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<\/a>Obama was set to tee off on the golf course, when the outfit released footage of its latest bloodletting in Iraq: a video clip depicting the handsome head of American photojournalist James Foley being sawed off by a masked man with a British accent \u2013 yes, the West either admits these Muhammadans through mass immigration, or grows them at home in hothouses of multiculturalism.<\/p>\nThe life of another journalist, Steven Sotloff, now hangs by a thread.<\/p>\n
Unlike our Israeli and European allies, the U.S. government does not haggle for the lives of its countrymen. In fairness, Obama had at least made attempts to rescue poor Mr. Foley. His predecessor, Genghis Bush, sat bone idle, never lifting a bloodstained finger to spare Paul Johnson, Nick Berg, Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong, of blessed memory, who also met the most ghastly fate imaginable: beheading.<\/p>\n
Even before these men were headless, they were faceless to Bush and his followers.<\/p>\n
From Martha\u2019s Vineyard, Obama addressed the media. His response to the beheading of Mr. Foley exhilarated the groupies at CNN. \u201cThe entire world is appalled,\u201d the president intoned solemnly. It shocks the conscience of the world. Foley was a good man who stood for \u201chope and civility.\u201d The killers are craven cowards. They have no ideology, only an \u201cempty vision.\u201d They offer their neighbors nothing but \u201cnihilistic\u201d horror.<\/p>\n
\u201cISIL speaks for no religion. Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim. No faith teaches people to massacre innocents. No just God would stand for what they did yesterday and what they do every single day,\u201d asserted Obama, before scampering back to his game.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t be too harsh on the White House\u2019s current occupant for symbolically severing the ISIS snake head from its Islamic body and tail. His predecessor was as devoted to promoting the Religion of Peace pie-in-the-sky. When it comes to anodyne assurances about Islam\u2019s compatibility with diversity and democracy, Bush was every bit the delusional dhimmi Obama is.<\/p>\n
As Paul Sperry documented in \u201cInfiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated Washington<\/a>,\u201d Bush inaugurated the practice of always mentioning the nation\u2019s churches and synagogues in tandem with its mosques. As did he promise Muslim leaders never to pair \u201cIslam\u201d with \u201cterrorism,\u201d a promise he kept. And never did Bush utter a peep about \u201cIslamic terrorism,\u201d emphasizing only equal-opportunity terrorism.<\/p>\n Bush hosted regular iftaar<\/em> fast breakers and had selected as his \u201cexpert\u201d on Islam a dabbler \u2013 a law professor called David Forte who doubled up as a \u201creligious pluralist.\u201d Forte crafted one of the Bush administration\u2019s central stupidities: the notion that the essential Islam has been hijacked by a few bad-a\u2013ed Arabs. Bush was forever offering incantations about Islam\u2019s compatibility with liberty and tolerance; a faith based on love, not hate, ad nauseam. As the ideologues that purport to be saving us from the scourge of Islamic terrorism see it, the Religion of Peace was doing what it does best \u2013 inspire peace and prosperity \u2013 when, out of nowhere, radicals materialized and derailed it. This is contradicted by history as well as an important primary source: the Quran.<\/p>\n The first attests that the sword has always been integral to Islam, and that conversion has invariably meant conquest and carnage. The second proves that Islam\u2019s alleged \u201chijackers\u201d have done no more than heed their scriptures. The soldiers of ISIS or ISIL are obedient Muslim. They\u2019ve obeyed the Quran. \u201cThe Call to Jihad\u201d instructs Muslims: \u201cWhen you meet those who disbelieve smite at their necks till you have killed and wounded many of them.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHoly war, which is demanded in Islamic law, is not defensive war as the Western students of Islam would like to tell us,\u201d cautions Serge Trifkovic, author of \u201cThe Sword of the Prophet.\u201d Even apologists for Islam \u00e0 la John Esposito admit that murderous missionizing is a filament of the Islamic faith: \u201cJihad means to fight to spread Islam, not just to defend it, and to wage war against [Jews and Christians] who refuse Muslim rule.\u201d<\/p>\n What can the aspiring dhimmi<\/em> anticipate? Peace has its place in Islam, promises Sperry, who has mined the Quran, but \u201conly after the entire world is conquered in the name of Allah.\u201d And even then, peace is the province of Muslims, mainly, while others are subdued and must pay for protection.<\/p>\n The Quran\u2019s ruthless particularism runs counter to the universal concepts of justice and love of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles. The tenet of religious literalism, moreover, explains why Islam has changed little over 1,400 years. Unlike the Jewish (and no doubt Christian) holy texts that have been reinterpreted by the sages over the centuries, the Quran has not \u2013 its decrees are not debatable and are to be taken literally.<\/p>\n Before being hushed, the greatest theologian alive \u2013 no, he\u2019s not Pope Francis I \u2013 worried out loud that Islam was a closed and irrational system, impermeable to reform. Pope Benedict XVI was threatened, in 2006, for marshaling yet more primary sources to show that Islam does not brook reason or reformation and is commanded to will the world to its ways.<\/p>\n You might say that the term \u201cradical Islam\u201d is something of a redundancy. Islam is radical, and by extension, so are its true believers. Some, like ISIS or ISIL, are simply more devoted than others.<\/p>\n \u00a9 2014 by Ilana Mercer<\/em><\/p>\n [followbutton username=’IlanaMercer’ count=’true’ lang=’en’ theme=’light’]<\/p>\n Like Ilana Mercer’s Facebook page<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Read Ilana in German on Junge Freiheit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cISIL\u201d is how President Barack Obama refers to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). He pronounces it as one would the last syllable in \u201cMoishel,\u201d giving it the ring of a Yiddish diminutive. Yiddish adds an \u201c-l or \u2013ele\u201d suffix to signify affection. \u201cISIL,\u201d the more expansive appellation preferred by the president, stands … Continue reading “Isis is Islam”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[2471,9057,914,9802,3623,90,9804,9803,198],"class_list":["post-15397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns","category-ilana-mercer","tag-iraq","tag-isis","tag-islam","tag-james-foley","tag-muslim","tag-obama","tag-paul-sperry","tag-steven-sotloff","tag-syria"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15398,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15397\/revisions\/15398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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