Monday, April 19, 2010

Obama's clear bias in favor of Muslims here and abroad. But WHY?

http://tinyurl.com/y3ezvtv
White House Quietly Courts Muslims in U.S.
By ANDREA ELLIOTTWhen President Obama took the stage in Cairo last June, promising a new relationship with the Islamic world, Muslims in America wondered only half-jokingly whether the overture included them....his administration has reached out to this politically isolated constituency in a sustained and widening effort that has left even skeptics surprised....the government’s decision this month to end a policy subjecting passengers from 14 countries, most of them Muslim, to additional scrutiny at airports, the officials said....Tariq Ramadan, a prominent Muslim academic, visited the United States for the first time in six years... barred Mr. Ramadan from entering the country, initially citing the U.S.A. Patriot Act.... also cleared the way for another well-known Muslim professor, Adam Habib, who had been denied entry under similar circumstances...r...the administration’s solicitation of Muslims and Arab-Americans has drawn little fanfare, it has not escaped criticism. A small but vocal group of research analysts, bloggers and others complain that the government is reaching out to Muslim leaders and organizations with an Islamist agenda or ties to extremist groups abroad....Islamic Society of North America. The group was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in a federal case against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, a Texas-based charity whose leaders were convicted in 2008 of funneling money to Hamas....“I think dialogue is good, but it has to be with genuine moderates,” said Steven Emerson, a terrorism analyst who advises government officials. “These are the wrong groups to legitimize.” Mr. Emerson and others have also objected to the political appointments of several American Muslims, including Rashad Hussain....in 2004, while he was a student at Yale Law School, in which he referred to several domestic terrorism prosecutions as “politically motivated.” Among the cases he criticized was that of Sami Al-Arian, a former computer-science professor in Florida who pleaded guilty to aiding members of a Palestinian terrorist group...
****It's hard to interpret these actions by Obama as anything but a threat to our security and Western values, to all of which he seems unsympathetic.****

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