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No Bikinis Allowed In Wake Of Obama's Wars?

As of right now, the Arab Spring has lasted for more than eight months. Marked by protests throughout the Middle East, to the point of overthrowing governments in some cases, these months have changed the makeup of the Middle East for good, in some cases, and for ill, in others. (This variation in outcomes is largely due to the fact that some parts of the Arab Spring have been uprisings led by people hungry for freedom and others have been led by people hungry for control.)

This year’s color: black, black, and more black

The problem we face, as Americans, is that our president seems uninterested in parsing these variations, and has therefore aided groups like the Muslim Brotherhood without a second thought (albeit perhaps indirectly). This, in turn, has ushered in new governments that talk openly of framing their constitutions by the principles of Sharia, thereby constraining the freedoms of their citizenry.

For example, in Egypt, a country where the Obama administration supported the chance for “real democracy,” via the popular uprisings that were demanding the ouster of President Mubarak, our foreign policy was aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood, either directly or indirectly.

In other words, although Obama might not have expressed a solid position against Mubarak, his support of the uprising (which was an boon for the Muslim Brotherhood) has ushered in a government that is positioned to deny freedom instead of expand it. Thus, now that Mubarak is gone, Muhammad Saad Al-Katatny, Egypt’s secretary-general of Freedom and Justice, wants to ban bikinis in Egypt.

According to Al-Katatny, “Beach tourism must take the values and norms of our society into account.” (When he mentions “values and norms of…society” he is referencing the regulations that accord with Islam.)

Even now, a similar situation is under way in Libya where Col. Gaddafi is reportedly close to defeat (in the war that Obama told us would last “days not weeks” in March of this year). There, Libya’s new would-be leaders are reporting that Sharia will be their “principle source of legislation.”

In the meantime, Obama’s playing golf and wearing a helmet while he peddles his bicycle around in the grass in Martha’s Vineyard.

Perhaps, just for a moment, he could approach these matters with the seriousness that others, like Gov. Sarah Palin, have demonstrated. For it was she who summed things succinctly in a recent Facebook post: “We must remember that military power ultimately resides with the rebel commanders. This should be a source of some concern. The armed opposition to Gaddafi is an outgrowth of a group called Islamic Libya Fighting Group, and some rebel commanders admit that they have Al Qaeda links.”

(Palin went on to talk of striking a balance between being happy at Gaddafi’s reported demise while not allowing terrorist groups “to co-opt the revolution.”)

The best I can tell, Obama is either indifferent to these things or he’s actually happy that the Muslim Brotherhood is making inroads. Yet neither of these positions is becoming to the office of the President of the United States of America.


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