Home About Me Subscribe Contact Like 7,803 people likethis. A RT ICLES T HURSDAY , J AN U AR Y 29, 2015 Daniel Greenfield - עברית articles in Hebrew "Q UOTED " BY The Imaginary Islamic Radical Rush Limbaugh , Glenn Beck , Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog 8 Comments Español - Translated into Mark Steyn , Daniel Pipes , Glenn Spanish Reynolds , Allen West , Lou Dobbs , Dick Morris , Ed Driscoll , The debate over Islamic terrorism has shifted so far from reality that it has now German translations - Italian Richard Fernandez , Andrew become an argument between the administration, which insists that there is nothing translations - Polish translations Bostom , Caroline Glick , Andrew Islamic about ISIS, and critics who contend that a minority of Islamic extremists are Bolt , Pamela Geller , Tim Blair, the ones causing all the problems. Judith Klinghoffer , Phyllis THE P OINT BLOG Chesler , Robert Spencer , Melanie Philips , Michelle But what makes an Islamic The Point Blog Malkin , Victor Davis Hanson , radical, extremist? Where is the The Blaze , National Review and Al Qaeda: America Weak, line between ordinary Muslim FOX News France Now No. 1 Enemy practice and its extremist dark Obama kept claiming that side? It can’t be beheading Al Qaeda is on the run. Al people in public. Qaeda thinks the same thing about him. The ABOUT M E ideological leader of Saudi Arabia just did that and Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in was praised for its the Arabian Peninsula progressiveness by the UN (AQAP) said Friday that Secretary General, had flags France had surpassed the United States as the top flown at half-staff in the honor enemy of Islam. With the of its deceased tyrant in the UK “weakening” of the… and that same tyrant was Hagel: White House honored by Obama, in Pressured Me to Free preference to such minor events as the Paris Unity March and the Auschwitz Terrorists commemoration. Obama hasn’t had much luck with his SOS’s. Panetta wrote a memoir It can’t be terrorism either. Not when the US funds the PLO and three successive slamming the White administrations invested massive amounts of political capital into turning the House. He decided to terrorist group into a state. While the US and the EU fund the Palestinian abruptly fire Hagel after SUBSCRIBE Authority’s homicidal kleptocracy; its media urges stabbing Jews. fighting for his appointment and now Hagel is slowly repaying Email Subscription Clearly that’s not Islamic extremism either. At least it’s not too extreme for Obama. the favor. Washington (CNN)White House Enter your email address: And there are few Islamic terrorist groups that don’t have friends in high places in officials pressured Secretary of Defense the Muslim world. Chuck Hagel to increase the pace… If blowing up civilians in Allah’s name isn’t extreme, what do our radicals have to do Obama Ready to Help Email Delivery to get really radical? Finance $160 Billion in India Green Energy (if you are having Sex slavery? The Saudis only abolished it in 1962; officially. Unofficially it continues. No problem. I’m sure the problems with Every few years a Saudi bigwig gets busted for it abroad. The third in line for the Chinese will be happy to let overlapping images in us have that money at email, please click here ) Saudi throne was the son of a “slave girl”. reasonable rates. India also owned about $60 billion of our foreign debt, so we’ll Ethnic cleansing? Genocide? The “moderate” Islamists we backed in Syria, Libya Feed Subscription be borrowing more money and Egypt have been busy doing it with the weapons and support that we gave them. for India to finance solar in So that can’t be extreme either. India. I’m starting to think Subscribe Nero was actually a… If terrorism, ethnic cleansing, sex slavery and beheading are just the behavior of Why Blame “Anti-Vaxxers” moderate Muslims, what does a Jihadist have to do to be officially extreme? What is Instead of Immigrants for Measles Outbreaks? it that makes ISIS extreme? The usual clickbait sites SEARCH T HIS B LOG are gleefully blaming “anti- From a Muslim perspective, ISIS is radical because it declared a Caliphate and is vaxxers”, parents opposed casual about declaring other Muslims infidels. That’s a serious issue for Muslims to vaccines for their and when we distinguish between radicals and moderates based not on their children, for the measles outbreak. They are treatment of people, but their treatment of Muslims, we define radicalism from the TOPICS certainly a safe target, but perspective of Islamic supremacism, rather than our own American values. overlooked is the simple America future of the west fact that there would be no outbreaks without Important Posts Islam The position that the Muslim Brotherhood is moderate and Al Qaeda is extreme immigration from because the Brotherhood kills Christians and Jews while Al Qaeda kills Muslims is Israel Jewish Matters countries where measles is Islamic Supremacism. The idea of the moderate Muslim places the lives of Muslims Liberalism politics Satire widespread. So much over those of every other human being on earth. vitriol is… socialism Terrorism New York Times Claims War on Terror Our Countering Violent Extremism program emphasizes the centrality of Islamic Hillary “Embelished” Lie legal authority as the best means of fighting Islamic terrorists. Our ideological About Being Under Fire in warfare slams terrorists for not accepting the proper Islamic chain of command. Our Bosnia Not sniper fire It’s not a lie SUPPORT solution to Islamic terrorism is a call for Sharia submission. if you believe it. That’s the defense that the New York This blog and the articles I That’s not an American position. It’s an Islamic position and it puts us in the strange Times is going with. It write take a lot of time and position of arguing Islamic legalism with Islamic terrorists. Our politicians, generals begins by exonerating Neil effort. Please Help Keep this DeGrasse Tyson for and cops insist that the Islamic terrorists we’re dealing with know nothing about Site Online smearing Bush by backing Islam because that is what their Saudi liaisons told them to say. up his defense that he had confused the president’s It’s as if we were fighting Marxist terrorist groups by reproving them for not tribute to the dead accepting the authority of the USSR or the Fourth International. It’s not only stupid astronauts with a… of us to nitpick another ideology’s fine points, especially when our leaders don’t know what they’re talking about, but our path to victory involves uniting our enemies behind one central theocracy. That’s even worse than arming and training them, which we’re also doing (but only for the moderate genocidal terrorists, not the RECENT A RTICLES MENTIONS extremists). The Imaginary Islamic Cited at Front Page Magazine , Radical The Spectator and Commentary Our government’s definition of (8 comments) Magazine , and One Jerusalem , moderate often hinges on a The debate over Islamic Outpost Magazine and Gateway willingness to negotiate terrorism has shifted so far Pundit , Power Line , and regardless of the results. The from reality that it has now American Thinker and Hot Air moderate Taliban were the ones become an argument and the New Media Journal between the administration, willing to talk us. They just which insists that t... weren’t willing to make a deal. Radio/TV mentions by Rush Iran’s new government is Limbaugh , Glenn Beck , Michael moderate because it engages in Savage , Quinn and Rose, "America's Morning Show" , AM aimless negotiations while 770 CHQR - The World Tonight pushing its nuclear program with Rob Breakenridge , 680 forward and issuing violent threats, instead of just pushing and threatening without WCBM Sean and Frank and Jim the negotiations. Nothing has come of the negotiations, but the very willingness to Ball Named one of the Jewish Press' Most Worthwhile Blogs, negotiate is moderate. The Temperature at 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 and Which Global Warming 2010-2011 The Saudis would talk to us all day long while they continued sponsoring terrorists Freezes and setting up terror mosques in the West. That made them moderates. Qatar keeps (27 comments) talking to us while arming terrorists and propping up the Muslim Brotherhood. So The sky over New York City they too are moderate. The Muslim Brotherhood talked to us even while its thugs was a falling sheet of white. MY NEWSPAPER burned churches, tortured protesters and worked with terrorist groups in the Sinai. Trails of footprints, work OP-EDS boots, paw prints, sneakers A radical terrorist will kill you. A moderate terrorist will talk to you and then kill and bird claws, told their someone else. And you’ll ignore it because the conversation is a sign that they’re own story ... willing to pretend to be reasonable. IMPORTANT ARTICLES That’s more than Secretary of State Kerry is willing to be. Our Consensus Rulers Every society is ruled by a Kerry views accusations of extremism as already too extreme. ISIS, he insists, are consensus. The consensus rarely comes from the nihilists and anarchists. bottom up. Usually it's imposed from the top Nihilism is the exact opposite of the highly structured Islamic system of the The Hollywood Jihad down. The consensus is Caliphate. It might be a more accurate description of Kerry. But as irrational as Against American what the people running Sniper things believe. It's their Kerry’s claims might be, they have a source. The Saudis and the Muslim (33 comments) equivalent of common Brotherhood successfully sold the Western security establishment on the idea that American Sniper is the sense.