I appreciate the post and made a copy. Here is the letter I have sending to papers, talk shows and posting to articles in our Oregon papers.
Obama Embraces a New Colonialism
Obama’s Cairo speech ignored proper foundations for relating to Muslim people. He failed to separate Muslim religious faith from current repressive governments using Islamic interpretations. He blamed colonialists outnumbered 1,000 to 5,000 to one for Muslim repression when they merely leveraged existing oligarchies. They formed cabals involving indigenous leadership to marginalize opponents and mutually benefit from exploitation.
Obama praised Islam’s civilizing contributions, without noting its unalloyed decent into violence and military conquest. About 1100 AD Hassan bin Sabah enlightened Islamist societies to terrorism as foundational statecraft for political prosperity. Philosophical and religious lawyers retained their lives supporting dictators by backwards engineering Koran passages into useful totalitarian heterodoxies. Concurrently, foundational expositions, including Jews, Christians and Muslims as ‘People of the Book”, became hazardous positions. Concurrently, Saladin’s Sufism stressing individual relationship with God, and exalting individualism within society became marginalized. Concurrently, extraordinary Arab achievements in mathematics, philosophy, science, and medicine submerged within authoritarian and feral societies. Omar Khayyam, Ibn al-Haytham, and Abu Ali al-Hussain Ibn Sina had no successors for uncompromising, independent thought.
Obama’s ingratiating approach to current Islamic leadership contravenes Eleanor Roosevelt’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This resolution contradicting colonialist hegemony preceded a cascade for willing and reluctant emergence of over 100 countries. People unwrapped the gift of independence expecting promised new freedoms, only to discover pre-colonial norms of crushing civil wars, murderous political intrigues, and pandemics of disease and starvation. Ruling elites from ascendant tribes/chiefdoms again sought totalitarian power. Obama extends friendship to current Islamic victors.