Naming the Enemy

President Obama was careful to abide by his own mandate that Islam not be associated with terrorist attacks, by first calling the Paris shooting at the newspaper offices an act of violence by a few, only to later name it terrorism. However, he will not call it Islamic terrorism. This reinforces his statement in 2012, when speaking at the U.N., Obama said "The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam." Strange thing for an American President to say to the world. Strange, that is, unless that is where your sympathies lie. And therein, lies the problem.

This President is, and has been since day one, stuck in a conflict of interest...leading America in its fight against radical Islam on the one hand, and not wanting to admit that there's a faction (the fundamentalists) of the first religion he grew up to love and respect, that's committing murder in the name of that religion. The Muslim call to prayer "is one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset," he has claimed.

When he took office, he ordered that all references to radical Islam, Islamists, Islamic terrorists, etc. (whatever phrase one wants to use that links up the two) be stricken from records, that all training of agents who combat terrorism be changed by eliminating any material that puts Islam in a negative light. According to Judicial Watch, (2012) "so far 700 pages of documents from about 300 presentations given to agents since the 2001 terrorist attacks have been purged." The goal being, "to banish any material that could be viewed as offensive to Muslims." As part of a wider Muslim outreach effort, there was a special Senate hearing to discuss how to best protect Muslim civil rights, a meeting between Homeland Security and extremist Muslim organizations to discuss national security, and NASA being ordered to focus on Muslim outreach and diplomacy.

All of this effort, designed to deny that a minority population within Islam, has as its primary objective, to pursue a global jihad, a holy war,  and to either convert or kill the infidels. Whether these violent Muslims are interpreting the strict word of the Koran, seeking revenge for western intervention, attempting to eliminate the western way of life, working to build their desired caliphate, or all of the above, one must wonder: why is our government going out of its way to pretend that these extremists are not killing in the name of Islam and are merely a violent few? These radicals are out for our destruction and our President refuses to acknowledge their end game. Hell, if he can't even name our enemy, how can we pursue a successful strategy against them?

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/02/u-s-bans-linking-terrorism-to-muslims-in-agent-training/