Well I guess that outreach, the constant apologies, and the groveling before the Dar el Islam has not exactly been successful President Obama? The Muslims do not see it as a sign of tolerance or humility but take it as a sign of weakness and cowardice. As Bin Laden said, they can sense the weak horse and this administration is definitely weak. As Ralph Peters points out – attacks and humor directed against Christianity and Judaism are fair game but do not even think about poking fun at Mohammad. I find it revealing that the Left is waiting with baited breath for the next Timothy McVeigh which would somehow balance out the Islamofascists.
by Ralph Peters
Appeasement doesn’t work. It doesn’t work with dictators, and it doesn’t work with terrorists. The attempted Times Square bombing was yet more proof.
We’ve allowed Islamist extremists to dictate what we can say, print or portray. We don’t want to offend them. The First Amendment bows before Islam.
The Obama administration has ducked all unwelcome evidence that such appeasement doesn’t work. Instead, it goes to absurd lengths to convince Muslim radicals that we respect their views.
Our counterfactual assumption is that, if we’re really, really nice, the fanatics will stop being grumpy and blowing us up. But Islamist extremists haven’t read our actions (or inactions) as an admirable exercise in tolerance. They read our bowing and scraping and apologizing as weakness.
The mean-dog law applies: Let that pit bull sense that you’re afraid, and you’re going to feel its teeth.
Instead of applauding our ecumenical decency, terrorists just smell fear.
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Read the rest here: The smell of our fear
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