Mike Scruggs
Here is a short one, leading into
Obama's increasingly bold anti-Christian actions.
Was Obama’s emphasis on the anti-Muslim
YouTube video as the cause of the embassy attack related to Obama and
Clinton plans for prosecuting “Islamophobia” as a Hate Crime in
U.S.?
The Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC), a 56-nation
political powerhouse often operating under UN auspices, initiated a
resolution in 2005 calling for a ten-year plan to counter “Islamophobia,”
a propaganda term invented by the Muslim Brotherhood. The plan called
for all UN states to enact legislation to punish any criticism of Islam.
In March 2011, King Abdullah
of Saudi Arabia succeeded in getting the United Nations to pass a resolution
condemning “Islamophobia,” but he made it clear that his aim was
much more ambitious. He wanted Islamophobia—essentially any criticism
of Islam or its Prophet, Muhammad—to be a UN Hate Crime enforceable
in the United States and other Western countries.
This plan had the sympathy
of U.S. President Barack Obama, whose agenda during his term of office
has been hostile to any orthodox form of Christianity and has favored
Islam at every opportunity, including a plan to build a Mosque near
the 9-11 site in New York City. Obama’s record, particularly since
his November 2012 reelection can be shown to be increasingly anti-Christian,
anti-Jewish, and anti-Israel. Most recently, the Obama Administration
has released prospective regulations to severely limit any religious
expression in the Armed Forces, making it very difficult for military
chaplains to speak freely in ministering to American military personnel.
In December 2011, Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton was working with the OIC to implement corresponding Hate Crimes
Laws in the United States and other Western countries to criminalize
criticism of Islam and exact punishment against those who violate them.
Meanwhile, Coptic Christians
in Egypt—about 10 percent of the population—were undergoing increasing
persecution. In July 2012, a short 14 minute YouTube video, really a
trailer for a longer two-hour movie, was produced by Coptic Christians
in Los Angeles. The video showed the present Coptic persecution in Egypt
and scenes from the life of the Prophet Muhammad. Muhammad was portrayed
accurately according to the Koran and teachings of Muhammad, although
the video was very amateurish. The two-hour movie was screened only
once by 10 people in Los Angeles and never again. The 14-minute video
was uploaded to the Internet in early September 2012. Muslim clerics
in Egypt and the Muslim world considered the Coptic Christian portrayal
of Muhammad blasphemy—punishable by death in Islamic Law (Sharia).
On September 11, the anniversary
of the 9-11-2001 attack on the United States, a protest riot against
the video—probably organized rather than spontaneous—broke out at
the U.S Diplomatic Mission in Cairo, Egypt. Shortly thereafter, on the
same day, there was an organized terrorist attack on the U.S diplomatic
compound in Benghazi, Libya, and the American Ambassador, Chris Stevens,
and three other Americans were killed. Meanwhile protests against the
video,
The Innocence
of the Muslim People, began to spread around the Muslim world.
State Department emails
indicate that high-level State Department personnel watered down the mention of Islamist terrorist organizations
involved in the attack and emphasized probable connections to the YouTube
video protest. This has been confirmed by State Department Whistleblower
Gregory Hicks.
UN Ambassador Susan Rice began on September
16 to make media appearances blaming the embassy attack on the video.
The Obama Administration continued this line through September 25.
President Obama and Secretary Clinton undoubtedly
hoped the video issue would mask their foreign policy failures in Libya
and Egypt during the election, but they probably also hoped to use the
video issue as both a cause of the embassy attack and a convenient public
relations tool to push through “Islamophobic” Hate Crime Laws in
the United States, further suppressing Christian, and Jewish free speech.
