http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/258952/barack-obamas-unholy-alliance-romance-islamism-frontpagemagcom?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FrontpageMag+%28FrontPage+Magazine+%C3%82%C2%BB+FrontPage%29We know that Barack Obama has said that one of the sweetest sounds is the Muslim call to evening prayer. We know that he has repeatedly said that Islam is a religion of peace and -- side-swiping Danish cartoonists who must now fear for their lives -- told the UN that the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.
We know that Obama has been a proponent of the idea that "Islamophobia" is a heinous offense, comparable to racial and gender hatred. We know that the President has allowed several individuals with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood to get jobs in his administration and that he, virtually alone among the leaders of the Western world, did not go to Paris to protest the slaughter at the offices of Charlie Hebdo and at a Jewish kosher restaurant.
What we know about Barack Obama's attitude toward Muslims and the Muslim world, in other words, is bad enough. But what we don't know about him is even worse and this is the subject of Shillman Fellow Daniel Greenfield's new Freedom Center pamphlet "Barack Obama's Unholy Alliance: A Romance with Islamism."
Greenfield's pamphlet is a work of deep scholarship and legitimate outrage. It exhaustively explores Barack Obama's relationship with Islam -- his cerebral relationship as well as his policy initiatives in the Muslim world. Moreover, Greenfield tracks how Obama's soft spot for Islam has disastrously affected America's ability to defend itself from an enemy -- radical Islam -- that seeks to destroy us. So read "Barack Obama's Unholy Alliance" and prepare to be afraid, very afraid. To read the pamphlet, see below.
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Barack Obama's Unholy Alliance: A Romance with Islamism.
By Daniel Greenfield
Toward the end of September 2012, Barack Obama finally came to New York City after skipping it during the 9/11 anniversary. He had made it out to the city the previous week for a celebrity fundraiser and an appearance on Letterman[1] and then back again for a taping of The View while turning down a meeting with Netanyahu who did not have a talk show or an envelope filled with money.[2]
The next day, while at least one of the Americans killed in Benghazi had yet to be buried,[3] he declared at the UN General Assembly, ?The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.?[4]
That statement also encompassed the agenda of the Benghazi killers, the terrorists who would attack Charlie Hebdo and the ?Draw the Prophet? contest in Texas along with all the murderous censors of Mohammed determined that the future should not belong to those who slander their holy warlord.
It was Obama?s only mention of ?Islam? in a speech addressing the brutal murder of four Americans by Islamic terrorists in a terror campaign targeting American diplomatic facilities on the anniversary of the original 9/11 attacks in Benghazi. The 9/11 attacks, like so many others, had begun with a cry of ?Allahu Akbar.?[5]
When the killing in Benghazi was done, the Jihadists left behind the slogan ?Allahu Akbar? or ?Allah is Greater? scrawled on the walls of the American compound.[6] These were the same words that Obama had recited ?with a first-rate accent? for the New York Times? Nicholas Kristof. Obama had called it ?one of the prettiest sounds on Earth.?[7] On that too, the murderers of four Americans agreed with him.
Those who disagreed and were to be denied a future included Mark Basseley Youssef, a Coptic Christian, whose YouTube trailer for a movie critical of Islam was blamed by the administration for the attacks.
Two days after Obama?s UN speech, Youssef was arrested and held without bail. The order for his arrest came from the top. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had told Charles Woods, the father of murdered SEAL Tyrone Woods, ?We?re going to have that person arrested and prosecuted that did the video.?[8]
The ACLU, which had developed deep Islamist connections,[9] sent a letter to Hillary Clinton thanking her for her support of freedom of speech.[10]
The Supreme Court?s ?Miracle Decision?[11] had thrown out a blasphemy ban for movies, but Obama?s new unofficial blasphemy ban targeted only those movies that offended Islam. The government had joined the terrorists in seeking to deny such movies and their creators a future.
At the United Nations, Obama had compared the filmmaker to the terrorists. He had used a Gandhi quote to assert that, ?Intolerance is itself a form of violence.?[12] Americans who criticized Islam?s violent tendencies could be considered as bad as Muslim terrorists and if intolerance of Islam was a form of violence, then it could be criminalized and suppressed. That became the administration?s priority.
It took the administration years to make its first arrest of a Benghazi perpetrator,[13] but only days to urge Google to take down the Innocence of Muslims video[14] and weeks to arrest the man behind it.
In a little over a week, there was already a State Department apology video airing in Pakistan.[15] It took until the next month for the United States to even get access to the Benghazi compound.[16] Instead of going on the offensive against the attackers, Obama went on the offensive against critics of Islam.
His administration not only blamed a YouTube video to distract from its failures in Benghazi, but to exploit the crisis in order to suppress the truth about Islamic terrorism.
