Spurious moral equivalence employed in order to divert attention from the real threat. My latest at The Geller Report:
It was reported Friday that “a trio of House Democrats say President Trump is making a mistake pushing for counter-extremism efforts to focus only on radical Islam….Friday’s letter was signed Democratic Reps. Bennie Thompson (Md.), Eliot Engel (N.Y.) and John Conyers (Mich.).”
Thompson, Engel and Conyers wrote: “Such a move is wrongheaded insofar as persons who commit acts of violent extremism are inspired by diverse political, religious and philosophical beliefs, and are not limited to any single population or region.”
In reality, there have been over 30,000 murderous jihad terror attacks worldwide since 9/11. What other political, religious and philosophical beliefs have been responsible for any comparable number? A widely publicized study purporting to show that “right-wing extremists” have killed more people in the U.S. than Islamic jihadis, and thus pose a greater threat, has been debunked on many grounds.
These representatives also wrote: “Changing the name to ‘Countering Islamic Extremism’ or ‘Countering Radical Islamic Extremism’ would have damaging effects to our national security by feeding into the propaganda created by terrorist groups and child domestic and international diplomatic relations. Additionally, it could further alienate and create distrust with the Muslim-American communities when the program depends on close cooperation with law enforcement.”
Islamic jihadis routinely cite the texts and teachings of Islam to justify their actions and make recruits among peaceful Muslims. The idea that Muslims who reject jihad terror will be enraged if the U.S. government takes note of this is absurd. If they reject jihad terror, they won’t embrace it because officials are saying things they don’t like; in fact, if they really reject it, they should welcome and cooperate with efforts to identify its causes and eradicate them. These Congressmen are recommending that we curtail our speech to avoid criticizing Islam, which is a Sharia blasphemy provision that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has been trying to foist upon the U.S. by means of “hate speech” laws for years. That the statements of Thompson, Engel and Conyers are simply today’s conventional wisdom is one indication of how successful these efforts have been.
Critics of President Trump’s plan have complained: “The program, ‘Countering Violent Extremism,’ or CVE, would be changed to ‘Countering Islamic Extremism’ or ‘Countering Radical Islamic Extremism,’ the sources said, and would no longer target groups such as white supremacists who have also carried out bombings and shootings in the United States.”
Indeed, but the white supremacist threat has been wildly exaggerated by Soros-funded groups (which exaggerations have been pushed by Soros-funded media) that downplay and deny the jihad threat. Reuters’ equivalence here also ignores the fact that the jihad is an international movement set on destroying the U.S. and found on every continent; white supremacism is not.
What Trump is really doing here is reversing Obama’s bow to Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups in scrubbing counter-terror training materials of all mention of Islam and jihad. On October 19, 2011, Farhana Khera of Muslim Advocates delivered a letter to John Brennan, who was then the assistant to the president on National Security for Homeland Security and Counter Terrorism. The letter was signed by the leaders of virtually all 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.” Khera complained specifically about me, noting that my books could be found in “the FBI’s library at the FBI training academy in Quantico, Virginia”; that a reading list accompanying a slide presentation by the FBI’s Law Enforcement Communications Unit recommended my book The Truth About Muhammad; that in July 2010 I “presented a two-hour seminar on ‘the belief system of Islamic jihadists’ to the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) in Tidewater, Virginia”; and that I also “presented a similar lecture to the U.S. Attorney’s Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council, which is co-hosted by the FBI’s Norfolk Field Office.”
These were supposed to be terrible materials because I was supposedly bigoted and hateful. However, many of the examples Khera adduced of “bigoted and distorted materials” involved statements that were simply accurate. The only distortion was Khera’s representation of them.
For instance, Khera stated:
A 2006 FBI intelligence report stating that individuals who convert to Islam are on the path to becoming “Homegrown Islamic Extremists,” if they exhibit any of the following behavior:
“Wearing traditional Muslim attire”
“Growing facial hair”
“Frequent attendance at a mosque or a prayer group”
“Travel to a Muslim country”
“Increased activity in a pro-Muslim social group or political cause”
The FBI intelligence report Khera purported to be describing didn’t actually say that. Rather, it included these behaviors among a list of fourteen indicators that could “identify an individual going through the radicalization process.” Other indicators included:
“Travel without obvious source of funds”
“Suspicious purchases of bomb making paraphernalia or weapons”
“Large transfer of funds, from or to overseas”
“Formation of operational cells”
Khera had selectively quoted the list to give the impression that the FBI was teaching that devout observance of Islam led inevitably and in every case to “extremism.”
Despite the factual accuracy of the material about which they were complaining, the Muslim groups signing the letter demanded that the task force, among other actions:
“Purge all federal government training materials of biased materials.”
“Implement a mandatory re-training program for FBI agents, U.S. Army officers, and all federal, state and local law enforcement who have been subjected to biased training.”
They wished to ensure that all law enforcement officials ever learn about Islam and jihad would be what the signatories wanted them to learn — and Brennan was amenable to that. He took Khera’s complaints as his marching orders.
In a November 3, 2011, letter to Khera that — significantly — was written on White House stationery, Brennan accepted Khera’s criticisms without a murmur of protest and assured her of his readiness to comply. He detailed specific actions being undertaken, including “collecting all training materials that contain cultural or religious content, including information related to Islam or Muslims.” In reality, this material wouldn’t just be “collected”; it would be purged of anything that Farhana Khera and others like her found offensive. Honest, accurate discussion of how Islamic jihadists use Islamic teachings to justify violence would no longer be allowed.
The alacrity with which Brennan complied was unfortunate on many levels. Numerous books and presentations that gave a perfectly accurate view of Islam and jihad were purged. Brennan was complying with demands from quarters that could hardly be considered authentically moderate.
This Obama policy of the U.S. government ensured that numerous jihadists simply could not be identified as risks. The Obama administration was bound, as a matter of policy, to ignore what in saner times would be taken as warning signs. Now we can hope that Trump will reverse all that. Indeed, it is our only hope of defeating this scourge.

miriamrove says
A bunch lefties and fascists socialists. They are for everything but freedom and living in peace. m
old white guy says
there are far too many ignorant people in America for America to survive. I guess someone will pick up the pieces in generations to come, but we are going to go through hell before the veil of ignorance is lifted.
Jerry says
This is this coolest president we’ve had in a long time. He ain’t wasting a minute, he’s working hard to lift that deadly veil of denial the appeasers use to hide islam’s jihad intentions. This must be why so many hate Trump, because he’s hitting the world with life-saving truth. Too many out there want to take the easy way by making peace with the islamic devil rather than do what’s best for America and human rights. Such people deserve only our contempt.
Any religion or ideology which speaks of murder and extortion against others is no friend to America or her freedoms. Trump is definitely on the right track. By eradicating islam’s violent intentions from our culture we safeguard our freedoms and lives. Islam’s darkest intentions are expressed as holy writ for their faithful. That could never bode well for the future of America. Trump’s truthful approach in dealing with the islamic threat is the best first step he could take in protecting America. I don’t want to hear any complaints about Trump from the appeasers. Either love America and our human rights or get out of Dodge.
Jerry says
Nazis raised their arms, muslims bow to allah, it’s all the same. Both ideologies are dedicated to the same ideas of hate, oppression, and brutality. Both are bereft of spiritual goodness and humanitarian concern where you need it most.
We are seeing the evil fruits of islam’s poisonous ideas every day, women are abused and raped as are children; muslims terrorize for allah every day; islamic infiltrators corrupt our laws and culture every way they can. It’s time the west wake up fully to the dire consequences of too many muslims in our lands. The political and religious ideology by which they live is an unmistakable threat to our constitution and our ideals of equality and freedom. By speaking and acting against such doctrines and traditions Trump is doing the job he was elected to do. Anyone who fights Trump on this issue is fighting against America whether he/she be a judge, a politician, or a ditch digger.
Get out if you don’t love our country and let us make America great again now that obama is gone. Thanks in advance.
Jerry says
Sorry but I’m still not done. It is no defense of islam to say most muslims are peaceful. Not when the fundamental tenets of their political religion is hatred and murder toward others. The axiomatic basis for all islam is allah’s word, which unambiguously expresses the worst contempt and threats to the peaceful faiths and views of others. It is an empty and meaningless reassurance to say most muslims don’t do the crimes their god commands. Imagine if it were a defense of all criminal conspiracy by pointing out that not all criminals kill. Now isn’t that absurd? But that’s what the islamic apologists and appeasers do. They tell us not to worry about those muslims that conspire more peacefully because compared to their compatriots that kill they ain’t so bad. Listen, if it wasn’t for mainstream muslims and the traditions they import we wouldn’t have terrorism in the world. And once that fact sinks in you realize how right Trump is in his actions. If a good god exists then surely it is against the hate and brutality upon which islam is built.
dumbledoresarmy says
Jerry
You wrote – “This is this coolest president we’ve had in a long time. He ain’t wasting a minute, he’s working hard to lift that deadly veil of denial the appeasers use to hide islam’s jihad intentions.”
I assume you’re American?
Then: don’t just say it *here*. Say it to him. Tell him so. Tell him you’re behind him on this, 100 percent.
Get behind him and PUSH.
He is being *barraged* with negativity. I am sure he is being occult-cursed from every mosque. He’s under HUGE attack.
He’s one man.
Make sure he knows you are with him, on the subject of Islam.
And… don’t say ‘radical Islam’. Just say.. Islam.
And – tell him that the sixth President of the United States, John Quincy Adams, and also those giants in the history of America, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, did not speak of ‘radical Islam’. They referred to it simply as Islam, or as Mohammedanism. They criticised Islam more stringently and strongly than anyone in the modern age *dares* to do… and they did it on the basis of their own study of the Islamic texts, and their own *bitter* experience, first-hand, of dealings with jihad-waging – but also with slily deceptive, smiling and lying and duplicitous – Mohammedans.
he wants to make America great again.
Then, vis a vis Islam: let him remind America of Jefferson, Adams, and John Quincy Adams, and their uncompromising and deadly-accurate critiques of Islam.
The passages in which John Quincy Adams *demolishes* Islam – sums it up, and criticises it, and demolishes it – need to become common knowledge. Frankly, they should be on billboards and the front page of newspapers. They should be in memes circulating on twitter, tumblr and Facebook.
What John Quincy Adams – staunch abolitionist, known to the public because of the role he played in the incident of the “Amistad” – thought of Islam needs to be spread far and wide across America.
Let the 45th President allow the 6th to instruct him, and advise him, on the subject of islam, and the Jihad.
Malcolm (SouthAfria) says
Seems as: if the Democrats saw Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in parliament with the innards of an battery clock attached to a mortar bomb, they would swear that it was a clock, anything other than that would be Islamophobia.
Shmooviyet says
Yep- “new style timepiece!” he would tell them, and they would gather round to admire the workmanship. No fear, all trust & faith.
underbed cat says
This is funny, wish no one harm… Nancy and Postesta would be most accommodating to not appear islamophobic.
Spencer Warren says
I believe Engel is the senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Yousef says
Can someone provide any data or counter to the following information ? Thanks
https://twitter.com/DougSaunders/status/828810324451217408
Angemon says
For starters, the second graph conveniently ends in 2014, so no Charlie Hebdo, Nice or Bataclan. The first one does include 2015, and of the 8 highlighted attacks, 5 were islamic terrorism. Overall, for someone trying to “debunk” the phrase “Just look what is happening in Europe” there’s a distinct lack of “what is happening” and a lot of “yeah, but what about the other things that happened decades ago?”. And, of course, “terrorism” is a label that’s been played fast and loose with, like in that study that considered bank assaults where fatalities occurred as “white supremacy terrorism”.
Angemon says
Oh, and, of course, it’s a misleading argument. When someone says “Just look what is happening in Europe” they’re not necessarily talking just about the massacres perpetrated by people who came in as “refugees” – what about the sharp increase in sex assaults and general criminality, as well as the ensuing unrest, the strain on the welfare and health systems, etc. Trying to reduce a phrase that can encompass so much to “BUT MUH ISLAMIC TERROR ATTACKS!!!” reeks of either ill intent or wilful ignorance.
Christianblood says
(..Democrat Leaders Protest Trump’s Determination to Fight Jihad..)
As most of the pro-islamic, pro-jihadist globalist, liberal establishment, democrats will do everything they can to stop President Trump’s determination to protect America from islamic jihadists.
Angemon says
What does that parroting of your usual self-defeating propaganda has to do with what Yousef asked?
Terry says
RE: The bottom- the NO CONFIDENCE/CONFIDENCE IN DONALD TRUMP
I have no clue when it was taken ( and, IN GENERAL I DISTRUST POLLS) BUT PRES. TRUMP HAS BEEN PRESIDENT LESS THAN 3 WEEKS.
As to polls:
Usually a small base- about 1,000 or so. next- if the poll takers don’t like the response,s they omit them/destroy them and keep asking until they get the number/s at or where they (poll takers) want them to be.
Next- where are the polls taken? Using just the area of Florida where I live- in the area I live in-strong Republican; about 15-20 miles away- more evenly divided between Rep and Dems- except in the LARGEST CITY- -politicians all Dems. People are not- people more or less split). That is one small area.
talking about a COUNTRY??? Millions of people living there- and how many are asked? And, when? after week #1?
And, with the PC police- how many would give truthful answers- especially if asked for their names and/or addresses??
Stan Lee says
There is nothing that hypercritical Leftists will agree with concerning President Trump’s actions to keep out Muslim terrorists and Americans safe from terrorism.
They are so dam—ed stupid, I wonder if any of them lock their doors before they and family go to sleep for a night? It isn’t required of one to hate those outside one’s home, in order to exercise the precaution
of securing the house for a night of rest.
Apart from sending each a U.S. Treasury check in amount of $20,000, these Trump haters, egged on by Democrat political rats, will keep the hate going, because it’s very simple to generate hate in ignorant people.
Daniel Triplett says
The military loves President Trump. He may well be on his way to being the most beloved CINC ever.
There’s nothing our military loves to do more than kill enemies and blow shit up, giving 1000% until enemy surrender.
The bigger the bombs the better. Less risk and work for us. We love giving the shock and awe as much as the enemy hates getting it.
DJT is no idiot about Islam. Bannon’s telling him the real deal. Now it’s just all about politics and persuading the majority of useful idiot Americans. It’s high time for some serious honesty delivered directly to Americans.
I was disappointed to see Sebastian Gorka get the West Wing window office this week. Robert Spencer would’ve been the better choice by light years.
Gorka’s strategy for victory won’t work IMO.
dumbledoresarmy says
Above, I referred to John Quincy Adams.
This is what Adams – one of America’s most cosmopolitan, widely-travelled and erudite Presidents – said about Mohammed.
“As the essential principle of his [Mohammed’s] faith is the subjugation of others by the sword; it is only by force, that his false doctrines can be dispelled, and his power annihilated.”
If one has read the essays in which that phrase is embedded, one is all the more impressed, because Adams is not choosing to say this lightly. He has thought, and thought, and read, and read, and thought, and this is his considered conclusion. He was a good and decent man. He had well and truly done his homework on Islam. And that was the conclusion to which he came.
Daniel Triplett says
Thanks DDA, I’ve logged your post in my notes, and will definitely use them in my future writings.
Nice work. Your research is quite impressive. Perhaps writing your own book is in your future. You no doubt have the intellect and material.
Wellington says
The Democratic Party has managed something rather difficult to do but it has managed it nonetheless, to wit, to be one of the two major political parties in America which is actively doing its best to undermine the American experiment in liberty.
Said party is working overtime at this with clowns like Schumer and deceivers like Ellison. Understand, the Republican Party certainly has its share of fools, for instance McCain and Graham, but the Republican Party still retains a good bit of common sense and sound ideas. Speaking in the aggregate, it remains an ally of liberty, best demonstrated by the man now occupying the Oval Office.
To the extent that one disagrees with what I have averred here, I would have to conclude that such a person is either an ignoramus or a deceiver. If one can find error in my reasoning here, I would welcome it being pointed out to me.
Daniel Triplett says
Nothing to add. You nailed it.
Terry says
I just heard that Rep. Barbara Waters, (D. cal- where else) outdid Schmuck Schumer.
SHE WAS CRITICAL -APPARENTLY IN A SPEECH IN THE HOUSE OF REPS. ABOUT RUSSIA INVADING KOREA.
Schmuck Schumer today, said the appointment ( and voting) for cabinet positions is rigged.
Daniel Triplett says
If there’s one thing the Democrats are good for, like Clinton, Warren, Sanders, Shumer, Ellison, etc, is that they scare the shit out of smart Americans to support the GOP.
Terry says
Two interesting items- both slightly off topic- both seem to be missing on the Anal Pore (AP) News/yahoo news and mainstream media.
1. A leading Hamas explosives expert blew himself up. Unknown if he took many of his comrades with him. He was (apparently) setting timers on bombs, and set the wrong time; or was building bombs. Either way, he is dead- and no loss to humanity.
2. Merkel sent Pres Trump a letter (or email- whatever-some sort of correspondence) (heard on the radio a few days ago). The short version. Merkel “threatened’ pres. Trump, that if he goes ahead with his temporary ban on refugees form the 7 countries ( -the exceptions in the EO are not mentioned, nor were they mentioned in the lame stream media, here) then “GERMANY WILL BE FORCED TO RETHINK—–” its arrangements with the US.
I think that this is great. After ALMOST 80 YEARS OF THE US DEFENDING THE GERMANS, AT LITTLE OR NO COST TO THE GERMANS, (PLUS THE MILLIONS GIVEN THEM TO HELP THEM REBUILD AFTER WW2) the Germans would have to defend themselves.
On their Euro 9or, if that ends, their D Mark).
Again, I think that this would be great
dumbledoresarmy says
“A leading Hamas explosives expert blew himself up. Unknown if he took many of his comrades with him. He was (apparently) setting timers on bombs, and set the wrong time; or was building bombs. Either way, he is dead- and no loss to humanity.”
Hm. Happens a lot, that does, not only among the ‘palestinian’ Arab Muslims, but in other parts of the dar al Islam, such as Afghanistan and Pakistan. I recall one memorable story about a bunch of jihadis busy concocting bombs in the *mosque*, whilst an Imam or Sheikh was conducting a rabble-rousing jihad-inciting sermon in the same mosque, via radio. They didn’t bother following the recipe properly and… KABOOM. They blew up themselves, the mosque, the imam, his radio, and the neighbourhood.
I understand the israelis have a term for it – they sarcastically refer to it as a “work accident”.
Inshallah fatalism plus irrationalism plus a slipshod disregard for all those pesky things that we infidels refer to as ‘the rules’, including Occupational Health and Safety, and rules for the proper manufacture and storage of dangerous materials, seems to produce results of this sort with stunning regularity.
Now, back to the unlamented Hamasnik.
His demise rather serves as an illustration of a Psalm verse that says – of the wicked man – that “in the pit that he digged, his own foot is caught”.
common sense says
“Islamic jihadis routinely cite the texts and teachings of Islam to justify their actions and make recruits among peaceful Muslims.”
Take it out of the Islamic texts. Ban it from being spoken in mosques. Its conspiracy to sow chaos and commit pre meditated murder, that is not religion, its fascism and is against every law in the book.
The OIC wants submission not co-operation.
Joe says
Islam needs to be condemned and all mosques terminated.
Daniel Triplett says
Agreed. Tell the POTUS and all 535 on Capitol Hill how you feel.
You’re preaching to the choir here.
CHARLES WEITZEL says
WHAT SHOULD WE EXPECT FROM OUR RICH, ENTRENCHED OVERLORDS LIKE THESE?
THEY CERTAINLY AREN’T WORRIED ABOUT THEIR “PEOPLE” EVER EXPERIENCING WHAT US
COMMONER MIGHT BE SUBJECTED TO, I.E. SUICIDE BOMBERS, SHOOTERS, BEING SLAUGHTERED BY ONE OF THEM DRIVING INTO US!! THROW THESE BUMS OUT!!!!!
David, Thailand says
America had a slim chance with Trump over the devastation that would be Clinton. Somehow the people took it, yet the entire leftist establishment have gone into convulsions insisting that a desertion of democracy is better than a slim chance of survival under Trump.
You Americans should be lapping up the consequences of Europe’s collective insanity, for strength to stay on course.
Kay says
Would that more would.
Shan Lim says
For more than two decades of spreading “islam is the religion of peace” since Bush & Obama, it didn’t appease the radical jihadists nor prevent ordinary muslims or muslim convert to turn violent against innocent American and European civilians.
So, how does changing the name to ‘Countering Islamic Extremism’ or ‘Countering Radical Islamic Extremism’ damage the effects to our national security or alienate and create distrust with the muslim-American communities when such adverse condition has already been going on for decades and getting worse?
What a bunch of leftist bs and lies.
John A. Marre says
The Democrat party willingly welcomes as many Muslims as it can into the country and gives them a free pass to multiply and to do whatever they want.
underbed cat says
The information about the agenda of terrorism, that has supports groups whose purpose is to appear tolerant, peaceful, and use words that have a double meaning have been working to gain political power and bring islamic law, sharia to the U.S. The silence about information has been achieved, which is part of sharia. Democrats and Republicans without good information have been clueless, until now. And the media has just for the first time that I have heard, talked about the MB, and ties to terrorism…that is going back to court. Excellent but the media down plays what is the purpose and their ties and of course calls them a social group, that is tolerant. wow things are moving in the right direction….even with the word games and denial of purpose.
Doctrine should be studied without the influence of the MB, with non-muslim experts that will not need to misdirect.
DP111 says
The Jihadis are not the problem. In fact, they are alerting us to the coming existential crisis. Muslim population growth is several times larger then European rates. In less then 50 years, Muslims will be a majority. And that’s that. Sharia, and the end of Western civilisation
As the Muslim population increases, attacks will get more frequent, with “moderate“ Muslim demands that the state give more to the “marginalised” Muslim youth, or they will become even more radicalised. And so on. The more you give to the so-called moderates, the more our society will become Islamic. Moderate and radical Muslims play the good cop bad cop routine.
As the late Laurence Auster wrote:
Islam is a mortal threat to our civilization. But we cannot destroy Islam.
· · Nor can we democratize Islam.
· · Nor can we assimilate Islam.
· · Therefore the only way to make ourselves safe from Islam is to separate ourselves
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/006854.html
There will no peace in the West unless there is a separation from Islam and muslims
underbed cat says
Excellent article as usual. Relieved for the new direction and for the work of the Trump adminstration and advisors. Thank you President Trump, for..fighting against the left, that has been fighting you all the way, and doubting your abilities to handle your position. The silence and infiltration was so large and embedded I do not know that anyone could have attempted to expose it that was functioning in government at the time. It really did take a outsider leader to start.
Kudos for Shawn Spicer …..he is handling the news crew very well.
Michael Johnson says
I’m a Democrat but this a shame the party I’m for should drop their ego’s and wrong attitude towards this man and support him in his efforts to save America and western civilization people that stand for Islam don’t get it if Islam takes us we don’t get our country back just ask north Africa and Iran