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7/26/2019 Isis Must Be Treated as Credible Threat
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ISIS MUST BE TREATED AS CREDIBLE THREAT,
MEDIA REMAINS FULL OF THEMSELVESTHE EDITORIAL BOARD June 13, 2016
NoFilterPolitics.com
Sunday was supposed to be a day of rest, but
from the beginning, it was a day of despair that
quickly turned into a day of prayer. OmarSaddiqui Mateen entered Pulse Nightclub, a
prominent club in the gay community, in
Orlando, Florida, armed with an AR-15
semiautomatic rifle and a handgun. Mateen
proceeded to murder fifty club goers and injure
fifty-three more in the deadliest mass shooting
in United States history.
Mateen reportedly called 911 and pledged
his allegiance to the Islamic State. According to
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mateen
was investigated in 2013 and 2014 for alleged
comments he made about connections with
terror groups, and alleged relationship with
American suicide bomber Moner Mohammad
Abu-Salha. These investigations never yielded
any charges. Mateen was placed on the terror
watch list, but was removed.Barney Frank, a gay former Democratic
Senator, recently said in an interview that is
more concerned with the Islamic element to
terrorism than a general rise in hatred towards
gay people. It is without question that many
religions hold negative views towards those in
the gay community. However, ISIS has
committed massive amounts of violence against
the gay communitymost notably, throwing
those suspected of being gay off the tops of
buildings to their deaths. Mateen himself was
witnessed acting distraught after seeing two
men kiss, revealing a sign of personal hatred
toward the a vulnerable LGBT community
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald
Trump has made fighting ISIS one of the
cornerstones of his campaign, saying we need
to be smart, tough, and vigilant. Trump also
criticizes Presumptive Democratic nominee
Hillary Clinton and President Obama for
failing to use the term radical Islamicterrorism, faulting both with refusing to
identify the enemy. We must be mature enough
to acknowledge the radical Islamic element to
this violence. ISIS, whether we like it or not,
bases its project of global expansion and
violence on a perverted reading of the Koran
and other Islamic texts. This, of course, is
comparable to other fundamentalist religious
sects. But no other religious group, at this time,
poses a similar threat.
While Trump was expressing dissatisfaction
with the current administrations approach to
combating terrorism, the media predictably
played word games to draw attention away
from his central message. Instead of focusing
on the real problem, the media was pre-
occupied with analyzing Trumps Twitter
account, and a Tweet that read, Appreciate
the congrats for being right on radical Islamic
terrorism, I don't want congrats, I want
toughness & vigilance. We must be smart!
Conveniently, many media reports never made
mention of the italicized portion of the Tweet
That irresponsible omission fueled the
manufactured narrative that Trump was
seeking the spotlight in a time of crisis
Clearly, Trump was telling his supporters thatwhile he was flattered by the kind words, he is
not running for President to get congrats, he
is running to ensure there is tough and vigilant
leadership in the White House.
Other media outlets sought to engage in
distorted soundbite tactics to take Trumps
words at an event, in which he delivered a
speech on foreign policy, out of context to
manufacture the narrative that he is a liar.
Regardless, now is not a time for distortion, it
is a time for dedication to the truth. That
includes bipartisan scrutiny for both
Presidential candidates. Sadly, however, once
respected newspapers have turned into tabloids
to peddle falsities about one candidate, while
leaving the other candidateyes, we are
referring to Hillary Clintonvirtually
unvetted. If that is not a categorical failure of
the Free Press, then we are not sure what
would.