REMEMBER JIMMY CARTER

                Remember the Alamo.  Remember the Maine.  Remember Pearl Harbor.  Remember 9-11. 

                The trouble is Americans tend to forget and forgive.  I was 8 years old Dec. 7, 1941, and remember the day very well.  But for many of our children and grandchildren it is ancient history.  If it were not for movies like Tora, Tora, Tora, and Saving Private Ryan, many of today’s generation would not only be not interested but not even care who we fought in the Second World War.

                Remember Jimmy Carter?  He was our 39^th President during the years 1977 – 1981.  Jimmy Carter was, rather, still is a liberal Democrat.  Former President Jimmy Carter is 88 years old at this writing and is still adjuring liberal views.  I remember his presidency well.  He bought the idea of a gasoline crisis and lowered the maximum speed limit to 55 MPH nationwide. 

                And do you remember the 1979 Iranian Embassy hostage takeover?  52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days.  It happened under Carter’s watch and according to Brigitte Gabriel in her book, They Must Be Stopped, Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We can Do It, she makes a compelling case that Jimmy Carter’s liberal policies helped make it happen.  In view of the current Obama Administration’s policies towards Islam, Carter’s course of action, or lack of action towards Islam is worth remembering.

                Carter took sides in the 1979 Iranian revolution between Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenini.  Iran under Shah Pahlavi was secular and the Shaw  ruled by democratic standards.

                Khomenini detested the Shaw’s secular policies and friendship with the West.  In 1962, Khomenini began undermining the Shaw with Islamic purism.  In 1963 the Shaw exiled Khomenini to Turkey.  From Turkey he moved to Iraq where he began a literary jihad against the Shaw, distributing his vitriolic rhetoric throughout the Iranian mosques.  From Iraq he went to France until 1978 when the Shaw was disposed with the help of Yasser Arafat and the PLO.

                “The Carter administration publicly sought Khomeini’s friendship and vocally supported him through the 1979 Iranian revolution, which quickly deposed the shah and established Khomeini as Iran’s dictator. “ They Must Be Stopped, page 40. 

                “Ironically, and to the world’s chagrin today, former President (1976 – 1981) Jimmy Carter saw the shah as a great abuser of human rights when he cracked down on dissidents that were a threat to dismantling his government.  In his naiveté, Carter intentionally overlooked that Iran was a secular nation ruled by a man who implemented laws similar to that of a democratic society.  Instead, Carter instituted a campaign to depose the shah because of his abuse of human rights.  In a further ironic twist, Carter denounced the shah’s imprisonment of some three thousand political prisoners, many of whom, when Khomenini came to power in 1979, were executed along with an additional ten thousand to twenty thousand pro-Western ones.  In fact, the Ayatollah butchered more people during his first year as supreme ruler of Iran than the Shah had during his entire twenty-five year reign.”  Page 41. 

                The Ayatollah Khomeini became known as the “Father of Modern Jihad.”  He is credited with the phrase:  “America, the Great Satan.”  It was Khomenini who inspired radical groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.  Iran, under the Shah was an American ally, just as Egypt was under Mubarak. 

“… Carter willingly helped establish a theocratic society in an oil-rich region that is now exporting terror and developing nuclear power to fight the West.  Even though he had good intentions, the end result is the same:  Carter’s naiveté and his democratic impulses were used as a tool to end democracy.”  Page 43

                How much like Carter is Barak Obama?  He bowed to a Saudi King.  He apologized to Islam.  When dissidents in Iran looked for support from Obama, it was withheld.  He will not allow his administration to refer to Islamic terrorists as Islamic terrorists.

                During a Ramadan dinner Obama threw for Muslims in the White House in 2010 he told them he supported the construction of a 16 story Islamic Center two blocks from the 9-11 site.

                At a speech in 2010 at the Pentagon he told our military that the attack and war declared on the West has nothing to do with Islam.  A quote:  “As Americans, we will not and never will be at war with Islam.”

                He wants to build bridges with the Islamic world.

                He praised the new Islamest government of Turkey.

                He has repeatedly praised Islam as “the religion that teaches peace, justice, fairness and tolerance.”

                He wants to appease Iran’s mullahs, he wants to hurriedly establish a Palestinian state, he wanted Israel to go back to the 1967 borders, his policies in Iraq benefits Iran and he snubbed Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

                I could go on but for a more complete exposure of Obama’s tolerance towards Islam read:

                 Obama and Islam | FrontPage Magazine

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Dec 24, 2010 – But as David Horowitz and Robert Spencer forcefully argue in their new pamphlet, “Obama and Islam,” Obama's Islamophilic outreach ...

            On the Internet.

            Well, you might think, if Obama is so soft on Islam how do you account for his killing Osama Ben Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki?  He didn’t kill them, our military did.  He just took the credit.  If he had vetoed the killing of Ben Laden it would have hurt him politically. 

            Have you heard Obama speak out against Iran’s threat to close the Straits of Hormuz?  No, it has been our Navy. 

            In conclusion, Obama’s policies are as ineffective as the policies of Jimmy Carter and playing into Islam’s hands.