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How Ayatollah Khomeini suckered Jimmy Carter

Jun 5, 2016 10:12 am By Robert Spencer

The Ayatollah Khomeini was using taqiyya in its classic sense. The concept of taqiyya as such is specifically Shi’ite, developed during the time of the sixth Imam, Jafar al-Sadiq, in middle of the eighth century, when the Shi’ites were being persecuted by the Sunni caliph al-Mansur. Taqiyya allowed Shi’ites to pretend to be Sunnis in order to protect themselves from Sunnis who were killing Shi’ites. Until the conversion of Persia to Shi’ism, taqiyya was an important element of Shi’ite survival, for Sunnis, in the majority almost everywhere, would not infrequently take it upon themselves to cleanse the land of those whom they referred to as Rafidites, that is, rejecters — those who rejected the caliphates of Abu Bakr, Umar, and Uthman.

Some Shi’ite thinkers turned the secrecy that had become a necessity into a virtue. The medieval Shi’ite scholar Ali ibn Musa ibn Tawus, who died in 1266, taught that Allah had revealed Shi’ism secretly, and it was incumbent upon the believers to practice it in secret. At the end of days, Allah will admit them secretly into Paradise. Some secrets were never to be revealed under any circumstances. The fifth imam, Muhammad al-Baqir, who died in 732, once gave a book to one of his disciples, telling him, “If you ever transmit any of it, my curse and the curse of my forefathers will fall upon you.”

The sixth Imam, Jafar Al-Sadiq, who died in 765, had a servant who was suspected of having revealed some of the secrets of the faith. The Imam lectured, “Whoever propagates our tradition is like someone who denies it.…Conceal our doctrine and do not divulge it. God elevates in this world one who conceals our doctrine and does not divulge it and he turns it in the next world into a light between his eyes which will lead him to Paradise. God abases in this world one who divulges our tradition and our doctrine and does not conceal it, and in the next world he removes the light from between his eyes and turns it into darkness which will lead him to hell. Taqiyya is our religion and the religion of our fathers; he who has no taqiyya has no religion.”

Other Imams also emphasized the cardinal importance of taqiyya, apparently not only because Shi’ites were under constant threat from Sunnis, but because Shi’ite Islam contained doctrines that must stay hidden from outsiders. Some sayings of the Imams include, “He who has no taqiyya has no faith”; “he who forsakes taqiyya is like him who forsakes prayer”; “he who does not adhere to taqiyya and does not protect us from the ignoble common people is not part of us”; “nine tenths of faith falls within taqiyya”; “taqiyya is the believer’s shield (junna), but for taqiyya, God would not have been worshipped.”

Khomeini Carter

“How Ayatollah Khomeini suckered Jimmy Carter,” by John Bolton, New York Post, June 4, 2016:

New depths to Jimmy Carter’s fecklessness have emerged through the declassification of State Department cables relating to the fall of the Shah of Iran.

As reported by the BBC, the Ayatollah Khomeini, in January 1979, secretly sought Carter’s assistance in overcoming opposition from Iran’s military, still loyal to the shah. Khomeini promised that if he could return to Iran from exile in France, which the United States could facilitate, he would prevent a civil war, and his regime would not be hostile to Washington.

The soon-to-be Supreme Leader of Iran certainly knew a sucker when he saw one. What Carter did in response to Khomeini’s pledge is not entirely clear from the newly declassified materials, but Khomeini did return; the military either fell into line or was ruthlessly purged; and Iran switched 180 degrees from being a strategic US ally to being one of our most implacable adversaries.

Carter’s unwillingness to back the shah, a staunch American ally, has long been well-known, despite constant protestations of support at the time. Khomeini could not then, however, have relied on that for certain. Within Carter’s administration, hostility to the shah over his human-rights record, a centerpiece of Carter’s policy, was certainly extensive.

Iran thus posed one of the first clear tests of an American administration’s devotion to abstract principles over concrete US military and political interests.

The shah was no Jeffersonian democrat, but can anyone seriously argue that 35 years of authoritarian rule by religious extremists have been more favorable to human rights in Iran? And can anyone doubt that Iran’s seismic shift from being a strategic ally of the United States to being a terrorist-sponsoring nuclear proliferator has not left the Middle East and the wider world a more dangerous and unstable place?

The new documents, sadly, reveal how gullible an American president can be, how naïve and otherworldly and how oblivious to the real-world consequences of his decisions. Apparently, we have learned precious little from the shah’s overthrow.

Barack Obama’s 2015 deal with Khomeini’s successors over Iran’s nuclear-weapons program is a textbook lesson in getting our pockets picked diplomatically. Ayatollah Khamenei knew how to manipulate Obama just as Ayatollah Khomeini manipulated Carter. And the consequences could be even worse than the shah’s downfall.

The failures of the Iran nuclear deal are already all too evident. Iran’s ballistic-missile program continues unabated (providing delivery vehicles for nuclear weapons); Tehran is already renegotiating the deal to its advantage; and Iran’s malign influence in the Middle East continues to spread.

It comes as little surprise that Iran’s current Supreme Leader has already denounced the newly released documents as forgeries. After all, Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1979 efforts to secure American assistance dramatically undercut the urban legend that Khomeini was always implacably anti-American, the only attitude appropriate with regard to “the Great Satan.”

Of course, Khomeini’s unrestrained duplicity is hard to disguise for anyone with eyes to see. For a supposedly holy man, Khomeini brought new meaning to the saying, “The end justifies the means.”

What does defy credulity is that Jimmy Carter was so detached from reality that he would fall for Khomeini’s line of chatter, and that subsequent American leaders right down to the present day would do so as well. And it’s not just the American left that is taken in by such nonsense, but all too many Republicans as well. As Casey Stengel might have asked about Washington, “Don’t nobody here know how to play this game?”…

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  1. Mike Ramirez says

    Jun 5, 2016 at 10:34 am

    Speaking of being “suckered”, I believe that perhaps Khomeini suckered Jimmy Carter into believing that we all “worship the same God”, just as even former president, G.W. Bush, proclaimed. Let’s see if they are the same:

    The word “Allah” is a compound word in Arabic that means “The God”.

    Additionally, any theist can say they believe in a “God” but the definition of that deity means something different altogether, given the various religious faiths and teachings. For example, the Allah of Islam is NOT the same deity of the Judeo-Christian belief in Yahweh, even though many Muslims and Muslim apologists claim that “we worship the same God”.

    Herein is the difference: Allah is NOT Yahweh and the Islamic god is not the Christian God. Read what Islam teaches:

    “…the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. Allah’s curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth! (Qur’an 009:0030)————————————————– Then consider the following:

    Al’lah, in Arabic, means “the god”. It referred to the deity of the Quraysh tribe of which Muhammad belonged and some believe it was Hubal, or moon god, worshipped in ancient times. Also, Muhammad never personally received his “revelations” directly from God as in the case of the True Prophets in the Bible. Instead, Muhammad encountered a “spirit being” in a dark cave and claimed it was “Jibreel”, the angel Gabriel, who revealed the Islamic teachings to him over a period of 25 years. When you read the descriptions of Al’lah, as written in the Quran and Ahadith, and compare them to the God described in the Old & New Testaments, it will then be evident that the Islamic deity is NOT Yahweh. Here are just a few examples: (there are many others)

    1.) Yahweh NEVER commanded His angels to bow down prostrate to Adam.
    Al’lah Did: Qur’an: (002.034) (007.011)

    2.) Yahweh NEVER authorized mankind to honor and kiss a stone. (Ka’ba)
    Muhammad Did and Muslims still follow his tradition to this day.

    3.)Yahweh NEVER authorized men to beat their wives.
    Al’lah Did: Qur’an: (004.032)

    4.) Yahweh NEVER authorized His prophets to have multiple wives- as many as the prophet desired, nor did Yahweh authorize men to have up to four wives.
    Al’lah Did: Qur’an: (033.050) (004.003)

    5.) Yahweh NEVER promised a “paradise” filled with dark-eyed voluptuous women (virgins) as a “reward” to the “righteous Muslim.”
    Al’lah Did: Qur’an: (037.040-.049) (056.035-.036) (078.031-.033)

    6: Yahweh NEVER said that women were second-class citizens and comprised the greatest amount of residents in hell.
    Muhammad Did: (Sahih Bukhari: Vol. 7, Book 62, No. 126)

    Conclusion:

    Muslims do not believe in the same God as the Holy Bible. The Islamic Al’lah is a different deity altogether. Al’lah is one of the 360 pagan gods worshipped in the Ka’ba shrine in Mecca and was the deity of the Quraysh tribe – the tribe Muhammad belonged to. In an effort to create a “monotheistic” religion for Arabs, Muhammad ordered all other pagan gods in the Ka’ba to be destroyed and only faith in the Quraysh deity, Al’lah, was commanded. He then claimed to be the last and final prophet whose message was given to supersede the authority of Jesus and all other prophets before him. Muhammad became a military strategist, spreading Islam by the sword, and commanded that Muslims should strike terror into the hearts of the enemy – all non-Muslims – until the whole world became Islamic by accepting Muhammad and worshipping Allah, as noted in the following teachings from Islam:

    “Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to STRIKE TERROR into (the hearts of) the enemies, of Allah and your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know. Whatever ye shall spend in the cause of Allah, shall be repaid unto you, and ye shall not be treated unjustly.” (Qur’an: 008.060)

    “The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: I am commanded to fight with men till they testify that there is no god but Allah, and that Muhammad is His servant and His Apostle, face our qiblah (direction of prayer), eat what we slaughter, and pray like us. When they do that, their life and property are unlawful for us except what is due to them. They will have the same rights as the Muslims have, and have the same responsibilities as the Muslims have.” (Sunan Abu-Dawud, Book 14, Number 2635, Narrated Anas ibn Malik)

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    • Raja says

      Jun 5, 2016 at 11:36 am

      Thank you Mike for the comparison. Koran is rather a very poor counterfeit of Bible A counterfeit is usually 99% similar. As Koran is diametrically opposite to Bible it can’t even be called a counterfeit.

      Koranic writers have cleverly hijacked some instances (Like that of Abraham etc) to formulate a new hateful and sadistic system.

      • linnte says

        Jun 5, 2016 at 4:58 pm

        Raja, Muhammad tells us he couldn’t read or write, so what I think he did was make stuff up to tell people who were just as illiterate as he. They knew stories from the Gosple and the Torah enough for what Muhammad said to sound true. No one was around who was smart or literate enough to call bullshit on him. He was a madman. Just my opinion.

    • Abu Nudnik says

      Jun 5, 2016 at 11:43 am

      In your opinion, what would the likely result be of the destruction of a symbolic target like the Ka’aba?

      • Sam Hawkins says

        Jun 5, 2016 at 2:11 pm

        It would not make a big difference. They would rebuild it, some imam would present a chunk of meteorite and claim it is the stone, miraculously preserved by Allah, and business would resume as usual.

      • Mike Ramirez says

        Jun 5, 2016 at 4:20 pm

        If the Ka’bah Stone were to be destroyed, there would be worldwide chaos, panic and confusion out of all devout Muslims who have either made their mandatory pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj) or had planned to. This is the most sacred site for Muslims as a foundation of their faith.

        By the way, while doing research on Islam, I came across a site where one individual had the following question about what the Ka’bah stone is believed to represent to Islam:

        “Question: The Blackstone in the Ka’bah: what is its origin?
        Could you please explain to me what is the meaning of the “black stone”? Why did Allah send it down from Heaven, and to which Prophet was it sent down?
        Bismillah al-Rahmaan al-Raheem ”

        “The Black Stone was an archangel that was amongst the first to surrender to the will of Allah and pay allegiance to the Lordship of Allah and to the prophethood of Prophet Muhammad (S), and to the Successorship of Imam Ali (AS). For this Allah Almighty gave him the ‘database’ for all of His creatures who pay allegiance [to the Oneness and Lordship of Allah, the Prophethood of Rasulollah (S), and the Imamat of Imam Ali and his son-Imams (AS)]. He used to accompany Adam (AS) in the Paradise, and after Adam (AS) came down to earth, Allah sent him [the archangel] to earth as a gemstone. Adam (AS) carried the stone to Makkah and was in the corner of the Ka’bah when it was built. That’s why when we go to Makkah we confirm to him – the ‘Black Stone’ – the Meethaaq – the covenant.
        “What cause have ye why ye should not believe in Allah? And the Messenger invites you to believe in your Lord, and has indeed taken your Covenant, if ye are men of faith.” 57:8
        Was-Salaam”

        webmaster@shirazi.org.uk
        Source: http://www.shirazi.org.uk/blackstone%20in%20Ka'ba.htm

      • linnte says

        Jun 5, 2016 at 5:06 pm

        Personally, I think it would change the minds of Western Muslims about Allah’s omnipotence. It would enrage the ME Muslims into a mouth frothing fury. I think that Pagan made cube is synonymous with the Qur’an, never changing and perfect because Allah MADE it that way. If that vile building were destroyed it would also mean Allahs WORD could be destroyed! Just my opinion. Can we turn Mecca into glass now please!

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 8, 2016 at 1:44 am

        Oh, it would enrage Muslims–but I don’t think it would lead to many of them abandoning their foul creed.

  2. Jerry says

    Jun 5, 2016 at 10:54 am

    No leader that rules according to islam can be trusted. Muslims are a time capsule for ancient superstition and murder for god. Taqiyya is intrinsic their faith. Whereas we strive for fairness in democracy, they strive for absolute control for religion. Most our politicians are weak in the knees for islam. They’d much rather gamble our future peace and prosperity than confront islam’s jihad agenda. Vast swathes of planet Earth are under attack by muslims on a daily basis, including a Middle East army causing an international crisis. But we are constantly hit with the same apologies and excuses, “not all muslims are bad,” or ” we deserve it for being so insensitive with our movies and cartoons,” or that our skirts are too short and our kids shouldn’t take that path to school. Everyone knows muslims can’t control themselves, poor devils. It’s up to us to change our lives, our defense of liberty, so they can fit in and take us over. This is what it means to be multicultural with islam. We must accept even the ugliest aspects of their culture and religion so they can exploit that weakness and destroy our heritage, freedoms, and peace.

    And you all know that’s not a straw man what I just said, that’s what the left truly stands for with this issue. We need to get these traitors out of office and replace them with patriots that love America and its freedoms.

  3. linnte says

    Jun 5, 2016 at 11:11 am

    I still stand on “If America stayed OUT of the business of the Middle East” look where we would be today, and most importantly where THEY would be today. The Muslims would still be a backwards eighth century population incapable of any modern ANYTHING! Imagine if the Ayatollah had stayed in exile in France powerless. Now America and the West are suffering the consequences. And the suffering has just begun. The Iran nuclear deal is likely to backfire big time because they are like children who, when told no, just want it more! God help Israel!

    • Trico says

      Jun 5, 2016 at 3:56 pm

      “If America stayed OUT of the business of the Middle East””
      linte, why do you all have such a hard time understanding that none of what is going on is by accident, poor planning or bad decision making?

      • linnte says

        Jun 5, 2016 at 5:17 pm

        Oh, I understand completely! It’s all about the New World Order! But before that NWO plan came to fruition, if the USA had stayed out of every countries business and just concentrated on America, the NWO would possibly not even become a plan. So now, if we left the ME, it wouldn’t change much over there and they could annihilate themselves.

        • Trico says

          Jun 6, 2016 at 1:27 pm

          “Oh, I understand completely! It’s all about the New World Order! But before that NWO plan came to fruition, if the USA had stayed out”
          linte, I promise, this is my last post.
          You do not understand. I put up a lot of resources to help you understand that what you believe is the United Stated Government is not, it’s a fraud.The United States government s a Private Corporation with Stockholders that do not include you, me or any of us.
          This Corporation works in the best interests of the Global Elite and not in the best interests of the American People.
          The Corporation called: the United States Of America, Inc is NOT the Republic Of The united States.
          If you really want to understand then find the resources I added in a previous JW post or not.
          Good luck.

        • linnte says

          Jun 6, 2016 at 11:39 pm

          Trico, I believe you. I also believe that the USA is in cohoots with Europe to bring about a One World Order, the NWO. A giant corporation if you will. It is aligned with Islam , because Islamists want the same thing. The Trans Pacific Partnership is a huge step towards this goal.

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 8, 2016 at 1:48 am

          Linnte, Muslims have been attacking the West long before the United States ever existed. It is not American actions that create Jihad.

          As for Trico, he believes that 9/11 was an ‘inside job’ and has nothing to do with Islam.

        • linnte says

          Jun 8, 2016 at 7:17 am

          9/11 was Islams doing, but I believe our Gov at the time had a hand also. Those 28 unreleased pages regarding the Saudis involvement would reveal much I think. And I know that the USA does not cause Jihad. Muslims cause Jihad. Isn’t it amazing that people can’t SEE THAT? Back to 9/11; all I know for sure is 19 Muslims murdered nearly 3000 people and caused billion s of dollars of damage. I have taken up your mantra- God I hate Islam! Hahahaha!

  4. linnte says

    Jun 5, 2016 at 11:12 am

    And thanks Robert Spencer. This is a great article!

  5. Raja says

    Jun 5, 2016 at 11:26 am

    That Jimmy Carter made a weak president is no secret. The moment Reagan came to power the Iranians wanted to get rid of the 400 plus hostages at the earliest and their nervousness made them to move with alacrity (with regard to the hostages). Herein is a lesson for all the leaders of the world – Islamic leaders and terrorists understand just one language-force. Same was the case with Islamic hijackers more than a decade ago- they were very nervous as long as they were in India but the moment they reached Kandahar in Afghanistan they mustered all courage to started killing and to demand more..

    • TH says

      Jun 5, 2016 at 12:14 pm

      Raegan probably made a credible threat and they are no idiots, as obviously Carter is and of course Obama.

      • Christianblood says

        Jun 5, 2016 at 1:51 pm

        TH

        Reagan himself was a great fan of islamic jihadists and he even hosted a delegation from the Taliban and Al-qaeda at the White House.
        Watch please: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo17biJzRtc

        • Angemon says

          Jun 5, 2016 at 4:27 pm

          Christianblood posted:

          “Reagan himself was a great fan of islamic jihadists ”

          Citation needed.

        • Christianblood says

          Jun 5, 2016 at 5:15 pm

          Angemon

          You need ‘citation’? Watch the video below and see as Reagan welcomes and praises a deligation of islamic jihadists from the Taliban and Alqaeda. Watch the video:

        • Angemon says

          Jun 6, 2016 at 8:31 pm

          Christianblood posted:

          “Angemon

          You need ‘citation’?”

          Yes, I do.

          “Watch the video below and see as Reagan welcomes and praises a deligation of islamic jihadists from the Taliban and Alqaeda. ”

          Are you making it easy on purpose or do you simply suck at your job? There are plenty of reasons to why an elected official would receive an envoy from a foreign nation other than being “a great fan” of them.

          You claimed Reagan was a great fan of islamic jihadists. Citation needed.

        • Christianblood says

          Jun 5, 2016 at 5:23 pm

          Angemon

          Please watch this Taliban official visiting US and what he says about OBL and how the US encouraged him and backed him etc. Please watch starting around 4 minute mark:

        • Angemon says

          Jun 6, 2016 at 8:32 pm

          Christianblood posted:

          “Angemon

          Please watch this Taliban official visiting US and what he says about OBL and how the US encouraged him and backed him etc. ”

          Do you have anything to back your assertion regarding Reagan or not?

  6. Sam Hawkins says

    Jun 5, 2016 at 2:14 pm

    Adding John Bolton to Donald Trump’s team as secretary-of-state-to-be right nowwould go a long way to bolstering Trump’s credentials.

  7. Rob says

    Jun 5, 2016 at 2:52 pm

    Khomeini. Either ‘thighing’ or ‘lying’.

  8. Trico says

    Jun 5, 2016 at 3:52 pm

    J”immy Carter was so detached from reality that he would fall for Khomeini’s line of chatter, and that subsequent American leaders right down to the present day (Obama) would do so as well.”
    –
    Robert, I believe you are mistaken about Obama. He is not the weak, ineffective “President” everyone believes. It is a role Obama is playing. Obama’s Agenda is NOT your Agenda and not America’s Agenda.
    You and almost everyone else are judging Obama by the wrong criteria. If the plan was to bankrupt America then Obama excelled having spent 10 Trillion dollars which is more than all previous Presidents combined.
    If the plan was to continue to strip away American’s Freedom and Privacy Rights started by the Bush Administration then Obama has excelled.
    If the plan was to set America up for Martial Law, then Obama excelled which you will realize if you read through Obama’s Executive Orders and Presidential Directives.
    Obama has an Agenda. Obama is plotting something. He’s up to no good.
    —
    I challenge you to read through what I have prepared for you and see if you emerge with the same opinion you now have of Obama.
    –
    Do you Dare to take this Challenge:
    The Iran Captures US Sailors CHARADE
    The US Sailor/ Iranian event was a charade. Look at the video, link below, with fresh eyes. See how lily white those supposed “Sailors” are. I have no idea if they really are Sailors but one look at them and you can see those nine men and one female did not spend any time in the open seas under a hot Middle Eastern sun. The only ones with a little coloration come by it naturally.
    –
    IRAN captures America
    http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/01/13/u-s-sailors-arrested-iran-nr.cnn
    –
    THINK:
    The Caucasian sailors are not weather beaten or tanned.
    The two 49 foot Patrol Boats boats “captured” by Iran” are sophisticated, heavily armed military war craft with high tech GPS and communications equipment.
    Yet both heavily armed boats lost their way and lost communication with the Pentagon.
    The well armed sailors dropped to their knees, hands clasped behind their head like it was a Broadway production.
    I’ll reveal below the purpose of this Choreography and of the whole Charade.
    –
    “Pentagon officials struggled to explain how the boats had ended up near a major Iranian naval base.”
    –
    “there was no mechanical problem. Both boats were returned to the United States under their own power”
    –
    Pentagon officials “could not explain how the military had lost contact with not one but both of the boats”
    –
    “said one Navy officer with extensive experience in the gulf…
    the boats’ crews would almost surely have mapped out their course in advance, paying close attention to the Iranian boundary waters…”
    –
    “Mr. Kerry emphasized … the sailors … released as soon as the sun rose over the Persian Gulf. He cast that as a benefit of renewed dialogue with (Iran), and thus a vindication of President Obama’s engagement strategy.” -(read that last line again.)
    Excerpts above are from the link below which also has some videos:
    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/world/middleeast/iran-navy-crew-release.html?_r=0
    –
    The Next link has a video of the “Sailor” thanking Iran (which is a direct violation of US Navy Code of Conduct)
    and a video of John Kerry groveling to Iran. The Media called it “thanking” Iran.
    –
    Excerpts then link:
    “Iran’s Swift Release of U.S. Sailors Hailed as a Sign of Warmer Relations”
    “”Pentagon officials struggled to explain how the boats had ended up near a major Iranian naval base.””
    –
    “quick release was hailed by the Obama administration as an unintended benefit of the new diplomatic relationship with Iran established by the nuclear accord negotiated between Tehran and the United States and five other nations in July”
    –
    “accord is expected to go into effect next week, ending the oil and financial sanctions imposed on Iran over the past decade, and giving it access to around $100 billion in frozen funds.”
    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/world/middleeast/iran-navy-crew-release.html
    –
    “Iran releases video of captured American sailor crying”
    http://nypost.com/2016/02/10/iran-releases-video-of-captured-american-sailor-crying/
    –
    “OUTRAGE! Iran Mocks Captured US Sailors at Revolution Day Parade (VIDEO)”
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/02/iranians-mocks-captured-us-sailors-at-parade/
    –
    Finally some Common Sense:
    “it does seem unlikely that two boats would have navigational problems at the same time, and “stray” 70 miles and 90 degrees, off course in the middle of the Persian Gulf. These high-speed boats have special multiple navigational systems, radar, and communications channels. They were supposed to be heading from Kuwait to Bahrain, about 300 miles south, which is almost a direct route if they were following the shoreline.”
    ?Many questions concerning this event seem to be avoided by the mainstream media” (No kidding)
    “he Riverine boats are designed to operate in rivers and shallow waters along coastal routes, so why were they in the middle of the Persian Gulf?”
    “(the) boats are well armed so why did they surrender to the Iranians so easily?”
    “The Riverine boats can travel at speeds up to 50 miles per hour, was there any attempt to escape?”
    “Why were the Iranians allowed to board the boats?”
    “Were the sailors advised (by Obama Administration) to stand down, surrender and apologize?”
    “why was the military code of conduct of no surrender or giving assistance to the enemy (not) followed?”
    “…the Iranians forced the Americans at gunpoint to kneel, put their hands behind their heads, went through the ships and documents, made a video and took photographs of the situation to be circulated in such a way as to humiliate America…”
    Read the article:
    http://www.dailyrecord.com/story/opinion/2016/01/23/iran-capture-us-sailors-mystery/79152620/
    –
    And now this I just came across:
    “GOP Lawmaker: Obama Administration Withholding ‘Shocking’ Details of Iran’s Treatment of Captured U.S. Sailors”
    Excerpts:
    “The Free Beacon learned from Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA) that “the classified details behind Iran’s treatment of several U.S. sailors who were captured by the Islamic Republic during a tense standoff earlier this year are likely to shock the nation…”
    “Experts argue that the Obama administration’s handling of the abduction violated international and maritime law.”
    –
    “Article 2 of the U.S. Navy Code of Conduct dictates, “I will never surrender of my own free will. If in command, I will never surrender the members of my command while they still have the means to resist.” “If I am captured, I will continue to resist by all means available. I will make every effort to escape and aid others to escape. I will accept neither parole nor special favors from the enemy,” adds article 3.”
    http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/05/17/gop-lawmaker-obama-admin-keeping-secret-iran-capture-us-sailors/
    ———–
    This whole Charade was orchestrated to make Iran look like a Good Guy because the Obama Administration was getting ready to release over 100 Billion Dollars to Iran. This Charade was supposed to make the release of that money cache easier to swallow.
    Additionally, these “Sailors” dropping to their knees, hands behind their heads while being photographed and videotaped
    was staged as a metaphor for “Iran bringing the Great Satan to his knees”.
    “the lone female Sailor was forced to cover her head which is a metaphor for America submitting to Sharia Law. Being a cynic, I have no doubt this female was added to the crew explicitly for this purpose. As you start to understand your enemy you will understand their tactics.
    –
    Robert, do you still think Obama got played or are you starting to see that it is Obama playing America?

    • Robert Spencer says

      Jun 5, 2016 at 5:44 pm

      Trico: The quote with which you’re taking issue is not from me, but from John Bolton. Your quarrel is with him, not with me. I do not believe that Obama is naive or got played. As Marco Rubio said, and said, and said, he knows exactly what he is doing.

      • Trico says

        Jun 6, 2016 at 1:16 pm

        Sorry Robert. I’m blind on left side of both eyes from a stroke and the remaining vision is impaired. I miss a lot of things trying to read while holding a magnifying glass up to the screen.
        Someone using the handle Wellington thinks I am tainting JW and I should go away. I don’t know if he is a regular here or a DAT Agent wanting to silence me the same way others try to silence all those warning about true Islam by calling them Racists and Islamohobes.
        There is no difference between Wellington’s attacks on me for my warnings about the Globalists and the New World Order than those who attack the people here who try and warn about true Islam and the Jihad Agenda,
        Wellington’s refusal to even do any research, and I have provided so much info and resources, is equivalent to those folk telling you Islam is a religion of Peace even when confronted with info and resources that prove otherwise.
        The New World Order and Global Jihad are inter-connected. Where appropriate, I’ve tried to show the connection. it’s been an uphill battle to wake people up. The struggle, or should I say Jihad, is no different than the struggle that JW and all the people here and elsewhere have trying to wake people up to the dangers of Islam.
        That Japanese Reporter in today’s article claiming the Japanese school kids were getting an “unbiased” view of Islam failed to mention that Islam has no Exit Plan.
        I don’t know if the Reporter is a dupe or a paid shill but the article is very dangerous as it will deceive the innocent.
        I tried to plant seeds to help Awaken people because we need everyone aware of what is going on but I do not want to taint Jihad Watch so rest assured I will stop posting.
        Good luck.
        Thank you and your staff for the valuable work you do in educating people on one of the Scourges mankind is facing, Global Jihad.

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 8, 2016 at 1:55 am

          Wellington is a staunch Anti-Jihadist and long time poster here–and he is not trying to “silence” you.

          Anyone who–as yourself–believes that 9/11, the Boston Bombing, and other acts of Muslim terrorism had nothing to do with Islam but were pulled off by Infidels trying to ‘make Islam look bad’ is not a real Anti-Jihadist.

  9. jewdog says

    Jun 5, 2016 at 5:09 pm

    I’m still hopeful that we’ll get an American adminstration headed by a realist who knows how to sucker punch. As Yogi Berra once said: “It ain’t over till it’s over”.

  10. Myrtle Linder says

    Jun 5, 2016 at 5:22 pm

    Jimmy Carter was not hard to sucker, he was far to trusting of evil ones!

    • Carolyne says

      Jun 6, 2016 at 11:36 am

      I think that one of the most disgraceful things the US has ever done was assisting in the ouster of the Shah of Iran and making it possible for Khomeini to return from France and take over. The Shah was tricked by Carter who told him to just leave for a few days until things settled down and then he could return. Of course that never happened and the Shah wandered the earth until Panama accepted him. Carter did not want the US to even admit the Shah for cancer treatment in New York, but Kissinger intervened. After the Shah’s cancer treatment, he was required to leave immediately and found refuge in Egypt.

      Carter had previously told the Shah that he was behind him “1000%.”

  11. Edgar Allen says

    Jun 5, 2016 at 6:33 pm

    I respect Robert Spencer’s opinion most of the time. I have to disagree with him on the following:

    “Ayatollah Khamenei knew how to manipulate Obama just as Ayatollah Khomeini manipulated Carter. And the consequences could be even worse than the shah’s downfall”

    I believe, and the evidence clearly supports, that Obama was NOT suckered into anything. Obama is the one who initially approached the Iranians, when the sanctions were choking their economy, their currency was in a downward spiral, the price of oil was declining, and local opposition was smoldering. All he had to do was keep tightening screws and wait. Furthermore, when the Iranians balked at the once-inviolate
    “anytime, anywhere” inspections, Obama could have walked away. And all the details of that “deal” prove that Obama was negotiating ON BEHALF of the Iranians. At some point, even anonymous members of the French negotiating team said that, as well as Iranian regime defectors:

    Iranian Defector: ‘U.S. Negotiating Team Mainly There to Speak on Iran’s Behalf’

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/iranian-defector-u.s.-negotiating-team-mainly-there-to-speak-on-irans-behalf/article/901776

    ” The U.S. negotiating team are mainly there to speak on Iran’s behalf with other members of the 5+1 countries and convince them of a deal,” Motaghi told a TV station after just defecting from the Iranian delegation while abroad for the nuclear talks.”

    Obama did hat he did BECAUSE HE WANTED TO HELP THE IRANIAN REGIME. HE IS A TRAITOR, PURE AND SIMPLE.

    • Mike Forrester says

      Jun 5, 2016 at 10:21 pm

      Obama’s closest friend and advisor is Valerie Jarrett who was born in Iran and has family in Iran. She is often called the co-president. So it is believable that she would push Obama to negotiate for Iran. But politically the administration could not be seen as outright pro Iranian so we see the familiar Iranian Kabuki dance this administration has engaged in for almost 8 years.

      At best we see a condition of divided loyalties at worse we see people who are secretly loyal to Iran.

  12. Kepha says

    Jun 5, 2016 at 9:38 pm

    This is evidence of Carter’s pattern of naivete in foreign affairs. The latest is his calling Israel an “Apartheid state”.

    Carter believed that by showing the world that the USA was “just one of the boys” and being consistent about human rights by backing jailed Communists in South Korea, Taiwan, and South Africa while muting support for jailed dissidents in Eastern Europe, he could convince even our worst enemies that the USA was the fair-minded good neighbor that Carter himself probably was to the people of Georgia, USA. It’s said about him that after Soviets went into Afghanistan, he ruefully said that he’d learned more about the Soviets in three weeks than he had in the past thirty years. I think that was probably one of his most accurate self-assessments.

    There’s also a tale about Carter meeting with Deng Xiaoping, and urging the latter nasty little man to ease up on restrictions on Chinese citizens’ going abroad. Deng replied, “Very well; I have about a hundred million Chinese who’d love to immigrate to your country. Want them?” Carter, very much the sort for whom America was first, last, and always a two-color country, was said to have gagged.

    Further, I suspect that for all Carter knew, Ithna’ashariyya Shi’ite Islam was just something like the Southern Baptist Church; and that he thought that Islamic morality was probably not too different from Christian morality. He was also known to believe that Khomeini was someone with whom the USA couldd deal because he was a religious leader. Of course, slowly getting dribs and drabs of truth about what the Communists really were must have made Carter fearful of what the Tudeh (the odds-on favorrites to win the Iranian Revolution as it began) might bring.

    Last of all, Carter, for all his “fundamentalist” upbringing, was enough of a child of the 18th century enlightenment, Religionsgeschichte school, and other Western developments to think that “reason” and “justice” mean the same thing in all traditions of discourse. He probably sincerely believed in the universal applicability of the Western experiment in constitutional democracy, and that if an odious character like Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi could go, there would be a chance for the sterling young idealists studying on the Shah’s money in the USA (while hating the Shah) to build a more clean and democratic Iran. In this, Carter was (is? a lot like many other Americans, whether of his own party or opponents.

    As for Khomeini, he probably understood a murky world of conspiracy and counter-conspiracy well, “knew” that nobody could be trusted, sensed that the Tudeh were too confident of their position, and that Carter was just another Western Kufr to be used as one wished.

    In response, our side of the globe insisted that the rest of the world conform to categories we thought we understood, and went into a panic and labeled Khomeini a “fundamentalist” (show Uncle Kepha a Muslim who believes in the complete divine authority of the Old and New Testaments, the dual nature of Christ, the necessity of his atoning work on the cross, and historicity of Jesus’ resurrection, and Uncle Kepha will show you someone either making his way towards Christian baptism or keeping it secret from his relatives)–a term sure to engender mistrust, hostility, and contempt from liberal Americans.

    In hindsight, I see how in 1989, when I entered the US State Department, official America was still on a very steep learning curve about what Islamic ferment was all about. I suspect that a lot of the O-Shrill team is still on the learning curve, only trying very hard to deny what they may be learning.

    • linnte says

      Jun 6, 2016 at 2:05 am

      I really like your posts Kepha. Thanks!

    • Carolyne says

      Jun 6, 2016 at 1:38 pm

      There is one fundamental truth about Carter that one cannot deny. He told the Shah of Iran that he backed him 1000% and then betrayed him. I believe that all Christians, fundamental or otherwise, believe that to be wrong. In betraying the Shah, Carter betrayed his own religious beliefs.

  13. Sunil Chaurasia says

    Jun 6, 2016 at 4:36 am

    Most of the comments are beyond comprehension. Claiming Regan great fan of Jihadis/Talibans on the basis if attached videos shot in 1985 is really joke. Everybody knows that at that time Afghanistan was occupied by Russians and USA was badly required help of locals at any cost to defeat them. This is not new in Politics. We know that Western European countries supported Hitler to counter threat from the Russia and ultimately fell prey to him. This story was more or less repeated in various African countries.
    One must understand that in international politics, there can not be written contracts for providing support, help etc. It is all on belief and faith which are always broken for the simple reason that all are sovereign heads & can never be booked.
    This is will continue for ever.

    • Kepha says

      Jun 6, 2016 at 4:32 pm

      It is not true that the Western countries supported Hitler against the Soviet Union. Britain and France declared war on Hitler in response to the attack on Poland–in which Hitler coordinated with Stalin. Keep in mind the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which threw a lot of Western Leftists into an intellectual and emotional turmoil after they had been so loud in insisting that the Soviets were the only true “anti-Fascists”.

      • Sunil Chaurasia says

        Jun 7, 2016 at 2:11 pm

        What you are telling is post September 1939 story when appeasement policy of these western European countries miserably failed. The same European countries France, Britain silently watched advancement of Nazis and Fascists before 1939. When Checkslovakia, Austria etc. were annexed by Nazis in 1936-37, they were mute spectator. When Germans extended military support to General Franco in Spain to establish Dictator Ship Government, they were silent. When Mussolini attacked Abyssinia, they choose to shut their eyes.

        • linnte says

          Jun 7, 2016 at 7:13 pm

          Silence is consent. Until it happens to ones own country!

  14. sahani says

    Jun 7, 2016 at 9:36 am

    A DAY WILL COME WHEN 1.3 BILLIONS LOCAL CONVERTS TO ISLAM IN EACH NATION WILL CRY FOR HELP FROM ISLAM.
    MOST CONVERTED WHEN THEY ARE POOR, THEIR FORE FATHERS WERE POOR AND ILL-INFORMED .
    TODAY ISLAM LIES NACKED AND EXPOSED.
    APPEAL TO ALL CONVERTS LEAVE ISLAM BURN THE EVIL BOOK WHO SAY TO KILL TO GET TO HEAVEN, LIVE A FREE AND GREAT LIFE GIFT GIVEN TO YOU .

    • linnte says

      Jun 7, 2016 at 10:17 am

      Amen!

  15. gravenimage says

    Jun 8, 2016 at 1:57 am

    Carter was one of the first appeasers of Islam in the modern period–God knows he was not the last.

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