CENTRAL VIEW for Monday, January 9, 2017

Obama Legacy: Fake news on steroids?

On December 6, 2016, President Obama said, “We should take great pride in the progress that we’ve made over the last eight years. That’s the bottom line. No foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland."

Two words leap out: "Organization," and "successfully." The inclusion of those two words in President Obama’s statement explains why the Obama White House instructs the members of the Executive Branch, to include the Pentagon, State Department, and the FBI, to strive to identify Islamic terrorists as "lone wolves," not under the control of some well-know Islamic jihadist terror "organizations." The word "successfully" is used by President Obama to cover those attacks where Islamic jihadist "organizations" claimed ownership of attacks that fizzled.

Since President Obama took office, here is the record: June 1, 2009, Little Rock AR, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, murdered one soldier, wounding another. Nov. 5, 2009, Ft. Hood, TX, Muslim Nidal Malik Hassan, an Army psychiatrist, murdered 13 people and wounded 30 others. Dec. 4, 2009, Binghamton, NY, Abdulsalam S. al-Zahrani, stabbed Professor Richard T. Antoun to death.

April 14, 2010, Marquette Park, IL, A Muslim convert, James A. Larry, murdered his mother, pregnant wife, infant son, and two nieces.

April 30, 2011, Warren, MI, Rahim Abdul Alfetlawi, murdered his step-daughter after she refused to adhere to Muslim customs. Sept. 11, 2011, Waltham, MA, Three Jewish men are discovered with their throats slit. Authorities believe the Boston Marathon bombers did the throat slitting.

Jan. 15, 2012, Harris County, TX, Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan murdered Iranian medical student, Gelareh Bagherzadeh, for converting to Christianity. Later, he murdered his Christian son-in-law.

Feb. 7, 2013, Buena Vista, NJ, Yusuf Ibrahim, 28, shot and beheaded two Coptic Christians. March 31, 2013, Ashtabula, OH, Reshad Riddle entered an Ashtabula, Ohio, church and murdered his Christian father. April 15, 2013, Boston, MA, Muslim Chechen brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev detonated two bombs during the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring an estimated 264 others. After the bombing, they killed a MIT policeman. Aug. 4, 2013, Richmond, CA, A Muslim convert, Daymond Agnew, went to an Ace Hardware fatally stabbing employee Daniel Joseph Stone.

March 6, 2014, Port Bolivar, TX, James Cosby, because the Koran says homosexuality is a sin, bludgeoned his lesbian daughter to death and shot her lover. April 27, 2014, Seattle, WA, Ali Muhammad Brown, murdered two men in Seattle and a New Jersey man as "vengeance" for U.S. actions in the Mideast. Sept. 25, 2014, Moore, OK, Alton Nolen, beheaded a woman who refused to convert to Islam.

May 3, 2015, Garland, TX, two Islamists tried to kill Pamela Geller and her colleagues. The Islamists were killed. A security guard was wounded. Dec. 2, 2015, San Bernadino, CA, Two Islamists murdered 14 and wounded 20.

June 12, 2016, Orlando FL, an Islamic gunman murdered 50 people and wounded another 50. July 16, 2015, Chattanooga, TN, four U.S. Marines and a civilian were murdered by a lone Islamic gunman. November 28, 2016, Columbus, OH, Islamist runs over five OSU students and stabs six. All survive.

January 6, 2017, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Five, maybe more, murders still under investigation. NB: By approximate count, Islamic terrorists have kill 86 and wounded 366 on U.S. soil. Ironically, during the Obama era thus far, 3,903 people have been murdered in Chicago, IL.

We report. You decide.

Nationally syndicated columnist, William Hamilton, is a laureate of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame, the Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame, the Oklahoma University Army ROTC Wall of Fame, and is a recipient of the University of Nebraska 2015 Alumni Achievement Award. He was educated at the University of Oklahoma, the Army Language School, the George Washington University, the U.S Naval War College, the University of Nebraska, and Harvard University.

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