Secretary of State Clinton Lashes Out at Europe; Demands That They Appease Muslims
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, November 19, 2010, 5:03 AM
Muslim women in Sweden advocate for their right to wear headscarves in schools throughout France. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticized Wednesday the state of religious freedom in Europe, as Washington highlighted policies and attitudes toward Muslim veils and Islam as a whole.… Read more »
(AFP/Bertil Ericson)
Does this really surprise you?
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lashed out at Europe yesterday demanding that EU countries be more appeasing to Muslims.
AFP reported:
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticized Wednesday the state of religious freedom in Europe, as Washington highlighted policies and attitudes toward Muslim veils and Islam as a whole.
“Several European countries have placed harsh restrictions on religious expression,” Clinton said, without elaborating as she unveiled the State Department’s report on international religious freedom for the last year.
Her assistant secretary for human rights, Michael Posner, cited France’s ban on wearing the niqab and other face coverings in public places and a Swiss motion passed last year that bans building new minarets.
Both measures have been criticized as intolerant moves stigmatizing Europe’s growing Muslim population.
Posner acknowledged “growing sensitivity and tension in Europe” over Islam.
“What we are urging our European friends to do is to take every measure to try to alleviate that tension,” he added.
The different attitudes toward Muslims in Europe and the United States are the source of frequent tensions and misunderstandings between both sides of the Atlantic.
This foolish administration has become a complete embarrassment.
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eaglewingz08 commented:
What next Hillary lashing out at Euro states that outlaw muslim required cliteridectimies and genital sewings? The liberal mindset as to what is religious ‘freedom’ is astounding.
tarpon commented:
Not really. What did you think she meant by “early 20th century progressive”.
Just another tyrant worshiper. She thinks Muslims are find for her purposes. So did Hitler.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
I wonder, if Tea Partiers were burning hundreds of cars in our major cities every month, if we were the cause of a 3x rise in the number of rapes per year, if we killed filmmakers and jews in broad daylight with kitchen knives, if we burned down buildings when editors of magazines published cartoons ridiculing the Founding Fathers and our movement, if we rioted in the streets at the drop of a hat, with signs like “Behead Those Who Insult the TEA Party”…
WOULD HILARY WANT TO APPEASE US?
Woman, you make me want to cuss like Samuel L. Jackson had Tourette’s.
toongoon commented:
When did promoting international Islamist freedom become an american policy? Is Hillary pushing sharia law on the world? Is she even American any more? She spends so much time outside of the U.S. avoiding being associated with zero that she has forgotten that she is supposed to represent American values. Hillary, forget about the presidency, stay in the middle east and you can be the pet of some Imam. We don’t need you!
arnonerik commented:
And some would have us believe that dumping Obama for Hillary would be an improvement! Sorry, they both march to a different (deranged) drummer than the majority of Americans.
Khan Krum commented:
It’s that third ball that really throws her out of whack with reality.
Shawny commented:
Yes, remember who she has said she is and who she is standing with. This is a woman many wanted to be this nations president and it appears to me now she would have been a much greater threat to America than the inept puppet we now have in charge. You would never know that either of them have any loyalty or pride in this country, nor the will to defend it. History shows that appeasing oppressors only strengthens them. That applies to our current administration as well as those Muslims who seek to replace our laws and destroy our rights and freedoms. Europe has already shown us the path to ruin on both counts. Hillary has forgotten this is America.
RedBeard commented:
Shut up, Hillary. Just shut up and sit down, you foolish and ignorant clod.
Arnonerik nailed it. There’s NOTHING good about that woman. Thinking the country would be better off with her instead of Obama is like thinking that being hanged is better than being shot.
ProLifer commented:
What about Catholics being murdered in Iraq?
wow commented:
#5 November 19, 2010 at 6:39 am
arnonerik commented:
You got that right. There is nothing good about her. She is perhaps more dangerous than zero… she has some brains, where he is a bungler.
exweegie commented:
The US Gov. lecturing Sweden on rights for women! The American Left out-liberaling the Swedes is a world class achievement.
Retro commented:
The Hildabeast had better be concerned about the muslim in the WH before she tries to appease the muslims in Euorpe
Tom63010 commented:
Wow!
A Democrat Politician expressing an opinion in the name of America that only a small minority of American’s share.
No wait that isn’t a wow moment anymore that is an everyday occurrence!
bigL commented:
They used to say that about the James Baker (sos under Reagan-Bush41) Dept of State. That it was called “Arabist”. And I thought, interesting. then Condi rice left the country and hung out over there while she was Sec of State. I thought she became totally goofy and anti Israel and pro Moslem…She became such a disappointment
Now we have Hillary same scenario. What happens to these people.I would hope that if we geta conservative president that the first or secnd job wouldbe to demand resignations of most of the
Dept State. find aout a way to vette thestaff too. Thirty yr employees with names like ‘Reginald Worthington III’ and Muffy Pennelton Cajole…out.Too Andover, Too Vassar.
(will we never be rid of the clintons?)
geraldludlow commented:
wheres miss big mouth when bibles are being burned where is miss big mouth when 5 muslkims threatebn too kill a child for defending british troops where was miss big mouth when those 2 christians were arrested in dearborn mi for handing out tracs at a muslim carnival ect ect ect
Byzantine Bob commented:
@ ProLifer [#9... #9...]:
And Orthodox Christians, and other Christians…?
http://www.wtop.com/?sid=1479015&nid=500 & http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11724378
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Fuzzy commented:
Dear Europe, I’m sorry. Please ignore every single member of this administration. They do not represent the majority of the American people. We’re fixing that in 2012. Thank you, Fuzzy. P.S. Great Britain, please keep our bust of Winston Churchill in a safe place for us. Thanks.
jomojava the infidel commented:
Shrillary and al-Bama are idealogical twins.
The only difference is the teleprompter.
Granny commented:
Between TheWon and Shrillery they have made the United States of America the laughing stock of the world. Reset buttons, bowing to foreign potentates, insisting the rest of the world submit to islam . . . . .
Mark1957 commented:
“Several European countries have placed harsh restrictions on religious expression,” Clinton said,
Sort of like this country that forbids prayer in schools, or that prohibits prayer on the steps of the Supreme Court.
Then there is the 9th Circuit decision that prevents the Mojave Memorial Cross from being replaced. Yes Hillary, when government decides where a person can express their religious beliefs it is tyranny.
Fred Beloit commented:
Wait a second. She was very critical about the religious bigotry and failure to recognize religious freedom in Saudi Arabia. She wasn’t? Never mind.
Finncrisp commented:
Europe has allowed non assimilating Muslims to infiltrate their space for decades. Their policies have encouraged aggressive behavior, insistance on Sharia law, and has balkanized many areas of Europe.
Mrs. Clinton is completely off the rails on this one. Does she really want all Europe to become another terrorist launch pad of the religion of peace?
TheTriGuy commented:
Finncrisp, what you wrote is the absolute truth. Even the Germans (most importantly, the Germans) have now realized that multiculturalism is just another way for a culture to commit suicide. If Hillary wants to see the world in flames, then watch what will happen if a bomb goes off at a Christmas Market this year. Many in Germany (and I’m speaking of the average citizens I spoke with just a few months ago when I was there) are tired of this whole charade and are looking for the slightest hint of a reason to start throwing the Turks out of Germany for good.
By the way, Jomajava the Infidel: What a great name!
Faye commented:
What a total bimbo. Would she dare to express displeasure to Iran for it’s plans to stone a woman to death? Guess not that is religious freedom. Would she lecture the Muslims who gang raped a young woman in front of her family because her brother flirted with the wrong girl? That was just their religious freedom. Or how about all the ‘Honor” killings of young girls right here in our own country? Oh silly me, Shillary is only brave when it is safe to be brave. The socialists’ mindset is completely deranged.
And Senator Rockefeller wants to shut down one of the voices of sanity by wanting Fox news banned from the air. Total and complete insanity runs strong through the veins of the socialists in this country.
Continue the revolution, vote every Rino out in the primary and every dem out in the general. Make the votes so overwhelming that even the grave yard voters will be out numbered.
Byzantine Bob commented:
To Khan Krum [#6]:
Do you mean “The Third Bell”…?
Sparky commented:
Hildebeast is a footsoldier for George Soros.
The power of all these government Leftists would be radically diminished if the money supply and influence frm Soros could be stopped.
StrangernFiction commented:
“What we are urging our European friends to do is to submit.”
FIFY POSner
chuck in st paul commented:
It’s right out of Kafka crossed with “1984″. Good grief!!!
Andreas K. commented:
Switzerland banned minarettes. France moved for a burka ban. From the Netherlands I heard similar ideas, now that Wilders is a force to be reckoned with.
Hillarious Hillary is behaving like the usual suspects here. By “usual suspects” I mean the red-green front, that’s aiming at destroying our nations and cultures.
Here’s a thought Hillary. When I enter a bank with my face covered, the workers there will call the cops on me. But a mohammedan woman can run around like that because her “culture” demands it and we must accept and respect it? Really? In Austria, Germany, France, the UK, etc, we don’t force our women under veils. We don’t demand 4 male witnesses should they get raped. We don’t marry our daughters to their cousins. We don’t stone women to death. All of that is what islam does. We should ban this piece of sh*t ideology that is masking as a religion.
By the way, there is an actual ban on masking your face in public in Germany.
Neither the French burka ban nor the Swiss minarette ban is restricting religious freedom. They are steps into the right direction. If the mohammedans and Hillary don’t like it… PISS OFF! Get the hell out of our countries! LEAVE! And never come back!
Oh an Hillary, mosques are not mere places of worship. They are symbols of conquest.
“Posner acknowledged “growing sensitivity and tension in Europe” over Islam.”
He got that wrong. There is a growing disdain for islam in Europe. And if the muselmaniacs don’t watch it, mosques will eventually burn because the people are angry, they’re fed up. Mosques and parliaments. Because our so called leaders cater to the mohammedans and piss on us. But you can only push a people to a certain point. Once you push them over it… watch your head, you might lose it.
JimmyT commented:
Can someone enlighten me? WHAT is it about Muslims that makes the progressives take such asinine positions? Is it the subjugation of women? Or the world domination aspect? Or the cutting off of hands for stealing? Or the stoning for adultery? Or the ability for a husband to rape his wife? or is it that there are 1.5 billion of them and if enough move here and vote dem, they can stay in power? Please help me understand the attraction.
Radegunda commented:
TryGuy #24, a number of years ago I stayed for an extended period in southern Germany (primarily Munich). Coming from a rather multiculti part of the U.S., I found something refreshing about a country where “they know who they are.” (The Turks were not very visible then in the areas I traveled.) Most people observed similar holiday customs, had similar weekend recreation, sometimes wore similar traditional clothing. Etc.
In other words, there was a culture. When “multiculturalism” takes over, after a while there really isn’t a culture anymore.
S. Wolf commented:
‘Several European countries have placed harsh restrictions on religious expression’.. restrictions on the ideology of conquest and dominance she means. Not harsh enough, Hillary..
bg commented:
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Boiling The Infidel Frog
Muslim Demographics
Muammar al-Gaddafi [4/06]
["If we want to amend the state of humanity, and live in a global village,
because of globalization [.] The fifty million Muslims in Europe will turn it
into a Muslim continent within a few decades.
[.] Europe is in a predicament, and so is America. They
should agree to become Islamic in the course of time,”]
The Third Jihad
more than enough nuff said..
[The West has been looking for an Islam that protects the territorial nation-state and prevents the establishment of the United Islamic State. But this would be an artificial, cloned form of Islam. This will be the ultimate victory of the West when it reaches an Islamic formula it can support because it is based on preventing any attempt to establish the United Islamic State and, at the same time, has an Islamic title that renders it more popular than the current ruling regimes. This Islamic title shall provide it with popular support that will reinforce its position in office. Then the Islamist shall be the protector of the territorial nation-state after he has given up the dream of Islamic unity.
The United Islamic State is not only a dream, but a symbol of the political unity of the Ummah. It is the first step to its renaissance, because the strength of this Ummah lies in its unity, through which it can rise up. Thus, dispensing with the objective of the unity of the Ummah means giving up the goal of the renaissance, and in its place the creation of the new Islamist who protects the Western project in the region, prevents the establishment of the United Islamic State, and turns the Islamic project into a territorial national one based on nationalism and partisanship like the new Palestinian who is being prepared to protect the security of the Israeli occupation.
What is Islam without an Islamic State? What is the Islamic project without an Islamic Caliphate? This is the issue and the essence of the conflict with the dominant Western civilization. The West will end up victorious if the Islamic project is besieged from within by territorial nationalism. The only way for the Islamic project to win this battle is to go out of the siege of territorial nationalism and declare the dream of its Ummah to restore the United Islamic State.]
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bg commented:
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oh well, like i[ve never posted the following umpteen times..
UN
["My hope is that this charter will
be a kind of Ten Commandments"
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
"The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will
in fact become like the Ten Commandments"
~ Michael Strong
"We are moving toward a New World Order, the world
of communism. We shall never turn off that road."
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
"The social experiment in China under Chairman Moa's leadership
is one of the most important and successful in human history."
~ David Rockefeller]
Islam
[Today, the responsibility, which used to be laid at
the door of God, is fastened on the shoulders of man.]
the powers that be evidently believe the New World Order rests upon Obama’s messianic shoulders, not to mention what the ONE believes..
“I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth.”
‘We are God’s partners in matters of life and death’
‘my individual salvation is not gonna come about
without a collective salvation for the country’ …
“You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!” ~ B Hussein O
and that’s no lie.. *sigh*
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bg commented:
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just a sample:
Islam slave history of Black Africa
Muslim Slavery Yesteryear
[Israelite Migrations To West Africa
Between the second and third centuries, the black Jews of Arabia continued migrating across the Red Sea to Ethiopia. The largest exodus of Jews occurred during the persecution by Arabs led by Mohammed. He had said on his dying bed that he wanted Islam to be supreme throughout all of Arabia.
There was a Jewish tribe called Rechab which crossed the Red
Sea and migrated to the extreme point of western Sudan.
At the same time that Jews were migrating westward across the Sudan from Ethiopia, they also migrated southward from Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco, to the fertile region between Senegal and Niger rivers. When Jews from the North and the east met between these two rivers, they establish a confluence or crossroad in West Africa, where men could exchange their culture, ideas, and merchandise. These Jewish migrations went on with great frequency about 300 A.D. and they continued with utmost regularity for twelve hundreds years. Joseph J. Williams points out the course of the Jews migrated up the Nile passing Memphis,Elephantine, Khartum, and ten they turned west at Kordofan in central Sudan. In the region of the White Nile, Williams thinks some Jews settled in the country of the Shilluk, in the southern Sudan and Uganda. He continue by tracing the migration from Kordofan (going west) to Darfur, Lake Chad, Kano and then to the countries of the Niger River. more @ link]
Muslim Slavery Today
[Muslims are told that Africans "annoy the Prophet" (Ishaq 243), have hearts "grosser than a donkey" (Surah 9:61) and that blacks should be left to die if injured, and should be denied intercession and entrance to heaven (Bukhari: Volume 4, Book 52, Number 137).
Muslims try and torture non-Muslims into becoming Muslims. Not every Muslim is evil and some i've heard have even come to the aid of non-Muslims who were being beaten in the streets but unfortunately they are the minority. Muslims continue to commit these types of atrocities against non-Muslims everyday in other countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan etc. Men, women and children have been raped & tortured by Muslims because in their countries they get away with it. Saudi Arabia regularly beheads people caught practicing other religions. The genocide has switched from southern Sudan to Darfur with oil revenues being used by the Islamic government to perpetuate genocide.]
Islam, A Problem In Australia
Radical Islam In Europe
Islam A Silenced Problem In America
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bg commented:
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re: Appeasing Muslims
just a sample:
The Mainstream Media: Islamist Facilitators
[I have previously discussed the harm of our government’s enabling of Islamists (like CAIR, MPAC, MAS, MSA, or ISNA) in the United States and how the governmental endorsement of Islamists publicly empowers them and allows them to dodge their responsibility of countering Islamism as an ideology. This order of magnitude is greater in impact when it concerns the media’s inability to wage the debate of the “struggle for the soul of Islam”. Stories about Islam and Muslims have been more and more ubiquitous since 9-11 and now are actually commonplace. Yet, the actual debate within the Muslim community has barely begun. Where’s the disconnect? Look no further than the Islamist enablers in the media.
When so many ask across the nation, “where are the moderate voices of Islam?”, one cannot help lately but exclaim that they are being suffocated by misguided political correctness and by Islamist influence within mainstream media and government. The PBS censorship of the documentary, Islam vs. Islamists, highlights one of the best examples to date of the symbiosis of both government complicity and media complicity with the Islamist ideology.]
Accommodation as an Islamist Political Instrument
[First, we heard about a large group of Somali Muslim airport cabbies in Minneapolis refusing to provide service to travelers carrying alcohol or using dogs. At first, the airport moved to accommodate, but then the Somalis lost the battle to impose coercive interpretations of sharia (Islamic law) upon airport travelers. We recently have also seen airports, schools and universities agreeing to install foot-washing stations for Muslim airport cabbies and students at a significant cost to taxpayers in the name of special accommodations for Muslims. In Lincoln Park, Michigan, a few Muslim women insisted that a co-ed health club to which they signed up provide them a women’s-only room for exercise. Fitness USA acquiesced under fears of litigation despite the fact that the Muslim women signed up for no such guarantee with their enrollment contract.
In the past few weeks we’ve seen the Islamist political agenda in the U.S. carry itself further bringing the debate to Carver Elementary School in Oak Park, California. A substitute teacher brought forth a complaint to the district’s school board that a 15 minute break in classroom teaching was carved out for Muslim prayers. The influx of over 100 Somali Muslim students from another failed school brought with it swift efforts by Carver administration to accommodate to their needs. The issue has since carried far beyond San Diego and simple personal accommodation. The debate centers on the limits to which accommodation can impose changes and obligations upon others and on the entire system. Some argue that religious freedom is secondary to classroom instruction time and the strict separation of religion and state. Others have contrarily taken the opportunity and suggested, in all fairness, that public schools have a more global “daily prayer time policy”.]
much more here and here and here and elsewhere on the net..
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bg commented:
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Obama Administration Stacking the Deck with Islamists
[Abdul-Malik also makes no bones about discussing how the election of President Obama is a step forward in the project of Islamization and the long term goal of Islamist domination which falls right in lock-step with that of the Muslim Brotherhood as revealed in their manifesto.
[..]
“…even under the pressures that you and I know about, the deen of Islam is growing because people see even within all of this struggle it is better to be a Muslim under these conditions than to be a kaffir under any conditions… before Allah closes our eyes for the last time you will see Islam move from being the second largest religion in America-that’s where we are now- to being the first religion in America.”]
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bg commented:
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Obama Quietly Backing Muslim Brotherhood
Inside Our Government, Armed With Our Secrets
From Influence to Insurrection
Obama’s UN Resolution to Stifle Free Speech on Islam
[On October 1, 2009, the Obama administration in conjunction with the Egyptian government, introduced an anti-free speech measure to the United Nation’s Human Rights Council (HRC). It was adopted the next day without a vote.]
Obama knew all about Farrakhan
["Our confrontation with America used to be like confronting a fortress from outside. Today we have found an opening to enter the fortress and to confront it from within."]
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bg commented:
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re: # 39
Obama Quietly Backing Muslim Brotherhood
link
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Iconoclast commented:
Oh, bleep it. I am just so tired of this bleep. Will somebody just push this witch out the plane and let her fly over the ocean – or not – on her own power? PLEASE? I’d not complain if she even held hands with her loving husband as part of the exercise.
therese commented:
I do not care how nice and warm these women seem. If their husbands told them to stap on a bomb and get on a plane, that is what they will do.
obamaisaliar commented:
Her husband is a muslim so of course she supports it.
Joann Walker commented:
Muslim religion and political are thoroughly intertwined. Therefore, Muslims, should not have their religion considered totally by itself. Hillary and Bill have been and are shills for George Soros.
Mark commented:
I for one would like Hilllary to show us all how wonderful and tolerant Islam really is by dressing up as an Orthodox Jew and visiting Mecca during Ramadan.
Marsh commented:
Yeah, Europe. Hurry up and surrender already.