A far cry from Obama’s avowal that Islamic civilization will triumph. My latest in FrontPage:
Interrupted repeatedly by chants of “Donald Trump! Donald Trump! Donald Trump!” as he was speaking in Poland on Thursday, President Trump delivered a ringing affirmation that he would defend Western civilization: “Just as Poland could not be broken, I declare today for the world to hear that the West will never, ever be broken. Our values will prevail, our people will thrive, and our civilization will triumph.”
Now, we’re used Presidents affirming that civilization will triumph. Barack Obama did it, too. Trump’s remarkable innovation here, and sharp departure from the example his predecessor set, is in declaring that Western civilization would triumph. Barack Hussein Obama, by contrast, was famous for declaring the triumph of Islamic civilization, most notably when he told the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, 2012: “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”
If the future is not to belong to those who are perceived as slandering the prophet of Islam, Sharia blasphemy laws criminalizing criticism of Islam will have to have been imposed; people aren’t likely to give up criticizing Muhammad voluntarily, especially as jihad terror attacks incited by his teachings become an ever more common feature of life in the West. Thus if the future doesn’t belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam, it will be because the freedom of speech has been extinguished and Islamic values have prevailed: Islamic civilization will have triumphed.
If that was not what Barack Obama wanted, he never gave any indication of it during eight years in the White House. The Democrats constantly pointed to his killings of bin Laden and al-Awlaki as indication that he was tough on terrorism, but amid foreign and domestic policies indefatigably supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and its auxiliaries in the United States, unstinting opposition to the freedom of speech regarding criticism of Islam, and an appalling deal that gave aid and comfort to the Islamic Republic of Iran, those killings only made clear that while Obama evidently opposed violent jihad, he had no serious objection to other methods of Sharia imposition and Islamization.
In Warsaw Thursday, Trump offered a radically different vision. “We are fighting hard against radical Islamic terrorism,” he declared. “And we will prevail. We cannot accept those who reject our values and who use hatred to justify violence against the innocent.”
“We cannot accept those who reject our values.” After eight years of Obama acting as if the freedom of speech and the right to bear arms were burdens to be cast off rather than rights to be defended, this is an extraordinary statement. It is also one of the reasons why Trump’s notorious “travel ban” contains a little-noted directive that is clearly designed to preserve American values. The March 6 executive order states:
To be more transparent with the American people and to implement more effectively policies and practices that serve the national interest, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Attorney General, shall, consistent with applicable law and national security, collect and make publicly available the following information:…information regarding the number and types of acts of gender-based violence against women, including so-called “honor killings,” in the United States by foreign nationals.
Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, says that “retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right.” However, “not subject to retaliation” is “a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring’s offspring.” (Reliance of the Traveller o1.1-2). In other words, someone who kills his child incurs no legal penalty under Islamic law. In this case the victim was the murderer’s daughter, a victim to the culture of violence and intimidation that such laws help create.
The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, who get off lightly now. Syria in 2009 scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences for honor killings, but “the new law says a man can still benefit from extenuating circumstances in crimes of passion or honour ‘provided he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing.’” And in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that “Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values.”
Until the encouragement Islamic law gives to honor killing is acknowledged and confronted, more women will suffer. President Trump is trying to keep women from suffering in this way in the United States.
That element of the executive order is the kind of thing that is involved in ensuring that “our civilization will triumph”: stopping the encroachment of Sharia values in the United States. Trump in Warsaw wasn’t just paying lip service to unattainable ideals, any more than Obama was when he said that “the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” Obama worked very hard to make sure that would be true, and now his successor is working very hard to ensure that Judeo-Christian civilization survives instead. Americans can be grateful that we do not, for the moment, have (as Trump as said) a President of the world, but a President of the United States.
Ren says
“Our Civilization Will Triumph”
This is why Trump is the Messiah!
Mo says
@ Ren
“”Our Civilization Will Triumph” ”
This is why Trump is the Messiah!
Jesus Christ is the Messiah.
Andy says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glldoTNVzlc
Dara Shikoh says
Trump has named only Syria and Iran for radical islam etc but he has not taken the name of rogue nation of Pakistan who has become a School, Workshop and Haven for training and nurturing of Islamic-Terorrism and terrorists and to send them to other non-muslim countrys. Pakistan has become the mother of terrorists and terrorism.World has to suffocate Pakistan. But America is supporting this terrorist state by giving it millions of dollers to spread evil of islam ie TERRORISM in the world.
peter says
Exactly my sentiments .Perhaps they should include also Saudi Arabia. !
Carolyne says
There is no “Messiah,” but I believe Mr. Trump will. if allowed, save the country and perhaps Western civilization.
Savvy Kafir says
He’s not the Messiah. He’s a very naughty boy!
Malcolm (South Afric) says
Have much respect for president Trump, the world needs strong leaders such as those in Poland, Hungary.
Britain, France, Germany, are disappointing however there is hope, of strong leaders emerging.
The left ideology is nothing but weakness that has abolished culture, tradition and religion in favor of submission of ones own perversions and pathological disorders and those of mohammad.
Samson says
Malcomb
Thank you for your insight and wisdom
My hope S.A. can stand strong as well. We must push back against the invading Islamic horde
Boston Tea Party says
I’m still not convinced that Trump actually sincerely believes what he is saying, but at least he’s saying it—that’s more than past presidents or other leaders in the West.
gravenimage says
Yup.
Stan Lee says
Watching, hearing President Trump’s speech in Poland, was a treat! Presidents Reagan and Kennedy had their great moments in Europe, now Trump joins those two Presidents.
I could not help thinking of the weakling Commie, Obama, rushing about this world on his “apology tour.”
It was clear then that he liked the financial benefits, then and now, of being the American President, but he hated the United States and its Constitution. Trump loves the United States, its Constitution, and its history.
Carolyne says
And Trump doesn’t need our money. How refreshing.
Richie says
“Our Civilization Will Triumph”
Sadly it will not if the mass invasion of Muslims into Europe continues, and if people still remain afraid to name the enemy. Muslims who rape and assault are not arrested. Folks, the enemy is already inside the gate
Wellington says
I too believe that the West will triumph in the end but not before much more blood is spilled because of the existence of a religion enthralled with control, power, sex and death. Islam is an insult to mankind and should be described as such. President Trump is definitely a step in the right direction but many more steps must be taken before Islam is finally and deservedly assigned to the trash heap of history. As for the Merkels, Mays, Trudeaus and Macrons of this world, they have betrayed Western Civilization and thus they are beneath contempt.
Jon Sobieski says
I think Trump is reaching the point of clarity regarding Islam. That is, the true evil of Islam is now clear to him. I think Bannon and Miller have educated Trump and Trump, based on his observance of Islam since becoming President, and the fact that his intellgience briefings have been eye opening, has come to accept their brutal assessments of Islam as accurate. What a great thing.
John A. Marre says
The left in Sweden is working hard to bring in more Muslims who will rape the women, burn cars and throw firebombs at the police. This is to destabilize the civil order. In the ensuing confusion, the left seizes total power and installs a Leftist Paradise.
Won’t work. The Jihadis will install a Jihadi Paradise first, in which all the leftists’ heads will be chopped off and the gays thrown off tall buildings.
Schrödinger says
Trump’s stirring speech, pointedly made in Warsaw, is one worthy of both Churchill and Roosevelt. It’s perhaps that long since we’ve heard any Western leader dare deliver oratory so perceptive and forthright, making it seem all that more uncommon and overdue. Eastern Europe, more than once in this intervening period, has had the sense to act to preserve itself. So too, nowadays, does Russia, China and Japan.
It would be preferable if we had nothing to fear but fear itself. However to preserve it’s civilisation the West now has to deal with the results of foolish, decades long policies and attitudes that, in particular, and as Trump implied, are permitting the ongoing incursion of tens of millions of muslims. We also have equal or even greater numbers of leftist stooges actively supporting this madness together with countless others who are mostly misinformed, afraid and confused. It’s mainly in our minds and on our streets that the West will have to deal with the challenge and consequences of these continuing, misguided attitudes and policies. Our civilisation will triumph.
gravenimage says
+1
Mark Swan says
Absolutely Schrödinger.
underbed cat says
Saudi Arabia heart of Islam…..Mecca, Medina…etc…so why the sale of weapons by Trump…this says there is information missing…the complete doctrine of terror is not known yet by Trump…I hope I am wrong.
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Trump in Poland: “Our Civilization Will Triumph”
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So refreshing and inspiring.
Mark Swan says
Yes gravenimage, his words to the great Polish people was worth reading.
Trump: “The West will never, ever be broken. Our values will prevail, our people will thrive, and our civilization will triumph.”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/07/trump-the-west-will-never-ever-be-broken-our-values-will-prevail-our-people-will-thrive-and-our-civilization-will-triumph
gravenimage says
Yes–an inspiring speech, Mark.
Truth says
India is a huge piece in resisting Islam. China is an unknown, maybe undependable.
tgusa says
To save western civilization it will require a great reorganization. There will be winners and there will be losers. Western winners will have to do things that they really would rather not do but the cards have been dealt and we have to play the hand we have. I’m with President Trump, I have always preferred winning.
Mark Swan says
Yes indeed tgusa.
Daniel Triplett says
Yes, this is a war of Biblical proportions, on a scale the World has never seen. Many will die.
In the end (it won’t take long) the World will either be 100% Islamic, or 0% Islamic: Their rules, not ours.
Kaffirs best develop the stomach and will to do what must be done, and soon.
Matthieu Baudin says
“… Interrupted repeatedly by chants of “Donald Trump! Donald Trump! Donald Trump!” as he was speaking in Poland on Thursday, President Trump delivered a ringing affirmation that he would defend Western civilization: “Just as Poland could not be broken, I declare today for the world to hear that the West will never, ever be broken. Our values will prevail, our people will thrive, and our civilization will triumph…”
It’s about time the U.S. President received some love on the podium instead of the incessant verbal attacks and petty criticism. The Poles are a people whose history lives in their hearts, they have an identity forged through patriotism and sacrifice. Poles have long identified with Western Europe, the strongest links with France and England, built on separate legacies. There are still a small number of citizens from the Second World War period who remember the rape of their country by the Wehrmacht, the halving of Warszawa’s population and the very bad deal that Roosevelt struck with Stalin that threw away Poland’s keys to freedom.
The freedom that today’s Poles cherish isn’t taken for granted, as it has been in most of Western Europe in recent decades; Poland’s freedom, and the freedom of a half dozen other independent minded Central European Nations and Baltic States, is hard work, made possible by a loyal populous and a political leadership that is ever mindful that they are now acting on two fronts for national freedom – the ongoing active destabilisation of the east of Europe centred around the aspirations of the New Vlad, and the threat of internal social chaos that a mass influx of Islamic migrants would create.
The real taste of freedom for which these countries strive, following recent decades of external political subjugation, is The Pursuit Of Happiness, a wonderful and liberating notion brought to the fore over two centuries ago by the people of the United States.
tgusa says
Well done Matthieu Baudin!
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
It is all one could hope for and yet in this day and age people have to demand it?
Aubrey E. Ritchie says
We have many American military bases in Germany. Many need to be removed from there to Poland as Merkel and etc. do not appreciate the money they put into their economy.
Poland will appreciate what Germany does not.
Repay Poland’s support with substance, not with just words.
DFD says
… “We are fighting hard against radical Islamic terrorism,” he declared. “And we will prevail. We cannot accept those who reject our values and who use hatred to justify violence against the innocent.”…
So that explains the arms deal worth 300 billion in total with S Arabia. Plus other ‘sweeties’ and concessions to various other Sunni states.
All that talk about prevailing is very nice. Sounds good. But what about the DEEDS, the ACTIONS to do so?
Nobody even dares to hint at what is already required! Never mind doing it.
Daniel Triplett says
Agreed, our President going to Saudi was a bad plan. He legitimized Islam in doing so.
We must give Muslims ultimatums, not military hardware.
gravenimage says
The idea that no one dares to criticize Donald Trump is quite mistaken.