-By Warner Todd Huston
After the murder of American hostage and aide worker Peter Kassig by members of the Islamist terror group ISIS, Obama claimed that Christians were more responsible for terrorism than Muslims are.
After he returned from his trip to Asia, Obama deigned to comment on the murder of the aide worker by claiming that the actions of ISIS “represent no faith.”
“ISIL’s actions represent no faith, least of all the Muslim faith which Abdul-Rahman adopted as his own,” Obama claimed.
Obama also claimed that the act was one of “pure evil.”
But my friend, Chicago’s Joe Walsh, noted on Monday evening, this means that Obama just said that Christians, Jews, Hindus, even Mormons are more responsible for terror than Muslims.
Before you get incredulous just look at what he wrote.
ISIL’s actions represent no faith, least of all the Muslim faith which Abdul-Rahman adopted as his own…
Let’s get past the absurdity of calling Peter Kassig by that disgusting Muslim name. Kassig “converted” to Islam only hoping his life would be spared. He did not believe the lies of Islam. It was an act of self-preservation.
So, that point made, look at what Obama said. The actions of ISIS he said “represent no faith, least of all the Muslim faith.”
The key words here are “least of all.” In direct context, as written in clear English, this can only mean that Obama thinks that Islam is the religion least guilty or least expected to indulge in terror. This, by necessity, means that all other religions are far more responsible for terrorism because, in Obama’s own words, Islam is least responsible for terror.
Now we know that on this–as in so many other things–Obama is a straight out liar.
He has it exactly backwards, of course. Islam is most responsible for terrorism, not least responsible for it.
In reality, Islam is the only religion responsible for widespread, world wide terror. Do other religions have instances of murder and even some acts of terror? Of course. But, outside of Islam, these are not world wide incidents and they are often isolated to cultural issues as opposed to religious-based ones.
On the other hand, Islam is the reason that Islamic terrorists on every continent and in every corner of the earth use to justify their acts of terrorism.
Contra to Obama, Islam is most of all responsible for terror, not least of all.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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