Thursday, September 30, 2010
DUTCH TO BAN BURQA
COMMENT: Burqa bans in France and the Netherlands would appear to put the United States squarely on the Islamist side. U.S. President Barack Obama backed burqa-wearing when he visited Europe. Obama (who supports the Ground Zero mosque project) has also backed the crypto-Islamist Turkish government's bid to join the EU, even though the U.S. is not an EU member and has no standing in the organization.
What the U.S. under Obama has banned are words--Islamism and radical Islam, for example--in the context of the administration's (a) deliberate downgrading of the (misnamed) War on Terror to the level of an international law enforcement problem, (b) perfidious policy of appeasing and actually attempting to align with Islamist Iran and supposed "moderate" Islamists (meaning, oxymoronically, moderate clerical fascists) in Afghanistan and other countries, and (c) odious outreach to "the Muslim world"--a program that is by definition a concession to Islamist ideology. Islamists assert that the world's Muslims constitute a nation, united by the Koran (its constitution) to a degree that transcends all national differences and boundaries.
