The Islam Terror Truthers
By Daniel Greenfield
SultanKnish.Blogspot.com
Each and every act of Muslim terrorism is followed
by a wave of denial. The politicians who have done
the most to cause the latest disaster are the
eagerest to blame it on something, anything else.
The
San Bernardino Muslim massacre was blamed on
postpartum depression at CNN. Bill Nye blamed the
latest Paris attacks on Global Warming. According to
Hillary Clinton, Benghazi was a movie review with
artillery. Islamic terrorism was blamed by the State
Department on a lack of jobs, but Syed Farook had a
good government job and his wife was the daughter of
a wealthy family.
After rummaging through their big brass chest of
excuses, Obama and his media allies have settled on
gun control as their latest weapon of mass
distraction.
California has the toughest gun laws in the nation.
Unlike Ted Kennedy, the terrorists weren’t on the
no-fly list that has become the latest desperate
meme of mass distraction. And, despite Obama’s claim
in Paris that mass shootings don’t happen in other
countries because of gun control magic, they most
certainly do. European gun control didn’t stop a
Muslim mass shooting in Paris that killed 130
people.
Syed Farook and Tasheen Malik had built pipe bombs.
The latest attack in the UK involved a knife. So did
quite a few in Jerusalem. The Boston Marathon
massacre used fireworks and a pressure cooker.
The Muslim mass murder of 3,000 people on 9/11 was
carried out with box cutters.
If only we had some way to ban terrorists from
buying pressure cookers, knives and box cutters.
Gun control is a distraction. A way to make
something other than Islam into the problem that
needs solving. If we banned guns, then the problem
would be foreign policy. If we spent all our time
working to aid Islamist political takeovers, then it
would the weather. Obama has tried to aid Islamists
and lower sea levels, so he has been reduced to
blaming the inanimate objects of the latest terror
attack.
Gun control, foreign policy and global warming are
denialist gimmicks that reframe the problem.
Denialists will ignore the allegiances of terrorists
like Nidal Hassan and Syed Farook to Jihadists to
focus on individual pathologies. If that doesn’t
work, they’ll pull back to a planetary focus and
blame the weather patterns of the entire planet.
They’ll zoom in with great detail on weapons
purchases while ignoring the ideology that motivated
the attacks. They’ll have a hundred different
explanations for each attack that fail to account
for the phenomenon of Islamic terrorism as a whole.
These aren’t reasonable arguments. Taken together
they form a pattern of conspiracy theories.
The most basic aspect of the conspiracy theory is
that it bypasses the obvious reasonable explanation
and vanishes down a rabbit hole of complicated
alternative explanations that make no real sense but
allow the conspiracists to avoid dealing with the
implications of the actual event that took place.
Leftists did not want to deal with the fact that JFK
had been murdered by one of their own. So they
invented a bunch of alternative conspiracies
involving the CIA, Cubans and other “right-wing”
villains. These conspiracies allowed them to avoid
dealing with the violence at the heart of the left.
But that violence continued to spill over anyway
leading to riots and terror plots. In their
alternate reality, none of it was their fault. The
“Fall of Camelot” was caused by some “miasma of
right-wing hatred” in Dallas.
Their response to 9/11 flirted with conspiracy
theories.
A poll found that more
than half of Democrats
believed that George W. Bush had carried out the
9/11 attacks or knew about them beforehand. 1 in 4
Democrats believed that the World Trade Center
attack was staged. 1 in 5 believed that the Pentagon
attack was carried out by the United States
government.
Democratic politicians, with some exceptions,
usually knew better than to openly air blatant 9/11
conspiracy theories. But they instead embraced a
“soft” left-wing Trutherism that shifted the focus
away from Islamic terrorism to alternative
explanations that were meant to distract Americans
from what really happened by finding sideways angles
for blaming the attack on Bush and Republicans.
Bush may not have masterminded it, but Republican
foreign policy caused it. Or worsened it.
It’s 2015 and the Terrorism Truthers have been
reduced to frantically scrambling for any
explanation from postpartum depression to the
weather to explain the persistence of Islamic
terrorism.
Trutherism works best when the Truthers aren’t in
power. Muslim terrorism can’t be blamed on the
government when both France and America are run by
ridiculously notorious leftists. All that’s left is
a “soft” Trutherism that seeks alternative
explanations without being able to consistently
answer the central question of why these attacks are
taking place.
And this lack of a plausible central conspirator is
the weak point of leftist Terrorism Denial.
Leftist Truthers like Obama are forced to constantly
substitute new “right-wing” villains. Today it’s the
NRA. Yesterday it was a Coptic Christian who made a
YouTube video. But like the USSR’s efforts to blame
its economic failures on a shifting gallery of
villains, these explanations are unsatisfying. And
they leave even leftists, never mind ordinary
Americans, uneasy about a crisis they don’t
understand.
There is something of Orwell’s “We have always been
at war with Eastasia” to these deceits.
Today Muslim terrorists are attacking us because of
the NRA. Yesterday it was because it was too hot.
Before that, it was because of Israel. And before
that, it was because of Bush.
But what if Muslim terrorists are attacking us
because they’re Muslim terrorists?
What if we can’t beat them by banning guns, changing
the weather, supporting Islamists or any of the
other magical answers that completely fall apart at
even the most casual examination?
The left’s response to Islamic terrorism has been
built around a frantic effort to distract and divert
us from exactly that question, blaming anything and
everything but Islam, while sharply denouncing
anyone who ignores the distractions and addresses
that central question.
Attorney General Lynch responded
to the San
Bernardino terror attack by assuring Islamists that
she intended to crack down on criticism of Islam.
Criticism of Islam is dangerous, not because it
leads to a mythical anti-Muslim backlash that we are
constantly warned about as if it were more dangerous
than Muslim terrorism itself yet never actually
materializes, but because it destroys Terrorist
Trutherism.
If Islamic terrorism is the problem, then the left
and the Democrats who handed over their party to it
are guilty of ignoring, minimizing and lying about a
serious problem.
They have to go on lying, ignoring and minimizing,
and even threatening to dump the First Amendment
along with the Second, because they have long since
become complicit in the crimes of their Islamist
partner organizations.
Yesterday they blamed the weather. Today they’ll
blame guns. Tomorrow, it’ll be something else.
We are always at war with Eastasia, unless it’s
Eurasia. We are never however at war with Islam. The
issue may be anything so long as it isn’t Muslim
terrorism. Those are the words that no Democrat will
utter. They will call it “man-caused disasters” or
“violent extremism” or “hybrid workplace Jihad”.
It’s time to call this what it is, denialism,
trutherism and conspiracism.
The famous epigram, “Treason doth never prosper,
what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call
it treason”, expressed the absurd hypocrisy of a
government of traitors. But what happens when there
is a government of conspiracy theorists? Then
conspiracies exist to divert attention from the
failures and crimes of those in charge. The
conspiracy theory itself becomes the conspiracy.
It’s time to take away Obama’s weapons of mass
distraction and expose his Trutherism for what it
is.
Islamic terrorism isn’t caused by a thousand
different problems, conditions, conspiracies and
excuses. It’s caused by Islam. Every attempt to
distract from that is Denialism and Trutherism.
And we owe it to the victims of the latest attack
and all the attacks to end the denial and the lies.