Before There Was ISIS, There Was the Weather Underground

by Matthew Vadum

Like the radical left-wing domestic terrorists befriended two decades ago by Barack Hussein Obama, the totalitarian mass murderers of the Islamic State are reportedly determined to kill millions of Americans.

Slaughtering Americans by the millions was a key objective of the Weather Underground Organization (WUO), which was led during the Vietnam War era by Obama’s close Chicagoland friend and Hyde Park neighbor Bill Ayers, among other individuals. 

Ayers described the Weatherman philosophy as “Kill all the rich people.  Break up their cars and apartments.  Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.” 

He was delighted in the 1980s when riot incitement and conspiracy charges against him were thrown out.  “Guilty as sin, free as a bird,” Ayers gloated.  “America is a great country,” he said for the first and only time in his life.

Obama infamously began his career in electoral politics at a fundraiser in 1995 in the home of the unrepentant small-c communist terrorist bomber Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn, another former WUO leader.

The Weather Underground plan was ambitious – 25 million Americans deemed unsusceptible to communist brainwashing were to be liquidated – but relatively modest compared to the 500 million souls in the Western world that Islamic State aims to vaporize with nuclear weapons.

As I wrote at FrontPageMag:

German journalist Jürgen Todenhöfer, who spent 10 anxious days living in Islamic State-held Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor in Syria with the jihadists, wants the world to know that the terrorist group is deadly serious about unleashing a “nuclear tsunami” on those who oppose its efforts to create an Islamic caliphate.

According to Todenhöfer, a 75-year-old Christian and pacifist, “[t]his is the largest religious cleansing strategy that has ever been planned in human history.”

The West has “no concept of the threat it faces” from the Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, and Daesh) and “dramatically” underestimates the threat posed by the Salafi jihadist army fighting in occupied Syria.

“They are extremely brutal,” the former member of the German parliament says.

“Not just head-cutting.  I’m talking about the strategy of religious cleansing.  That’s their official philosophy.  They are talking about 500 million people who have to die.”

Islamic State fighters are significantly more “dangerous and organized” than people in Western nations assume and “completely sure they will win this fight,” the Daily Mail (U.K.) reports the 75-year-old veteran war correspondent saying.

Islamic State “fighters are much smarter and more dangerous than our leaders believe.  In the Islamic State, there is an almost palpable enthusiasm and confidence of victory, which I have not seen in many war zones.”

On his personal website, Todenhöfer (whose full name can also be spelled Juergen Todenhoefer without the umlauts in German), adds:

I firmly believe that ISIS currently is the largest threat to world peace since the Cold War.  We are now paying the price for [former U.S. President] George W. Bush’s act of near-unparalleled folly; the invasion of Iraq.  To date, the West remains clueless as to how this threat is to be addressed.

Fresh from conspicuously ignoring in the above statement the role President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton played in stirring up Middle Eastern unrest, Todenhöfer says he personally saw volunteer fighters streaming in from around the world to help the Islamic State. 

Contrary to common belief, there were many successful and enthusiastic young people from countries like the USA, England, Sweden, Russia, France and Germany.  One of them had recently passed his state examination in law and been admitted to the court as a lawyer.  Yet, he preferred to fight for the “Islamic State”.

Islamic State warriors “are convinced that their totalitarian faith and demonstrative brutality will help them move mountains,” and that their military victories justify their confidence, Todenhöfer writes.

In Mosul, less than 400 ISIS fighters routed [as] many as 25,000 Iraqi soldiers and militias despite their ultra-modern equipment.  Within months, the ISIS has conquered a territory larger than Great Britain and dwarfed Al Qaeda.