Redefining our Muslim enemies

By Doug Hagmann —— Bio and Archives June 5, 2010

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Since taking office, Barack Hussein Obama has done much to change the administration of justice against Islamic terror suspects caught in the United States. First, the word “Islamic” was removed from the phrase “Islamic terrorism.” Now, the word terrorism is also being removed from that descriptor.

The former is a consequence of a perverse mix of political correctness, deep pockets of the Saudi-funded lobby, and a presidential administration openly biased in favor of a global Islamic agenda. The latter is an example of the domestic side of that bias at work in the form of a regressive prosecutorial mentality of the Obama justice department, where enemies who are bent on the destruction of the United States are afforded the same rights as car-jacking suspects. Smoke rising from American barbeques last week effectively covered two news items that at their core provided significant insight into our foreign and domestic approach to fighting Islamic terrorism. First, according to Barack Hussein Obama, the United States’ “war on terror” is officially over. Of course, political progressives will argue that this statement is a misinterpretation of the Obama foreign policy, and that it will actually foster international goodwill through its narrow specificity of enemy identification. Others, especially those in the intelligence world, will applaud the abandonment of a phrase that wages war on a tactic and not a target (and rightfully so). Indeed, abandoning the phrase “the war on terror” makes sense, but the deliberate mischaracterization of the war waged upon us does not. Obama’s clever verbal shell game is able to withstand all of the scrutiny by the corporate media, but in reality it reveals an insidiously dangerous tactic that will imperil every American. By policy, Obama is redefining our enemies by removing the religious and ideological components as motives behind terrorist attacks against Americans and all Westerners. According to Obama through his senior counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan, it would be wrong to “describe our enemy as jihadists or Islamists” because that would “play into the false perception” that al-Qaeda and its allies were “religious leaders and defending a holy cause, when in fact, they are nothing more than murderers.” More...