Imam Obama, Defender of the Faithful
By Don Feder
GrasstopUSA.com
Imagine Winston Churchill trying to inspire the
British people in the War on Nazism with these
stirring words: "Get off your high horse, Brits. You
think injustice is confined to Germany? In our own
country, there was the slave trade, wars in France,
the Saxon conquest of Britain (the Norman conquest
of the Saxons), the Opium Wars, and The Curse of
Cromwell, not to mention the beastly way we treated
poor Scandinavian immigrants in Alfred's day. So who
are we to judge?"
Hitler and Goebbels would have been delighted – just
as ISIL, al-Qaeda and the Moslem Brotherhood must
have been with Obama's performance at the National
Prayer Breakfast last week.
Our president has been called Islam's principal
Western apologist. But that's like calling the Chief
Rabbi of Israel kind of Jewish, or Lindsay Lohan
sort of messed up. In fact, from his 2009 Cairo
speech to last Friday's Sermon on the Mosque, it's
been nothing less than slavish devotion: the Muslim
Brotherhood is "secular," the Ft. Hood massacre was
"workplace violence," the Taliban is "an armed
insurgency" (but not terrorist), initially, Benghazi
was caused by an anti-Mohammed video, "the future
must not belong to those who slander the prophet of
Islam," the muezzin's call to prayer is "one of the
sweetest sounds on earth," and on and on ad nauseam.
In the coming Caliphate, maybe he'll be the Sheik of
Chicago or the Imam O.
At the Prayer Breakfast, after his faux Buddhist
greeting to the Dali Lama, the alleged leader of the
Free World pledged to "push back against those who
would distort our religion for their nihilist ends."
Which religion?
Lest you think the president was referring to the
religion of peace (against whose adherents we
occasionally undertake overseas contingency
operations), Obama was quick to point out that
around the world, every faith has, from time to
time, been "hijacked" by violent extremists "for
their own murderous ends."
So, get off your "high horse," Christians! "Remember
that during the Crusades and Inquisition, people
committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ,"
Moreover, "in our own home country, slavery and Jim
Crow all too often was (sic) justified in
the name of Christ?"
Worldwide, 100 million Christians are being
persecuted – not a few of them tortured to death and
murdered in ways too gruesome to recount here
(including women and children) – and Obama tries to
balance the books with the Crusades (which ended
more than 700 years ago), the Inquisition (which
happened over 500 years ago), slavery (which ended
in America 150 years ago) and segregation. While the
last was reprehensible, given the choice between you
can't sit at my lunch counter and you can't live
unless you convert, which would you choose?
In this country, the abolitionist movement started
in Northern churches. The Civil Rights movement
began in Southern churches. Christian nations
abolished slavery first, thanks to heroes like
William Wilberforce. The United States was the only
nation to fight a civil war to end the odious
institution. Slavery is alive and well in the Muslim
world.
The Crusades, the Crusades, the Crusades – the most
distorted episode in history lasted for around 200
years. Not that the Crusaders didn't commit heinous
acts – like murdering Jews across Europe, on their
way to the Holy Land, and the sack of Christian
Constantinople – but, at least in regards to Islam,
they were a response to naked aggression.
Moslems destroyed ancient Christian communities
throughout the Middle East, attacked Christian
pilgrims, occupied various parts of Spain for 800
years, breached the walls of Rome and scattered the
bones of St. Peter, and got as far as southern
France.
So Christians went to the Middle East (which had
been Christian for centuries before the first jihad)
to fight Muslims? Everyone forgets that Islam
slaughtered its way across Europe, occupying Greece,
Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia and Hungary from the 14th
century to (in some cases) the beginning of the 20th
century.
Within 100 years from the death of Mohammed, Islam
spread from the Arabian Peninsula to encompass the
entire Middle East, North Africa, parts of Spain and
the Indus Valley. How does our
president-cum-historian-cum-theologian imagine that
happened – gentlemen from the local mosque knocking
on doors asking; "Have you considered Mohammed?" It
was, after all, the type of philosophical system
designed to appeal to intellectual Arab tribesmen.
Islam came at the point of a scimitar – by offering
conversion, death or a subservient status,
kidnapping children, forced marriages and other acts
of peace. Since then, only the technology of
slaughter has changed.
If Sheik O is right, Islam must
be the most distorted, misinterpreted,
misrepresented and misunderstood religion in the
world – including by mullahs, muftis, imams and
assorted Moslem scholars.
The hit parade of extremist groups that have
hijacked the peaceable creed for their own nihilist
ends includes Abu Nidal, al-Qaeda, Al-Shabab, Ansar
al-Islam, the Army of Islam, the Armed Islamic Group
of Algeria, Boko Haram, Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah, the
Islamic Jihad, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan,
the Muslim Brotherhood, Lashkar-e-Taiba and – of
course – ISIL, that is until it becomes an armed
insurgency.
And where are the Christian terrorists? No, the
Salvation Army isn't a paramilitary force. Judaism
does not boast a Hassidic Front for the Liberation
of Brooklyn. Ask the Dalai Lama about Buddha's Army
for the Sound of One Hand Clapping.
9/11, the Boston Marathon bombing, Charlie Hebdo, Ft
Hood, Mumbai, the Beltway snipers, Jews once again
fleeing Europe, the worldwide rise of anti-Semitism,
Muslim rape gangs in Britain, no-go zones in France,
jihadists recruited in Germany, rockets rained down
on Israel, almost daily atrocities in Nigeria,
Coptic churches attacked by Moslem mobs, ethnic
cleansing of Serbs in Kosovo, and Sharia
successfully exported to the West – all the work of
Moslems following Mohammed's rules for spiritual
struggle.
Obama is so slavishly devoted to Dar-al-Islam, that
many think he's a Moslem himself. To the contrary,
he is a devout leftist.
Two strains converge to shape Obama's attitude
toward Islam. There's nostalgia – for his Moslem
boyhood in Indonesia (so innocent, so carefree, so
harmonious) and his absentee dad – combined with the
left's worldview.
The left views Islam as the religion of the
downtrodden and dispossessed – the faith of victims
of Western colonialism and capitalist exploitation.
Besides, it's so charming and quaint. So good
progressives are able to overlook its flagrant
misogyny, rampant homophobia and genocidal rage. A
shared hatred of the West trumps everything else.
The liberation theology preached at Jeremiah
Wright's Trinity United Church is a consequence of
the left's Islamophilia, as is Obama's anti-Zionism.
That Barack Hussein Obama commands the US military,
controls the apparatus of national security and has
the world's bulliest pulpit, makes him far more
dangerous to the survival of Western Civilization
than Jihad-this, Islam-that, and Abu-whatever.
Don Feder is a former Boston Herald writer who is
now a political/communications consultant. He also
maintains his own website, DonFeder.com.