Today in Nothing To Do With Islam

Muslim leaders insist Islamic State not Islamic

Barry Obama, for one, is jiggy with that. In his speech last night he said:

Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not "Islamic." No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state.

Remember that quip about the Holy Roman Empire--that it was neither "holy," nor "Roman," nor an "empire"? Pace those "Muslim leaders" and the POTUS with the leastest, it doesn't really work for ISIS/IL, which is most definitely Islamic and a state.

Oh, and a "caliphate," to boot.

Update: Daniel Greenfield, as always, minces no words re this clueless POTUS:

Obama insisted once again in his speech that ISIS is not Islamic. “No religion condones the killing of innocents… ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.” 

The vision of Islam, past and present, has been the slaughter of all who stand in the way of the religion’s supremacy. But the attempt to portray ISIS as a unique entity that is detached from all other Islamic terrorist groups is a misleading effort to justify an incoherent policy. 

“These terrorists are unique in their brutality,” Obama claimed. “They execute captured prisoners. They kill children. They enslave, rape and force women into marriage. They threatened a religious minority with genocide.” 

There isn’t anything unique about these things. Wahhabi Jihadists have been doing all of them for centuries. And these tactics date back to Mohammed. 

ISIS isn’t unique in its brutality. It’s unique in its successes. And its successes can be credited to Obama’s Arab Spring and his refusal to admit that his policy of ignoring Iraq had failed. 

“America is safer,” Obama claims. But that’s a lie. 

America is less safe than ever. Not just because of ISIS, but because of a leadership that allows such crises to become severe threats because it refuses to address what they really are. 

Greenfield for president! Bolton for veep! (Or vice versa.)

Update: Great tone; crappy content.