Holy Caliphate Mr. President!

At this moment there are several foreign and domestic events developing that deserve attention. None perhaps is more momentous than the developments in the Middle East and the disastrous U.S. response. Last year massive protests broke out after another in a long string of fraudulent elections in Iran. The Islamic government cracked down on the protesters violently. The beleaguered protesters begged for help from the US, but Obama said noting for days. Eventually he publicly stated that the US would not meddle in Iranian internal affairs, but meekly added a footnote that the protesters’ rights should be respected.

Since the first protests last year, hundreds of Iranian protesters have been executed. It has been estimated that a protester is being executed there every eight hours around the clock. Recent efforts to rekindle the protests in Tehran inspired by first Tunisia and then Egypt have been met with extreme counter violence, arrests and more executions. Again, the protesters have pleaded for US moral support. Obama has said nothing.

The situation in Iran cries out for a worldwide intensive diplomatic and public relations blitz by the US, led by the President, condemning the crack down and emphasizing the horrendous executions as human rights violations. This should include the US calling an emergency UN security counsel meeting and passing resolutions condemning the action. Instead the UN was busy this week condemning Israeli settlements and Obama has concentrated on supporting demonstrations first in Egypt and now Bahrain, another American Ally and criticising Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker, over union policy, a matter (unlike US foreign policy) over which the President has no authority.

Meanwhile, it has come to light that the Egyptian revolution was inspired by Google executive, Wael Gohmin, who had been working with the US State Department last year on fomenting revolution in Egypt through the Internet. In an apparently coordinated effort with the US, the moment the demonstrations started in Egypt, Obama called press conferences supporting the protesters and demanding Mubarak step down. He claimed this was a democratic movement and called for the government to respect the will of the people. (Gohmin was arrested and abused but eventually released unharmed. contrast this with Iran's response to protests). Obama administrative minions were busy calming fears that Egypt might become a Muslim state under the Muslim Brotherhood. National Security Chief, James Clapper, testified last week to Congress that the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is a secular, peaceful and charitable organization. The uproar over this false testimony was so immediate and severe that his employees were forced to retracted it the next day.

Now that Mubarak is gone, just this week the spiritual leader of the world wide Muslim Brotherhood, Imam Yusuf Al Qaradawi, who has been banned from Egypt for thirty years, was invited back by the new military junta and has spoken in Tahrir Square to more than a million onlookers. Wael Gohmin, who inspired the revolution and who has been sympathetic to the west (remember, the one we were working with) tried to speak at this weeks rally, but Muslim Brotherhood thugs intercepted him as he tried to take the podium and he was quietly ushered away. Although his speech that day was mild by comparison to his typical, Al Qaraawi is on record calling or the destruction of Israel and has recently prayed to Allah on Al jazeerah TV to grant him the satisfaction of killing Jews before he dies, even if its from his wheel chair (see top video on the bar to the left of this article).

Iran is the most dangerous regime in the world today. It sponsors terrorism against the western civilization and secular Arab countries world wide. It has taken over Lebanon establishing a radical Muslim state on Israel’s northern border. It has helped the resistance in both Afghanistan and Iraq. It is steadfastly working on a nuclear weapons program and a delivery system and it regularly calls for the elimination of Israel and the annihilation of the United States.

Obama, on the other hand, has said during his campaign that the US should “offer Iran an open hand instead of a fist”. His calls for negotiations with Iran and his refusal to help the internal Iranian resistance while actively undermining US allies in the region, only strengthens Iran and enables It’s quest for a world wide Islamic Caliphate (an Islamic sate governed by Sharia law).

Because of the President’s complete blank out on Iran, the protesters’ efforts there have been ignored by the press. Instead, reporting is mostly about Egypt and other allies of the US where protests have been dealt with less harshly, including Bahrain, home of the US 5th fleet in the Gulf. If Iran gains a powerful ally in Egypt via an Islamic state there, the rest of the dominoes could soon follow and the resulting Islamic Caliphate would threaten the very existence of western civilization.

There are only two rational options to deal with Iran: an overthrow of the government from within or a military strike. If the first fails the second is inevitable. Unfortunately neither option seems to be on the US agenda. Actively undermining US allies in the region while completely ignoring the opportunity to deal a death blow to Iran's Islamic dictatorship will have disastrous consequences for the US.

The point here is the inexplicable dichotomy between the President's position on Iran and his position on other middle eastern regimes. In regard to Egypt, formerly an American ally, the US has been working behind the scenes to foment revolution and the President has been intensely involved in supporting the revolution publicly from the start. On the other hand, in regard to Iran, a deadly enemy and threat to the entire world order, he has a hands off attitude. The President's lack of concern for the establishment of Islamic states and his ambivalence towards Iran, coupled with his affinity for open US borders and his quest to eliminate the US nuclear arsenal does not bode well for US security in the future.