Mitt Romney: Jihadism “Is Not Islam” – Ignorance Again Abounds And Advances The Big Lie

Continues The Big Lie

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Commonly (some claim erroneously) attributed to Joseph Goebbels

You can add Mitt Romney to the growing list of Republican presidential candidates and Western journalists who know absolutely nothing about Islam’s doctrine and the threat it poses to Western Civilization – and are thereby inadvertently propagating a lie.

Andrew Bostom has published another must-read essay that exposes Romney’s Orwellian positions on the worldwide jihad movement – and the Shariah which, contrary to what Romney may tell us, is, as a matter of fact, inching its way ever so relentlessly into American Courts of Law. Republicans may nominate this man for election to the office of President and, following such an election, they will well deserve anything that befalls them. Romney labors and speaks, as did George W. Bush, under the delusion that violent jihad has nothing to do with Islam. Here’s the link to Dr. Bostom’s column:

http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2011/09/15/mitt-romney-on-jihad-and-sharia/

Romney says of his recent presentation at the Heritage Foundation:

“I spoke about three major threats America faces on a long term basis. Jihadism is one of them, and that is not Islam.”

Really? In rebuttal Dr. Bostom writes:

…However: There is just one historically relevant meaning of jihad despite contemporary apologetics. The root of the word Jihad, appears 40 times in the Koran and in subsequent Islamic understanding to both Muslim luminaries—from the greatest jurists and scholars of classical Islam (including Abu Yusuf, Averroes, Ibn Khaldun, Al Ghazzali, and the Shi’ites Al-Hilli and Al-Amili ), to ordinary people—meant and means “he fought, warred or waged war against unbelievers and the like.” As described by the seminal Arabic lexicographer E.W Lane, “Jihad came to be used by the Muslims to signify wag[ing] war, against unbelievers.”…

Bostom provides further hard evidence of Romney’s folly with a 1942 speech by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, during which the Iranian theocrat said, in part:

…Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured by [the unbelievers]? Islam says: Kill them [the non-Muslims], put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]…

How a man like Romney, who is supposed to be educated, enlightened, and worldly, can be so uneducated about that which he says is such a sinister threat to America should awaken conservatives’ curiosity. Perhaps he has just chosen to ignore that which is so clearly written in the history and doctrines of Islam. Then, again, perhaps he is simply so desperate to garner the approval of the American Press Corps that he will now utter anything, including the foregoing statement, toward which Dr. Bostom directed his essay.

The terribly unfortunate result of such a belief is the continuance of the Goebells-esque Big Lie – Islam Is A Religion Of Peace.

About John L. Work

John Lloyd Work has taken the detective thriller genre and woven an occasional political thread throughout his books, morphing what was once considered an arena reserved for pure fiction into believable, terrifying, futuristic, true-to-life “faction”. He traveled the uniformed patrolman’s path, answering brutal domestic violence calls, high speed chases, homicides, suicides, armed robberies, breaking up bar fights, and the accompanying sporadic unpredictable moments of terror - which eventually come to all police officers, sometimes when least expected. He gradually absorbed the hard fact that the greatest danger a cop faces comes in the form of day-to-day encounters with emotionally disturbed, highly intoxicated people. Those experiences can wear a cop down, grinding on his own emotions and psyche. Prolonged exposure to the worst of people and people at their worst can soon make him believe that the world is a sewer. That police officer’s reality is a common thread throughout Work’s crime fiction books. Following his graduation from high school, Work studied music and became a professional performer, conductor and teacher. Life made a sudden, unexpected turn when, one afternoon in 1976, his cousin, who eventually became the Chief of the Ontario, California, Police Department, talked him into riding along during a patrol shift. The musician was hooked into becoming a police officer. After working for two years as a reserve officer in Southern California and in Boulder, Colorado, he joined the Longmont, Colorado Police Department. Work served there for seven years, investigating crimes as a patrolman, detective and patrol sergeant. In 1989 he joined the Adams County, Colorado Sheriff’s Office, where he soon learned that locking a criminal up inside a jail or prison does not put him out of business. As a sheriff’s detective he investigated hundreds of crimes, including eleven contract murder conspiracies which originated “inside the walls”. While serving on the Adams County North Metro Gang Task Force and as a member of the Colorado Security Threat Intelligence Network Group (STING), Work designed a seminar on how a criminal’s mind formulates his victim selection strategy. Over a period of six years he taught that class in sheriff’s academies and colleges throughout Colorado. He saw the world of crime both inside the walls and out on the streets. His final experiences in the criminal law field were with the Colorado State Public Defender’s Office, where for nearly two years he investigated felonies from the defense side of the Courtroom. Twenty-two years of observing human nature at its worst, combined with watching some profound changes in America’s culture and political institutions, provided plenty of material for his first three books. A self-published author, he just finished writing his tenth thriller.

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