Islamic Coverups From The White House

There just seems to be no end to the Obama administration's efforts to pretty up Islam and divorce the murderous actions of its radical followers from the "religion of peace" face the administration wants to put on it. The latest outrage is the report from the Department of Defense calling the Fort Hood massacre a matter of "workplace violence."

Yes, it was workplace violence, all right--punctuated by the triumphal shout of Allahu akbar. The perpetrator didn't "go postal," he "went jihadist."

Thirteen people were murdered that day at Fort Hood. Many others were seriously wounded. The military authorities, knowing what their political superiors expected, urged caution about making a determination that religious fanaticism had anything to do with the attack. The terrorist was known within the military community as a bit of a nut who had become increasingly radical in his Muslim beliefs. He wasn't quiet about it. He would spout violent Islamic phrases at anyone willing to listen. And even without that information, shouting "Allahu akbar" while murdering thirteen unarmed soldiers might have given them a clue.

I tend to think that President George Bush really knew that Islam is not by any means the "religion of peace." But he cautioned against tarring every Muslim with the terrorist label, and asked the American people not to retaliate mindlessly and randomly against Muslims in their community. That was probably a wise thing to do after 9/11, and I give him credit for doing his best to avoid vigilantism in the aftermath of a terrible mass murder.

Barack Obama, on the other hand, seems to believe to his core that Islam really is a peaceful religion and that the obvious must be ignored in order to get the ignorant American masses to turn away from the lynchings they would commit without him. He is a fool, and overly-solicitous of a religion that is fundamentally supremacist, violent, and medieval. He is at best a weak-kneed cafeteria Christian, and likely thinks that most Muslims in America treat their religion the same way he treats his. He ignores the radicalization of Muslim immigrants and the growing fundamentalism of Muslims born in the United States.

There have been thirty-three clear but unsuccessful Islamic conspiracies to kill American soldiers on American soil or to blow up domestic military facilities since 9/11, with an even larger number being investigated. So far, the terrorists' plans have largely been thwarted and the conspirators arrested on charges ranging from traditional conspiracy and "attempt" charges to straight-up charges of terrorist activity.

Our military facilities serve the same symbolic purpose for Islamists as did the World Trade Center. They are symbols of American power, and Islamist organizations such as Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood want to deflate American power while enhancing their own. Human lives mean nothing to these jihadists, except to frighten some of the people who should be least afraid. Because of the Obamist political correctness, most military personnel are still unarmed on their own bases "for security reasons." Somehow that didn't stop mass murderer and Islamist terrorist Nidal Hasan from mowing down his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood.

More importantly, in order to avoid the horror of ethnic or religious profiling, the military is doing little or nothing to weed out the growing number of Islamists within the ranks. The administration would prefer the horror of mass murder to the hate crime of weeding out those who would do their fellow soldiers serious harm.

In 2009, Army Private William Long was murdered outside an Arkansas recruiting center by a Muslim fanatic who clearly stated that he was avenging Muslim deaths and acting as an agent of a Yemeni Al Qaeda offshoot. Another private was seriously wounded. But like the "workplace violence" at Fort Hood, this terrorist attack has been declared to be a "drive-by shooting." Who do these idiots in the administration and their counterparts in the military think they're fooling? Anyone with an ounce of sense knows what really drives these killers.

In Seattle this year, two Muslim radicals planned to attack a military installation with guns and hand grenades. Around the same time, another militant army private, Nasser Abdo, was charged with planning a second attack on Fort Hood. And then there's good old Jose Pimental, a Muslim convert, who had made plans to kill soldiers returning from Afghanistan. Both Abdo and Pimental stated that they learned everything they needed to know about committing terror against the military from Anwar al-Awlaki's Inspire Magazine, particularly an article entitled "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom." The Fort Hood murderer was also an al-Awlaki disciple.

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) has been investigating the Islamist and homegrown terrorist threat within the United States, particularly the military, for months. His reward has been to be vilified in the mainstream media and Democratic circles as an Islamophobe. The vicious personal attacks on him for daring to question the wisdom of treating Islam as the religion of peace have not deterred him or his investigation.

In a joint session of the House and Senate Homeland Security Committees this past Wednesday, King declared: "There's a definite threat from Islamic radicalization in various parts of our society, including within the military, and we can't allow political correctness to keep us from exposing the threat for what it is." In a corresponding response to the reclassification of terrorist activity to "workplace violence" and "drive-by shootings," normally reluctant Senator Susan Collins (R?-Maine) said: "Political-correctness is being placed above the security of the nation's Armed Forces at home."

It's past time to stop using euphemisms and politically-correct avoidance of offending those who need to be offended and start calling this ongoing problem by its right name: "endemic, metastasizing and deadly Islamofascist terrorism." If that offends those who practice the fundamentalist form of the religion of peace, tough. These acts are not "tragedies." They are not "workplace violence." They are not "drive-by shootings." They are not "man-caused disasters." They are clearly and unequivocally Islamist terrorism.