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Video: Robert Spencer on Obama’s claim “no religious rationale” for terrorism

Nov 22, 2016 5:37 pm By Robert Spencer

Is there really “no religious rationale” for terrorism, as Barack Obama has said? In this new video, I show why that is a false assumption that leads to wrong and repeatedly failed policies.

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  1. Bemused says

    Nov 22, 2016 at 7:11 pm

    But, but, but Obama said that the evil Christian religion caused the terror attacks of the Crusades. Think maybe he is lying?

    • A Harris USA says

      Nov 23, 2016 at 10:59 am

      Sooner the door hits Obama in the ass the better! Him and his Muslim advisors, and him being a Muslim of course he is lying!! Part of the package.

      • Nancy L. Davis says

        Nov 23, 2016 at 11:23 am

        You are totally correct A Harris. They are taught to lie to us (Infidels). That man has been a farce from Day 1 and the Americans who voted for him just “ain’t too smart” and just as guilty of the mess their vote did to our Country. Shame on them!

      • Charles Martel says

        Nov 23, 2016 at 8:16 pm

        Of course Islam isn’t a religion…it’s a ideology masquerading about a religion! Why do you think Muslim-Obama wants to take Andrew Jackson off the $20 bill? Jackson finally kicked the Barbery Pirates out of US waters….these were Muslim pirates who kidnapped people all around the world and sold them into slavery…..so Jackson was a hero to the Christian world and an enemy of Muslims….Obama’s buddies!

    • DOLORES says

      Nov 23, 2016 at 3:45 pm

      We know he is lying. I haven’t heard of any Christians heading people lately

      • Cretius says

        Nov 24, 2016 at 3:35 pm

        Muslim texts encourage the use of deception and lies to protect and to further the goals of Islam. Obama a prime example of this. Islam encourages deception and lies to further their worldwide aim of eradicating democracies, non-believers and other cultures. There can be no accommodation of Islam or Islamic law.

  2. Sam says

    Nov 22, 2016 at 7:23 pm

    Sorry, I did not watch the video but I do not want to hear about Obama or what he says about anything. Who cares? I am so happy he will be gone soon.

    • David says

      Nov 22, 2016 at 8:02 pm

      You, me and about 100 million other folks!
      His departure to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia can’t take place SOON ENOUGH!
      GOOD BY OSAMA!

      • scherado says

        Nov 23, 2016 at 4:41 am

        Don’t forget his middle name…

    • Azacque says

      Nov 22, 2016 at 11:16 pm

      He should have been thrown out with the bathwater when he was a kid!

    • JEROME HENEN says

      Nov 23, 2016 at 10:11 am

      COULD NOT AGREE MORE!

    • Sam Kent says

      Nov 26, 2016 at 5:19 pm

      Millions of Americans second that! yes, a relief, but we must remain diligent!

  3. gravenimage says

    Nov 22, 2016 at 8:12 pm

    Video: Robert Spencer on Obama’s claim “no religious rationale” for terrorism
    …………………

    Only if you fail to consider Islam a religion–or fail to consider Jihad to be terrorism. This last, in fact, is a very common stance with Mohammedans.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 22, 2016 at 8:18 pm

      Of course, this from Obama is just Taqiyya.

  4. Wellington says

    Nov 22, 2016 at 8:19 pm

    Well, I’m sorry, but Robert Spencer has only a plethora of facts about Islam on his side while Obama has kissy/face-huggy/bear assessments aplenty of Islam, and since we live in a most sentimental age, where facts are optional (if even this) but kumbaya assessments of a hateful ideology like Islam surely take precedence, Obama wins down here over Spencer.

    Who but a bigot, a hater, an Islamophobe, could or would doubt otherwise?

    • epistemology says

      Nov 22, 2016 at 10:39 pm

      Succinct and to the point as usual, dear Wellington spot on. Islam is all motherhood and apple pie, only political or rather radical Islam is bad. Speaking about political Islam is a tautology, Islam is an ideology with a religious twist as Walid Shoebat puts it. Islam’s ideology is evil, it’s the same as Nazism, trust me I studied both and the differences I found are only peripheral. But what Obama says about Islam is the normal view of that evil ideology in the West. I watched the memorial service for the victims of Nice the other day live on TV5 (the French international channel), it was very dignified they only named the victims’ names and their age and they placed a white rose for each victim.

      But the people of the TV station only repeated what Robert said ironically, there was no religious rationale or as they put it religion had nothing to do with it, as among the 86 victims there were two Muslims. They didn’t give a statistic not so and so many Buddhists, Hindus, Christians, Jews, atheists etc. But the two Muslims are evidence that it’s got nothing to with religion simply with fanatic terrorists who could be anything. We know better but that’s the mantra repeated among the Western (especially European) elites. But the ordinary people are people are fed up. So let’s see what happens.

      All the best to you and yours my friend, take care and ttys

  5. Ren says

    Nov 22, 2016 at 9:05 pm

    Dumbama is muslim. No wonder he’s defending islam.

    • Gordon Miller says

      Nov 23, 2016 at 6:57 am

      Yes, that’s about as good an explanation for his seemingly denial of reality as is known.

  6. Islam the religion of killers says

    Nov 22, 2016 at 9:10 pm

    When you look at all the things slipped through during the Obama term as POTUS and the miss interpretations and the release of sanctions etc.. etc … folks would have to think Obama was in fact a secret muslim…

    When your father is a muslim, you are a muslim ….. fullstop

    ??? I find this unbelivable but is it possible,?? ………… it certainly looks that way from the sideline ..

    • Michael Copeland says

      Nov 23, 2016 at 2:58 am

      “I have to admit, I’m not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be.”
      Obama
      See him, at a White House dinner, on youtube.

  7. Cretius says

    Nov 22, 2016 at 9:45 pm

    Terrorism and Islam

    3:151 “We shall cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve.”

    4:74 “Fight in the way of Allah who sell the life of this world for the other. Whoso fighteth in the way of Allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward.”

    4:76 “Those who believe do battle for the cause of Allah; and those who disbelieve do battle for the cause of idols. So fight the minions of the devil.”

    4:91 “Take them and kill them wherever ye find them. Against such We have given you clear warrant.”

    8:12 “I will throw fear into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Then smite the necks and smite of them each finger.”

    21:97 “Behold them, staring wide (in terror), the eyes of those who disbelieve!”

    33:35-36 “Allah repulsed the disbelievers. … He brought those of the People of the Scripture who supported them down from their strongholds, and cast panic into their hearts. Some ye slew, and ye made captive some.

    59:2 “He it is Who hath caused those of the People of the Scripture who disbelieved to go forth from their homes unto the first exile. Ye deemed not that they would go forth, while they deemed that their strongholds would protect them from Allah. But Allah reached them from a place whereof they recked not, and cast terror in their hearts so that they ruined their houses with their own hands and the hands of the believers. So learn a lesson, O ye who have eyes!”

    59:13 “Ye are more awful as a fear in their bosoms than Allah.

    http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/says_about/terrorism.html

    • Michael Copeland says

      Nov 23, 2016 at 3:00 am

      “The Koran commands us to commit terrorism, so why are we afraid of it?”
      Egyptian MP Ragab Hilal Hamida,
      in the Egyptian Parliament,

  8. David says

    Nov 22, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    I’m really praying for Osama to be punished for his TREASON against the people of the United States!
    At the very least his Crimes have earned him 20 years in Federal prison.

  9. Apology to future generations says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 1:28 am

    Future generations will look back at the history of the Obama Presidency, including the period of Brennan as Director CIA, and shake their heads.

    They will ask of us “How could individuals, with sympathies toward Islam (to say the least), gain their high offices and influence over national security policy, at the very time Islam was increasing its threat to the free world?”

    I’m not sure what to say to the future generation – sorry, we didn’t do enough to name and describe the threat. It seems a barely adequate response.

  10. ronald says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 2:15 am

    Robert Spencer.., go to Trump and explain ”what the helll is going on”

  11. Jean-Francois Morf says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 2:38 am

    Islam is NOT a religion, it’s a law system, the sharia and the Taqiyya.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Nov 23, 2016 at 3:01 am

      “We are an ideological political movement”
      Anjem Choudary

  12. Angemon says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 6:22 am

    @1m13s mark:

    “Is he right? Of course not”

    Obama in a nutshell… 😉

    Anyway, Obama has the right skin colour and is saying the “right” things, so why should he worry about petty, insignificant things such as “facts” or “logic”? Why, “facts” and “logic” are things that only right-wing, bigoted islamophobes care about!

    • Sam Kent says

      Nov 26, 2016 at 6:38 pm

      Yes, facts and logic are definitely the purview of conservatives. Yet, it is so difficult to understand why liberals/progressives [PC terms for socialists] refuse to engage in facts and logic. I have a nephew, quite intelligent, nice fellow, who refuses to answer the question, “do you think it is wrong for a religion to declare the death penalty for conversion to another religion?” I am not identifying Islam as the culprit, but he knows, of course, and just refuses to answer. I am stunned! Really, the characteristics of denial and this universal refusal to deal with fact and logic is incomprehensible, so extreme, and frightening!. We are doomed if the left gains political control again.

      • Angemon says

        Nov 27, 2016 at 9:56 am

        Sam Kent posted:

        “Yes, facts and logic are definitely the purview of conservatives. Yet, it is so difficult to understand why liberals/progressives [PC terms for socialists] refuse to engage in facts and logic.”

        Indeed. Here is a liberal explaining how liberals should discuss politics with their pro-Trump family members during Thanksgiving:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds5U_0AOZ5I

        Basically, “tell them they’re hurting your feelings and have a safe-space you can retreat to, as well as a friend you can call if things get out of hand”. A.K.A., “how to emotionally manipulate your family into not disagreeing with you politically”.

  13. Stephanie says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 6:22 am

    9:30 ‘… may Allah DESTROY them’ (Jews & Christians) throught Muslims as His ‘TEST’ 8:17, 9:14 http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/quran/verses/009-qmt.php#009.029

    https://twitter.com/schnellmann_org/status/801383655201505280

  14. duh swami says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 6:54 am

    Every time I go to a book store and ask for the ‘perverted version’ of Islam, they hand me a Quran…

  15. Tjhawk says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 7:45 am

    I hope the intelligence protocols that restrict examining the Islamic motivation for terror attacks can be swiftly changed.

  16. Charles Martel says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 10:53 am

    After 8 years of the Ayatollah-in-Chief, haven’t we learned that he’s NOT willfully blind or ignorant? He’s complicit in Dawah. I can’t wait for his departure and am elated Walid Phares and Frank Gaffney are on the Trump train this Thanksgiving.

    • A Harris USA says

      Nov 23, 2016 at 11:03 am

      AMEN!!!

  17. Florida Jim says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 11:10 am

    Robert Spencer should go before congress ,with Keith Ellison in attendance, and state the truth of Islam. We, and all countries , are fooling ourselves to believe anything else.. Most people know so little of Islam and there are so many practicing Taqiyya, lying in defense of Islam, it is impossible not to be led to you own beheading eventually. Obama lies about everything so I believe he is muslim hoping for 72 virgins some day.

  18. Ron says

    Nov 23, 2016 at 4:00 pm

    The Qur’an is totally disjointed and mindlessly repetitive. Any non-Muslim required to read this book will be immediately struck by the idea that the 300-400 pages within it could be reduced to 50 with little effort, and the references to hell and suffereing for non-believers comprise its greatest component.

    The so-called ‘prophet’ was not only a pedophile who married a six year-old girl and consummated the marriage when she was nine, he advocated killing any Muslim who rejected the faith. This may be the single-greatest reason this murderous philosophy survived.Beyond that, he ordered the murder of 700
    captive Jews and several individuals who dared to laugh at him.

    To say that Islam is diametrically opposed to Christianity or Judaism would be an understatement, and Obama is either displaying monumental ignorance of this ‘religion’, or he is deliberately misleading those who would know the truth.

  19. Cretius says

    Nov 24, 2016 at 3:40 pm

    Bernard Lewis, historian of the Middle East and Islam, says Jihad is an unlimited offensive to bring the whole world under Islamic law; Christian crusades a defensive, limited response to, and imitation of, jihad

    From pp.233-234 of The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years:
    Even the Christian crusade, often compared with the Muslim jihad, was itself a delayed and limited response to the jihad and in part also an imitation. But unlike the jihad it was concerned primarily with the defense or reconquest of threatened or lost Christian territory…

    The Muslim jihad, in contrast, was perceived [by Muslims] as unlimited, as a religious obligation that would continue until all the world had either adopted the Muslim faith or submitted to Muslim rule.… The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic law.

    The Koran’s 164 Jihad Verses: 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

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