Pamela Geller, Big Peace: Obama Ramadanadingdong

Barack Obama this week extended his “best wishes to Muslims in America and
around the world” and wished them a “Ramadan Kareem.” And he wrote, as he did in
last year’s Ramadan message also, about “the principles that we hold in common,
and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of
all human beings.”

Which principles do we hold in common? Death for apostates? The legitimacy of
honor killing? I don’t begin to know what Obama is talking about here. Other
religions are not tolerated in Muslim countries. Churches and synagogues do not
exist in some Islamic countries, notably our “ally” Saudi Arabia, and where they
do exist, they are constantly targeted and in myriad instances attacked.
Churches in Nigeria and Indonesia have been attacked just recently.

Where is the dignity of women living under Sharia? Women’s rights under Islam
are practically non-existent. Oppression, subjugation and gender apartheid
define the treatment of women in Islam. Islamic anti-semitism defines the faith.
Islamic aggression and intolerance of the Jews and the Jewish state have become
the rallying cry of the ummah and the OIC-driven UN – abetted by Obama. 

Obama also says that “Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great
diversity and racial equality.” Diversity? Where is the diversity? Non-Muslims
are anging on in Muslim countries only as tiny, persecuted minorities. Maybe
Obama doesn’t know, or doesn’t care, that the word abd in Arabic means
both “black” and “slave,” and that throughout Islamic history Arabs have exalted
themselves above non-Arab Muslims. Even today in Darfur, Arab Muslims are
terrorizing and killing non-Arab Muslims.

“And here in the United States,” Obama went on, “Ramadan is a reminder that
Islam has always been part of America and that American Muslims have made
extraordinary contributions to our country. Islam has always been part of
America? Really? Since when? And as for the “extraordinary contributions to our
country,” all I can think of is 9/11. To what else would Obama be referring?

While on its face, Obama’s goal of reconciliation with the Islamic world
seems to explain his obsession with all things Muslim, it is hard to reconcile
his obsession with dar al Islam and his rejection of Christianity in myriad
ways. Take, for
example, when Georgetown University covered over the monogram “IHS” – an
abbreviation for the Greek form of the name of Jesus Christ — because it was
inscribed on a pediment on the stage when President Obama spoke at the
university last year, and Obama told Georgetown to cover up all Christian signs
and symbols there. Or Obama’s cancellation of the National Day of Prayer service
at the White House. Or that Obama has still not joined a church, after being in
office a year and a half.

The world’s preeminent historian of Islamic anti-Semitism, Bat Ye’or, saw
this coming last year when she commented
on Obama’s June 4, 2009 speech to the Muslim world in Cairo:

Pres. Barack Obama was elected, by an overwhelming majority, on a program in
which America’s rapprochement with Islam stands pre-eminent. This is a
legitimate political aim in the quest for world peace. The questions are: how to
achieve it, and why there is no reciprocal effort from the Muslim world
represented by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). This body could
express its regrets for over a millennium of jihad wars, land expropriations,
enslavements, and humiliations of the conquered non-Muslim populations on three
continents.

That’s right: where is the mutual respect? Obama keeps reaching out to the
Islamic world, and where are they reaching out to us? Where is the respect for
the West and our unending patience and charity toward the Muslim world, and our
increasing subjugation to Islamic law in the West? Defaming Islam is the great
crime nowadays. Defaming Christianity and Judaism is the sport of the day, but
dare to insult Islam and they’ll smear and maybe even prosecute you, the way the
Dutch are prosecuting Geert Wilders. Free speech be damned in the age of
jihad.

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