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Obama: “There’s no religious rationale that would justify in any way any of the things” jihad terrorists do

Sep 29, 2016 1:23 pm By Robert Spencer

“These are people who’ve killed children, killed Muslims, take sex slaves, there’s no religious rationale that would justify in any way any of the things that they do.”

“Killed children”: “It is reported on the authority of Sa’b b. Jaththama that the Prophet of Allah (may peace be upon him), when asked about the women and children of the polytheists being killed during the night raid, said: They are from them.” — Sahih Muslim 4321

“I was very happy to learn about the relevant hadith. I felt overjoyed when I heard it. [Mus’ab Ibn Juthama] told the Prophet Muhammad that while the Muslims would attack the polytheists at night, women and children would be harmed. The Prophet Muhammad answered: “[Their offspring] constitute part of them.” They are part of them, said our beloved Muhammad. This is not merely someone’s opinion. Thus, killing their women and children is permitted.” — Sudanese Muslim cleric Muhammad Al-Jazouli

“Killed Muslims”: “They but wish that you should reject faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing: but do not take friends from their ranks until they emigrate in the way of Allah. But if they turn renegade, seize them and kill them wherever you find them…” — Qur’an 4:89. To “emigrate in the way of Allah” would involve their becoming Muslim — but if they “turn renegade” after that, then they are to be killed.

“The punishment of those who make war against Allah and his messenger and spread corruption in the land shall be to put them to death or to have them crucified or to have their hands and feet cut off on alternate sides, or to banish them from the land….” — Qur’an 5:33. The Islamic State claims that is the caliphate, the sole authority that Muslims should obey, and that to oppose it therefore constitutes making war against Allah and his messenger. No exception is given in this Qur’an verse or anywhere else: nowhere are Muslims who are considered to have made war against Allah and his messenger exempted from this death penalty.

“Take sex slaves”: The seizure of Infidel girls and their use as sex slaves is sanctioned in the Qur’an. According to Islamic law, Muslim men can take “captives of the right hand” (Qur’an 4:3, 4:24, 33:50). The Qur’an says: “O Prophet! Lo! We have made lawful to you your wives to whom you have paid their dowries, and those whom your right hand possesses of those whom Allah has given you as spoils of war” (33:50). 4:3 and 4:24 extend this privilege to Muslim men in general. The Qur’an says that a man may have sex with his wives and with these slave girls: “The believers must win through, those who humble themselves in their prayers; who avoid vain talk; who are active in deeds of charity; who abstain from sex, except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or whom their right hands possess, for they are free from blame.” (Qur’an 23:1-6)

“But what I have been careful about when I describe these issues is to make sure that we do not lump these murderers into the billion Muslims that exist around the world…”

Calling them “Islamic terrorists” wouldn’t do that, any more than referring to “American senators” means that all Americans are senators. Calling them what they are simply opens the door for us to understanding what they are all about, and how best to counter them.

“If you had an organization that was going around killing and blowing people up and said, ‘We’re on the vanguard of Christianity.’ As a Christian, I’m not going to let them claim my religion and say, ‘you’re killing for Christ.’ I would say, that’s ridiculous.”

Sure. But if this group was basing its actions on some twisted interpretation of Christian scripture, law enforcement and intelligence officials would be derelict in their duty if they didn’t study that interpretation — even if they understood it was wrong — in order to understand the motives and goals of the enemy and develop effective ways to defeat them. Yet that is exactly what Obama has forbidden: on October 19, 2011, Farhana Khera of Muslim Advocates wrote a letter to John Brennan, who was then the Assistant to the President on National Security for Homeland Security and Counter Terrorism and is now the head of the CIA. The letter was signed not just by Khera, but by the leaders of virtually all the significant Islamic groups in the United States: 57 Muslim, Arab, and South Asian organizations, many with ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Muslim American Society (MAS), the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), Islamic Relief USA; and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). The letter denounced what it characterized as U.S. government agencies’ “use of biased, false and highly offensive training materials about Muslims and Islam” and demanded that all mention of Islam and jihad be removed from counter-terror training materials. Brennan immediately complied. So since then, it has been administration policy to ignore and deny the motivating ideology of jihad terror. That is a recipe for defeat and disaster: you cannot defeat an enemy you don’t understand.

Obama at Islamic Society of Baltimore, Allah

“Obama: Why I won’t say ‘Islamic terrorism,'” by Daniella Diaz, CNN, September 29, 2016:

Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama has taken a lot of criticism from political opponents over his rhetoric when it comes to terrorism. But on Wednesday at a CNN presidential town hall, he was asked to defend why he refuses to say “Islamic” terrorism to a Gold Star mother.

“My son gave his life for acts of terrorism,” audience member Tina Houchins told Obama at the town hall moderated by CNN’s Jake Tapper. “Do you still believe that the acts of terrorism are done for the self-proclaimed Islamic religious motive? And if you do, why do you still refuse to use the term … Islamic terrorist?”

Obama called it a “sort of manufactured” issue.

“There is no doubt, and I’ve said repeatedly, where we see terrorist organizations like al Qaeda or ISIL — They have perverted and distorted and tried to claim the mantle of Islam for an excuse for basically barbarism and death,” he said.

“These are people who’ve killed children, killed Muslims, take sex slaves, there’s no religious rationale that would justify in any way any of the things that they do,” he said. “But what I have been careful about when I describe these issues is to make sure that we do not lump these murderers into the billion Muslims that exist around the world, including in this country, who are peaceful, who are responsible, who, in this country, are fellow troops and police officers and fire fighters and teachers and neighbors and friends.”

The President compared using the term to if a Christian were a murderer but claiming their religion in their actions.

“If you had an organization that was going around killing and blowing people up and said, ‘We’re on the vanguard of Christianity.’ As a Christian, I’m not going to let them claim my religion and say, ‘you’re killing for Christ.’ I would say, that’s ridiculous,” Obama said.

“That’s not what my religion stands for. Call these folks what they are, which is killers and terrorists,” he added.

At one point, Obama said that the danger of using the term is when “a president or people aspiring to become president get loose with this language.”…

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  1. Rob says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 1:32 pm

    Try this for starters Barry. Remember Al Azhar?
    It’s the Cairo college you used for your messianic speech 7 years ago where you praised Al Azhar as the foremost repository of Islamic thought.
    A male Al A academic has made the point that ISIS is in no way heretical in its use of Islamic texts to justify their brutality.
    When is the West going to call you on your nonsense presidency.

    • Sheykh Yer Weeni says

      Sep 29, 2016 at 3:58 pm

      The Infidel Imam says, excellent point, Rob! When Islamic sources allow Islamic terrorists to be called Islamic terrorists, we can be sure that they are…Islamic terrorists! What is really, really surprising is that anyone still falls for that “nothing to do with Islam” lie. First of all, it is really a “no good Scotsman” fallacy, and someone needs to call it as such. In other words, leftists like Obhammad fantasize a “peaceful Islam/Muslim” and then try to argue that of course, no good Islam/Muslim would commit terrorism.

      The facts speak otherwise. Here is a very, very brief sketch of Islamic conquests:
      Late 20th century -date: numerous and bloody terrorist attacks around the world. Were all of those terrorist attacks, and all of the men who participated in planning and committing them, including imams and ulema (scholars), “nothing to do with Islam”?
      1453: conquest of Constantinople, the bastion of Eastern Christianity
      711- late 18th century: conquests and occupations of India; historian Will Durant says this may be “the most bloody story in history”.
      637: conquest of Jerusalem, holiest site in Judaism and Christianity; the city is not even mentioned in the Qur’an
      632-4: Ridda (Apostasy) Wars: Abu Bakr, the first Caliph, leads armies against Arabian tribes who had left Islam; slaughters thousands; remainder revert to Islam.
      623: Muhammad leads raids against caravans coming into Mecca; slaughters many civilians. Today we would call this terrorism. Did Muhammad also have “nothing to do with Islam”?
      This subject would be laughable if it were not so serious. The leader of the free world is either a loon or a liar.

    • mortimer says

      Sep 29, 2016 at 4:30 pm

      Do the Koran 164 not justify JIHAD WARFARE AGAINST DISBELIEVERS?

      The Koran’s 164 Jihad Verses are: K 002:178-179, 190-191, 193-194, 216-218, 244; 003:121-126, 140-143, 146, 152-158, 165-167,169, 172-173, 195; 004:071-072, 074-077, 084, 089-091, 094-095,100-104; 005:033, 035, 082; 008:001, 005, 007, 009-010, 012, 015-017, 039-048,057-060, 065-075; 009:005, 012-014, 016, 019-020, 024-026, 029,036, 038-039, 041, 044, 052, 073, 081, 083,086, 088, 092, 111, 120, 122-123; 016:110; 022:039, 058, 078; 024:053, 055; 025:052; 029:006, 069; 033:015, 018, 020, 023, 025-027, 050; 042:039; 047:004, 020, 035; 048:015-024; 049:015; 059:002, 005-008, 014; 060:009; 061:004, 011, 013; 063:004; 064:014; 066:009; 073:020; 076:008

      In the Sira (Mohammed official biography), 67 percent of the text is about jihad. The Medinan Koran devotes 24 percent of its text to jihad. The Hadiths are 21 percent about jihad.

      Jihad is justified by the Islamic source texts.

      • Norger says

        Sep 29, 2016 at 11:22 pm

        Exactly. While the President claims there is no religious justification for Islamic terrorism, despite the fact that nearly all terrorists self-identity as devout Muslims, the real problem is that there is in fact far too much scriptural justification for not just any, but virtually all of the acts of terrorism we see from ISIS. Al Quaeda, various alleged “lone wolves” etc. It is totally Orwellian.

        • DM says

          Sep 30, 2016 at 10:08 am

          What really, really makes me absolutely furious is that every single time something happens some so called moderate muslim, muslim org or weak groveling politician or “0” will come out to explain away islamic savagery, the excuse is ALWAYS, ALWAYS the same, “the radicals misinterpret islam”. It is so tiresome to hear the same God damned lies over & over & over again.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 29, 2016 at 7:05 pm

      Good point, Rob.

  2. ICH says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 1:33 pm

    I would love to see a debate with Obama & Robert !

  3. jayell says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 1:36 pm

    ….”“There’s no religious rationale that would justify in any way any of the things” jihad terrorists do”………

    Well, there’s the Qu’ran, but it’s not particularly rational and it’s certainly not very Holy.

    • underbed cat says

      Sep 29, 2016 at 2:19 pm

      Exactly.

    • Salome says

      Sep 29, 2016 at 5:12 pm

      Perhaps he’s admitted that Islam isn’t a religion and consequently is not deserving of the protections thereof.

    • Xero_G says

      Sep 29, 2016 at 8:15 pm

      Excellent point!

  4. rubiconcrest says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 1:44 pm

    Sadly, no one asked the president if the majority of Muslims agree with him or with the extremists regarding dying for Jihad? Obama continues to try to define Islam. It would be better to accept how Muslims interpret it. We can deal with the truth Mr. President. If the majority of Muslims are fine with the truth they will follow us. If not, they can fight us.

    • Mark Swan says

      Sep 30, 2016 at 3:23 am

      He says when you even consider discusing Islam publicly, that is when you
      “get loose with this language”.

  5. miriamrove says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 1:59 pm

    He is brain dead to say the least. m

    • PRCS says

      Sep 29, 2016 at 2:51 pm

      I have to disagree, mr,

      I think he knows exactly what Islam teaches, is intentionally obfuscating, and is confident that no one will challenge him ask him validate his ongoing charade with specific Qur’an passages.

      • miriamrove says

        Sep 29, 2016 at 3:25 pm

        I see your point. M

        • Mark Swan says

          Sep 30, 2016 at 3:32 am

          Well, it has worked so far, we will just have to wait until the truth catches up with Him.

          He should see this coming, no special person status, then.

  6. RCCA says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 2:07 pm

    I hope you are in contact with the Trump campaign and preparing Mr. Trump for this issue when it comes up in debate.

    • aDhimmiSaysWhat? says

      Sep 29, 2016 at 3:25 pm

      During that debate, the question was asked what the candidates would do to prevent homegrown terrorists. Trump did not even mention islam. I hear a lot of support for Trump here on JW, but I don’t think he really understands the danger. I think he may pay lip service to the islam problem, but I get the feeling he wouldn’t follow through. Just my opinion.

      • Wellington says

        Sep 29, 2016 at 6:01 pm

        It’s not a bad opinion that you stated, aDhimmi. I think Trump has the “street smarts” to know, and to his credit even say, there is a problem with Islam, e.g., his statement that “I think Islam hates us,” but he simply doesn’t have the requisite knowledge he should have in order to fully comprehend just how inimical Islam is to the basic rights and guarantees found in the Constitution (particularly here the First and Fourteenth Amendments).

        And if elected President it could end up being the case he takes advice from the wrong people (there are a lot of these in the Republican camp, though it should never be forgotten there is virtually no wise person left in the Democratic camp) and thus goes against his basic and sound instincts about Islam. Well, this addresses what I already stated and that is that proper instincts, “gut smarts” if you like, are laudable in their own right but are still not nearly enough attributes for a President of the United States (though not having such instincts is also a problem, first exhibit here being Obama, second exhibit here being Hillary, both of whom are fools——-and I don’t need anyone telling me Obama and Hillary know exactly what they’re doing, blah, blah, blah, since one can know exactly what they’re doing and still be a fool).

        I will vote for Trump in November, and I surely hope he wins, but I know that he is just a first step in the right direction and nothing more in dealing with what Islam intends for America and all the West. Eventually, America and Western European nations will need leaders like Orban in Hungary, who has the qualities of Putin without his defects, and who very well comprehends just how awful Islam is for Western Civilization.

        Not there yet. Better get there soon. Won’t do so under fools like May, Obama and Pope Francis. But Trump, I think, is indeed a step in the right direction but only a step. One step at a time, eh? Assuming of course that Western dhimmi fools aplenty and Islam’s agenda do not disallow further steps. They might because the foolish enemy within coupled with the focused enemy without is always a problem for the preservation of good stuff like freedom, equality under the law, and a true Golden Rule for all.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 29, 2016 at 8:46 pm

          That pretty much sums up my take on Trump as well, Wellington.

        • le mouron rouge says

          Sep 29, 2016 at 9:59 pm

          Wellington says “and I don’t need anyone telling me Obama and Hillary know exactly what they’re doing, blah, blah, blah, since one can know exactly what they’re doing and still be a fool).”

          I would prefer to call them “useful idiots”.

          It appears that the song “Gotta Serve Somebody” by Bob Dylan sums it up nicely.

          You may be an ambassador to England or France, You may like to gamble, you might like to dance, You may be the heavyweight champion of the world, You may be a socialite with a long string of pearls.

          But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed, You’re gonna have to serve somebody, It may be the “devil or it may be the Lord,” But you’re gonna have to serve somebody.

          I think they are the “devils” useful idiots.

        • Mark Swan says

          Sep 30, 2016 at 3:58 am

          You, bet, Wellington, Mr. Trump should worry anyone. Yet having Him in the
          Whitehouse could offer us a chance to breathe out from under this administration’s
          smothering despair throughout this land.

      • Brian Hunter says

        Sep 30, 2016 at 8:34 am

        As we consider Trump’s shortcomings, it would be wise to remember that Clinton holds Merkel to be her favorite foreign leader.

      • harbidoll says

        Oct 2, 2016 at 12:22 am

        When Islam becomes a threat to his pocketbook/checkbook, the sparks will fly.No more jizzyya from the US.

  7. underbed cat says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 2:17 pm

    Under the influence of Islam, dangerous, smiling. perfect manners, a pretty fantasy required by Islamic text, sending cash, bent on a caliphate.

    It has been obvious for some time…..for all the reasons listed by Rob. and the doctrine experts.who ask people to read and get informed…such as subject experts Robert Spencer at JW.

  8. Angemon says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 2:17 pm

    Americans should remember one thing: Obama is a politician from the school of “affirmative action”, not a scholar of islam.

    • Steve Klein says

      Sep 29, 2016 at 2:26 pm

      In his June 2009 address to the Muslim world in Cairo, Obama said: “I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region (Arabia?) where it was first revealed….”

      How can know for certain Mr. Obama isn’t deliberately misleading the American people? If, as many believe about former President Bush, Obama does not know or he is not intentionally misleading the public, it it any less harmful?

  9. NC Infidel says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 2:18 pm

    Very unfortunately Obama is either an idiot, a fool, or a liar. But I repeat myself.

  10. Steve Klein says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 2:19 pm

    Obama: Radical Islamic Terror a Manufactured Issue
    lifezette.com

    Isn’t “violent extremism” a manufactured term?

    “No religion is responsible for terrorism” is a fabrication; a lie. Is it not?

    • PRCS says

      Sep 29, 2016 at 2:58 pm

      As are:

      Radical Islam—————————as opposed to regular Islam
      Extremist——————————–by following Qur’an and Sunn’ah
      Home grown terrorist—————–which means ????
      Radical Islamists———————-as opposed to regular Islamists
      Radical Islamic terrorist————–as opposed to a regular Islamic terrorist
      Moderate Islam————————see radical Islam above

      Until the folks who use those, and similar terms, are publicly challenged…….

      • Steve Klein says

        Sep 29, 2016 at 3:12 pm

        We have no disagreement. “Radical” Islam is imprecise. It is or can be misleading. Mr. Spencer quoted Turkey’s prime minister in an earlier post.

        Speaking at Kanal D TV”s Arena program, PM Erdogan commented on the term “moderate Islam”, often used in the West to describe AKP and said, “˜These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”

        • overman says

          Sep 29, 2016 at 4:27 pm

          Even the word ‘Terrorist’ might be wrong, because Jihadi’s don’t see themselves as terrorists – according to them a terrorist is ‘one who takes a muslim life without right’. One who kills the lnfidel in the name of allah can never be a terrorist – their words. So, Obama strikes again.

        • Steve Klein says

          Sep 29, 2016 at 4:50 pm

          I don’t have a problem with the use of the term “Islamic terrorism.” Because the Qur’an mandates Muslims use terrorism as a tactic, maybe even a strategy of warfare.

          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 8:60)

          I don’t see the use of terror or terrorism mandated against non-believers in the Torah or in the Christian New Testament. If a jihadist like the late Yasser Arafat or a state or an organization uses terrorism as a strategic part of warfare – not in retaliation for terrorism / atrocities – why can’t he (or the state) be called an Islamic terrorist or a state sponsor of terrorism?

          Germany made use of terror (fire bombings) of cities early in the second world war, in Guernica, Poland, Rotterdam, London, Coventry and other cities. The British (along with the Americans on occasion) firebombed German cities later in the war. I do not see Britain or the United States as state sponsors of terrorism. They did not initiate the terrorism. It was retaliatory. It was in response to German terror and unspeakable atrocities.

    • JAR says

      Sep 29, 2016 at 3:47 pm

      Deceiver-in-chief has–again– “sort of manufactured” a lot of taquiyya here.
      The clock can’t run out on this office-holder fast enough.

  11. overman says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 2:23 pm

    How can he even compare the Christ of the New Testament to a murdering, raping, woman-hating, pedophile warlord, that muslims in their millions want to emulate. lt’s not even a twisted or extreme version of lslam that jihadi’s adhere to – it’s the Orthodox and Mainstream version; the unadulterated version, that is.

    • Steve Klein says

      Sep 29, 2016 at 2:35 pm

      Not to make a comparison. Do you read any #NeverTrump people? I read them over at Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire. #NeverTrumpers compare Mr. Trump to Hillary Clinton. To #NeverTrumpers the two are indistinguishable.

      • overman says

        Sep 29, 2016 at 3:19 pm

        Yeah, it’s the same thing with David Icke [always talking about the ‘poor muslims’]. lcke says both Trump and Clinton are just puppets for the Globalists, Rothschild Zionists etc. Personally, l don’t think Trump is playing by their rules, but who knows.

  12. underbed cat says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 2:33 pm

    Affirmative action like taking a vow….and a bow.

    • underbed cat says

      Sep 29, 2016 at 2:41 pm

      Then there is the statement, “The future does not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam”….sharia law advocate?

      • PRCS says

        Sep 29, 2016 at 2:59 pm

        No doubt.

      • Wellington says

        Sep 29, 2016 at 4:11 pm

        The possibility of Obama being a Sharia law advocate aside (and this is a big “aside” of course), Obama erred legally when speaking about the Profiteer Mohammed because you can’t slander (or libel) a dead person. I point this out because I am convinced that Obama, though a Harvard law graduate (well, there’s another problem in its own right but I digress), is a shallow man with borrowed ideas, virtually all wrong ones, and one who is quite deficient in general knowledge, let alone knowledge about the law.

        Remember, he didn’t know the difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day, has opined Abraham Lincoln was a founder of the Republican Party which he was not, remaining, as Lincoln did, a Henry Clay Whig for about two years before joining the Republican Party, and (here’s my favorite and it’s not the 57 states comment) this Oval Office doofus thinks “Austrian” is a language (you can Google this one).

        A key to understanding Obama, I have long argued, is to realize there’s not much “there” there. I don’t know for certain if Obama is really a Muslim, I really don’t, but I do know he is a shallow man who is possessed of the capacity for smooth talking. Not a good combo, most especially if you’re the President of the United States. But to the detriment of America and all the West, this foolish bastard is.

        • Wellington says

          Sep 30, 2016 at 12:22 pm

          You know of course, Joan C., that Obama on many occasions has explicitly said he is a Christian. Now, I don’t trust this man nor do I have a high opinion of his overall intelligence. He might just be gooey enough in his thinking to believe that all religions are basically the same thing (they aren’t) so that you can say you’re a Christian and maybe you’re a Muslim too (and a Buddhist ,etc.). I don’t know for certain. But here is what I do know: That whether Obama is actually a Muslim or isn’t is largely irrelevant because the effect he has had is the same, and a terrible effect it has been, whether he is a rank Christian dhimmi apologist for Islam or simply a Muslim in disguise to a certain extent (e.g., by claiming many times that he is a Christian).

          Think effect here, Joan C. This is paramount. Same with leftists——they’re idiots or traitors and when it come to matters of national security the difference is irrelevant.

  13. Mark A says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 2:47 pm

    Anyone who takes the time to read the Koran will be able to see through Obama’s statement.

    • PRCS says

      Sep 29, 2016 at 3:01 pm

      It’s hard imagine that not a single “journalist” who could challenge him has not read The Big Book.

      • Lucretius says

        Sep 29, 2016 at 4:16 pm

        What’s dismaying, but not in the least amazing, is that important as Islam has been since 2001, the mob of journos shows no sign of ever having bothered to independently read up on the basic texts of Islam, in particular the most respected tafsirs which puts it all together and cannot be considered “islamophobic” sources, and thus better train themselves to have some independent critical judgment about what they hear from the people they shove their mikes in front of. Their median income is about $39K/year, which may be twice what people with comparable intellectual laziness are otherwise getting.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 29, 2016 at 9:06 pm

          Yes–most journalists and pundits are suffering from willful ignorance–not a good trait in those who are supposed to be informing *us*, to put it mildly…

        • Mark Swan says

          Oct 1, 2016 at 1:41 am

          Corporate America has turned the news into entertainment.

  14. Terry Gain says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 2:52 pm

    Although it is certainly true that you can’t defeat an enemy you don’t understand, the situation with Obama is actually worse since he can’t possibly be this ignorant about Islam. In his case, I think it’s that you can’t defeat an enemy that you support.

  15. Dom107 says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 2:57 pm

    The thing about religion is it can, it has and it does justify killing for God.
    Obama, if he said this has never studied history and refuses to acknowledge the blindingly obvious fact that the jihadis are primarily motived by the Qu’ran and other Islamic books. During the Crusades requested by the Pope on behalf of the Byzantines to reconquer what is inappropriately called the Holy Land butchered men women and children and not just Muslims. On the way there just to get some practice in they massacred Jews in the Rhineland of what is now Germany.When they got to the”Holy Land” they found the Byzantines or Eastern Christians not Christians like them and massacred them as well. The Muslims give as good as they got and done their share of killing Christians under a white flag or not. Saladin the Kurdish Muslim leader when he was in a good mood spared his defeated enemies occasionally
    The point I am making is that all religion is a false and dangerous delusion and has no basis in rationality and should be excised from any society claiming to be civilised or advanced. Western society is part way along that road. Islamic societies haven’t advanced much and in some cases seem to be reverting to the beliefs and practices of the dark ages.

  16. Champ says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 2:58 pm

    obama speaks with forked tongue——again.

    obama knows *darn* well that the unholy quran advocates violence: murder & mayhem in the name of allah aka satan.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 29, 2016 at 9:10 pm

      I don’t see how he can have taken Qur’an classes for years and have missed that part, Champ…

      • Champ says

        Sep 29, 2016 at 9:29 pm

        Precisely, Graven!

  17. Stephanie says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 2:58 pm

    Allah’s war covenant with the Muslims http://quran.com/2/216

    https://twitter.com/schnellmann_org/status/781562627596099584

  18. warren raymond says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 3:39 pm

    Yes, he is a Muslim and he is in on it. Only a Muslim would talk like that. Hussein Obama is not that dense. He knows. He doesn’t want you to know.

  19. traci94 says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 3:47 pm

    I can hardly even stand to look at Obama or even hear his voice anymore. He is a liar. His comparison to someone committing murder in the name of Christianity is ridiculous. There’s no comparison whatsoever. He is ignoring history, the amount of violence in Islamic countries all over the world, the persecution of Christians world wide but ordinary, everyday Muslims, and so on. It’s just really weird how this “religion” is just “hijacked and twisted” ALL THE TIME. Where in the world do these people get these twisted views?

  20. eliizabeth says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 4:17 pm

    “These are people who’ve killed children, killed Muslims, take sex slaves, there’s no religious rationale that would justify in any way any of the things that they do:” This is an empty statement. Imagine Franklin Roosevelt insisting that there was “no religious rationale” for Japan’s hyper-religious Bushido military forces to commit the horrendous crimes they did in WW2. Imagine Roosevelt saying that there was “no religious rationale” for the “God With Us” logo found on every Nazi solder’s belt buckle. So what? What matters is that the Japanese & Nazi soldiers believed with all their heart that there was indeed a religious rationale behind their evil acts, and all were indoctrinated in that rationale. Simply saying that there is “no religious rationale” for Islamic State atrocities does not stop them from committing those atrocities any more than it would stop the Nazi and Bushido forces in WW2.
    Even if there is no religious rationale for ISIS, USA military and intelligence services must study how ISIS interprets the Koran and Sunna in order to know this enemy and what motivates them, regardless of whether there is a “rationale” behind it or not. The world needs to study every detail of the Islamic State’s theological underpinnings — through and through — whether it is religiously legitimate or not. Obama’s boring, repetitive talks on this subject are useless, pedantic exercises in answering a question that no one is asking.

    • Mark Swan says

      Sep 30, 2016 at 5:37 am

      It is not these jihad soldiers who openly practice what they preach, that we should be the
      most concerned with. It is the stealth subversion of Democratic Society that is going to
      further their cause tremendously, all the violence, serves, is to remind us that these “so
      called moderate Muslims” belong to a the same group and might throw a classic Muslim
      fit at any time, or place. So there is no need of asking them what is Islam’s intent, they
      are all at war, Jihad is practiced both ways, we are under attack either way.

      The spread of Islam has had no better opportunity, than right now, today we can not
      even try to discuss this tremendous threat, in national main stream media forum, none.

      What has been happening in the last few decades, has intensified and this is a stealth
      war, waged by humans who have no good thing in their belief system, and are very
      determined to force that system as soon as circumstance align onto all others.

      Make no mistake about it, these are not just heated words.

      The whole purpose of Islam is control.

      • Kelly says

        Sep 30, 2016 at 8:27 am

        Yes, there is a sinister spiritual aspect to the war, both the overt and covert parts.

        • Mark Swan says

          Sep 30, 2016 at 5:00 pm

          Yes Kelly yet we are not even allowed to say we are at war, let alone organize
          and fight it, which is the ultimate terror of Islam.

          I don’t know what Country You are in, but in America we have been under attack
          by so many internal and external enemies, who push things to be this way.

          I have never imagined a scenario so ominous in this land.

          The popular position, is that the Muslim Brotherhood is the one to work with.

          Recall, from the Muslim Brotherhood Explanatory Memorandum:

          “The process of settlement is a ‘Civilization-Jihadist Process’ with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”.

  21. Mo says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 4:24 pm

    Wait, is this corrupt, lying, treasonous man now claiming to be a follower of Jesus Christ?!

    You have GOT to be kidding me!

    • Champ says

      Sep 29, 2016 at 4:56 pm

      Indeed, Mo! …obama claiming to be a Christian is beyond absurd.

      • somehistory says

        Sep 29, 2016 at 6:04 pm

        It is also beyond disgusting.

        • Champ says

          Sep 29, 2016 at 6:08 pm

          Yes!

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 29, 2016 at 9:14 pm

          Obama did not “become a Christian” until it became expedient when he was a community organizer in Chicago and joined Reverend Wright’s “church” there.

        • Mark Swan says

          Sep 30, 2016 at 7:28 am

          I don’t think that word means what He thinks it means.

    • somehistory says

      Sep 29, 2016 at 6:02 pm

      He only did that to try to throw people off. He has never been and he is not now, Christian. He claimed to be before in order to be elected. He is claiming it now to throw a rock on the surface so people watch that instead of realizing the rest of his lies. And to try to say islam is no different than Christianity. We all know that to be a big fat one.

      A pathological, compulsive liar is unable to tell the truth. What is more, they don’t wish to tell it.

  22. TomF says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 4:27 pm

    Only one thing stands in the way of Obama’s view on this matter….reality.

  23. Tony46 says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 4:34 pm

    Washington taqqiya at every day and opportunty

  24. Caliph says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 4:47 pm

    Obama is correct, there is no religious justification for such acts…
    In fact, Obama just proved Islam IS NOT A RELIGON.

  25. DHazard says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 4:59 pm

    If you criticize Islam it is almost guaranteed that the mainstream media (and other Muslims) WILL NOT examine if you’re observations can be supported. They will NOT interview any Muslim religious or political leader whom they know publicly agrees with you. They will NOT refer to any Islamic writings that support your claims (even if laid out for them).

    They WILL DO one or all of the following:

    1. Claim you don’t understand Islam.
    2. Break their own rule #1 by making unsupported, generalized, positive claims about Islam that are ALWAYS the complete opposite of what DIRECT OBSERVATION tells everyone else (those who are not enveloped in cognitive bias or paralyzed with the fear of Muslim retaliation).
    3. Call you names that don’t, in fact, apply to someone who is merely quoting and commenting on Muslim scripture or the words of Muslims themselves. They will try to silence some and manipulate others by using labels like Islamophobe, racist, bigot, xenophobe, redneck, far-rightist, arrogant, ignorant, etc. Their ad hominem based arguing often starts in the gutter and rapidly drains down into the sewer.
    3. Interview any religious leader they ALREADY KNOW agrees with them or supports their unquestioned narrative.
    4. Find one or two Muslim citizens of the US.who exemplify the media’s imaginary concept of an ideal Western Muslim.

    The mainstream media is a propaganda arm for “moderate” Islam and an enabler of radical Muslims. They do this out of concerns for their public and self images along with ideologically straightjacketed views of right and wrong. Fear of retaliation silences the rest into becoming passive supporters of radical Islam and exposes the cowardice of those who claim to be champions of freedom and journalistic integrity.

  26. Georg says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 5:05 pm

    Someone get that mechanism from Clockwork Orange to hold Obama’s eye open as the pages of the Koran are displayed to him. Then he’ll see why we are so “embarrassing”, as in the 97:1 vote.

  27. Kepha says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 5:06 pm

    Robert, Robert, Robert, Robert! Much as I generally respect you, are you ever so dense!

    Haven’t you learned yet that there is nothing more wise, broadly educated, knowledgeable, and intelligent than an American liberal–even if he’s monolingual 9and handles his one language badly), gets his information from movies and TV, and never read a primary source on anything? [sarc off]

  28. Salome says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 5:15 pm

    They’ve killed Muslims–that’s the clue to it. Putting aside that Islam even justifies that, he’s still allowing that there is a religious justification for killing infidels.

  29. Highsider says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 5:22 pm

    With this quote, Obama gives us a prime example of “taqiyya” or lying to infidels to further the advancement of Islam. Most everyone in the US who has more than a jellyfish for a brain, now realize that Obama is not stupid, inept or anything else his detractors have been calling him. He is very good at what he does, He’s just not doing what most of the public thought he was doing all this time. He has succeeded at doing just what he wanted to and done it so well, that I hereby coin a new political term for it…… Executive Jihad. Watch for more and recognize it for what it is.

  30. Champ says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 5:51 pm

    President obama, the deceitful Pied Piper of the Oval Office …

  31. somehistory says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 5:52 pm

    there’s no religious rationale that would justify in any way any of the things that they do.”

    They call it a *religion* because they bow down to satan.
    It is never *rational*…never logical…even their *imams* have said there is no logic in islam.

    So, don’t refer to it as a religion…it is an idea, and a political, evil, cult of death masquerading as a religion.

    And isn’t it telling that he mentions the very ones who are doing the killing…of children…and taking girls for slavery to the lust of its members…as *victims* of the non-religious, non-rational *whatever* he wants to call islam?

    He won’t acknowledge that it is islam, and he won’t acknowledge that Christians are the main target of the moslims, who have also targeted Jews and Yazidis, Hindus and anyone else who happens to be available. He just has to imply that it has nothing to do with islam…except in the choice of victims.

    Revelation in its entirely cannot be fulfilled soon enough. It is so difficult to wait. (In the Psalms we are told to “wait for God” many times. So wait I must.) It won’t be long now and the wait will be over.

  32. gravenimage says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 7:01 pm

    Obama: “There’s no religious rationale that would justify in any way any of the things” jihad terrorists do
    …………………………..

    What he means is no *non-evil* religion. But Islam certainly does…

    • Mark Swan says

      Sep 30, 2016 at 5:58 am

      Yes it does, absolutely does.

  33. davej says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 8:40 pm

    How can he claim there is “no religious rationale” when their holy book is full of explicit instructions for terrorist acts?

    He must be banking on the fact that most people are too busy or distracted to actually read that awful book.

    His “Don’t slander the Prophet” remark reveals his sympathy for Muslim ideology and the whole Islamic concept of “blasphemy”. Free speech is not slander, particularly when it is perfectly true.

  34. Xero_G says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 8:44 pm

    Jihad terrorists accurately cite verses in the Koran and Hadith to explain and justify their actions. Islamic Imams and scholars (including Al Baghdadi) explain their terroristic actions by accurately quoting the Koran. Terrorist publications “Dabiq” (ISIS) and “Inspire” (Al Qaeda) are full of Koranic verses from cover to cover to explain, justify and inspire terroristic acts.

    Anyone with an internet connection can google the search terms, “violent Jihad” and see hundreds of Koranic verses promoting violent Jihad against infidels.

    Too bad Obama has apparently never read the Koran, never googled “violent Jihad”, never read Dabiq or Inspire magazines, never studied the words of Al-Baghdadi or Bin Laden.

  35. Mirren10 says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 9:14 pm

    “These are people who’ve killed children, killed Muslims, take sex slaves, there’s no religious rationale that would justify in any way any of the things that they do.”

    Am I the only one to notice that Obama never once mentions *Christians*, or *Yazidis* by name, only ***muslims** ??

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 29, 2016 at 9:35 pm

      Yep–or Hindus, of Buddhists, or Atheists.

      And of course, when Muslims kill other Muslims, it is because they are deemed “Takfir”–not really Muslim in one way or another–and hence can be slaughtered just like Infidels can be. This has been the case with Islam since the days of the “Prophet”.

      The idea that Muslims slaughtering other Muslims proving they are not really Islamic could not be further from the truth.

    • Mark Swan says

      Oct 1, 2016 at 2:08 am

      Yes I have noticed, why is that Mirren10 ?

      • Mirren10 says

        Oct 2, 2016 at 8:50 am

        Because *muslims* are the only ones he cares about.

  36. Richard says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 11:44 pm

    Lies and Taqqiya by traitor-in-chief Husein,

    “These are people who’ve killed children, killed Muslims, take sex slaves, there’s no religious rationale that would justify in any way any of the things that they do.”

    These “people” are known as Muslim Jihadists and the religious rationale is Islam.

    We are fighting an ideology, – Islam – not just ISIS, al-Qaida, Boko Haram etc. Until we recognise that, name the enemy and fight the ideology our efforts are worthless.

    We are like firefighters putting out patches of fire here and there in full view of the arsonist with a flamethrower, throwing the flames. We need to destroy the arsonist.

  37. Matthieu Baudin says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 12:29 am

    Your country voted in a lightweight president to fill two terms of office at a time of extraordinary Islamic violence around the globe. The civilised world is a weaker place due to Obama’s stubborn intransigence that has prevented him from looking beyond politically safe cliches to reexamine the fanaticism and mass violence emanating from the Islamic World and its diaspora.

    • Kay says

      Sep 30, 2016 at 12:44 am

      The world is less safe and race relations at home are worse.
      It’s remarkable that he hasn’t been impeached.

  38. Joe says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 1:22 am

    So 1400 years and about 300 million victims of Islam later Obummer says all is fine with Islam.

    He is either a Muslim or he is a Muslim. Or, maybe, just a thought: He is a Muslim.

    • Mark Swan says

      Oct 1, 2016 at 2:12 am

      Joe, I am just thinking here, maybe He is a Muslim?

  39. anno nimus says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 4:30 am

    Muslims are the number one victims of their politico-religious system called islam. It gives them and their unlucky neighbors plenty of grief, and it separates them from the eternal source of Life: the Son of God, Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Radical Liberals defend islam because they mistakenly think the enemy of my enemy is my friend. It can only be a tactical friend who will in the long run exterminate or enslave everyone. The Church will, by God’s grace, find a way to survive. But woe unto the enablers of evil!

  40. Michael Johnson says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 5:02 am

    It is what it is Republican or Democrat our politicians need to call evil by its name

  41. Dustin says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 5:46 am

    Had this dumb mook even read the Koran?

  42. Robert DuPaul says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 5:59 am

    What can you say, but that it seems president Obama is deluded or can’t comprehend
    Islamic text’s.

  43. citycat says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 7:59 am

    Joan C
    just on a bit of a light note
    we can’t come from apes, apes are still apes.
    There is no big bang.
    Everything always was, it didn’t suddenly come into being.
    Things transform.
    Religion is harnessing the energy of the people.
    For good or evil.
    People need something to keep then in order.
    God is the unquestionable silent top man, or not heard by just anyone.
    Has God got a voice? The Gods have no partners as in Islam?
    Speak God speak.
    It’s an endless debate.

  44. Kay says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 8:51 am

    O can say those things and get away with it because:
    1. the media is failing us
    2. people are ignorant of Mohammedism and don’t care to know
    3. people are ignorant of Christianity and don’t call him on his false equivalency
    4. there is fear of discussing Mohammedism but people fool themselves and claim they are being respectful (not fearful)
    5. there is negative feeling toward Christianity

    How many of these have been promoted either by the MB or by Soros?

  45. duh swami says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 9:19 am

    You don’t think Rasulullah Obama would lie to us, do you?
    Why he would lie to most anyone if he thought it would do him any good, but he would never lie to us, would he?

    • Mark Swan says

      Oct 1, 2016 at 2:16 am

      Good One duh swami

      You know You are right, heck, why don’t we all just take his word for it.

  46. Pal says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 11:16 am

    “Hijra / Migration cannot be ended as long as there is unbelief or as long as there is an enemy that resists”:
    Hadith 46274, Kenz al-Umal

  47. Crusades Were Right! says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 2:07 pm

    Of course Obama is a Christian!

    And Hillary Clinton is in tip-top health!

    And Germany and Sweden are on course to becoming multi-cultural paradises on earth!

    And Black Lives Matter is anti-racist!

    ; ¬)

  48. Norwegian says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 3:42 pm

    Well then he is a liar. Again…..

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