{"id":7356,"date":"2015-01-13T18:17:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T18:17:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-13T18:17:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T18:17:33","slug":"marie_harf_won_t_say_islamic_extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/01\/13\/marie_harf_won_t_say_islamic_extremism\/","title":{"rendered":"Marie Harf Won\u2019t Say “Islamic Extremism”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Last night on the Fox News Channel, Megyn Kelly\u2019s program, one of my all-time favorite State Department officials, Marie Harf. This woman, I mean, is the classic Ivy League female graduate out of female studies, out of foreign policy studies. This woman just takes the cake in every aspect, from her appearance, to the way she speaks, to what she thinks. I mean, she is Julia in that ad the Regime ran during the War on Women thing. <\/p>\n

<\/a>She was being interviewed about why the Regime will not call what happened in Paris Islamic extremism. Question: “It seems like it\u2019s so difficult to say what everybody around the world seems to feel so clearly it is, and what the leaders have said in Canada and Australia and Paris, where they have felt it so potently and personally. They\u2019ve all said quite clearly the battle is against Islamic extremism. Why is that so hard for this American government to say?”<\/p>\n

HARF: Well, it\u2019s not hard to say, but it\u2019s not the only kind of extremism we face. I would recommend to folks looking at this administration\u2019s counterterrorism record, I would remind people that more terrorists who claim to do acts of violence in the name of Islam have been taken off the battlefield in this administration than under any previous one because of our counterterrorism operations and our efforts that we\u2019ve put in place. But that\u2019s not the only way that you counter this kind of extremism. Much of it Islamic, you\u2019re absolutely right, but some of it not, so we\u2019re gonna focus on all the different kinds of extremism.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But you still won\u2019t call it what it is! And what is this idea that Obama has taken more militant Islamists off the battlefield? If that were the case, then why all of this talk about closing Gitmo? If that were the case, why all this concern about so-called torture? I thought Bush set the record on all this. I thought Bush was violating all these human rights. I thought Bush was misbehaving in all this stuff. And here comes this woman from the State Department claiming credit here on behalf of Obama for having taken off the battlefield more acts of violence in the name of Islam than any previous administration? That\u2019s gotta come as a shock to Obama voters. <\/p>\n

So, you see, they are hell-bent. They are not gonna call this Islamic extremism. Next question: “There\u2019s a common thread here, though, of radical Islamic extremism. And until President Obama or John Kerry or somebody else in their position stands up and says, ‘Look, we\u2019re now facing a global threat of radical Islamic extremism. We have to band together, we must fight it.\u2019 That\u2019s what everybody is longing to hear, Marie. That\u2019s what governments around the world have no problem saying. You won\u2019t say it. Where\u2019s the message?”<\/p>\n

HARF: I think all of these leaders have made very clear the serious threats we face. If you look at the president\u2019s speech at West Point, if you look at the things Secretary Kerry has said, it\u2019s not as easy as defining it the way you just did. We have to look at each threat individually. All of those threats you just mentioned are from different groups —<\/p>\n

MACCALLUM: Do you believe that there is a common thread in everything that I just mentioned? Is there a common thread?<\/p>\n

HARF: I think that\u2019s a little overly simplistic, to be honest with you, Martha.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes. And so when you nail \u2019em to the wall and you actually force their own words back on \u2019em, they come back and tell you you\u2019re a simpleton. You\u2019re small-minded. You don\u2019t have the ability like we do in the Regime to understand all of the nuance. Of course there is a common thread. The common thread is Islamic extremism. This Regime will not say so. Does anybody really have any question about why? <\/p>\n

Let me ask you, folks, seriously, do you think it\u2019s because — let\u2019s start at the top. Let\u2019s go to the White House. Is Obama afraid of them? Is Obama refusing to call them what they are because he\u2019s so afraid? I mean, the political correctness of this is that, “Oh, no, we can\u2019t do that. That would make them even madder. You know, we\u2019re not supposed to chase bad guys, the tenets of political correctness, you don\u2019t identify them, you don\u2019t call \u2019em out, you don\u2019t try to capture. That\u2019s just gonna make \u2019em meaner.” <\/p>\n

The way we deal with people like this under the precepts of political correctness, is we take guns away from the law-abiding so that we make it clear that we present no threat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That\u2019s what we do. We take guns away from the law-abiding, leaving guns to be had for the criminals and the Islamists, whoever wants to get them. But political correctness says, “No, no, we can\u2019t agitate. Oh, no, we can\u2019t irritate. Oh, no, it will just make \u2019em even madder and it\u2019ll make \u2019em even more violent.” <\/p>\n