Who is even doing that? Powell’s bizarre statement is yet another sally in the never-ending battle to establish Muslims as victims and smear every opposition to jihad terror as “bigotry” and “Islamophobia.” These endless straw men have the effect of fooling people into thinking that any opposition to jihad terror, any proposal designed to stop it or limit it, is victimizing innocent Muslims and must therefore be opposed. Powell, after speaking sensibly here about the vacuum in Libya, should know better, as should all of the present military brass. But they apparently do not.
“Colin Powell: U.S. Should Not ‘Single Out Just Muslims as Being Bad,’” by Nicholas Ballasy, PJ Media, September 28, 2016:
WASHINGTON – Using the war in Libya and the conflict in Syria as examples, former Secretary of State Colin Powell cautioned against U.S.-backed regime changes.
Touching upon the debate surrounding U.S. immigration from the Middle East, Powell said Muslims should not be “singled out” as threats.
“You better be careful because – and I have considerable experience with this – just taking out the regime doesn’t necessarily fix the problem. And especially in the post-Cold War world I saw this over and over where you had a pressure cooker that you have kept the pressure inside for the last 60 years, because of the Cold War strategy and because we knew there was a Soviet Union we had to deal with and there was a NATO and there was an Atlantic alliance,” he said at the International Bar Association conference last week.
Powell said the U.S. military intervention in support of the Libyans’ Arab Spring revolution, supported by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of State, led to the death of Moammar Gadhafi but resulted in chaos.
“Now we have chaos because there was no plan to do anything for the Libyans or with Libya,” he said….
“We should not isolate and single out just Muslims as being bad. We do have terrorists that come from the Muslim community but we also have some that are homegrown, nutty terrorists that do terrible things. But it would not be our way of doing things if we were to condemn an entire people merely because of their religious belief, and I’ve spoken out on this repeatedly,” Powell said….

Stephanie says
… but cruel punisher allah is bad http://quran.com/5/33-40
https://twitter.com/schnellmann_org/status/781941555292729344
Stephanie says
Deplorable and proud! ? ✅ http://infowars.com
https://twitter.com/RealAlexJones/status/781941947015376896
Custos Custodum says
Powell has always had an exquisite nose for the winds of change.
Wasn’t it Powell who claims to have thought that the second Iraq war would be a disaster but didn’t say a word to GWB during a cabinet meeting?
Ciudadano says
“We should not isolate and single out just Muslims as being bad” … Mr. Powell is over simplifying and misrepresenting criticism and opposition to Islam. The problem is Islamic intolerance rooted in religious dogma. It frequently manifests as terrorism, but most of the times it manifests as execution, persecution, torture, oppression, illegal incarceration, human right violations, violence, etc. against religious minorities, women, dissidents, gays, ie, every non Muslim. And it is happening all over the world.
t. says
I agree with you, Ciudadano!
It’s sad to see someone whom I respected a lot , just a few years ago, say something like that. His statement above, is not a sign of a deep thinker. It’s basically a regurgitation of the same stupid sh*t, I hear all the time when I try to warn people about the threat of Islam: “But, but not all Muslims are bad or terrorists”.
As if all the explaining made by this site, other similar sites and all of us, commentators like you and me, who know Islam inside and out, fall not only on deaf ears but deaf brains, also! One might as well shout in the outer inter galactic space, where there is a better chance to be heard by some dark matter intelligence.
Don McKellar says
“I was never a fan of Colin Powell after his weak understanding of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq=disaster. We can do much better!” – Donald Trump
It is because of fools like Powell that the Middle East and North Africa are in the disastrous state they are in. A very poor general. No Schwartzkopf, that’s for sure. In fact he’s quite pathetic in comparison.
Don McKellar says
Schwarzkopf.
Adrian says
o yes, Colin Powell is a really credible source i always turn to, especially after seeing him lie through his teeth at the UN about WMD, complete with SlideShow for Lemmings
Georg says
So the echo chamber of the last c. 20 years of whites/the West are evil is uknown to him. Doubtful.
Shut up, Colon. After getting us into Iraq maybe just shut the hell up and let us sort out the crap all of you shovel onto decent people.
Elizabeth says
President Reagan and Pres. Bush 41 elevated Colin Powell’s status,not clinton or obama!
David Rice says
Powell has defected to the Establishment. The fact is that no one is singling out any group. We need everyone who immigrates to this country properly vetted. Our immigration system is broke and Obama has allowed the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates to infiltrate every level of our government and none of our agencies are here to truly protect Americans. We are being fed a lie. Who believes that Jeh Johnson, the head of DHS is serious about vetting immigrants? We have even been warned from various individuals who are Muslim about the problem with terrorists sneaking in under our current immigration system. Powell spouted off to slam Trump. Well we need to send a strong message back to the Establishment that we are on to you and you will be voted out of office.
Billy Lynch says
Agreed. Powell came out of the liberal closet and has shown his filthy hatred of America. He is a filthy globalist just like Soros, Obama and Hillary. All globalists are pushing for an end to national sovereignty and a unified one-world government, which is exactly what the Book of Revelations warns about.
EYESOPEN says
Absolutely Billy Lynch. But Powell was ALWAYS an establishment “tool”. It’s only in recent years that he has made it more than obvious.
Jaladhi says
This guy has totally gone senile!! If an illustrious guy like him cannot see evil in Islam then either he is lying or has lost his mind!
Jack Diamond says
Too busy paling around with his tennis partner, Prince Bandar, back in the day. Prince Bandar, presenting Powell’s wife with a brand new Jaguar (summoning Hugh Fitzgerald “He’s a big shot. (Powell) He delivers lectures. He speaks slowly, and portentously. He has an air, some think (I don’t) of “rectitude.” We are expected to admire him, and to forgive this kind of negligence — a failure to perform due diligence in investigating the matter of Islam — that does damage to the ignorant and the simple-minded, who may not recognize anecdotal evidence, or be able to see how misleading it is.
Why should we forgive Colin Powell? What’s so wonderful, what has ever been so wonderful, about him? And when will he give back that Jaguar to Prince Bandar?”}
Meanwhile the same Prince Bandar was involved with this, funding 9/11 hijackers, (comment Colin Powell?): “Some information has leaked from the redacted section, including a flurry of pre-9/11 phone calls between one of the hijackers’ Saudi handlers in San Diego and the Saudi Embassy, and the transfer of some $130,000 from then-Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar’s family checking account to yet another of the hijackers’ Saudi handlers in San Diego.”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/04/saudi-involvement-in-911-deliberately-covered-up-at-highest-levels-of-us-govt
Jaladhi says
Thanks for shedding more light on the good ol’ Colin! Wonder if accepted the jaguar while still an employee of the US government? Saudis have all our administration with gifts of all sorts.
saudis are the viper nest jihadi – that’s the agreement House of Saud made with imams of that country or they would not be in power!
Jack Diamond says
Those were the salad days when Bandar dispensed the largesse far and wide and he made the Saudis seem (falsely) cosmopolitan. Before King Fahd’s stroke, before 9/11.
And after all that, Colin Powell, a man who held some of the highest positions in government and the armed forces, could say, when Obama ran for President and was accused of being a Muslim: no he’s not a Muslim but what would be wrong with his being Muslim? What’s wrong with having a Muslim President?
He had no clue what might be wrong with having a Muslim who believed in Islam as President of the United States. In all these decades of global jihad he never learned the most important things. Never even tried.
Keys says
Wonder what Jeh Johnson got from the Saudis !
t. says
Jaladhi, I am just as surprised and disgusted by his comment, as much as you! Check my comment above, the reply to Ciudadano.
Paul Clark says
He was incompetent when he served Bush. He got advancement in the military because of minority preference. People were awed my this half white GOP general. He was unique. They trusted him. He then betrayed them. Everyone knows that. He lied about having conservative ideology. He has been wrong on every major decision affecting our country. He is one of the reasons we went back into Iraq. We should of never left before the job was done. He wanted us out. He is as incompetent as Obama, Kerry and Hillary. How can he allege moderate views and then the “next day” he is voting for a racist, socialist? Answer: He has been a self-serving phony and liar all his life.
Northern Virginiastan says
Don’t forget Powell’s friendship with Prince Bandar, the former Saudi ambassador to the US. Prince Bandar’s wife gifted Mrs. Powell with a Lexus.
t. says
Northern Virginiastan, if that’s true what you’re saying, then that explains it and consequently I thank you for sharing this eye opener with us, here!
vlparker says
Just another corrupt a******.
Lucienne says
Ever wonder why the US Govt, and Western weenie countries around the world want to take Jesus and The Holy Bible out of the public square and replace it with Islam as the “religion of peace” when it is everything but, they work for satan.
Peter Ahlskog says
Is there any word as e u r o p h o b i a ?
If you criticize a white person for whatever, you suffer from europhobia. It sounds mad, doesn’t it?
And all Germans who became Nazis during the Hitler era – they all where mentally ill and not responsible for their actions?
Russians who bomb civil and hospitals in East Aleppo right now, are they all mentally ill or suddenly radicalized?
Peter Ahlskog says
Colin Powell: Islam stands out as an extraordinary cruel ideology in comparison with all other major religions today.
You can’t deny it, sir,
Xero_G says
[…we shouldn’t] “condemn an entire people merely because of their religious belief”,
But Mr. Powell, their “religious belief” is to subjugate the entire world under Sharia Law – by force (terrorism, genocide) if the non-believer’s submission is not “voluntary.” Do you deny that, Mr. Powell?
don vito says
I’m almost 100% sure he would deny it, because he knows nothing about it.
somehistory says
No, not “just moslims” but all…all, everyone, no matter who…who support, defend or lie about islam being a *good* thing or *peaceful* or any other positive adjective, and that terror has *nothing to do with islam*.
R Cole says
The qualifier!!
You have to say not all Muslims – not the little babies in their mother’s arms!!
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But some of these guys like Colin Powell have conflicts of interests – they accept gifts and other rewards from some of the same people who are funding terrorism.
You’ve got to take out the terrorists because they will come after you or your allies. Then again – you can’t offend those with the crapload of money.
All those madrassas on the Pakistani hillsides are funded by the Saudis. The same people we call our allies or partners in the Middle East. There’s arms deals and so on…
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We can go over the Iraq war a million times – but Powell had it right the first time. And all these years later it rings true – we did not have an exit strategy!
Wellington says
Colin Powell serves as an example of how a person competent at a lower level, if diligent and ambitious enough, can rise to higher positions based on the false assumption that his competency in said lower role will mean he will be competent in a higher one————-but he often won’t be because the higher role is beyond his pay grade, so to speak. It’s called, or at least used to be called, the Peter Principle, named after Lawrence Peter who came up with this theory back in the Sixties.
You see this “mistake” throughout history. For instance, many good brigade commanders during the American Civil War (for either side), when elevated to corps commander status, found themselves in over their head, ditto for very fine corps commanders (again for either side) who, when put in charge of an entire army, rather than just a corps of said army, simply failed (examples here respecting very fine corps commanders, who were not good overall army commanders, are Joseph Hooker for the Union and James Longstreet for the Confederacy).
I would argue that Colin Powell should be seen as demonstrating quite well the Peter Principle. Easily so in fact.
Mark Swan says
I believe General Sherman would certainly agree with your assessment. I know President Lincoln would.
Angemon says
How about this instead: if muslims world stop acting bad then they won’t be “singled out” as bad.
don vito says
That is a very good point to raise, but I’m afraid it would go right over the Secretary’s head.
gravenimage says
Colin Powell: “We should not isolate and single out just Muslims as being bad”
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To think, there was a time when I had a great deal of respect for Colin Powell.
Joe says
To check if it makes sense, just exchange Muslims for Nazis:
Colin Powell: “We should not isolate and single out just Nazis as being bad”
1400 years and Mr. Powell and many others are still not getting it. Sad, how stupid these folks are and those run a country. They should all be tarred and feathered.
t. says
Joe, this substitution of the word Muslims by the word Nazis, drove home the point like no other, especially after adding the length of Islam’s madness, on this planet, of 1400 years and counting!
Joe says
Thank you t.
Here is one statement from the top Nazi himself which makes it pretty clear that being a Nazi or Muslim is not that much of a difference:
“You see, it’s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn’t we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?”
Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945)
Mark Swan says
Yes ol’ Mr. Hitler had so much to say about being tough, when it was the real men
of Germany doing the dying.
Woody says
There are other bad actors in the world also, such as Colin Powell and all his establishment elite friends.
Troybeam says
This is the problem, not understanding Islam and many people like Colin Powell and others have failed to study and learn the enemy: Islam is the only outright violent enity attacking any and all cultures that are not Islamic. Wake up people and study.
mark says
Hereafter, known by me as conning powell
Cameron says
Lets criticize and condemn ALL cultures that are notorious for such and such a lengthy list of crimes, attrocities and deplorable behaviour… oh, wait… so much of any sort of list of crimes and attrocities that Islamic cultures are responsible for are almost exclusive to Islam.
I’m too tired to make such a list now and it won’t be as good as what Robert Spencer or what other sites have listed anyway…
jihadwatch, thereligionofpeace, muslimstatistics websites, etc…
Dustin says
I don’t single out Moslems. I include all leftists; socialists, criminals, corrupt politicians, i.e. all Democrats!
t. says
That’s really a creative and accurate twist to put to his comment, Dustin!
Paul Ashley says
How about calling for Muslims to stop singling out infidels as bad and thus worthy of a violent death?
steve says
Muslims ARE victims, they have been fooled by their ‘HOLY ??’ Koran for 1600 years. They expect Allah to provide, they do not expect to actually ‘WORK’ Their countries are examples of retardation.They are the willing stooges of stupidity. Their enjoyment in casual brutality is well known. Hopefully their type and creed will return to the slime from whence Mohammed dragged them.
Aaron says
What does it even mean “it would not be our way”? Who is he to speak for America or some recently made up so-called “American value”. Islam is an oppressive political ideology. It is not an American value to speak our against oppressive political ideologies? What we needn’t do just because this country was founded by nutty heretical Christian sects–of which Islam also is more or less–is accept everyone who claims a religion like the we do with Scientologists.
t. says
Right to the point, Aaron!
mgoldberg says
“We should not isolate and single out just Muslims as being bad. We do have terrorists that come from the Muslim community but we also have some that are homegrown, nutty terrorists that do terrible things. But it would not be our way of doing things if we were to condemn an entire people merely because of their religious belief
We should, Mr Powell, analyze what is common amongst the ‘terrorists’ that come from the Muslim community and the ‘homegrown, nutty terrorists that do ‘terrible things’. It is that they have the preeminent muslim ‘religious belief’ and practice- known as Jihad.
And that is the factor that unites them as a ‘religious’ belief. You see Mr Powell, not all muslims would do this but none may publically ever decry it’s existence since to do so is in fact apostasy and under penalty of death by the legal religious practice from Islam, known as Sharia.
And that practice is unlike any practice by other religions. It is sanctified and used by Islam as the highest form of belief, according to Mohammed their prophet.
That is why we should single out ‘Jihad’ is bad, because it is an attack upon all others, everywhere for all time, as per Sharia law….