{"id":66744,"date":"2015-03-31T12:09:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T20:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=66744"},"modified":"2015-03-31T12:09:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T20:09:49","slug":"still-keen-on-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=66744","title":{"rendered":"Still Keen On President Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dennis Prager writes<\/a>: 1. President Obama refuses to identify the greatest world evil since Nazism and communism. We all know it is a variation on Islam, whether it is called \u201cradical Islam,\u201d \u201cIslamism,\u201d \u201cMuslim extremism\u201d or \u201cjihadis.\u201d But the president, his administration, and the State Department all refuse to use any of those terms. Instead, the only term permitted is \u201cviolent extremism.\u201d
\nThis past week, President Obama convened an international summit in Washington, D.C., which he called \u201cCountering Violent Extremism.\u201d Not once in his description of the event did he use any word related to Islam. Not \u201cMuslim,\u201d or \u201cIslamic,\u201d or \u201cjihadist\u201d or \u201cIslamist,\u201d or \u201cradical Islamist\u201d or anything else identifying the fact that virtually all the \u201cviolent extremism\u201d in the world to today is carried out by Muslims.
\n2. President Obama removed American troops from Iraq, enabling Islamic State to conquer about one-third of Iraq, and a similarly large portion of Syria. The president and his defenders blame then-president of Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, for excluding Iraq\u2019s Sunnis from power sharing and blame former President George W. Bush for invading Iraq in the first place. But whatever one thinks of Maliki or of the original decision to invade, the reason Islamic State took over much of Iraq was Obama\u2019s insistence on abandoning Iraq.
\n3. On Feb. 10, President Obama described the murderers of Jews in the Parisian kosher grocery as \u201ca bunch of violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris.\u201d For some reason, in that interview, he couldn\u2019t mention that they were Jews, murdered because they were Jews.
\n4. President Obama was asked by the left-wing Internet site Vox, \u201cDo you think the media sometimes overstates the level of alarm people should have about terrorism and this kind of chaos, as opposed to a longer-term problem of climate change and epidemic disease?\u201d
\nThe president\u2019s response: \u201cAbsolutely.\u201d
\n5. Many tens of thousands of people have been killed by radical Muslims; Boko Haram now controls an area in West Africa the size of Belgium; Islamist butchers compete with one another over who can engage in the greater atrocity, European terror is becoming routine; Al-Shabaab calls on American Muslims to murder people in the Mall of America; vast numbers of girls are kidnapped and sold as sex slaves; and the president of the United States thinks the press overstates the threat of Islamist terror while understating the threat of climate change.
\n6. In that interview, President Obama entertained the possibility that in Iran, \u201caccording to their Supreme Leader, it would be contrary to their faith to obtain a nuclear weapon.\u201d
\nHow deep does the president\u2019s naivet\u00e9 about evil go?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dennis Prager writes: 1. President Obama refuses to identify the greatest world evil since Nazism and communism. We all know it is a variation on Islam, whether it is called \u201cradical Islam,\u201d \u201cIslamism,\u201d \u201cMuslim extremism\u201d or \u201cjihadis.\u201d But the president, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-dennis-prager"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66745,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66744\/revisions\/66745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}