In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein,
Victor Frankenstein is responsible for creating a monster. Realizing his mistake, however, Victor
becomes horrified of his own creation.
Victor grows even more despondent with the knowledge that the monster he
created is guilty of murder.
This is the point in the story where
the similarities between Victor and Obama, who have both created monsters,
end. One is horrified and
remorseful over the monster he created.
The other feels no remorse.
It is left to the reader to decide if this lack of remorse is due to
Obama’s inability to recognize that he has created a monster. Or is remorse missing because the
monster is exactly what Obama intended to create in the first place?
The civilized world was horrified, yet
not surprised to see the monster Obama created rear its ugly head in Egypt and
in Libya. Many were equally
disturbed by the actions of an administration bent on convincing people that
the monster is tame and wouldn’t hurt a fly if only people would quit prodding
it with the stick of religious bigotry.
After all, monsters have feelings too.
The Obama administration acted quickly
to distance itself from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo’s apology that seemed to
justify the monster’s behavior in Egypt.
After all, it is an election year.
In an interview with Steve Kroft for 60
Minutes, Obama said of the apology,
“In an effort to cool the situation down, it didn't come from me, it didn't
come from Secretary Clinton. It came from people on the ground who are
potentially in danger.”
In other words, “I didn’t try to pat
the monster on the head. And I
didn’t try to blame the people who made the monster mad.” When in fact, that’s precisely what
Obama has done and taught his administration to do from the minute he was sworn
into office.
Since coming into office, Obama has
used the platform of his presidency to continuously laud Islam, portray Muslims
as victims of Islamophobia, and to defend the rights of Muslims around the
world before defending the rights of U.S. citizens. He has become the poster
boy and puppet of the Organization of the Islamic Conference who for over a
decade has systematically worked to criminalize the “defamation of Islam” and
to protect Islam from “blasphemy,” i.e. telling the truth about it. In yearly resolutions at the UN on
“combating defamation of religions” the OIC complains that, “Islam is
frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and
terrorism." That claim would
be hysterical if it weren’t so tragic.
To the delight of the OIC, Obama and
his administration have worked hard to reprogram America’s collective
consciousness regarding Islam by instructing us that: Islam is a religion of
peace and tolerance, Muslims who kill in the name of Islam or Mohammad don’t
really represent Islam, and that America never has been, nor will be in a war
with Islam. Such are the nuts and
bolts of building a Frankenstein.
In his 2009 Cairo speech Obama said, “I
consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to
fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.” He continued, “As a student of history
I understand more about civilization's debt to Islam . . . I also know that
Islam has always been a part of America’s story.” He failed to mention that the most significant chapter of
that story happened on 9/11/01.
At a White House interfaith dinner
honoring Ramadan in 2009, Obama reiterated, “The contribution of Muslims to the
United States are too long to catalog because Muslims are so interwoven into
the fabric of our communities and our country.”
In 2010 in Mumbai, India, Obama said,
“Islam embodies a religion of peace, fairness and tolerance.” How appropriate to say in a country
where hundreds of people have been killed by Islamic terrorists. Who cares about the feelings of the
victims’ families? It’s the
Muslims’ feelings. stupid.
The same sentiment was echoed in his
address to the Turkish Parliament and in Indonesia. He said, “Let me
say this as clearly as I can. The United States is not and never will be at war
with Islam. In fact, our partnership with the Muslim world is critical. We will convey our deep appreciation
for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over so many centuries to shape
the world for the better, including my own country."
Helping him build the monster, John
Brennan of Homeland Security and Counterrorism said, “Tolerance and diversity
define Islam,” while Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough added
that mosques were a "typically American place."
Backing his rhetoric with policy, Obama
gave NASA a new charge. The 21st
century final frontier; going forth into Muslim countries to bolster their
feelings. NASA administrator Charles Bolden said in an interview with al-Jazeera that NASA was not
only a space exploration agency but also an, "earth improvement
agency." Bolden said,
"When I became the NASA administrator, Obama charged me with three things.
One, he wanted me to help inspire children to want to get into science and math;
he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps
foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and
engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about
their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering." There’s that touchy feely thing
again. Is it any wonder that
workers at the US Embassy in Cairo were worried about the feelings of
Muslims?
Besides NASA, Obama’s monster reared its head in the
Department of Justice. In 2011,
Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole said, “I recently directed all
components of the Department of Justice to re-evaluate their training efforts
in a range of areas, from community outreach to national security.” This
“reevaluation” included the removal of all references to Islam in connection
with any investigation of jihad terror activity perpetrated by, you guessed it,
adherents to Islam. Think Fort
Hood. A Muslim cries “Allahu Akbar!” before killing soldiers and citizens on U.S. soil, but the
administration won’t call it an act of jihad or terrorism.
In helping Cole, Dwight C. Holton,
former assistant U.S. Attorney, emphasized that training materials for the FBI
would be purged of everything politically incorrect, i.e. purged of any
insinuation that a terrorist act might be committed in the name of Islam. Holton said, “I want to be perfectly
clear about this: training materials that portray Islam as a religion of
violence or with a tendency towards violence are wrong, they are offensive, and
they are contrary to everything that this president, this attorney general and
Department of Justice stands for. They will not be tolerated.” Imagine if he condemned acts of
terrorism as strongly as he condemned political incorrectness.
Holton said that he discussed the FBI training materials
with Attorney General Eric Holder.
He told Holder that the materials were “egregiously false,” and that
Holder was “firmly committed to making sure that this is over” and that “we’re
going to fix it.” Holton said that
this “fix” was particularly urgent because the rejected training materials
“pose a significant threat to national security, because they play into the
false narrative propagated by terrorists that the United States is at war with
Islam.” Yet another example of
blaming the supposed stick that prods the monster, rather than blaming the
monster.
The aforementioned Deputy NSA Denis McDonough reiterated
Obama’s focus on America’s indebtedness to Islam, rather than finding it
necessary for national security to focus on the dangers of Islamists. In praise of Obama’s Cairo speech,
McDonough said, “So the message the President wants to send is not different,
frankly, than the one he’s been sending since he was inaugurated, namely that
we believe that this is an opportunity for us in the United States, who,
frankly, have arrived at a place here based on many of the advances that come
out of the Muslim world, be it science out of Baghdad, be it math and
technology out of Al-Andalus or otherwise.”
Three years later is it any surprise that McDonough chose to
call the video used as justification for the attacks in Egypt and Libya “truly
abhorrent” rather than calling the attacks abhorrent? Yet, another example of blaming the supposed stick that prods
the monster rather than the actions of the monster. While describing the utopian vision of learning to live with
the monster, McDonough said that he endorsed efforts to create "a world
where the dignity of all people and all faiths is respected," i.e., a
world where people shut-up and tolerate the murderous behavior of Muslims who
get their feelings hurt. “This work takes on added urgency given the truly
abhorrent video that has offended so many people -- Muslims, and non-Muslims
alike -- in our country and around the world."
After the horrors committed by the monster in Egypt and
Libya, Obama told Egyptian President Morsi that he still “rejects efforts to
denigrate Islam.” No surprise
there.
What is most telling about this sordid, pathetic tale is the
way that some of the embassy officials chose to use their time as the monster
neared the embassy. They
tweeted. In their Obama-induced
delusion they actually thought a tweet would stop the monster their leader had
created. That is one of the scariest
parts of the tale. That an adult,
working for the U.S. government, could be that stupid, passive and appeasing
when being threatened and then attacked.
And Obama is counting on “we the people” being that stupid, passive and
appeasing too.
