The Obama administration’s denial of
reality— and why Rep. Allen West’s Purple Heart legislation is so
important
Please add
your name today!
Dear
Nelson,
Last week we emailed you about our open letter to the chairmen
of both the U.S. House and Senate Armed Services Committees. The letter calls on
the committees to take up and pass H.R. 1142, sponsored by Rep. Allen West,
which would confer the Purple Heart upon victims of jihadist attacks (Ft. Hood,
the Little Rock Recruitment Center, etc.).
Doing so would correct a
grave injustice. It would also shine a light on a reality the Obama
administration is desperately trying to deny:
- that there is a jihadist ideology;
- that the primary meaning of the doctrine of jihad has always been warfare
against non-Muslims;
- that the perpetrators of jihadist violence are not mere “criminals”—they are
enemy combatants who deserve to be treated as enemy combatants;
- and that their victims, such as at Ft. Hood and the Little Rock Recruitment
Center, are not victims of “crime” or “workplace violence,” but are victims of
an act of war—jihad.
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The Obama
administration has gone so far in acting on this denial that, at the insistence
of radical Muslim organizations, it is expunging any references to “jihad” or
“radical Islam” from FBI terrorism training manuals.
This pattern of
denial by the Obama administration can be seen in other areas. Recently, Gen.
Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made the incredulous
statement that Iran is a “rational actor” and is not trying to develop nuclear
weapons.
This illustrates a triumph of wishful thinking, or perhaps
wishful parsing of intelligence data, over an understanding of religious
doctrinal beliefs that are at least in part driving Iran’s leaders on its path
toward nuclear weaponry. When Ahmadinejad, Khameini, or any other Iranian
leader, express their belief in the return of the 12th imam, and how a worldwide apocalypse must occur
before this happens, we should take them at their word. What better way to
instigate a worldwide apocalypse than to launch nuclear weapons?
But
instead of taking this seriously, it seems that this administration dismisses
such notions as crazy ramblings, because, after all, no one in our leadership
would ever believe such a thing.
The Obama administration has also been
exhibiting a denial of reality in the way it is responding to the accidental
burning of some Qur’ans in Afghanistan. It has trotted out one apology after
another, from different leaders in the administration, even going so far as to
promise that those who burned the Qur’ans will be held accountable.
(Interestingly, some modern and ancient Islamic authorities specifically
sanction the burning of Qur’ans as a proper means of disposal. To find out more
see this
enlightening article by our friend and colleague Andrew Bostom.)
The
Obama administration actions have been undertaken in the hope that this would
somehow assuage the wrath of the Afghan rioters, when in fact it denies the
reality that such repeated pleas for forgiveness are doing the exact opposite,
like throwing gasoline on a fire. The Obama administration’s actions are
emboldening the rioters and have failed to achieve their purported goal.
Every person who signs the Purple Heart letter is not only calling on
Congress to correct a grave injustice, he or she is sending a message that we
have lost patience with the denial of the reality that jihad is what is
motivating Islamic terrorists and that jihad is an act of war.
So if you
haven’t yet signed the Purple Heart letter, for the sake of the victims at Ft.
Hood and Little Rock, please
add your name today.
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