In my latest column, I consider some of the logical questions arising from Obama's enforcement of Sharia law regarding the treatment of the Qur'an in Afghanistan:
Madness has overtaken Washington, and the world. Every day this past week has brought fresh reports of more people murdered in Afghanistan over the burning of some copies of the Qur’an at Bagram Airfield. In response, every day new apologies come from American officials. Barack Obama, Leon Panetta, the commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan, General John Allen, and others have all issued abject apologies to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the “noble people of Afghanistan,” and everyone else in sight.Even the most minor of officials are getting into the act: Peter Lavoy, acting assistant secretary of defense for Asia and Pacific security affairs, scraping the bottom of the barrel for a suitable object for his abject submission, apologized to Muslims in the Washington, D.C. area.
Some have rightly skewered Obama and his cohorts for their cowardice and eagerness to appease the Afghan mobs, especially as the death toll steadily mounts. No one, however, has noted the most remarkable aspect of this entire episode: the United States Government has, no questions asked, eagerly embraced Islamic law (Sharia) regarding the treatment of the Qur’an, and assured the Afghans that it will be enforced.
In his apology letter to Karzai, Obama said that the Qur’an-burning was “inadvertent,” but that nevertheless “we will take the appropriate steps to avoid any recurrence, including holding accountable those responsible.”
If it was “inadvertent,” why does Obama intend to hold them accountable? Accidents will happen. If he is going to adopt Sharia to the extent that he thinks that anyone should be held accountable for this at all, is he going to adopt Sharia punishments for this “crime” as well? Will he have the U.S. soldiers whom he finds to be responsible for the Qur’an-burning beheaded?
If not, why not?
If burning the Qur’an is now a crime for Americans, and we are thus now subject to Islamic law, how much Sharia are we under? To what extent have we capitulated? Where does Obama draw the line, if anywhere?
Will there be stonings of adulteresses, amputations of the hands of thieves, and beheadings of apostates from Islam and blasphemers of Muhammad on the Mall? If you think these are absurd questions, consider that these are all elements of the same Islamic law that Obama has now vowed to enforce in regard to the burning of the Qur’an. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Clinton has held a closed-door meeting with the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in order to discuss strategies for enforcing Sharia restrictions on free speech regarding Islam in Western countries. Obama’s Justice Department has gone to court more than once to compel American businesses and educational institutions to change the way they operate in order to accommodate particularities of Islamic law and practice.
What will be the outcome of all this? No one knows or cares, because even conservative news outlets are now bowing to delicate Islamic sensibilities and dropping coverage of jihad news. It’s over ten years since 9/11, and nothing much has happened since then, right? And there is so very much election coverage to be gotten to.
Never mind that the jihad’s continued advance is best illustrated by Obama’s eagerness to appease, and by the collective Western failure to stand up and say what should be said to what General Allen called the “noble people of Afghanistan”: “What madness has overtaken you? None of the people you have killed ever burned a Qur’an. And are your Allah and your Muhammad so fragile that the burning of one copy, or even a few copies, of a book of which millions and millions of copies exist, really hurts them so much that you think killing people who had nothing to do with it is a proper response? No killing is appropriate in this case, even of those who did this. You people have gone mad. All decent people should rise and condemn you.”
The jihad terrorists who struck America on 9/11 were doing so in order to weaken the U.S. to the extent that eventually our free society would surrender to the rule of Islamic law. And now it is happening – but as the OIC’s agenda of stifling every critical word about Islam also advances apace in the U.S., fewer and fewer people will know about it. How will they find out? The Left is complicit, and the Right is afraid to tell them.
Has the conquest of a great nation ever been this easy?
In a few months, the American public will have the chance to hold Obama accountable, and not just for the sharia he's trying to force on us.
To have the chance is one thing. To do the right thing when the chance present itself is another. American public would have to hold only itself accountable if Obama is reelected.
The last sentence needs correction:
"American public would have only itself to hold accountable if Obama is reelected." I hope it sounds better.
Robert, Where would we be without you? Degrees of Complicity. But that is Public Relations, is it not? That is how people keep their jobs.
Just wait, the American public is clueless about Obama - it will elect him again as it did last time!!
When I was a child sitting in church, one day our pastor told us that if we worship the symbols of Christianity–such as the cross, the Bible, the church itself–this is idolatry.
There are many Muslims who don't condone the murders of innocent people over the Quran burning. I don't get it–why aren't Muslims coming out of the woodwork, emphatically telling everyone that worshiping the Quran and treating it as though it's an idol is shirk?
I am sure someone is going to get his head rolled.
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Remove ourselves from the madness, get out of this islamic Afgan country.
We could do more, how about carpet bomb using B-52's, dropping on every city there, only burnt pages from the qur'an, after we leave of course.
This paper bomb could kill thousands.
The sad part is that GWB, he of the sword dance with the Saudis, would have handled this crisis the very same way as Obama.
Gen Allen's poor reaction to this ensures that we will never see another Marine general in charge of large numbers of Army troops in a war zone.
If they actually put AMerican soldiers on trial for this ridiculous fiasco, good luck at the recruiting offices. Who would join a politically correct army, marine corps, air force, etc. and have to deal with this kind of crap? If they find their scapegoats, arrest and try them to appease the savage muslims, I hope the American people collectively roar in outrage, and I don't see how anybody, even the corrupt, worthless MSM, could hide it.
Let's write to Congress (www.congress.org):
Dear Representative:
Qur'ans were used in Afghanistan as a means of communications by the enemy combatants. Those ciphers/communiques were intercepted, confiscated, and destroyed so the enemy combatants could never have access to them. But, because Sharia law forbids the burning of Qur'ans, our President is apologizing and promising to follow Sharia law instead of U.S. law. The same tactic is used when enemy combatants hold up in mosques, and are assured of a safe place from which to shoot at U.S. troops. The same tactic is used when human shields are used and killed, and the responsibility is placed on U.S. troops instead of those who use human shields and the U.S. pays blood money (prescribed by Sharia law) to the families of human shields, accomplices, and jihadists themselves. Our troops were used like this for ten years with their hands tied and the enemy combatants protected by Sharia law. This weakening and killing off of our troops was only used to procure Islamic democracies with Islamic Constitutions enforced by Sharia law. Now, President Obama has sent our troops to Africa to fight against the only opposition force to the genocidal jihad conquering the oil-rich countries of Africa. This outrageous and seditious waste of the lives and health of U.S. troops must stop.
As a member of the United States Congress, I am asking and expecting you to put an end to enforcement of Sharia law by U.S. troops, to redefine the parameters when fighting against Islamic enemy combatants, to place the responsibility for using human shields, mosques, and Qur'ans squarely on the shoulders of those who use them, and to prohibit and forbid U.S. troops from being subjected to Sharia law, officially or unofficially. Let U.S. troops only be used to support the U.S. Constitution, let them only answerable to U.S. law, and only deployed when the safety of U.S. citizens is in eminent jeopardy. Station U.S. troops at U.S. borders and stop them from being used as pawns in the Muslim Brotherhood's global jihad.
Obama's "Muslim world" is acting as if the whole world has been conquered for Islam and that all non-Muslims are under dhimmitude. They are acting as if any defiance by non-Muslim (like criticizing Islam, burning Qur'ans, etc.) means any non-Muslims can be punished, abused, even murdered because the dhimmitude contract (of "protection") has been broken. It is a plan to take the world hostage, and no one should be in any way be accepting of that scenario!
The last several times the Muslim caliphates took it for granted that non-Muslims were conquered, held and abused as captives and sex slaves, plundered by jizya (50 percent of wealth), and made to feel themselves subdued, there were Crusades to free those non-Muslims.
Any action or threat of punishment against NATO soldiers over this Quran burning and the soldiers should stage a mass walkout: simply pack up & go home en mass in protest, tell them you wont be their puppets in an ungrateful country anymore.
allan west for president !
"noble people of Afghanistan,”
A more valuable book than what was burned is any dictionary that lists the word "noble" and it's meaning. Surely someone in the group of those speaking about those who regularly rise up in rage over any hurt feelings, insults, or any pretense thereof can read well enough to see that "noble" doesn't apply in this case. Not even "noble savages."
There is nothing "noble" about the behavior carried out in response to the book burnings. There is nothing "noble" in wanting those who burned the books to be tried and found guilty of a non-existent crime.
The whole affair is sickening in the extreme.
I was reading the headlines of the Articles in JW …
MY morning coffee cup almost fell out of my hand reading this '' Jihadist asking Obama to BEHEAD the people who burned the Quran"
And the outrageous question had to be asked '' will the president of the most powerful country in the world OBAMA act and imitate Muhammad RASSOL AL ALLAH who beheaded 600 to 900 boys and men of the tribe of Jews
In What century are we living in … MADNESS is the right word … madness of Islam
I know The reason these muslim monsters who pride them selves to be the only ones who know the heart of Islam, dare to ask this laughable question from the leader of the free world, is BECAUSE HE HAS APOLOGIZED …. Apologized to killers??!! …
Obama thinks he is dealing with normal humen beings who lost their ways … what a sad and maddening joke!!
He does not know he is dealing with ….vengeful… wild … vicious …dangerous …backward …harmful …prideful … close - minded … defective … imbalanced ….I could go on if there is enough time to describe the sorry excuse of humen beings that called Islamist... especially the ones in Afghanistan … they are subhuman and I am sorry to say that … but it is true … they are proving it every day … what else they have to do for Obama to finely wake up …
they killed 10 people AFTER … after the dump apology …
Obama thinks he could reach the humen heart that he is sure they have …
He does not know Muslims hearts ARE in between the folds of Quran and when he finely read Quran and understand and discover the horror in it … may be he will finely UNDERSTAND and act accordingly.
MADNESS INDEED.
It's pretty much a guarantee that we will be under Sharia law if Obama and his crew get reelected in November. RINO's must go also.
To (fineliving56). Please don't under estimate Obamas understanding of Islamic's Sharia law. His father and fathers family were Muslims as well as his stepfather in Indonesia where Barry was raised and recorded as a follower of Islam. Hence, he knows the culture. Obama knows why these people are demanding and what they are doing to us. The saddest part is it appears he is willfully encouraging them with their atrocities. We must get back to being an American nation with basic American principals.
Excuse me. I misspelled principles
Spencer: Will Obama Behead the Qur’an-Burners?
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Some have rightly skewered Obama and his cohorts for their cowardice and eagerness to appease the Afghan mobs, especially as the death toll steadily mounts. No one, however, has noted the most remarkable aspect of this entire episode: the United States Government has, no questions asked, eagerly embraced Islamic law (Sharia) regarding the treatment of the Qur’an, and assured the Afghans that it will be enforced.
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**Yes**. According to reports, NATO is actually considering letting the barbaric "Noble People of Afghanistan" put Americans *on trial—for something that is only a crime under Shari'ah.
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If it was “inadvertent,” why does Obama intend to hold them accountable? Accidents will happen. If he is going to adopt Sharia to the extent that he thinks that anyone should be held accountable for this at all, is he going to adopt Sharia punishments for this “crime” as well? Will he have the U.S. soldiers whom he finds to be responsible for the Qur’an-burning beheaded?
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Well, *why the hell not*? I don't imagine putting the Qur'an-burners on KP will satisfy the howling Muslim mobs...
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If not, why not?
If burning the Qur’an is now a crime for Americans, and we are thus now subject to Islamic law, how much Sharia are we under? To what extent have we capitulated? Where does Obama draw the line, if anywhere?
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Bravo for asking these questions! They are *not* rhetorical. Where do Obama and NATO draw the line? We don't appear to have hit bottom yet...
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Meanwhile, Secretary of State Clinton has held a closed-door meeting with the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in order to discuss strategies for enforcing Sharia restrictions on free speech regarding Islam in Western countries.
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Yes—*terrifying*.
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Has the conquest of a great nation ever been this easy?
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This is not even conquest—just suicide...