Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism
"Nothing whatsoever," Clinton says. Reports the Daily Mail: “Clinton instead referred repeatedly to
'radical jihadism' as a global scourge, but didn't explain how the concept of
jihadism is consistent with [her] notion that adherents of [Islam] are
uninvolved."
Everyone by now knows that in
the Koran there are passages that promote peacefulness as well as conflicting passages that
urge Muslims to commit violence against non-believers (jihad). Individual Muslims decide which path to
follow. One can acknowledge that the
vast majority of Muslims in the world live decent, peaceful individual lives while
also recognizing that there are many Muslims who read the Koran as a guide
to violence. Everyone knows
this. Muslim terrorists can and do
recite those Koranic verses that prescribe their actions. The head of the
Islamic State, the Muslim terrorist organization most in the news these days, has
a PhD in Islamic Studies from the Islamic University of Baghdad.
The only real solution is for peaceful Muslims
to reform Islam from within by expurgating the violence-promoting parts of the
Koran and later texts, combined with world-wide aggressive suppression of, and not apologies for, Islamic terrorism. Appeasers and apologists of violent Islam serve to undermine any Muslims seeking an Islamic reformation by insisting that there is nothing wrong with Islam itself.
Frankly I do not understand what Hillary Clinton seeks to gain from such a ridiculous statement that everyone knows is a lie. She certainly knows it is a lie. Perhaps she spits forth such lies, not only because she is an inveterate liar just for the sport of it, because she gets a sense of power, a perverse frisson, in uttering bold lies that everyone around her accepts as a sign of her power. She is the empress with no clothes, but in her version of the morality play even she knows she is naked.
Frankly I do not understand what Hillary Clinton seeks to gain from such a ridiculous statement that everyone knows is a lie. She certainly knows it is a lie. Perhaps she spits forth such lies, not only because she is an inveterate liar just for the sport of it, because she gets a sense of power, a perverse frisson, in uttering bold lies that everyone around her accepts as a sign of her power. She is the empress with no clothes, but in her version of the morality play even she knows she is naked.
R Balsamo
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