He, unshockingly, has a big problem in naming Islamic terrorism and extremism, but does trot out the leftist trope about those evil Christians
(AP) President Barack Obama condemned those who seek to use religion as a rationale for carrying out violence around the world, declaring Thursday that “no god condones terror.”
“We are summoned to push back against those who would distort our religion for their nihilistic ends,” Obama said during remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast. He singled out the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, calling the militants a “death cult,” as well as those responsible for last month’s terror attacks in Paris and deadly assault on a school in Pakistan.
Lest you misread that “our religion” as him stating he is Muslim, he is referring to Christians
(Breitbart) At the National Prayer Breakfast, President Obama reminded attendees that violence rooted in religion isn’t exclusive to Islam, but has been carried out by Christians as well.
Obama said that even though religion is a source for good around the world, there will always be people willing to “hijack religion for their own murderous ends.â€
“Unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ,â€Â Obama said. “In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.â€
Yes, things that happened hundreds and thousands of years ago. Christianity his primarily moved on. With Islam, there is an ever growing movement to regress back to the 7th and 8th century roots. Obama has gone to great lengths to refuse to link groups like ISIS (you know, they one whose name starts with “Islamic State”) to Islam, even going as far as proclaiming that he knows better than the Islamic State that the Islamic State isn’t Islamic.
This is standard boilerplate for Leftists, refusing to condemn radical Islam, creating strawman arguments to protect radical Islam, crying “Islamophobia!”, and then, in the next breath, slam Christianity for events that mostly occurred far in the past, and for which those on the Right will also condemn. And for those small incidents that occur during modern times based specifically on religion, we’ll condemn them, too.
Take for instance the talking point about Christians killing witches in Africa. Lefties want to blame the entire Christian religion for the actions of a bunch of regressive 3rd Worlders in 3rd world sh*tholes who misinterpreted the Bible on witches (“thou shall not suffer a witch to live”. The original meaning was “poisoner”, not witch, and was changed in the King James version). Lefties will blame the entire religion. Yet, they, along with Obama, can’t find it within themselves to even chide Islam for their ever-growing group of extremists, who stand in direct opposition, interestingly, to virtually everything Lefties stand for.
Let the deflections and strawmen begin.
PS: I missed the part where Obama specifically said “horrible things in Mohammed’s name”.
