On Thursday President Obama met with French President François Hollande to discuss ways that the two nations could jointly work to defeat terrorism.
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But did President Hollande offend the President’s sympathies towards Islam? The French president dared to describe terrorism as being “Islamist.” And poof! the words mysteriously disappeared from the video.
Here is a transcript of of the possibly ‘offensive’ part of Hollande’s address, with strike-throughs to indicate what was omitted.
Europe has been hit more, given that it is also the target of the terrorists and ISIS. We’ve seen it in Paris last year, as well as in Brussels. And together with President Obama, we worked on coordinating further our commitments, our organizations, our services when it comes to fighting against these terrorists. We are also making sure that between Europe and the United States there can be a very high level coordination.
But we’re also well aware that the roots of terrorism,
Islamist terrorism, is in Syria and in Iraq. We therefore have to act both in Syria and in Iraq, and this is what we’re doing within the framework of the coalition.And we note that Daesh is losing ground thanks to the strikes we’ve been able to launch with the coalition. We are continuing to support Iraq. This is also a decision we have taken, supporting the Iraqi government and making sure that they can claim back their entire territory, including Mosul.
Here is the video showing how the translator’s words had amazingly vanished.
Enter the Media Research Center, which reported how it appeared that the words “Islamist terrorism” had been censored from the video.
They also added that Obama — true to form — would only use phrases like “hands of terrorism,” or “scourge of terrorism” to described the actions of the murderous Islamists.
But lookee here: now the entire video is available, with the White House blaming — what else? — a “technical issue” with the audio which led to a “brief drop” in the English interpretation.
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Here’s the full video of the meeting which the White House re-released.
If it was any other President, we’d accept the WH explanation. But this is Obama we’re talking about here, the guy who just can’t use the word “Islamic” or “Islamist” as a descriptor for terrorism. So while President Hollande’s remarks were published in full at the White House website, doesn’t it seem rather curious that the very words used to correctly assign the blame for terrorism — words that Obama just can’t utter — were abruptly missing from the audio?
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