Debbie Schlussel: Bowing to Muslims, Obama Abandons US Stand on Religious Freedom

Bowing to Muslims, Obama Abandons US Stand on Religious Freedom

By Debbie Schlussel

In the past, I’ve noted that Obama’s ass-kissing and pandering to the Islamic world was no different and no more egregious than that of Bush. Both of them are equally disgusting in their brown-nosing of Islam. But now, Obama’s taken it a step further.

I warned of a similar action by Obama before on this site–Obama’s softening of America’s lip service to free speech around the world, in order to please Muslims and protect Islam from criticism by others, something which disturbed even hardcore liberals. Now, he’s softening America’s lip service to freedom of religion around the world. In the past, America has always voiced a strong insistence upon religious freedom for all people in any nation. It was merely talk, as we’ve repeatedly tolerated, and even financed and propped up religious intolerance by Muslims–as in Iraq, where Christians are now persecuted and from which they are fleeing in droves (thanks, Bush).

But now Obama is voicing a softened stand on religion, as I warned he would, last year. And he’s using silly, liberal intellectual semantic tricks. Even a bipartisan commission to which Obama, himself, appointed members, rips him on this. And they get it–it’s being done to condone Muslim persecution of Christians around the world.

A bipartisan U.S. commission on religious freedom says President Obama is softening his stand on protecting the right to one’s faith at a time when religious persecution is on the rise, according to an annual report to be released today.

The 11th annual report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom says Obama’s recent call for nations to respect “freedom of worship” rather than “religious freedom” allows regimes to claim they are not oppressing certain religions if those faiths exist in a form acceptable to the regime.

(Read the report, though I have to note that the cover photo is particularly misleading, not to mention obnoxious, given the contents of the report and the statements in this article.)

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