As the World Burns: How the Obama Administration Mishandled the Muslim Uprisings
Kyle Becker September 15, 2012 10:58 pm
If Americans can somehow see through the media smokescreen that these insulting events are not about Romney’s “politicization” of them, they will find that a lot of things don’t add up about the White House’s response to them.
First, an obscure Muslim movie “Innocence of Muslims” was used as the pretext for the worldwide uprisings, which include nearly thirty embassies in a matter of a few days. The Obama administration publicly alleged the film was the only cause of the protests, which was odd following up on the Cairo embassy apology it supposedly distanced itself from. As pointed out in a previous article, it was not the first time the Cairo embassy had condemned the act of a lone American.
The White House even went so far as to ask YouTube to “review” the video to see if it violates terms of use (Google has stated it will not remove the film). This puts meat on the claim by the Romney camp that the Obama administration has been apologetic to the Islamist world.
The filmmaker, who claims to be a Coptic Christian, apparently spent around $250,000 to make a completely non-compelling film about the evils of Islam. The man, identified as Sam Bacile, was taken into custody by the Feds and interrogated about his parole requirements before being released.
It simply cannot be that a poorly made YouTube film put up months ago was viewed by Muslims around the world and they all spontaneously came to the conclusion at the same time to protest U.S. embassies and other foreign embassies.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said that the administration had no information of pre-planned attacks on the embassies, even though they were planned days in advance.
There had to have been some organization involved; and that organization included al Qaeda, whose black flag was hoisted at several embassies, and Jama’a Islamiyah, a terrorist group that announced on August 30th the Cairo embassy protest for September 11th in retribution for the imprisonment of its spiritual leader Sheikh Omar abdel Rahman.
At least one of the protests was handled well: the 1,000 strong march on the embassy in Bangladesh, which was redirected expertly. This throws into relief the handling of many of the other protests, which went horribly awry.
There are at least two factors involved with the protests thus far that have nothing to do with bad movies. The September 11th anniversary and the imprisonment of a Muslim leader.
Then we have the chanting of “Obama! Obama! We are all Osama!” at Muslim protests around the world. And in Lebanon, we had the surreal vista of a burning KFC in protest of a visit by The Pope. (Thank goodness there wasn’t a Chick-Fil-A.)
Add two more factors. Obama’s righteous killing of Osama bin Laden and the visit by The Pope.
We also have the rampant burning of American flags, whose symbolism did not apply to all of us in this case, but only to the makers of the anti-Muslim film, as White House spokesman Jay Carney assures us. This brings us to the main point.
Terrorism is all about symbolism and it cannot be seriously argued that the burning of American flags and the protesting of U.S. embassies is circumstantial. If this were about a bad YouTube video the Islamists would have spammed the site remotely or perhaps burned their laptops in protest.
But the totalitarians blamed one man’s film as the face of an entire nation and the Obama administration apparently agreed. What does that tell us about the administration?
Secondly, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitted she did not know how the assassination of ambassador J. Christopher Stevens could happen “in a country we helped liberate.” Elsewhere in her statement, Clinton called the murder of the diplomat “senseless.” After her speech, President Obama told her on a hot mic “great job,” meaning that he agreed with her statement.
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