Israel Matzav

Obama's right: Islam has always been a part of America's story

Yoram Ettinger argues that President Obama was right when he declared in Cairo on June 4, 2009 that Islam has always been a part of America's story. Indeed, Islamic terror has always been a part of America's story. And it will continue to be a part of America's story regardless of whether or not America supports Israel.

The intensification of the Muslim terrorist threat, despite Obama’s rough/critical/cold attitude toward the Jewish State, refutes the claim that the Arab-Israel conflict, the Palestinian issue or the US-Israel friendship are the root cause of anti-US Islamic terrorism.

Anti-US Islamic terrorism has been bolstered by the expansion of Hezbollah’s operational, financial and political infrastructures in Latin America, notwithstanding the contention by Obama and his advisors that supposedly there is no global Islamic terrorism (only Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorism), that ostensibly there is no Jihadist terrorism (“because Jihad means to purify oneself…”) and that terrorism has been seemingly a derivative of Western exploitation of the Third World.

President Obama was right when he declared – at Cairo University – that “Islam has always been part of America’s story.” Indeed, Islamic terrorism targeted US ships between 1776 and the beginning of the 19th century. In fact, John Quincy Adams, the 6th president of the USA, researched the causes of anti-Western Islamic terrorism, concluding that its core cause was endemic hostility toward the “infidel.”

During the 20th century, the US became a chief-target for Muslim Brotherhood hate-education, which was transformed into a manufacturing-line of anti-US terrorists. In 1983 - when US tanks in Lebanon stopped Israel’s hot-pursuit of Arafat - 300 US Marines were murdered by Muslim terrorists who blew up the US embassy and Marines Headquarters in Beirut.

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Will Americans wake up to reality in time?

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:42 AM