusal to name the enemy “THE VOLDEMORT EFFECT”.

    It is, of course, an eerily fitting analogy, that you very aptly identified – long before anyone else did!

    – For those of you who haven’t read Harry Potter (I suppose there are many here…!) and haven’t really got a clue what this is all about –
    read book 5 (The Order of the Phoenix) of the Harry Potter series to find out that how “the Ministry” treats Harry for speaking out about the fact that Voldemort

    ( HE WHO MUST NOT BE NAMED )

    “is back”, is truly an accurate rendering of the way everyone today is treated by “the government” for insisting that the threat of “radical islam” needs to be named and acknowledged,

    – So much so that it makes JK Rowling look like she’s got some sort of prophetic abilities.

    • linnte says

      Jun 21, 2016 at 11:43 pm

      Oh the Potter series is right up there with Tolkien in my opinion! I cried when Alan Rickman(Professor Snape) died. Is that why you chose this name General Dumbledore? The “he who must not be named part? Genius! Absolutely genius! I could see the analogy of Voldemort being a representation of Islam, but the fear of people mentioning his name/Islam didn’t register! ?

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Jun 22, 2016 at 8:45 am

        Linnte – yes, I chose my nom de plume because I saw a kind of analogy between the situation of the Islamo-aware and the situation of the ‘good guys’ in the Harry Potter epic; while I also saw an analogy between our real life enemy – the Ummah, followers of the evil cult-leader and warlord Mohammed – and the fictional enemy (Voldemort and his Death Eaters) in ‘Harry Potter’.

        Here in that strange ‘room of requirement’ that is the internet, Mr Spencer (who resembles *both* Harry *and* Dumbledore) conducts his classes in ‘defence against the dark arts’. The analogy is not of course complete, because the Enemy are able to lurk and eavesdrop here.

        I chose ‘dumbledore’s army’ rather than ‘order of the phoenix’ because I saw myself as very much a junior member of the team; the nom de plume is short for “[member of] dumbledore’s army’. It is people like Mr Spencer or Douglas Murray or Pam Geller or Brigitte Gabriel or Geert Wilders or Mordechai Kedar who are the real-life equivalent of the “Order of the Phoenix”, because they are right out there on the front lines.

        • linnte says

          Jun 22, 2016 at 9:27 am

          And in the end, He Who Must Not Be Named is defeated, but not all of his Death Eaters. Wish we could put CAIR in Askaban prison. And Anjem Choudary and …..

          Mr. Spencer is the perfect Professor Dumbledore! He even has that same ironic humor. I love this! And it will be a great way to explain Islam to kids.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Jun 22, 2016 at 9:29 am

        Linnte: next time you watch the first movie, watch the “Chess Game” sequence.

        Think of it as a sort of metaphorical set-piece, like a play within a play.. a medieval morality play, at that. Three characters: Ron, Hermione, and Harry. The chess pieces whose parts they play in the game are not accidental. Harry a spiritual leader – ‘bishop’, Hermione a ‘castle’, while Ron declares “I’ll be a Knight!” and proceeds to act like a general, commanding the others, moving the pieces in the game of Wizard Chess.

        Think of the three archetypal cities – and the principles they represent – that underlie what we think of as ‘western civilisation’: Rome; Athens; Jerusalem. Ron ‘is’ Rome ; Hermione ‘is’ Athens (and wise enough to know the limits of worldly wisdom “books and cleverness”); but Harry… Harry is ‘Jerusalem’. At the end of that scene, after the others have done everything they can, it is Harry who must go on alone, to face the Enemy.

        I just keep hoping and praying that sometime *soon* Gen Y and Gen Z – the children (now young men and women, in their twenties and in their teens) who grew up *steeped in* and totally loving the Harry Potter books and the movies – will wake up and realize *who* the real-life Death Eaters are, and *who* is the closest parallel to the fictional ‘Voldemort, and that it is *they* who are being called to step forward and *be* ‘the Order of the Phoenix’ and resist the Jihad with every bit of spiritual and physical strength they can muster… or see their whole world ruined and laid waste.

        • linnte says

          Jun 22, 2016 at 9:47 am

          My goodness you amaze me! Literature has always been used as a way to speak to people who live in a situation but are blind to the perils of their time. I will start using J K Rowling’s books to help people understand.

          Thank you!

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jun 22, 2016 at 9:08 am

      Yes, the whole “He Who Must Not Be Named”/ “That Which Must Not Be Named” analogy is spot on.

      I don’t think the chap who spoke of ‘the Voldemort effect’ pinched it from *me*… the analogy between the fictional scenario and what is currently happening is moderately obvious to anyone with half a brain who is familiar with the Harry Potter books (*especially* “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”) and/ or the movie versions thereof.

      The great iirony is that, so far as I can see, Rowling – like her own ‘occasional seer’ “Professor Trelawney”, who utters prophecies without ever knowing that she has done so and without knowing or understanding *what* those prophecies actually said – hasn’t got the *faintest* idea that she has held up a fictional mirror to the frantic attempts, by so many in the Western world, to deny the deadly resurgence of Islam and Jihad, and to suppress and vilify those who are trying to warn people about it.

      In her capacity as an ordinary British citizen she seems to be closer to those who wail about Islamophobia, than to those who warn against the Jihad. She has absolutely not a clue that perhaps the closest real-life parallel to her fictional “Order of the Phoenix” … and to Harry Potter “the boy who lived’ (when he should have died) is… Israel.

      And yet: the analogies are there. Our poets can sometimes be – like Professor Trelawney – wiser than they themselves know. They know *without* knowing; or something else speaks through them.

      Rowling isn’t the only one among our modern storytellers who has held up this warning mirror; she’s just 1/ the most recent and 2/ the least aware (indeed, I would say, largely *unaware*) of the meaning of what she has said.

      To see what I mean, read C S Lewis’s two little books for children, published in the 1950s – “The Horse and His Boy” and the bleaker and darker, “The Last Battle”. Read J R R Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”; one of the climactic battles in *that* is – I think – inspired at least in part by the great victory at Vienna in 1683 (I personally think that Tolkien’s fantasy epic is in some sense holding up a mythic mirror to Christendom’s millennium-and-a-half of defensive struggle against the Jihad; and that that epic struggle against Jihad is much more apposite to Tolkien’s story than any supposed parallel with WWII or with the Cold War). Interestingly enough, the British (Welsh) actor who played Gimli the dwarf in Jackson’s (dreadful) film adaptation of the epic, *saw* the analogy, clear as daylight, and got into terrible trouble when he expressed his awareness out loud.

      And I think a lot of Islamoaware English people, right now, would feel shivers going down their backs if they sat down and read the chapter entitled “The Scouring of the Shire” in the final book of “The Lord of the Rings”.

      Even more so, if they went to Catholic journalist and novelist G K Chesterton’s 1915 novel “The Flying Inn”, set in an England that is in process of being Islamised by stealth and by treachery.

      • linnte says

        Jun 22, 2016 at 9:41 am

        The “Lord of the Rings” is by and far my !most favorite books including the Hobbit. And I agree with you that WW2 is not the analogy that Tolkien used for his stories to his son, Christopher. He spent some time in India where he certainly would have run into Muslims but the connection never made it to my head until now! Being a scholar of history and lover of myth, he would have seen Islam for what it is. Mordor is very much a metaphor for the Middle East and Orcs a summary on Islamic indoctrination.

        I am honored to know you General! Let’s hope we never get to see any Oliphant’s!

        • jamesmi says

          Jun 22, 2016 at 11:48 am

          Brilliant lit. crit. of two great books 🙂

      • Mockingjay says

        Jun 22, 2016 at 4:51 pm

        Hey thanks for all that DA, it was very interesting to read everything you wrote!

        And yes – to me also, Lord of the Rings got a whole new meaning as well since I became aware of Islam…

        Those filthy ORCS
        !

  24. Daniel Dravot says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 8:35 pm

    H. L. Menken is often quoted as saying “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”

    The actual quote is “No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”

    I suspect either version is correct. No amount of evidence related to corruption, incompetence or treason will dissuade the Clinton voter just as was the case with the Obama voter. When the supine non-voting public recognizes the danger it will be too late.

    The Terrorists are coming! Turn in your weapons and go to a gun free zone.

    • John says

      Jun 21, 2016 at 9:39 pm

      Sad but so true, brother… ill be dying standing up n taking as many muzzscum as i can with me

  25. Penny says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 8:47 pm

    This administration refuses to upset the Muslim community by saying the truth-Islam’s goal is to take over any society which does not submit to Allah.
    Our leaders are playing with our lives and way of life so we need to have Patriots arise again! Americans Unite!!!!

  26. Robert_K says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 9:14 pm

    What Loretta Lynch should say is that we may never know Obama’s motive in being an apologist for radical Islam. That is probably true, as we are all told that Obama is a Christian. In that case, the Pope is probably a Muslim. Come to think of it, the way this Pope behaves that may very well be true.

  27. Kasey says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 11:10 pm

    What a load of deceptive crap from America’s second best Islamoapologiest!

  28. linnte says

    Jun 21, 2016 at 11:45 pm

    I am wondering if Lynch is a Muslim? Does anyone know?

  29. somehistory says

    Jun 22, 2016 at 1:32 am

    If only they can *think* of something that the majority of the public will believe. If only. They are trying hard and if they try long enough, something else will happen that will take people’s attention away from this terror attack by a moslim.
    A moslim who wanted to go to his *reward* and wished to murder as many as he was able while telling about it on the phone and internet, after having threatened his co-worker, so no one would think he was just *mad, mad, mad,* (as in insane, not the angry kind).

    If they drag it out long enough, talk about it less and less, it will be November and, they hope, forgotten.

    Then the ledger john kerry is keeping of terror by the different groups can remain as he has listed it for all of his *friends.*

  30. somehistory says

    Jun 22, 2016 at 1:45 am

    When she looks in the mirror, imo, she sees a part of the entity we are warned about in Revelation. Chapter 13 tells us the *role* or *job* of this entity. And names it for us. We are told it is: the false prophet.

    She has learned her role well. Right alongside kerry and their bossman.

  31. David says

    Jun 22, 2016 at 2:01 am

    The administration will not admit that it was a terrorist attack. OH I am in trouble because Obama and company said we could not call them raciest or jihadists.

  32. TheDane says

    Jun 22, 2016 at 2:50 am

    “motive might never be known”… Right! This is most certainly a job for Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

  33. Ali Bey says

    Jun 22, 2016 at 3:37 am

    Loretta Lynch isn t worth an inch

  34. Ali Bey says

    Jun 22, 2016 at 3:45 am

    Loretta Lynch Hypocrisy will not flinch.

  35. Ali Bey says

    Jun 22, 2016 at 3:54 am

    Loretta Lynch is a chinch …to America

  36. Ali Bey says

    Jun 22, 2016 at 3:56 am

    Loretta Lynch is a cinch …on decency

  37. Ali Bey says

    Jun 22, 2016 at 3:57 am

    Loretta Lynch is a flinch… who sings nonsense

  38. f c king says

    Jun 22, 2016 at 4:57 am

    The reason this Islamist committed this mass murder is very obvious.
    He is gay. I am not gay, or anti-gay. So long as everyone is of consenting age, and are indeed consenting with no threat, It is not my business.
    Again this muslim is gay. His family knows he is gay, but daddy islamist won’t admit it in public. A twisted muslim honor thing. His son committed this mass murder , so he can go to paradise, and continue having all the gay , sex his heart desires. Men , young boys, maybe even with muhammad himself.
    This is just another example of muslim supremacist double standards. He’s gay, he murders many gay infidels in the name of isis and muhamad, and now is rewarded as a martyr, go to heave and have gay sex.

  39. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jun 22, 2016 at 7:28 am

    Major Nidal did a PowerPoint to drive home his motives with the utmost clarity, but it didn’t take. Workplace violence. Notice the silence from Hillary on this.

  40. jamesmi says

    Jun 22, 2016 at 11:15 am

    If Matteen had cried out “Glory be to Jesus !”, and not “Allahu Akbar !”, there would have been no question whatever as to his motivation; his crimes would have been attributed to Christian terrorism. But because he made it unambiguously clear that he was acting as a Muslim jihadi killing gays and kuffar in the name of satan Allah, there is doubt as to his motive.

    Those who act stupid, are in danger of becoming stupid.

  41. slim says

    Jun 22, 2016 at 11:34 am

    George Orwell 1984

  42. copakeman says

    Jun 22, 2016 at 12:06 pm

    Unfortunately lynch is correct, the murderer is dead and cannot answer any questions. His background, associates, islam, 2nd wife, and any other history of this person, does not matter. to the US dept of justice.
    We all know it was the rifle he used was the perpetrator of this crime and the rifle should be put in prison forever. WTF ??????

    Does anyone outside the State Dept really care about this murderers motive ?

    Deport all muslims immediately !

  43. Jay Boo says

    Jun 22, 2016 at 1:27 pm

    “Orlando gunman’s motive may never be known”

    They hope

  44. Carmel says

    Jun 22, 2016 at 5:31 pm

    Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! Orlando gunman motive may never be known. And Loretta Lynch motives ?

    • linnte says

      Jun 22, 2016 at 6:05 pm

      Loretta Lynch’s motives are as clear as the call from a Mosques minaret! Anyone who works with and along side Barack Hussein Obama has the same goal. Islamisation of the world.

  45. Champ says

    Jun 22, 2016 at 6:18 pm

    I sincerely hope that Donald Trump becomes our next president and informs Lynch, “You’re Fired!”

    • linnte says

      Jun 22, 2016 at 6:20 pm

      You, me, and the rest of REAL America!

  46. capios15 says

    Jun 22, 2016 at 10:48 pm

    The dubstep made him do it.

  47. Jon Gulbrandsen says

    Jun 23, 2016 at 6:34 am

    Same story here in Norway. Our politicians and the media constantly claim that the killing of infidels, adulterers, jews, christians, apostates etc., is prescribed only by extremists, while our Muslim community time and time again informs us that this is something that they all adhere to, but to no avail, they just keep on repeating the mantra until we all cave in to them; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV710c1dgpU

  48. Sal befor says

    Jun 23, 2016 at 9:32 am

    If,the orlando Shooter does not represent all Muslims.-
    How come he represents all gun owners?

  49. dmorgan says

    Jun 23, 2016 at 10:10 am

    What motives the “muslim genocidist” are pretty clear ms lynch, just as clear as the motives of the obama administrations! You stand to become another susan rice, instead of it being a” anti muslim video”you try to white wash another muslim murder spree, hoping to cover the blood they have shed, with any thing but the truth! Marginalizing yourself is all you have accomplished!

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