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ISIS
Is Not Islamic?
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In a televised
address this evening, President Barack Obama outlined his ideas on
how to defeat the Islamic State. Along the way, he declared the
organization variously known as ISIS or ISIL to be "not
Islamic."
In making this preposterous claim, Obama joins his two immediate
predecessors in pronouncing on what is not Islamic. Bill
Clinton called the Taliban treatment of women and children "a
terrible perversion of Islam." George
W. Bush deemed that 9/11 and other acts of violence against innocents
"violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith."
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Word magic
permits Obama to turn ISIS into a "not Islamic" organization.
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None of the three has any basis for such assertions. To state the obvious:
as non-Muslims and politicians, rather than Muslims and scholars, they
are in no position to declare what is Islamic and what is not. As Bernard
Lewis, a leading American authority of Islam, notes: "it is
surely presumptuous for those who are not Muslims to say what is orthodox
and what is heretical in Islam." (That Obama was born and
raised a Muslim has no relevance here, for he left the faith and
cannot pronounce on it.)
Indeed, Obama compounds his predecessors' errors and goes further:
Clinton and Bush merely described certain actions (treatment of women and
children, acts of violence against innocents) as un-Islamic, but Obama
has dared to declare an entire organization (and quasi-state) to be
"not Islamic."
The only good thing about this idiocy? At least it's better than the
formulation by the Council
on American-Islamic Relations (known as CAIR) which has the nerve to
call ISIS "anti-Islamic."
In the end, though, neither U.S. presidents nor Islamist apologists
fool people. Anyone with eyes and ears realizes that ISIS, like the
Taliban and Al-Qaeda before it, is 100 percent Islamic. And most
Westerners, as indicated by detailed polling in
Europe, do have eyes and ears. Over time, they are increasingly
relying on common sense to conclude that ISIS is indeed profoundly
Islamic. (September 10, 2014)
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