About those widows and orphans Obama says we’re afraid of
Obama’s taunt that Republicans “are scared of widows and orphans” takes on an ironic twist in light of the fact that one of the dead in Wednesday morning’s Paris raid was a female suicide bomber (who, by the way, blew a police dog to smithereens in the process). We also know that, in some of the earliest conflicts in which a significant number of female suicide bombers and other terrorists were involved (Chechnya), many of these women terrorists were in fact widows. That status inspired the group’s Russian name, which means “Black Widows“:
Shahidka,…sometimes called “Black Widow” or Chyornaya Vdova in Russian, is a term for Islamist Chechen female suicide bombers, willing to be a manifestation of violent jihad. They became known at the Moscow theater hostage crisis of October 2002…
The term of “Black Widows” probably originates from the fact that many of these women are widows of men killed by the Russian forces in Chechnya. (The toxic connotation of black widow spider is intended.) In 2003, the Russian journalist Julia Jusik coined the phrase “Brides of Allah” (ÐевеÑÑ‚Ñ‹ Ðллаха) when she described the process by which Chechen women were recruited by Basayev and his associates; the phrase was also used again after the Beslan attack…
More here:
While there has been considerable speculation as to what drives these Chechen bombers, the initial answers seem to point to revenge, hatred of the Russian occupiers, and a desire to carry the war to those whom they believe to be responsible for killing their husbands, children, or other loved ones. In this sense the Black Widows, many of whom are actual grieving widows, are victims who are transformed into victimizers.
Increasingly, however, Black Widows appear to be driven by a desire to become martyrs to the faith. There have been cases of terrorists indoctrinating young women (the bombers have ranged in age from sixteen to thirty-seven) into the cult of martyrdom…
Regardless of their actual target, the Black Widows have shown themselves to be remorseless killers in recent years and have killed hundreds of civilians in their suicide attacks.
Not only were female suicide bombers not rare in Chechnya, they represented a significant number of terrorists:
Female suicide bombers were central to the North Caucasus insurgency during the early 2000s. Between 2000 and 2005, all but five of the 27 Chechen-linked suicide bombings in Russia included women.
Also, among the Tamil Tigers, 30% to 40% of its suicide bombers were female.
No, Syrians and other Middle Easterners are neither Chechans nor Tamils. And the percentage of female terrorists overall is small. But they exist and they cause very significant damage, particularly since they are somewhat unexpected. In summary, there is nothing that precludes a woman from being a terrorist, particularly a suicide bomber, and widows may actually be more likely than other females to number in their ranks, not less.
An interesting side note is that the phenomenon of the female suicide bomber seems to have first appeared in Syria, of all places:
Kamikaze pilots were invariably male and so were the first suicide-bombers. Female suicide-bombers only began making an appearance about 20 years ago. Initially they were secular terrorists, and it wasn’t until about five years ago that the jihadis began sacrificing Muslim ladies as suicide-bombers.
Female suicide-bombers first began appearing (as far as I can recall) around the mid-1980s when members of the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party carried out suicide car bomb attacks against the Israeli military and the pro-Israeli South Lebanon Army. The SSNP was a communist party so, though its members were Muslim, they were hardly jihadi.
So we’ve established that there’s no reason to imagine that widows couldn’t also be terrorists Obviously, the vast majority of them are not. But not so obviously, there is a great deal of evidence that some might possibly be, and that we certainly cannot automatically assume that because a person is a widow she cannot also be a terrorist.
Back to the female suicide bomber in France. The story (if true) of how she died is instructive in a symbolic sense:
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, and his 26-year-old French-born cousin Hasna Aitboulahcen are believed to be the two terrorists who died in a gun and grenade battle which saw 5,000 rounds of ammunition fired by police.
The blonde-haired woman, said to be Aitboulahcen, became Europe’s first female suicide bomber when she detonated her explosive vest moments after telling police ‘Help me, help me’.
“Help me.”
Let’s just hope that those who vet the refugees are more conversant with these facts than our president appears to be.
[NOTE: As for children, see this.]
Also, some of the “orphans” could be teenage boys who are prime targets for Islamist indoctrination.
Surely all but the most devout liberals have to at least raise an eyebrow at Obama’s flippant political taunting when the 129 massacred people aren’t even buried yet.
I think the man is so cold and calculating its creepy.
Ah, back to the knave or fool question. Is Obama a fool in denial of the threat or a mendacious knave?
However, at this point, to seriously ask the question is to reveal a degree of naive denial. Obama knows full well of the threat, he’s facilitating and enabling the threat to manifest.
To what purpose? The answer is contained in what will happen NOT if but when a series of Paris style terrorist attacks occurs in America…
Answer; Obama or Pres. Hillary will declare nationwide, martial law for the “duration of the national emergency”. Create enough fear and the public will demand that ‘something be done’.
It’s not a stretch to see that this has to be the ultimate goal of Obama and the far Left’s machinations. The Constitution stands in the way, therefore it MUST be ‘transformed’.
No way are 3/4 of the state legislatures going to amend the Constitution into a new AmeriKa. Which leaves martial law, the legal way to ‘amend’ the Constitution. Everything the Left is doing leads to that eventuality.
The hard Left knows full well that the completion of the “fundamental transformation” of America into AmeriKa will require armed force.
Under martial law, the President can legally suspend Constitutional provisions such as the 22nd amendment’s Presidential term limits and guarantees like the 2nd amendment’s right to bear arms. Since during martial law it would be legal for the President to do so, the US Military, National Guard and law enforcement agencies; federal, state and local would be legally bound to support that President.
The US Army already has manuals on plans for US detention camps to reeducate ‘recalcitrant’ Americans. http://www.redstate.com/diary/gaspeegazette/2012/05/09/leaked-army-re-education-camp-manual-verified-as-authentic-by-nc-blogger/
Everything that the Left is doing, domestic and foreign is manipulation toward that day. All of it is oriented toward creating the conditions where martial law becomes a necessity.
To paraphrase Holmes; When every other explanation proves unsustainable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the explanation.
Facts have never bothered Barack.
“If you like….”
Asking Obama which refugees to take in America is like asking an ex wife which women you should date.
2 men we were warned about shut down the city of Boston. 8 (?) people the French were warned about shut down the country. What are we talking about here?
It’s easy to understand why women might want to blow themselves up after having their sexual organs lopped off.
Obambi needs not be afraid of widows and orphans.
Here: visiting Turkey.
Nits elected that Moooslime goon TWICE!
3 years ago he wasn’t worried about kids being born in Syria.
3 years ago he wasn’t worried about those married women that are now widows.
What changed?
Re the female suicide bomber in France yelling “help me” — an article in the Daily Mirror says this:
“Jihadists have been known to force people to become suicide bombers, but some pretend to be unwilling victims in a bid to lure authorities closer before triggering the bomb.”
Police: Bombers, one of them 11, target Nigeria market
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/18/africa/nigeria-blasts/index.html
Two bomb attacks in 24 hours — one of them involving an 11-year-old female bomber — killed dozens of people and wounded more than 120 others in the Nigerian cities of Yola and Kano, authorities said
Neo…
Jihadis use bastards as ordnance.
A bastard child in the Muslim// Neolithic ethos has negative value.
In Iraq, from time to time, suicide-martyrs would survive — a ‘wardrobe malfunction.’
After which it was revealed that the human bomb was either a bona fide idiot. ( Plenty of retards in Iraq due to Hussein’s starvation-genocide (Holomodor II) resulting in stunted brain growth in the pitiful infants born.)
Alternatively, the human bomb was coerced by taking his family hostage.
Alternately, the human bomb was indoctrinated as a child — to be ordnance — as the kid was a bastard. (Pakistan’s style)
%%%
The word terrorist is wholly inappropriate.
Feral fanatic is more descriptive.
For they are True Believers…
And they make war with barbarism — feral warfare.
The intent is not to create terror — but to destroy our society.
War.
Can we put aside the knave or fool discussion and go straight to usurper seeking to mount a throne?
I’ve never seen it as Obama–fool or knave. For me from the very beginning, he is the empty suit. That’s why he’s so detached and has always even while running in 2008 been so annoyed at the least little thing. Even now, he’s unconcerned. Soros and Ayers gave us Obama. Everything the Left ever accused George W. Bush of being and doing, Obama is and has done. Projection on a national level.
Sharon W:
“Empty suit” is the equivalent of the “fool” answer.
Neo, funny thing about that. Being unprincipled brings him into the “role” of empty suit, because essentially he’s acting. So if one of the words had to be picked, I suppose it would be knave. He’s laughing all the way to the bank as the saying used to go.
What matters is intent or non intent, not what other labels people put on affairs.
Projection on a national level.
Applies on all levels too, Sharon. Individual, micro and macro. The Left does what the Left is, and evil is what evil does.
The reason why Neo’s question has no meaning, no matter how you answer it, is because when facing a serial killer or someone following you for nefarious purposes, asking if they are a “knave” or a “fool” doesn’t matter.
Threat response and analysis requires a different question.
Ymarsakar:
The “fool or knave” question actually isn’t MY question. It’s one that I picked up along the way, something that’s discussed a lot. I long ago decided about Obama, but I see people asking versions of the question all the time. I think it’s a useful and interesting frame to evaluate politicians, pundits, and others.
It’s one that I picked up along the way, something that’s discussed a lot.
It’s one you keep writing about and introducing, however.
And by “discussed” a lot, I presume that’s for the un Awakened part of the US population. Since the Awakened portion, already know what’s going on, although that doesn’t necessarily mean agreement.
but I see people asking versions of the question all the time.
Except that’s not what they are asking.
It’s not a “version”, it’s an ambiguous mess, coming from people who lack a fundamental framework to even understand what question is required to puzzle out the Hussein Factor.
Mind control is present in linguistics, language. By formulating the question in a certain fashion, it cuts off certain thoughts and elevates other thoughts, in an artificial manner.