Obama Busily Appeasing Jihadists

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Obama Busily Appeasing Jihadists

    Human Events 30 April 2009
    By Robert Spencer

    [Jihad Watch by Robert Spencer.png] "To the Muslim world," said Barack
    Obama in his Inaugural Address, "we seek a new way forward, based on
    mutual interest and mutual respect." After 100 days, how's that going?
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad summed it up best, responding
    contemptuously to Obama's offer to sit down to talk without
    preconditions and taunting Obama for his impotence:

      "We say to you that you yourselves know that you are today in a
      position of weakness. Your hands are empty, and you can no longer
      promote your affairs from a position of strength."

    Ahmadinejad is also turning Obama's campaign promise against him. When
    Obama indicated that he wouldn't impose preconditions on negotiations
    with Iran, the Iranian saw an opening. Now, he's apparently demanding
    preconditions for the talks by pressuring Obama for concessions on the
    Israel-Palestinian conflict.

    Iran's Thug-In-Chief spoke like an aggressor who has spotted an
    appeaser, and is determined to wring from him as many concessions as
    possible.

    How has it come to this so quickly? Obama, Secretary of State Hillary
    Clinton and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano seem to have
    made it a top priority of their administration's opening act to weaken
    our position with the Islamic jihadists:

    o They quietly dropped the term "war on terror." Napolitano even went
    so far as to say that she preferred to refer not to acts of
    "terrorism" but to "man-caused disasters" (NOW had no recorded comment
    about her sexist language). Meanwhile, a DHS report on "right-wing
    extremists" had no trouble referring to veterans and conservatives of
    all kinds as potential "terrorists." This suggested a disquieting will
    to silence and demonize the political opposition, all the while
    regarding the real terror threat with extraordinary myopia.

    o Obama named Los Angeles Times columnist Rosa Brooks as an advisor to
    the undersecretary of Defense for policy. Brooks is venomously
    anti-Israel and once wrote that al Qaeda was "little more than an
    obscure group of extremist thugs," and that the Bush Administration
    had only imagined that it was a "vast global threat."

    o He has tapped Harold Koh to become the legal adviser for the State
    Department. Koh has said that he had no objection to Sharia's being
    applied to "an appropriate case" in the United States.

    o In a startling breach of protocol, Obama bowed deeply to the King of
    Saudi Arabia, implying an obeisance that isn't going to free us from
    our dependence upon the oil sheikhs any time soon.

    o While on a trip to Europe, he refused to visit the American Cemetery
    at Normandy, but made a point of visiting a mosque in Istanbul. He
    expressed, in an address to the Turkish Parliament, his "deep
    appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the
    centuries to shape the world--including in my own country." It's
    unclear how he thinks Islam has shaped the U.S., other than to lead to
    innovations in airport security. His statement did nothing but
    embolden the jihadists who have dedicated their efforts to bringing
    Islamic law to the West.

    o Obama said also that "the United States is not and never will be at
    war with Islam" -- indicating that he had no intention of addressing
    the ideological challenge that Islamic jihadists present to the West,
    or of acknowledging the fact that although the U.S. is not at war with
    Islam, many Muslims consider Islam to be at war with the U.S.

    o Obama invited to the White House the head of the Organization of the
    Islamic Conference, a 56-nation body that has declared its intention
    to compel the United Nations to criminalize all criticism of Islam.

    o He has declared his determination to open negotiations with
    "moderate elements" of the Taliban, despite the fact that no such
    people have ever been found.

    o He has declared his determination to close Guantanamo, despite the
    fact that over 60 former Gitmo detainees have returned to the jihad.

    All this and more in just 100 days.

    The Obama Administration apparently doesn't know the difference
    between appeasement and diplomacy. A diplomat will sell you and your
    nation for a price. An appeaser will give it away without getting
    anything in return.

      Mr. Spencer is director of Jihad Watch and author of "The
      Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)", "The
      Truth About Muhammad," and "Stealth Jihad" (all from Regnery -- a
      HUMAN EVENTS sister company).


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