Obama To Deliver Speech in Muslim Capital

Barack Obama has announced in an interview with the Chicago Tribune that he intends to deliver a major address in the capital of an Islamic country.

"I think we've got a unique opportunity to reboot America's image around the world and also in the Muslim world in particular," Obama said in the interview published late Tuesday on the Tribune's website.

Obama promised an "unrelenting" desire to "create a relationship of mutual respect and partnership in countries and with peoples of good will who want their citizens and ours to prosper together."

The world "is ready for that message."

This represents one of those head-scratching moments for me, moments that seem to be occurring with ever greater frequency of late.

My initial response to such an announcement is that it is a bad idea. What words could be molded by The Obama that would somehow pacify the Islamic world into seeing America as anything other than the great Jew-loving Satan? We were, in fact, the Great Satan even back when Jimmy Carter was President.

What can Barack Obama say to the Muslims of Iran, Libya, Saudi Arabia, or Pakistan that will do anything to quell the centuries old dogma of Islam that requires America, along with the rest of the world, to submit to the will of Allah?

The Muslim world is a world where any infidel that suggests a connection between Islamic terrorism and terrorism committed by Muslims is charged with Islamophobia. (This is also the world of the EU.) What substantive speech can Obama make in a Muslim capital if terrorism is not mentioned, and by association, can he make without being guilty of Islamophobia as a Muslim would define it? As the leader of a country that financially supports Israel, what bone will he be willing to throw to Muslim states that vehemently support the destruction of Israel through terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad?

If he avoids the necessary words the speech will be essentially meaningless. If he speaks the necessary words he will create more wrath in Muslim countries than he could have ever hoped to salve.

All things considered, I suppose, the meaningless speech is his best option, and that is truly what Barack Obama is best at anyway. Flowery words with no substance that will be swallowed in whole by a media that worships at the altar of His Changiness.

Kim Preistap at Wizbang is dubious as well, but does suggest that Baghdad is the best venue if the speech occurs. I would have to agree. There are, however, thousands of better venues, none of which are on Muslim soil.

h/t Moonbattery