{"id":50369,"date":"2015-05-06T05:06:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T05:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/06\/the-despicable-claim-of-credit.html"},"modified":"2015-05-06T05:06:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T05:06:34","slug":"the-despicable-claim-of-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/06\/the-despicable-claim-of-credit.html","title":{"rendered":"The Despicable Claim of Credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISIL claims credit for the attack on a &quot;You&#39;re Not Here for the Hunting&quot; exhibition of and awards for anti-Muhammad cartoons down in Texas. While that will warm the cockles of the hearts of any number of &quot;See, They Are Beasts Whom We Should Launch A Full Military Assault On In Every Country They Operate From&quot; fanatics, it&#39;s worth noting that depends on <i>actually believing what ISIL has to say.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2015\/05\/isis-takes-credit-for-the-texas-attack\/392426'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/j0Dvq7_0u0T8Iptx6oXcbNe_rX211b6Kat-ncXmk6HKAddeDuAYWv0GxWwOxFEYLI9YUE4SXD9E_N5uXhhlvs6ck_qzM5NbUEZi4_z_xOiSxbahrxfDOisqx93Mnqg=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2015\/05\/isis-takes-credit-for-the-texas-attack\/392426'>ISIS Takes Credit for the Attack on a Cartoon Contest in Texas<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWhile officials have yet to address the group&#8217;s claim, the Garland shooting is the first act of terror on American soil claimed by the Islamic State.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/QPu8NVXSQC4'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISIL claims credit for the attack on a &quot;You&#39;re Not Here for the Hunting&quot; exhibition of and awards for anti-Muhammad cartoons down in Texas. While that will warm the cockles of the hearts of any number of &quot;See, They Are Beasts Whom We Should Launch A Full Military Assault On In Every Country They Operate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/06\/the-despicable-claim-of-credit.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Despicable Claim of Credit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131837,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/19\/mosuling-on-over.html","url_meta":{"origin":50369,"position":0},"title":"Mosuling on over","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Oct-16 10:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Trump has repeatedly lambasted the Obama administration (and, through vague handwaving, Clinton) for telegraphing the Iraqi allied attack on Mosul. 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