Media’s Absurd San Bernardino Spin Explained

In its efforts to divert rage over the Muslim atrocity in San Bernardino away from Islam and toward our right to bear arms, the New York Daily News tried to outdo yesterday’s vileness with this:

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For fellow travelers, the next best thing to banning the word “terrorism” is diluting the term to the point of meaninglessness. Ideally, people will no longer be able to distinguish Syed Farook, who was a soldier in an army that is at war with us, from random violent lunatics incapable of coordinated action — or even from innocuous people leftists don’t like, like Wayne LaPierre, who is hated for upholding our constitutional right of self-defense.

At least the Daily Snooze acknowledges that Farook was a terrorist. That’s more than we have gotten from the liberal establishment’s Wall Street Journal. This morning’s front page:

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The main headline could easily be rewritten as: San Bernardino Was Random Act of Violence Caused by Legal Guns, since that is the impression they are trying to get across.

Mind they went to press with this 2 days after the massacre, when everyone already knew that the motive for San Bernardino was exactly the same as for 9/11 and the 27,300+ other lethal terror attacks by Muslims that have followed since. The headline is not just misleading; it is a bald-faced lie.

Why is the establishment media sacrificing what little remains of its credibility in a pathetic attempt to keep us from learning what we already know? Because the liberal establishment is on the side of Islam against Western Civilization, and therefore will cover for it at every opportunity, so as to prevent us from defending ourselves against it.

The only way to make sense of their treasonous depravity is to remember that the ideology that drives our liberal ruling class is cultural Marxism. Its explicit purpose is to destroy American society so that a utopian oligarchical collectivist society can be constructed in its place. The strategy for achieving this malevolent objective is to create, import, and exacerbate alienated, perpetually aggrieved special interest groups and use them to attack the core population. This is why the government/media is hostile to whites, even though most of our rulers are white themselves; why they promote sexual perversion; why they are sympathetic to the cause of Black Lives Matter thugs; why they won’t close the border; and why even now liberals like Obama and collaborators like Marco Rubio still want to import more potential terrorists from the Middle East.

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Their commitment to cultural Marxism makes every opinion, dislike, affinity, and short-term political goal of liberals clear — even seemingly incomprehensible affinities like their support for Islam.(Moonbattery)

Even in death, the media protects the terrorists. Take a close look: they pixilated his face. I wonder who is to be protected by that.

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The Obamster Regime Stands With The Muslims

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Erin Burnett is a runner up for  the title of dumbest TV swine in America. Her closest competitor is Melissa Harris-Perry. 
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If you ever wondered just how low leftwing CNN is… – Breitbart

Pigs, Lipstick and Islam, Wild Bill for America

The ugly winds are here:

Despite desperate media efforts to mislead and stonewall, it has become common knowledge that Syed Farook was a Muslim terrorist, as was his ISIS-tied wife Tashfeen Malik. It looks like the Obama Administration has given up on the “workplace violence” line. The gloves have come off:

Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Thursday warned that the Justice Department could take aggressive action against people whose anti-Muslim rhetoric “edges towards violence” and told the Muslim community that “we stand with you in this.”

Speaking at Muslim Advocate’s 10th anniversary dinner, Lynch said since the terrorist attacks in Paris last month, she is increasingly concerned with the “incredibly disturbing rise of anti-Muslim rhetoric … that fear is my greatest fear.”

At least this should resolve any lingering doubts about whose side the federal government is on.

We are under armed attack on our own soil, and our government is threatening to imprison us for criticizing the attackers. The Civil War was fought over less than what Obama and his enablers have brought us to.

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The ugly winds are here.

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Obama baffles Americans with all this “who we are” claptrap

“… a wonderful opportunity and a wonderful moment to really make significant change…” Obama sock puppet  Loretta Lynch

No matter how high the body count, or how gruesome the attack, it’s always the same thing from Islamic supremacists and their leftist apologists – “fear of reprisals” (which never happen) or this Reuters headline, “Muslim Americans fear demonization of Islam after mass shooting.”

Why don’t Muslim Americans fear the text and teachings in the Islam that command this bloodshed and genocide? Why aren’t they doing anything about that?

OFFICIALS: Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik watched ISIS videos online
One of the suspects in the San Bernardino shootings, Syed Farook, may have been motivated to carry out the attacks as a result of watching the Islamic State’s… | Pamela Geller
Obama’s AG Vows to Prosecute Anyone Who Speaks Out Against Islam
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AG Loretta Lynch to Prosecute ‘Anti-Muslim Speech’

The day after a horrific shooting spree by what appears to be a radicalized Muslim man and his partner in San Bernardino, California, Attorney General Loretta Lynch pledged to a Muslim advocacy and lobbying group that she would take aggressive action against anyone who used “anti-Muslim rhetoric” that “edges toward violence.”

Speaking to the audience at the Muslim Advocates‘ 10th anniversary dinner Thursday, Lynch said her “greatest fear” is the “incredibly disturbing rise of anti-Muslim rhetoric” in America and vowed to prosecute any guilty of what she deemed violence-inspiring speech.

“The fear that you have just mentioned is in fact my greatest fear as a prosecutor, as someone who is sworn to the protection of all of the American people, which is that the rhetoric will be accompanied by acts of violence,” she said.

“Now obviously this is a country that is based on free speech, but when it edges towards violence, when we see the potential for someone lifting that mantle of anti-Muslim rhetoric—or, as we saw after 9/11, violence directed at individuals who may not even be Muslims but perceived to be Muslims, and they will suffer just as much—when we see that we will take action.” said Lynch.

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Are the Islam denialists already in a state of full blown dhimmitude?

In any case, this kind of psychobabble is hard on the brain:

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“We must show that we will not tolerate Islamophobia and that those who propagate it do not represent the melting-pot America that we celebrate,” the letter read. …

“Across the country, Muslim Americans responded with shock and outrage…” “In every culture and in every religion there are bad apples that will spoil the rest of the apples…..”

 The New York Times and the Twilight Zone
If you miss the old show the Twilight Zone, you can still get a similarly disquieting eerie chill by entering the surreal realm of the New York Times. Moonbattery »
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California shooting sparks conversation about Islamic stereotypes

(Stereotripical chaff and video about followers of the false prophet downplaying connections to evil islam and deflecting attention to ‘islamophobia’ and generally denying islamic responsibility)

Mustafa Kuko, director of the Islamic Center of Riverside, has trouble understanding how Farook could have betrayed the very principles of his religion. “We’re told in Islam if you take one human life, it’s as if you’ve taken all of mankind.”

Muslim Americans fear demonization of Islam after mass shooting

DEARBORN, Mich. (Reuters) – Muslim Americans fear their religion will be demonized and Islamophobia will spread after a young Muslim couple was accused of carrying out one of the bloodiest mass killings in the United States. (By Ben Klayman / Reuters)

Reuters: “Muslim Americans fear demonization of Islam after mass shooting”
This is a typical “backlash” story, of the kind that invariably appears after a jihad attack or foiled jihad plot. It attempts to deflect attention away from the jihad terror…
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You can try to deny reality, but you can’t escape the consequences of denying reality. 
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Xinjiang violence: Does China have a terror problem?

China doesn’t have a terror problem, it has a Muslim problem.

You can always rely on CNN to side with Mohammedan savages. Of course the Uyghurs don’t suffer from a lack of jobs, they don’t suffer from oppression, from poverty, or disease, or illiteracy, or exploitation; they only suffer from the worst of all plagues: Islam.

 Soldiers of Xinjiang Armed Police Frontier Corps get drill in gobi desert of Yecheng County on August 17, 2015 in Kashgar, Xinjiang.
Soldiers of Xinjiang Armed Police Frontier Corps get drill in gobi desert of Yecheng County on August 17, 2015 in Kashgar, Xinjiang.
Story highlights
  • China blames separatists in its restive western province
  • Activists point to repressive religious policies and economic marginalization

(CNN)In a raid last month, Chinese paramilitary forces killed 28 suspects accused of a bloody September attack on a coal mine, flushing them out of a cliffside cave with flamethrowers, according to state media.

The attack and police response took place in Xinjiang, an ethnically divided and resource rich province in the China’s far west, that is home to the mainly Muslim Uyghur ethnic group.

China blamed Uyghur separatists for the attack, and it claims they are no different from ISIS or al Qaeda terrorists.

But exile groups and human rights activists say repressive religious policies and economic marginalization are provoking the unrest.

Beijing complains that the world applies double standards and China doesn’t receive the same level of sympathy as other countries that have fallen victim to terror attacks.

“We cannot understand why terrorism, when taking place in other countries, is regarded as terrorism but ethnic and religious issues, when taking place in China,” Hua Chunying, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, said Wednesday.

“And we cannot understand why other countries’ counter-terrorism acts are justified, but China’s counter-terrorism actions are so-called repression of ethnic groups,” she added.

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Resisting Islam Causes Wars For Which The Infidels Are Responsible

Deputy head of the illegal Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Kamal Khatib, said in a Friday sermon that the West is behind religious wars in the world.

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According to the video of the sermon posted by MEMRI (the Middle East Media Research Institute), Khatib said of the Paris attacks: “What happened in Paris is not [proper] Muslim conduct, but still…120 [sic.] dead?! What are 120 dead compared to the 40,000 Protestants killed by Catholics in that very same Paris?” The West has “pitted the whole world against Islam, portraying the Muslims as criminals, as bloodsuckers…. Every Muslim living among you has become a target!” he said.

Israeli Islamic Movement Leader Kamal Khatib on Paris Attacks: The West Leads to Religious Wars

“Who is behind these religious wars? As I said at the beginning, when you look at the world today, you see that it is bracing itself for religious wars. But who is causing these wars? They are.”

“You dare to talk about human rights?! Who is behind these religious wars?” he added.

The sermon took place in the Omar Ibn al-Khattab Mosque in the northern Arab town of Kafr Kana.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended outlawing the group, headed by Raed Salah, by accusing it of seeking to undermine Israel, inciting violence, cooperating closely with Hamas and seeking to replace Israel with a caliphate.

Khatib used the example of the expulsion of Muslims from Spain to argue that the West has consistently been acting against Islam.

“What did they do to us in Andalusia [Spain]? What did they do to us there? We Muslims conquered Andalusia and lived there for 800 years alongside the Christians. Why did the Muslims leave Andalusia all of a sudden, in 1512? Not a single Muslim stayed there after that year,” he said. “They formed the famous Inquisition courts, in order to search for adherents of Islam, down to the very last one. They would look for homes in which the lights were on early in the morning, in order to check if people had gotten up to pray, or for people wearing clean clothes on Fridays, whom they suspected of honoring this day. They would search for anyone who kept torn bits of Koran pages in his home, or anyone whose name sounded Muslim…. They would kill them, burn them, slaughter them and drag their bodies through the streets. This is what they did to us.”

Muslim scholar Bassam Tibi explains:

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Bob Carr and the cleansing of Jews from the history of Jerusalem, “this great Arab city”

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Screen Shot 2015-12-04 at 11.59.04 AMBob Carr, that despicable swine, was the first western politclown who  flew first class to Egypt, only to hand $20 million dollars of our taxpayer money to Egypts Muslim Brotherhood. That same man is relentless in his jihad against the Jews:

Labor’s campaign for Muslim votes in western Sydney is corrupting its values – and betraying our own:

Former foreign minister Bob Carr has lashed out at Israel, accusing the Jewish state of fabricating history and bribing Australian polit­icians, in an attack condemned by the Turnbull government.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop hit back at Mr Carr’s tirade, describi­ng his remarks as deeply unhelpful and provocative.

The one-time titan of the Labor Right let loose at a dinner in Sydney late last month at an International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People function in a speech that has appeared online, accusing Israel of eliminating the Arab character of Jerusalem.

Mr Carr praised Greens senator Lee Rhiannon, the leader of the party’s so-called “water­melon” faction and an arch-foe of his old NSW Labor colleagues. “The people of Palestine are seeing street by street the character, the nomenclature, of Jerusalem being changed,” Mr Carr told the gathering. “The story of Jerusalem is now being fabricated. Juda­ising and eliminating the Arab character of this great Arab city is a shocking thing to take place.”

He singled out his former colleague in the NSW parliament and on the federal frontbench, Tony Burke, for his efforts to change Labor Middle-East policy at the party’s national conference in July. 

I was on holidays in Jerusalem only a couple of years ago and know that Carr exaggerates grotesquely, in a way sure to inflame that deadly Muslim victimhood. I saw the Arab quarter of Jerusalem with my own eyes, still there and still overwhelmingly Arab.

Moreover, I also saw the old Armenian quarter, part of the city for 1500 years, as well as the Jewish quarter, built over the ruins of Jewish buildings from 2000 years ago. I know that to simply characterise Jerusalem, still home to the ruins of King David’s Palace and the Second Temple of Biblical times, as a “great Arab city” is a kind of verbal ethnic cleansing. It is a denial of history. Does Carr truly not know there was a time when Jerusalem was a Jewish city and the Arabs still remained in the Arabian Peninsula?

As Psalm 137 recorded, 1000 years before the Muslim Prophet Muhammad’s birth and the subsequent Arab conquest of Jerusalem:

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, and we wept, when we remembered Zion. How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither. Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I remember thee not; if I set not Jerusalem above my chiefest joy.

Why would Carr so misrepresent the history of Jerusalem and the Jewish administration of it?

From 2012:

As The Australian then reported: “Mr Carr is believed to have spent an hour with Ms Gillard … explaining the electoral problems in Sydney” if she did not become less pro-Israeli.

The Sydney Morning Herald noted: “Many MPs in western Sydney, who are already fearful of losing their seats, are coming under pressure from constituents with a Middle East background.”

Frontbencher Tony Burke also insisted Gillard back the Palestinian cause — and here’s why: Burke’s Sydney seat of Watson now has an astonishing 20 per cent of Muslim voters. In fact, of the 20 seats with the most Muslim voters, Labor held all but one.

How far will Labor go to placate the Muslim vote?

Labor … notoriously reversed a decision to deport extremist preacher Sheik Taj El-Din Hilali.

[In 2013], the Mufti of Australia [Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohammed] wrote to Labor members to warn union boss Paul Howe had a “bias” towards Israel, and if he was not blocked from becoming a senator, Labor would lose the Muslim votes that helped “successfully retain the majority of ALP seats in Western Sydney”.

Even more shocking:


To know just what Tony Burke will say to win Muslim votes at an Australia Palestine Advocacy Network Fundraising Dinner:

If you are serious about justice, then we need to acknowledge and acknowledge the truth, that all Israeli settlements on Palestinian land are illegal. If we’re serious about speaking the truth then we must unequivocally be able to say that East Jerusalem is occupied…

For those who are political advocates within Palestine itself, I will never know the bravery that comes with putting your life on the line and at risk, in engaging in politics in different ways.

I’d bet many of Burke’s audience heard that as an implicit endorsement of Palestinian terrorism.

…but, the real problem is ‘Islamophobia’

Fear of “Islamophobia” shuts mouths

The Left keeps drumming up fear of “Islamophobia” to stifle debate about Islamic terrorism. Did this fear of “Islamophobia” contribute to the carnage in California?

Spike in number of Islamophobia reports in Australia since Paris terror attack

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Mendacious grievance monger MARIAM VEISZADEH: There’s approximately 5.4 incidents of Islamophobia being reported on average per week. Post-Paris that actually increased three-fold. …

Note that the three most recent terrorist attacks in Australia were all carried out by Muslim “refugees”.

Back to that debate about the 12,000 extra refugees – on top of the 14,000 a year already – that we will take from Syria and Iraq. Why won’t the Turnbull Government simply guarantee all will be Christian? (Jihad in America: , Andrew Bolt)

The usual “backlash” bullshit from Oklahoma Muslims:

they say they feel discriminated against and are worried for being criticized in the name of extremist terrorist attacks around the globe, such as the November attacks in Paris lead by ISIS. ..

While yesterday’s bloodbath in San Bernardino took most of us by surprise, we’re learning that there indeed were visible clues leading up to the incident — which, if heeded, potentially could have prevented unspeakable tragedy.

As authorities continue to investigate the home tied to one of the suspects, Syed Farook, one man who reportedly worked near the home is saying he’d grown suspicious of activity surrounding the home leading up to yesterday’s massacre.

So, you ask, why See More  (Allen West)

Neighbor Suspicious of San Bernardino Shooter WOULDN’T Report Him Because he didn’t want to appear racist….

“Authorities now say that the Islamist jihadists in California were planning something really BIG. The CA slaughter was a spontaneous diversion. Their House was an IED Factory… innumerable “men” were coming in and out at all hours… delivering packages and boxes. FBI still won’t commit itself to the proper description of this jihadist slaughter which insults the VICTIMS. 12 Pipe Bomb Devices found at California home..See More

OBAMA Suggests San Bernardino Terror Attack was Workplace Violence Calling For More Gun Control.
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As always, he stands with his Muslim brothers. That’s the only promise he ever kept.
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To the intense annoyance of the government and the liberal media establishment that keeps it in power, the irrepressible facts are coming to light regarding the bloodbath in San Bernardino:

We now know that the shooters were Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 27. … While most of the news media seemed hesitant to mention it last night, Farook is indeed a Muslim who had recently “become more devout” and began growing out his beard a couple of years ago. He traveled to Saudi Arabia recently on a pilgrimage and returned with his new wife, Tashfeen.

It was almost amusing to watch Fox News struggle to avoid saying his name for as long as possible last night, before finally spitting it out hours after we all knew it anyway from Drudge. Ironically, the common Arabic name Farook (with the usual half dozen spelling variations) means “the one who distinguishes between right and wrong.” This Farook chose wrong — or rather, evil.

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Have our rulers learned anything from what has been going on in Europe?

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No, and they are not likely to learn from San Bernardino either.

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MODERN-PILGRIMS

France (unlikely)  to close down  160 mosques

Call back next year and you will see that no mosques have been closed.  The Hollande gubmint was voted in with the Muslim vote. They will come crawling back at the next election.
France to close down up to 160 mosques

Under the state of emergency laws, France will now might  be shutting down 160 mosques in France.

France is l”likely” to close up to 160 mosques in the next few months as part of national police operation that will function under nder the state of emergency which allows places of worship that promote radical views to be shut down, one of the country’s chief Imams has said according to a report in Al Jazeera. (World Bulletin / News Desk)

Hungary follows Slovakia’s lead on refugee quotas
Hungary follows Slovakia's lead on refugee quotas

‘The case has been filed,’ Hungarian justice ministry spokesman says

“As long as this government is breathing, there won’t be any quota, or any (failed asylum seekers) taken back,” Orban said last month.

Hungary said Thursday it had filed a legal challenge to the European Union’s plan to distribute 160,000 asylum-seekers among member states under a quota system. (World Bulletin / News Desk)

Anyone who doubts that the enemy is now firmly embedded within our gates has not been paying attention.

There are two countries that I once regarded as home: Canada, where I have spent most of my life, and Greece, where I lived for five years. Both are now lost to me. Governed by a leftist administration and effectively submitting to the adhan—the call of the muezzin—each is now under siege. (David Solway)

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“Natural” Killers

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Just about all of the American journallie are partisan, agenda driven hacks, as you can see here:

MSNBC Covers the San Bernardino Terror Attack

Here is how MSNBC chose to cover the latest Islamic outreach initiative:

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Al Azhar does not deny that the Islamic state is Islamic

Down The Primrose Path With The Three Islamostooges

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Al Azhar is generally regarded as Islam’s most prestigious university and, according to NYT, is Sunni Islam’s leading religious institution. But just what is the position of Al Azhar regarding ISIS? Islamic or un-Islamic? Al Azhar has never come forward and denounced ISIS or the horrors committed by ISIS as un-Islamic. There is a reason for that. In a recent article by Raymond Ibrahim in the Middle East Forum, Ibrahim, one of the foremost chroniclers of Islam’s butchery and genocidal programs in the Middle East and renowned scholar, presents a forcible account of highly regarded disaffected graduates of Al Azhar to the effect that ISIS is in fact following the basic precepts taught at Al Azhar. Here is a key quote from a graduate and leader of the renegade Al Azhar graduates who boldly favor civil government:

It can’t [condemn the Islamic State as un-Islamic]. The Islamic State is a byproduct of Al Azhar’s programs. So can Al Azhar denounce itself as un-Islamic? Al Azhar says there must be a caliphate and that it is an obligation for the Muslim world [to establish it]. Al Azhar teaches the law of apostasy and killing the apostate. Al Azhar is hostile towards religious minorities, and teaches things like not building churches, etc. Al Azhar upholds the institution of jizya [extracting tribute from religious minorities]. Al Azhar teaches stoning people. So can Al Azhar denounce itself as un-Islamic?

Still, regardless of compelling evidence to the contrary, the Obama team, in their eagerness for rapprochement with Iran, have to maintain that ISIS is un-Islamic. Otherwise they can hardly maintain that Iran is nothing like ISIS and is a “rational” agent with whom one can negotiate and make treaties. In so doing, according Michael Ledeen of  FrontPage, they have ended up actually carrying out the agenda of Iran:

What it means is clear enough. We’ve got a President and a whole administration that have convinced themselves that his greatest legacy is the embrace of Iran. It’s not just making a nuclear deal. It’s not about nukes. It’s about embrace. It’s about strategic alliance. Whenever we do something in the Middle East and you find it surprising, just ask yourself: What do the Iranians want? And a huge percentage of the time what we have done is what the Iranians want done. Look, for Iran the most important person in the Middle East is Bashar Assad. Syria and the Assad regime are life and death to Iran. Hezbollah is based there. Hezbollah runs Syria. What would happen to Hezbollah if Assad fell and Hezedibes took over? People who don’t like Shiites. People who don’t like Iran. It would be a catastrophe for Iran, and so they have been in there for years buttressing Assad.

Obama and his team have become prisoners of their own cherished narrative that “America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings” and are unable to deal with reality and thereby end up tools of their adversaries.