Obama said that America needs to “restore” the “same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago.”
Never has any president, Republican or Democrat, blamed the Muslim world for the acts of a few extremists. It was amazing that there was little “retaliation” against Muslims in the aftermath of 911, even while the extremists were dancing in the streets at our losses. One found no riots in the streets of America against Islamic people. People who committed hate crimes against people of Islamic dissent were prosecuted. Is this the result of radical left wing indoctrination through the media or just selective amnesia?
George W. Bush went to the Islamic Center in Washington six days after the Sept. 11 attacks, when the fires of Ground Zero were still having water poured on them, to declare “Islam is peace,” to extend fellowship and friendship to Muslims, to insist that Americans treat them with respect and generosity of spirit. America listened. In these seven years since Sept. 11 — seven years during which thousands of Muslims rioted all over the world (resulting in the death of more than 100) to avenge a bunch of cartoons — there’s not been a single anti-Muslim riot in the United States to avenge the massacre of 3,000 innocents. On the contrary. Instead, America elected it’s first Muslim member of Congress and our first president of Muslim parentage.
Let’s look at these recent 20-30 years which according to Obama has been the heighth of our disrespect of the Islamic world:
America did not just respect Muslims, it sent it’s young men and women to bleed for them. It engaged in five military campaigns, every one of which involved — and resulted in — the liberation of a Muslim people: Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq.
The two Balkan interventions — as well as the failed 1992-93 Somalia intervention to feed starving African Muslims (43 Americans were killed) — were humanitarian exercises, there being no significant U.S. strategic interest at stake. In these 20 years, this nation has done more for suffering and oppressed Muslims than any nation, Muslim or non-Muslim, anywhere on Earth. Why are he apologizing?
The Marine barracks massacre of 1983, and the innumerable attacks on U.S. embassies and installations around the world during what Obama now characterizes as the halcyon days of U.S.-Islamic relations.
In addition to the above, what about the World Trade Center in 1993; Khobar Towers, 1996; American Embassy, Kenya, 1998; American Embassy, Tanzania, 1998, and of course, the USS Cole, 2000.
Thirty years ago, 1979, I remember that during Iran’s radical Islamic revolution, they seizure of the U.S. Embassy, the 444 daysThe Iranian Hostage Crisis, November 1979 – January 1981 of America held hostage.
Obama is wrong. Political Islam proclaimed us as their enemy. If anyone – says you are their enemy – you are his enemy. It would behoove Obama to realize that.
Enough of Obama’s Hollywood popularity mentality. America has nothing to apologize for. Osama bin Laden once declared “We will use your laws against you,” it seems Bin Laden is getting just what he hoped for just the kind of conciliatory stance with Obama showing America will run with it’s tail between it’s legs…or maybe just bow.
