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January 30, 2009
Krauthammer Rips Obama's Description of our Relations with Muslims
Topics: Political News and commentariesCharles Krauthammer notes that when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out to Muslims by saying "to the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect," his formulation was needlessly defensive and apologetic:
Is it "new" to acknowledge Muslim interests and show respect to the Muslim world? Obama doesn't just think so, he said so again to millions in his al-Arabiya interview, insisting on the need to "restore" the "same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago."Continue reading....Astonishing. In these most recent 20 years -- the alleged winter of our disrespect of the Islamic world -- America did not just respect Muslims, it bled 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.
As Krauthammer goes on to point out in his piece, it is both false and deeply injurious to America to draw a historical line dividing America under Obama from a benighted past when Islam was supposedly disrespected and demonized. It simply isn't true. And as Bob Parks points out at Black & Right, "according to those who specialize in the topic, Muslim extremists look for weakness in an enemy. So far, instead of showing strength, Barack Obama is publicly disparaging his own nation, and when was the last time a Muslim leader did that?"
Clearly, Muslim leaders see Obama's apologia as weakness.
HT - Free Republic
Posted by Hyscience at January 30, 2009 5:58 PM
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