“As we have seen many times, there is no moment so grave that our current president will not to use it to get up on his high horse, take a shot at Western civilization, and emphasize his own moral superiority. … No littler man has ever been president.” – David Gelernter
- On Tuesday, ISIS posted a video of themselves burning a Jordanian pilot alive in a steel cage.
- On Tuesday, President Obama condemned the murder and said it “just indicates the degree to which, whatever ideology they’re operating off of, it’s bankrupt.”
- On Wednesday, the United Nations issued a report detailing ISIS crimes including “mass executions of boys, as well as reports of beheadings, crucifixions of children, and burying children alive.”
- On Thursday, President Obama used his time at the National Prayer Breakfast to criticize the “terrible deeds” committed “in the name of Christ.”
Fox News: Kelly Files clip – Obama has never once condemned crimes committed “in the name of Mohammed”
Bernard Lewis, the greatest living English-language historian of Islam said, “The Crusades could more accurately be described as a limited, belated and, in the last analysis, ineffectual response to the jihad — a failed attempt to recover by a Christian holy war what had been lost to a Muslim holy war.”
“In his ignorant and bigoted remarks to religious leaders this week, President Obama parroted the jihadi propaganda [that blames] the cultural incompetence, practical indolence, and spiritual decay of the entire Middle East [on] Richard Coeur de Lion’s twelfth-century swordplay.” – Ralph Peters
“We are all descended from cavemen who broke the skulls of their enemies with rocks for fun or profit. But that hardly mitigates the crimes of a man who does the same thing today. I see no problem judging the behavior of the Islamic State and its apologists from the vantage point of the West’s high horse, because we’ve earned the right to sit in that saddle.” – Jonah Goldberg
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