In a recent interview with Vox, President Obama was asked about the threat of terrorism and not only did he characterize the deadly attack on a kosher deli in Paris as "random," he equated terrorism with street crime.

Some truly appalling statements of President Obama in his softball Vox interview yesterday deserve note for what they reveal about his position on violent jihad: it either doesn’t exist or is so insignificant it can be ignored. He offered his clearest statement yet on the nature of violent jihad, though avoiding the word itself, or the religion of Islam, in which it is the central obligation and organizing principle: