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Unbelievable. Not only has the swamp not been drained, but it is still in charge.
“Mattis says al-Qaeda terrorists ‘defame Islam,'” by Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, March 26, 2017:
“The death of Qari Yasin is evidence that terrorists who defame Islam and deliberately target innocent people will not escape justice.”
It seems as if all those with any power or influence anywhere in the Western world, all across the political spectrum, have agreed to back a fiction and pretend that Islam is other than what it is in its canonical text, prophet, schools of jurisprudence, and history all say it is. Does Mattis think that al-Qaeda defames Islam because it deliberately targets innocent people?
Is Mattis actually unaware that al-Qaeda doesn’t consider its targets innocent, and in 1998 published a fatwa claiming that the United States had been “occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places” and declaring that “the ruling to kill the Americans and their allies — civilians and military — is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it”? Mattis may think this a twisting or hijacking or defaming of the Religion of Peace, but actually it is strictly based on Islamic law. All the schools of Islamic jurisprudence agree that when a non-Muslim force enters a Muslim land, defensive jihad becomes the individual obligation of every Muslim (fard ayn) rather than a collective obligation of the entire umma, and need not be declared by anyone. Bulghah al-Salik li-Aqrab al-Masalik fi madhhab al-Imam Malik (“The Sufficiency of the Traveller on the Best Path in the School of Imam Malik,”) says this: “Jihad in the Path of Allah, to raise the word of Allah, is fard kifayah [obligatory on the community] once a year, so that if some perform it, the obligation falls from the rest. It becomes fard `ayn [obligatory on every Muslim individually], like salah and fasting, if the legitimate Muslim Imam declares it so, or if there is an attack by the enemy on an area of people.”
So in calling for the killings of Americans and saying that such killings are a duty, al-Qaeda was working from the Islamic doctrine of defensive jihad. Mattis, and Trump, and all those in power in Washington in both parties should know this: one cannot defeat an enemy one does not understand. What Mattis says here only fosters the ignorance and complacency that has enveloped us as a thick fog for the last sixteen years.
“U.S. strike kills an al-Qaida ‘leader’ in Afghanistan: Pentagon,” Reuters, March 25, 2017 (thanks to Freethinker):
A U.S. counterterrorism airstrike earlier this month in Afghanistan killed an al-Qaida leader responsible for a deadly hotel attack in Islamabad in 2008 and the 2009 attack on a bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team, the Pentagon said Saturday.
In confirming the death of Qari Yasin, U.S. officials said Yasin was a senior terrorist figure from Balochistan, Pakistan, had ties to the group Tehrik-e Taliban and had plotted multiple al-Qaida terror attacks. The airstrike that led to his death was conducted March 19 in Paktika Province, Afghanistan.
Yasin plotted the Sept. 20, 2008, bombing on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad that killed dozens, officials said. The victims included two American service members, Air Force Maj. Rodolfo I. Rodriguez of El Paso, Texas, and Navy Cryptologic Technician 3rd Class Petty Officer Matthew J. O’Bryant of Theodore, Alabama, U.S. officials said.
The bus attack in the Pakistani city of Lahore killed six Pakistani policemen and two civilians and wounded six members of the cricket team.
Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said in the statement: “The death of Qari Yasin is evidence that terrorists who defame Islam and deliberately target innocent people will not escape justice.”…
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All these Westerners thinking they can tell “this Islamic” or “that Islamic” that they are defaming their own religion. Do you think they care? Do you think they stop and consider your infidel words? Do you think they as Islamics will somehow change to your pretty picture of Islam? No of course not, so deal with what you are up against and stop the wind bagging.
Islam defames Islam……
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Mattis would also make for a good (moderate) speaker at “Israeli Apartheid Week”: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/220577
If al-Qaeda is defaming islam than so did Mohammad. Fool.
Trump has not named one counter-jihadist to any position in his administration. Even Flynn, we find out, was working for Erdogan. Is Trump picking all these fools himself, or is someone whispering these names in his ear?
I thought Hillary lost the election and Obama wasn’t president any longer. Silly me. Is May Mattis in drag?
Man up, Trump, and get these leftist maggots OUT of your administration NOW!
Man needs to be shown the door. No one cares about a mad poodle.
Still waiting to hear why the Israeli behind the JCC threats was only a terrorist until he was discovered to be an Israeli false flag attacker.
Storm Front is over ——————————-> thataway Adolph or is it Ahmed?
Still waiting.
While you’re waiting why don’t you pour yourself a nice, halal, camel urine cocktail?
So, you’re guilty of harboring a terrorist.
Huh? Don’t you have some unlucky little boy you should be molesting back in:
1. Iran
2. Pakistain
3. Aghanistain
It’s not that your list isn’t bad. It’s that Israel is just as bad.
If this is your best defense, you’re doing more for my argument than I am. Thanks.
The only way to defend Israel from allahtards like you is w/tons of high explosive ordnance.
I hate to break up your hate party, but you can bomb Muslims and never get near me, because I’m 100% U.S. Christian.
And you wonder why everybody hates you….
The instrument has yet to be invented that could measure how I could possibly care less what lying allahtards like you think of me.
Yet you continue to respond with hateful and bigoted characterizations. No wonder everybody hates you.
Hate and bigotry against muslums? I wear the badge w/honor allahtard.
Naive and dangerous wishful thinking.
That’s like saying people who believe in turning the other cheek defame Christianity.
fricken scary
All that is because “we” (that is our western governments) desire to be “so nice” to everybody, particularly our enemies (whom they try to fight, even if failing to properly recognize them and their ideology). I see that McMaster and Gorka have here HEAVY influence on this president and his agenda. I expect soon, unless he will exchange those two, will drop his “Islamic terrorism” motto too. Time is ticking out against the west, even if they have so much better weapons and all the means. Woe to us!
What the hell is wrong with Gorka? Nothing is the answer.
Gorka still believes that there are vast majority of “moderates” within Islam with who we have obligation to be in alliance. Good intentions, perhaps, but wishful thinking, in my opinion…
More like Islam defaces itself…
And that’s the guy they call “Mad Dog”. Great.
“Mad” as in “stark raving mad” a chronic idiot, imbecile and democrat.
he/they must think we would loose if we opened our mouths & spoke the truth about Islam.
Suspect he is getting paid for presenting his propaganda.
I had high hopes. It seems all of these people are in a race to see who can apologize for islam fastest. We’re screwed.
When he tried to get that woman in as his deputy and she had actually been a dhimmi for the Islamists…..I knew something was wrong….either she was his mistress or he didn’t have a clue….or he was trying to please his Muslim friends……any one of these is bad….
Let’s borrow their words, “kill them wherever you find them”.
Another pseudo intellect masquerading as a tough guy. Except when it comes to an evil that has been slaughtering civilizations for only 1400 years and with this guys help another 1400 years in the making.
Well, if he can’t say it, then let us. Let us say the truth. Let us draw a cartoon. Give this thing to the people, after all we are the targets in this war. Enforce the laws we already have, and let the people speak. There is no other way out of this. The value of the Counter Jihad Movement is that we know how to talk about the problem. We have the language. We don’t have to be proper. We are not diplomats, we are the soft targets. Let us speak.
Bravo!
“We are the soft targets” isn’t that the ugly and bloody truth.
What the HELL is Mattis thinking? That comment from a person in his position really worries me. Trump’s appointment encouraged me. Now I’m not so sure.
Like a lot of conservatives, you had no idea that this is how Mattis has always been. It is nothing new from him.
We had no reason to know about Mattis prior to Trump appointing him in that position…..there are not enough hours in a day to keep up with all the known and unknown traitors in our government and country….Obummer and his Iranian born handler, Valerie Jarrett, have seen to that.
….and I’m not forgetting Daddy Bush and GW Bush either…..they have been very closely connected to the Saudis for decades….
I’m sure! America is in dire straits!
They know how to use our corrupt court system – that is bad enough.
Oh boy, just another raving idiot in the United States military! Don’t
these imbeciles ever bother to study Islam’s violent history since
634AD and read the Qur’an before opening their mouths and to the
knowledgeable on this subject look like idiots? Evident is that they do
not. Does the U.S. have in General Mattis another John Brennan?
Whatever the case, Mattis take his mad dogs and go for a long hike.
This is a very silly comment: “Perhaps we should have been smarter than we were when we voted for Trump and got his team.” Evidently your memory is so short you’ve forgotten that the other choice was Hillary Clinton and that is she had won the election the swamp would have grown and Islam would have been invited into the country. You got the best available and should support the man while he works out how to handle the garbage heap that Washington has become under successive administrations. Not even Trump imagined that he would deal with the scum that he is – and this includes treacherous Republicans who are satisfied with the status quo and quietly working against him.
In this respect you are right, he is being sabotaged by the left and needs get very smart thwarting them. Have you any idea how stupid the U.S, is looking right now? It’s like watching a rebellious crowd or badly brought and spiteful adolescents with lying the name of the game. The moral decay has come home to roost – and this is what the world is supposed to look up to? Chuck Schumer and his ilk must be the most contemptible liars anywhere in the world and yet these pathetically fools bleat on about Vladimir Putin. Believe me, Putin views them with utter contempt.
We did have a better choice prior to May 3rd though. You know, the guy who is pushing to designate the MB as a terrorist organization (Why is the ball being dragged on that?). Cruz gets it. We would have had Frank Gaffney as director of national security! Probably would have had Ayaan Hirsi Ali as ambassador to the UN!
THE MUSLIMS ARE ALREADY HERE. THEY HAVE ALREADY BUILT OVER 3000 MOSQUE AS OF 2015 JULY. EVERY STATE IN AMERICA HAS MANY MOSQUE. WHILE WE FIGHT THEY WERE COVERTLY EDUCATING THEIR OWN PEOPLE IN OUR UNIVERSITIES 30,000 IN NUMBER JUST RECEIVING THEIR PH.D DEGREES. SO THEY CAN LEARN EVERY DISCIPLINE IN AMERICA AND HOW TO EVENTUALLY TAKE CONTROL AT EVERY LEVEL OF THESE DISCIPLINES AND OUR GOVERNMENT. THEY ARE SMART, MANIPULATING, WORK COVERTLY TO ACHIEVE THEIR GOAL TO SUBJUGATE AMERICA.
And … they are well-financed.
Throw the bum out. mantis, you are fired.
Never let you enemy know what you are doing to defeat them. Don’t take what is said as what is really happening. Go get the Sun Tzu’s Book … “The Art of War.” Too many politicians speak before they think. But the really good one’s think before they speak.
That’s what I figure, as well, Michael. He has to work with Muslims all of the time. No sense in insulting the ones who are willing to work with us.
I hope that’s all it is.
But he doesn’t have to insult or say anything…..he just has to do his job without pandering comments – which unnerves the citizenry…..first, the Muslims don’t buy what he’s saying due to his position in the government…..and they don’t give a dam either….they are driven to destroy all who are infidels…period.
He should be buried deep in some bunker somewhere making a plan…silent….no comments…..Muslims “respect” those they fear more than those who invite them to destroy their country…..
LOL, “willing to work with us”. When supping w/the devil, it’s best to use a long spoon.
There really are Muslims who wish to get rid of Isis. They don’t want Extremism. You only hear about the ones who do. Granted, they don’t want us, either. They just want us to help them defeat Isis, and then go home. Sadly, the minute we go home, another “problem” develops.
Then why do ALL muslum states, all 56 of them, implement the cornerstones of Shari’a law: islamic blasphemy and heresy laws.
I’m sure there are some muslums who want to get rid of the Islamic State. So what? The SS eliminated the SA, that didn’t make them the good guys.
Islam is a vile, fascist, supremacist, Jew hating death cult. There is nothing “moderate” about it.
That’s an interesting thought…..but if Mattis is trying to look sympathetic to Islam it’s a bad move…..and I don’t think the radicals will buy it anyway…..the optics of it on Americans is not good either…..we want him deep in some war room coming up with a plan to destroy them…..not out looking like he wants to invite them for tea….
….but nice thought-provoking post :0)
Terrorists “defame islam”, yeah sure General Chamberlain, or is that General Quisling?
He’s either an idiot or a liar.
I thought that Erdogan, the Turkish head honcho stated that “there is only one Islam.” Mattis needs to pay attention as to what is happening in the world involving Islam. Is this why he is retired from the military, suffering serious dementia, great, when does the Mad Dog part kick in, or was it Lap Dog. Why do all the dummies make it to the top? Trump it’s time to replace FiFi the friendly poodle with a good old American Pit Bull. And if it’s a little Rabid, that’s okay, we have a lot of catching up to do.
that is Not his belief, its his “strategy”. (G-d help us).
Trump doesn’t know what he is doing. Mattis was a known Islamophile, before Trump appointed him. Hence the Left should be applauding Trump for this appointment, but they are too clueless and deranged to do so really. The buck stops with Trump here, his appointment.
I suspect Trump has been relying too much on the weasel Preibus….he should have relied more on Bannon….
On 21 August 2007, speaking on Turkish TV’s “Arena” program, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan commented on the term “moderate Islam”, an expression often used in the West by non-Muslims.
He stated “These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or
immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”
That a distinguished USMC Officer would publicly display such flawed apprehension of Islam is personally
embarrassing. It does not bode well for the Corps or the Nation that the now Secretary of Defense will insist that any future battle plans be based on such profound ignorance. The fiasco of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing was in large part a product of the same “thinking”.
Lord have mercy…
follow his money. no doubt this guy has been given millions of muslim oil money.
Saudi payroll, i suspect.
Fool. Playing Delusional is a death sentence. Ask the Byzantium Empire.
The unsuspecting non-muslim do not know whether they are coming or going on the subject of islam and this is as clear as a bell of an example neighbor. LOL!!.
Et Tu Mattis?
LOL, but we’re already past the ides of March.
There was something that happened on that day &call I could think of was damn it! It’s the Ides Of March! It’s close enough tho!
Close enough?
Taken another way, Mattis’ statements can be seen as using the ragheads’ own insipid logic against them, turning it back on them by the use of satire. No one but no one gets to be of four star rank in the Marine Corps by being stupid or holding lukewarm beliefs.
Yes and no……in the highest ranks it is far more political than military…..and don’t forget…Pamela and others warned us that Obama got rid of all the top Generals and Admirals who didn’t agree with his Muslim pandering….John Brennan (Daddy Bush appointee) was in Desert Storm and converted to Islam while there. And look…..he’s been the head of the CIA through both Bushs Presidency and Obummer’s Presidency…..what does that tell you….
I am a former Marine officer’s wife…..so I’m not entirely uneducated on the political side of the military.
I still adhere to Eisenhower’s warning in his farewell speech: “Beware of the Military Complex.”
Ike warned about the “military-industrial complex”.
I stand corrected….thanks.
Oh no. Not an apologist for Islam in the Trump admin.
OMG I knew we were going to have problems with this guy.
Ipso facto Islam defames itself through the actions of Mohammad and the contents of the Quran
If Secretary Mattis actually believes what he’s saying, he should be replaced with someone who truly realizes the greatest danger to the world at large is Islam/Sharia and the Koran!
Are we now saddled with just another Muslim apologist? Have we been so thoroughly compromised we must kowtow to Islam in abject FEAR?
Remember: Islam/Sharia IS a crime against humanity, which must be met and eradicated with overwhelming force! BEFORE they eradicate us!
Let the Muslim world understand that Koran is a book, written by some criminal minded people under supervision of Caliph Abu Bakr with primary objective to shekel the human society with numerous faulty customs. ALLAH did not send any message through anybody, anywhere and anytime in the past. Islam is a political force and religion is used as its musk to confuse innocent human being. Islam is created to enforce Arabian culture on everybody and to destroy all culture of the human civilization. Let the truth prevail and Islam fade away from the world.
AWESOME POST! :0)
A Pakistani man, Anwar Sheikh, who was personally involved in the murder of two Sikh men in Pakistan following the partition in ’48’, emigrated to the UK and converted to Hinduism before writing: Islam, The Arab Imperialism:
http://www.islam-watch.org/AnwarSheikh/Islam-Arab-Imperialism.htm
This nonsense stems from the idea that we “must have Muslim allies,” le. the Sunni Gulf States. Pretty absurd since the most aggressive for of Islam is the official religion of Saudi Arabia!
This is very sad to hear for i thought Mattis was a very smart and courageous man but how can he be if he is an apologist for Islam?
I had such high hopes for Mattis…..well, that’s over. He’s suppose to be hunkered down in a war room somewhere creating a plan to destroy radical terrorists……instead he’s out being an apologist for Islam……
….Pamela warned us for years that Obama had infected our top military and government with Muslims and their dhimmis wishing our destruction. John Brennan -former head of the CIA – was converted to Islam during the Gulf War…..Daddy Bush put him in charge and the old goat has been there forever…and he’s not the only one….
….I recall when I was young that the Communists always said they would destroy us from within…not a physical war….
….President Trump could turn this country around on a dime…..if there weren’t so many enemies within…..
We want Mattis to create and head the best killing military on the planet and to take orders. What he thinks or says outside of killing is just fluff. His policy area is just killing.
if the west in the 21st century lacks the cultural, intellectual, political resources to resist islam there is a lot of blame to go around, anticipating deliverance from the same stagnant pool is folly
Defence Secretary Jim Mattis’s statement “The death of Qari Yasin is evidence that terrorists who defame Islam and deliberately target innocent people will not escape justice.” Qari Yasin was killed by a U.S. airstrike. The part of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’s statement that is bothersome to me is.. “the death of Qari Yasin is evidence that terrorists who defame Islam will not escape justice”. Does Defense Secretary Jim Mattis feel just as strongly and does he see the need to give immediate attention against Muslim Terrorists who defame and attack Christians? There is a genocide of Christians throughout the middle east going on right now by Muslim Terrorists who have been involved in defaming and targeting unarmed Christian men, women and children? Throughout the middle east Muslim Terrorists have been beating, raping, torturing Christian men, women and children, even using child suicide bombers, we haven’t heard much about protecting those innocents. I hope to hear soon that the U.S. designates the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR and other Muslim organizations in the U.S. Terrorist organizations and once and for all shut down these these Terrorist organizations in the United States who who have been involved in funding, and been the mouthpiece for Hamas Terrorists and continues today to support Hamas Terrorists. In WWII the Muslim Brotherhood supported Nazi Germany and still today admires Adolf Hitler. Just a few years ago in Egypt many witnessed what terrorists the Muslim Brotherhood is. This is the same Muslim Brotherhood former President Obama supported, the Obama supported Muslim Brotherhood beat, raped, tortured and murdered innocent, unarmed men, women, and children, bombed police stations and destroyed 80+ Coptic Christian churches. This wasn’t the first Terrorist acts of the Muslim Brotherhood, their history included assassinations, bombings, beatings, torture and murdering innocents so this should not have surprised anyone when the same occurred again. In the U.S. some of these same Muslim organizations were involved in the Holy Land Foundation Charity scheme should have been shut down, but until they are they should at the very least be monitored closely. Just as they supported and funded Hamas Terrorists who they know use child suicide bombers, torture, bombings and murder routinely they could just as easily support and fund Muslim Terrorists here in the United States.
Another dhimmi frog in the boiling water.
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Should someone ask the ‘good’ General, “Sir, how, exactly, do the terrorists defame Islam?” He’d be speechless.
America is in trouble, beyond comprehension, as long as this clueless, useful infidel is guiding the Department of Defense.
I’m always amazed how folks who are not Muslim can claim to know more about the faith of those who are indeed Muslim and are practicing such faith.
Maddog has too many terrorist advisors. He needs to drain the DoD swamp.
Hold the phone, Mad Dog. Has this appointment to the Trump Administration gotten you to forget how to identify an enemy when it stares you in the face?
The Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorists don’t defame Islam, they practice it. If you talk to any of them they will tell you that the Muslims that are not practicing Islam the way that Al Qaeda and ISIS does are the Muslims who are defaming Islam.
Surely something was lost on the translation…..It is just the opposite, Al-Qaeda terrorists confirm islam.
TERRORIST FIGHTERS GO WHERE THE MONEY FLOWS TO HAVE THEM FIGHT. SO, THEY CAN CHANGE POSITIONS AND SWITCH SIDES.
How does one defame a religion based upon the teachings and life example of a mass murderer?