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November 7, 2010

Re: Israeli Professor Nails It: Obama was Right when he said America is Not a Christian Country

Julia Gorin has a piece over at Political Maven's that points to an jaw-dropping, must-read article by Middle East Studies professor Mordechai Nisan of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in which he writes of Washington's pro-Muslim inclination involving Muslim-Christian rivalries and America's decision of supporting the Muslim side.

Gorin writes:

Wake me up when Obama is bombing Israel. That's what I told my husband the night Obama won the presidency. I essentially tuned out of politics that day, having little interest in charting every step along the path to the destruction that we non-Obama voters predicted.

Of course, I thought I was yet engaging in hyperbole, but the conclusion to be drawn from this remarkable article by Middle East Studies professor Mordechai Nisan, of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, can be only that my hyperbole was hardly that. His commentary was published all too quietly by Newsmax a few weeks ago, and deserves a wider audience. In case any Americans out there still think it's merely a coincidence that everything we touch turns to Islam, think again. Anyone who finds it strange that 9/11 led not to increased restrictions on people, money and influence flowing into America from the Middle East but to increased openness to these will be interested to know that in 9/11 our government saw not a formidable enemy to be dealt with, but a new market to be tapped. In fact, recall this paraphrase from a 1996 NY Times article by a Dr. Ron Hatchett, titled "The Third American Empire"

In a recent opinion piece in The New York Times, Jacob Heilbrunn and Michael Lind of the New Republic editorial staff argue that the American commitment to the Islamic connection is so strong that the US design is to make the Islamic world part of a new American empire and that American support of the Bosnian Muslims is part of the implementation of this plan.

And so here we are today, emphasis added by me:

Commentary: U.S. Has Long Sided with Arab [Muslim] World by Mordechai Nisan
October 11, 2010

On three formidable major speech-making occasions since his election -- in Ankara, Cairo, and Washington -- President Obama stated that America
is not and never will be at war with Islam".

This definitive affirmation ignores the fact that America has been at war with Christians who are at war with Muslims, while the United States has accepted the defeat and death of Christians at the hands of Muslims. Obama actually gave voice to what has been characteristic of U.S. policy in religiously-defined conflicts, for American-Islamic compatibility was a pillar in Washingtons conduct long before Obama made it central to the American political creed.

The history of Americas special relationship with Saudi Arabia, the heart of Islam and its global campaign to reach and preach in the four corners of the world, is well-documented and central in the strategic calculations of the United States for over 70 years. Incorporating Turkey into the NATO alliance in 1952 was also a step toward U.S.-Muslim consolidation, as is the decades-long alliance with Pakistan.

But our concern here is a particular aspect of Washingtons pro-Muslim inclination involving Muslim-Christian rivalries and Americas decision of supporting the Muslim side.

The swath of territory running from south-eastern Europe across Asia Minor and toward the eastern Mediterranean basin was historically conquered and ruled by the Turkish Ottoman Empire for many centuries until WWI. A state system emerged, peoples dotted the map, and Western hegemony dominated the political arena. Islam as a religious-political concept appeared to have been replaced by nationalism and secularism, but it never really collapsed; it mutated, radicalized and politicized, and reasserted the "Green Belt" momentum with American consent and cooperation.

We can capture the pattern of U.S. policy in areas which Samuel Huntington aptly labeled "Islam's bloody borders" by drawing upon four illuminating political cases that confirm President Obama's view when he declared, that America is not a Christian country.

As Nisan goes on to note, America is indeed walking hand-in-hand with Islam, and although this alliance preceded Obama, it has become much more explicit and more "spiritually" expansive since he entered the White House - giving us a future that looks very dark in what he describes as the twilight era of world affairs that we now find ourselves in.

Related: Barack Obama Would Sneak Off to Koran Classes Says Former Teacher (After years in the spotlight and two years in the White House a media outlet is finally reporting on Barack Obama’s Muslim youth.)

Posted by Richard at November 7, 2010 8:15 PM

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