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Barack Hussein Obama & The Islamic World 06/05/2009

by Thomas Craig

President Obama yesterday made a remarkable speech in the mid-east. His goal was to begin to heal the hatred between Islam and the West. While this goal is an admirable one, it unfortunately was nothing more than a show. Yes, it was praise-worthy for the President to refer to the Koran and use Arabic quotes. This all shows his sincerity to the cause and I am sure many Muslim's appreciated the gesture. I am also sure that as soon as the President stepped down from the podium, all those who watched in the Islamic world went right back to hating America. Although many people in the Islamic world are still living in a "crusades-era" state of mind, where "infidels" are everywhere and the whole world should be run as a theocracy, they are not without intelligence. These people want to see actions more than words. This, of course, will be difficult since the actions they seek are everything from complete withdrawal of American forces from the mid-east to all Israeli's getting on a boat and leaving the Country they built and give it to the Palestinians. It is impossible for us to truly appease these people. Israel is a main source of anger in the Islamic world and the President is taking a hard stance against Israeli settlements. He obviously neglected to mention Palestinian terrorists and their contribution to the conflict. Muslims want to hear the President condemn Israel and it just will not happen, nor should it. Israel is our greatest ally in the middle east and we will not ruin that friendship for the sake of befriending Nations with atrocious human rights records and rampant oppression.

The President also could have taken more time to speak about women's rights. Women in the middle east currently have about as much rights as livestock. This alone should disgust any moral human being. Again, we are dealing with a mentality which is centuries behind us. I know this sounds rather ethnocentric but it is true. We certainly have a road ahead of us when it comes to our way of thinking. (Just read our post: Dick Cheney, Is That Really You?) But we at least recognize many of our faults of the past and acknowledge that race or gender is not grounds for discrimination. Let's be honest here, if the Islamic Nations had not been lucky enough to live on top of pools of oil, the world would have allowed them to destroy themselves long ago. It is their ignorance and absurdity which is why I always support energy independence. The sooner we begin to relinquish our dependence on these Nation's oil fields, the sooner we can take the hard line approach to them and their backwards culture that we should. When we stand by and try to appease these Countries, we condone the way they treat their own citizens and the many abuses which are a way of life over there.

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