In 2011, Obama ordered the removal of all mention of Islam and jihad from counter-terror training, making it difficult, if not impossible, for law enforcement and intelligence officials to understand the motivating ideology of jihad terrorists. Trump has been under tremendous pressure to fall into line with this thinking, which claims that we only encourage the jihadis if we identify them properly. He has not yet, however, yet removed all the obstacles that Obama placed in the way of the intelligence community knowing and understanding the enemy, and his “radical” adjective is incorrect: the jihadis are well within the mainstream of Islamic theology and law. Still, this is progress, albeit slow, toward a realistic appraisal of what we are up against, which has been lacking since September 17, 2001, when George W. Bush proclaimed that Islam was a religion of peace.
“WATCH: Trump Vows to Stomp Out ‘Radical Islamic Terror’ at Anti-ISIS Conference,” United with Israel, February 7, 2019 (thanks to the Geller Report):
Unlike his predecessor, the current U.S. president is not afraid to single out the ideology behind Mideast strife, from terrorism in Israel to Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons.
U.S. President Donald Trump addressed the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS after his State of the Union speech just one day prior.
Trump got straight to the point, vowing that the U.S. would continue to fight the forces of “radical Islamic terror,” and vanquish the Islamic State (ISIS), an ultra-violent group that has murdered and pillaged its way through Iraq and large swaths of Syria for the past five years or so.
While ISIS is on the ropes, it is holed up in a concentrated area, with a handful of never-say-die adherents refusing to surrender. If Trump has his way, these remnants of ISIS will be taken care of as well.
somehistory says
Mr. Trump, “Someday maybe, we won’t have to think about this problem.”
That is for sure. islam is headed for total destruction. (Revelation chapter 13 thru chapter 21)
christianblood says
Trump is vowing to defeat global islamic terrorism? Give me a break!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f35TUFmCtYY
somehistory says
I’m not a violent person, so have to say, become a dancer or actor and I’ll wish/hope you “break a leg.”
I posted where I think the defeat of islam…and all other forms of evil..will come. If you disagree with what Christ said in Revelation, then your name is a misnomer. I have faith that the defeat of evil comes from God and His Son.
christianblood says
somehistory
(…Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms…)
Eph 6:12
gravenimage says
Anyone in the civilized world is mistaken in believing that Saudi Arabia is an ally, as I have noted here many times before.
But christianblood has also condemned Trump and America defeating the Islamic State, and said many times that he wants to see us conquered by Muslims.
Terry Gain says
Deal with radical Islamic terrorism. Check. Good. How about a plan to deal with regular Islamic terrorism.
PRCS says
“Deal with radical Islamic terrorism.”
Bad.
Uncheck.
Not even a regular Islamic ‘terrorism’.
There is jihad, per written, Orthodox Islam.
I don’t know why he clings to the bogus notion of “radical Islamic terrorism”.
Rufolino says
+1
James Pierce says
How refreshing to have a President who can actually call a spade a spade instead of coming up with some asinine mouthful like “man caused disaster” and “overseas contingency operation”
Moshe says
And yet President Obama initiated an era of world peace in which Iran agreed to give up its nuclear ambitions and ISIS remained a JV team. It was not for nothing that he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. President Obama’s use of language, metaphor and euphemism constituted a brilliant approach to shielding America from workplace violence and man-made disasters.
Every high-information voter knows this.
With President Trump’s blunt language and history of White Privilege, the Middle East has become a tinderbox, and Iran ever more bellicose.
What’s more, the Obama era set the stage for the Green New Deal (Solyndra was actually a meritorious experiment in social entrepreneurship)–a detailed plan for a decade of hope and change. Indeed, the Hon. AOC is much more than a “girl from Queens”: she is destined to be America’s next transformational young President, with a multicultural heritage that blends and honors all human lineages and cultures. Her vision encompasses the best of all possible worlds.
Why is Trump so negative about everything?
Jay says
Moshe — surely you jest!!
Keys says
“Obama initiated an era of world peace” like the “Arab Spring”, for example.
Kathleen Wallace says
Obama initiated world peace??? How come then Muslims were killing people all over the world in the name of Allah? How come Russia invaded the Crimea and tried to invade the Ukraine? Those instances don’t sound like he did anything for world peace other than hide his head in the sand.
As for AOC, if her ideas were instituted, this country would definitely be transformed. This country would become another third world hell hole. Further, despite her having a cum laude degree from Boston U., she knows nothing about economics even though she minored in it. She is absolutely one of the most ignorant women to come out of the halls of higher learner ever and is proof that our educational system is now one of the worst in the world. The faculty and administrators at Boston U. should hang their heads in shame at allowing this woman to graduate because either her professors were really bad or she learned nothing from them. At a guess, I say the former because most U.S. universities/colleges are full of leftist professors who would rather indoctrinate their students than educate them.
terry says
Well said!
WPM says
AOC graduated 7 years ago from Boston U and her only job was 7 years of bartending ,imagen what kind of job she would get if she did not get a degree? Now she wants the American government to do away with air travel and build “trains” to cross the Pacific ,this idiot was elected as a freshman congress woman, her policies if put into place {not that she has any idea how to put them in place} would kill the American economy.
gravenimage says
I see that “Moshe” is trolling us again. This gets very tedious.
mortimer says
I partly agree with Pres. Trump. The ISIS in Syria and Iraq are largely defeated, but the 200,000,000 Muslims worldwide who support terrorism have NOT been defeated.
They are merely waiting for the NEXT opportunity for jihad and the NEXT opportunity to set up a caliphate.
Walter Sieruk says
On the date of 2/5/ 19 Speaking about ISIS, President Trump during his second State of the Union speech declared “ We have liberated most of the terror from those bloodthirsty monsters.”
Furthermore, the scholar and author, Robert Spencer, in his latest book which has the title of THE HISTORY OF JIHAD FROM MUHAMMAD TO ISIS . For on page it reads “When Donald Trump replaced Barack as president of the United States, Iraqi forces and other began rolling up the Islamic State strongholds, such that within a year of the beginning of the Trump Presidency, the Islamic State had lost nine-eight of its territory.”
As good as the collapse of that Islamic “state” is we must not remember that the source and inspiration for and of that vicious and murderous jihad entity, ISIS, has not collapsed .Therefore we should not let our guard down regarding such heinous dangers.
Furthermore, we may all be sure of terrible reality that the Muslims who are the jihadist members of that vicious, brutal and murderous jihad entity, ISIS, are still scheming future Islamic t terror/murder attacks in the USA both against the American citizens and this nation as a whole. Nevertheless, we ,as Americans , should not live in fear nor be afraid to go to different places or do different things out of being afraid of an ISIS jihad attack . For to live in fear would make the jihadists of ISIS happy.
Still, even though we need not live in fear we should be alert and aware of our surrounding as likewise be on the lookout for anything appears wrong or out of place. As in “What’s wrong with this picture?” Then if anything is seen that doesn’t seem right then go and inform and right person about it.
For example , that tee -shirt vendor in New York City , at times square, who saw some smoke come out of a parked van .So he went a told police officer about it. As it has been said “If you see something, say something.” This may be put in another way, be the words of a former US President, Thomas Jefferson, For his wise words apply, even more now, then they did in his own time. For Mr. Jefferson declared “Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.”
somehistory says
cb,
that Scripture is true. But my comments…both of them…are regarding the physical destruction of islam…and all evil of which there is an overwhelming amount and variety…will come from Christ and the Authority given Him by His Father.
We “fight the fine fight of the faith,” and Christ fights the physical battle of Armageddon, getting rid of satan, his demons, and those humans who follow the demonic teachings.
christianblood says
somehistory
I agree with you! The fine fight in our part includes to speak the truth that islam is an evil cult of hate and death and that when our leaders are telling us that islam is the religion of peace we should not only reject them but that we should force them resign as traitors!
christianblood says
somehistory
If there is only 100 men doing nothing else but just marching and dressed like the knights in the video below in every major Western city, twice a week, there will absolutely be NO threat of islamic terror or stealthy islamic jihadist activities in that city within a short few months! You can’t imagine the awesome, preventive spiritual power that those knights are emitting into their surroundings when they march that way!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=29&v=ky6GKty6azk
gravenimage says
This is certainly a good thing, and does imply resistance..
But the idea that Muslims are so terrified of those dressed as knights that they will never dare commit acts of Jihad where they have marched is questionable. After all, Muslims did not stop waging Jihad in the face of the *actual* knights of the Crusades.
christianblood says
gravenimage
As I said earlier this is ultimately an spiritual war, a war between light and darkness, between Truth and lies, between tyranny and justice! The real, serious problem in all this is that the secularized and unspiritualized West cannot understand it that way because they deny the primacy of spirit or even the existence of the spirit world treating it as a myth and you are in that same category here, Graven!
(…The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit…)
1 Corinthians 2:14
gravenimage says
christianblood has said before that I am not spiritual because I don’t laud Iran, scream “God bless Hezb’allah!”, and want to see the West destroyed by Islam as he does.
Lydia Church says
: D
Call it out for what it is!!!
gravenimage says
Video: Trump vows to stamp out “radical Islamic terror” at Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS conference
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Save for the mistaken reference to Islamic terror being “radical”, this is good to hear.
Relic says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj6Y6JCu-l4
Ed says
Is HR McMaster still on the scene and supplying the Trump administration with his mainstream narratives (in line with GH Bush’s coined and accepted “Islam is a religion of peace”)?
somehistory says
terry,
+++100
Better to be called a “crank” by a human, than to be called a “fool” by God.