Executive Order — President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
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“Secretary Clinton Announces New Initiatives to Bolster Science and Technology Collaboration With Muslim Communities Around the World”
Executive Order — President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
Late April. - “making good on a promise he made to the Muslim world last year [in Cairo],” Barack Obama a few weeks ago hosted “an entrepreneurship summit” in order “to deepen ties between business people in the U.S. and Muslim countries.”
More than 250 entrepreneurs, educators and investors from 50 countries will gather in Washington Monday for the two-day summit. The goals include finding ways to make economic and social climates conducive to entrepreneurship, and developing the role of businesswomen.
This sends a signal, one that may make Muslims happier, but will win us no hearts and minds, for they are unwinnable if Muslim. But it may make Islam more attractive, and more powerful. Is that the result the American government wishes? Is that the result that you wish as an American taxpayer, and hence as someone who is paying for such things as this Muslim-American Entrepreneurial Summit, or whatever the damn thing is called?
Is it a good idea at this moment in world history to make people around the world think that to be a Muslim is a positive good, that it will make it more likely that the richest and most economically dynamic country in the world will take an interest in you and help to promote you? Won’t such a policy tend to make Islam a more attractive option for those who don’t really give a damn what they call themselves, and make local Muslims more attractive as possible business partners, even if they contribute very little? What’s next? A kind of international Affirmative Action, where big contracts in the West are deliberately given to Muslim-owned or Muslim-operated companies, just so as to keep Muslims happy, and free of all the economic worries that might lead to bad behavior on their part, as they took out their economic distress on Infidels?
And there is another objection. The people who think that by giving money, say, or providing contacts to Muslim entrepreneurs, we will somehow win them over, make them less deeply believers in Islam itself, are misunderstanding Islam. Muslims are not grateful for the receipt of Infidel funds. They take it as their due. There is no example, in all of the countries where Muslims have received Infidel aid - not in Aceh after the tsunami, not in Pakistan after the earthquake, not in Egypt after all the tens of billions that have steadily been transferred to it, not in Jordan, not in the “Palestinian territories” - there is no example, even one, of some Muslim being deeply, truly, permanently grateful.
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Worth a read. Muslim Economic Summit in Washington http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/05/fitzgerald-that-muslim-economic-summit-in-washington.html
Thanks. I’ll have to add that in.