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Why Biden Said ‘Inshallah’ During the Debate

Oct 2, 2020 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer 35 Comments

My latest in PJ Media:

One of the most revealing moments of last night’s debate was one that most people probably missed. BuzzFeed’s Hamed Aleaziz was overjoyed, tweeting that it was “a historic moment in America.” Over at Slate, Aymann Ismail added that “as terrible as this debate night was, at least a few of us had this moment.”

This glorious occasion came when Donald Trump stated that he would eventually release his tax returns: “I’ve paid millions of dollars, and you’ll get to see it.” Joe Biden responded: “When? Inshallah,” using Arabic for “God willing,” a phrase that is often used in the context of procrastination.

Some Muslims were excited about Biden’s colloquial use of the phrase, so as to mean “This is not likely to happen.” “Interfaith and anti-racism educator” Hind Makki tweeted: “Whenever someone who’s not Muslim drops an inshallah in conversation, I assume they have Muslim colleagues. When they know to use it colloquially [sarcastically], I know they have close Muslim friends.”

These were just the sort of reactions Biden was doubtless hoping for. Arabic-speaking Christians as well as Muslims say “Inshallah,” but in saying this, Biden was not pandering to Arabic-speaking Christians; he was pandering to the part of his base (Muslim and non-Muslim) that believes that counterterror efforts are largely just an exercise in “Islamophobia” and supports the likes of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. With the world watching, Biden was demonstrating his support for the Left’s favored religion, Islam. He wouldn’t have said the phrase in English, “God willing,” because his point was not primarily to emphasize that Trump was going to procrastinate in releasing his tax returns; it was to show in a concise, albeit indirect fashion that he was a worthy candidate of the anti-American hard left, a reliable foe of the alleged “Muslim ban,” and a fervent proponent of mass migration.

For Biden has to earn the love of the increasingly dominant hard-left wing of his party. Trump several times last night maneuvered Biden into repudiating pet causes of the far left, notably the Green New Deal, for which Biden affirms support on his own website. This is likely to cause him some difficulty with the most radical of his supporters, for they have already made clear that they’ve got the Democratic nominee on a short leash.

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  1. Ray Jarman says

    Oct 2, 2020 at 5:17 pm

    Maybe Biden is renouncing his phony Catholicism for Islam or is he just so stupid? By acknowledging Allah, he is renouncing the true God of the Bible and maybe in the next comedy, he will utter Allahu akba just to make Ilhan Omar happy. I like to think that if John Paul II were alive, Biden would be excommunicated by now with Nancy Pelosi as they both believe in the killing of infants.

    Reply
    • Wellington says

      Oct 2, 2020 at 5:53 pm

      I vote, Ray, for the “stupid option.” As Rudy Giuliani not long ago opined, Biden is as dumb as you can be and still get a law degree. Even when Biden was in his “prime,” he still at best was a mediocrity.

      On the specific matter of abortion, Roman Catholicism has been unambiguously clear that ANY abortion is wrong, even if the fetus is to be born deformed or the result of incest or rape. No exceptions. None.

      I personally don’t agree with this, being barely pro-choice as I am, but no Roman Catholic, knowing Canon Law, can possibly support abortion under any circumstance, even if the life of the mother (a very different matter from the “health of the mother”) is at stake.

      N.B., Biden is about as clueless about Roman Catholic doctrine, rooted as it is in Aristotelian and Aquinian thought, as he is about Islamic doctrine. In short, he is deficient many times over—in foreign affairs, economics, respecting the monstrosity which are the UN, BLM and Antifa, and even concerning the destructive idea of “court packing.”

      In short, show me an American citizen (hopefully non-Americans will not vote even though the Democratic Party hopes otherwise) who votes for Biden and I will show you a fool of one kind or another because Biden is the ultimate “empty suit” in the political realm. He’s a giant nothing, though a potentially very harmful giant nothing.

      Reply
      • James Lincoln says

        Oct 2, 2020 at 6:34 pm

        Wellington,

        100% spot-on about Biden.

        In case you missed it, Tucker Carlson did a great analysis of the first US Presidential Debate.

        The stakes have never been higher, at least in my memory…

        Reply
        • gravenimage says

          Oct 2, 2020 at 9:23 pm

          Good analysis. Thanks for that link, James.

        • Keys says

          Oct 2, 2020 at 9:57 pm

          In the video the arson celebrator at 1:36 looks like he is raising one finger one each hand giving the Islamic “one God, Allah” sign that Linda Sarsour likes to flash.

          Could he be one of the Somali muslims living in Ilhan Omar’s Minneapolis ?

      • mortimer says

        Oct 2, 2020 at 11:31 pm

        Yes. ‘Clueless’ about a lot. How did Biden get so far with so little to offer?

        Reply
        • gravenimage says

          Oct 3, 2020 at 12:31 am

          Good question, Mortimer.

        • Rufolino says

          Oct 3, 2020 at 4:03 am

          Biden is a vacuum, something Nature abhors.
          Nefarious forces in the Democratic Party are waiting off-stage, ready to rush in and fill the vacuum when he becomes President.
          It’s one of the most appalling outlooks I’ve ever witnessed on the world political scene.
          It will mean the rule of millionaire marxists and the mob.

      • william carr says

        Oct 3, 2020 at 5:02 am

        Of course the MSM are making this a big issue as indeed they do with DTs off the cuff remarks. Having lived in a Muslim country for four years I can tell you that friendship with Muslims does not happen. It is a rare Muslim that will risk the disapproval of his fellows by being openly friendly with a Christian. The friends I did have were with the indigenous people. Of course in a non Muslim country in the West interaction with non Muslims is to their advantage especially if it will support their agenda

        Reply
      • Francis Weber says

        Oct 4, 2020 at 12:42 am

        Every woman in America has available, condoms, IUDS, spermicide jells and the contraceptive pill, many ways to avoid murdering a child!

        Reply
        • S simba says

          Oct 4, 2020 at 4:38 pm

          Francis You are spot on.

      • jaycee says

        Oct 4, 2020 at 1:51 am

        😆😆 Pope Francis is the first Jesuit in 475 yr…he has the Vatican set up as satans lair. They are Edomites…canaanites and yes, torture, rape, organ harvest, terrify them, kill and drink their adrenochrome and are cannibals…you’ll learn very soon that only 7%REPUBLICANS classify as jews, the Democratscare the rest. A biblical moment is coming very soon, before or after election I don’t know

        Reply
    • Maemae77 says

      Oct 3, 2020 at 8:21 am

      It makes it obvious that a Muslim probably told him what to say in his ear piece. He definitely has the Muslim vote because they’re using him as a gateway to implementing Sharia law.

      Reply
    • John-Otto Liljenstolpe says

      Oct 4, 2020 at 1:28 am

      And I suppose, Ray, that when Arabic speaking Christians use the words, “Allah” and “inshallah,” they too are renouncing the true God of the Bible?

      Reply
  2. curious george says

    Oct 2, 2020 at 5:18 pm

    An investigation into Biden’s shady financial dealings.

    Riding the Dragon

    https://bidenfilm.com/

    Reply
  3. Wellington says

    Oct 2, 2020 at 5:33 pm

    Biden knows next to nothing about Islam. Imagine if you asked him what the terms “kitman” or “muruna” mean. Ditto for naming a single major school of Islamic theology, Sunni or Shiite. Or who Kinana was? Does he know the difference between “sura” and “sira?” Even what the hadiths are? I think Biden would “come up short” on every single one of these queries.

    Now, I fully understand that many who know deep in their gut that Islam is all wrong for America and the West could not answer some or all of these questions, but how many people a while ago, who had a deep-seated feeling that Marxism was pernicious nonsense or that Nazism was not the way to go for Germany, could have answered similar specifics about these two other foul and totalitarian creeds?

    Sometimes, gut instincts about something supersedes pure knowledge. Yes, pure knowledge is helpful, very, in defeating error, but instinctive reflexes against massive error, minus theoretical knowledge, is so very often “good enough.”

    Trump at least has the instinctive element. Biden doesn’t even have this.

    Reply
    • gravenimage says

      Oct 2, 2020 at 9:27 pm

      +1

      Reply
    • john smith says

      Oct 3, 2020 at 9:20 am

      True Wellington, he is clueless about this death cult.

      Reply
  4. CogitoErgoSum says

    Oct 2, 2020 at 5:46 pm

    I still think Joe’s best quote is “Poor kids are just as bright and talented as white kids,” but this one is good too:

    Reply
    • FYI says

      Oct 2, 2020 at 6:13 pm

      ” I may be Irish but I’m not stupid”
      Joe Biden {Iowa 2019}

      Reply
      • mortimer says

        Oct 2, 2020 at 11:33 pm

        Irish people are appalled by that remark.

        Joe Biden got where he is by being the ultimate ‘yes-man’.

        Reply
    • gravenimage says

      Oct 2, 2020 at 9:29 pm

      I was a poor white kid. Do they even exist for Biden?

      Reply
      • tgusa says

        Oct 3, 2020 at 1:26 am

        Whites that haven’t had their ups and downs at points within their lives have led a golden spoon completely lucky life.

        Reply
        • Maemae77 says

          Oct 3, 2020 at 8:17 am

          😂🤣
          Not true.

  5. gravenimage says

    Oct 2, 2020 at 6:45 pm

    Why Biden Said ‘Inshallah’ During the Debate

    With the world watching, Biden was demonstrating his support for the Left’s favored religion, Islam. He wouldn’t have said the phrase in English, “God willing,” because his point was not primarily to emphasize that Trump was going to procrastinate in releasing his tax returns; it was to show in a concise, albeit indirect fashion that he was a worthy candidate of the anti-American hard left, a reliable foe of the alleged “Muslim ban,” and a fervent proponent of mass migration.
    ………….

    Spot on analysis.

    Biden has also said that he will start importing more Muslims into the US “on day one”. *Very* disturbing stuff.

    Reply
    • mortimer says

      Oct 3, 2020 at 10:06 am

      Is that sly remark to the mullahs a ‘DOG WHISTLE’ to the mullahs?

      Reply
  6. tgusa says

    Oct 2, 2020 at 8:46 pm

    For decades the left have labeled Hitler and the nazis as right wing. By no means can you label the nazi supporting muslims as left wing. So the question is why do they gravitate to the democrat party? The answer is they see the democrat party as their best road forward in undermining American values and institutions. And now that the answer is clear the question is does the democrat party have a death wish or are they just clueless despicables with zero situational awareness?

    Reply
    • Maemae77 says

      Oct 3, 2020 at 8:13 am

      More democrats have converted to Islam then Americans realize. America has more Muslims in America than most Americans realize. The Muslim base grows much faster because of birth rate and people deceived into converting to Islam. Muslims have targeted parts of our society they deem as weak-minded and morally corrupt individuals are the easiest to convert. Examples: prisons, schools and ghettos. Muslims have a lot if influence in those areas.

      Reply
  7. Commons says

    Oct 2, 2020 at 9:03 pm

    Our leaders are falling over themselves to kiss the ass of Islam. They definitely have no clue of what the Islam teaches. United States is probably 15 to 20 years behind Europe in terms of advancement of Islam and subjugation of non-Muslim population.

    Islamic Jihadis are preparing the battlefield and, our leader and people are sleeping and dreaming. It is very concerning that very few Americans are aware of what is happening. Most people are lost in distraction of movies, music, sports, career, and family. Meanwhile, the enemy is taking full advantage our ignorance and silently busy preparing for battlefield. When Islamic Jihadis have enough strength and power, they will move on to next phase of violent attack. For them this is a Jihad – Holy War in the service of Allah.

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    • James Lincoln says

      Oct 3, 2020 at 9:03 am

      Commons says,

      “United States is probably 15 to 20 years behind Europe in terms of advancement of Islam and subjugation of non-Muslim population.”

      Only if Pres. Trump does not get reelected – and we end up with a “permanent” Democratic controlled Presidency, House, and Senate. An absolute nightmare.

      Look at how much damage Pres. Obama did in eight years…

      Reply
      • Commons says

        Oct 3, 2020 at 6:55 pm

        I agree Obama has done lot of damage and I hope Trump gets elected.

        My concern is that Islam has taken advantage of liberal immigration policy of USA over a period of last 30 years. Islam has infiltrated Western Europe nations to the extent that it can wage guerilla war similar to what they have been fighting with Israel. It is about to do the same in USA in near future. Attacks in United States have also reached post 9-11 high but media doesn’t report them.

        When my friends ask what does our future look like. I tell them look at what Jihadis are doing in Germany, France, and Belgium. Similar things will happen in United States in future. The pace of Jihadist attacks will only increase. Most Europeans are living in denial although some are beginning to wake up because of increasing frequency of violent attacks. The question is: Can we save our democracy in US when Americans are in a deep sleep? or Is it too late?

        Reply
    • Debra says

      Oct 3, 2020 at 8:22 pm

      More true words have never been spoken. The long list of terrorist attacks here and abroad has not been enough to wake the meandering herd. Too many distractions. Too much comfort. Too little exposure to the outside world. Sad to say, we’re like sitting ducks and the enemy is well, well aware.

      Reply
  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Oct 2, 2020 at 10:04 pm

    Maybe that has something to do with the friends and allies of Joe Biden , Antifa and BLM with their Red/ Green alliance ?

    Reply
  9. islam is lame (@AdiShankaracha4) says

    Oct 2, 2020 at 10:56 pm

    He said it around 40mins in this video. Try listening at 0.75 speed or less https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TTtlFpM5Ss

    Reply
    • Reziac says

      Oct 3, 2020 at 2:23 am

      40:00 on the nose. Once you know to listen for it, it’s quite clear.

      Also, he says it “in-sha-LAH” which to my ear implies familiarity with actual speakers, not just from a book.

      Reply

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