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Video: Robert Spencer asks, Why do Western officials even bother to condemn terror attacks?

Jan 31, 2017 12:45 pm By Robert Spencer

In this new video, I explain why official pro-forma condemnations of jihad terror attacks only highlight the general futility and wrongheadedness of the West’s response to the global jihad.

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  1. ermom says

    Jan 31, 2017 at 1:16 pm

    Thanks for your video, Robert. You certainly tell us the truth. Wish other media did so.

  2. common sense says

    Jan 31, 2017 at 1:18 pm

    “Just wait”. The enemy has been able to rely on that. It’s the one thing European leaders do well. Thumb twittling.
    Attacks have been more frequent than ever before and will continue with growing ferocity as Robert predicts.

  3. marina says

    Jan 31, 2017 at 2:40 pm

    Spot on Robert. First there will be jihad attacks, then condolences from leaders, laying wreaths, national mourning, vow to combat terrorism, then do nothing and let in more mooslems. Again Jihad attack….and so on. So the cycle continues.

    • Jean Terry says

      Jan 31, 2017 at 3:58 pm

      Why are they all still in politically correct mode? I don’t get it?

      • Inconceivable! says

        Feb 1, 2017 at 6:16 am

        Same reason kids these days run to their SAFE PLACES…liberalism is a mental illness and they refuse to admit reality even while staring them in the face! Supposedly, the UN Official and parent of the German girl who was raped and murdered regrets that he doesn’t have another daughter to offer up to make their ‘guests’ more welcome! What Idiots!

  4. Richard Paulsen says

    Jan 31, 2017 at 3:31 pm

    How many more killed before a fundamental change? How many killed before governments and the majority react fundamentally, instead of just with words?
    1,000 victims of islamic terror or 10,000, 30,000, 60,000, 120,000 or 500,000 or even 1,000,000 or even more? Seems as never before too late.
    It is easy to become cynical. Seems as if at least Europe will not change leadership before things are too bad or even then. Too much uncertainty and insecurity.
    US tanks close to the Russian border do not help.
    Happy for America.

  5. Mockingjay says

    Jan 31, 2017 at 7:16 pm

    “Why do Western officials even bother to condemn terror attacks?”

    Excellent question.

    – The world, well, quite a large part of it, seems to have gone completely insane.

    – There seem to be an AWFUL lot of people who are simply incapable of connecting CAUSE and EFFECT.

    Completely incapable.

    – So, just tonight, on a German news program, I witnessed this:

    – The first item is – as it is on EVERY mainstream media broadcast I have had the misfortune to watch over the last few days – , ALL about Trump and the TERRIBLE travel ban. This item goes on and on and on and on. It seems truly endless on EVERY single news broadcast I’ve watched.

    As it finally ends, the female moderator goes on to the next item.

    – Which happens to be the following:

    – Police in Germany have an ENORMOUS amount of over-time between them, something in the order of millions of hours – and that’s just in ONE of the German “Bundes”- States.

    The moderator obviously is feeling much indignation about this situation.

    How can this be happening to the poor police people?

    – Over to a spokesperson for the German police.

    He says it plainly:

    – “We are very busy with terror investigations. There are just SO many “threads” that we have to follow up on. And we cannot afford to miss even just one of those threads, because any of them could turn into a terror-attack.”

    So, hmmm, then I’m thinking to myself,

    – IS THERE REALLY NO ONE IN THE WHOLE DAMN MEDIA AND POLITICAL “ELITE” WHO IS CAPABLE OF CONNECTING ITEM ONE AND ITEM TWO TO EACHOTHER?

    NO ONE WHO GETS IT?

    THAT MORE MUSLIMS = MORE TERROR?

    NO ONE?

    There is just NO way that the link can become even MORE Obvious.

    But they just don’t see.

    – The ONLY reason we in Europe are still somewhat safe is because there are police people who have such a deep sense of responsibilty that they are willing to sacrifice much of their own time for the cause of public safety.

    THEY’RE the ones sacrificing for everything the politicians are failing to do.

    This is BEYOND insane.

    This, to me, shows, that there should be a new way of calculating IQ, because the old way certainly doesn’t work: DUMB people are ruling the world.

    • DFD says

      Jan 31, 2017 at 7:34 pm

      Hi Mockingjay,

      Haven’t seen you post for ages. Welcome back. In case you have posted and I missed, my apologies.

      You said: “….DUMB people are ruling the world.”

      No, they aren’t dumb. But crafty, cunning and deceitful.

      • Mockingjay says

        Feb 2, 2017 at 6:41 pm

        Hi DFD,

        (Hope you will read this)

        Thank you so much for your kind words.

        – I haven’t really been away, it’s just that I don’t have as much time as I would like to, to do all things that I would want to…!

        – I still do try to keep up with all the new articles here on JW, but often I only read a few of them in full length, and skip the comment section altogether – which I oftentimes regret very much, since I think that the comment(er)s have taught me at LEAST as much – (and on SO many different subjects!) – as the main articles have.

        – I truly think that this is quite a remarkable community in that sense – as well as in a few other senses.

        So, thanks again, to you, and to everyone else who posts here.

        And, to reply to your comment above that the “ruling” classes are more “crafty, cunning and deceitful”. than they are dumb: I do agree that there must certainly be those who HAVE to have some kind of malicious intent, but I still believe that an awful lot of them are (also) simply “dumb”.

        “Dumb” in the sense that they are INCAPABLE of questioning theirselves and their beliefs, INCAPABLE of accepting NEW INFORMATION that is incongruent with what they hold to be the truth – in short, I believe that this kind of mental “inflexibility” is just another kind of dumbness, and that NO intelligence test up to date can account for this.

        – If there were such a test, I think that many, many people, and certainly most of our political leaders would score very, VERY low on it…

    • Matthieu Baudin says

      Jan 31, 2017 at 9:15 pm

      Thanks Mockingjay. The daily media is an agony to watch, as you’ve said. I expect part of the problem is that they’re caught in a ‘reactive’ mode, quick to criticise and condemn new approaches to contain and deal with violent international jihad but meanwhile totally bereft of alternative workable ideas. These ‘progressive’ critics are stuck in their own herd mentality and as the temperature rises around them they become more and more desperate to assert their claim to moral and political leadership. But how can they lead from the rear, too frightened to recognise the climate of jihad terror and frozen into inaction by their fear of confronting minority foes and zealots.

      • Mockingjay says

        Feb 2, 2017 at 6:52 pm

        Matthieu Baudin,

        I think you give a truly excellent description of the psychology of the Left, and it fully confirms my analysis above that “mental inflexibility” is a TREMENDOUS intelligence reducing factor.

  6. underbed cat says

    Jan 31, 2017 at 7:52 pm

    Experts in the political, subversive doctrine of jihad are a threat to a caliphate, many organizations anchored in this country, with men in suits and woman in hijabs work diligently to excuse, deny and reclassify a jihadi as radicalized, with no known purpose or roots in Islam. When in fact it is warfare against the target government that is funded and advised, but denied after each and every terror attack.You can read it in their holy books, and hear the message in mosques, only if you are muslim. It really has noting more to do than to conquer land and change governments. Therories abound, with explanations to the contrary and the we are told the doctrine has be hijacked But as we know they have used hijacked planes, ramming trucks, weapons, fires and political connections to pull this off and the minister,lawyer, teacher, politician unknowlingly is part of the work of terror by listening to the enemy and changing or directing unsafe policy for a merciful rescue. Migration is part of jihad, they ask for tolerance but give none the demands and complaints rise to the sky. Hijra and protest are planned to work to gain sympathy, land and power. This is a fact. Today that truth is stranger and more deadly than a gruesome fiction. So we have to know the enemy and name it.

  7. Sam says

    Jan 31, 2017 at 11:32 pm

    My biggest concern is American youth. I work with young people and almost all hate Trump. The reason they give is what they hear from liberal media and social media. Very few appear to be able to think by themselves. All have this notion that America is the cause of all the world’s problem. To them Islam has nothing to do with terror. It is another religion like others.
    It is scary really.

    • underbed cat says

      Feb 1, 2017 at 1:45 am

      Many adults also….it’s just simple crime…which points to the success of the misinformation campaign that is part of the structure of the doctrine that demands the beleiver to deny the much of the goals of islam and the use of terrorism. Many words such as justice and tolerance are only meant for muslims…who are the innocent.It is really genius the double speak and deception and where we are today with this problem it seems as if our minds have been stolen. It is accomplished thru outreach, and appearing charitable, and dignified, but it uses terror to control the target, so no one believes isis is islam. And of course the profits, billions that the oil market created aid in the influence of the education systems, political processes and media. The young have been targeted and they got the message they are peaceful and victims. but that may change.

  8. medaber_emet says

    Feb 1, 2017 at 2:21 am

    Well said Robert
    You are my hero

  9. Michael Copeland says

    Feb 1, 2017 at 4:29 am

    “We continue to work to prevent these tragedies”, says Federica Mogherini.
    No. Mr. Spencer rightly points out that this is just what they are NOT doing.
    The opposite is happening.
    Mogherini, EU “High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy”, insisted on “Search and Rescue” at sea. This makes the EU complicit with people-traffickers. It assists the invasion, and demolishes the EU’s outer border.
    Also insisting on “Search and Rescue” is the bullying and tainted Peter Sutherland of UN with his Orwellian-named “Global Forum on Migration and Development”, “Development” there being a euphemism for Culture-Destruction, to “undermine”, as he put it, a nation’s sense of identity.
    The leaders are working against the people.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Feb 1, 2017 at 4:34 am

      http://www.libertygb.org.uk/news/peter-sutherland-paid-migration-promoter

  10. mary Ramsey says

    Feb 1, 2017 at 11:08 am

    what do you expect us to do ..we are in debt up to our ears ..governments will have to take care of the jihad in their own country …we are broke …we can`t take in people from jihad countries ..that goes aganist commom sense..one of the poor people of usa…

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