Just don't mention the jihad!

Syria:

Obama authorizes secret support for Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda rebels in Syria

Par for the course, and outrageously wrongheaded. “Exclusive: Obama authorizes secret U.S. support for Syrian rebels,” by Mark Hosenball for Reuters, August 1 (thanks to JW)

Al Zawahiri has a brother:

Al Qaeda top dog’s brother: “Arab Spring” byproduct of jihad against U.S.

Obviously Mohamed al-Zawahiri is an ignorant, greasy Islamophobe: everyone knows that the “Arab Spring” was a flowering of democracy and pluralism, and that it had nothing whatsoever to do with jihad.

I tried to tell you: “Zawahiri: Arab revolts by-product of jihad against US,” from Al-Masry Al-Youm, August 1

Are they really ignorant? I think not:

GOP leaders ignorant of Muslim Brotherhood’s American influence

Over at Breitbart today, John Guandolo exposes the dangerous willful ignorance of McCain, Boehner, and the others who have criticized Michele Bachmann for calling for an investigation of Muslim Brotherhood influence in government.

The Obamedia is legitimising the jihad:

Weekly Standard pushes Obama to aid Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda militarily in Syria

The ever-clueless Republican establishment organ the Weekly Standard didn’t mention the Muslim Brotherhood or al-Qaeda, of course. Gary Schmitt and Thomas Donnelly give the impression that the anti-Assad forces in Syria are Western-style pluralist democrats, as they were advertised as being in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia. Yet even though the rebels are clearly established as pro-Sharia Islamic supremacists in all three of those countries, the Weekly Standard hasn’t learned a thing. In fact, the Weekly Standard hasn’t learned a thing even from the spectacular failures of the Wilsonian democracy projects in Iraq and Afghanistan, and still clamors for more Wilsonian adventures, heedless of how they actually aid the establishment of Sharia states that will be inveterate, immovable enemies of the United States and of freedom.

“Syria and Obama’s Strategic Box,” by Gary Schmitt and Thomas Donnelly for theWeekly Standard, July 27 (thanks to JW):

Why hasn’t President Obama intervened militarily in Syria? After all, this is a president who issued a directive last year stating that a “core” national security interest of the United States would be to prevent mass atrocities of precisely the kind Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is now unleashing on his own people. And this is a president who, to his credit, helped remove Muammar Qaddafi from power. Certainly, overthrowing Assad, cutting Syria’s ties to Iran, and putting an end to its destructive role in Lebanon is far more important to American security interests than the campaign to end Qaddafi’s rule in Libya ever was….

These recent news stories out of Syria have absolutely nothing to do with Obama’s failure (so far) to intervene militarily in that country, but they abundantly establish why he shouldn’t:

“As soon as Assad has fallen, these fighters want to introduce Islamic law, Sharia, in Syria”

Syria: Christians flee from jihadist rebels

Syria: “Brigade of Islam” claims responsibility for murder of defense minister and president’s brother-in-law

Syrian Muslim Brotherhood: 30 years after failed uprising, victory could be ours

Syrian rebels chanting “Allahu akbar” set fire to hundreds of bottles of alcohol

Bravo, Obama: U.S.-backed rebels committing genocide of Christians in Syria

Syria: At least 9,000 Christians flee their homes after persecution from Islamic supremacist rebels

Syria: Houla massacre blamed on Assad regime actually work of jihadi rebels

Announcement from minarets in Syrian city: “Christians must leave Qusayr within six days”

Syrian opposition leader: Israel “main enemy of the Syrian revolution”

UN says al Qaeda behind Syria jihad-martyrdom bombs

Syria protesters: “Allah’s victory is near” “Armies of Islam, set us free”