{"id":26448,"date":"2017-11-24T21:45:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T21:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26448"},"modified":"2017-11-24T21:45:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T21:45:02","slug":"no-war-against-islam-but-against-religious-perverts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26448","title":{"rendered":"No war against Islam, but against religious perverts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/BBFBrlH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26449\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/BBFBrlH-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/BBFBrlH-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/BBFBrlH.jpg 497w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barack H. Obama made a critical point the night in May 2011 when he told the world that U.S. special forces had killed Osama bin Laden in a daring raid in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The president reminded us that &#8220;we are not at war against Islam. Osama bin Laden was not a Muslim leader. He was a <em>mass murderer<\/em> of Muslims.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The al-Qaeda leader is long dead. His legacy continues to spread mayhem, murder and misery. More than 200 Muslim worshipers died today when terrorists detonated a bomb in a Cairo, Egypt mosque. The killers appear to be affiliated with the Islamic State, the monstrous outfit that has supplanted al-Qaeda as this country&#8217;s No. 1 international enemy.<\/p>\n<p>And that brings me to my essential point. It is that we are at war with religious <em>perverts<\/em>, not mainstream Muslims. President Bush made that point abundantly clear just days after 9\/11; President Obama echoed his predecessor&#8217;s assessment during his two terms in office.<\/p>\n<p>Are we hearing such <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/militants-kill-more-than-230-at-mosque-in-egypts-north-sinai\/ar-BBFzF2B?li=BBnb7Kz#image=BBFBrir|2\">rhetoric from Donald J. Trump?<\/a> Well, the president did fire off a tweet today condemning the &#8220;extremist ideology that forms the basis for their existence,&#8221; referring to the ISIS offshoot that is taking responsibility for this latest barbaric act.<\/p>\n<p>I want the president to state categorically that our struggle is not against Muslims or the faith they worship. It is against the monstrous perverts who kill indiscriminately.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack H. Obama made a critical point the night in May 2011 when he told the world that U.S. special forces had killed Osama bin Laden in a daring raid in Pakistan. The president reminded us that &#8220;we are not at war against Islam. Osama bin Laden was not a Muslim leader. He was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26448\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No war against Islam, but against religious perverts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[95,222,540,1424,1899,2348,2362,5608],"class_list":["post-26448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intgernational-news","tag-95","tag-al-qaeda","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-george-w-bush","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-war-against-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26450,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26448\/revisions\/26450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}