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Monday, 27 February 2012
The Obama administration’s denial of reality—
and why Rep. Allen West’s Purple Heart
legislation is so important
Please add your name today!
Dear Harold,
Last week we emailed you about our open letter to the chairmen of both the U.S. House and Senate Armed
Services Committees. The letter calls on the committees to take up and pass H.R. 1142, sponsored by
Rep. Allen West, which would confer the Purple Heart upon victims of jihadist attacks (Ft. Hood, the
Little Rock Recruitment Center, etc.).
Doing so would correct a grave injustice. It would also shine a light on a reality the Obama
administration is desperately trying to deny:
The Obama administration has gone so far in acting on this denial that, at the insistence of radical
Muslim organizations, it is expunging any references to “jihad” or “radical Islam” from FBI terrorism
training manuals.
This pattern of denial by the Obama administration can be seen in other areas. Recently,
Gen. Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made the incredulous statement that
Iran is a “rational actor” and is not trying to develop nuclear weapons.
This illustrates a triumph of wishful thinking, or perhaps wishful parsing of intelligence data,
over an understanding of religious doctrinal beliefs that are at least in part driving Iran’s leaders on its path
toward nuclear weaponry. When Ahmadinejad, Khameini, or any other Iranian leader, express their belief
in the return of the 12th imam, and how a worldwide apocalypse must occur before this happens, we
should take them at their word. What better way to instigate a worldwide apocalypse than to launch
nuclear weapons?
But instead of taking this seriously, it seems that this administration dismisses such notions as crazy
ramblings, because, after all, no one in our leadership would ever believe such a thing.
The Obama administration has also been exhibiting a denial of reality in the way it is responding to the
ccidental burning of some Qur’ans in Afghanistan. It has trotted out one apology after another, from
different leaders in the administration, even going so far as to promise that those who burned the Qur’ans
will be held accountable.
(Interestingly, some modern and ancient Islamic authorities specifically sanction the burning of Qur’ans as a
proper means of disposal. To find out more see this enlightening article by our friend and colleague
Andrew Bostom.)
The Obama administration actions have been undertaken in the hope that this would somehow assuage
the wrath of the Afghan rioters, when in fact it denies the reality that such repeated pleas for forgiveness
are doing the exact opposite, like throwing gasoline on a fire. The Obama administration’s actions are
emboldening the rioters and have failed to achieve their purported goal.
Every person who signs the Purple Heart letter is not only calling on Congress to correct a grave injustice,
he or she is sending a message that we have lost patience with the denial of the reality that jihad
is what is motivating Islamic terrorists and that jihad is an act of war.
So if you haven’t yet signed the Purple Heart letter, for the sake of the victims at Ft. Hood and Little Rock,
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