"What is really scary is that this violent, jihadist minority seems to enjoy the most 'legitimacy' in the Muslim world today. Few political and religious leaders dare to speak out against them in public. Secular Arab leaders wink at these groups, telling them: 'We’ll arrest if you do it to us, but if you leave us alone and do it elsewhere, no problem.'”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/opinion/16friedman.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1260968425-EuyyGvYxtgVcMlHEVn92Ig
Friedman also criticizes Obama for not expressing "public outrage" at the acts of the "jihadists", but is it only the "jihadists" whose abominations Obama should be denouncing, or should he also be conducting earnest conversations with American "friends" and those countries with which he has been seeking rapprochement? My response to Friedman's op-ed, should The Times agree to post it:
Tom, you observe that last week "five explosions set off by suicide bombers hit ministries, a university and Baghdad’s Institute of Fine Arts, killing at least 127 people and wounding more than 400, many of them kids" and state:
"President Obama expressed no public outrage. It is time he did."
It is time he express outrage only about the bombings? Obama this year bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, a country where in 2009 a young woman was gang-raped and consequently given one year in prison plus 100 lashes:
"A 23-year-old unmarried woman was awarded one-year prison term and 100 lashes for committing adultery and trying to abort the resultant fetus.
The District Court in Jeddah pronounced the verdict on Saturday after the girl confessed that she had a forced sexual intercourse with a man who had offered her a ride. The man, the girl confessed, took her to a rest house, east of Jeddah, where he and four of friends assaulted her all night long.
The girl claimed that she became pregnant soon after and went to King Fahd Hospital for Armed Forces in an attempt to carry out an abortion. She was eight weeks’ pregnant then, the hospital confirmed."
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?contentID=2009020828735&method=home.regcon
Throughout 2009, Obama has consistently ignored the dissidents of Iran and has made continuing overtures to Ahmadinejad. All this has occurred while Iran continues to hang homosexuals, stone to death adulterers, oppress women, and persecute Baha'is, Sunni Muslims, Christians and Jews.
Do an Internet search and you will find Obama shaking the hand of Qaddafi, the person responsible for Lockerbie.
You want the Muslim communities around the world to campaign against terror? First you might be better off addressing a letter to your friend, Barack Obama, who has spent the past year winking at human rights abuses.
[The New York Times refused to post this comment. Not on-topic? Abusive? You decide.]
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