When it comes to the connection between Islam and violence against non-Muslims, one fact must be embraced: the majority of those in positions of leadership and authority in the West are either liars or fools, or both.
No other alternative exists.
The reason for this uncharitable assertion is simple: If Islam was once a faraway, exotic religion, today we hear calls for, and see acts of, violence committed in its name—or the name of its deity “Allahu Akbar!”—practically every day. And many of us still have “ears that hear and eyes that see.”
It’s no secret: Muslims from all around the world and from all walks of life—not just “terrorists” or “ISIS”—unequivocally and unapologetically proclaim that Islam commands them to hate, subjugate or kill all who resist it, including all non-Muslim “infidels.”
This is the official position of several Muslim governments, including America’s closest “friends and allies,” like Saudi Arabia and Qatar; it’s the official position of Islamic institutions of lower and higher learning—from Bangladeshi high schools to Egypt’s Al Azhar, the world’s most prestigious Islamic university; and it’s the official position broadcast in numerous languages on Islamic satellite stations that air into Muslim homes around the world.
In short, there’s no excuse today for ignorance about Islam—especially for those in positions of leadership or authority. Yet it is precisely they who most vehemently deny any connection between Islam and violence.
Why?
The most recent example (as of this writing, that is) took place on July 18 in Germany. An axe-waving Muslim refugee attacked a number of train passengers and critically injured three. Although an ISIS flag was found in his room, although he called for the slaughter of any Muslim who dares leave Islam, although he yelled “Allahu Akbar”—Islam’s unequivocal war cry—authorities claimed “it was too early to speculate about the motives of the attacker.”
Catholic Bishop Friedhelm Hofmann of Wuerzburg, where the axe attack took place, was bewildered: “One is speechless at such a moment. This fact can not be understood.” Instead of being vigilant around Muslim migrants, he suggested “Maybe we need to help the unaccompanied young refugees even more and help them to overcome their own traumas.”
About a month earlier in Germany, this same scene played itself over: while screaming “Allahu Akbar” and “infidels must die,” another Muslim man in another train station stabbed to death one man and injured three others. Still, German authorities “found no evidence of Islamist motive.”
In neighboring France—which has “Europe’s largest Muslim minority” and is also (coincidentally?) the “most threatened country”—this sequence of events (a Muslim attacks in the name of Islam, authorities claim difficulty in finding “motive”) is becoming endemic. On July 19, a Muslim man vacationing with his pregnant wife and children stabbed a neighboring woman and her three daughters for being “scantily dressed.” The youngest girl, 8, was in critical condition with a punctured lung.
Although this is a common occurrence throughout the Muslim world—many Muslim women don the hijab precisely because they know the consequences of not doing so in public—and although French television was bold enough to say that the man, named Mohamed B, 37, “may have acted out of religious motives,” local mayor, Edmond Francou, said he preferred “not to speculate about the motive of the attack.”
A few days earlier another “Allahu Akbar” screaming Muslim killed 84 people in Nice. Yetaccording to French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, the killer’s “motives [were] not yet established.” Asked if he could at least confirm the attacker’s motives were linked to jihadism, he said, “No.” Reuters went so far as to write an article blaming France for its own terrorization.
Turning to the United States, one finds the same pattern at work, most recently when a Muslim man went into a homosexual nightclub in Orlando and killed 49. Despite the fact that ISIS regularly kills homosexuals and that the killer—who “recited prayers to Allah during the attack”—pledged his allegiance to the group, “Attorney General Loretta Lynchsaid that the investigation is still ongoing, and a motive has yet to be established,” while “the FBI was confused about Mateen’s motive.”
Earlier this year, Edward Archer, a convert to Islam, shot and wounded Philadelphia police officer Jesse Hartnett. He later explained his motive: “I follow Allah. I pledge my allegiance to the Islamic state. That is why I did what I did.”
Yet after showing a surveillance video of Archer in Islamic dress shooting at Hartnett, Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney emphatically declared:
In no way shape or form does anyone in this room believe that Islam or the teaching of Islam has anything to do with what you’ve seen on the screen….It is abhorrent. It is terrible and it does not represent the religion or any of its teachings. This is a criminal with a stolen gun who tried to kill one of our officers. It has nothing to do with being a Muslim or following the Islamic faith.
One can go on and on. From California alone:
- Despite the evidence that the Muslim couple that massacred 14 people in San Bernardino was motivated by Islamic teachings of jihad against the hated “infidel,” Obama claimed “We do not know their motivations.” Chris Hayes and MSNBC were also “baffled” in their search for a motive.
- Despite the many indicators that the Muslim student who went on a stabbing spree in UC Merced was described as a “devout Muslim,” had an ISIS flag, and praised Allah in his manifesto—“local and federal authorities insisted that Faisal Mohammad, 18, carried out the vicious attack because he’d been banished from a study group.”
- Despite the fact that a man named “Jihad” went to an El Monte police station, where he “used the word ‘jihad’ several times” while making a bomb threat, police “so far don’t have a motive.”
Most politicians—practically every democrat but also a majority of republicans, with the notable exception of Donald Trump—make the same claims. This begins with U.S. President Obama who insists that the Islamic State “is not Islamic,” calls for the “rejection by non-Muslims of the ignorance that equates Islam with terror,” and classified the Fort Hood massacre as “workplace violence,” despite the overwhelming evidence that it was jihad.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton admonished us to bear in mind that “Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.” Republican leaders like John McCain gush about how “unequivocally, without a doubt, the religion of Islam is an honorable and reasonable religion. ISIS has nothing to do with the reality of Islam.” “Conservative” talking heads like Bill O’Reilly flippantly dismiss jihad as “a perversion of Islam, we all know that.”
What is to be made of all these claims from our “leaders” that fly in the face of reality? Only immensely deranged or immensely deceitful people can claim that a Muslim who cites the Koran and calls on Allah is not acting in the name of Islam.
Take your pick, but there are no other alternatives. (Note: When I make this argument, some rebut by saying that there are other alternatives—that such people are too craven, that they’ve been bought and paid for, etc. All these are different motivations that nonetheless fall under the lying category.)
Regardless of the source of the narrative that defends Islam—stupidity or deceitfulness—the same damage is done. Remember, Islam is not threatening the West due to its own innate capabilities, but because the West allows it to.
Thus the real battle revolves around getting the West to see reality—a battle which involves rooting out the liars and fools from government, media, education, and other positions of influence—an admittedly herculean task, considering that the lie is now the narrative and truth is evil.

Angemon says
I want to say “liars” but that would be giving them too much credit.
CrossWare says
I would say traitors, but still assumes too much intelligence right?
thevilestofcreatures says
If Jack Ruby had been a Muslim, the Feds would have said they had no suspects when he shot Oswald on national TV.
Angemon says
Off Topic:
Attack on a French Church by two men armed with knives, priest killed (throat slit):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/26/two-men-with-knifes-take-hostages-in-normandy-church/
DFD says
Agreed, “liars” is giving them too much, far too much credit.
The murder of a French priest? In all likelihood ‘they’ are searching for the motive.
I wish I had more time to respond. Regards
gravenimage says
The ludicrous thing is, the *are* “searching for the motive”:
“France: Muslims screaming “Islamic State” behead priest, authorities search for motive”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/07/france-muslims-screaming-islamic-state-behead-priest-authorities-search-for-motive
laura m. says
Churches now in the EU will be empty of people, who will stay home and watch it on TV, go online, or not do anything at all. Churches will close or consolidate. Knowing there is no security where people gather anywhere, smart folks will stay out of crowds of any kind. EU neo -Marxist leaders controlled by the globalists, are pushing for a caliphate under shiria law at full speed, and could care less who gets killed in the process. This will get worse, mass killings and mayhem or order out of chaos. Euro males have been gelded and refuse to stand up against the invaders.
Kepha says
Nonsense. I will continue to meet with brothers and sisters on Sunday mornings to hear instruction in what the Gospel is about and its implications. Perhaps the best act of defiance any Westerner could engage in at this point is to attend church; and the best act of defiance (or counterattack?) that any Christian cleric might have would be to preach on either John One or First Corinthians 15.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Liars or idiots. This is the judgement left us about so many dimensions of society now, but Islam is by far the most important thing on which to to apply this test. But in the case of Moslems we can’t even call it what it is, or recognize what it’s going to do to us. Bad economics and furry dreams of free money is harmless by comparison. I wonder what the original communist Karl Marx would have to say about them. We know what Adolph thought. Perspective is important.
Richard says
So it seemed at first, but it is plain stupidity …
Christianblood says
(Raymond Ibrahim: When It Comes to Islam, Western Leaders Are Liars or Idiots).
They are both liars and suicidal idiots who deserved to be hanged!
Crusades Were Right! says
May God forgive the Pied Pipers of Political Correctness who have led us into this bloody morass….
….because I certainly won’t!
Ross says
On the one hand this may smack of cowering appeasement; but there is a very unhelpful disconnect in trying to apply a rational categorizing dissection to the abysmal and chaotic mentalities which spring from Islamic milieus. One may argue that this is making too fine a point. I counter that a new way of thinking is in order; one that takes into account the severe abnormalities generations of Islamic ideology have bred into their populations. Trying to judge whether this or that attacker had religious “motives” or not misses the point entirely.
Annak says
They are both liars and idiots. And worse.
Jaladhi says
Yeah, they are cowards and evil!!
ConanKong says
The two are not mutually exclusive.
gravenimage says
*Very true*.
anno nimus says
Religion of pieces…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YP-hI5e_p0I
Nigel GFF says
“…the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.” (George Eliot – Middlemarch).
These stupid liars are indeed well wadded, by their ideology. They can never be ‘de-radicalised’ from their ‘we are all equal’ liberal twaddle. Their ossified mentality may well presage the end of western civilisation, God forbid. They are incapable of ‘thinking outside the box’, consequently, they’ve gotta go. Vote. Our democracies are under threat and yet the blinkered elites remain convinced that their world view, derived no doubt from self-serving (green) science and rationality, WILL engender a homogeneous culture. Both ideologies, inclusive monoculture and Islam, are crammed full of (if not all practitioners) convinced and sincere foot soldiers and the ‘higher-ups’.
So, not just stupid liars but dedicated and dangerous individuals. Vote.
Nassin says
Obviously its a lie, deeper question is why ??
gravenimage says
They are–and many ordinary people in the West, as well–are desperate to cling to the pieties of “political correctness”, where Muslims, as “third worlders”, are regarded as no different–or even better–than are Westerners. Reality cannot be allowed to intrude.
Jaladhi says
what the crusades saved, the present day day Western leaders are giving it away to Muslims on a silver platter!! Why are these coward spineless leaders submitting to Muslims so easily. These leaders are evil just like the evil invaders.
Guest says
How about you tell us something we don’t know, like how to stop this?
Ed Lee says
Western politicians, from the national to the local level, are reading from the same script. Who supplied that script to them? What were they promised for their complicity, or threatened with if they didn’t comply, and by whom? I have my suspicions, but I’d like to hear what others think.
Thor Leonard says
Most Western Policy makers have not had the experience working side by side in Corporate america. I have. And I have taken Muslim culture awareness courses. I am ready to work off my debts owed. I see a bright future for my family ahead of us.
gravenimage says
Raymond Ibrahim: When It Comes to Islam, Western Leaders Are Liars or Idiots
………………..
For most of them, that pretty much sums it up…
David says
If our would be leaders have not read thr koran and do not follow the writings of Jihadwatch, The Gorka Report or any number of other commentators on Islam, they will not understand the extreme danger we all face. It should be mandatory for all politicians, police, military, and educators to take courses in Islam, Islamic jihad and political Islam or be thrown out of their jobs !
Kepha says
Here are bigger idiots–most of the American electorate. Donald Trump has been making angry and nasty noises about illegal immigration and Islam, hoping the people he thinks are right-thinking and decent will flock to his friend Shrillary Shrooooo–and now he may actually have a shot at winning the election. Back before the election cycle started, I heard liberals urging each other to register as GOP, so they could pick an unelectable candidate during the primaries. Maybe the joke’s on them.
avi15 says
Our political leaders are squeezed between the fallacy that Islam is benign and the fallacy that continued tolerance of it is the best way to respond to increased terrorism. With this clueless approach the problem only gets worse. In the long run, the constant failure to ensure people’s safety may lead to the collapse of many European nation states. This is because every jihadi atrocity, however small, chips away at the power and the prestige of the state.
Susan says
You for got one.
The title should be, When It Comes to Islam, Western Leaders Are Liars, Idiots or COWARDS.
I think most of them are cowards.
USN says
“Liars OR idiots”?
Sorry folks… the two are not mutually exclusive. They are liars AND idiots!
That is all. The smoking lamp is lit. Officer of The Watch, report to the Bridge.
PRCS says
Yes, yes, the good old days.
Truth Seeker says
Terrorist Shouts Allahu Akbar, when he does the Butchery. For one who hears it, doesn’t have any Difficulty in understanding the Motive.
But Authorities pretend Not Understanding the motive and give misleading statements to people! This shows the Influence of Infiltrated Islamic Trojan Horses in the Administration.
Anyway those who those who went away from God Almighty will dig own grave for God won’t give proper sense to handle the Danger.
johnj says
The best way to describe this is a paradigm. They actually can not see the issue as it is absorbed into their world view. They have gown up on a model of colonial crime, third world poverty resulting in white ( i.e. European) underlying guilt. This paradigm means that Islam is regarded as a beneficial religion that has been oppressed by their forefathers. Hence any criticism of Islam, third worlders, Arabs… must be opposed.
In my experience there is no way to change it. Many of these people I know, after the latest attack on the priest in France are in ‘demoralization’ mode. They just give up. One may also call this ‘submission'(!) To change their paradigm needs a major tragic event to happen to them or close relations.
underbed cat says
Well it is true, the world view that was so critical of western history has never been criticized or corrected. Just watch the movies…..so many are so full of it.and perpetuate the the guilt and lies and this may have been started deliberately..to get the desired response. The unified agreement took patience to achieve, now we have to change it with skill.
Peter Ahlskog says
Another truth is that the political correct politicians and journalists are racists, but are not aware of it. They think that Europeans / Americans are much more intelligent and cultural superior. So they ADOPT all immigrants and treat them as 11 years old children in need of education to adapt and integrate.
If a group of Muslims walk around in a bus touching women, they put them in a class named “How to behave on a bus”. And in another course about what real love and sex is. And if they commit violent crimes they try to get them to start with soccer, boxing or another sport, so these not so intelligent but very physical not white immigrants can satisfy their physical needs in the world of sport. What the Muslim protectors in West don’t understand is that these people are no children. Many of them are in a 1000 year war with us where they try to slowly erode down the Western civilization and the Western family view. The Muslims who not are into this, passively support it by being quiet and letting it happen.
The most dangerous is NOT the present active terrorist groups, but Islam itself which are designed to destroy the Western lifestyle in all possible ways, definitely not only with terrorism. We will surely see new terrorist groups with new names in the future, but what can make them win the 1000 year war is the daily small progresses Islam makes: more Muslim immigrants, more mosques where political or ideological “preachers” can talk, more law changes in favor for Muslims in Europe, America and East Asia, more changes in what shops and supermarkets sell, changes after changes in school activities and acceptable girls activities, making Arabic to second language with minority status and rights in country after country in the West, establishment of more and more parallel societies with Muslim nations inside the Western countries. France and Germany is already there.
It’s a big mistake to adopt them as children who have to learn. That’s what’s our leaders do. It’s a big mistake to think that terrorism is the most dangerous Muslim threat. That’s what’s our leaders do.
Nigel says
1940s Breaking news: German guy screaming “Heil Hitler!” blows up British railway station. Authorities say it’s not linked in any way to Nazi extremism. “Just a lone Wolf”, says UK prime minister Neville Chamberlain…
Lioness says
Even Chamberlain wasn’t as stupid as our leaders are today. He finally realized, after a few short years, that he was duped. But the islamization of the West has been going on steadily, unabated, for 20 years, with no sign that our governments are getting any wiser. Luckily for England and the world in 1940 was that Churchill became PM. We don’t have a Churchill today, we have the likes of Obama, Merkel, Trudeau, May, which doom us to self destruction.
UNCLE VLADDI says
THEY ARE LYING COWARDS.
underbed cat says
The California jihad event and related news media exposed the deception it was an incredible news event…..as the apologist or fibbers were in great form.
underbed cat says
Correction….both events were bad, however the media event that happened in” Philadelphia “really exposed how after a police interviewed the wounded jihadist, who explained his motives, actions and faith, the authorities come out to contradict everything he stated….so the restriction of speech and knowledge of islamic doctrine was totally refuted with fibs. As with the removal of all terminology from the 9/11 Commission Report…..any reference to the words of the religion of peace were purged. To protect who?
G. R. Gunning says
The explanation is very simple – the governments of the West are implementing the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan to generate a mixed race people, living in continents with no borders, who can be more easily controlled by a World Government. It’s been planned and executed for about 50 years, slowly at first, now rapidly, and I have amassed all the evidence I need to prove it. The EU is the front for the C-K Plan in Europe. But behind them must be the Bilderberg Group. Even they almost certainly take orders from even higher up the chain of evil, including the United Nations. The staggering thing is that so many of the Political Parties, the BBC, the MSM and many institutions – police, judiciary etc. are party to it. It is a mammoth conspiracy. All the murders, bombs & atrocities are regarded as “collateral damage” en route to their lunatic dream, which is why there are so many cover ups and inaction by the police. Needless to say people like Nigel Farage, Donald Trump, Geert Wilders & Marie Le Pen stand in their way and we should fear for their lives.
Louis says
No they are not idiots only in the fact that they think these murders will not affect themselves. In the end they will pay the price but by then it will be to late for all of the civilized world. We will have war and in war you never know who is going to win.