Obama as seen in Damascus

MEMRI on-line has an article delineating Arab [Muslim] attitudes toward the new American Leftist government. Put succinctly, the Obama overtures to negotiate are viewed as a capitulation of American hegemony to the determined Muslim resistance. America is weak and failing and will be brought down.

One of the more interesting writers quoted in the MEMRI article is by a philosopher, Dr. Ahmad Burgawi:

”Palestinian philosopher Dr. Ahmad Burqawi, of the Philosophy Department at Damascus University, argued in Al-Thawra that Obama's election ran counter to the Arab interests, since it would slow down the erosion of the U.S.'s power. He wrote: "Many columnists were jubilant when Obama prevailed over his Republican rival, whose name I have already forgotten, in the U.S. presidential [elections]. [So great was the enthusiasm] that it seemed as if, had the Arabs been able to vote, Obama would have won by an overwhelming 99 percent majority - as is usually the case here [among the Arabs] - but this time, [the results would have been] genuine.

"The ecstasy displayed by the Arab public as it followed Obama's victory on the [television] screens is understandable. Their hatred for Bush made them feel vengeful, [and they felt] as though Obama was taking revenge on Bush in their name… For myself, I hoped that the Republican candidate would win in a landslide, because I thought it in the Arabs' interests that the U.S. continue its idiotic policies in the world, which were leading it into crisis after crisis. We have no interest in a savior who will deliver the U.S. from the diplomatic, financial, and global crisis [in which it finds itself]. In my opinion, the Arabs' delight at Obama's election reflects a naïve and simplistic outlook based on nothing more than vengefulness…

"Oh Arabs, instead of rejoicing at Obama's victory, think how we can force the U.S. to recognize our existence, our rights, and our humanity in Palestine, Iraq, and Sudan, and how to encourage it to take us into consideration as it plans the future of the region according to its own interests. Oh Arabs, the U.S., at this stage of its history, is, to some degree, the enemy of every nation on the face of the earth… Its policy is pitched against nature, against man, against the future, and against the Arab nation - its culture and its future. The U.S. is [the enemy] of our hopes."

What the US diplomacy under Obama does not seem to realize is that the “hopes” of the Muslim nations are simple: a global caliphate, with all humans forced to be Muslim. The morality of the Qur’an supports virtually any means necessary to obtain that “hope”.

There is no need for any Muslim nation to accede to western demands. Resistance is holy, especially resistance to the death. When western nations are overrun by Muslim immigrants who vote their host countries into sharia, the resistance will become the aggression. Why accede when one can just wait out the impending fall of western domination?

At that point, the western Leftists will no longer be a factor in running the globe, as they currently think they will be. Atheist Leftists and Materialist Relativists will become either Muslim or dead.