That's WRITE in Sanders, you ignorant putz. Reading...Writing....Arithmetic, ever hear of it? Where the fuck did you get your GED, from a Crackerjack box?!?! Sanders gets about the same percentage of Dem votes as Trump does of Republican, which means he gets more votes, period, since there are more Democrats. That's merely a theoretical exercise, of course, since Bernie will never get the nomination, but it foreshadows that if Trump couldn't beat Bernie, what's he gonna do against Hillary? The answer? Not well. But you'll find that out soon enough, and you'll no doubt be just as shocked as you were last time, lol...Comparing Obama to Trump, oh, brother...
That's WRITE in Sanders, you ignorant putz. Reading...Writing....Arithmetic, ever hear of it? Where the fuck did you get your GED, from a Crackerjack box?!?! Sanders gets about the same percentage of Dem votes as Trump does of Republican, which means he gets more votes, period, since there are more Democrats. That's merely a theoretical exercise, of course, since Bernie will never get the nomination, but it foreshadows that if Trump couldn't beat Bernie, what's he gonna do against Hillary? The answer? Not well. But you'll find that out soon enough, and you'll no doubt be just as shocked as you were last time, lol...Comparing Obama to Trump, oh, brother...
Trump would have a far better shot in the general than someone like Cruz. Trump could easily pivot back to his roots as a Lefty/Moderate(single payer health insurance, tax the rich heavily, stay out of other country's business) if he secures the R nomination. And his suckers will stay with him also, because they are buying the brand Trump, not any supposed policy positions. He is a gifted speaker, speaking in short soundbites which his simplistic base understands. He is a wild card we haven't seen. He'll still likely lose to Hillary substantially, but that's not as sure a bet as it would be with someone like Cruz.
"rooting for an attack"
Your ideology is so worthless (JV team exploding all over the planet!) you have to resort to dog whistle politics to make the other side look bad. What you claim I'm "rooting for" has absolutely ZERO impact on world events. But yes, in case you haven't been paying attention, ISLAMIC ATTACKS ARE HAPPENING.
Anyone who packs as many insults and hate in his posts as you do has MAJOR penis issues.
Don' worry Guesser, it won't be long before real men are in charge again (Netanyahu, Putin, Trump) to clean up the mess your bisexual community organizer left behind.
If you disagree with that, I have a nice ban bet waiting for you wrapped up in a huge ass fag bow.
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"rooting for an attack"
Your ideology is so worthless (JV team exploding all over the planet!) you have to resort to dog whistle politics to make the other side look bad. What you claim I'm "rooting for" has absolutely ZERO impact on world events. But yes, in case you haven't been paying attention, ISLAMIC ATTACKS ARE HAPPENING.
Anyone who packs as many insults and hate in his posts as you do has MAJOR penis issues.
Don' worry Guesser, it won't be long before the men are in charge again (Netanyahu, Putin, Trump) to clean up the mess your bisexual community organizer left behind.
If you disagree with that, I have a nice ban bet waiting for you wrapped up in a huge ass fag bow.
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Bisexual, fag, penis all in one post from a guy who was in a purple flower patch. Even Russ can connect those dots!!
Not sure about Hillary my friend. She has a lot of baggage that could very well hurt her.
Like I was saying a few posts back, I think Trumps charisma could get him the nod.
I know I was wrong in the last two elections, but that was due to my dislike of Obama.
The GOP hasn't had a viable candidate in years.
I listened to an interview of Trump yesterday and he said that he wasn't going 3rd party. If the GOP has any shot at this upcoming Presidency, I believe he is their choice.
Plus odds are that he'll grab one of these other GOP candidates to be his VP. I'll say either Rubio or Cruz.
All you libtards have MAJOR dick issues...
The Guesser can't stop lashing out in every post with his non-stop hate and insults...
Bullshit vtard can't stop lying about his fictitious life...
dafinch can't stop talking about animal assholes, dicks and other very disturbing shit...
Freud would have a field day with you modern bisexual-metrosexual pussies who wouldn't recognize right from wrong or a real leader if they bit you in the ass.
Hillary has issues, and stirs no passion, but her baggage has been fully vetted and accepted by the D's, and when push comes to shove, and the Supreme Court is put out as THE major issue of the campaign, she'll get a decent turnout. If someone like Cruz is the nominee, the turnout on the D side will be, as Trump says YUUUUUUGE. It'll be pretty big to beat back Trump also, but not as much. If it's someone less scary, like Rubio, Hillary's Turnout won't be large, which is why a guy like Rubio would have a decent chance to beat her.
Trump 'postpones' Israel trip after Netanyahu criticism
By Tom LoBianco, CNN
Updated 10:39 AM ET, Thu December 10, 2015
Donald Trump: 'I have to do what's right' 03:42
Story highlights
Washington (CNN)Donald Trump said Thursday that he is postponing his trip to Israel, just a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned his proposal to ban U.S. travel for all Muslims.
"I have decided to postpone my trip to Israel and to schedule my meeting with @Netanyahu at a later date after I become President of the U.S.," Trump tweeted.
Trump had planned to meet with Netanyahu December 28 in Israel, according to an Israeli government official, but shortly after the meeting was reported, Netanyahu's office condemned Trump's comments about Muslims.
"Prime Minister Netanyahu rejects Donald Trump's recent remarks about Muslims," according to a statement issued by the prime minister's office.
"The State of Israel respects all religions and strictly guarantees the rights of all its citizens. At the same time, Israel is fighting against militant Islam that targets Muslims, Christians and Jews alike and threatens the entire world," the statement said.
Netanyahu came under fire from dozens of members of the Israeli parliament for planning to host the controversial GOP presidential front-runner. They called on the Prime Minister to cancel his meeting with the billionaire businessman.
Trump explained later Thursday morning that he did not want to place Netanyahu "under pressure."
"He said we have a meeting and he looks forward to the meeting and all of that. But I didn't want to put him under pressure," Trump said on Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "I also did it because I'm in the midst of a very powerful campaign that's going very well, and it was not that easy to do. I would say lots of different reasons, I could have done it, it was semi-scheduled."
Trump refused to confirm the meeting when asked about it by CNN's Don Lemon Wednesday.
"I'm just going to Israel some time before the end of the year, I'm going to Israel, but I'm not saying who I'm meeting with," Trump said.
By Tom LoBianco, CNN
Updated 10:39 AM ET, Thu December 10, 2015
Donald Trump: 'I have to do what's right' 03:42
Story highlights
- Donald Trump said Thursday that he is postponing his trip to Israel
- It had been scheduled for December 28, an Israeli official had said
Washington (CNN)Donald Trump said Thursday that he is postponing his trip to Israel, just a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned his proposal to ban U.S. travel for all Muslims.
"I have decided to postpone my trip to Israel and to schedule my meeting with @Netanyahu at a later date after I become President of the U.S.," Trump tweeted.
Trump had planned to meet with Netanyahu December 28 in Israel, according to an Israeli government official, but shortly after the meeting was reported, Netanyahu's office condemned Trump's comments about Muslims.
"Prime Minister Netanyahu rejects Donald Trump's recent remarks about Muslims," according to a statement issued by the prime minister's office.
"The State of Israel respects all religions and strictly guarantees the rights of all its citizens. At the same time, Israel is fighting against militant Islam that targets Muslims, Christians and Jews alike and threatens the entire world," the statement said.
Netanyahu came under fire from dozens of members of the Israeli parliament for planning to host the controversial GOP presidential front-runner. They called on the Prime Minister to cancel his meeting with the billionaire businessman.
Trump explained later Thursday morning that he did not want to place Netanyahu "under pressure."
"He said we have a meeting and he looks forward to the meeting and all of that. But I didn't want to put him under pressure," Trump said on Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "I also did it because I'm in the midst of a very powerful campaign that's going very well, and it was not that easy to do. I would say lots of different reasons, I could have done it, it was semi-scheduled."
Trump refused to confirm the meeting when asked about it by CNN's Don Lemon Wednesday.
"I'm just going to Israel some time before the end of the year, I'm going to Israel, but I'm not saying who I'm meeting with," Trump said.
I don't get the enthusiasm for Rubio, he made a fool of himself with his flip flopping on the illegal immigration issue, and just yesterday it was reported that South Carolina Repubs were "disappointed" about how long he was taking to even up an office in the state, and Iowans were said to be "enraged" at how lackluster his ground game in the state. It seems like he's not gonna make any attempt to win any of the first 4 primaries, and history shows that candidates who don't do that are quickly out of the race. Frankly, I think Cruz' chances are better than Rubios, but that certainly isn't reflected in the betting line.
Someone has to be the R "establishment guy", and Rubio has been designated as that guy. Establishment R's think him on a stage with Hillary is a look they want, Young Latino vs Old, too familiar, Hillary. For the last 30+ years, that establishment guy wins the nomination, so that explains the betting line. With Trump, it's possible this year doesn't follow historical patterns.
Cruz has played the nomination game perfectly but his problem is he will get slaughtered by Hillary, and drag all R's down with him.
Trump canceled his trip to Israel because of a rumored assassination plot.
Russia warns Donald Trump of Assassination Plot
http://www.usapoliticstoday.com/russia-warns-donald-trump-of-assassination-plot/
Probably the only way the establishment can stop him.
Russia warns Donald Trump of Assassination Plot
http://www.usapoliticstoday.com/russia-warns-donald-trump-of-assassination-plot/
Probably the only way the establishment can stop him.
[h=1]WHY FRANKLIN GRAHAM SAYS DONALD TRUMP IS RIGHT ABOUT STOPPING MUSLIM IMMIGRATION[/h]The Washington Post
Amid an outcry over Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the country, prominent evangelist Franklin Graham has come out in support of the Republican presidential candidate’s plan, saying that he has been advocating a similar stance for months.
“For some time I have been saying that Muslim immigration into the United States should be stopped until we can properly vet them or until the war with Islam is over,” Graham wrote on Facebook on Wednesday. “Donald J. Trump has been criticized by some for saying something similar. The new Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said yesterday that he disagrees — saying that ‘such views are not what this party stands for and more importantly it’s not what this country stands for.’
“Politicians in Washington seem to be totally disconnected with reality.”
In July, Graham, the son of Billy Graham, wrote on Facebook that the country should “should stop all immigration of Muslims to the U.S. until this threat with Islam has been settled.” That post came after four Marines and a sailor were fatally shot at military facilities in Chattanooga, Tenn., by a Kuwait-born U.S. citizen from a conservative Muslim family.
“Every Muslim that comes into this country has the potential to be radicalized — and they do their killing to honor their religion and Muhammad,” Graham wrote at the time. “During World War 2, we didn’t allow Japanese to immigrate to America, nor did we allow Germans. Why are we allowing Muslims now?”
Graham has long been an outspoken critic of Islam, the Religion News Service reported:
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he called Islam a “very evil and wicked religion” and last year called Islam “a false religion.” In 2010, he apologized after questioning President Obama’s Christian faith, saying he was “born a Muslim … and the Islamic world sees the president as one of theirs.”
“Basically for years, since 9/11, he has waged a campaign against Islam, against the rights of Muslims,” Khalilah Sabra, executive director of the Muslim American Society Immigrant Justice Center, told RNS in January.
Graham’s comments in July were criticized by others in the evangelical community.
“I was so sad when I read the Facebook posting of Franklin Graham,” said Bob Roberts Jr., an evangelical pastor in Texas, according to RNS. “This is not ‘evangelical’ and even less evangelistic. I don’t want American Muslims to think we fear them or that they are our enemies.”
Graham, whose Facebook post about Trump had been shared more than 50,000 times by Thursday morning, could not immediately be reached for comment.
“Our politicians are not listening to the truth — my prayer is that God will open their eyes,” he wrote Wednesday. “This affects our security and the future of our nation.”
Earlier this week, Trump called for “total and complete” ban on Muslims entering the United States “until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.” His proposal was met with widespread criticism, including from Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, who called it “reckless, demagogic rhetoric.”
[Evangelical leaders are frantically looking for ways to defeat Donald Trump]
“Most evangelicals understand the difference between the peaceful Muslims and those who are violently waging war against us, because we’re a people on mission,” Moore told NPR. “We have Muslim neighbors and Muslim friends, and we understand how to love them, treat them with dignity, even as we disagree and have those conversations.
“The evangelicals I know are people who believe that everyone is made in the image of God, and so people even if they hold unpopular religious views aren’t to be treated as political footballs. They’re to be treated as human beings, and treated with respect and dignity.”
Amid an outcry over Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the country, prominent evangelist Franklin Graham has come out in support of the Republican presidential candidate’s plan, saying that he has been advocating a similar stance for months.
“For some time I have been saying that Muslim immigration into the United States should be stopped until we can properly vet them or until the war with Islam is over,” Graham wrote on Facebook on Wednesday. “Donald J. Trump has been criticized by some for saying something similar. The new Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said yesterday that he disagrees — saying that ‘such views are not what this party stands for and more importantly it’s not what this country stands for.’
“Politicians in Washington seem to be totally disconnected with reality.”
In July, Graham, the son of Billy Graham, wrote on Facebook that the country should “should stop all immigration of Muslims to the U.S. until this threat with Islam has been settled.” That post came after four Marines and a sailor were fatally shot at military facilities in Chattanooga, Tenn., by a Kuwait-born U.S. citizen from a conservative Muslim family.
“Every Muslim that comes into this country has the potential to be radicalized — and they do their killing to honor their religion and Muhammad,” Graham wrote at the time. “During World War 2, we didn’t allow Japanese to immigrate to America, nor did we allow Germans. Why are we allowing Muslims now?”
Graham has long been an outspoken critic of Islam, the Religion News Service reported:
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he called Islam a “very evil and wicked religion” and last year called Islam “a false religion.” In 2010, he apologized after questioning President Obama’s Christian faith, saying he was “born a Muslim … and the Islamic world sees the president as one of theirs.”
“Basically for years, since 9/11, he has waged a campaign against Islam, against the rights of Muslims,” Khalilah Sabra, executive director of the Muslim American Society Immigrant Justice Center, told RNS in January.
Graham’s comments in July were criticized by others in the evangelical community.
“I was so sad when I read the Facebook posting of Franklin Graham,” said Bob Roberts Jr., an evangelical pastor in Texas, according to RNS. “This is not ‘evangelical’ and even less evangelistic. I don’t want American Muslims to think we fear them or that they are our enemies.”
Graham, whose Facebook post about Trump had been shared more than 50,000 times by Thursday morning, could not immediately be reached for comment.
“Our politicians are not listening to the truth — my prayer is that God will open their eyes,” he wrote Wednesday. “This affects our security and the future of our nation.”
Earlier this week, Trump called for “total and complete” ban on Muslims entering the United States “until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.” His proposal was met with widespread criticism, including from Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, who called it “reckless, demagogic rhetoric.”
[Evangelical leaders are frantically looking for ways to defeat Donald Trump]
“Most evangelicals understand the difference between the peaceful Muslims and those who are violently waging war against us, because we’re a people on mission,” Moore told NPR. “We have Muslim neighbors and Muslim friends, and we understand how to love them, treat them with dignity, even as we disagree and have those conversations.
“The evangelicals I know are people who believe that everyone is made in the image of God, and so people even if they hold unpopular religious views aren’t to be treated as political footballs. They’re to be treated as human beings, and treated with respect and dignity.”
Dispelling the ‘Few Extremists’ Myth – the Muslim World Is Overcome with Hate
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It is simply false to declare that jihadists represent the “tiny few extremists” who sully the reputation of an otherwise peace-loving and tolerant Muslim faith. In reality, the truth is far more troubling — that jihadists represent the natural and inevitable outgrowth of a faith that is given over to hate on a massive scale, with hundreds of millions of believers holding views that Americans would rightly find revolting. Not all Muslims are hateful, of course, but so many are that it’s not remotely surprising that the world is wracked by wave after wave of jihadist violence. To understand the Muslim edifice of hate, imagine it as a pyramid — with broadly-shared bigotry at the bottom, followed by stair steps of escalating radicalism — culminating in jihadist armies that in some instances represent a greater share of their respective populations than does the active-duty military in the United States. The base of the pyramid, the most broadly held hatred in the Islamic world, is anti-Semitism, with staggering numbers of Muslims expressing anti-Jewish views. In 2014, the Anti-Defamation League released the results of polling 53,100 people in 102 countries for evidence of anti-Semitic attitudes and beliefs. The numbers from the majority-Muslim world are difficult to believe for those steeped in politically correct rhetoric about Islam. A full 74 percent of North African and Middle Eastern residents registered anti-Semitic beliefs, including 92 percent of Iraqis, a whopping 69 percent of relatively secular Turks, and 74 percent of Saudis.
The trend toward Muslim anti-Semitism continues even when Muslim nations are far removed from the Arab–Israeli conflict. A solid majority — 61 percent — of majority-Muslim Malays harbor anti-Semitic attitudes, while only 13 percent of neighboring majority-Buddhist Thais are anti-Jewish. The next level of the pyramid is Muslim commitment to deadly Islamic supremacy. In multiple Muslim nations, overwhelming majorities of Muslims support the death penalty for apostasy or blasphemy. Collectively, this means that hundreds of millions of men and women support capital punishment for the exercise of the basic human rights of freedom of expression and free exercise of religion:
Moving beyond Islamic supremacy to the next step of the pyramid, enormous numbers of Muslims are terrorist sympathizers. It is still stunning to see how popular Osama bin Laden was early last decade, and even as his popularity plunged (as he grew weaker and more isolated), his public approval remained disturbingly high:
But what about ISIS — the world’s most savage and deadly terror organization? The latest polling data show that while a majority of Muslims reject ISIS, extrapolating from the populations of polled countries alone shows that roughly 50 million people express sympathy for a terrorist army that burns prisoners alive, throws gay men from buildings, and beheads political opponents. In Pakistan a horrifying 72 percent couldn’t bring themselves to express an unfavorable view of ISIS:
But sympathy for terror is different from active support, and here’s where the numbers are difficult to pin down. I know of no reliable database that shows how many Muslims give to jihadist charities, spread jihadist propaganda on social media, support radical preachers, or otherwise take concrete actions to advance the terrorists’ cause. We do know, for example, that anti-Israel terrorism is so popular in Saudi Arabia that a telethon once raised $100 million to support the 2002 intifada. Shows of support included this charming scene: A 6-year-old boy, with a plastic gun slung over his shoulder and fake explosives strapped around his waist, walked into a donation center and made a symbolic donation of plastic explosives, according to Al Watan daily. It is from this fertile soil that jihadists grow. And here the numbers decisively belie the “few extremists” rhetoric. In Iran alone, the Revolutionary Guard represents a proportionate share of the population similar to the combined strength of the active-duty Army and Marines here in the United States. Between Boko Haram, the Al-Nusra front, ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Yemeni militias, Libyan militias, and many others, the number of active jihadists numbers in the hundreds of thousands; some estimates indicate that 100,000 are fighting in Syria alone. To give a sense of proportion, the United States is a nation that honors military service, respects its veterans, and engages in a massive military recruiting effort that includes offering soldiers generous salaries, pensions, benefits, and the best military equipment in the world. Even then, only about 0.4 percent of the American population engages in active-duty military service at any given time.
Jihadists, by contrast, have low life expectancies, second-rate gear, low salaries, and often have to break domestic laws and journey across battlefields to join terrorist insurgencies, but still they join. In Britain, for example, more Muslims join ISIS than join the British army. Simply put, America’s leaders actively deceive the American people about the sheer scale of Muslim hatred and commitment to jihad. Rather than tell us the truth, the Obama administration and the media aristocracy constantly lecture Americans about discrimination, apparently believing that only their scolding keeps the great redneck masses at bay. Telling us the truth won’t send Americans on an anti-Muslim killing spree. Instead, it will make us no more radical than Egypt’s president, who briefly made headlines earlier this year after calling for a “revolution” in Islam and decrying faith traditions that he admitted had been “sacralized over the centuries.” Telling the truth can demonstrate the scale of the problem and at least begin the process of convincing the American people that there is no quick fix, that the defense of the nation will require courage and resolve over the long term. Islam has a problem. It is Muslims’ responsibility to reform their own faith. It is America’s responsibility to defend itself and its citizens. Neither goal is advanced by telling convenient, politically correct lies. After 14 years of war, can we finally tell the truth? — David French is a staff writer at National Review, an attorney, and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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It is simply false to declare that jihadists represent the “tiny few extremists” who sully the reputation of an otherwise peace-loving and tolerant Muslim faith. In reality, the truth is far more troubling — that jihadists represent the natural and inevitable outgrowth of a faith that is given over to hate on a massive scale, with hundreds of millions of believers holding views that Americans would rightly find revolting. Not all Muslims are hateful, of course, but so many are that it’s not remotely surprising that the world is wracked by wave after wave of jihadist violence. To understand the Muslim edifice of hate, imagine it as a pyramid — with broadly-shared bigotry at the bottom, followed by stair steps of escalating radicalism — culminating in jihadist armies that in some instances represent a greater share of their respective populations than does the active-duty military in the United States. The base of the pyramid, the most broadly held hatred in the Islamic world, is anti-Semitism, with staggering numbers of Muslims expressing anti-Jewish views. In 2014, the Anti-Defamation League released the results of polling 53,100 people in 102 countries for evidence of anti-Semitic attitudes and beliefs. The numbers from the majority-Muslim world are difficult to believe for those steeped in politically correct rhetoric about Islam. A full 74 percent of North African and Middle Eastern residents registered anti-Semitic beliefs, including 92 percent of Iraqis, a whopping 69 percent of relatively secular Turks, and 74 percent of Saudis.
The trend toward Muslim anti-Semitism continues even when Muslim nations are far removed from the Arab–Israeli conflict. A solid majority — 61 percent — of majority-Muslim Malays harbor anti-Semitic attitudes, while only 13 percent of neighboring majority-Buddhist Thais are anti-Jewish. The next level of the pyramid is Muslim commitment to deadly Islamic supremacy. In multiple Muslim nations, overwhelming majorities of Muslims support the death penalty for apostasy or blasphemy. Collectively, this means that hundreds of millions of men and women support capital punishment for the exercise of the basic human rights of freedom of expression and free exercise of religion:
Moving beyond Islamic supremacy to the next step of the pyramid, enormous numbers of Muslims are terrorist sympathizers. It is still stunning to see how popular Osama bin Laden was early last decade, and even as his popularity plunged (as he grew weaker and more isolated), his public approval remained disturbingly high:
But what about ISIS — the world’s most savage and deadly terror organization? The latest polling data show that while a majority of Muslims reject ISIS, extrapolating from the populations of polled countries alone shows that roughly 50 million people express sympathy for a terrorist army that burns prisoners alive, throws gay men from buildings, and beheads political opponents. In Pakistan a horrifying 72 percent couldn’t bring themselves to express an unfavorable view of ISIS:
But sympathy for terror is different from active support, and here’s where the numbers are difficult to pin down. I know of no reliable database that shows how many Muslims give to jihadist charities, spread jihadist propaganda on social media, support radical preachers, or otherwise take concrete actions to advance the terrorists’ cause. We do know, for example, that anti-Israel terrorism is so popular in Saudi Arabia that a telethon once raised $100 million to support the 2002 intifada. Shows of support included this charming scene: A 6-year-old boy, with a plastic gun slung over his shoulder and fake explosives strapped around his waist, walked into a donation center and made a symbolic donation of plastic explosives, according to Al Watan daily. It is from this fertile soil that jihadists grow. And here the numbers decisively belie the “few extremists” rhetoric. In Iran alone, the Revolutionary Guard represents a proportionate share of the population similar to the combined strength of the active-duty Army and Marines here in the United States. Between Boko Haram, the Al-Nusra front, ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Yemeni militias, Libyan militias, and many others, the number of active jihadists numbers in the hundreds of thousands; some estimates indicate that 100,000 are fighting in Syria alone. To give a sense of proportion, the United States is a nation that honors military service, respects its veterans, and engages in a massive military recruiting effort that includes offering soldiers generous salaries, pensions, benefits, and the best military equipment in the world. Even then, only about 0.4 percent of the American population engages in active-duty military service at any given time.
Jihadists, by contrast, have low life expectancies, second-rate gear, low salaries, and often have to break domestic laws and journey across battlefields to join terrorist insurgencies, but still they join. In Britain, for example, more Muslims join ISIS than join the British army. Simply put, America’s leaders actively deceive the American people about the sheer scale of Muslim hatred and commitment to jihad. Rather than tell us the truth, the Obama administration and the media aristocracy constantly lecture Americans about discrimination, apparently believing that only their scolding keeps the great redneck masses at bay. Telling us the truth won’t send Americans on an anti-Muslim killing spree. Instead, it will make us no more radical than Egypt’s president, who briefly made headlines earlier this year after calling for a “revolution” in Islam and decrying faith traditions that he admitted had been “sacralized over the centuries.” Telling the truth can demonstrate the scale of the problem and at least begin the process of convincing the American people that there is no quick fix, that the defense of the nation will require courage and resolve over the long term. Islam has a problem. It is Muslims’ responsibility to reform their own faith. It is America’s responsibility to defend itself and its citizens. Neither goal is advanced by telling convenient, politically correct lies. After 14 years of war, can we finally tell the truth? — David French is a staff writer at National Review, an attorney, and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
