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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Ramadan in Orlando, 50 Dead, 53 Wounded

Jun 13, 2016 4:10 am By Robert Spencer

In FrontPage today I discuss the familiar denial and obfuscation from the Left in the face of the jihad threat:

Omar Mateen

It was the worst mass shooting ever on American soil: Omar Mateen, 29, opened fire at the Pulse, an Orlando, Florida gay nightclub, on Saturday night. Mateen murdered at least fifty people and wounded another 53. The death count is almost certain to go higher, as many are quite gravely wounded. Mateen was a Muslim who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and mentioned the Boston Marathon jihad killers in a 911 call just before he started shooting. Thus in the wake of the jihad massacre, it was time for the Leftist political and media elites to do what they always do first and foremost after every jihad massacre: make sure that no one thought ill of Islam.

The FBI, to its credit, immediately declared the massacre a terror attack, but Barack Obama was circumspect about what kind: he declared that :t was too early to know “the precise motivations of the killer.” This despite the fact that not only had Mateen pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and made reference to the Tsarnaev brothers, but also the Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack, and the FBI is investigating reports that Mateen recited Islamic prayers during the massacre. On top of all that, the attack took place during the Muslim month of Ramadan, during which the Islamic State has called for jihad attacks against Americans.

Nonetheless, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, along with many other Leftists, tried to turn the jihad attack into a commercial for rolling back Americans’ Second Amendment rights, tweeting: “We mourn with the people of Orlando and the LGBT community as a whole on the news that -once again- we have lost precious lives to the gun.” Who knew that guns could be so diabolical and anti-gay?

Leftist responses ranged from the ominous to the absurd. Ominously, Facebook and Reddit turned to censorship to try to prevent people from thinking ill of Islam. Facebook removed the Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) page, which had been up for six years and had over 55,000 members, and Reddit began banning people who dared to mention that the killer was a Muslim.

On the absurd side, ACLU staff attorney Chase Strangio tweeted that the massacre was the fault of conservative Christians: “You know what is gross — your thoughts and prayers and Islamophobia after you created this anti-queer climate.” Does the illustrious Strangio actually believe that Omar Mateen was incited to commit mass murder in the gay nightclub in Orlando by an “anti-queer climate” created by Christian conservatives? He probably does, since, as a Leftist, he knows that non-Muslims are always and everywhere to blame for atrocities that Muslims commit.

Not only are non-Muslims to blame for Muslim atrocities, but Muslims are their victims, even when no Muslims are killed. AFP reported that “Florida officials also invited a local Islamic leader to address the media in a bid to preempt a possible backlash against the Muslim community.” Imam Muhammad Musri of the Islamic Society of Central Florida warned against “sensationalizing” the story.

In a similar vein, gay activist Steven W Thrasher wrote sanctimoniously in the Guardian: “Let us remember that we have never really blamed all Christians, Republicans or Democrats (many who have organized en masse to subject queer people to systematic violence and destruction at different points in American history) for the violence waged against us. We should remember that again today. We should remember not to blame all members of any other religion or political ideology for what one person does.” Right. The problem is that any examination of the motives and goals of people such as Omar Mateen, and any consideration of what can be done about them, is always met with the accusation that such examinations and considerations constitute blaming all Muslims for the actions of jihadis. It is so obviously fallacious that it is hard not to suspect that it is an intentional obfuscation.

In reality, the motivation for the jihad is quite clear, but Barack Obama doesn’t want to acknowledge that, because to do so would force him to confront the reality of Islamic teaching regarding gays. The Qur’an says: “If two men among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both. If they repent and amend, leave them alone; for Allah is Oft-returning, Most Merciful.” (4:16) That seems rather mild, but there’s more. The Qur’an also depicts Allah raining down stones upon people for engaging in homosexual activity: “We also sent Lot. He said to his people: “Do you commit lewdness such as no people in creation committed before you? For you practise your lusts on men in preference to women: you are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds….And we rained down on them a shower of brimstone: Then see what was the end of those who indulged in sin and crime!” (7:80)

Muhammad makes clear that Muslims should be the executors of the wrath of Allah by killing gays. A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “If you find anyone doing as Lot’s people did, kill the one who does it, and the one to whom it is done.” (Abu Dawud 38:4447) And: “Stone the upper and the lower, stone them both.” (Ibn Majah 3:20:2562)

Combine this with the fact that Islamic State spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani recently called on Muslims to use this Ramadan to “get prepared, be ready … to make it a month of calamity everywhere for nonbelievers…especially for the fighters and supporters of the caliphate in Europe and America,” and Mateen’s pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State, and there is no doubt whatsoever what Omar Mateen was trying to do.

The Left has chosen to protect Islam at all costs, even at the expense of its other victim groups. When the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) several years ago ran ads highlighting the mistreatment of gays in Islamic law, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, which is its city council, issued a resolution condemning not that mistreatment, but our ads. Gay advocates such as Theresa Sparks and Chris Stedman attacked us for daring to call attention to the institutionalized mistreatment of gays under Islamic law. Their gay advocacy doesn’t extend to standing up to Sharia oppression of gays, even though that oppression is far more virulent and violent than anything from “right-wing extremists” in the U.S.

And you can’t blame them: given the Leftist/jihadist alliance, it’s clear that if they spoke out against Sharia mistreatment of gays, they would no longer be invited to the best parties, and might even be branded as “right-wing.” Their moral cowardice and duplicity, however, are obvious, and monstrous in the light of what has just happened in Orlando. The Left’s continuing and now reflexive obfuscation and denial in the wake of every jihad massacre only ensures that there will be many, many more such massacres.

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Filed Under: American jihadis, Barack Obama, Featured, homosexuals, Jihad in the U.S., journalistic bias, Useful idiots, willful ignorance Tagged With: Florida, Omar Mateen, Orlando, Pulse


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  1. Champ says

    Jun 13, 2016 at 4:19 am

    • jayell says

      Jun 13, 2016 at 4:52 am

      “This story is going to disappear”. Oh no it isn’t. It’s all around the globe. If they want to sweep it under the carpet they’ll need a pretty big carpet.

      • Champ says

        Jun 13, 2016 at 2:32 pm

        True, Jayell–but you are missing the main point of this video. Listen to the entire thing. He made some *excellent* points!

    • linnte says

      Jun 13, 2016 at 10:32 am

      Thanks Champ! Shared to Facebook. And I will continue to share this if it gets taken down.

      • Champ says

        Jun 13, 2016 at 2:32 pm

        You’re welcome, Linnte!

  2. eduardo odraude says

    Jun 13, 2016 at 5:52 am

  3. eduardo odraude says

    Jun 13, 2016 at 5:56 am

    Here’s a classic, which has been viewed by about 430,000 people::

    • No Fear says

      Jun 13, 2016 at 6:24 am

      David Wood is excellent at dissecting and analysing Islam. Thoroughly recommended.

  4. David says

    Jun 13, 2016 at 6:46 am

    Another muslim terror attack on US soil. At least this one can’t be dismissed as “workplace violence” by the Obama administration.
    Over 50 dead and at least that number again among the wounded. All during Obama’s favorite muslim holiday!
    What ever else you may think about him, Mr. Trump is very right in demanding the STOP OF MUSLIMS coming into the US unhindered. This latest psycopath was born here of foreign parents. But obviously never was assimilated into our free US culture. (What else is new?)
    This horrible crime, inspired by that famous psycopath of the desert, will be used as a tool to advance the agenda of outlawing gun ownership in this country.
    To use a favorite quote” “when guns are outlawed, only outlaws (and muslims) will have guns.”

  5. salim says

    Jun 13, 2016 at 8:12 am

    It is the holy month of Ramadan and this Muslim is practicing his religion, what is the problem? He was kind of worshipping, according to his religion,and would be “racist” and “islamophobic” to stop him or enforce restrictions on Muslims coming to America. After all aren’t all religions equal?
    I am afraid its only the brain dead who didn’t see this coming.
    We are still in the beginning of Ramadan and more of this must be on the way, will the West ever wake up?
    I hate to say “I told you”.. but I told you.

  6. Jerry says

    Jun 13, 2016 at 8:16 am

    Wake up world:

    There is no God nor Holiness in Islam.

    Islam is incapable of reformation.

    The homicidal hatred of all that is not Muslim
    is built into the Koran, the Hadit and Sirat Rassoul Allah
    and cannot be removed or reformed unless
    totally obliterated.

    When you allow Muslims to preach and
    practice their hatred towards all the rest
    of humanity in your country or city or
    near your home you can be certain
    that sooner or later they will come to
    visit murder, rape, and plunder upon you.

    It is already heard from some of the
    spineless politicians and “journalists”
    that the must be careful not to alienate
    more Muslims.

    The problem with Muslims is that do
    not require any non-Muslims to
    alienate them as the alienation and
    hate are prescribed by their godless
    religion.

    Is there peace in any country that
    is totally or mostly Muslim?

    In the absence of non-Muslim targets
    Muslims still turn to murder and plunder
    all other Muslims who do not conform
    exactly to their view of what is exactly
    Muslim, and where greater conformity
    exists they they will lie and invent some
    pretext of “blasphemy” or apostasy so
    that they have and excuse to plunder
    those they are envious of.

    • Alexius Comnenus says

      Jun 13, 2016 at 12:58 pm

      We are glad you know the truth and this will make free of any misconceptions and Islamic crap.
      Islam is not a religion. America has been destroyed for almost 8 years systematically. And there are still crazy nut Americans who buy the islam insanity and support ‘diversity’ which is in fact the Islamization of America under our own nose.
      Its laughable and lamentable. The islam agenda is the destruction of the entire planet if not Islamized.
      This is not new business but a very ancient way of crusading the western world.

  7. salim says

    Jun 13, 2016 at 8:37 am

    Sadly, no matter what we say or write, the people who will be believed are the like of CAIR. Our media will believe the crocodile tears of “moderate” Muslims and at the end of the day the general consensus will be that we mustn’t associate islam with violence and we must protect Muslims from possible backlash.
    In a few weeks, the islamic apologists will be reminding us that only a very tiny fraction of muslims are engaged in terrorism. Our governments will again focus on ‘protecting’ us from Robert Spencer and others who dare to tell the truth.
    Its a mad,mad, mad world.

    • Alexius Comnenus says

      Jun 13, 2016 at 1:02 pm

      CAIR should be terminated. No muslim in the any branch of the American political paratas or administration. This is not discrimination but a matter of nation security. And when we talk about national security the freedom of speech or anything else does not matter.
      What matters is the safety of the American people at all cost. Even if will affect the freedom of speech.
      People are fed up with islam. Wherever you turn and listen is only about islam, killing, raping, genocide and murder.

      • salim says

        Jun 13, 2016 at 2:51 pm

        I agree with you but our opinion is irrelevant to the “establishment” controlling the MSM and politics , who believe that people like us, who highlight the truth, are divisive.

  8. Dov Berrol says

    Jun 13, 2016 at 9:32 am

    It’s horrible to say, but we can certainly blame those in the mainstream media and the leadership in western governments for this massacre. Had they not spent the last 20 years bending over backward to protect Islamic ideology and doctrine from scrutiny, there would be many less dead people on airplanes, in airports and in nightclubs. Israel has been on the frontlines of this anti-Western jihad since its inception. And Israel knows how powerful taqqiya can be in the court of public opinion. It is time for North Americans to wake up from their illusions about this Nazi-like ideology called Islam. It is not a religion – it is a political and military doctrine whose goal is to have Arab men ruthlessly rule the world. Period.

  9. mortimer says

    Jun 13, 2016 at 9:34 am

    Mayor Bill de Blasio has not studied Islam’s foundational jihad texts, and yet, preposterously, he ‘knows’ from his gut, that the killings in Orlando have nothing to do with Islam.

    If he had done the prerequisite reading, he would have said, “…once again- we have lost precious lives to the JIHAD DOCTRINE.”

    IT’S THE IDEOLOGY, STUPID!

  10. David M says

    Jun 13, 2016 at 9:42 am

    The Taliban supporting father has come out & said his son was a “good son”, & God himself will punish the homosexuals! The father should be thrown in jail for supporting terrorism.

    http://www.smh.com.au/world/orlando-shooting-gunmans-father-says-god-himself-will-punish-homosexuality-20160613-gpi8if.html

  11. mortimer says

    Jun 13, 2016 at 9:45 am

    Gay activist Steven W Thrasher tries to turn attention from the JIHAD DOCTRINE and Islam’s death sentence against gays by saying ‘Christians hurt gays too.’

    Does that remove guilt from SHARIA LAW ? No.

    Thrasher’s fallacious argument is called a ‘distraction’ or ‘red herring’ meant to lure the reader from thinking of the death sentence in SHARIA LAW.

    Thrasher’s distraction is called the ‘TU QUOQUE’ fallacy. You cannot prove an action to be ‘not so bad’ just by saying another person or group did the same. (No Western terrorists apart from Nazis have done mass killings of gays.) Only SHARIA LAW imposes a death sentence.

    Thrasher is desperate to take the blame from Muslims… what is he saying 50 dead and 53 wounded is ‘nothing to worry about’? What would prove the link between Islam and hatred of Gays? How many hundreds, thousands of executions of Gays would prove there is a link?

  12. jacques sabena says

    Jun 13, 2016 at 12:10 pm

    Muslims are coming out of the woodwork to condemn anti-gay violence, with Islamic organisations supposedly pledging solidarity with LGBT groups. The world (if our media had the guts) should be reminded of this, from just a month ago: from news agency Reuters: – “A group of 51 Muslim states has blocked 11 gay and transgender organizations from attending a high-level meeting at the United Nations next month on ending AIDS, sparking a protest by the United States, Canada and the European Union. In February, the 54-member African Group, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the 25-member Group of Friends of the Family led by Belarus, Egypt and Qatar protested six new U.N. stamps promoting LGBT equality”.

  13. dsinc says

    Jun 13, 2016 at 12:15 pm

    On the news, G4S, who employed this murderous savage, has lost value to the tune of 200 million Pounds since the massacre.

  14. Angemon says

    Jun 13, 2016 at 12:26 pm

    The Left’s continuing and now reflexive obfuscation and denial in the wake of every jihad massacre only ensures that there will be many, many more such massacres.

    Indeed.

  15. davej says

    Jun 13, 2016 at 1:00 pm

    Not a single MSM newscaster has pointed out that the killer was Muslim and attended the Mosque regularly and that the Muslim “religion” solidly supports the killing of gays.

    It also supports and advocates the killing of non-gays, so you might want to get your head out of your ass and open your eyes.

  16. davej says

    Jun 13, 2016 at 2:19 pm

    Obama and Clinton are practicing Deception. Both refuse to acknowledge that Muslims want to kill gays (and often do). They talk about “lone wolves” – No, this is an orchestrated plot against America and it’s freedoms. They talk about “homophobia” – No, this is a political ideology.

    Their only prescription is more surveillance of every American.

  17. Bharat says

    Jun 13, 2016 at 11:26 pm

    All terrorists are Muslims… Islam begets terror…they should fill the month of Ramadan with blood of people of other faith and beliefs…every year India bore the burden… Now west is bleeding…every Burkha will hide a sucide vest and will unleash terror on the innocents…we should force the vote seeking politicians into decisive action and ban and deport terror supporting religious people to respective countries

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