At least Hillary Clitman thinks so, she found it hilarious that US ships are being attacked by Somali pirates… Catie Couric from CBS eagerly explained that Somali young men resort to piracy for “lack of other economic opportunities” and the current US administration is “still defining its rationale for undertaking sensitive operations in countries where the United States is not at war.” (Quick, call the UN security council, they can write a sternly worded letter to the pirates/ed)
Last night, on MSNBC, the FBI explicitly made the point of saying “we are dealing with young criminals, not radical Islam terrorists”
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* Somalia: Islamists rape, and impregnate, Canadian captive
So someone(s) put out the official word to not use that terrible slur, radical Islam, nor that fear word, terrorists, when referring to Somalian piracy.
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Pamela has a good take on this here… a retired general just told Fox News that “the Somali pirates are just criminals and have “nothing to do with Islamic terrorists”-Â Â the media has banned any tie between the jihadis and piracy.
   “Don’t hurt my people…”
Obambi:Â “and, mmm, this is the tenth time in three days you folks have asked me about the pirates. Look. And this is all I will say. We are in discussion with our friends in Somalia. That’s it. Back to the economy. As I was saying…”
Obambi must be getting his advice from Professor Sam Hamod, Ph.D.
* Frontpage magazine tells it like it is…
* Meanwhile, the Obambi administration debates…
The FBI and intelligence officials have said that at least 20 young Somali American men have left this country for Somalia in recent years to train and fight with al-Shabab against the Somali government and occupying Ethiopian military forces. In February, a naturalized American — 27-year-old Shirwa Ahmed of Minneapolis — killed himself and many others in a suicide bombing in Somalia.
Nothing to do with jihad, right?
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