We are constantly being told to have great national conversations regarding difficult issue. In this case, the issue is Islamic terrorism. Well, we are not having great national conversations but as simply lectured to by the Obama administration, the mainstream media, etc.
We are not being encouraged as to how to think about this issue but are simply being told what we should think about it; one view, one option—period!…or be called an ignorant, anti-Muslim, hate speech committing bigot.
Well, what we are constantly told to believe is that Muslim terrorists are not Muslim as they do not represent Islam. As a quick reference, note that the Encyclopedia of Wars (New York: Facts on File, 2005 AD) was compiled by nine history professors who specifically conducted research for the text for a decade in order to chronicle 1,763 wars. The survey of wars covers a time span reckoned as being from 8000 BC to 2003 AD. From over 10,000 years of war they categorize 123 wars, which is 6.98 percent, to have been religious wars and half of those involved Islam.
Thus, in its historically somewhat young life, Islam has accounted for half of all religious wars—and this does not count the countless terrorist acts (for the list of these wars, see the article: Religious wars vs. Atheist wars.
Now, if the Obama admin, et al., truly believe that Muslim terrorists are not Muslim they why do they also, and in opposition to this claim, take actions such as those which follow.
MR. CARNEY: …Aboard the USS Carl Vinson, the burial of bin Laden was done in conformance with Islamic precepts and practices…
Q But can you acknowledge the fact that…the Navy was following the Islamic customs and traditions…
MR. CARNEY: Yes.
Q You made it clear from the podium about how he was washed, the procedures for Islamic burial…
MR. CARNEY: …it was viewed as entirely appropriate and necessarily sensitive to proceed with the burial in the way that we did, to be respectful of Islamic traditions and precepts…
MR. CARNEY: Well, we have — we make no apologies about that. He was enemy number one for this country and killed many, many innocent civilians. And — no apologies. But that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t be entirely respectful of Islam, which we are, or that it doesn’t change the fact the President’s very strongly held conviction and expressed conviction that this has never been about Islam, because, in fact, Osama bin Laden represented — was a mass murderer who killed many Muslims.
MR. CARNEY: The efforts that were made to give Osama bin Laden an appropriate burial, following Islamic precepts and traditions, were considerable. However, I would also say that there is nothing — the respect that was shown to him and his body was far greater than the respect that Osama bin Laden showed to the victims on 9/11 or any of his other victims, and that’s because that’s who we are. So we feel very comfortable with the fact that we took extraordinary measures to show that respect to the traditions of the Islamic faith.
So, attempt to wrap your mind around the “thinking” of the Obama admin (keeping in mind that this was also the “thinking” of the Bush admin):
Muslim terrorists are not Muslim.
Osama Bin Laden was a Muslim terrorist and thus, not a Muslim.
American tax payers funded a Muslim burial for a man who we are supposed to believe was not a Muslim.
The Obama admin ensured that “considerable…extraordinary measures” were taken to give a non-Muslim a Muslim burial (at sea).
This was done in order to “be entirely respectful of Islam” even though “this has never been about Islam.”
Additionally, Osama bin Laden “was a mass murderer who killed many Muslims” and yet, we give him a Muslim burial which, if this “logic” is accurate, Muslims would not appreciate and would take offense as we would be giving Muslim rites to a non-Muslim who mass murdered many Muslims.
And to this, all you are socially allowed to say it, “Makes perfect sense to me…what’s Taylor Swift up to?”
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