Hairytic
DP Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 22, 2012
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The President is not responsible obviously for the making of that movie -- but claiming that is the reason for the outrage is fairly laughable if you really want to understand the region.
He looked bad doing it -- but what he said was correct. Our foreign policy has been a disaster.
What the President says does matter -- no amount of complimenting Islam is going to change any minds over there either.
I can agree we should not let religious nuts take over this country -- but comparing "religious conservatives" to radical terrorists is quite a stretch.
The movie itself it not the reason for the protests. Someone has hyped the movie up in such a way that the protesters are convenced that the US and the Western world is against Islam. It doesn't help that we have had a preacher in Florida wanting to burn Korans and that the religious right is claiming all Muslims are terrorists.
President Obama's foreign policies have not been a disaster. Our reputation around the world has improved because of him and he shines when it comes to foreign policy. I think most of the world would agree with me on this point.
We are not at war with Islam, and there is no reason why the President shouldn't explain that to the world. Bush did the same thing to make sure that tensions over the terrorist attacks wouldn't inflame an already tense situation. I see no reason for Obama to make statements that Islam is our enemy just to please the religious right.
Any religious extreme is bad be it Christian or Islamic. Christians can be and have been just as bloody and ruthess as Muslims, so I don't put anything past radicals be they Christian or Muslim. Lets not forget that the radical right have TV shows and they go on and claim we should kill world leaders and Islam is out to get us all. Just because the CHristian radicals are more passive agressive doesn't make them any less dangerous.