WHY DOES OBAMA REFUSE TO CONNECT ISLAM WITH TERRORISM?

 

For months reporters have asked why Obama doesn’t use terms like “Islamic Terrorism”.  Instead, he uses terms like “violent extremism”.  If those reporters took the time to do their homework, the answer is crystal clear.

 

On June 4, 2009, Obama gave his famous speech at al-Azhar University in Cairo which is the chief center for Sunni Islamic learning in the world.  In that speech, near the beginning of his presidency, he said, “I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear”.  He announced a partnership between America and Islam.  He went on to say, “Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance… Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism—it is an important part of promoting peace.”

 

For the first time in America’s history, a president bestowed upon Islam a privileged position above all other ideologies.  It was seen in Islamic circles as the American President announcing he is now subservient to Islam’s political agenda.  Islam has a word for such subservient vocabulary.  They call it dhimma, and non-Muslims who accept subservience to Islam are called dhimmis.  In Cairo, Obama indicated to the Islamic world that he was a dhimmi.  After the speech, Wafa Sultan, an Arab psychiatrist, wrote that the President’s comments, “make my work and that of others who speak up against intolerant Islamic doctrines more challenging.  He undermines this mission by placating abusive, xenophobic policies and enabling those within the Islamic world to subjugate others, to coerce others to its beliefs, and to continue these pursuits with his blessing.”

 

In the same speech, Obama proclaimed numerous examples of America’s historical ties with Islam which were absurd.  For example, he tried to paint Thomas Jefferson as an admirer of Islam because he kept a Koran in his home.  In 1801 Jefferson waged war against the Islamic Barbary states of north Africa in order to stop the piracy of ships and the enslavement of more than a million Christians.  The U.S. ambassador to the territory told Jefferson that Muslims justify their slaughter and enslavement of non-Muslims through the “Laws of the Prophet” and the Koran. Jefferson kept a Koran in order to understand the hostile nature of Islam, not because he admired it.  Obama also said that there were almost 7 million Muslims in America.  The next year (2010) the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life put the number at 2.6 million.

 

So, to understand Obama’s refusal to link ISIS (ISIL), and other Islamic Jihadists with Islam, we need only to re-read his 2009 speech to Islamic leaders.  In that speech he announced that his mission is to defend Islam.  His mission is to paint Islam as a promoter of peace in the world.  As one who spent 6 years attending Muslim Jummah Prayer meetings every week due to my assignment, let me explain how Islam views “peace”. “Islam” means submission.  “Peace” means that all opposition is dead or enslaved.  How does that happen?  By “Jihad”-holy war which puts all the world in submission to Sharia Law.  Then and only then is there peace.  It’s that simple.  There is only one path to peace.  It is worldwide war against the kafirs (infidels) and we are in the middle of that war now.

 

To understand Obama’s addiction to the term, “violent extremism”, we only need to once again look at the speech in Cairo.  That’s the term he used for Islamic Jihad in the speech and he won’t change it now no matter how absurd it appears to be.

 

Here is another way Obama and the media misrepresent Islam.  They would have us believe that folks like ISIS, Boko Haram, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, etc. are the fringe element of Islam and most of the rest of Muslims are “moderate”.  The truth is that the opposite is true.  These “extremists” are the heart and core of Islam.  They are the ones who diligently hold to the teachings and example of the Prophet and to Sharia Law.  We shouldn’t refer to them as “extremists”.  They are the “Islamic core” or “Islamic base”.  They drive the ideology of the totalitarian governmental system known as Islam.  The “moderates” are the ones on the fringe.  How do I know this?  Due to my assignment, I was inside Islam during 9/11.