{"id":6393,"date":"2013-08-28T14:17:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T21:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=6393"},"modified":"2013-08-28T14:17:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T21:17:37","slug":"obama-crosses-red-line-by-supporting-jihadi-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/obama-crosses-red-line-by-supporting-jihadi-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Crosses Red Line by Supporting Jihadi Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0Jihad Watch<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

By now it should be obvious that whenever the U.S. interferes in another nation\u2019s politics in the name of \u201chuman rights,\u201d that that is only \"\"a pretext. So it is in Syria, as Obama prepares to plunge America in a war with that nation, and, inevitably,\u00a0its allies<\/a>. The United States\u2019 stated reason for intervention, as articulated by John Kerry, is that Syrian President Assad used chemical weapons on the rebels, many of whom are jihadis \u2014 including\u00a0terrorists<\/a>,\u00a0rapists<\/a>, and\u00a0cannibals\u00a0<\/a>\u2013 and thus violated their human rights.<\/p>\n

Kerry is certainly consistent. Earlier he\u00a0worried about the \u201chuman rights\u201d of Nigeria\u2019s genocidal Islamic terrorists<\/a>, Boko Haram, while ignoring their victims \u2014 thousands of slaughtered Christians and destroyed churches.<\/p>\n

And this is the point: when the human rights of others, such as Christian minorities, are being grossly violated \u2014 specifically by the Islamists and jihadis that Obama has enabled and empowered, in Libya, Syria, Egypt, and elsewhere \u2014 then there is no U.S. talk of intervention. Indeed, there\u2019s\u2019 hardly any talk at all, sometimes not even perfunctory condemnation. Other times, the White House\u00a0makes jokes<\/a>\u00a0about Muslim persecution of Christians, for example, concerning the recent spate of church attacks in Egypt.<\/p>\n

It is therefore unsurprising that Obama is ignoring the fact that there is\u00a0strong evidence<\/a>, including from the victims themselves, that gas attacks in Syria are the work of al-Qaeda-linked terrorists. After all, who used chemical weapons on who is irrelevant to the U.S president. Based on pattern and precedent, what matters is apparently finding an excuse to support the jihadis.<\/p>\n

In Egypt, for example, after millions of Egyptians, supported by their military, ousted the Muslim Brotherhood \u2014 which was violating the human rights of others,\u00a0especially Christians<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the U.S. government, far from simply leaving Egypt to work out its own internal problems,\u00a0continues interfering, agitating, and threatening on behalf of the Brotherhood<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thus while Obama claims that Assad crossed the \u201cred line\u201d by reportedly using chemical weapons, it\u2019s well to remember that, in fact, it is Obama who continues crossing red lines, as the Egyptian military quite literally declared, when it recently sent the Pentagon a message saying that Obama\u2019s consistent support for terrorists is \u201ccrossing the red line<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0Jihad Watch By now it should be obvious that whenever the U.S. interferes in another nation\u2019s politics in the name of \u201chuman rights,\u201d that that is only a pretext. So it is in Syria, as Obama prepares to plunge America in a war with that nation, and, inevitably,\u00a0its allies. The United States\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[118,227],"tags":[12,249,1069,1061,1062,162],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-1F7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6081,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/obama-administration-calls-for-the-human-rights-of-jihadi-murderers\/","url_meta":{"origin":6393,"position":0},"title":"Obama Administration Calls for the ‘Human Rights’ of Jihadi Murderers","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Nigerian government is criticized by the U.S. for going after mass murdering terrorists. by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media It\u2019s well known that whenever jihadis attack and slaughter innocent people \u2014 especially Christians \u2014 the Obama administration tries to ignore or whitewash. 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