your islamophobia is showing again. we should expect is the president to understand the nature of the enemy we’re facing. --- he is facing the real enemy, isis ... not all of islam.
Obama’s intellectual distortions are not, alas, contained to a single topic — but it may be most pronounced in his utter inability to see the struggle within Islam --- didn't you just say, 'No one is asking Mr. Obama to indict all of Islam or have America or the West declare a war on it.?' On Wednesday, December 23, 2015 at 10:23:19 AM UTC-6, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Not much of a mind to start with. > > > > B > > > > > > *The Closing of Barack Obama’s Mind* > <https://www.commentarymagazine.com/american-society/the-closing-of-barack-obamas-mind/> > > > > > Peter Wehner 2015-12-04 > > > https://www.commentarymagazine.com/american-society/the-closing-of-barack-obamas-mind/ > > > > [image: Barack Obama]Image by © Ken Cedeno/Corbis > > If you want to witness an adamantine mind at work, you could do a whole > lot worse that observe the 44th president of the United States. Barack > Obama is the most rigidly ideological president of my lifetime, a man who > has a nearly blind adherence to a particular ideology (progressivism). It’s > a disturbing, if at times a psychologically fascinating, thing to witness. > > We’re seeing it play out in multiple ways, but let me offer just one > illustration — his approach to jihadism. It has been clear from the start > of his presidency that Mr. Obama has decided that Islam is wholly separate > from Islamic terrorism, which explains his refusal to use the words (or > variations of the words) radical or militant Islam. It also explains why > his administration has used absurd euphemisms like “man-caused disaster > <http://www.foxnews.com/story/2009/03/17/terrorism-is-man-caused-disaster.html>” > > and “workplace violence > <http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/06/nidal-hasan-s-murders-termed-workplace-violence-by-u-s.html>” > > to describe Islam-inspired attacks. Why the 2009 Christmas Day bomber, Umar > Farouk Abdulmutallab, was an “isolated extremist > <https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-disturbing-pattern-of-playing-down-islamic-terror/2015/07/20/1181bcbc-2ee3-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html>.” > > Why the shooting at a Kosher supermarket in Paris earlier this year was “ > random > <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-shooting-kosher-market-paris-random/story?id=28871389>.” > > (The gunman had declared > <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/11/paris-gunman-amedy-coulibaly-allegiance-isis> > > his allegiance to ISIS.) And why the president, in an effort to protect > Islam, invokes the Crusades at a National Prayer Breakfast > <https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/02/05/remarks-president-national-prayer-breakfast>, > > despite the fact that the Crusades happened roughly a thousand years ago. > On and on it goes. > > We have a president who is eager to put a racial frame around incidents in > which white cops kills blacks, even if, as in the case of Officer Darren > Wilson and Michael Brown, the shooting was justified and there was no > evidence that it was racially motivated. No matter; the incidents fit into > Mr. Obama’s worldview, and off to the races he went. > > But in the case of jihadism, when the killers themselves are invoking the > Koran and the Islamic faith to justify their malevolence — when the > caliphate established in the heart of the Middle East is called the > *Islamic* State — the president refuses to confront it. He goes into > contortions to downplay or ignore the connection to Islam. He has a > narrative to advance, and he will do it even if he has to run roughshod > over reality to do it. > > No one is asking Mr. Obama to indict all of Islam or have America or the > West declare a war on it. He should do neither. But what we should expect > is the president to understand the nature of the enemy we’re facing. It > would also be refreshing if the president did not live in a world > hermetically sealed off from facts that are inconvenient to his worldview. > But that is precisely what Mr. Obama is doing. > > Barack Obama has a self-conceit: He sees himself as pragmatic, empirical, > a man driven by reason rather than emotion, truth rather than dogma. Which > simply underscores how ideological he is. His self-conception is a > self-delusion; he is blind to how closed his mind is and how much he > distorts reality in the cause of his meta-narratives. This happens on issue > after issue — Mr. Obama’s intellectual distortions are not, alas, contained > to a single topic — but it may be most pronounced in his utter inability to > see the struggle within Islam that is unfolding before his very eyes. He > doesn’t want it to be true, and so he won’t allow it to be true. > > > > > > > > > __._,_.___ > ------------------------------ > Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > ------------------------------ > > > Visit Your Group > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmaGZmZGxsBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0NTA4ODcyMzM-> > > > > [image: Yahoo! 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