Spring Fever — Obama Can’t Be Cured
I’m very grateful for Andy Bostom’s generous PJM review of my new book, Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy – more details about which are on my website, AndrewCMcCarthy.com.
Like most Americans, though, I’m not so grateful that the Obama administration remains in the grip of Spring Fever, unwilling or unable to apprehend that the mayhem raging through the Middle East is easily explained by the fact that, in that part of the world, Islamic supremacism is the mainstream ideology. It is not a fringe ideology of “violent extremists,” and it is anything but moderate.
The administration cannot even bring itself to admit that the murder of our Ambassador and three other Americans in Libya was a coordinated, pre-planned attack by trained jihadists — the point of the Islamic supremacist spear. Obama officials continue, absurdly, to insist that the atrocity was the result of spontaneous rioting provoked by an obscure YouTube video. Worse, in a shocking betrayal of the president’s duty to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution’s principle of free speech, the administration has now taken what is patently retaliatory (il)legal action against the video-maker.
In fact, the administration does not even get the rationale behind the exploitation of this video, said to portray Mohammed in an unflattering light, as the latest pretext for barbarically disproportionate Muslim mayhem. It is not about a video, any more than similar episodes in recent years have been about cartoons, teddy-bears, accidental Koran burnings, etc. It is about Islamic supremacist ideology, the driving imperative of which is to impose sharia, Islam’s totalitarian societal system — rendered as such by centuries of scholarship, which, as I recount in Spring Fever, is captured in Reliance of the Traveller, a sharia manual bearing the endorsements of the faculty at Cairo’s al-Azhar University (the seat of Sunni learning since the 10th Century) and the International Institute of Islamic Thought, a Muslim Brotherhood think-tank in the U.S. Under this repressive interpretation of sharia — which is mainstream in the Muslim Middle East — any critical examination of Islam and its prophet is considered blasphemy punishable by severe penalties, including death. That is the cause of the rioting. The video is just an excuse.
Will the president ever acknowledge this? Doubtful. The Wall Street Journal reports that, with respect to the anti-American rioting, Obama has sought help from his good friend Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Islamist prime minister of Turkey. As Spring Fever recounts, Erdogan denies there is any such thing as “moderate Islam” (he says such a suggestion is an insult to Muslims), and he regards efforts to get Muslims to assimilate in Western societies as “a crime against humanity.” According to a report in the Turkish press today, Erdogan also says “Islamophobia” should also be prosecuted as a “crime against humanity,” and in that regard, he plans to speak out against the video when he appears at the UN General Assembly meeting later this month.
Exactly what kind of help Obama expects to get from Erdogan is unclear.
Mr. McCarthy,
You Sir, are a blessing and an important lone voice in the wilderness!! I fear for you and pray that you will remain safe. Is it possible that Huma could have minimized the threats in MENA and that is why SecState did not re-inforce the AT level at Consulates and Embassies. The complete infiltration of the Obama Administration by the MB and aligned movements is a bigger threat to our Nation Security than the Taliban or other AQAM groups. Why do I say that? Because we can always use kinentic power against those groups but what do you do about those domestically? The Arab Spring is important to study and I can’t wait for the paper version of your newest book. However, REP. Bachmann and the other Four are/were on to something and every thread must be followed no matter how sensitive or damaging. Question?: What did President BHO due exactly in Pakistan in 1982? Did he know David Belfield AKA Daoud Salahuddin??
Please address here or send me a private email. These questions are critical to our survival and Constitutional way of life. Keep up the great writings and research. – SCR
The Ansar Al-Sharia guys who attacked and killed in a pre-planned military operation is a Muslim Brotherhood / Al Qaeda Aligned Movement and they have all spent time honing their skills in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. When the Libyan Civil War broke out in early 2011 they returned in mass. Now, many of these same AAS guys also happen to be from the Eastern Libya Tribes and pretended to be Anti-Ghaddafi “Rebels” who Obama / Cameron (UK) / Sarkozy (France) helped train in military tactics! I don’t know how early US CIA and/or SOF IPB guys were covertly infiltrated into Libya but the UK press reported that UK 22 SAS “smash” teams were on the ground in Libya at least three weeks prior to the UN Security Council Resolution setting up the No-Fly Zone. The mainly targeted for the NATO aircraft but reports came out that they also trained rebels! BLOWBACK from OP Odessy Dawn! Thank GOD we are not in Syria – at least I hope I am right. Reminds me of blowback from Clinton’s Balkans adventure – AQ trained Bosnian Muslims in tactics too!
Thank God for you, Mr. McCarthy. Please never back down from being totally honest with us. Our country depends on men of integrity like you. This situation in the State Dept. with the infiltration of MB advocates really should be the topic everyone is worried about instead of some stupid video from a May fundraising event by the Romney campaign.
PS Now I have to get modernized and buy a e-book reader so I can download your book.
“So good to find somebody with some original thoughts on this subject”