It seems almost surreal. On the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Egyptian mobs
stormed the U.S. embassy in Cairo, tore down and desecrated the American flag and replaced it with a black flag associated with Islamic terrorists. The protesters were said to be angry with a new film that allegedly insults Muhammad. Our government reacted by
apologizing to the religious extremists:
The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by
misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn
efforts to offend believers of all religions. Today, the 11th anniversary of the
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are
honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to
the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of
American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the
universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.
UPDATE: The Obama administration has decided the apology wasn't such a good idea. It is now disavowing the earlier statement. From
Politico:
The Obama administration is disavowing a statement from its own Cairo embassy that seemed to apologize for anti-Muslim activity in the United States.
"The statement by Embassy Cairo was not cleared by Washington and does not reflect the views of the United States government," an administration official told POLITICO.
The U.S. embassy in Cairo put out a statement early Tuesday that apologized for an anti-Muslim film being circulated by an Israeli-American real estate developer.
Yet the Obama administration plans to send billions more in foreign aid to the Egyptian government that permits attacks on our U.S. embassy.
8 comments:
Now that an American has died due to these protests to whom will our President apoligize?
My understanding is that the State Dept. has retracted this lame statement and replaced it with another. Begs the question of who is really in charge these days. Amateurs.
I do not understand our government. Saying " We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others." and NOT something like
"We firmly reject those actions of those who kill or injury our citizens, and justify these actions in the name of their religion. Actions like these are spawned out of hatred and intolerance and will never be seen as righteous by any god or any man".
What pandering simps the US government and our POTUS.
The White House disavowed the statement. The State Department run by Hillary Clinton has not.
your timeline is backwards. the statement that you claim was an apology to those who stormed the embassy was in fact issued well before the attack.
The State Department reiterated its position after the White House disavowed and after the Cairo embassy storming had occurred.
From Breitbart:
For the second time in as many weeks, the State Department has contradicted President Barack Obama, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton re-affirmed the apologetic stance disavowed earlier this evening by the White House in reacting to the storming of the U.S. embassy in Cairo by a mob of radical Egyptian Al Qaeda sympathizers on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Clinton's statements on the day's events, released through the State Department's website and Twitter feed, condemn "in the strongest possible terms" an attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya in Benghazi that left one American dead, but offer no condemnation of the attack on the U.S. embassy in Cairo.
Instead, Clinton reiterates an apology issued earlier today by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo--now deleted--which said: "We condemn the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims."
"The U.S. deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others," Clinton said. "Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation," she added.
However, the White House has distanced itself from such apologies, according to Politico, saying that they were not "cleared by Washington."
Carteresque
"I will stand with the Muslims if the political winds shift in an ugly direction" ~Barack Obama, Audacity of Hope
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