Administration wooing of Islam

Submitted by Jarrow (United States), Apr 20, 2010 at 06:30

The wooing of Islam seems to be as thankless as it has been a quixotic venture. Time and again, Muslims who have been hired by the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department and other government entities prove to have jihadi backgrounds, sympathies or far worse. While qualified Muslims are as entitled to government employment as anyone else, and some are certainly valuable and loyal, the vetting process has been abysmal. The second problem is that high profile gestures such as celebrating Iftar, endless apologies to Islam, making a speech at a Cairo university, etc., does not seem to have won us any friends anymore than did removing Sadaam Hussein or the Taliban from their perches.

It seems that our Islam policies need a review starting with a publicly stated expectation of a quid quo pro.

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