In praise of...what???

America's genuflector-in-chief has fulfilled his campaign promise and given a speech in an Islamic capitol. It went south from the outset.

In laying the foundation for the current conflict, our President laid the blame chiefly at the feet of the west.

"More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations. Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam."

Seems to me that since the middle of the last century, most Arabic speaking nations were led by Islamic leaders. Where there was a form of western government, many of those nations shook off the cumbersome ideas of freedom and responsibility and wrapped themselves in sharia and beheadings. So were the 9-11 pilots thinking about Lord Balfour? Was it Jefferson's intolerance of the Barbary pirates that caused bombings in Berlin and Madrid? Or was it a passion to live out the Koran against those explicitly denoted as infidels therein?

Islam itself has fed the tensions between Islam and the west. President Obama states that its "a small but potent minority of Muslims" who has wreaked this havoc upon the west. Really? Let's look at two recent events to put that silliness to rest.

Less than a week ago, a pro-life man murdered the most brutal abortion doctor in the country, George Tiller. Immediately, pro-life groups both Christian and non- decried the anarchy and labeled it as evil an act as a single abortion, wholly outside the rule of law. Proabortion groups (and a pro-abortion President) spoke of the evil of murder as an acceptable tack to take when opposed to abortion. Both sides recognized and spoke out against the brutality.

One day later, an Islamic man murdered a military recruiter, William Long, and wounded another in South Carolina. The media coverage was minimal. While MSNBC covered Tiller for 48 hours running and became the face of the news on all the major networks, the consistent fruit of Islam is hardly mentioned across the board. Olbermann states that Fox News and all pro-lifers are culpable for Tiller's death. Where's such rhetoric against Islam? And the President was as quiet as a library. No comments for those under his command. The death of one of his troops at the hand of the member of a group that loathes our country warranted no comment from the Commander-in-Chief?

And where are the Arab or Islamic groups speaking out against the murder of US military recruiters? Shhh. Listen for it. It's the sound of silence.

Anarchy regarding abortion? Unacceptable, say all sides. Anarchy from Muslims toward the west? Unacceptable...says the west. Yes, ten-percent of all Muslims may be fanatical, but the majority of the Muslim world agrees with the fanatics or doesn't have the cajones to speak against them.

The President calls for "mutual respect" by unveiling to all the world the Islamic side of the American presidency. He highlights his Christian faith when in Rick Warren's church when it's politically expedient. When on Islamic soil, he checks the Bible at Andrews AFB and picks up the Koran and lauds his Islamic heritage. Rather than stand as a Christian President from a Christian nation, he folds like an origami camel.

As with most bullies, aquiescence is weakness and deserving of another punch in the nose. Keep your eyes peeled. I suspect another jab or left hook is not far off.