Hillary: Islamic State saying, “Oh, please, Allah, make Trump president of America”

“We’ve made a judgment, based on a lot of research, that bringing Islam into the definition of our enemy actually serves the purpose of the radical Jihadists, and there’s a lot of evidence of that.”

In reality, there is no such research, and could not be: the idea that naming the enemy would play into the hands of the enemy is a dogma of the Washington establishment that is based on two untested and unproven assumptions. The first of these is that to call the jihadis “jihadis” would confer upon them a spurious legitimacy that would aid in their recruitment. But it is absurd to think that Muslims are looking to non-Muslim political leaders to tell them what Islam is and isn’t. The second is that to speak honestly about the motivating ideology of the enemy would alienate our Muslim allies. But there is no reason why that should be so either. To acknowledge that those who are fighting us are Islamic jihadis doesn’t mean that every Muslim is or must be on their side. There are innumerable examples from Muslim history of various factions of Muslims fighting against other factions. And the Muslim nations who are for various reasons opposed to the Islamic State and al-Qaeda know full well what Islam teaches; it isn’t as if they really don’t know how Islamic those groups are. If that knowledge hasn’t stopped them from opposing those groups now, public acknowledgment of what they are wouldn’t, either.

“He quoted ISIS spokespeople rooting for Donald Trump’s victory, because Trump has made Islam and Muslims part of his campaign. And basically, Matt Olsen argues, the Jihadists see this as a great gift. They are saying, ‘Oh, please, Allah, make Trump president of America.”

Here Clinton contradicts herself. “Oh, please, Allah”? Hasn’t she just engaged in “bringing Islam into the definition of our enemy”? Hasn’t she just admitted that they are Islamic, despite her repeated claims to the contrary?

And does the Islamic State really want Trump to win? Unlikely that they would prefer someone who says he will fight them strongly over someone who will continue the weak and ineffective half-measures that are being employed today.

“Watch: Clinton claims ISIS praying for a Trump victory,” Israel National News, September 8, 2016:

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton gave her first interview to an Israeli media outlet this election season, sitting down for an exclusive interview with Israel’s Channel 2 that is set to air Thursday evening.

Clinton ripped into Republican nominee Donald Trump during the interview, claiming that his campaign rhetoric had bolstered the ISIS terror group.

When asked by interviewer Yonit Levi whether she would, if elected president, she would pursue the war on ISIS differently than her predecessor and, specifically, if she would refer to the conflict as a “war on radical Islam” – noting that the Obama administration has shied away from referencing “radical Islam” – Clinton suggested use of such terminology could actually strengthen Islamic terror.

“We’ve made a judgment, based on a lot of research, that bringing Islam into the definition of our enemy actually serves the purpose of the radical Jihadists, and there’s a lot of evidence of that,” Clinton responded.

The former Secretary of State then added that Matt Olsen, the former chief of the National Counterterrorism Center, had written in a TIME article, published Thursday, that “ISIS supports Donald Trump”.

“He quoted ISIS spokespeople rooting for Donald Trump’s victory, because Trump has made Islam and Muslims part of his campaign. And basically, Matt Olsen argues, the Jihadists see this as a great gift. They are saying, ‘Oh, please, Allah, make Trump president of America.”

“I’m not interested in giving aid and comfort to their aid and comfort to their evil ambitions,” added Clinton. “I want to defeat them, I want to end their reign of terror. I don’t want them to feel as though they can be getting more recruits because of our politics.”

The former First Lady then turned to her own plan for confronting ISIS, saying she would “intensify what is already happening: our air campaign, more support on the ground to the Arab and Kurdish fighters.”…

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