Don't fall for the Islamist letter, Barack Obama
Over the years the open letter has become a very popular tool for the Islamists, and one which they utilised yet again yesterday in a crass attempt at influencing the Obama administration to base its foreign policy on how appease Islamists and thus prevent them from killing people all over the world.
According to the letter, it has been signed by “scientists, thinkers, intellectuals, political activists, jurists, and academics from the Islamic nation.” These include one of the leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood, Yusuf al-Qaradawi and head of the Jamaat-e-Islami, Qadhi Hussein Ahmad.
This letter is the latest manifestation of the now well-established method of appealing to those who insist that the United States has only itself to blame for the rise in international terrorism. Just as bin Laden and Zawahiri have made public statement that, if troops left Iraq and Afghanistan, then al-Qaeda would call it quits, this letter suggests that if Obama were to pull the troops out, there would be no more "resistance".
It reads: “The resistance in some Muslim countries is a result of the aggression, injustice and tyranny practised or sponsored by the United States, and such resistance is not the cause of violence and terrorism as some circles in America like to claim. Therefore, if such resistance troubles you and you wish peace to spread over, you have to end occupation and return to the peoples their rights and sovereignty."
This is of course contrary to the words and actions of this "resistance", who are not motivated only by the US presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also, to name but a few, by their obsession with creating an Islamic state, their hatred of the democratic institutions that are now in place in both of these nations, and their disgust at the gall that their women are showing by getting an education.
The letter tries to justify the reasons for Islamist terrorism as simply a reaction to recent US imperialism in the Middle East, which does not explain why the September 11 attacks occurred before any US presence in Iraq and Afghanistan. But wait, they have found an ingenious way of getting around this tricky subject:
“… the events of the 11th of September 2001 were nothing but fabricated drama by some influential forces in America in co-ordination with Israeli Mossad. They have done all that in order to find a reason to trigger the Third World war that they have already planned for and decided its goals and targeted fields.”
There are a number of references to the suffering of the Palestinian people, not in itself an unreasonable complaint, although they do border on the hyperbolic:
“We deeply realise that every sane person believes deep inside that no other nation in history has suffered injustice like the one inflicted upon the Palestinian people.”
If we were to consider this as a genuine effort at highlighting to the President the plight of Muslims around the world, rather than an attempt to further worldwide Islamist causes, then of course one would expect to see some mention of the hundreds of thousands of Muslim Darfuris being slaughtered at the hands of the al-Bashir regime.
Why, one might ask, has such a massacre been omitted from this litany of atrocities being committed against Muslims? A quick glance at some more of the cosignatories explains it all. They include the former Minister for Religious affairs in Hassan al-Turabi’s National Islamic Front party (NIF), Esam Ahmed Al-Bashir, and one of the founding members of the current Sudanese regime, Abdul Rahman Siwar al-Dhahb.
Although it is unlikely that any of Obama’s people will even see this letter, it is absolutely crucial that they do not fall for this sort of intimidation, especially when it comes from some of the leading members of the most powerful and influential Islamist groups in the world.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4325049/Dont-fall-for-the-Islamist-letter-Barack-Obama.html
