On MSNBC, I was watching people (I kid you not) claiming that because Americans voted for Barack Hussein Obama, there’s this wave of pro-Americanism now washing through the Islamic world. We are now being told that Barack Hussein Obama’s Islamic roots undermine al-Qaeda’s narrative about the United States, how the “International Community” loves Barack Obama now, and how America’s diplomatic standing in the world has vastly increased because Barack Hussein Obama is now our President-Elect.

I’m deeply skeptical about the narrative that just because America has elected Barack Hussein Obama, the Islamic world is now in a lovefest of pro-Americanism. The Middle East is a very very racist place. Ayman al-Zawahiri appeals to Arab racism when he uses the N-word to describe Barack Obama, and his depiction of Barack Obama is no different from how Arab cartoons have routinely portrayed Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice in the past.

Past is prologue. I would be surprised if the Arab press doesn’t put out a barrage of anti-black racism against President-Elect Obama so severe in its invective that it would make a lot of Klan propaganda look bland in comparison.