Obama to Give Speech in Islamic Capital?
Seven years after 9/11, an act by Islamic extremists, an American President with the middle name of “Hussein” is planning to give a major speech in an Islamic capital.
“Barack Obama is toying with the idea of making a speech from an Islamic capital within his first 100 days in office. The scuttlebutt is all about finding the right one. (The consensus is Cairo–which is a terrible idea. An Obama speech there would be read as a shameful acceptance of Mubarak’s oppressive rule.) But my question is: what would he say?
The global problems generating from within the Muslim world today are so odious and so obviously self-inflicted that any honest speech on the matter would offend and enrage Muslims the world over. At the same time, because of these very problems, a softball speech about Islam’s current role in global affairs would look like cowardly capitulation. If Obama splits the difference and mixes lukewarm praise with lukewarm condemnation, the stunt will be seen rightly as meaningless.
Obama gives great speeches, and this has encouraged an unwarranted faith in the utility of the medium. No matter how dazzling, oratory is the least effective weapon in the counterterrorism arsenal. If anything, a foreign policy speech aimed at resolving the conflict between the West and radical Islam would give enemies hope that the U.S. is shifting to a less proactive stance, and returning to the more symbolic approach of the pre-Bush days.”
Perhaps we have stepped off into a alternate universe where wrong is right and right is wrong. But in any universe this is simply wrong. Giving such a speech in perhaps Mecca or some other Islamic capital would not only send an embolding message to the Islamofacist, showing how weak we have become, but it would also signal to Israel that American has a leader with less tolerance for them.
I believe electing obama has already sent the message you fear.
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[...] Obama to Give Speech in Islamic Capital? “Barack Obama is toying with the idea of making a speech from an Islamic capital within his first 100 days in office. The scuttlebutt is all about finding the right one. (The consensus is Cairo–which is a terrible idea. An Obama speech there would be read as a shameful acceptance of Mubarak’s oppressive rule.) But my question is: what would he say? [...]
An Islamic capital?
How about London or Paris?
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The only way BO can speak in Mecca is to admit to being a closet Muslim. Infidels are prohibited in Mecca the way I remember my Army training for going to Desert Shield/Storm.
So attempting to go to Mecca would be BO putting himself between a rock and a hard place.
Obama would never make a speech in Mecca. First of it isn’t the capital of Saudi Arabia and secondly non Muslims are forbidden to enter Mecca. I think you exposed yourself as a high school drop out.
Why not Jakarta, where he attended primary school there for two years or so.
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