Cultural Sensitivity and America’s Continuing Crisis

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Pajamas Media:

You’re about to be groped, X-rayed, and generally humiliated in the airport. The Islamic Fiqh Council, however, has issued a fatwa prohibiting Muslims from going through an X-ray machine. Separately, CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) is advising Muslim women to avoid pat-downs beyond the head and neck. Our culturally sensitive administration will undoubtedly acquiesce. You, however, will be groped and X-rayed, unless of course you show up at the airport dressed in a tent.

Meanwhile, the ever-vigilant ACLU is coming to the defense of Anwar al-Awlaki, the imam who inspired Major Nidal Malik Hasan, murderer of thirteen of his fellow soldiers in the Fort Hood massacre. The imam also trained Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, known as the underwear bomber, who attempted to blow up a Northwest flight last Christmas. But al-Awlaki is still an American citizen, a status of which the administration didn’t relieve him. Despite his abhorrence of America, al-Awlaki, the ACLU argues, is protected by the values of the system he would destroy. From his base in Yemen, his voice fills the airwaves with calls for death to Americans, but the ACLU wants to give him a stay-alive card as he hatches more plots to kill our citizens.

After stooping and genuflecting to the Islamic world and cutting Israel off at the knees, President Barack Obama has had such a positive impact on the Muslim street that its attitudes toward America were slightly better during Bush’s last year.

Cultural sensitivity has fared no better in Afghanistan, where the rules of engagement put the lives of our soldiers at greater risk in an effort to reduce civilian casualties. The administration has decided to trade American deaths for Afghan lives. The Afghan people, however, seem to have engaged in the rational calculus that it is better to side with those who will be there, the Taliban, than those who have announced their intention to leave.

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