Ben Shapiro
Breitbart.com
National Security
8 Jan 2015
On Thursday, White House press secretary Josh Earnest announced that the Obama administration would prioritize fighting Islamophobia in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo in France. Never mind that most Westerners aren’t Islamophobic, but rather GettingShotInTheFaceForExpressingMyOpinion-Phobic.
The real problem, according to the Obama administration, is lack of leadership in defending Islam:
There are some individuals that are using a peaceful religion and grossly distorting it, and trying to use its tenets to inspire people around the globe to carry out acts of violence. And we have enjoyed significant success in enlisting leaders in the Muslim community, like I said, both in the United States and around the world to condemn that kind of messaging, to condemn those efforts to radicalize individuals, and to be clear about what the tenets of Islam actually are. And we’re going to redouble those efforts in the days and weeks ahead.
This, of course, is not the first time the Obama administration has discovered a duty to illuminate the inherent beauty and wonder of Islam. Over and over again, the Obama administration, in high culturally imperialist dudgeon, has attempted to explain to the world the true meaning of Islam.
Here are five other examples…
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…El-Sisi’s cathedral appearance must be read in the context of his stated desire to promote an enlightened vision of Islam and do away with an ideological extremism that is “antagonizing the whole world.”
His pleas in favor of a renewed vision of Islam were made on a couple of occasions and, more recently, on 1 January 2015 before an important Al-Azhar gathering of Islamic clerics and ulema, as well as officials from the Minister of Awqaf (Religious Endowments).
He was careful to frame his position as the rejection of an outdated ‘thinking’ and not of the religion itself. Still, in so doing, Sisi took the lead on one of the most divisive and sensitive issues facing the world today – that of Islamist militancy and supremacism.
El-Sisi cut short his visit to Kuwait and went straight from the airport to Saint Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral to make it on time, in a display of good-will towards Egypt’s largest non-muslim community. He arrived just as the service had begun and apologized several times for interrupting Mass. He was greeted by a jubilant congregation and his brief address received a standing ovation and was broadcast live on Egyptian State TV…
