By Michelle Malkin
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Egypt's terror-coddling President Mohamed Morsi has
repeated his arrogant demand that America free convicted 1993 World Trade
Center mastermind Omar Abdel-Rahman. I'd like to report that President Obama
repeated his unequivocal rejection of the Muslim Brotherhood leader's
entreaties. But as of this writing, no such public statement or restatement yet
exists.
That's right. Obama has kept mum about Morsi's vociferous
lobbying on behalf of Abdel-Rahman, the "blind sheik," who is serving
a life sentence at a maximum-security prison in North Carolina for seditious
jihad conspiracy. The commander in chief's silence speaks volumes.
Morsi started publicly haranguing the U.S. to have mercy
on the ol' blind sheik back in September. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., confirmed to
the New York Post at the time that the Egyptian government had "asked for
his release" and that the request was being considered by the Obama
administration.
Underlings denied any talks were underway, but pressure
on the White House had been building since at least last June, when the State
Department granted a visa to a member of the radical Egyptian terrorist group
Gamaa Islamiyya (the very group the blind sheik is alleged to lead). The Gamaa
Islamiyya representative joined an entire delegation of Egyptian lawmakers who
met with top State Department and White House officials. They reportedly
discussed the possible release of the blind sheik with at least one Obama
national security official.
In late August, Gamaa Islamiyya went on to schedule and
organize a protest at the Cairo embassy to further ratchet up public pressure
to free the blind sheik. Not coincidentally, a terror mob attacked the Cairo
embassy on 9/11/12. While Obama minions were busy blaming an obscure YouTube
video, the Department of Homeland Security had warned two days before the Cairo
attack that jihadists were inciting the "sons of Egypt" to attack the
embassy over Abdel-Rahman. "Let your slogan be: No to the American Embassy
in Egypt until our detained sheikh is released," the incitement thundered.
Morsi has now amended his plea to include an array of
"humane" benefits and visitation privileges for the murderous Islamic
cleric "(b)ecause he is a man, an old man, and he deserves full
care."
Lest you need reminding, the wily blind sheik has used
his visitation privileges to wreak more terror from behind bars. His radical
left-wing lawyer Lynne Stewart was convicted in 2005 of helping her client
smuggle coded messages of Islamic violence from the imprisoned sheik to outside
followers in violation of an explicit pledge to abide by her client's
court-ordered isolation.
This "old man" is a virulent anti-American
propagandist who condemned Americans as "descendants of apes and pigs who
have been feeding from the dining tables of the Zionists, Communists and
colonialists," called on Muslims to "destroy" the West,
"burn their companies, eliminate their interests, sink their ships, shoot
down their planes, kill them on the sea, air or land," and issued bloody
fatwas against U.S. "infidels" that inspired the 1993 WTC bombing,
the 1997 massacre of Western tourists in Luxor, Egypt, and the 9/11 attacks.
As GOP watchdogs call for Obama to keep the blind sheik
locked up, we will no doubt hear more slick protestations that the White House
has "no plans" to release the terror preacher. But I'm with Andrew
McCarthy, the former assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted Abdel-Rahman, who
warned last fall, "There's no way to believe anything they say."
This is the administration, after all, that endorsed the
release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, whose terrorist
act resulted in the murder of 189 Americans. The Obama White House feigned
"surprise" over the release, but documents obtained by The Sunday
Times of London in 2010 revealed that the administration "secretly advised
Scottish ministers that it would be 'far preferable' to free the Lockerbie
bomber than jail him in Libya."
This is the administration whose attorney general was a
senior law partner for Gitmo detainee cheerleaders Covington and Burling.
This is the administration that tried to shove Cirque du
Jihad civilian trials in NYC down America's throat over objections from 9/11
families and national security experts.
This is the administration that has rolled out the red
carpet for scores of visitors belonging to groups serving as fronts for the
Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and other militant Islamic outfits.
This is the administration that lied and blamed
pretextual Internet movies for its own dereliction of duty at our consulate in
Benghazi, Libya.
This is the administration that suffers from chronic and
deadly apologitis when it comes to dealing with the demands of the Religion of
Perpetual Outrage.
This is the administration that continues to deny plans
to shut down Guantanamo Bay and transfer inmates to the U.S., while it quietly
moved forward to purchase the Thomson Correctional Center in western Illinois
"to provide humane and secure confinement of individuals held under
authority of any Act of Congress," i.e., Gitmo detainees.
Denial is a river that runs through 1600 Pennsylvania
Ave., but the Obama administration's tone-deaf acts of jihad-appeasement speak
for themselves. Concern is more than warranted. It's de rigueur.
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