Obama adviser decries anti-Islam sentiments
Speaking to about 400 people in Livonia, President Barack Obama’s envoy to the Muslim world said there is a “disturbing rise in anti-Islamic sentiment” that may be caused in part by the poor economy.
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“The things you can say about Islam you can’t say about any other faith,” Rashad Hussain, Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, said Saturday night at the annual fund-raising dinner of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, a Muslim-founded think tank based in Clinton Township. “During tough economic times, groups that are seen to be the other … the scapegoating can increase.”
Gee, that seems strangely familiar.
We can all thank Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Sarah Palin, Fox News, and the Tea Party for us being in this position. They played upon the general public’s fear and hopelessness during an economic downturn and their ignorance of Islam in general to further their ideology. I’m surprised that people haven’t been killed yet, but sadly people have been assaulted, so it’s only a matter of time before someone does march into a mosque and murder innocent people. And Geller, Spencer, Palin, FNC and the TP will look for any reason to shift the blame from themselves.
But what the Bigot Brigade doesn’t realize (or refuse to) is that the Muslim world is watching everything that his happening here, and the extremists will look for any reason to gin up anti-Western sentiments and call on their supporters to attack Westerners (and Americans specifically), pointing to the Cordoba House “controversy” and telling Muslims that America doesn’t really support freedom, or that America really is a war with Islam. The Bigot Brigade will get not only Muslims here killed, but also Americans overseas. They are practically handing Al Qaida ammunition for their propaganda to fuel attacks, and they don’t care.
I hope the general public wakes up to all of this before a body count has to be posted here from attacks against Muslims and Westerners over this shit.