Motus Mentis

Today Barack Obama, commenting on the murder of our ambassador to Libya by a Muslim mob, said this:

Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others, but there is absolutely no justification for this type of senseless violence, none.

Does the President realize what he is saying here? This was hardly an act of “senseless” or “unjustified” violence: in the context of Islam’s core doctrine that calls all of its faithful to wage ceaseless jihad until all the world is brought into submission to Allah, this attack finds abundant justification, and makes very good sense indeed.

There is a plain contradiction in Mr. Obama’s words (and, lest this be seen as partisan sniping, both “conservative” and liberal politicians in America and the West suffer from the same, suicidal, cognitive dissonance): if you truly “respect” Islam, then at the very least, you should “respect” it enough to believe that it means what it says.