Unreal. Alan Colmes: "There's No Such Thing as Radical Islam" (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 6:17 AM
Nuts.Alan Colmes defends Eric Holder, tells Megyn Kelly,
“There’s no such thing as radical Islam.”
Yes. He really said that.
So is this going to be the new leftist talking point?
Here’s the transcript:
Megyn Kelly: Alan, why not just say it? The man (Eric Holder) would clearly like to stick a hot poker in his eye than admit that “radical Islam” may have been a factor (in the Times Square attempted bombing).
Alan Colmes:Why is Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX) so insistent that you’ve gotta say these words? Why is he so insistent to use the name of a religion?
Megyn Kelly: Answer my question. Why would he rather stick a hot poker in his eye than say “radical Islam”?
Alan Colmes: Because there’s not such a thing as radical Islam.
Megyn Kelly: What?
Alan Colmes: It is not part of the religion. People are not doing this in the name of true Islam.
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Kevin P commented:
Technically he’s right. It’s just Islam.
Kevin P commented:
His lie was in this statement: “Alan Colmes: It is not part of the religion. People are not doing this in the name of true Islam.”
newton commented:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Barack Obama commented:
This is an excellent example of the “No True Scotsman” fallacy…except that most instances of that fallacy are not so evil and pernicious.
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TimH commented:
Alan Combs is so far left, he can’t see straight. He is another that thinks we can play kissy face with everyone and the world will be rosy.
Chisum commented:
Ah, Skeletor. Another deep thinker.
gus commented:
Mr Colmes, it doesn’t matter if YOU THINK that they are not doing this in the name of TRUE ISLAM. However the MURDEROUS TERRORISTS THINK QUITE DIFFERENTLY.
What was the MUZZLIM at FORT HOOD SHOUTING as he killed our Soldiers???
ALLAHU AKBAR.
bellez commented:
Colmes is the typical Jewish liberal who sold out Israel..
Agent99 commented:
http://www.truthtube.tv/play.php?vid=2795 http://www.truthtube.tv/ HERE is THE Beheading Of Daniel Pearl!! CAUTION!! GRAPHIC !! Just an **example*** of ISLAM ….LOTS of Videos as site …MOST FROM CHTISTIAN RESISTANCE http://www.truthtube.tv/play.php?vid=2795
Galt commented:
They also tell us socialism doesn’t exist either, even as the policies are being implemented.
Neitzsche was right: anyone can see beyond good and evil. All it takes is total submission to Nihil.
MadMike commented:
In one sense he is correct. There is no such thing as “Radical Islam”, there is only Islam and those that have committed the atrocities of which many speak are simply following its tenets.
That being said, Alan is wrong in that “True” Islam does teach the violence and deceit that is being committed by it’s followers.
gus commented:
Were homosexual priests molesting boys in the name of TRUE CATHOLICISM Alan?
LIBTARDS would rather take a bullet than admit their ideology is nonsensical.
What common threads are present in nearly every terrorist activity??? 18-35 year old Muzlims.
Sin SallaBim commented:
Then I guess there is no such thing as a “radical liberal” or a “radical Democrat” or a radical anything.
And is he questioning the word “radical” or “Islam” as being violent? I would agree that if you are of member of Islam that violence is a cornerstone of the movement.
olm commented:
Alan said the same thing on BillO either last week or the week before.
He is no different from the loon that apologized to China for AZ.
The left really has lost all sense of reality.
Txn4Evr commented:
I used to have great empathy for the victim’s of the Holocost but after hearing people like Alan Colmes, Jon Stewart and knowing 73% of Jewish Americans voted for Obammy, I’m beginning to think those millions of people skipped into the oven thinking it was an ice cream social!
SteveCan commented:
Technically right or wrong makes no difference … Colmes is still a tool.
Agent99 commented:
http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2009/05/terrifying-brilliance-of-islam.html Islam …Their Goal?? Rule the World. Convert or kill. Above atricle very informative. THX
gus commented:
Colmes is a pu$$y. Most LIBTARDS are. They ignore what they want to ignore.
Colmes and the left believe they are defending RIGHTEOUS ISLAM. NONSENSE.
It’s not a game Colmes. All of these TERRORISTS are killing in the name of ISLAM.
No one is suggesting that ALL ISLAM is a violent JIHAD, we are suggesting that THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of you MUZZLIMS are VIOLENT TERRORIST.
And you Mr. Colmes are too busy playing a game to be taken seriously.
Indigo Red commented:
As pointed out up top, Alan Colmes is right in believing “there’s not such a thing as radical Islam.”
Where he’s wrong is when he contends, “It is not part of the religion. People are not doing this in the name of true Islam.”
Radical islam is only radical because it’s so far beyond mainstream Western philosophy. Radical islam among mohammadans is just life.
It’s like saying there’s no such thing as Chinese food in China – which is true; it’s just food. Only outsiders call it Chinese food.
gus commented:
It’s specious. What is the TERRORISTS OPINION on this matter?
Militant Conservative commented:
We are being effective. We are getting Lib’s and those that think they are lib’s to examine thier world view. At some point the travel to the far left scares people and they recoil from the true face of evil (pure liberalism). It is seductive in the beginning with a horrible finale. Conservatism is natural and normal, life ,liberty and the pursute of happiness. Libs want to tell you they know better. powder is dry.
antilbr commented:
yeah right alan..and the other night i seen a ufo…..and was abducted by martian aliens,come to think of it you looked a lot like their leader alan….kind of thought with your looks theres no way you could have been born in this world anyway…..
Spike commented:
There is no such thing ( person) as a Alan Colmes with brains
Subadar Lal Kukhri commented:
Mistah Combs he write.
About one tenthy percenty of muhammedanses are filthy savage killers. That would be over 1,000,000 world-wide (20,000 or so in the USA). The other 1,000,000,000 are covering for and paying the mass murderers’ bills.
Bad kharma.
gus commented:
The debate isn’t whether ISLAM as written in the Q’RAN is evil, the question is whether hundreds of thousands of poor disaffected young Muzzzzzlim men are interpreting the Q’ran as a call to violence and acting on that.
TRUE ISLAM?? WTF is that?
DocScience commented:
Colmes, and everyone, needs to read the Koran for themselves and understand the meaning of submission to a violent, aggressive, and barbaric dictatorship of the mind, of the body and of the soul.
Islam brings the peace of slavery.
Palinfan commented:
Colmes is just echoing the way all Progressive Liberals think. They see Islam as peaceful and Christianity as dangerous.
Richard Aubrey commented:
Saw Skeletor on a panel show some years back.
He seemed more relaxed and normal than on his show.
He said the job of the two hosts–I think he was emphasizing his job as the straight man–was to get ratings.
Certainly possible he jazzes up various issues in order to get a hot argument going.
DKN commented:
Mr Colmes has obviously not read the Koran, or the Sunnah, or the opinions of numerous and authoritiative Islamic scholars writing from the 7th century through the present. Not sure it would do him any good anyway, willfull ignorance is incurable.
jomojava commented:
Colmes must be angling for a job in the Sultan Obummer Administration.
bg commented:
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oh dear, too many links to re-post ..
albeit i will probably post a few more in here,
please go here and look up bg posts for now..
thank you..
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annk commented:
Reminds me of a C.S. Lewis quote: “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn’t exist.”
HandyBill commented:
No radical islam, but he will be the first to say there are radical conservatives. Alan is a dolt, always has always will. He cant see past his Jewish guilt.
kansas commented:
It’s not part of the religion. It is the religion.
TJ commented:
I kinda agree with him..
There is no radical Islam.. the normal, moderate Islamic types are all for the murder, suicide bombings.. they are not radical .. that’s Islam!
Mike commented:
He’s an a##hat. ‘Nuf said.
bg commented:
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I’m afraid of what the … that’s where I’m really afraid. I would like to criticize Islam much more than I do publicly, but I’m afraid for my life
if I do.
i can only presume Alan has a steel spine, as does Holder.. /sarc/
[more links @ link]
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Militant Conservative commented:
Radical Islam burns flags—-follow the link to see who else burns flags. http://www.samjpatriot.com/2010/05/surprise-surprise-kagan-is-flag-burner.html
clyde commented:
Killing jews,christians,and infidels is standard muslim dogma in the koran and is therefore not radical.All muslims are homocidal maniacs with time delay fuses.You have a right to live as a neighbor to muslims but you do not have a right to force me to live with them.
JKB commented:
I see the problem. Taking lead from the DHS Assessment of Right wing extremism, which held the following:
So therefore the correct name for the murdering terrorists is
violent Islamic Identity organization
In the new world order of doublespeak, one has to stumble upon the words the idiots have chosen to dissemble the facts.
Islam s/b Waslam commented:
So now this leftist Colmes is going to pontificate and tell us what is “true Islam” and what is not “true Islam,” over the very claims of Muslims who in carrying out their murderous schemes are the practitioners of this cult?
And Colmes is going to do this in the very face of Islamic texts which enshrine the notion of jihad as the way of Allah!
bg commented:
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i suppose Alan doesn’t think Hitler was a radical either..
informative read..
[Al-Ansari further developed his concept of total extermination in a subsequent article. First, he firmly criticized the Islamic movements that raise the banner of daawa (Islamic preaching) and support the gradual spread of Islam through education, social organizations, and the economy as the preferred means to bring about the victory of Islam over other religions. He asserts that Allah has the power and might to subdue the infidels and to exterminate them by his will. However, He has not done so because of His wish to designate this task to Muslims.
Al-Ansari wrote: "Allah is capable of exterminating his enemies with no need for intermediaries or the help of anyone. His might is infinite... therefore, when He [Allah] designates the task of extermination of infidels to his believers, He does so as a hidden expression of His power…the infidels’ extermination is part of Islamic law, which is operative until the Day of Judgment. Its principal element will be fulfilled only at the hands of the believers, meaning through jihad, which is also to be operative until the Day of Judgment.]
not “radical” enough for you Alan??
here you go , i believe it’s addressed to you..
Ayatollah Khomeini
Khomeini accordingly delivered notorious rebuke
to the Islam-is-a-religion-of-peace crowd:
“Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured by [the unbelievers]? Islam says: Kill them, put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]…. Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for the Holy Warriors! There are hundreds of other [Qur’anic] psalms and Hadiths [sayings of the Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all this mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.”
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The Triguy commented:
The more I’ve read about Islam, the practices of Islam and the founding of Islam, the more I’ve come to believe that Islam is not a religion. It does not sooth the soul or call for peace and understanding as do many of the other religions. Islam calls for war, submission of all to Islam and subjegation of all others who will not submit. In my book that is not a religion but a political ideology. Remove the references to God and all that’s left is a handbook on how to be an effective warlord.
Don Rodrigo commented:
A lot of customs associated with fundamentalist and orthodox Islam were from earlier times before Islam. The fact that Islam chose to continue to allow into modern times: slavery, subjugation of women, genital mutilation, pederasty by old men on young boys, general sexual molestation of male and female children by older male relatives, savagery in its “judicial” system, etc., means that Islam is a reactionary and fertile ground for violent extremism.
I see many, many practitioners of the Muslim faith who are down-to-earth good, decent people capable of thoroughly modern lives, and yet that fact has done nothing to curb excesses done in the name of Islam. Therefore, violence by Islamic radicals IS the fault and responsibility of the greater Islamic community.
robh693 commented:
Since the quote is with a lower case “r”, as in “radical”, he is not technically correct because the term is being used simply as an enhancer not as a formal name. Even the left leaning British papers call them radical Muslims.
bg commented:
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no radicals here either, no no no..
[The Muslim Brotherhood is the world's largest Islamist group, and its motto is, "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope."
[..]
“Islam is a movement. There is no status quo and passive attitude in Islamic movement. If we want to keep our identity as Muslims; if we want to train our next generation as practicing Muslims; if we want to propagate and establish Islam in this society, we have to be dynamic and smart Daees [missionaries]… Future is very bright for Islam in America. Let us say [the] future of America is Islam, Insha Allah… Come and become part and parcel of Islamic movement – Islamic Circle of North America, and join hands to achieve the goal of establishing Islam in this world and having the pleasure of Allah in the life hereafter.”]
hmmm, that’s very clear isn’t it Obama??
[Abdul-Malik also makes no bones about discussing how the election of President Obama is a step forward in the project of Islamization and the long term goal of Islamist domination which falls right in lock-step with that of the Muslim Brotherhood as revealed in their manifesto.
[..]
“…even under the pressures that you and I know about, the deen of Islam is growing because people see even within all of this struggle it is better to be a Muslim under these conditions than to be a kaffir under any conditions… before Allah closes our eyes for the last time you will see Islam move from being the second largest religion in America-that’s where we are now- to being the first religion in America.”]
uh, er, uh, uh, uh, er..
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bg commented:
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newton @ 10:24 am #3
TWO + TWO = ONE!!
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bg commented:
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The Triguy @ 12:34 pm #46
Warlord Obama
[The repression of political correctness combined with acceptance of Muslims in the U.S. military produced 13 victims when Army Major Nidal Hasan went on a murderous rampage at Fort Hood only days after the House Judiciary Committee removed a part of the USA Patriot Act for tracking non-U.S. citizens in anti-terrorism investigations. Obama would not admit it was an act of Islamic terror in spite of mounting evidence that proves Major Hasan had been openly espousing Islamic jihad in the military against non-Muslims for years.
Obama has nationalized entire industries with taxpayer bailouts, passed the Economic Stimulus Bill, pushed the Health Care Bill, and the Cap and Trade Bill, converting a once free-market into a government-run socialist state. All of these actions rely on heavily increased taxes from the American taxpayer with more control over their lives for generations to come.
Obama's leniency toward Islam provokes the question of whose and what interests he is really standing for. The man with the name Barack Hussein Obama apologizes for America to Muslim nations while he endorses Islam in America. However shocking it may seem, and whatever the intentions, with Islam's nose in American government, the socialist plans are paving the way to generations of dhimmitude. The inflicting control over American lives the plans will cause and the taxes Americans will have to pay to put them into action is analogous to a jizya tax in accordance to Islamic doctrine–taxes imposed on non-Muslims to control them until they embrace Islam completely.]
Don Rodrigo @ 12:36 pm #47
My Fellow Muslims, We Must Wake Up!
[When will the United States learn that our current behavior and lack of a coordinated existential strategy since 9-11 is obviously not working? As a devout and concerned American Muslim working tirelessly against radical Islam and its root cause of political Islam, I thought the Fort Hood massacre would teach us that. It did not. Witness the Pentagon report blind to ‘radical Islam’. I thought the Christmas bomber would tip us toward the battle of ideas, but nothing. And now on May 1, naturalized American citizen, Faisal Shahzad, is the next in the growing line of homegrown radical Islamists. And again the immediate fallout in the media, government, and academe is still one mostly of denial, dismissal, and fear of even mentioning the real theo-political battle we face against political Islam.]
that goes for non-Muslims as well..
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Nancy commented:
Actually, he has it just backwards. There really isn’t any “radical Islam” because the writings of Mohammad tell them to do just what they are doing to spread Islam across the planet. It’s mainstream Islam that is perpetrating this stuff, all with the goal of establishing their worldwide caliphate.
Take a look at the Koran and see for yourself. It isn’t radical from their point of view. It’s business as usual.
Nick commented:
Useful Idiot.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
bg,
You are a workhorse in this regard. Thank you for all you do here. Your links, and the time you put into finding and posting them are invaluable, to say the least.
bg commented:
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Taqiyyotomist @ 2:27 pm #55
thank you!!
ht RG: Colonel Allen West
“this is not a perversion”
pass it on!!
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Feeney commented:
Spokesman for the pansy left. Orwell must be getting a kick out of this.
Sojourner commented:
..all together now:
R…A…D…I..C..A…L…I..S…L…A…M
(take that, idjit)
Andrew commented:
I’ve often wondered what color the grass is in Alan Colmes’ world.
eaglewingz08 commented:
Alan Colmes is right but not for the reason he states. There is no RADICAL Islam, because the principles of what craven US officials call ‘radical’ Islam, in fact are the NORMATIVE and COMMON MAINSTREAM principles of ISLAM.
logic101 commented:
I’d rather stick a hot poker in my eye than watch
Alan Colmes.
Joanne commented:
True Islam? There is only one Islam – there isn’t Islam and true Islam – that is an oxymoron. Islam is all about deceit – there is no truth in Islam…..all lies.
Colmes is a useful idiot.
Joanne commented:
There is only one radical Alan Colmes, not one true Alan Colmes.
TennDon commented:
My wife calls colmes “Roach-Face”. Kinda fits doncha think?
TennDon commented:
Colmes is a useLESS idiot.
FIFY, #63
MommyPatriot1 commented:
Yes, Yes Alan, and “He-who-must-not-be-named” is not really back. Just ask the White Hou….I mean the Ministry of Magic…
Carl McPherson commented:
Three days ago on my blog I posted an article about there being no such thing as radical islam. Check out my blog article and comment there if you want.
Carl McPherson commented:
Whoops.. it didn’t post my page.
http://free-speech-while-it-lasts.blogspot.com/2010/05/radical-islam-does-not-exist.html
Kevin commented:
“There’s no such thing as radical islam.”
I completely agree. The terrorists aren’t radical at all. They’re part of mainstream islam.
Andreas K. commented:
“There’s no such thing as radical Islam.”
Actually this is correct.
However, his conclusion from this statement is totally wrong.
There is no radical islam. Correct.
But there is no moderate islam either.
Islam is islam.
Everything done by the jihadis so far is in perfect unison with what the koran and the hadith demand.
Andreas K. commented:
And those here who say that islam is not a religion?
You’re right.
Islam is a lot more than that. It’s a rule set for an entire society, going even into the daily lives of people and their privacy.
It is pure and utter fascism.
Un:dhimmi commented:
It’s not a fallacy. Colmes is actually correct, just not in the way he thinks he is. He is misguided and misinformed in his opinion.
There is no radical Islam (in the words of the Islamist Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ‘Islam is Islam’).
There are, however, degrees of adherence- and there is no doubt that Islam is a doctrine (not just a religion); that sets its face against the non-Muslim world and strives to be dominant wherever it is practised.
It also speaks in two different directions – one voice to the non-Muslims (and in particular the West); and one for internal consumption. This concealment and dissimulation of one’s true beliefs is known as ‘Taqiyya’ and is part and parcel of Islam.
Ergo, so-called ‘westernised Muslims’ (probably the basis for Colmes’ opinions) are basically non-observant Muslims.
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