On Barack Obama As A Muslim
A little late to this party, as it is more then a week since the New Yorker posted that cover, but hey, Girl One and I are on holiday, so time is moving extra slow for us…
But forgive me for my very poor understanding of politics and current affairs, but if Obama was a muslim, wouldn’t having him in the White House effectively end the “War On Terror”? It would certainly take the wind out of the sails of the Fundamentalist Muslim view of America as an evil and corrupt Zionist state, so from an ideological viewpoint it might take them a few years to come up with some other reason for demonising the US as the Great Satan.
So the Americans get a president that is at least likable, if not a card-carrying Christian, and the terrorists get to turn their attention onto other less Arab-friendly countries, like, well, like us here in the UK.
I’m being facetious, of course, but if one takes it as read that when we talk about terrorists now, we’re supposed to be thinking specifically of Fundamental Islam, and that the pretext for the clash between the US and the, uh, “World of Terror” is primarily an ideological one between Bible and Koran, the attempts to smear Obama with claims about his religion are redundant, and those daft posters suggesting that a vote for the Democrats is a vote for September 11th times two hundred and fifty two thousand are even more ridiculous, because why on earth would Bin Laden’s Howling Commandos be more likely to attack a country that votes to be lead by a Muslim?
Obviously, I don’t get politics, so never fear, I will most likely go silent-running on the subject again now…
