Is radical Islam a branch of Islam?
President Obama says no. He will not use the term Islam when talking about it. But is he right?
Excerpted from John Hall\’s article in the London Daily Mail:
Asickening video has emerged showing crowds of Islamic Statesupporters watching the barbaric murder of Jordanian pilotMoaz al-Kasasbeh on specially erected giant screens in theterror group\’s de facto capital Raqqa.
Thefour minute video, titled \’Muslims\’ Joy at Burning of JordanianPilot\’, shows men and children gathering in the busy streets of thecity to watch footage of Kasasbeh being burnt alive byterrorists.
Thecrowd can be heard cheering and shouting religious slogans as theairman goes up in flames, before members of the crowd are interviewedand asked for their views on the atrocity, which has been widelycondemned as one of the most sickening acts ever committed to film.
I doubt anyone, even President Obama, would dispute that this is radical. And a bunch of other adjectives which should not be used to describe human beings. But is it Islam?
Well, this act of transcendental barbarity:
-has been committed by a group called either ISIS (the Islamic State in Syria) or ISIL (the Islamic State In the Levant), or just the Islamic State. The name may vary, but “Islamic State” is always there;
-the group demands that shari\’a law (Islamic fundamentalist law) be strictly enforced;
-and when the Jordanian pilot is burned alive, the video shows crowds of Islamic State supporters “cheering and shouting religious slogans”. Be assured the slogans do not include “Jesus, our lord and savior” or “Be sure to go to Shul this Shabbos”. They are, of course, Islamic.
So what is radical Islam? If it isn\’t a branch of Islam, what is it?
That\’s a question for everyone. But especially for you, Mr. President. It is long past time to stop playing your absurd game of lets-pretend. It is radical Islam. Radical Islam. Got it? There is nothing wrong in calling this group what it clearly is. And doing so does not reflect on anyone but them. Using the term Radical Islam is not the same as calling all Islamic people radicals, any more than calling Hasidic Jews ultra-orthodox is the same as calling all Jews Hasidic.
Why do you insist on ducking a conclusion so self-evident that virtually everyone else has already come to it? I\’d love to know the answer.
