“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam,” said President Obama, self-appointed Defender of the Faith, in his UN address last week.
But, he added carefully, “those who condemn that slander [of Islam] must also condemn the hate we see when the image of Jesus Christ is desecrated, churches are destroyed or the Holocaust is denied.”
Obama was pushing a point about the reactions to a video mocking Islam, but his speech may well have revealed his thinking about Judaism and Israel.
His carefully crafted words suggest that each religion has its major figure — Islam has Mohammed, Christianity has Jesus . . . and the Jews have the Holocaust.
That’s telling enough.
But it’s even more revealing that his gaze is focused solely on the past (on Holocaust denial) rather than on the dangerous present: that is, on those who want to repeat the Holocaust and murder all the Jews Hitler missed.
That group is extremely dangerous, and is led today by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who told the UN last week that the “uncivilized Zionists” of Israel would soon be “eliminated.”
Presumably with the nuclear weapons Iran is constructing, one would think.
Obama paid lip service to this threat at the UN, but does he truly understand it?
He seems not to, telling 60 Minutes a week ago that he’d ignore all the “noise” coming from Israel about Iranian nukes.
And that’s disturbing, too.
Israel is rightly abuzz these days — the “noise” is loud, but if the US doesn’t help thwart Iran’s nuclear aspirations, suffice to say that the rest is silence.
And if anyone believes that a nuclear-armed Iran is in America’s best interest — well, time to think again.
It’s more than noise, Mr. President.