Obama Scolds Trump for Using Term ‘Radical Islam’, Calls it a ‘Political Distraction’


Obama has played a game of not naming the common religious identity of the terrorists in a multitude of attacks and barbaric outrages. The media and fellow politicians, including Republicans, have politely avoided pointing out the verbal ju-jitsu avoidance of not making the connection. It is more than odd, and it should be obvious that if you are to engage an enemy you must first know who your enemy is.

The reality is that if these multitudinous terror attacks had all been committed by Christians, or Jews, or Zoroastrians or any other group, that would be part of the identity and profile of the attackers, and the battle would then be much more defined. And while all Christians or Jews or Zoroastrians might not be engaged in the terror, it would be important to know that the enemy is NOT Baptists or Amish or Bahai, so that efforts could be focused, and also so the ideology of the Christian or Jewish or Zoroastrian terrorists could be examined to see how best to deal with the root causes of their terrorism.

But for some reason Obama has been unwilling to make the connection and he seems particularly sensitive to anyone who might do so. Enter Donald Trump, who is decidedly not politically correct, and certainly not intimidated by Obama or the PC crowd.

President Barack Obama bitterly denounced presumptive nominee Donald Trump for his repeated challenges to his presidency for not taking the threat of radical Islamic terrorism seriously.

Obama appeared to have reached the breaking point, after repeated taunts from Trump reminding his followers that Obama refused to use the term “radical Islamic terrorism.”

“There’s no magic to the phrase ‘radical Islam,’” Obama said heatedly. “It’s a political talking point. It’s not a strategy.”

Obama argued that he understood the threat posed by extremists, whom he asserted “perverted Islam” to justify terrorism.

Obama defended his decision not to use the phrase, insisting that it was not a result of political correctness but argued that it would help legitimize the enemy.

He implied that using the phrase would do “the terrorists’ work for them” by suggesting that the fight was a war between the Islam religion and the United States and the Western world.

“So someone seriously thinks that we don’t know who we’re fighting?” Obama asked mockingly.

He asserted, however, that radicalized Muslim terrorists were not “religious warriors” but “thugs.”

Obama is correct that specifically naming the terrorists and their common beliefs and theology is not a strategy, yet it defines the problem. In the issue of recent world terrorism, it has little to do with economics or national boundaries or other miscellaneous demographics. In order to deal with an enemy you must first properly identify it.

The common factor among virtually all the terror groups and attacks of the last 30 years is that they are almost all Muslims and subscribe to a certain theology which predicts a coming caliphate, world domination, and the need to convert or eliminate those who will not succumb. Obama may assert that this is a “perverted” interpretation of the religion, but it is a broadly held perversion, with perhaps hundreds of millions of adherents to the concept, even if they are not activists in the violent implementation of that theology. It is only reasonable to know the enemy, including the major common attribute held among many disparate groups.

And when Obama asks if we think he does not know who we are fighting, the question actually hangs in the air. The overreaction by the president when Trump calls him out reinforces the possibility that he does not truly know, or worse that he does know but refuses to admit the (for him) most uncomfortable answer.

Source: breitbart.com

 



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