Clinton’s Latest Sermon On Islam Has A Familiar Ring To It

Former President Bill Clinton went to church in South Florida Tuesday night to scold Americans for being unkind to Muslims, and he backed up his sermon with a “Quran verse” that isn’t in the Quran.

“I’m tired of people denigrating Muslims for being Muslims,” the 80-year-old ex-president told a crowd at the Koinonia Worship Center in Hollywood, Florida, where he was stumping for Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Jolly.

“The Quran says — and I first heard this from my daughter, who read the Quran from the start to the finish when she was 15 years old, and she said, ‘Dad, read this: Allah put the different people on the earth not that they might despise one another but that they might come to know one another and learn from one another,’” Clinton said. “There are bad actors in every faith because we’re all flawed human beings.”

The closest verse, Surah 49:13, actually states that God made mankind into nations and tribes so that they might “know one another.” The parts about not despising each other and learning from one another were added somewhere between the Quran and Chelsea Clinton’s reading room.

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Then there was Clinton’s “bad actors in every faith” line, which does a lot of heavy lifting.

A Paris think tank has counted 66,872 Islamist terror attacks worldwide between 1979 and April 2024, with at least 249,941 people being killed. The bloodshed is accelerating: more than four of every five of those attacks came after 2013.

The group’s numbers show that from 2013 to mid-2020, Islamist attacks made up roughly one-third of all terrorism on the planet but caused nearly two-thirds of the deaths.

Clinton has a record to point to. On his watch, from 1993 to 2001, the United States opened its doors to refugees fleeing the Bosnian war, many of them Muslim, and St. Louis became ground zero. An estimated 40,000 Bosnian refugees landed there in the 1990s and early 2000s, building a community of roughly 70,000, one of the largest outside Europe.

In 1999, Serb forces drove ethnic Albanians out of Kosovo. Hillary Clinton’s April 7, 1999, column stated that her husband announced plans to accept up to 20,000 refugees on a temporary basis. Nearly 14,000 ultimately came, more than a quarter of them processed at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Somalis fleeing their country’s civil war arrived too: only about 2,500 lived in the United States in 1990.

Clinton wasn’t alone; 27,000 Somalis entered the United States between 2008 and 2013.

Clinton spent much of his speech on Tuesday complaining that politics has become nasty.

“I’m tired of this constant ‘us versus them,’” he said. “I’ve actually had politicians tell me with a straight face that you have to define an enemy when you start and organize your whole campaign around that because fear and anger are stronger than hope and love.”

Somebody check the tape from 1995.

Sixteen months before his reelection, Clinton’s team, steered by consultant Dick Morris, flooded swing states with party-funded TV ads that welded Bob Dole to Newt Gingrich and called them Medicare-slashers. The spots ran before Dole even locked up the GOP nomination, and they deliberately skipped New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles so the national press wouldn’t notice. The Federal Election Commission later examined whether the supposedly independent ads were coordinated with the White House.

Four years earlier, his war room had cast George H.W. Bush as a clueless, out-of-touch incumbent.

On Tuesday, Clinton also mocked Republicans over immigration enforcement.

“If you live in Florida, you gotta have some real fans to think that you’re going to make votes as a Republican by kicking Cubans out,” he said. “I got a great idea to broaden the Republican base; let’s kick the Cubans out. I broke my back to get up to 44% of the Cuban vote.”

Deportations of Cubans have climbed sharply under President Trump, but a Florida International University poll this spring found 53% of Cuban Americans backed Trump, the highest support of any group in the electorate, according to FIU pollster Eduardo Gamarra.

Clinton closed with this line: “There is a big difference between being tired and being through.”

There is also a big difference between Clinton’s smooth talking and the evidence.

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