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Trump: “We are also taking strong measures to protect our nation from radical Islamic terrorism”

Feb 28, 2017 11:57 pm By Robert Spencer

A great speech tonight from President Trump. It is astonishing that the President of the United States vowing to protect and defend the American people would be remotely controversial, and meet with stony silence and angry stares from one of the nation’s two major political parties (and probably inwardly from a good many establishment Republicans as well), but that is the degenerated state of affairs today.

In any case, one significant aspect of this address was that President Trump reiterated his determination to combat “radical Islamic terrorism” — a formulation is new national security adviser, H. R. McMaster, has explicitly rejected. Questions about whether Trump was retreating from his previously stated determination to discuss honestly the motivating ideology of the enemy, which is an indispensable prerequisite to defeating that enemy, were put to rest for the moment.

From President Trump’s speech before Congress tonight:

Our obligation is to serve, protect and defend the citizens of the United States. We are also taking strong measures to protect our nation from radical Islamic terrorism.

(APPLAUSE)

According to data provided by the Department of Justice, the vast majority of individuals convicted of terrorism and terrorism-related offenses since 9/11 came here from outside of our country. We have seen the attacks at home, from Boston to San Bernardino to the Pentagon and, yes, even the World Trade Center. We have seen the attacks in France, in Belgium, in Germany and all over the world.

It is not compassionate, but reckless to allow uncontrolled entry from places where proper vetting cannot occur.

(APPLAUSE)

Those given the high honor of admission to the United States should support this country and love its people and its values. We cannot allow a beachhead of terrorism to form inside America, and we cannot allow our nation to become a sanctuary for extremists.

(APPLAUSE) That is why my administration has been working on improved vetting procedures, and we will shortly take new steps to keep our nation safe, and to keep those out who will do us harm.

(APPLAUSE)

As promised, I directed the Department of Defense to develop a plan to demolish and destroy ISIS, a network of lawless savages that have slaughtered Muslims and Christians, and men, women and children of all faiths and all beliefs. We will work with our allies, including our friends and allies in the Muslim world, to extinguish this vile enemy from our planet.

(APPLAUSE)

I have also imposed new sanctions on entities and individuals who support Iran’s ballistic missile program, and reaffirmed our unbreakable alliance with the state of Israel.

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  1. prman says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 2:01 am

    I think Sebastian Gorka, as one of Trump’s advisors, will set him straight and oppose any flabby, ill-advised opinions from H.R. McMaster.

    • PRCS says

      Mar 1, 2017 at 4:18 am

      IMO, Gorka either doesn’t “get it”–either–or is toeing the party line.

      • vlparker says

        Mar 1, 2017 at 7:29 am

        +1

  2. PRCS says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 4:23 am

    One must wonder if President Trump could state how “radical” Islamic terrorism differs from the regular version.

    I’m anxiously waiting for him–and so many others–to call “the problem” what it really is: violent jihad, and to state that it’s a core tenet of written, Orthodox Islam.

    • JawsV says

      Mar 1, 2017 at 8:18 am

      It’s annoying that he continues to use the redundant qualifier “radical.” It’s just Islamic Terrorism, President Trump. It’s time to drop the “radical.”

      • PRCS says

        Mar 1, 2017 at 10:34 am

        If he really wants to move the ball forward, he should say Muslim terrorists; making clear who the perpetrators are while simultaneously informing the “Muslim world” and their useful idiots that he knows what “the problem” really is.

      • Carolyne says

        Mar 1, 2017 at 10:41 am

        He says it because not all Muslims are actually terrorists. Although the Koran directs them to be violent, many are not. To lump them all together as terrorists would be unfair and untrue. That’s why.

        • vlparker says

          Mar 1, 2017 at 11:56 am

          Do you see what the non-terrorist muslims are doing to Europe right now? Do you see how the non-terrorist muslims give safe harbor and cover to the rape gangs? Do you see how the non-terrorist muslims display their Islamic superiority by blocking city streets and sticking their arses in the air to allah? Have you seen the non-terrorist muslims marching through the streets of London chanting “UK, go to hell”? Have you seen the non-terrorist muslims ever, ever get upset about the terrorists? Have you noticed that the only thing the non-terrorist muslims seem to get upset about are those who oppose Islamic terrorism?

        • JawsV says

          Mar 1, 2017 at 2:21 pm

          President Trump should say Muslim Terrorists because that’s what they are. Doesn’t matter if every single one isn’t a Terrorist.

  3. eur says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 4:52 am

    There are many Muslims who are not willing to take up arms but sympathize with Islamist ideology, not necessarily sympathizers of isis and al Qaeda but are theocratic. That is the real danger of Islam, do we want to live as in India where Muslims live practically in a parallel society with our own laws? Do we want to live as in Malaysia / Indonesia? Muslims in their vast majority are not integrated … because they can not, because their culture / ideology / religion is based on dominating and controlling all aspects of life, both private and public … and if they can also that of non-Muslims . Muslim-majority “moderate” societies may allow non-Islamic stores to sell non-halal products to non-Muslims only. That is the society that offers the Koran and the Sunna … Inquisition.

  4. Yorkshire Kufir says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 6:43 am

    Looks like he’s driving events and is resolved to continue. An odd note on supporting female canadian entrepreneurs rather than all lanadian entrepreneurs, but Canada is a very odd place thers days, perhaps canadian need to be able to escape from all the rape gangs trudeau is inviting in.

    • Susan B says

      Mar 1, 2017 at 8:29 am

      On March 4 there are peaceful protest at city halls across Canada and I believe the same is happening around the world. I will be going to the one in Toronto and am trying to let people know in case they are interested. M103 is Sharia law and does not belong in any civilized country.
      https://www.facebook.com/CanadianCCC/videos/vb.712135832297963/729360157242197/?type=2&theater

      • Dum Spiro says

        Mar 1, 2017 at 1:32 pm

        Keep up the good work getting the word out. There are too many things that do not bode well for Canada (e.g., many new Muslims moving in, a lackadaisical and ignorant populace, the percentage of Muslims growing to that “magic” 5% number across Canada and already so in some cities (watch for new political involvement and assertiveness like you wouldn’t believe) and an progressive moral decline in lack of respect for life). Canadians also have to be concerned over this: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-it-commissioner-safety-1.3998221

        Canadians need to realize their window of opportunity for keeping “the true North strong and free” is quickly closing and the time for apathy is over…
        — Spero

  5. vlparker says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 7:31 am

    Great. President Trump is going to go after radical Islamic terrorism. But what about the other 85% of muslims who are part of the hijrah and intend to turn the US into an Islamic country by destroying western civilization from within?

    • Susan B says

      Mar 1, 2017 at 8:35 am

      Give him time, one step at a time. However, Islam does need to be banned in the free world and the sooner the better. By going after the so called radicals he will light a fire under the so called moderates and that will give Trump a reason to deal with the whole of islam.

      • PRCS says

        Mar 1, 2017 at 10:59 am

        An ideology cannot be banned.

        It’s followers must be shamed by factually challenging and debunking it.

        Like Scientology.

        • JawsV says

          Mar 1, 2017 at 2:28 pm

          Scientologists aren’t mass-murdering people. Muslims are. No comparison between the two. In addition, there are a few Scientologists, all in America. There are a gazillion Muslims, worldwide. There’s no comparison. Islam has Jihad, Scientology doesn’t. No comparison.

    • PRCS says

      Mar 1, 2017 at 10:57 am

      Precisely!

      “Terrorism” is not the only tactic.

      Infiltrating a nation’s political system is stealth jihad.

  6. duh swami says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 7:42 am

    Keeping America safe from Islamic terrorism, requires banning Islam and Muslims…Half measures are not going t work…That requires gonads and resolve…So far I see little of either one…

    • JawsV says

      Mar 1, 2017 at 2:31 pm

      You’re right, swami.

  7. Vic says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 9:40 am

    Great speech! Yes, one step at a time… Don’t back down.

    “We cannot allow a beachhead of terrorism to form inside America…” I think it has been forming for over 30 years… But I hope this means the Pres. will declare the Muslim Brotherhood and its partners as FTOs soon. They have certainly infiltrated every possible organization we have…civil, governmental, defense, and religious.

  8. Vic says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 9:54 am

    The reasons the Dhimmis and RINOs are mad is because Trump is pointing out all that they should have been doing for years and years. These are not new topics or issues! They have been incompetent, and demonstrably neglectful in carrying out their functions in congress and listening to the voters who put them in place.

    Last night I heard a congressman say, that he works for the American people who elected him, not the President. I think he means he works for the donors and special interests that put him in Congress, not the voters. This is exactly why they are mad with the Pres. He is showing them up. So despicable and they dare to be offended!

    • Carolyne says

      Mar 1, 2017 at 10:47 am

      I believe that the main objective of the vast majority of the Congressmen and Senators is to keep their positions in government with all it privileges and all the money coming in and they have no concern for the people who elected or the country in general. President Trump is challenging them. They do not like it. Too bad.

  9. mortimer says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 11:17 am

    The Dems don’t want to defend Americans from attack.

    • La La says

      Mar 1, 2017 at 1:51 pm

      I agree with vlparker’s comment above.

      I agree with Mortimer also, the Dems are for the destruction of America as we have known it they do not believe in our constitutional rights.

  10. brane pilot says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 12:06 pm

    There is nothing ‘radical’ about Islamic Terrorism.
    It is referred to explicitly in the Koran as a means to an end.
    It is at the core of the religion.
    If you insist upon calling Islam a religion instead of a violent, totalitarian political system.

  11. Voytek Gagalka says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 12:26 pm

    Very nice. Great speech. However, let be well know that term “Radical Islamic Terrorism” is contradictory and nonsensical. Are they any “moderate” (that is “non-radical”) terrorists who would not be our worry and worthy complete eradication? Why not just to cut off that rudimentary term “radical” and call it simply ISLAMIC TERRORISM? It is high time to drop that highly confusing PC linguistic mask and call a spade the spade!

    • JawsV says

      Mar 1, 2017 at 2:34 pm

      Yes, it’s ISLAMIC TERRORISM. Trump needs to drop the redundant “radical.” Islam is inherently radical.

  12. Nabi says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 12:42 pm

    Sounds like conditions are such that he feels he must still walk a very cautious line. Actually, Islam itself must be unequivocally rejected.

  13. davej says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 1:09 pm

    Travel bans and extreme vetting are one side of the equation but if we really want to prevent a “beachhead of terrorism” in this country we should worry more about the 2nd and 3rd generations now being indoctrinated in the Mosques and Madrassas. We have already seen the results and our new cautions regarding Islam may only encourage the radicalization of next generations. We all know how easily they are “offended” by any “insults”.

    Only a complete rejection of Islamic ideology, exposure of the hatred in the Quran and the banning of Sharia preaching will work in the long run. It is all contrary to American values and will continue to undermine us unless stamped out.

  14. awake says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 2:22 pm

    We went from first, a “war on terror”, a tactic, not an enemy, and then onto “workplace violence” and “man-made disasters” from the one who would not utter a certain phrase, and to now a redirect and a direct link of terrorism and Islam, albeit with the patently false qualifier, “radical”.

    Apparently, nothing is adequate for some of the commenters here, short of a presidential declaration that Islam is evil and all Muslims should be deported.

    Surreal.

    • Romans says

      Mar 2, 2017 at 1:33 am

      Yes, that’s exactly what it is: EVIL. Try reading the Qur’an and the Hadith if you dare and learn what EVIL is all about…

    • ShandyLover says

      Mar 2, 2017 at 2:47 am

      ‘Islam is evil and all Muslims should be deported.’

      At last. Someone else agrees with my view of matters. (And yes, I do recognise sarcasm when I read it.)

      It’s too late for us in Europe. But to you Americans I say save yourselves while you still have a chance. Do precisely that, deport ALL Muslims.

      For a start, Trump needs to declare the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR exactly what they are, terrorist organizations. After all, their STATED GOAL is to destroy Western civilization from within. The universities need to be banned from taking Saudi money to set up Islamic faculties, it’s poisoning the minds of our children. No foreign (Saudi) funding of mosques, political parties and/or politicians and lobbyists. The swamp needs to be completely drained.

      In 2008, before I began to read widely and see matters as the really are, I was a fan of Obama. But no longer, and there are millions of us working class lefty’s in the UK who have completely flipped. That’s why Brexit happened, to regain control of our boders. As I said, I was a fan of Obama but despite MB’s statement, Obama invited them and CAIR into the White House. He copied our traitorous European politicians and bought in hundreds of thousands of the West’s enemies.

      Just like here, your wives, daughters, children are at risk. In the UK filthy old Muslim men were allowed to rape little girls with impunity for over twenty years. Parents complaining to the police about what was happening were ARRESTED. Muslims have Sharia courts here in the UK, their own parallel legal system to go with their parallel lives. They don’t come to integrate, it’s an invasion.

      You Americans need to act while you still can. So yes, Islam is evil and ALL Muslims need to be deported. Anything less and you are just storing up problems your grandchildren will have to deal with.

  15. Richard says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 2:54 pm

    Stony silence and angry stares, indeed. I can’t believe the difference in demeanor and attitude between the Democrats and the Republicans. The Dems are acting like teenagers who have just been grounded because they’ve been told they can’t go partying all the time with their petty criminal and drug-dealer friends anymore.

  16. Theo Prinse says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 3:49 pm

    Tnx for the article mr. Spencer. Indeed a great speech. Though NSA McMasters conception of islam as a peacefull religion instead of a gruesome world spreading ideology of death remains a problem. And then there is this formulation of the speechwriter of president Trump:
    ”We strongly support NATO, an alliance forged through the bonds of two World Wars that dethroned fascism, and a Cold War that defeated communism.”
    But Nato nor the first and neither the second world war fought fascism.
    The Red Army brought great sacrifice in destroying the nazi forces.
    In 1945 tens of thousands of nazi’s were allowed to flee to Egypt, Irak, Syria, Argentine, the United States. In the US the nazi’s joined the CIA MKULTRA project from 1950 to 1974. Succesive US governments collaborated with islamic movements against the Soviet Union vice versa. The CIA pressed former Dutch MP Joop den Uyl to keep the theft of atomic secrets by Qadeer Khan from the Dutch Urenco facility back in 1974 to Pakistan (Bhutto) a secret.

  17. Angemon says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 4:23 pm

    According to data provided by the Department of Justice, the vast majority of individuals convicted of terrorism and terrorism-related offenses since 9/11 came here from outside of our country.

    I can already imagine the “rebuttals” from butthurt Hillary supporters (but I repeat myself): “that may be true, but most there were also terrorist attacks from native Americans and most people who immigrated here did not do terrorist attacks”. Nah, just kidding, it’ll probably be something like “Trump calls all migrants terrorists, says all terrorist attacks were done by foreigners”.

  18. T.K. says

    Mar 2, 2017 at 12:47 am

    He is saying one thing and doing another. On the Feb. 17th Trump congratulated anniversary to self proclaimed republic of Kosovo, which was with help of NATO military created in the heartland of an East-European, christian country by “moderate Muslims” in 1990s:

    “Contrary to the hopes of some Serbs that President Donald Trump might change course and favour Belgrade, the new US administration has repeatedly said that it supports Kosovo’s independence” – See more at: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/trump-administration-maintains-us-support-for-kosovo-02-28-2017-1#sthash.vKKxZF7x.dpuf

    So these “moderates” can relax now and continue with ethnic cleansing. It should be remembered that Serbs had lived Kosovo for generations, and that Serbs regard Kosovo as the cradle of their civilization. They have many monasteries there, dating back to medieval times. In 1389 Serbian army fought against invading army of the Ottoman Empire and stopped further invasion of Europe. This has been undone by NATO in 1990s and now by Donald Trump.

  19. Romans says

    Mar 2, 2017 at 1:25 am

    If there is another Islamic terror attack within our borders, that will give the President even more leverage in imposing an even stricter ban on many more Muslim Countries and immigrants from entering the USA.

    • Romans says

      Mar 2, 2017 at 1:29 am

      …and maybe they’ll start cracking down on Mosques within the USA and on these crazy Islamic political organizations like CAIR

  20. Romans says

    Mar 2, 2017 at 1:37 am

    Moderate and Liberal Muslims are apostates according to the Qur’an… ISIS is the true face of Islam, because they obey the teachings of the Qur’an and Muhammad.

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