BY TAYLOR MARSH
Let me ask you a question. How far away from 9/11 do we have to get before
we realize that we need to work with moderate Muslims to not only change the
way their world views us, but also to help change the world so radicals don’t
make American politicians penalize the people who can help us achieve our long-term
foreign policy goals?
I linked to the WSJ story in the headlines when it broke. Mazen Asbahi, who was appointed volunteer national coordinator for Muslim American affairs by the Obama campaign, has resigned, no scratch that. Obama threw Mr. Asbahi under the bus, because of associations that made anti-Muslim Americans like Michelle Malkin uncomfortable.
Here’s a fact of life from Steve Clemons for Obama and his team to consider:
Zalmay Khalilzad is an effective and popular MUSLIM Ambassador of the United
States to the United Nations. We need more Muslims in our diplomatic corps.
We need Muslims on the Supreme Court. We need more Muslims like Keith Ellison
in the US Senate and House of Representatives.
Steve
Clemons catches my outrage on this one: WRONG. . .WRONG. . .WRONG:
Obama Lets Muslim Advisor Resign.
Let’s tally up Obama’s Muslim outreach record:
~ Obama campaign apparatchiks ask young Muslim women not to stand in photo
with Obama because of head scarves (Obama campaign later apologizes).~ Barack Obama gives AIPAC speech that manages to run to the right of President
Bush and Israel Prime Minister Ohlmert in demanding that “Jerusalem must
not be divided.” (Obama later recants after the fact)~ Barack Obama not only terminates Middle East advisor Robert Malley from
his team because of Malley’s views that Hamas should be engaged — but his
spokesman, Bill Burton, states that not only is Rob Malley no longer advising
Obama “but will never advise Obama”. That’s running the bus over
someone and then backing it up to make sure that Malley doesn’t survive and
has no chance in an Obama administration. I like to remind folks that Paul
Volcker and Ted Sorensen signed the same letter Malley did but have thus far
missed the campaign guillotine.~ Barack Obama gives an inspirational speech to more than 200,000 Germans
in Berlin calling for a “World Without Walls.” But Obama is silent
in Israel when it is the wall dividing Israelis and Palestinians that is becoming
an increasingly worse and impactful global ulcer.~ Barack Obama spends 30 plus hours in Israel and 45 minutes in Ramallah
during his recent trip and meets many Iraelis who have been pro-settilement
expansion, solidly violating international law and US policy. Some on Obama’s
advisory team turn a blind eye to Israel’s expanding settlements and continue
to be associated with and meet with settlement zealots — but Obama keeps
ALL of these people on his team.~ Barack Obama accepts the resignation of a mainstream Arab-American lawyer
from his advisory team because eight years ago, Mazen Asbahi served on a board
“for a few weeks” that included a muslim fundamentalist imam from
Illinois. Asbahi resigned from the board. . .eight years ago.
Let’s get clear about this one. Obama’s responding to fear that the wingnuts
will attack him. Guess what, they will regardless. You’re never going to appease
the
Muslim haters in this country.
Another question: When is the change part coming? For that matter, when does fighting over caving kick in?
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