Obama's Muslim Sympathies Grow Curiouser and Curiouser
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Islamofascism: Barack Obama skipped the greatest anti-terror rally ever, the only Western leader to do so. Unlike France's prime minister, he refused to condemn radical Islam, suggesting disinterest in defeating its spawn.
The president and his top aides remain unusually deferential and accommodating to the Muslim community — despite the spike in threats from the Islamic State, al-Qaida and other Muslim terrorists.
In a newly released video, IS has called on American Muslims to seek out and kill New York City police and other cops. At the same time, it has posted the names and addresses of U.S. generals it obtained after hacking into a Pentagon website.
"ISIS is already here, we are in your PCs, in each military base. We won't stop! We know everything about you, your wives, your children," the terrorist group threatened in a tweet. "American soldiers, we are coming, watch your back."
Attorney General Eric Holder claims such threats keep him "up at night." Yet Holder refuses to say the U.S. is at war with radical Islam. And through his insomnia, he has gone out of his way to make it harder, not easier, for law enforcement to stop radical Islamists, including:
• Restricting the FBI's surveillance and infiltration of mosques to ferret out jihadists before they can strike.
• Censoring language such as "radical Islam" and other Islamic references in thousands of pages of counterterrorism training materials used by the FBI.
• Firing many of the trainers who wrote or used the materials to teach agents to ID jihadists.
• Purging from the no-fly list the names of hundreds of high-risk Islamists tied to the Muslim Brotherhood.
• Scuttling ongoing FBI and U.S. attorneys' investigations of Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas front groups in the U.S., including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Islamic Society of North America — even though these groups have a long and well-documented track record of supporting terrorism and employing terrorists.
Meanwhile, Holder's boss has had an open-door policy to such radical Islamists at the White House.
CAIR officials have logged more than 20 visits to the Obama White House, though the FBI in 2008 ended all contact with CAIR because of its Hamas ties. In 2013, the White House met Sheik Abdullah bin Bayyah, during which the jihadist cleric asked for more support for Hamas and Syrian "rebels" — that is, IS terrorists.
Obama has also appointed at least six Muslim Brotherhood operatives in the administration, including Mohamed Elibiary, a Homeland Security adviser who came under congressional fire for improperly accessing a federal database. He has helped shape the administration's counterterror strategy.
Obama's latest Islamist appointment is hijab-wearing Fatima Noor, who will help usher in more Muslim immigrants as the special assistant for U.S. citizenship and Immigration Services at Homeland Security.
Over the past three years, as Europe deals with Muslim immigrant no-go zones and spiking terror attacks, Obama waved more than 300,000 foreign Muslim nationals into the U.S. — including more than 88,000 from Saudi Arabia alone. Law enforcement can barely handle the terror threats it has without adding unknown foreign Muslims to the matrix.
In his first speech, Obama went to Cairo, invited Muslim Brotherhood leaders to sit front and center, and apologized to the Muslim world for America's war on terror. Then in 2012, before the United Nations and the world, he declared "the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet (Muhammad)."
Remarks such as these, along with his pro-Islamist policies, give a green light for jihadists to go ahead and kill in the name of Islam. Incredibly, our Muslim-sympathizing commander in chief is himself a big part of the terror problem. If America is attacked again, he will have a lot of explaining to do.