In Obama’s future

“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam,” declared President Barack Obama during his latest address to the United Nations.

He continued, “Yet to be credible, those who condemn that slander must also condemn the hate we see when the image of Jesus Christ is desecrated, churches are destroyed or the Holocaust is denied.”

As the truth about the Benghazi debacle emerges following last week’s congressional hearing, perhaps the scariest details are those that highlight the President’s contempt for free speech.

Let me be clear about what happened in Libya.

On Sept. 11, Ambassador Chris Stevens spent the day in meetings inside the American embassy, a compound protected by a 9-foot barbed wired wall and reinforced by “barriers, steel drop bars and other security upgrades.”

He finished his last meeting with a Turkish diplomat at 8:30 p.m., when Stevens escorted the diplomat outside. It was quiet and calm. There were no protests.

About an hour later, “loud noises, gunfire and explosions” at the entrance alerted the four U.S. agents about security detail, who then watched many armed men force their way inside the compound via security cameras.

The agents “immediately sounded the alarm and made telephone calls to the embassy in Tripoli, officials in Washington, the Libyan authorities and the U.S. quick reaction force located at a second compound a little over a mile away.”

The aggressors then carried out a coordinated terrorist attack that ended in the deaths of four American servicemen, including Stevens.

There were no protests, no raging Muslim men screaming about a YouTube video.

Despite this and the fact that Washington officials were notified of the details “immediately” as the attack began, the Obama administration peddled the tale that the assault was the direct result of a larger protest about an anti-Muslim film.

The administration took pains to condemn the video. Obama said on “The View,” “I don’t care how offensive this video was, and it was terribly offensive. And we should shun it.”

Hillary Clinton called it “disgusting and reprehensible.” Ambassador Susan Rice called it “heinous.”

The administration asked YouTube to “review” the video, suggesting it shouldn’t have been disseminated in the first place.

Then the president stood idly by as a federal court judge ordered the maker of the video, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, to be kept without bail on the pretext of a probation violation from his 2005 check fraud conviction.

The administration’s response to the recent rage against the United States is an embarrassment.

The Muslim freaks who carried out the anti-American demonstrations are laughing in our faces, feeling legitimized due to the administration’s focus on the anti-Islam video — a video which had nothing to due with the Benghazi terror strike.

In an American future, we do not appease fanatics who can’t fathom life in a pluralistic world.

We do not justify terrorism against a country that is a refuge for all who wish to escape the tyranny of regimes that dictate truth.

Yet, in Obama’s world, we don’t tolerate literature that some may disagree with.
We don’t hurt the feelings of Muslims or protect petty criminals from being arrested on a pretext.

In Obama’s world, the future belongs to the political correctness czar, a man so worried about tolerance that he does not tolerate.

­— arcarlis@indiana.edu