Attorney General Eric Holder refuses to admit that radical Islam is responsible for terrorist acts in America. How long can these people pretend that radical Islam is not at war with America?
Andy McCarthy writes:
This YouTube clip from the attorney general’s testimony today will be the most painful two minutes of video you will ever watch. Mr. Holder would obviously rather get a root-canal than utter the words “radical Islam” (despite the fact that his description of the American people as “a nation of cowards” on race and of Bush officials as war criminals seemed to roll of the tongue without much difficulty).
You’ll be pleased to discover, via the AG, that there is an infinite variety of reasons why Muslims commit terrorist attacks. Those reasons, of course, have nothing to do with Islamic doctrine, which is why, even as we speak, agents are struggling to understand what might possibly have driven Faisal Shahzad to try to blow up Times Square. (I guess Mayor Bloomberg will be pleased to know that opposition to the healthcare bill hasn’t necessarily been ruled out yet.)
Methinks that if the three recent terror attempts and acts had been done by folks who’d attended Tea Parties there wouldn’t be all this hemming and hawing.
The Other McCain has a lot more on the investigation into the Times Square Bomber. You know, it’s starting to look like radical Islam might have something to do with all this. Just sayin’.
May 14, 2010 at 5:33 am
Radical Islam need to be identified for what it is.
May 14, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Holder also seems to think that "radical" Islam is inconsistent with Islam. Sadly, that is not the case.
May 14, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Incomplete reports need to be identified for what they are. Here are some pages that fill the gaps.
http://mediamatters.org/research/201005140002
May 14, 2010 at 2:23 pm
That's exactly what Col. Alen West said in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkGQmCZjJ0k&feature=player_embedded
and the point made is that, unless this is understood and accepted or considered, then the problem with the Islamic conflict will never be addressed correctly.
May 14, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Brian – let me help you out here… (which way did you come in – JOKING!)
OK. I watched this video, then I read the article that you posted. I even went and watched the C-Span coverage that it is linked to and I've concluded the following.
You did not watch the above video. Now, I may be wrong, but if you did, you surely missed something. The point.
The extremist left wing "Media Matters" site claims, as you do, that this story has been distorted and that Holder ACTUALLY DID state that Radical Islam was to blame. MM is saying essentially that the above video is a lie – taken out of context. As evidence, they link to 3hours plus of C-Span coverage and to two quoted statements of Holder.
Unfortunately for MM and your argument that this report is "incomplete", the words MM quoted are EXACTLY the ones he states in the video above!
So the report is NOT incomplete, the MM story is a lie, because, as usual, it distorts the truth in order to excuse Islam and generally support other left-wing ideology.
Bottom line: In the exchange with Sen. Smith. Holder DOES do a tap dance and DOES go to extreme lengths to avoid implicating Islam at all. His intentions are obvious and his words are plain. You may want to watch the video (or see it again.)
Sadly, even Sen. Smith got it wrong when he called it "Radial" Islam. It is not radical Islam that calls for murder, beheading, etc. It is "regular" Islam – it is in the Koran.
May 15, 2010 at 8:57 pm
I don't want to start over again with asking rhetorical questions about violence in the Bible. I'll simply invite you to listen to the Other. The Other does not constantly lie.
May 17, 2010 at 10:37 pm
B: You posted, "I don't want to start over again with asking rhetorical questions about violence in the Bible." Good, b/c that would be both off-point, and silly.
Once again I am edified to find no intelligent refutation to anything I have written. (In this case, that includes points about you not having watched the video or read the Koran).
Yet, it still makes me sad, Dear Brother, that you will post from others without making your own points, and that you you seem Hell-bent on being an apologist for something you don't understand and which calls for and demands many explicit evils.
For the life of me, I don't understand why any Catholic would defend any one of those evils as they are all concurrently anathema to our religion and core to Islam.
But I am buoyed by the thought that, if you ever have a real interest in understanding the subject, you might. And I hope you and others with your view point will.