Secretary of State John Kerry joins Jake Tapper to discuss the current state of the fight against ISIS following the terror attack in Nice, France:
Political Islam is fraught with coded messaging used to convey intention to Islamic audiences while simultaneously presenting a false face to the West. When you know what signals to look for you are able to fully understand the ideology behind the message.
When Mohammed Morsi rose to power in Egypt his rise was on the back of the Muslim Brotherhood. The “Islamist Spring” brought forth a more radical version of Islamic sentiment – The Muslim Brotherhood, or just “Brotherhood”, is the political branch of various hardline Islamic ideologies.
The foundational ideological block under ISIS, al-Qaeda and Al Nusra, is the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood has its own signature; and when you know what to look for you can identify its appearance.
Islamist activists, and demonstrators hold four fingers in the air to display a hand sign referring to the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque, the site of a violent confrontation between Morsi’s followers and the Egyptian army.
Reported deaths from the clash range from hundreds to thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters. In Arabic, “Rabba” means “four” or “the fourth;” hence the Rabaa symbol.
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Some opinion writers have surmised a possibility that Recep Erdogan created the coup in Turkey as a method to smoke out his opposition and exert even more dictatorial power. Having watched the events closely (5 years) which lead up to the coup attempt, we disagree.
All indications are the coup was genuine, albeit a long-shot, driven by the younger military leadership who remained guardians of the state after two years of Erdogan purging the top level generals.
Ideologically, Recep Erdogan has been working earnestly over the past 5+ years to extend his power and control. Erdogan has grandiose plans of rebuilding a modern Ottoman Empire with himself as the figurehead in control.
The fortuitous crisis in Syria evolved into a tool for Erdogan to expand his constituency, and the influx of 3 million non-secular conservative Muslims as refugees into Turkey was part of that dynamic.
Erdogan’s ideological outlook can be captured when you look at the 2015 decision to give safe refuge to five Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leaders who were living in exile in Qatar and evicted after the Gulf States pressured Qatar to stop supporting extremist terrorists. Erdogan promised the Muslim Brotherhood safe harbor in Turkey and he gave it to them.
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Against the backdrop of the largest single act of Jihad in modern history taking place in Nice, France, Donald Trump has cancelled the Friday press conference and announcement of his Vice-Presidential selection.
Donald Trump called in to both Greta Van Sustern and Bill O’Reilly shows to discuss the latest terrorist attack and his VP decision.
In a remarkable exhibition of her own desperation, and need to put her own candidacy on the scale of relevance, candidate Hillary Clinton also quickly called in to Bill O’Reilly for an interview, and then joined CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
Here’s how both series of interviews were broadcast beginning with Greta Van Sustern:
Two months ago we first mentioned how the national head-to-head “media polling” would eventually have to be walked back to find alignment with reality.
The various presentations by NBC (Mark Murray), ABC, CBS, FOX (Daron Shaw), NYT and WSJ are all structurally useless. Media polls are simply ‘agenda polls‘, put out by media operations and fraught with the same ideological biases and intents as their mainstream broadcasts.
The latest Rasmussen poll shows Trump over Clinton 44/37, and with Independent voters: Trump leads Clinton 43/30:
During the same two months months Hillary Clinton has outspent Donald Trump 300:1 on advertising. The Clinton’s intense campaign spending is not increasing her support among voters. (more…)
Out with the old… Bush, Wallace, bland curmudgeon’s, providing crust-less cucumber and mayonnaise triangle sandwiches on wonder bread – with white wine spritzers:
In with the bold… hot fresh energetic anti-establishmentarians: (more…)
There is only one party in Washington DC, the UniParty. The professional political class support themselves beyond all other ideological factors. These are modern realities.
President Obama is in a very tenuous position this week as a nation has been stunned by the targeting of police officers. Indeed, there is a solid argument to be made that President Obama created the antagonism toward law enforcement with various speeches and cursory accusations of unequal treatment.
As a modern social justice president who embraces radical extremist groups like Black Lives Matter, and as an executive community activist who has used the cabinet offices of his administration to leverage social change, President Obama has embraced many divisive entities and expressed ideological alignment with their cause.
The gunman in Dallas who targeted white police officers, specifically because of the color of their skin, is just one visible consequence from a President who rails against a system of law and order. Obama’s ideology is more comfortable amid the chaos. (more…)
Unbelievable, President Obama needs to get his Black Lives Matter crew under control quickly… Things are rapidly spiraling out of control.
LAKESHIRE • A former Affton High School football standout forced his way into a South County home and was shot and killed by an off-duty officer inside after a Facebook dispute over Black Lives Matter apparently boiled over late Saturday afternoon.
That’s what can be pieced together from the accounts of police and an uncle of Tyler Gebhard, who said the young man had been struggling with mental health issues.
“He walked over there and into a gunfight,” Gebhard’s uncle, Patrick Brogan said, drawing on accounts offered by friends of his nephew. “When he got there, he was met with a gun and the guy killed him.” (more…)
Retired Lt. General Michael Flynn is a member of Donald Trump‘s ever-shortening VP shortlist.
The immigration portion of his veep audition on ABC News’ This Week with George Stephanopoulos probably helped him.
However, ABC knows the most effective way to divide, diminish and conquer the GOP electorate is to focus policy on social issues. George Stephanopoulos famously displayed that goal during a weird 2012 GOP primary debate when he asked Mitt Romney if birth control was constitutional.
Fill-in host Martha Raddatz plays the transparent game and asks Flynn to weigh in on several social issues. As expected the former DIA head veered sharply from traditional Republican orthodoxy.
Executive Level Gaslighting – Speaking at a press conference in Poland, President Obama actually said it is “very hard to untangle the motives” of the shooter in Dallas who killed five police officers Thursday evening. This statement is despite the shooter telling police exactly what his motive entailed.
“First of all, I think it’s very hard to untangle the motives of this shooter. I’ll leave that to psychologists and people who study these kinds of incidents … I think the danger is that we somehow suggest the act of a troubled individuals speaks to some larger political statement across the country.”…
Consider the following contrast: