It would be hard to find a better illustration of the fruits of the Obama Doctrine of apology and appeasement than what occurred September 11th inCairo. First the American embassy — in a statement marking 9/11 — took the opportunity to react to Muslim outrage over a movie produced in theU.S. that portrays Muhammad as a fraud:
“The Embassy … condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims — as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions…. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.”
And then after that statement was issued an Islamist mob stormed that very embassy’s sovereign American soil pulled down the American flag — which it then ripped to shreds and burned — and tried to hoist al Qaeda’s banner in its place. So much for where our touching concern for Muslim feelings gets us.
The embassy’s statement — later disavowed by the White House — was in one sense surprising and in another not surprising in the least.
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