Paul Eidelberg

Here are some synonyms of the word “radical”: thorough, complete, total, comprehensive, exhaustive, far-reaching, profound, stringent.

To use any of these synonyms to describe Islam is tautological, i.e., saying the same thing twice.

That being the case, President Obama is correct in refusing to speak of “radical Islam” when referring to terrorist acts committed by Muslims.

Consider this. By his own admission, Mr. Obama is a “cosmopolitan,” and he identifies his philosophical outlook as “multicultural moral relativism.”

Hence , there is nothing about Obama’s political and intellectual beliefs that would justify calling him as a “radical” American, which means he has loyalties which are not American, and which may even be deemed un-American insofar as he does not identify with America’s foundational documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Federal Constitution  – precisely why he has been called America’s first “post-American President”  – although it would be more correct to call him America’s first anti-American President.

This may explain why President Obama was not among the heads of state that went to Paris to honor the victims of Islamic terrorism, a phenomenon he denies as if the two words “Islamic” and “terrorism” constitute either a contradiction in terms, or a tautology.