Libyan followers of the Ansar al-Shariah Brigades chant anti-U.S. slogans during a protest in front of the Tibesti Hotel, in Benghazi, Libya, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam?s Prophet Muhammad. One of the leading suspects in an attack that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans is the Libyan-based Islamic militant group Ansar al-Shariah, led by former Guantanamo detainee Sufyan bin Qumu. The group denied responsibility in a video Friday but did acknowledge its fighters were in the area during what it called a ???popular protest??? at the consulate, according to Ben Venzke of the IntelCenter, a private analysis firm that monitors Jihadist media for the U.S. intelligence community. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)
NEWPORT BEACH, Ron Williams:?In 2009 President Barack Obama took a trip to Egypt to address the Islamic world. He invited the Muslim Brotherhood to his presentation, thus giving tacit approval to a terrorist organization that had been outlawed since the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981. The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928 with the express purpose of implementing Shariah law worldwide and to re-establish the Global Islamic State.
The ?Arab Spring,? as our president referred to the overthrow of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, was nothing more than the Muslim Brotherhood at work to gain power. After Mubarak was deposed, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood movement, came out of exile in Damascus, Syria, and made an address in Cairo?s Tahir Square, which by some estimates 1 million Egyptians attended, who were protected by the Egyptian military. Recently, Egyptians took to the streets and attempted to overrun our Embassy in Cairo.
The Islamic Middle East is in flames, and this president does not have an answer on how to put the genie back in the bottle, after he popped the cork. His weak appeal to the Islamic world has only inspired the Muslim Brotherhood to openly challenge the U.S. and appeal to Muslims across the Islamic world to unite in a common cause to assert their will to achieve their goal of a Caliphate. It was not a film about Muhammad that spurred this uprising. It was orchestrated by the religious fanaticism of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The lessons of history should have taught President Obama that appeasement in the face of tyranny encourages those who want to exert their evil intentions to challenge those who lack the will to stand for liberty and for U.S. exceptionalism.
If everyone thinks the economy is our primary concern and threat to our lives, wait until Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon and Syria align with the Muslim Brotherhood?s goals.
Love vs. hate
TUSTIN, Dan Van Dorpe:?Throughout Muslim countries in the Mideast, thousands have burned American flags, destroyed American property and attacked American personnel. Also, dozens of Coptic Christians in Muslim countries have been killed and their churches burned to the ground in Allah?s name.
Yet, not one Middle East embassy or mosque in America, a predominantly Christian country, has been attacked as a result of the recent Middle Eastern actions against America and against Christians.
It appears that the Islamist message is to kill infidels while the message of Christians is to love your enemy and turn the other cheek.
Caricatures of faith
ANAHEIM, Mohammed Shoaib:?Religion is a function of faith. Critique of any religion, therefore, must remain confined within the faith. Muslims do not caricature other religions.
Why should others do it to Muslims?
Lacking leadership
MISSION VIEJO, Pam McKeen:?In 2009 President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Nobel committee was influenced by a speech the president gave, reaching out to the Muslim world and to his efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation. How?s that working out?
We can?t blame him completely for this Middle East mess, anymore than we can blame former President George W. Bush for 9/11. But, we can blame Obama if he doesn?t show strong leadership and stop the mealy-mouth ?our hearts are broken? rhetoric while he continues campaigning.
No one wants another war but we do want respect, and if we have to come down hard in order to get it then so be it.
Illusionary control
YORBA LINDA, Roy Burtrum:?Now that Obama has shown us that he does not have full control of the Mideast, as he promised if he were elected, I assume that he will now blame George W. Bush for Mideast problems.
His decision to entertain the Muslim Brotherhood twice at the White House, and recently refusing Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu?s request for a meeting to discuss the current Mideast situation, is unexplainable. However, when one considers that he did attend Muslim schools when young, perhaps his decision is understandable.
It is amazing that half of the U.S. population is willing to give Obama a second term in office.
Swift justice, again?
LOS ALAMITOS, Robert Zato:?At Andrews Joint Base the president addressed the nation about the people killed in the Libya consulate. He said that we will bring the perpetrators to justice.
I?m sure that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has already sent out e-mails reminding everyone to read the perpetrators their Miranda rights immediately after they are captured. Then he can start planning their trials in New York City.
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