by Greg Gutfeld
The ironic thing: Those who accuse you of Islamophobia for being antiterror are the actual bigots, for they are the ones conflating Islam with the radical Islamists creating piles of mutilated bodies. True Islamophobia is what plagued President Obama—he saw radical Islam as part of Islam, so insulting that part meant you were insulting all.
So, given Obama’s weakness, who becomes the leading candidate to be president of the United States? The one who condemns ISIS the loudest and clearest. That would be Trump. Clearly being called Islamophobic, to him, was a point of pride. Because he knew the accusation was bullshit. It was like calling a fear of stabbing “stabophobic.” It’s true and somewhat understandable.
These monologues tell the story of ISIS from beginning to—we hope—its end.
The campaign year of 2016 was all about distinction. Perhaps the starkest difference was that one man (and one party) refused to call evil by its name, but another party (and especially one man) was happy to shout it from the rooftops.
So we’re talking about coming face-to-face with radical Islam, and the false charges of Islamophobia levied against anyone who expressed concern over the terror threat. Every time a terror attack occurred, the left focused its energies on not judging evil, and instead worried more about backlash than the initial victims. That sentiment is what has paralyzed our country’s response to ISIS, and what enabled Trump to take the stage.
So, after repeated terror attacks, and the emasculated response that followed by our leaders, the public had had enough. And the Republicans—primarily Trump, Lindsey Graham, and Marco Rubio—had had enough, too. Running toward the evil, instead of running away, gave the right the upper moral hand in the fight against terror—a fight abdicated by identity-obsessed liberals more worried about serving ham in cafeterias where Muslims might eat than bombs detonated at marathons. (Which is where we begin.)
April 26, 2013
So, it’s true, the Boston bombers were here on a visa. A visa made available by a government fearful of accusations of profiling, a media fearful of accusations of profiling, and an academia fearful of accusations of profiling.
Let’s take that last one first. The terror attack occurred in the ultimate college town. Now that this dorm room utopia has been punctured, by one student who went from filling a pressure cooker with ramen noodles to filling one with ball bearings, academia faces two choices: Do you still keep a worldview that all cultures are equal, and extremism is part of the rainbow that already includes violent professors? Or do you wake up and recognize the poison in your system?
By the way, enough with calling these killers “kids.” They’re adults. One killed an eight-year-old boy.
So, while we can’t rely on the campus, we also can’t rely on the FBI. Old-school agents would have crushed these twerps. But now, they are more like social workers, risk averse and scared to identify evil. They have been infected with the same virus, Islamophobia-phobia. It’s a terror of the mind that seeks to blind you to the objective reality around you. It’s in government, media, the schools.
So, who is left to protect us? Us. You and me. It’s our job to remain symptom-free and quarantine our families so none of us succumb to the disease. Because it’s going to get worse before it gets better. The only vaccine we have is our spine.
It’s kind of crazy, in my mind, that we are told to “say something” when, or if, we “see something.” But if we “say something,” we run the risk of “being something,” which is racist. The Scarlet Letter of Islamophobia-phobia allows attacks like the one targeting the Boston Marathon to occur for this simple reason: If you had called the cops on these “kids” beforehand, there’s a sizable contingent of folks who would mock and demean you. The irony of ironies: You’re only right to “see something and say something” after the something has already cost lives. It’s the same with mass shootings. You’re told to “say something” after you “see something,” but what’s the point if no one “does something”? See the Florida mass murder in February 2018. Multiple tips were offered about that madman before the act, and no one took them seriously. Why? As this goes to press, Sheriff Israel is still employed, which amazes me. He was in charge when the most preventable mass killing in history occurred.
By the way, before the marathon bombing, the Boston Police Department had planned a terror training exercise, paid for by the Department of Homeland Security. The terrorists, however, were fictitious creeps called Free American Citizens. No mistaking that for al Qaeda or the Weather Underground. So, why take a name that sounds like a cross between a Tea Party group and a poorly translated Rambo sequel? Well, some might call it risk aversion, others might say cowardice. Let’s face it. While the police know they’re not on the prowl for middle-aged Americans dressed as Ben Franklin, they also know the hell they’d get if they concocted a Muslim terror group. Screw realism, that would be Islamophobic—something you avoid if you don’t want to get fired.
Does it matter if they play pretend with false enemies, if they keep their eyes on the real ones? Well, we missed the Boston bombings. We missed Fort Hood.
Mind you, in both cases, we didn’t miss the attackers, they were there in plain sight, but we missed stopping the bloodbath, because of fear of targeting the bad guys, and calling them out by name. In the name of protecting oneself from activist groups and a PC press, the citizen becomes vulnerable to something far worse, Islamists with evil in their hearts and bombs in their hands.
April 24, 2014
So, a new film that will run in the National September 11 Memorial Museum has ticked off its interfaith advisers. Called The Rise of al Qaeda, it uses the words “Islamic” and “jihad” when referring to terrorists!
I know, disgusting!
Said the imam in the group, quote: “Unsophisticated visitors who do not understand the difference between al Qaeda and Muslims may come away with a prejudiced view of Islam, leading to antagonism and even confrontation.”
In short, facts will cause us rubes to beat Muslims up.
However, FBI stats show anti-Muslim bashing is rare. It is not like the museum smears Muslims at all. It shows that they were also among the victims and the rescuers that day. Look, if you feel that basic words harm your beliefs, that’s more about your insecurity than our rage.
I went back to read up on the FBI stats and found a lot of recent media reports claiming a 20 percent increase in incidents of anti-Muslim backlash. This stat was cited everywhere, but from what I read, the total reported bias incidents, counting all kinds of victims, in 2016 was 6,121, and of those, just 361 were targeting Arabs or Muslims. I know, I know, one incident is one too many, but let’s remind ourselves: This is a country of 330 million. I would try to do the math, figuring out what 361 is, in terms of a percentage of 330 million, but I haven’t done any math since senior freshman calculus, and I got a D.
And what would the imam prefer us to say? That 9/11 was caused by men unhappy with tall buildings, or that terrorists were really Mormons posing as Muslims to smear Islam?
My guess is they wish 9/11 were cleansed of all things Islamic, which ain’t happening. At some point, you have to say it out loud—9/11 was done by Islamic radicals and they’re still killing all over the world.
They are fiends and they are your problems as much as it is ours.
So, that’s the first step, admitting you have a problem. Other religions have done it, too. So, why not join the club? We won’t bite.
Once again, if you’re conflating any criticism about Islamic terrorism with criticism against the entirety of Islam, then it’s you who’s painting that religion with a broad, bigoted brush. I hate radical Islam, but joyfully admire Muslims in our NYPD [roughly three hundred cops] who protect our city . . . from, among other things . . . terrorism.
Having said that, I get it—I don’t blame a religion for being embarrassed by its worst practitioners. And 9/11 was the worst thing to happen in my lifetime—if it were done by weird cultists from my club [agnostic wine drinkers in bathrob
es], I’d feel shame, too. But you really shouldn’t. You should feel power in condemning such actions, for it strengthens the perception of your religion around the world. A strong religion should be confident enough to expose and shame and condemn its worst elements. If imams, however, see such vocal actions as a smear against their beliefs, then it makes you question what kind of beliefs they have.
August 13, 2014
Shark Week is here. You can thank Jaws for that. That flick made us think that shark attacks are common, when really they are quite rare. But humans prefer their fears to be tangible, which is why large threats are avoided.
Let’s change that. Instead of Shark Week, why not—Radical Islam Week?
After all, sharks may be scary, but they won’t end civilization. Sharks might want your foot, radical Islam wants your head on a stick.
I love this mono.
So, here’s the schedule. Monday let’s begin with al-Shabaab, a nasty bunch who slaughtered sixty-seven in a Kenyan mall. And it wasn’t because the Nike store ran out of shoes. It was because they ran from Allah.
Tuesday, we got Jemaah Islamiyah, Indonesian scum behind many bombings, including a 2002 attack that killed 202 people. Their weapon of choice: potassium chloride and religion.
Wednesday, we got Boko Haram, killing hundreds in Nigeria and enslaving girls. Their weapons of choice were bullets, fear, and YouTube.
Thursday, remember al Qaeda? The godfathers of gore, they knocked down the World Trade Center, bombed London and Madrid. Choice of weapons: planes, trains, and automobiles.
And it’s “casualty Friday.” Lashkar-e-Taiba unleashed the 2008 Mumbai attacks, killed 164 people with both bombings and shootings. They were truly varsity, never jayvee.
Finally, it’s ISIS Saturday. No one saw them coming. Well, except for everyone. Intent on a caliphate, they are called the jayvee squad—but tell that to the headless.
Now, I’ve left out the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hezbollah. I figured six days is enough.
This really is an important, daring idea for a week of horrific programming.
Oddly, there seems to be a really persistent thread that runs through all these terrors.
Maybe they saw Jaws!
Say anything else, and that would be Islamophobic.
The idea for this mono came to me after becoming bored with all the crap on TV about sharks. Sure, sharks are scary, and they’ll attack surfers [mistaking them for seals], but it’s not like they want to end the planet, or at the very least end your life. Sharks are just being sharks. Radical Islam, on the other hand, is just systematically working its way to heavenly utopia, and your death is the stepping-stone.
Just reading this now, I’m rekindling a thought I often have about radical Islam. If you stripped their activity of its religious underpinnings, and just saw them as an isolated biological phenomenon—men who without rhyme or reason butcher or maim dozens or hundreds or thousands of people—then how would we actually perceive that? What you’re left with is the plot of every zombie film. Divorced from ideology, the terrorist actions of jihadists come off as products of some sort of brain virus that drives men into a murderous frenzy. If these were truly zombies, we’d actually have a better, more concrete way of responding. Sadly, because their actions are tethered to religion, we stutter in our response. Worse, we look the other way. And looking the other way gave us 9/11, and most recently, ISIS.
August 14, 2014
The British police are investigating pro-ISIS leaflets said to be found in London, asking Muslims to join their merry band of death cultists, which makes me miss the good old days when it was the Hare Krishnas handing out the leaflets. The worst thing they did was chant. There was never a beheading.
And they co-opted one of my favorite musical instruments—the bongos.
So these flyers aren’t about finding peace or even pizza. They’re offering a way out for bitter weirdos, a promise of revenge in an evil world.
This was the new wrinkle of Islamism—the impressive propaganda machine, operated by savvy Western-trained fiends who knew exactly what insecurities to prey on, something that Obama completely overlooked.
By reacting lamely to this initial appearance of evil, Obama gave them the early sense that they were winning—and could win—in the war for the existential apocalypse.
Not that I care. If you want to join a death cult, go ahead. I hope you die in a cloud of dust. Which is why, when one asks if these leaflets should be stopped, I say never. We need this activity out in the open, because recruitment does us a big favor. It gets the evil out of our country. If radical Islamists leave to fight in Iraq or Syria or Afghanistan, that’s far better than the reverse. I’d rather America fight them over there, converting these terrorists into a sticky paste, than have them decapitating citizens here in the street.
ISIS could be their magnet, a glorious roach motel that attracts the very worst of this planet, where they die in large groups. Of course, this all depends on whether the West is willing to do the dirty work to keep them from returning.
Because for every time we say no boots on the ground, you can hear the footsteps of their boots right behind us.
This point was largely ignored until Trump started running for president. Telling the enemy what you AREN’T prepared to do is the perfect prescription for your loss, and their victory. It doesn’t matter how many losers join ISIS if we keep killing them. We must realize it could go on forever. But telling them we aren’t prepared to do that incites more to join their murderous frenzy. No one likes to join a losing team, and we kept telling them that they were winning.
And, my God—I don’t understand why we would stop anyone from joining ISIS. Let them join! And kill them! The key is to NOT let them join and THEN RETURN TO THE U.S.!
If you want ants to get away from your food, put some food where the ants could flock to, then spray ’em with Raid.
Trump also understood that the followers of radical Islam are going to figure out the porous parts of our southern border and take advantage of it. For long-term preservation, we gotta plug the holes. If you noticed, all of Trump’s concerns are for long-term survival that create unpopularity for him now. He sacrifices short-term stability for long-term survival.
August 25, 2014
Today I ask, what happens when you dismiss the devil, yet the devil continues to grow? I speak of ISIS, a fight we don’t want—but a fight that wants us.
Is wanting war on them actual warmongering? Not these days. If you think concern for the survival of our world is warmongering, then you gravely misunderstand the purpose of our nation’s defenses.
Even more: The belief that war must be waged does not require the believer to be a soldier. Let’s simplify: Would you not call the police because you never served as a cop? Do you need to be a fireman before you pull a fire alarm? It’s that logic that helps encourage this evil.
The “chicken hawk” argument is the kind of leftist claim that ends civilizations. If only people who fight wars can have opinions about war, we would not be aware of future threats. Soldiers are too busy fighting to analyze the nature of global threats. They’re the guys you call when you decide to act. And get this: They have no problem with it.
The point of our military is to act with ruthless efficiency against current and future dangers, that’s it. And before you scream “chicken hawk!” remember that our military didn’t just stumble into this lifestyle. They actually chose it. I suppose for a media obsessed with a grievance, it’s hard to understand that kind of service.
That really is a key point, for it pollutes every part of life. People are now confused by the nature of service, because they’re too busy feeling aggrieved to think anyone else deserves their time or sacrifice. I wonder how many young men look at other young men in uniform and wonder, “Why on earth would you do that! You can’t play Call of Duty when you’re actually on duty!”
I ask those who repeat “no boots on the ground” like it’s some kind of man
tra, why are we telling evil what we won’t do? When you say it’s not our fight to those whose only goal is to fight, who exactly are you pleasing? The very animals who find solace in our suffering.
The time for binge watching Homeland while surfing the web for Kardashian’s butt is over. The wolf is knocking at the door and he’s hoping that we don’t answer. It’s time that we do.
If Obama had listened to this monologue, I imagine that thousands of people would be on this planet, thriving, right now, who instead are dead, after experiencing horrible, brutal ends. It takes a special kind of naïveté not to recognize a sword at your throat. I think they teach it at Harvard Law.
The countless terror attacks, the raids on towns, the mass killings that happened as we just sat on our hands, wondering how best to agree on rules of engagement—it was the paralysis of analysis, and ISIS gleefully took advantage of it.
Fact is, also thwarting Obama’s will to act was his own misunderstanding over serving one’s country. He didn’t understand that our troops actually WANT to fight. They want to do good. They don’t see fighting ISIS as some sort of intrusion in their lives. Obama finds America’s power so distasteful that he just didn’t feel comfortable wielding it. I never met a single serviceman who didn’t want to destroy ISIS quickly and completely. And they certainly didn’t mind that I expected them to. Three of my best sources on this are also three of my favorite friends: Terry Schappert [a former Green Beret], Joey Jones [who lost both legs detonating bombs in Afghanistan], and Rob O’Neill [the SEAL who offed bin Laden]. Trust me, they’d tell me to shut up if they felt I was over the line on any of this. The phony concept of “chicken hawk” is just a ruse to keep you from wanting a strong military.
By the way, around this time, the Washington Post claimed global warming was the defining issue of our time. Not terror but warming. It’s like being on fire and worrying about your halitosis.