The United States is not and will never be at war with Islam. - President Barack Obama, Address to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey - April 6, 2009, Ankara, Turkey(1)
We’re not at war with anyone. We’re at war only with people who represent mistruths as truth and that’s true of any network whether it’s Fox, CBS, or any other network when—when errors of fact are stated or when opinion is offered is fact, we will—we will challenge that.
David Axelrod
Senior Policy Advisor to President Obama
November 1, 2009
Interview on Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer
Washington, D.C.
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/FTN_110109.pdf
While David Axelrod insists we are only at war with media outlets and others who tell the public things the White House doesn’t want to hear the last I checked we still have soldiers who are fighting wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq. And while President Obama insists the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam that doesn’t mean Islam isn’t at war with us.
We found this out the hard way on November 5, 2009 when a member of our own armed forces, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, shot and killed twelve fellow soldiers and one civilian as well as injuring twenty nine others at the Fort Hood military base in Texas. It was an act of terrorism pure and simple. If our military is charged with the responsibility of protecting us and if our military bases are not safe from amongst their own ranks then surely the intent is to undermine public confidence in our armed forces. The void created by a loss of public confidence is one filled by feelings of terror.
President Obama can content himself all he wants with false assurances that we ought not to “jump to conclusions” about Hasan or that “we can’t fully know what leads a man to do such a thing.” But when someone shouts “Allahu Akbar” and begins wantonly slaughtering people we have a pretty good idea of what Hasan’s motivations are. When someone praises the murder of Private William Long, an army recruiter in Little Rock, Arkansas, we have a pretty good idea that Hasan has no place in our military. When someone makes an effort to contact al Qaeda leaders to join their cause as Hasan did we have a pretty good idea that we are dealing with someone who is both a terrorist and a traitor.
Those who would attribute Hasan’s actions to some sort of made up on the spot, convenient, instant coffee mental disorder or otherwise make excuses for his actions do a grave disservice to the memory of those who died at Fort Hood. In fact, it does a disservice to all our soldiers who have lost their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq.
So when we take a moment on Veterans Day to remember those who were lost at Fort Hood and those who laid down their lives before them let us also remember the words of Osama bin Laden. In the fatwa issued in 1998, he wrote:
We—with God’s help—call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded to comply with God’s order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it. We also call on Muslim ulema, leaders, youths, and soldiers to launch the raid on Satan’s U.S. troops and the devil’s supporters allying with them, and to displace those who are behind them so that they may learn a lesson. ( http://www.pbs.org/newshour/terrorism/international/fatwa_1998.html )
This fatwa was issued during President Clinton’s second term. This fatwa was issued nearly three years before big, bad George W. Bush took the oath of office. This fatwa proves Islamic fundamentalists hated America well before President Bush and will hate America no matter how much President Obama might try to appease and satiate their appetites.
We should remember these words because they are in part what motivated the attacks of September 11, 2001. We should remember these words because they are in part what motivated the attacks against our soldiers serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. We should remember these words because they are in part what motivated Nadal Malik Hasan to fire upon his fellow soldiers and kill his fellow Americans.
Aaron Goldstein
1) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30065504/
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