What's really behind the recent wave of Muslim protests worldwide?

Bruce Thornton, Front Page Mag:

The most depressing thing about the Obama administration’s foreign policy debacle unfolding in the Middle East is that for sixty years we’ve repeatedly experienced the same Islamist game plan for defeating us that is being employed today.

Selling the West a Specious Pretext

Thucydides first taught us that states pursue their interests under the cover of “justice” or some other pretext when they can’t achieve their aims and interests by force...

Over the years Islamists have similarly ginned up pretexts for violence in order to bully Western governments into serving the jihadists’ long-term goal–– the establishment of a global Islamic super-state founded on shari’a law...Numerous other pretexts are regularly produced by the Islamists, from novels and cartoons to comments by the Pope. In each case, the West has uncritically accepted the pretext, agreeing with the aggrieved Muslims that something or other has “insulted” their prophet or Islam and that they are justified in their anger.

The 14-minute video that surfaced on 9/11 is just the latest example. The Obama administration and its media shills immediately validated the pretext as an explanation for the violence, most recently U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who said that the violence was sparked by “a very hateful, very offensive video that has offended many people around the world.” Yet within hours this assertion was exploded, as evidence piled up that the murder of our ambassador was a carefully planned act of vengeance for the drone killing of a Libyan al Qaeda leader, and the assaults on our other embassies were planned and executed as a celebration of the 9/11 attacks. That’s why rioters in Cairo chanted, “We are all Osama!”

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