David

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June 10, 2009

Obama's Execrable Speech to Muslims

You won't hear any of this via the state-run media, but President Obama gave an outrageous, pathetic, execrable speech in Cairo last Wednesday.

First, he falsely gave credit to Islam for all sorts of historical achievements that pre-dated it by centuries, and with which they had no involvement at all. Space precludes me from listing them all here, but a few of the whoppers included: Algebra (ancient Babylon, then Greece, both which pre-dated Islam by a millennium or so); navigation and the compass (China and the Mayans both easily surpass and well before Islam); pens and printing (Gutenberg invented movable type in Germany in 1439, and ink on parchment pre-dated Islam by the better part of two millennia); arches and spires (uh, Rome, Greece, Persia, et al?).

And to start that list, Obama described himself “as a student of history.” He apparently forgot to mention that he flunked the course. History, as the rest of us know, is stuff that actually happened.

Then, with his usual inability to say America is right about anything, he soft-pedaled responsibility for 9/11 and pandered to those he should have been lecturing. (Never did he utter a peep about Islam's horrible treatment of women and homosexuals. I'd think that would trouble the feminists and gay rights folks just a wee bit.)

Virtually everything he said was about America not stereotyping or blaming all of Islam for what 19 evil monsters did to 3,000 innocent people. There was not a word to the folks of the religion from which these terrorists sprang about its role in having created them, nor their responsibility as fellow Muslims to not let violent psychos tarnish the whole of that body of believers.

Given a golden opportunity to confront the Islamic world about its inexcusable and cowardly silence (which naturally leads the rest of us to conclude they must be OK with it), Obama instead went completely supine, failing to condemn an accommodating attitude toward that unconscionable butchery

Worst of all, he drew a despicable moral equivalence between the Holocaust and the Palestinians that should leave any human being with a sense of decency tossing his or her lunch:

"Around the world, the Jewish people were persecuted for centuries, and anti-Semitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented Holocaust . . . Six million Jews were killed – more than the entire Jewish population of Israel today. On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people – Muslims and Christians – have suffered in pursuit of a homeland. For more than 60 years they have endured the pain of dislocation. Many wait in refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza and neighboring lands for a life of peace and security that they have never been able to lead. They endure the daily humiliations – large and small . . .."

Here's a lesson for the pompous “history student”:

Six million Jews who had done nothing to Germany were rounded up, stuffed in train cars like abused cattle, put in concentration camps, then herded through gas chambers and the bodies shoveled into furnaces. It's the clearest example of abject evil in the history of mankind on Earth. And in response to the discovery of this heretofore unfathomable horror of unassuming lambs being led to genocidal slaughter, the world felt compelled to create a place where Jews could finally be safe and continue to exist.

The Palestinians have done nothing but practice murder and terror against Israel, and wallow in the same anti-Semitic hate which led to the Holocaust in the first place. They spend the whole of their existence determining ways to finish the extermination Hitler began. They openly celebrated 9/11 – the only place on Earth that did.

They can't even properly govern themselves as a modern civilization. No other Arab or Muslim nation will take them in, preferring to have the manufactured “victims” to demagogue for a morally blind and pliant western media than to actually live next to these vermin. And in response to the never-ending attacks by their immediate neighbors, Israel has done what it had to so in order to live safely. To the extent the Palestinians have no freedom as a result (and are “humiliated,” poor babies), they have brought that condition entirely upon themselves.

The idea that there could ever be any moral equivalence between these two peoples and circumstances is disgusting in the extreme. More than that, it sends a clear message to Israel and whoever else doesn't wish to live under the sharia law of the caliphate: You're on your own – America will not be there for you. Consider yourselves thrown under the bus.

And in that, Obama all but assures the very war he arrogantly thinks he's preventing. He will embolden the aggressors (e.g. Iran) and force the rest of us to take up arms in active defense (e.g. Israel preemptively bombing Iran, which would spark a regional war into which most of the world would quickly be drawn).

The world could well be lucky to survive the disgraceful abomination that is this presidency.

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