It’s a new dawn. Barack Obama will never have to answer to
the voters again so he is, as Michael Rubin reports, doubling down on Islamism.
For those who missed the point when the American Secretary
of State was the first foreign official to offer her blessing to the Islamist
government of Mohamed Morsi in Egypt, Obama will make the first foreign trip of his new administration to newly Islamized Turkey.
If you thought that Obama would be heading to Tel Aviv you have been seriously duped.
Rubin explains:
Today,
Frank Ricciardone, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, announced that Obama’s first
trip of his second term will be to Turkey,
a country which has witnessed under its
increasingly Islamist government an unprecedented roll back of basic
freedoms. The Turks are looking at Obama’s choice as an endorsement. They are
probably right. On top of this, Ricciardone’s announcement comes right after
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that he would soon
travel to Gaza, in recognition and support of Hamas.
As for the current state of Turkey, Rubin wrote in The Daily Caller:
One in
five Turkish generals are now in prison on charges that, at best, are dubious.
As Erdoğan expanded party control over the police and judiciary, he turned his
guns on the press. Simply lampooning Erdoğan in a political cartoon sparks
retaliation. Turkey now imprisons more journalists than Iran and China and,
according to Reporters Without Frontiers, ranks below Russia, Venezuela, and
Zimbabwe in press freedom. Last year, police arrested investigative journalist
Ahmet Şıkand and confiscated pre-publication drafts of a manuscript detailing
Islamist infiltration of security forces. To rally supporters, Erdoğan embraces
crude anti-American propaganda. Pew Global Attitudes Survey now finds Turkey
consistently among the most anti-American countries.
Surely, Erdogan's record merits the Barack Obama seal of
approval.
Anyone who is surprised has not been not paying attention.
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