During Barack Obama\’s short statement about the grisly beheading of journalist James Foley – which he made in office-casual (open shirt, no tie) – did he actually say that ISIS (or ISIL, as he calls it) “speaks for no religion”?
In case you don\’t know, “ISIS” stands for “Islamic State In Syria”, and “ISIL” stands for “Islamic State In the Levant”
At this point you might be thinking I must have heard wrong; he could never have said that. But, be assured I did not. He did.
Mr. Obama\’s basis for this impossibly ludicrous claim is that, along with killing as many non-Muslims as they can, ISIS also kills other Muslims.
Is President Obama aware that ISIS is a Sunni Muslim organization that kills Shi\’ite Muslims because they are Shi\’ites, not Sunnis?
Is he aware that Iraq\’s wars against Iran and Kuwait were Muslim against Muslim? Is he aware that there are something like 175,000 dead Muslims in Syria at the hands of other Muslims? Is he aware that Muslims kill other Muslims in Islamic countries around the world? Does he think that none of this has anything to do with Islam either?
Of all the fraudulent attempts to deflect reality I have heard from Barack Obama over the years, this might well be the single most egregious.
Does he ever even try to tell the truth anymore?
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UPDATE: And what did President Obama do immediately after his abbreviated statement? He headed out to the golf course, that\’s what.
Open-neck shirt, no tie, and couldn\’t wait to hit the links the minute he was through talking. It\’s nice to see Mr. Obama understands the gravity of the situation.
Try to imagine what media would be saying about this if it were President Bush.
