Conservatives are burning up twitter tonight attacking President Barack Obama for telling the United Nations “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prrophet of Islam.”
I’d be joining them had I not bothered to google the entire speech.
The rest of that remark included this: “yet to be credible, those who condemn that slander must also condemn the hate we see when the image of Jesus Christ is desecrated, churches are burned to the Holocaust is denied.”
It was a mild rebuke of the hipocracy of the Islamic world, which goes insane at the slightest insult of Mohammed but tolerates and encourages the marginalization of Christians and the demonization of Jews. But it was a call-out nonetheless.
Obama shouldn’t be chastised. He should be praised for at least pausing in his pandering to hint that those nations that allow intolerance and hatred to breed unchecked have no room to complain.
He hasn’t sent that message forcefully enough. Maybe this is a start.
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