Today is the eleventh anniversary of September 11th, 2001, when a team of Muslims, seeking martyrdom in jihad against infidels, slaughtered thousands of innocent American civilians and tore a gaping hole in the heart of the world’s greatest city. On this anniversary, a violent mob of similarly minded Islamists, enraged by a perceived insult to their Prophet, today stormed our embassy in Cairo, scaled the walls, and tore down our flag.
Our response:
U.S. Embassy Condemns Religious Incitement
September 11, 2012
The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims ”“ as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.
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I note too, the residents of Benghazi Libya (the “good rebels’ stronghold” noted in the Sinjar Files) laddered over the US Consulate there as well. 1 American – so far – dead.
Is this how they thank us for making their world free to taste the sweet fruit of democracy?
All this as we grovel and abase ourselves, welcoming Morsi to town on a red carpet and giving Egypt over a billion in foreign aid.
Meanwhile, President Obama is “too busy” to meet with Bibi Netanyahu. (Too busy attending fundraisers and working the swing states, that is.) It’s clear enough where his sympathies lie.
As @R_Orzechowski just tweeted:
Update: we now learn that the embassy’s craven statement was issued before the attack. (They have since reiterated it.)
I don’t know what’s more shameful: groveling after someone attacks you, or groveling in advance, in the hope that they won’t.
What a relief!
The US Consulate (on their Twitter account) tweeted, “There’ll be no visas granted on Wednesday.”
This administration is beyond whatever is beyond contempt. And so are all those who support it.
May they all hasten to their reserved ringside-seats within the Ninth Circle (Treachery) of Dante’s Inferno.
BTW, if Dante’s Inferno, as a reference to hell, is not to your liking, try Victor Hanson’s “Hell for a White Male“, namely, “A place where you are supposed to have natural solidarity with a buffoon like Michael Moore.”
We ought to inform them that Americans have the right to free speech even in criticizing religion, that Muslims should defend their prophet with speech instead of violence, that those miscreants who tore down our flag owe an apology to us, and that anyone who murders an American will pay with his own blood!
Jeffery Hodges
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I’m not sure how you see the U.S. Embassy’s statement as “groveling.” It clearly condemns the actions of the violent mobs that have attacked U.S. soil (Embassies being part of the nation). These mobs have now killed our Ambassador to Libya and I’m sure the action by the administration will be a swift condemnation. However, I’m unsure what exactly you would expect different from the White House or the U.S. Embassy’s statement.
As you will remember from “The Dictator’s Handbook” the billion dollars of foreign aid has nothing to do with our respect for another country or its government but instead a payment to ensure aberrance to our policy wishes. If anything seeing that you seem so concerned for Israel, then you ought to be happy that the Obama administration is paying Egypt off to ensure they stay compliant to their treaties with Israel even though the populace of Egypt would rip up the treaties & make a beeline to Israel to slaughter Israelis.
Btw, thanks Big Henry for wishing me a place in Hell for my political leanings.
Also has anyone seen the short film that started this uproar, Innocence of Muslims? That we would condemn the film is no surprise, it is a pile of filth with only one goal, to enrage by insulting another’s religious beliefs.
I saw the trailer to “The Innocence of Muslims”, and yes, it is a pretty poor movie. I wouldn’t call it filth. Filth is Nazi’s marching down Skokie Illinois, and we generally agree that they have a right to do so without reference to the content of their speech. The residents didn’t kill anyone.
Christians are insulted nearly everyday, “Life of Brian”, etc. If they killed anyone because of this, no one would blame Monty Python.
I couldn’t agree more Dom, just because one is insulted doesn’t give them the right to react violently. However, no one should be surprised by the reaction from a number within the Muslim community.
Many different religions, communities, and peoples are insulted everyday & the vast majority of these insults do not result in violent reactions. Nonetheless, we now have a long list of insulting actions (Danish Cartoon, Pastor Jones, and Innocence of Muslims) that have caused violent reactions throughout the Muslim world. At this point, while no one ought to blame the killings on the stupid maker of this film, in the same way that no one would blame Monty Python in your analogy, the motives of the movie maker & Pastor Jones has to be questioned. When you know the consequences of your action is very possibly the death of others it ought to make you think twice before you act and to act only if it is worth the considerable consequences.
Strangelove,
“Groveling”? Only because I couldn’t find a stronger word. How about “sniveling, wretched, cringing self-abasement”?
What might I have expected instead, you ask? Maybe something more like this:
As for buying strongmen, sure, that’s fine; it makes a hell of a lot more sense than nation-building. But it only makes sense if, once paid, they do what we want. That’s clearly not what’s happening in Egypt, where Christians are being persecuted, our embassy attacked, Sinai militarized, and so on — in other words, exactly what you’d expect from an ascendance of Muslim power. By contrast, in recent years we had precisely that sort of arrangement with Muammar Qaddafi, and the Obama administration, in its foolish enthusiasm for what Islam’s useful idiots in the West have called the “Arab Spring”, decided to throw him to the wolves. Last night our ambassador to Libya was killed.
Finally, your last comment can only be understood in two ways: either that the wise course when confronted with violent bullies is to bow and scrape before them, and avoid saying anything that might set them off, or that the virulent Islamic mind-virus has so degraded the common Muslim mind that they are to be seen, not as human beings with the dignity and self-guidance to be held accountable for their behavior, but as subhumans, as wild animals. Which is it?
It would be well for us all to remember how we got here:
http://malcolmpollack.com/2011/10/20/sic-semper-tyrannis-2/
You mean like Religulous, by major Obama contributor Bill Maher?
Finally, and here’s the key point that anybody with the slightest understanding of Islam, or any contact with the real world, should understand in his bones by now: this is not about that movie.
“Political leanings”, in my personal view, are generally not contemptible. But only a blind (or half-blind) person would attribute the hatefulness of this administration to “political leanings”.
This administration and its supporters are openly and/or willfully anti-American, racist, and Jew-hating (or, self-loathing, as the case may be). These characteristics are beyond whatever may be beyond contempt, as well as beyond mere “political leanings”.
They are beyond hateful. They are accursed. Yimakh shemo!
As far as anyone can tell, the provenance of this “movie” is the evangelical Christian, anti-Muslim activist demi-monde:
http://m.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2012/0912/There-may-be-no-anti-Islamic-movie-at-all
Eager to exploit the death of an American diplomat for political gain, Mitt Romney rushed to deplore the Obama administration for “sympathizing” with those who attacked our embassy.
As is his custom, Romney was making stuff up. The first response from the administration came after Romney’s breathless denunciation of the Obama administration, when Secretary Clinton expressed shock and disgust in the strongest possible terms.
When confronted the next day with this obvious falsehood, Romney doubled down and insisted that Obama has consistently apologized for America, which is also something with no basis in fact.
Romney does not have the decency to keep his mouth shut during a time of national tragedy, nor the least shred of integrity in accusing the President of sympathizing with our enemies – also known as treason – when he has done no such thing.
To borrow from the question asked of an equally deceitful and unprincipled politician: have you no shame?
I already posted this, but it didn’t seem to take. Interesting development:
http://imgur.com/a/tlCyI
Peter, I thought Mr. Romney’s remarks were generally quite apt. But given that you feel the way you do, I’m sure you’ll be glad to have the opportunity to vote against him in November.
As for national tragedies, yes, it’s just terrible how shallow some people are. Comforting to see that with our murdered ambassador’s body still warm, the president’s off to Vegas for more campaigning tonight.
Dom, those photos are touching. It would be nice if the people holding those signs represented an effective majority in the Muslim world. What a shame.
“Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_N._Welch
I will happily vote against Romney in November, along with a majority of other voters. What a small man Mitt Romney is: dishonest, unprincipled, and utterly unqualified to be President.
As I noted last week with my usual uncanny prescience, the election took a marked turn after Bill Clinton’s speech. In a few days, the race turned from a dead heat to a six point lead for Obama.
This lead will solidify with the debates, when the flailing team of George W. Romney and Joe Isuzu leave their home field territory of Fox News and have to answer real questions from real reporters.
They’re toast.
Yeah, yeah. I could reply in kind (46-45 on Rasmussen, with 5% undecided), but we’d be here all night.
Rasmussen polls are always outliers. Even Fox News can’t avoid the fact that Romney’s numbers are coming down faster than a dress on prom night’
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/12/fox-news-poll-obama-has-lead-over-romney-in-post-convention-poll/
We’ll see. The only poll that matters is the one on November 6th.
Yahoo news is now reporting that the movie was not made by an evangelical Christian, but by a Coptic Christian. Coming up next … an Egyptian Imam made it, to stir up trouble.
http://news.yahoo.com/california-man-confirms-role-anti-islam-film-223333645.html
Romney is a campaigning politician; his response to the embassy murder means nothing to me; I certainly won’t change my vote because of it.
What bothers me is the economic illiteracy behind such things as Cash for Clunkers and Solyndra, or the dishonesty behind changing the stimulus from shovel-ready to apron-ready projects, just to pay back women for their support. And I hate the way the entire country is goose-stepping along with this man. Hope for a change.
Well said, Dom.
Even more than those things, for me, is the man’s ruthless anti-federalism, and his relentless effort to hollow out the essential, organic layer of society that exists in the middle ground between the individual and the State. His obvious ideal is a society of radically atomized, dependent, and deracinated citizens connected to one another only through the control and mediation of the State. I find this terrifying.
(Oh, and there’s that whole eat-the-rich business. And the pathological narcissism. And the antipathy to free markets. And so on.)
Perhaps you meant to say the entire Left, or even the entire Democrat Party, Dom? In any case, I agree it’s abhorrent.
The goose-stepping, one-eyed jacks are a (card) pack of rabid fools.
Move along; nada thing of interest there.