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The President and the Arab Fall
By Erick Erickson
September 12th, 2012
Oh
if only Islamic radicals would riot over the
HHS contraception mandate and gay marriage. If they did, the
Administration
would fall all over themselves to apologize.
Don’t
believe me? Consider yesterday’s events
well chronicled by Jeff Emanuel.
A
group in the United States exercised their
first amendment rights, which set off rioting yet again among the
religion of
peace. Egyptians stormed the American Embassy, torn down the American
flag,
burned it, and replaced it with a black flag used by Al Qaeda. In
Libya, our
consulate was attacked and an Embassy employee killed.
The
Obama Administration’s Egyptian Embassy
responded by apologizing that someone somewhere exercised their first
amendment
rights and dared offend the religion of peace. In fact, the Embassy
wants it
known that no religion should ever ben offended ever. So you Christians
who
think Jesus is the only path to Heaven, don’t say it. It might offend
someone.
[UPDATE: The initial response happened before the walls were scaled,
though
afterwards the Embassy stood by that response on twitter.]
I
guess now Barack Obama will abandon calls for
gay marriage and Democrats everywhere will stop calling Christians
“bigots” for
standing up for their religion. After all, it appears now to be
American policy
to apologize for offending religious sensibilities.
But
wait, overnight the White House distanced
itself from the United States Embassy in Cairo. That’s right. The White
House
“disavowed” the statement. On Twitter, however, the Embassy was
standing by its
statement. A White House and its own Ambassador operating out of
different play
books is not good. Well, except, the Embassy deleted that tweet, but
here it
is:
Read
the rest of this article at Redstate
http://www.redstate.com/2012/09/12/the-president-and-the-arab-fall/
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