http://www.onejerusalem.org/2010/02/obamas-muslim-courtship.php
Obama’s Muslim Courtship
For those of us who prayed that Obama’s Muslim outreach would be limited to his Turkey and Egypt speeches in which he praised Muslims and gave them credit for contributions to American culture that are non-existent, I am sorry to report that the President’s words are only one part of his courtship of problematic Muslims.
In recent weeks, the Obama Administration has dropped all legal attempts to deny a visa to one Tariq Ramadan. Mr. Ramadan is a slick defender of his grandfather the founder of the radical Muslim Brotherhood and is a European intellectual rock star who has been banned from European countries and universities because of his radical views. A few years ago, in debate with Nicholas Sarkozy he called for a “moratorium” not a ban on the stoning of women in Muslim countries. He also wrote an article condemning Jewish intellectuals. These actions and some links with terrorists and the financing of terrorism caused the Bush Administration to refuse to allow him into the country.(For a full account of Ramadan’s record read Brother Tariq by Caroline Fourest a French journalist.)
In addition to giving Ramadan a pass into this country, the Obama administration’s counter terrorism guru has been making more troubling news. His latest pronouncements include an intellectual love fest with a largely Muslim crowd at New York university. He defended the release of terrorists and entertained a Muslim troublemaker who is dedicated to raising questions about who committed the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.Mr. Brennan is the same man who defended the handling of the would be Christmas Day airplane bomber. He was not disturbed by the kid gloves treatment the terrorist received.
And now we have the Obama Administration appointing what appears to be an apologist for a terrorist supporter.There is an old saying, “When there is smoke there is fire”: It appears there is a forest fire when it comes to suspicious Muslims and the Obama Administration.
During the question-and-answer session, Brennan welcomed a question from Omar Shahin. He identified himself as the head of the “North American Imams Federation.” What he didn’t mention was his role as the chief ringleader of the infamous flying imams.
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As head of the Tucson Islamic Center in Arizona (home to past jihadi dry-run plotters), Shahin preached that his followers must put Islamic sharia law above Western laws. He told the Arizona Republic that he doubted Muslims were behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks, concluding: “All of these, they make it up.” Brennan didn’t appear to know who Shahin was. Somebody around him should have briefed him: Shahin’s involvement in Hamas-linked charities and radical Wahhabi “youth groups” has earned the Jordanian-born naturalized citizen increased FBI scrutiny over the years.
Instead, Brennan treated him as just another innocent Muslim with “reasonable” concerns about the government. “We came to this country to enjoy freedom,” Shahin began with faux, flag-waving emotion. “We feel that since September 11, we aren’t enjoying these values anymore…Also, we feel that there’s a big lack of trust between Muslims’ community and our government…My question: Is there anything being done by our government to rebuild this trust?”
Instead of countering the narrative, exposing Shahin’s true intentions, and vigorously defending America’s homeland security apparatus, Brennan dutifully genuflected to the gods of political correctness. President Obama, he told the militant 9/11 inside-jobber and jihad white-washer, is “determined to put America on a strong course.”
No, not a “strong course” that includes national security profiling of Islamic radicals pretending they care about our country’s best interests. By “strong course,” Brennan assured Shahin, he meant a course towards assuaging the civil rights groups who have objected to every security program at airports, borders, train stations, and visa offices for the past nine years.
Brennan told Shahin that the post-9/11 response of the Bush administration was a “reaction some people might say was over the top in some areas” (insert indignant grievance-monger nodding and mmm-hmm-ing here) and that “in an overabundance of caution [we] implemented a number of security measures and activities that upon reflection now we look back after the heat of the battle has died down a bit we say they were excessive, okay.”
It gets worse: Brennan then went on to decry the “ignorant feelings” of Americans outraged at the jihadi attacks on American soil. And then he told Shahin and the audience of Muslim students that he “was very concerned after the attack in Fort Hood as well as the December 25 attack that all of sudden there were people who went back into this fearful position that lashed out not thinking through what was reasonable and appropriate.”
The Fort Hood jihadist slaughtered 14 innocent soldiers and an unborn baby after an Army career openly threatening the lives of our soldiers and Brennan is wringing his hands about the rest of us “lashing out” over government incompetence. He believes our true sin is not in the systemic underreacting by the military, homeland security, intel, and White House officials in charge, but in the “overreacting” of the American public.
With clueless capitulationists like Brennan in charge of our safety, who needs enemies?
Jordanian ordered deported, but authorities say he's already gone
Snips: Immigration Judge Anthony Rogers ordered that Nabil Sadoun, 50, be deported to his native Jordan. Sadoun was not present at Friday's hearing at the downtown Dallas federal courthouse. Authorities say he has already left the country.
Sadoun is a former member of the national board of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which is listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land terrorism financing case. In 2008, five former Holy Land organizers were convicted in Dallas of providing support to Hamas.
France is right to assume that the burqa is a political statement
By recognizing the burqa as not merely an article of clothing but, in the words of French lawmaker Andre Gerin, the “tip [of] a black tide of fundamentalism,” France has signaled that it takes the threat of radical Islam very seriously. Moreover, unlike the United States under the presidency of Barack Obama, the French have framed the debate over how to deal with domestic Muslims not merely in terms of security, but also in terms of fundamental values.
.......Because the murder of innocents is forbidden in Islam and the murder of Muslims in particular, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden required some sort of theological framework for justifying terrorism. This was provided by al-Sharif, who essentially argued in his book, "The Compendium of the Pursuit of Divine Knowledge," that apostates could be murdered, and that approach, takfir (which has come to be known as takfirism) allowed al Qaeda to, for all intents and purposes, kill anyone they wanted by declaring them to be apostates without violating the laws of Islam......