Krauthammer asks when Muslim nations will apologize to the US
I'm sure many of you have heard that American soldiers in Afghanistan 'improperly disposed' of some Korans last week (they burned them), that the US issued a groveling apology, and that at least two American soldiers have been murdered as a result.Charles Krauthammer asks a good question: When will the Islamic nations apologize to the United States?
Let's go to the videotape.
Mediaite adds (Hat Tip: Memeorandum):
This very issue was addressed a few weeks ago in a Newsweek cover story titled “The War on Christians.” Writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali accused Western media outlets of participating in a “conspiracy of silence surrounding this violent expression of religious intolerance,” though she did admit the silence may be due to a fear of fanning the flames and creating a larger conflict in the region.I'm with Krauthammer and Carlson on this. ONE apology - preferably not from the President - is appropriate because the United States as a matter of policy does not burn Korans (or Bibles or any other books for that matter). The repeated apologies - going all the way up to the President - are nothing but groveling. And the violence ought to be put down just like it's put down when non-Muslims are violent.
But the President who is so proud that 'my middle name is Hussein' isn't capable of seeing or doing that. He knows one way - and one way only - of relating to Muslims. Groveling appeasement.
What could go wrong?Labels: Afghanistan, appeasement, Barack Hussein Obama, Koran burning
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:31 AM
3 Comments:
Hi Carl.
The U.S. does burn bibles but nobody gets killed.
May 2009 CNN report about the purposeful burning of Bibles at a U.S. base in Afghanistan.
Military personnel threw away, and ultimately burned, confiscated Bibles that were printed in the two most common Afghan languages amid concern they would be used to try to convert Afghans, a Defense Department spokesman said Tuesday.
The unsolicited Bibles sent by a church in the United States were confiscated about a year ago at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan because military rules forbid troops of any religion from proselytizing while deployed there, Lt. Col. Mark Wright said.
Such religious outreach can endanger American troops and civilians in the devoutly Muslim nation, Wright said.
“The decision was made that it was a ‘force protection’ measure to throw them away, because, if they did get out, it could be perceived by Afghans that the U.S. government or the U.S. military was trying to convert Muslims,” Wright told CNN on Tuesday.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/20/us.military.bibles.burned/
On the other hand January 20 2012, an Afghan soldier shot and killed four French soldiers, Another 16 French soldiers were injured, some seriously.No Korans were burned or desecrated before the shooting ! Just 'normal' Islamic extremism!
It has been reported that these Qurans had ALREADY been defaced by their own Arab owners by writing messages in the margins of the pages. This is equal to the same desecration and our mass media moral messengers are either oblivious to it or lying about it.
I for one am sick to death of American apologies to Muslims, anywhere, for any reason. If it weren't for the US, the people of Afghanistan would still have the Taliban boot on their necks. Ditto for Iraqis and Saddam.
At the rate that the Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies were killing Afghans before we removed them from power, we have saved to date tens of thousands of Afghan lives. The same goes in Iraq.
Moreover, what social and economic progress has been achieved in Afghanistan or Iraq since then has been as a result of American and NATO allied efforts, blood and treasure.
In return, we get a totally corrupt Afghan government, in league with drug lords and their Taliban protection. And not a week goes by that some Afghan "government soldier" doesn't kill an American, or multiple Americans, or allied soldiers.
Again, it's only slightly better in Iraq.
I have yet to read or hear one damn apology from Karzai & Co. Those people have no shame or sense of what I'd consider civilized decency. If and when the US and allies pull out of Afghanistan and if -probable not if but when- they revert to their medieval squalor, it's what the deserve and bring upon themselves.
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