Posted by Tina
Take your pick, Andrew McCarthy is one prolific writer who’s passion about the Islamic threat facing the West is as profound as his understanding of it.
In addition to these books McCarthy wows in his NRO article, “Terror in France and the Annals of Willful Blindness.” I had to share.
After shredding Hillary’s recent remark following the terror attack in Nice…
Let’s be clear: Islam is not our adversary. Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism. – Hillary Clinton
…and remarking on the “Willful blindness” that has “metastasized from a dangerous dereliction of duty to a system of governance” regarding the Obama administration’s approach to the enemy, McCarthy clarifies:
The enemy derives legitimacy from his own literalist interpretation of Islamic doctrine. Thus, he is utterly indifferent to what the Westerners he seeks to conquer think of him or say about him. We non-Muslims cannot broker the competing doctrinal claims of internecine Islamic conflict. Jihadists care neither about what Washington thinks “the true Islam” is, nor about the counterfactual “peace” and “tolerance” rhetoric in which this “true Islam” is swaddled. Our enemies’ Islamic legitimacy was not granted by us, and we are powerless to take it away from them. That’s for Muslims to figure out. Our enemies, moreover, know a good deal more about the subject than we do, their highly influential scholars having spent lifetimes steeped in sharia jurisprudence. They shred Washington’s imaginary “true Islam” with their own informed Islam, making us a laughing stock. I hate to be the bearer of (more) bad news, but, yes, the Blind Sheikh actually does know a tad more about Islam than Hillary Clinton.
His opening remarks are priceless too…do yourself a favor and give Terror in France and the Annals of Willful Blindness a read.