Obama's Islamic psychie
When Nadal Malik Hasan shot and killed 13 soldiers and wounded 32 others at Fort Hood on November 5, 2009, everyone everywhere knew what his motive was. He told us as he yelled "allah achbar". He was killing for his Islamic god. But President Obama was quick off the mark to make sure that nobody jumped to that conclusion. His immediate response was precisely that. Don't prejudge this matter, he told the world. Although there were other times that President Obama rushed to judgement as in the case of Henry Louis Gates' arrest by a local police officer. In that instance, Obama jumped quickly to the conclusion that the police officer was motivated by racism.
Well, did the President jump to any conclusion about the motive of Abdul Mudallad on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas day, 2009? Mudallad tried but failed to blow up the airplane. This time President Obama took his time and spoke to the people of the United States and the world, and in his statement he condemned Al Qaeda for this latest obscenity. But once again he managed to avoid any reference to the Islamic influence on this terrorist perpetrator, whose failure was a lucky escape for close to 278 passengers.
At that time it occurred to me that President Obama simply cannot utter the name of Islam in any negative way, even when it became clear that Mudallah was acting by and for Islamic terrorist objectives. I began to wonder about the psychological defences of a man who grew up during part of his early and formative years with Islam having a significant role in his life. Was it now too much for President Obama to have to admit that this part of his existence is the source of the hostility and danger to his country?
At that time, while I thought it was significant that the President of the United States could not openly identify the current enemy of his country, still I could merely speculate about his strange speech limitation. But now this issue is out in the open.
Obama administration has just announced its intent to ban all words that allude to Islam from important national security documents. An Associated Press report has the disturbing details:
President Barack Obama's advisers plan to remove terms such as "Islamic radicalism" from a document outlining national security strategy and will use the new version to emphasize that the U.S. does not view Muslim nations through the lens of terrorism, counterterrorism officials say. The ultimate problem in the White House's new "words-policy," however, is reflected in this excerpt from the report:
"The change [i.e., linguistic obfuscation] would be a significant shift in the National Security Strategy, a document that previously outlined the Bush Doctrine of preventive war. It currently states, 'The struggle against militant Islamic radicalism is the great ideological conflict of the early years of the 21st century'."
Who does Obama think he's kidding? Does he really think that appeasing Moslems by fudging language in documents on security, will alter the fact that Islamic radicalism is indeed, as the Bush administration held, the current ideological militancy that endangers American in their home territory? I guess he does. But while he soothes his own psychie he is missing out in explaning to his people in accurate language exactly what and who they have to watch out for. If the president of the United States cannot deliver straight talk on the subject of security, there's no doubt in my mind that this enhances the power of the dangerous element and weakens American ability to prepare and respond.
Well, did the President jump to any conclusion about the motive of Abdul Mudallad on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas day, 2009? Mudallad tried but failed to blow up the airplane. This time President Obama took his time and spoke to the people of the United States and the world, and in his statement he condemned Al Qaeda for this latest obscenity. But once again he managed to avoid any reference to the Islamic influence on this terrorist perpetrator, whose failure was a lucky escape for close to 278 passengers.
At that time it occurred to me that President Obama simply cannot utter the name of Islam in any negative way, even when it became clear that Mudallah was acting by and for Islamic terrorist objectives. I began to wonder about the psychological defences of a man who grew up during part of his early and formative years with Islam having a significant role in his life. Was it now too much for President Obama to have to admit that this part of his existence is the source of the hostility and danger to his country?
At that time, while I thought it was significant that the President of the United States could not openly identify the current enemy of his country, still I could merely speculate about his strange speech limitation. But now this issue is out in the open.
Obama administration has just announced its intent to ban all words that allude to Islam from important national security documents. An Associated Press report has the disturbing details:
President Barack Obama's advisers plan to remove terms such as "Islamic radicalism" from a document outlining national security strategy and will use the new version to emphasize that the U.S. does not view Muslim nations through the lens of terrorism, counterterrorism officials say. The ultimate problem in the White House's new "words-policy," however, is reflected in this excerpt from the report:
"The change [i.e., linguistic obfuscation] would be a significant shift in the National Security Strategy, a document that previously outlined the Bush Doctrine of preventive war. It currently states, 'The struggle against militant Islamic radicalism is the great ideological conflict of the early years of the 21st century'."
Who does Obama think he's kidding? Does he really think that appeasing Moslems by fudging language in documents on security, will alter the fact that Islamic radicalism is indeed, as the Bush administration held, the current ideological militancy that endangers American in their home territory? I guess he does. But while he soothes his own psychie he is missing out in explaning to his people in accurate language exactly what and who they have to watch out for. If the president of the United States cannot deliver straight talk on the subject of security, there's no doubt in my mind that this enhances the power of the dangerous element and weakens American ability to prepare and respond.
posted by Professor Sal at 9:54 AM
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