At long last, someone in the Obama Administration finally verbally acknowledged the threat of radical Islam, as U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch address the mass shooting in Orlando by Muslim extremist Omar Mateen.
After last week’s tirade against the use of the term “radical Islam” by Pres. Obama and release of a Dept. of Homeland security directive to avoid using words like “jihad” and “sharia,” the administration was forced by public pressure to un-censor the transcript of Mateen’s 911 call when he referenced the Islamic State and its leader.
But, today, in answering the final question at a press conference on the Orlando massacre, Lynch, apparently, let the forbidden words slip:
“We also have to think about, how do we do with the fact that, because we do have a free and open society – and we have to have that – that violent jihadist ideology is easily consumed by individuals who are led down a path to take certain actions, and how do we break that chain, how do we interject some sort of point there that leads them into a different path, how do we connect with those individuals? And, we’re looking at all of those things.”
While Lynch failed to address the initial redaction of Mateen's comments, that omission brings the administration’s censorship of words they don't like to at least four this year alone, as editing of two accounts of exchanges with Fox News reporters regarding Iran, and one reference to “Islamist terrorism” by the president of France, have been exposed in recent months.