Allah, Oil And America's Future
October 6, 2010 by John Myers
(Part two of a two-part series. Part one, Is It Time To Say, “To Hell With Islam?” ran Sept. 22)
Islam is one of the biggest threats facing America. Yet President Barack Obama and key Democrats are Islam appeasers and Muslim apologists. Does the President and his supporters act out of woeful ignorance or willful sabotage?
Consider that Obama has thrown the weight of the Presidency behind the building of the New York City Mosque next to 9/11 Ground Zero.
"As a citizen and as President,” Obama said, “I believe that Muslims have the right to practice their religion, as everyone else in this country. And that includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in Lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances. This is America. And our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable."
This is not the first time that Obama has been an advocate for Muslim rights. In a speech at Cairo University last year the President made a spectacular overture to the 1.5 billion Muslims of the world when he called for, “a new beginning.”
In that speech Obama spoke of a complete withdrawal of United States forces from the Middle East and, regarding the conflict President Obama said, "We do not want to keep our troops in Afghanistan… We would gladly bring every single one of our troops home if we could be confident that there were not violent extremists in Afghanistan and now Pakistan.”
Obama apologized for the CIA’s involvement in Iran’s democratically elected government in 1953, an event that for many Muslims was the beginning of American interdiction.
“Since taking office, President Obama has reached out to the Muslim world as a whole,” said International Herald Tribune columnist Roger Cohen last month in an op-ed in The New York Times.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich couldn’t agree more. CNN reported that, at the Fifth Annual Value Voters Summit in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 17, Gingrich warned America faces a dire threat.
"We are at a point where our establishment is sliding into policies of such disastrous impact that they will in fact fundamentally challenge the survival of America as we know it," Gingrich said. "On the one front we have a secular socialist machine led by (President) Obama, (House Speaker Nancy) Pelosi, and (Senate Majority Leader Harry) Reid, and on the other front we have radical Islamists who would fundamentally change this country into a system none of us in this room would recognize."
Gingrich also said he will oppose any efforts to impose Sharia on the U.S. Yet the former House Speaker doesn’t have a vote. Pelosi and Reid do. Their support for Islamic rights — whether near Ground Zero or around the world — is troubling.
Backing Islam Or Locking In Oil?
To be fair, Obama is not the first U.S. President to sooth Arab sensibilities. Washington has been influenced by Arab interests for decades.
Earlier this month The Tablet wrote: “There is an Arab lobby in the United States — one as old as, if not older than the Israel lobby and it has helped to shape U.S. foreign policy and economic life since the end of World War II.”
Arab’s influence encompasses everyone from U.S. Foreign Service officers, Arab-American activists, Islamist ideologues and even Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. And no administration had closer ties to the Saudi Royals than George W. Bush’s. Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin, Saudi Arabia’s former U.S. envoy, was even nicknamed Bandar Bush. All this Arab influence in America can be traced to a single commodity: Oil.
Oil provides 40 percent of the world’s energy and 96 percent of the world’s transportation energy. According to the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, world oil consumption will surge by 60 percent in the next decade. That means even more money for Saudi Arabia. According to Mark Steyn in his book, America Alone, The End Of The World As We Know It, the Saudis are already spending billions to fund, “mosques and madrassas [sic] in every corner of the planet. Oil isn’t their principal export, ideology is — petroleum merely bankrolls it.”
This should put a red light over the Middle East which in 10 years will hold 83 percent of the remaining global conventional oil reserves.
The Dirty Truth About Democrats
Access to Arab oil explains some, but not all of the reasons Obama, Pelosi and Reid are pro-Islam. After all there is another huge energy producer whose resources almost equal that of Saudi Arabia. Yet this nation is given no quarter by the President or the Democrats in Congress. It seems hard to understand why when this country is America’s closest ally, a friend for 200 years and shares the same language, culture and religion as the United States. Yet Canada — with its vast oil sands — is the target for attacks by the Liberal Elite in Washington.
The Canadian oil sands will send America nearly 1 billion barrels of crude oil this year, making Canada the number one supplier of crude oil, ahead of Saudi Arabia.
Yet Canada’s oil sands have been attacked by Democrats as being an unethical environmental atrocity. There are reports that Left-leaning members of Congress want to ban oil sand imports into the U.S. Apparently it would be better to accept more oil from Saudi Arabia than from its northern neighbor; better to buy crude from the Arab Kingdom that spends a fortune financing al-Qaida and other extremists than to buy it from an ally whose soldiers fight and die next to their American brothers in the God-forsaken mountains of Afghanistan.
The Democrats in Congress who make cozy with Arab special interests have lost sight of the fact that in Saudi Arabia there is no democratic voice, women have no say; while torture and executions are a daily occurrence. While Canada gave every assistance to the U.S. during 9/11 — I saw waves of commercial airplanes approaching Calgary International Airport that morning — it was Saudi Arabia that was the inspiration for the attack. Saudi Arabia is where Osama bin Laden made his fortune and it was home for 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers.
Hypocrites Favor The House Of Saud
In his new book, Ethical Oil, The Case For Canada’s Oil Sands, Ezra Levant writes: “If Saudi Arabia didn’t exist, it would take a science fiction writer in an apocalyptic mood to invent it.”
Yet Liberal Democrats in Congress are already lining up against Canada’s oil sands. Last month Pelosi visited Canada to gather ammunition to either tax or block future oil sands imports to America.
Some Democrats are campaigning against government approval for the final stage of the Keystone Pipeline project linking the oil sands to Texas refineries. And Pelosi has the power to expedite or delay clean energy legislation currently before the Senate.
According to the Montreal Gazette, “Ms. Pelosi’s mind is made up. The Alberta oil sands are a last-resort fuel for Americans best eliminated as quickly as possible.”
Alberta’s oil sands do have environmental issues. Some 1,600 ducks died after landing on a giant sludge pond which is part of the oil sand’s landscape. That is a lot of ducks to be sure, but only a tiny fraction of the number of birds that are killed every year by wind turbines. It might come as comfort to the Greens that very few ducks are killed as a result of Saudi oil production, in part because there are no ducks in the desert.
However I do have news for Liberal Democrats like Pelosi. While you support women’s rights and oppose the death penalty, you should note Saudi Arabia freely executes people, especially women. The nation has the highest per capita capital punishment rate in the world. (America’s other great Arab ally Pakistan, beheads and tortures nearly the same number of people each year.)
What is chilling is that people like Pelosi and Obama see evil in things like Canada’s oil sands but appear blind to the dangers of Islam and the ambitions that some within it have against the West. One can only hope that these leaders simply don’t know better. To entertain something more sinister is dismaying.
Yours for real wealth and good health,
John Myers
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