Posted on 06/02/2009 9:58:29 AM PDT by Tolik
This week, President Barack Obama is scheduled to give a major address in Cairo to the Muslim world. He is likely to reiterate what he has stated previously to Muslim audiences, that America has no battle with Islam, deeply respects Islam and the Muslim world, and apologizes for any anti-Muslim sentiment that any Americans may express.
Here is what an honest address would sound like:
"Thank you for the honor of addressing the Egyptian people and the wider Muslim world.
"I am here primarily to dispel some of the erroneous beliefs many Muslims have about America and to thereby reassure you that America has no desire to be at war with the Muslim world.
"To my great disappointment, many Muslims have come to believe that my country has declared war on Muslims and Islam.
"Because of this widespread belief, I said in an interview with al-Arabiya a few months ago, that we need to restore “the same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago.”
"Lets’ look a little deeper at that relationship. For the truth is, as noted by the Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist for the American newspaper the Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer, in the last 20-30 years America did not just respect Muslims, it bled for Muslims. We Americans engaged in five military campaigns on behalf of Muslims, each one resulting in the liberation of a Muslim people: Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq.
"Bosnia and Kosovo, as well as the failed 1992-93 Somalia intervention to feed starving African Muslims -- in which] 43 Americans were killed -- were all humanitarian exercises. In none of them was there a significant U.S. strategic interest at stake. So, in fact, in these 20 years, my country, the United States of America has done more for suffering and oppressed Muslims than any other nation, Muslim or non-Muslim.
"While I recognize that gratitude is the rarest positive human quality, I need to say -- because candor is the highest form respect -- that America has not only not received little gratitude from the Muslim world, it has been the object of hatred, mass murder, and economic attack from Muslim individuals, groups, and countries.
"Just to cite a few of many examples from the last 40 years:
"In 1973, Muslim terrorists attacked the American embassy in Sudan and murdered our country’s ambassador, Cleo Noel, and the chief deputy of the mission, George C. Moore. Later in 1973, the Arab oil embargo against America sent my country into a long and painful recession. In 1977, Muslim militants murdered the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, Frances E. Meloy, and Robert O.Waring, the U.S. economic counselor. In 1979 radical Muslims violently attacked my country’s embassy in Teheran, and for 14 months held American diplomats hostage, often in appalling conditions. In 1998, Muslim militants bombed the American embassy in Nairobi, killing 12 Americans and 280 Kenyans, and bombed our embassy in Tanzania, killing another 11 Americans. Then, on Sept. 11, 2001, 19 Muslims who had been living in America slit the throats of American pilots and flight attendants and then flew airplanes into civilian buildings in New York City, burning 3,000 innocent Americans to death.
"So, my friends here in Egypt, between America and the Muslim world, who exactly has been making war on whom?
"I have enormous differences with my predecessor, President George W. Bush. But please remember that less than a week after thousands of Americans were slaughtered in the name of your religion, President Bush went to the Islamic Center in Washington, D.C., and announced that Islam was a religion of peace. Moreover, in a country of 300 million people, of whom only a few million are Muslim, there is virtually no recorded incident of anti-mosque or other anti-Muslim violence despite the butchery of 9/11 and the popular support for Osama Bin Laden that we saw in the Muslim world after 9/11.
"I ask you to please ask yourselves what Egypt’s reaction would have been had 19 Christians, in the name of Christianity, slaughtered 3,000 Egyptians. How would the Christians of Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East have fared?
"As it is, because of persecution by Muslim majorities, Christians have been leaving the Middle East in such great numbers that for the first time since Christ, there are large parts of the Middle East that have become empty of both Jews and Christians.
"Yet, at the same time, millions of Muslims have moved to Western countries and to America. It is fair to say that the freest, and often the safest, place in the world for a practicing Muslim is the United States of America.
"Muslim-Americans are treated exactly as other Americans are treated. It is exceedingly rare to hear any anti-Muslim bigotry in my country. And while there is some criticism of the Muslim world, but there is far more criticism of Christianity in America than of Islam.
"Unfortunately, in much of the Muslim world today anti-Jewish speeches and writing are frequently identical to the genocidal anti-Semitism one heard and read in Nazi Germany. This is a blight on your civilization. How can you seriously charge that America is at war with Islam when in fact it is much of the Islamic world that is at war with Jews and Christians?
"I know that you would like me to announce that America is abandoning its support for Israel. But every president since Harry Truman, Democrat and Republican, has been passionate about enabling Israel to defend itself from those who wish to destroy it. And that, dear Muslims, is the issue. America will continue to support a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli dispute, but the issue has never really been about two states. It has always been about Palestinians and other Arabs and Muslims recognizing Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state.
"As a friend of Egypt and of the Muslim world, I want to say something from the bottom of my heart: The day the Arab world ceases obsessing over the existence of a Jewish state the size of Belize will be a great day for the Arab and Muslim worlds. Your obsession with Israel has cost you dearly in every area of social development. This is easily demonstrated. If Israel were destroyed -- and the so-called “right of return” of millions of third-generation Palestinian refugees would ensure that outcome as effectively as would a nuclear device from Iran -- what difference would that make to the Egyptian economy, to Egyptian lack of freedoms, or anything else that matters to Egyptians? In my opinion, none whatsoever. Preoccupation with Israel has simply enabled the Arab world to not look within for 60 years.
"Finally, my fellow Americans would feel more confident in American-Muslim relations if they had ever seen a large demonstration of Muslims anywhere against all the terror committed by Muslims in the name of Islam -- whether in London, Madrid, New York, Bali, Cairo, or Mumbai. The mark of a great civilization -- and Arab civilization was indeed once great -- is a willingness to criticize itself.
"Thank you again for this opportunity to address you. I could have patronized you by exaggerating American misdeeds and ignoring yours. But I have too much respect for you.
"Shukran jiddan."
Prager at his best.
A really wonderful piece, the one is not going to give this.
The ROP needs reformation or elimination.
Nope you will NEVER hear that speech [sigh]
Zero has no respect for anybody but Zero, so will therefore exaggerate American misdeeds while ignoring Musilim's.
Saddly, you are correct...but just for a moment picture in your minds eye, the reactions of the Left in America...Nancy Pelosi with her head spining around Like Linda Blair in th Exorcist, Teddy Kennedy vapor locking, Harry Reid’s head exploding, everyone at CNN & MSNBC wetting their pants...
George Bush stood fast, but even he would not have said this.
Unfortunately, Obama is on the other side. He is a Muslim, so he doesn’t understand the problem.
I don’t think he thinks about himself as a Muslim. He probably believes that he is a Christian. I don’t care who he is. To me he is a Collectivist, a Statist pushing on us the failed elsewhere elements of socialism and welfare state. He is a talented speech presenter. A politician with oversized arrogance and narcissism that exceed the usual for politicians norm by a magnitude. But the real kings of the jungle in Kremlin, Beijing and elsewhere must be laughing at our naïf, and all their calculations must be limited by only one consideration - not to overdo too much so he’d last for 8 years instead of 4.
I wish you were right. But I doubt it. I think he joined that Black Muslim/Christian church for political convenience, because it gave him connections he needed in Chicago. But I seriously doubt that he was ever baptized. That church doesn’t require it, and it gladly admits Muslim members.
He has a Muslim past. He sympathizes with Muslims. He dresses as a Muslim when he visits his Muslim tribe. And he showed his current political inclinations when he supported a Communist Muslim terrorist for the leadership in Kenya. He gave Odinga a million dollars to pay his terrorists and church burners, and he helped force him into the government after he lost the election.
To me, that says very clearly where he stands right now. With the Muslim terrorists as well as the Communists.
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If Barry was raised a Muslim and went to a Muslim school and memorized the Koran wouldn’t he now be seen as apostate by orthodox Muslims by converting to Christianity? I can’t believe there isn’t a fatwah against him.
For the truth is, as noted by the Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist for the American newspaper the Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer, in the last 20-30 years America did not just respect Muslims, it bled for Muslims. We Americans engaged in five military campaigns on behalf of Muslims, each one resulting in the liberation of a Muslim people: Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq. Bosnia and Kosovo, as well as the failed 1992-93 Somalia intervention to feed starving African Muslims -- in which] 43 Americans were killed -- were all humanitarian exercises. In none of them was there a significant U.S. strategic interest at stake. So, in fact, in these 20 years, my country, the United States of America has done more for suffering and oppressed Muslims than any other nation, Muslim or non-Muslim. While I recognize that gratitude is the rarest positive human quality, I need to say -- because candor is the highest form respect -- that America has not only not received little gratitude from the Muslim world, it has been the object of hatred, mass murder, and economic attack from Muslim individuals, groups, and countries.
I agree with you. However, I’ve begun to wonder. If he had considered himself a Muslim all of these years, I don’t believe he would have joined a Christian church. Now that he’s separated from that church, though, he seems to be more and more comfortable with Muslim identification. I wonder if he’s not drifting back toward the beliefs with which he was raised. He makes me extremely uncomfortable.
It was a Marxist Liberation Theology church, was in Chicago, and he had to go somewhere to be accepted into Chicago's Black community.
You raise an interesting point. From what I’ve heard, the Muslim world does indeed consider him a Muslim because they don’t acknowledge the right to make personal religious decisions. Becuase his rather was Muslim, by definition, so is he. Maybe they were so excited about the thought of him becoming president that they didn’t think through the apostasy question. My guess is that will become an issue for him. Maybe that’s the reason he speaks with such a forked tongue on these issues. I don’t know, but I think this will become a much more serious issue for him (and our country) in the future.
True. But I still don’t think he would have joined it if he took his Muslim faith seriously. Now, though, I wonder if he’s having second thoughts.
Could the closeness of Rev. Wright's church to the Nation of Islam have something to do with it? Wright's church could be a politically expedient choice for someone with a confused marxists/muslim identity. (Just speculation.)
Hmm. I don’t know. But it’s a line of thought worth considering.
Following that ungiven speech, watch for Barry to UNissue the following notice in case these clowns failed to grasp the gravity of the matter.
NOTICE TO ALL FOREIGN CITIZENS and THEIR GOVERNMENTS!
(EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY)
1. As a sovereign nation, you have the same rights to govern your nation as we have. Whether freely elected or despotic tyranny, how you run your government and DOMESTIC affairs is between you and your leaders. If you people don’t like how your government is behaving, we suggest you read some American history for the period between, say, 1774 and 1789. The world is awash in various sorts of small arms and other weapons. Getting enough to turn out your tyrant-du-jour ought not be a problem. Yes, many people will die (just as they did HERE in the late 1700s). It’s the price of freedom. But — and this is important to us — our SOLDIERS will not be among the dead. And trust us when we tell you that the casualties of your revolution will pale compared to those you will suffer should we be forced to invoke Clause 3!
2. Please pay SPECIAL attention to the word “domestic” in number 1.
3. The MINUTE we become privy to firm, corroborated intelligence that you have plans to harm the United States or one of our recognized allies — or, worst case — DO, in fact carry out such an operation, the United States and any such allies who wish to assist will come to you and request that you cease and desist. If you refuse to do so, we will TURN MOST OF YOUR LAND INTO A SMOKING RUIN. (If you’ve never seen RUBBLE BOUNCE, it’s quite a sight. Just as the Japanese saw that in 1945, we saw a good bit of that on 9/11 – and will never forget it. The Japanese never forgot it – and neither will those of you who survive!) We include in this list of threats AIDING, ABETTING, HARBORING, TRAINING OR SUPPLYING THOSE WHO, ALTHOUGH NOT CITIZENS OF YOUR NATION, MAKE PLANS TO HARM US OR AN ALLY.
We wish to live and fairly trade in peace with all peoples — BUT harm us or injure/kill American/allied citizens AND YOUR WORLD AS YOU HAVE KNOWN IT WILL SIMPLY GO AWAY — FOREVER.
(If you have never seen it, slide on down to Blockbuster and rent “The Day the Earth Stood Still” with Arabic/Farsi subtitles, of course. REREAD 3 AND THINK “GORT.”) And also remember that, since we have pulled our guys out of other nations and closed those bases – horribly costly activities with which we are no longer burdened, we have devoted those diverted resources to new, more effective human intelligence gathering methods using many of YOUR citizens as paid snitches (no more stupid Church Amendment!) so we WILL KNOW when you’re up to no good. And don’t forget that those freed up resources will allow development of more devastating weapons should we need them. Trust us when we tell you that they’re really cool.
4. And speaking of “cool,” once those smoking ruins have sufficiently cooled – and the radiation levels have fallen — we will put boots on the ground, clear any remaining resistance and seize your former property for the benefit of those who participated in the neutralization of the threat you posed. Casualties among our troops should be very limited because, as we think you have seen, the weapons possessed by the United States will leave very few to resist. REREAD 4 AND THINK 51st STATE!
Call us with any QUESTIONS. Or visit our web site at www.bendoverandkissyourassgoodbye.gov
Thank you for your support in this vital matter.
The SANE People of the United States of America (all 30 of us).
Until this becomes our policy, we continue to honor those who have paid the ultimate price for the freedoms so many of us now take for granted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WDrbbtaO0E
A photo was recently posted on the web showing a white board in a Marine barracks in Iraq on which one trooper had written the following:
“America is NOT at war. The United States military is at war. America is at the MALL!”
Indeed!
The radicals, whether Wright’s church, Farakhan’s nation of islam, Billy Ayers’ marxist theocracy all reside in Chicago.
Obama is friends to all of them. The media did not tell us about his Farakhan ties, nor the people on his staff from the nation of islam.
The truth about Obama has never been told. The media refused to do so. That an inner city “liberal” had a shot, a half-black at that was all they needed to get on board.
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