Posted on 12/08/2010 11:07:06 AM PST by mojito
As part of the White Houses public-diplomacy push, we sent Ambassador Louis Susman to an al-Qaeda-supporting mosque a few days ago. CBNs Erick Stakelbeck has a report on the inspired act of outreach to the Muslim world, along with video of East London Mosque and a rundown of some of the radicals its hosted. Prominently featured is Anwar al-Awlaki, who couldnt speak to assembled worshipers last year except by video link, on account of how were currently trying to kill him.
This is the same line of reasoning that has State dispatching President Obama to pro-Ahmadinejad mosques, sending pro-Iran apologists to Saudi Arabia, and funding domestic dialogue panels run by implacable Israel-haters. Hearts and minds have to be won, after all. And if you cant do that, then pantomiming listening in a particularly obsequious way is apparently the second-best option.
(Excerpt) Read more at commentarymagazine.com ...
(space jihadi training)
I would prefer that the Brits sent in the SAS to clean out this nest of Vipers.
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