Both François Hollande and David Cameron have spoken about the threat of radical Islam in more Huntingtonesque terms, and I’ve heard that both men wish Obama would use more-direct language in discussing the threat. When I mentioned this to Obama he said, “Hollande and Cameron have used phrases, like radical Islam, that we have not used on a regular basis as our way of targeting terrorism. But I’ve never had a conversation when they said, ‘Man, how come you’re not using this phrase the way you hear Republicans say it?’ ” Obama says he has demanded that Muslim leaders do more to eliminate the threat of violent fundamentalism.
Second semi-orgasm. Baby orgasm.
You demanded that? What was the consequence to that demand? Did they agree to your demand.
“It is very clear what I mean,” he told me, “which is that there is a violent, radical, fanatical, nihilistic interpretation of Islam by a faction—a tiny faction—within the Muslim community that is our enemy, and that has to be defeated.”
Okay! Baby steps. There IS an interpretation of Islam that justifies violence. Okay! We'll get to "tiny fraction." Did you discuss with the Muslim leaders how this tiny fraction was to be DEFEATED? Did they say they were going to do it? Could you ask Ash to check on the rebalancing?
He then offered a critique that sounded more in line with the rhetoric of Cameron and Hollande. “There is also the need for Islam as a whole to challenge that interpretation of Islam, [Orgasm] to isolate it, and to undergo a vigorous discussion within their community about how Islam works as part of a peaceful, modern society,” he said. But he added, “I do not persuade peaceful, tolerant Muslims to engage in that debate if I’m not sensitive to their concern that they are being tagged with a broad brush.”
Well, premature orgasm. Can an Islamic reformation be brought about only from within? Would thermonuclear explosions not be of some aid to the survivors to remake Islam in more modern form? You know, how we did Japan in World War II.
In private encounters with other world leaders, Obama has argued that there will be no comprehensive solution to Islamist terrorism until Islam reconciles itself to modernity and undergoes some of the reforms that have changed Christianity.
He then offered a critique that sounded more in line with the rhetoric of Cameron and Hollande. “There is also the need for Islam as a whole to challenge that interpretation of Islam, [Orgasm] to isolate it, and to undergo a vigorous discussion within their community about how Islam works as part of a peaceful, modern society,” he said. But he added, “I do not persuade peaceful, tolerant Muslims to engage in that debate if I’m not sensitive to their concern that they are being tagged with a broad brush.”
Well, premature orgasm. Can an Islamic reformation be brought about only from within? Would thermonuclear explosions not be of some aid to the survivors to remake Islam in more modern form? You know, how we did Japan in World War II.
In private encounters with other world leaders, Obama has argued that there will be no comprehensive solution to Islamist terrorism until Islam reconciles itself to modernity and undergoes some of the reforms that have changed Christianity.
Second semi-orgasm. Baby orgasm.
