I’m now completely certain that Donald Trump defied his own State Department and probably the Department of Defense while giving his speech in Riyadh. Trump switched out the deceptive word “Islamist” and switched in “Islamic” while reading his prepared speech from the teleprompter. Watch that struggle for yourself with the edited “remarks as prepared” on the screen:
In advance of the speech, NSA McMaster had been sent out to calm fears:
McMaster: Jihadis are “not religious people,” suggests Trump won’t say “radical Islamic terrorism” in Saudi speech
Guess Trump is in control of what comes out of his mouth after all, not McMaster or the State Department.
That’s not to say the rest of the speech was terrible, or perfect. Robert’s analysis at PJ Media is a good rundown, and I made some similar points yesterday at Israellycool. I’ll highlight one word of interest to me:
Religious leaders must make this absolutely clear: Barbarism will deliver you no glory – piety to evil will bring you no dignity. If you choose the path of terror, your life will be empty, your life will be brief, and YOUR SOUL WILL BE FULLY CONDEMNED.
“Piety” is the word the Islamic world uses to signify increased observance of Islamic laws. They don’t say “conservative,” and indeed, the Western media’s use of the word “conservative” to denote Muslims following the life of Muhammad closely is devious and deceitful, and I believe intended to cast a slur on both political and religious conservatives in the US and the West.
This is Article 1(b) of the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam (which the UN shamefully allows Islamic nations to use instead of the UNIVERSAL Declaration of Human Rights):
(b) All human beings are God’s subjects, and the most loved by him are those who are most useful to the rest of His subjects, and no one has superiority over another except on the basis of piety and good deeds.
Notice how (via the trick of a double negative) it specifically grants “superiority” to those based on their “piety and good deeds.” The entire document is subject to interpretation through Islamic Sharia, which makes clear that “piety and good deeds” are those that the Qur’an says are pious and good.
But back to the Islamic/Islamist substitution; what did the media do?
This Fox News discussion played the clip, but then completely ignored what they must have heard with their own ears, instead speaking about the “Remarks as prepared for delivery,” which the White House put up. To my knowledge, there’s been no release of an actual transcript of what he said. Qanta Ahmed then presents the usual talking points.
Another review of the speech, this time with Quilliam’s Maajid Nawaz, chose to hear that Trump did say “Islamic extremism” and “Islamic terror,” but Maajid passes this off as a “slip-up.”
I can’t take any of these opinions seriously. To me, it’s clear Trump is unwilling to bend to the State Department or the Defense Department’s old Obama holdovers. He is absolutely unwilling to use a deceptive term such as “Islamism.”
Are the presidency and Trump powerful enough to change these longstanding and dangerous ways of thought in the government? We don’t know yet.
Ricky Bad Black says
Nobody knows why people do Suicide Bombings, it’s still a Mystery. Russians?
JIMJFOX says
How VERY helpful. Any more dazzling insights for us??
Charli Main says
I personally believe that in Saudi Arabia, Donald Trump has given us a MASTER CLASS IN TAQQIYA.
Trump has played the Muslims at their own game, told them everything they wanted to hear and walked away with hundreds of billions of dollars in trade deals, ALL THE WHILE SMILING IN THEIR FACES AND CURSING THEM IN HIS HEART.
Trump has used Muslim tactics against Muslims. The best way to defeat your enemy is to know him and play him at his own game.
Ricky Bad Black says
You’re not wrong, President Trump likes to say things that will get the hen’s a cackling
Dave says
LOL ! Agree. And Most importantly he cannot be bought unlike politicians and scumbags like Mc Master – just another saudi slave
David says
McMaster is known in Saudi Arabia as McSlave.
Don McKellar says
Good analysis.
abad says
Precisely what a successful businessman does.
You would never catch the likes of Obama doing that.
JIMJFOX says
I hope you are right. As our favourite genocidal pedophile head-chopper famously said “War is deceit” & maybe, just maybe, Trump has taken notice.
Consider also Iran having nukes- the ‘House of Saud’ is terrified by this prospect- the JV team of Islam [Shia] having the means to obliterate the First Team [Sunni]. So, to deter Saudi from getting nukes in response, arm them with enough conventional weapons to smash Iran’s nuke facilities.
But who knows? American foreign policy has been pretty disastrous since WW2, hasn’t it?
AnneM says
President Trump is simply is saying to the Muslims what the Americans are really are thinking about them.
Ricky Bad Black says
If Jesus was a pedophile murdering warlord, U.S. would be a totally different place, any questions?
Maybe my house would look good with a 12 foot mud wall around it.
Moa says
Understand, Mohammed is a mostly MYTHOLOGICAL fabrication designed by Caliph Abd Al Malik to advance Arab Imperialism. The archeology is clear, Islam is the Scientology of the Dark Ages – invented by evil men to enslave other men and, especially, women.
“An Historical Critique of Islam’s Beginnings”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd9lIuUjPs0
Mohammed is as fictional as harry Potter’s Voldemort. Islam is verifiably FALSE. Every time we pretend Mohammed existed we give Islam respect it should not have.
mortimer says
Agree, Caliph Abd Al Malik invented and concocted Islam to serve his imperial needs and consolidate his dynasty.
Custos Custodum says
I kind of like the figure of Muhammad as he appears in the the Qur’an and the hadith – murderer, sex-maniac, necrophiliac, pedophile, probably schizophrenic. Seems too real and too complex to be an outright invention.
gravenimage says
It doesn’t matter on a certain level whether the foul warlord Muhammed was a historical figure or not–Muslims believe in him, and consider the actions attributed to him to be a model of conduct for all time.
Henner720 says
1400 years of arab perfecting there strategi.while lately the enabler of the arab dysfunctional ackwardness is the oil money. Rich kids spoilt by there rich kids fathers with time to plot there plenty of time evil pranks in mosques= rich fathers evil pranks rooms..mafioso gangster tribal proud emperial delusions. Suicidal behavoir normalized in there hopeless loser societies.must be painful to watch for the decent groups among themselves.karl popper : you desire what your nabour has in a mimical way. Since arabs are not allowed to have western values, instead the grow insanity, triggered by abstinence institutionslized by there parents generations. Fusionbombing saudi and iran completely, would be the best military strategy, but who would put there name behind such a radical solution.
Dacritic says
You could be right. I still think Mo is too realistic to be mere fiction though. Maybe he wasn’t the one who invented the corporation that is Islam the way it is today, and that person was Abdul Malik. Abdul Malik probably borrowed Mo’s exploits to reinvent a religion. Mo was probably just a gangster as opposed to a prophet.
The Christian apologist Jay Smith would verify your claim. He has done lots of work on Abdul Malik and his connection to “Islam” and Mo.
gravenimage says
Trump switched “Islamist terror” to “Islamic terror” on purpose to defy State Department
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*Good*–this is accurate. “Islamist” really doesn’t have any meaning apart from “Muslim”. Excellent to hear.
MacUalraig says
I sure hope this is exactly what happened. In a world of ball-less appeasers that would be great news.
Jeanette says
Absolutely!
And most westerners who haven’t spent any time in Saudi Arabia have no idea what a big NO-NO it is for a women to have both her face and her head uncovered, and be uncovered an abaya (black tent) AND be wearing pants – all not only in public, but in the palace at Riyadh!
So the American ladies were making statements, too.
Diana B says
I lived in Dhahran, KSA 4 > 4 yrs. I never wore hijab,veil or abaya, in fact, my Saudi liaison told me it wld be offensive if I did, as I am not Muslim. I wore mostly pants (jeans), long sleeved, loose, shirt covering my hips.
Even in remote parts of the Kingdom, I wore the same and it was never a problem. In all those years, I only had one problem in Country! I was pinched while shopping in Safeway, my young Son identified the Turkish man to the store Manager. The Police were called and i never saw him again. I was told he would be whipped and told never to come back to that store again. Women of all cultures lived around me, the Brits pretty much wore what they wanted and didn’t seem to get bothered by The Mutawa (Religious Police) and the women from India wore Saree’s which showed much more skin than either of my other examples. I never covered my long, thick reddish blonde hair & never wore Muslim garb. I dressed modestly like I was asked to do, as a Western woman.
gravenimage says
Yes, MacUalraig and Jeanette.
Ciudadano says
‘ Trump switched “Islamist terror” to “Islamic terror”’
So, what? Is that going to stop SA financing terrorism? Is that going to improve SA human rights? is that going to stop SA from spreading wahbism all over the world?
The $110 billion arms deal tells me SA will continue business as usual.
Jeanette says
It was a warning shot across the bow.
And Obama did that …. when?
Oh, right, he couldn’t do it because he was so busy bowing to the Saudi king.
gravenimage says
The more the truth is told the better.
Don McKellar says
OF COURSE Trump made sure it was stated correctly.
OF COURSE McMaster is a dhimmi coward who has his own opinions at odds with Trump and clear reality.
OF COURSE Trump isn’t going to bow to McMaster’s wishes. Nor will he bow to ANYBODY’s wishes to be politically correct and appease moslems.
OF COURSE Trump is in charge.
OF COURSE Trump understands what this is all about.
OF COURSE.
Krazy Kafir says
I’m stumped at to why Trump picked McDhimmi. All I can think of is he’s not got both hands on the till or he’s confused.
Don McKellar says
Good cop, bad cop.
Wellington says
I’m reminded here of when speechwriters for President Reagan crossed out his now famous, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,” which Reagan had personally written, and Reagan more than once reinserted it because it was crossed out several times as this particular speech of Reagan’s in 1987 was being finalized. When the President finally gave his speech in Berlin he said what he had intended to say all along.
Shades of President Reagan here. So, thank you, President Trump.
Wellington says
I would just like to add that the reason President Regan’s speechwriters kept crossing out Reagan’s now famous statement about tearing down the Berlin Wall was because, in full timid mode, they thought it too provocative.
Well, timidity in the face of iniquity never works. Reagan understood this. Hopefully so does Trump. I think he does.
And yes, I know Reagan erroneously pulled out Marine forces from Lebanon after the bombing there in 1983, thus sending the wrong signal to the forever barbaric Islamic world, just as Trump has made mistakes so far, but anyone who is inclined to dismiss Trump because he has appointed people like Mannis and McMaster to high positions should seriously consider that even far above average leaders still make many mistakes. No better example of this truth can be found in all of the pages of history then the many mistakes America’s greatest President, Abraham Lincoln, make in his first year in office. But he ended up saving the American nation by learning from his mistakes and being possessed of a moral intelligence that all great leaders must have. If Trump proves to be just half a Lincoln, and the verdict is still out here, then America is in good hands. Hope so. All who cherish liberty should hope so too.
gravenimage says
Good points, Wellington.
Peter says
Trump speech was great, I share Vlad tepes view, here it is:
“Listen again. He made it clear that the fundamentals of Islam would not be tolerated and expect muslim leaders to start preaching essentially what every other religion does, and not Islam. he was clear as day on that. In other words, he praised Islam for what it had better become if it doesn’t want to be wiped off of the Earth. Which he stated clearly. I would argue that a better speech could not have been delivered to the Saudis. Anything more blunt would bring enmity and war which would be inconvenient to all and lethal to them. He offered the stick, but also the carrot under conditions we would approve of. The whole thing can be put in a few lines: Stop teaching Islamic supremacy and death to the unbeliever or face extinction. Stop persecuting religious minorities or face the loss of any international support, which you need to protect yourselves from Iran. There are massive benefits to being part of the international community so adjust your state and religious ideology to reflect that.”
Jerry says
I think you’re right about this. He did the best he could under the circumstances. I think he deserves more praise than criticism. Then again, moderately tough talk doesn’t seem a sufficient response to all the murder and mayhem muslims cram down our throats. I’d much more prefer new anti sharia laws and tough immigration reform. It’s hard to be patient when so many are suffering and dying for a barbarian creed and culture. I guess the problem is just too big for swift action.
dsinc says
I agree with Vlad, a few carrots and lots of stick. Stop the jihad, or else.
Brian Thomas says
Can you give me a link to where Vlad said that, he’s spot on of course.
underbed cat says
The speech was a roller coaster ride, first I booed, as he described Islam as a Abraham great religion….and it’s beauty, then he addressed the terrorism…as Islamic, I found the audience reaction interesting as they appeared to look around the room at each other as if they were perplexed, wondering what the heck is happening..this is a forbidden truth they call slander. The anxiety rose as some notes were passed around with the concern of the Kings soft face. Considered his location a bold move, but they were able to applaud and the truth just hung in the air, when the reality of the jihads meet discovery by the infidels. A very bold move..to save humanity from savagery.
common sense says
Trump has been accussed of being ‘intellectually shallow”. Good. “The road to hell is paved with ivy league diplomas”. – Thomas Sowell.
We did not want to elect another so called “intellectual” (one that would not even survive a minute with Robert or some on this site, you don’t need to be Socrates to speak truth). They are by and large not the most effective executive leaders. Men that are willing put their neck on the line are, they understand leadership the best and you can only know that if you’ve been on the pointy end of sword or shot at, or maybe frequently and falsely eviscerated in the press.
He is not “philosophically” shallow, he understands how win and won the Presidency by doing just what he did here, speaking HIS words from the heart and following through. His strategies appear to be sound for the most part.
The scrutiny and criticism is a good thing for him, people who don’t suffer any real consequences for their decisions are not the people you want in charge.
NAME THE DEMON take its power!
Joe says
Trump knows what we know. His speech was priceless. Confusing to the confusers.
Matthieu Baudin says
Your President is a model of plain speech and intellectual sobriety.
Joeyn says
I am so happy to see President Trump replacing Islamist with Islamic very appropriately. It was not a slip-up like what Maajid Nawaz dishonestly implies but clearly was done with wise intent. I hope the smart people in President Trump’s administration will build on this to encourage President Trump to do more towards dealing with the Islamic threat.
Ali Bey says
Mohammed is mostly mithological but not as much as Christ.
Ali Bey says
Islamic terrorism, islamist terrorism, euphemistc adjectives for not daring to name the true one: KORANIC terrorism.
Vishnupaundraka says
“Islamism” is an English term introduced by westernized Muslims like Majid Nawaz. No Arabic equivalent exists in the core Islamic trilogy, the Quran, Sira and th Sunna. This is just a term to divert attention away from the fact that, the doctrine of Jihad is a core fundamental part of Islam. If i remember a Hadith correctly, a person comes and asks the prophet if there is any other deed greater than Jihad and he says that he does not of any such deed. Using words like Islamism radical Islam etc only misleads people into word play with no other meaning and purpose. If anybody can find the Arabic equivalent of Islamism, in core Islamic doctrine enlighten me.
This is similar to many terms used in the Marxist ideology, words like Dialectical materialism, proletariat, Bourgeois etc which are actually meaningless terms designed to divert the lay reader away from the real nastiness of the core doctrine. We should out rightly reject such terms so that we are not mislead. Even Trumps “Radical Islamic” terrorism is not right, when the core doctrine mandates Jihad as a normative duty for a real Muslim
ibrahim itace muhammed says
Charlie main,you are right that the whole purpose of mad trump’s trip to backwarded saudi Arabia is to secure contract for the supply of obsolete weapons to stupid saudi Royal family as usual .the American economy grows through such armed robberies and brigandages.take note that these rascal monarchs will soon be overthrown in popular revolts and there is nothing the armed robber united states can do to sustain them.
ibrahim itace muhammed says
Charlie main,you are right that the whole purpose of devil trump’ s trip to saudi Arabia is armed robbery to take away their wealth through the sale of obsolete weapons to these stupid monarchs as usual.American economy grows through such armed robberies and brigandages to install puppet leaders like these rascal saudi royal family to get access to their national ssets.Down with drunkard Arab leaders.Note:Christians see nothing bad in stealing others’ wealths because all their sins are covered by blood of mithraist jesus.
Rotten Eye says
A Prayer of Mother Earth
And the Earth became infected with the vile Muslim.
The skies were dark with soot and the smell of death.
And people lived in fear.
Grain did not grow and the animals were sick and died.
And it came to pass, the Earth saith:
“I am sick and my life is unhappy when the Muslim walks on my land and breathes my air.
All good men, find the Muslim and strike him at the neck, of all Muslims!
Smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them.
Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war,
to strike terror into the hearts of the vile Muslim.
Some ye slew, and some ye make prisoners.
Destroy their dwellings!
Destroy their seed that no Muslim shall be born unto the Earth.”
The dirty Muslims will hide behind the rocks and the trees, but the rocks and the trees will cry out: “There is a filthy Muslim behind me, come and smite him. For surely they are sons and daughters of Pigs and Monkeys!”
And the Muslim fled like a crazy man with fear in his eyes and terror in his mind!
But he was not swift enough.
For the Earth found and catch every one of the vile Muslim.
And the Muslim was struck at his neck.
And the Muslim blood flowed like the river Nile.
Until all Muslims on Earth were smited.
And Lo, Behold.
The world became clean and the air fresh when the Muslims were no more.
And the Earth was happy.
And people lived in peace and the Earth was good.
In the name of our Mother Earth,
For ever and ever,
Amen
Ali Bey says
Stop vilifiying pigs and monkeys. Pigs are not filthy by themselves. Are we humans who make them to live in filthy conditions. And I don,t see why monkeys can be related to be despicable beings. They are our nearest cousins but they are not evil as to conceive criminal descendents
Gordon Miller says
Listen carefully to Trump’s speech.Trump used both words at different times. Check your dictionary: “Islamist” is both a noun and an adjective. It is a hardline word meaning Islamic militancy or fundamentalism. “Islamic” is an adjective that only means”relating to Islam.”
If Trump used “Islamic,” it would appear he was softening what the State Department wrote for him to say. But a few seconds later he used the word “Islamist.”Frankly, I don’t think he knew the difference in the terms.
I must add that the remarks by Maajid Nawaz, scholar that she may be, only confused the issue, and brought to mind that her agenda was to praise Trump no matter what he said and to ingratiate herself with the White House.
Pal says
THIS article says, in Arabic:
“The construction of the “Ivanka” mosque in Saudi Arabia angers Saudis – Video:
Social networks circulate a video of a Saudi citizen who is building a mosque, named ‘Ivanka’, after the daughter of US President Donald Trump, who visited the Saudi Kingdom with her father.
The Saudi citizen says in the video that “the mosque is related to her entering the Paradise in the Hereafter”.
http://hibazoom.com/136989.html
UNCLE VLADDI says
Unless his plan was “Never let the enemy know your true intentions!” then ALL of his speeches were total FAILS!
What Trump SHOULD have said to the Saudis:
http://islamexposed.blogspot.ca/2017/05/what-trump-should-say-to-muslim-leaders.html
What he DID say to the Saudis:
http://islamexposed.blogspot.ca/2017/05/summing-up-trumps-arab-summit-holy-shit.html
Here’s his Israel speech FAIL deconstructed in agonizing detail:
http://islamexposed.blogspot.com/2017/05/trump-spews-at-israel-national-museum.html
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
If I met Trump tomorrow I would say to him:
“You think your going to forge a peace the middle east? No you won’t Don. You just sold billions of dollars worth of arms to the enemy! Isn’t there a law against aiding and abetting the enemy?”
patriotliz says
So…… what is the difference between “Islamic” vs. “Islamist” according to the McMaster/State Department dictionary?
Dajjal says
If President Trump knows the difference between Islamist & islamic, I would be severely surprised to see proof of his knowledge.
He demands that snakes switch from predation to grazing. It ain’t gonna happen.