I must be missing something. After those ISIS morons in Texas decided to try to kill some Texans, a very stupid move as any American would know... do your killing in blue states, my friends... I assumed Obama would come out and warn us not to leap to conclusions, not to think this was terrorism just because it involved Muslim terrorists trying to kill Americans in the name of jihad, and to remind us that if so many Texans did not own guns then it's possible that no one would ever die anywhere. Instead, he called them terrorists. Huh. I wonder why. What do you think?
I find it interesting to compare this shooting to the one in France, where the police had no idea what to do when it broke out. In fact they were pretty much useless until they brought in the gendarmerie.
ReplyDeleteHere, apparently a single patrolman with a pistol was enough to stop them.
Andrew,
ReplyDeleteGive him time. You can't always be expecting him to disappoint us within 24 of a major event. Give him some time, maybe a week or a month, and he'll pull through.
He will soon come out and be part of the "they instigated it by disrespecting another's religion" chorus. Of course, no one will ask him if ISIS "disrespects" Christians when they behead them....publicly...on camera...en masse.
ReplyDeleteOr, he'll fall back on the old "we need to wait and see what the investigation turns up." By then it will be old news and out of the headlines. There will be no way he blames Islamic jihadists. Even when the idiots tweet that they will be doing it in the name of Allah and "jihad" and hope to become "mujahadeen."
"We really don't understand why someone will willingly provoke outrage against someone else's religion."
All this will do is ensure that any event going forward will be heavily armed and just waiting for some more idiots who want to become mujahadeen. We'll help them along their path to jihad.
Bob
Nothing could be more stupid than to execute your first terrorist attack in the most armed and willing to use those arms State in the Union. They are really lucky that they were shot and killed by the police and guards on the outside first.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I have actually met Pamela Geller and she is dedicated. In relation to this, she filed a lawsuit against the MTA in New York because they refused to put up her ads on the subway and buses that she paid for because they said the ads were hateful. In reality, her ads just cited direct quotes from various radical Imams. She did not comment or demand anything in these ads. She just posted the quotes and let them speak for themselves.
Two weeks ago, the judge agreed that the MTA could not ban her ads based on the First Amendment and she won her case. In response to the loss, the MTA decided that they will ban ALL ads with religious or political content. That's fine with me. Interestingly, the MTA did not have any problem putting up anti-Christian or anti-conservative ads before this lawsuit...
Kit, True. Just give him time and he'll disappoint.
ReplyDeleteBob, I'm surprised he didn't play that too. It seemed like the perfect opportunity for him to play that card, so I'm not sure why he didn't.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I can think, and this is kind of tongue-in-cheek, is that Obama hates guns more than calling people terrorists. So he doesn't see these guys as terrorists because they tried to kill innocent Americans in the name of Islam, he sees them as terrorists because they used guns.
Bev, Isn't it fascinating how sauce for the goose is rarely sauce for the gander for liberals?
ReplyDeleteBev, it also reminds me of when everyone was accused of racism for simply repeating Obama's own words. Pathetic.
ReplyDeleteAs an aside, the deflategate report is out and ESPN is really raking the Patriots over the coals. I'm surprised. :)
ReplyDeleteGellar loves picking (verbal) fights in general and attacking Islam in particular.
ReplyDeleteHowever, she is not making anything worse, she is just drawing the ire of Muslim extremists which takes their attention away from more vulnerable targets. The attack on a hardened target took two goons out of operation who otherwise would have racked up a body count attacking a playground or something.
Its a shame we didn't spare the one guard an injury and lock up the goons years ago when we knew they wanted to join a terror group.