John Kerry’s Plan to Defeat Jihad: Cover Your Eyes and Ears

When the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight held a hearing led by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas (A, 97%) titled “Willful Blindness: Consequences of Agency Efforts To Deemphasize Radical Islam in Combating Terrorism,” one wonders if it could have been imagined that only a few short months later the head of the State Department would come out and personify precisely such a policy.

Yet according to the Weekly Standard’s Jeryl Bier, it just occurred.

During a visit to Bangladesh — where three American students were hacked to death among 20 murdered by ISIS this past July — Secretary of State John Kerry said:

No country is immune from terrorism. It’s easy to terrorize. Government and law enforcement have to be correct 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. But if you decide one day you’re going to be a terrorist and you’re willing to kill yourself, you can go out and kill some people. You can make some noise. Perhaps the media would do us all a service if they didn’t cover it quite as much. People wouldn’t know what’s going on. [Emphasis mine]

Got that?

The appropriate response to the global jihad is to ignore reality. The less the public knows about it, the better.

Avoiding or whitewashing hard truths has been America’s policy over the 15 years since September 11, 2001.

In that regard, Sec. Kerry’s candor is refreshing. But it is also terrifying.

We are doomed if we have a federal government comprised of individuals who simply do not understand or are afraid to confront the truth about the nature of the enemy we face.

This is an enemy with a totalitarian Islamic supremacist ideology hell-bent on making the world submit to Allah’s rule. It seeks to turn our freedoms against us not just through maiming, murdering, and thus demoralizing our nation by way of terror, but through the more insidious civilizational jihad.

The global jihadist effort in other words relies on not just military warfare but political and ideological warfare — it is an all-encompassing, never-ending battle on all fronts. And it is uniquely suited to subvert us because of a religious veneer that masks an antithetical political and social program.

Our country’s so-called leaders display little to no understanding of this threat by way of their rhetoric and policies.

The countering violent extremism paradigm itself — which by way of its title alone indicates a belief that there is no animating ideology behind Islamic terrorism — dictates that we outsource our national security to the very civilizational “peaceful” jihadist groups who pose perhaps the most insidious threat.

As Chris Allen Gaubatz, a panelist during the aforementioned Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing and national security expert who himself infiltrated the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) noted in his written testimony:

The current administration and the US national security apparatus continues to use leaders of Muslim Brotherhood groups like ISNA, the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), CAIR, and others to provide direct input into American foreign policy and domestic counter-terrorism strategies. One of the results of this dangerous situation is to order the removal of terms like, “jihad”, and, “sharia”, from our counter terrorism lexicon.

As further testimony from that hearing shows, the foxes are literally guarding the hen house in America.

That is the direct result of being blind to the threat, or seeking to conceal it out of suicidal political correctness or profound ignorance.

The cost of our inability to handle the truth, and react accordingly, is civilization itself.

From the Iran Deal to his urgings to tamp down coverage of the global jihad, Sec. John Kerry is playing the part of useful idiot well for those who wish to see our civilization perish. (For more from the author of “John Kerry’s Plan to Defeat Jihad: Cover Your Eyes and Ears” please click HERE)

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