Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize – Wishful Thinking

by Dan White

All Americans join in with our President, Barak Obama, in our desire for peace and desire to be free from attack whether it is from a country or Muslim terrorists.

The Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded to our President is an honor for all of us and expresses everyone’s hope to live in a world without war, bloodshed, and terroristic attacks on our citizens – terrorists who have no ethics or qualms about killing women and children.

The chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize’s committee, Thorbjorn Jagland that decides to whom the award should go explained their decision to give the award to President Obama.  He cited Mr. Obama’s efforts to heal the divide between the West and the Muslim world and scale down a Bush-era proposal for an anti-missile shield in the Eastern European countries of Poland and the Czech Republic.  The missile defenses were to be installed for protection from the long range missile and possible nuclear attack from Iran against Europe.

Jagland said, “All these things [done by Obama] have contributed to – I wouldn’t say a safer world – but a world with less tension.”

The hope of Jagland, his committee, and President Obama to negotiate peace through talk rather than military strength is admirable and noble.  But, it will never happen.

I believe even moderate Muslims hate the United States.  Certainly, the militant Muslims seek the destruction of all things American and will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing the United States to its knees.  Most of the Muslims cheered when the terrorists brought down the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, killing 3,000 civilians.

The militant Muslims use every means possible to strike at our citizenry.  The use of a nuclear bomb or a weapon of mass destruction looms on the horizon like a thunder head.  They will lie and deceive to reach their purpose of having nuclear weapons to dispose of the hated Americans, the evil Satan, and the advanced civilization we have achieved.

Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is moving forward pell-mell to attain a nuclear arsenal for the purpose of annihilation and terror.  Ahmadinejad and his government have done nothing to extend their hands in peace.  The longer diplomats talk and hope for peace, the more time is given for research and development of Iran’s ability to kill millions in one terrifying blast.

The Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan have their eyes on the prize – control of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal.  The chaos, murders, and strikes of terror will not stop until they have control of the nuclear weaponry        possessed by Pakistan.

It is naïve to think that the United States can ever have peace with the Muslim world through diplomacy.  The core beliefs of Islam will never allow that to happen.

First, the United States is openly tolerant to gay, lesbian, and trans-gendered people.  Islam vilifies homosexuality.  For example, In Malaysia's Penal Code Section 377, the sentence for conviction of sodomy is flogging, plus up to twenty years in prison. Victims are flogged with a section of bamboo that is split into several strips. When bamboo is split, it has extremely sharp edges, which slice the skin like knives. Flogging is quite bloody and leaves permanent scars.  In addition to Section 337, just to prevent any homosexual from escaping conviction, Section 337A provides for a male to receive up to two years in prison for any act of 'gross indecency with another male person.'  Similar laws are on the books throughout the Muslim empire.

Second, the entertainment industry of the United States is saturated with pornography, illicit sex, and vulgarity.  This is anathema in the Islamic religion.  Their cultural police do not allow such films to legally be shown in the countries.

Another point of no compromise with the United States is the freedom and rights women have in our nation.  In many Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia, women cannot even apply for a driver’s license.  Under Taliban rule and for fundamentalist Muslims, women cannot even show their face in public, and when they do go out in public, the husband or father must give them permission to leave the house.  Even when a female U.S. diplomat travels to such a country, she must cover her head with a scarf and sometimes cover her face.  Such coverings show the woman in submission to the male in their male-dominated religion.

A Muslim woman must receive the permission of her father to marry, and God help the woman who marries a non-Muslim.  Muslims will never be at peace with the United States who allows a woman to marry anyone of her choosing.  Such freedom strikes at the root of power that this stranglehold over women has from this religion.  And isn’t that what it is all about?  Power and control?

Daughters are murdered by their fathers and even their mothers if they marry outside their religion.  They can be murdered for being raped.  Such actions bring disgrace upon the girl’s family.  And what is this practice called?  Honor killings.  Killings to preserve the honor of the girl’s family.

The freedoms and tolerant attitudes that the United States has are threats, real threats to the Muslim religion, culture, and power.  They fear the influence of the United States upon the control and power that their religious bureaucrats hold over their subservient people.  Their religion is used to maintain their position and power just like any religion can be used for such authoritarian rule.

Finally, there is the hatred of America for it’s friendship and support of Israel.  No amount of diplomatic niceness or Nobel Peace Prizes will ever change the hatred Muslims have in their hearts for Israel.   The Fatah and Hamas constitutions call for the destruction of Israel. Yet, Israel has shown good faith in diplomacy and agreed under several proposals to cede most of their West Bank land to the Muslims and gave away the Gaza strip.  Still, that is not enough.  Nothing short of the annihilation of Israel will suffice and such annihilation is war and not peace.

Out of 175 United Nations Security Council resolutions up to 1990, 97 were against Israel and out of 690 General Assembly resolutions, 429 were against Israel.  All of these well-meaning resolutions to appease the Muslims have brought nothing but more terrorist attacks, threats, and bloodshed.  These resolutions like Obama’s efforts to bring the Muslims to the table of peace and like the Nobel Peace Prize committee’s desire for peace do nothing to bring actual peace.  The Muslims do not want or desire peace.  Nor can the Muslims make peace with a country that is the personification of Satan to them.  Satan must be destroyed.

All Americans hope and pray for peace.  Why can’t we all just get along, sit down have a beer together, and resolve our differences?

President Obama has certainly tried.  He refused to have a National Day of Prayer Service, a largely Christian observance, in the White House on May 7 so as not to precedence to Christianity.  In fact, he said at an April news conference in Turkey that America is no longer a Christian nation.  Further, he reached out to Muslims with a White House observance during Ramadan on September 2.  At that dinner, Mr. Obama said, "Together, we have a responsibility to foster engagement grounded in mutual interest and mutual respect.”  The only problem, Mr. President, is that the Muslims have never nor will they ever respect the United States.

In Obama’s June address to the Muslim world from Cairo, he showed his naïveté.  He said, “The truth that America and Islam are not exclusive…they overlap.…” He then went on to identify the common principles between Islam and America: “justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”   However, the walls that separate Islam from America are greater than any principles that might unite us.

All of us wish for peace, but the chance of Muslims making peace with the United States is wishful thinking.  With our sensual culture, our freedoms, our friendship with Israel, our tolerance for different faiths, and tolerance for different sexual practices, plus the compassion shown toward abused and raped women – all of this and more enrage Muslims.  The United States stands for everything they stand against.

Muslims seeking peace with the United States even as the United States seeks peace with Islam?  Wishing and hoping on Obama’s part and the Nobel Peace Prize committee’s part will not make it happen.