President Bush was condemned by Moslems as waging war on Islam for intervening in Moslem countries to, inter alia, save victims of despotic regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq.
President Obama is condemned by Moslems for hating Moslems because he refuses to intervene in a Moslem country to save victims of a despotic regime:
“Everybody is against the Syrian people,” said a former lieutenant in the Syrian military I met in Zaatari, who defected to the opposition. He was sitting on a cot in a prefab caravan, surrounded by other Syrian men wounded in the war. “We’re giving our blood but for Obama that is not enough.”
After cursing the American president in Arabic, he continued, “Obama is ‘Hussein’ – son of Muslims. If he were a Christian he would support us. But he’s a Muslim.” He shakes his head and his eyes tear up. “It’s always Muslims against Muslims.”
Many of the Syrian refugees I spoke to are resentful for two reasons: First, they feel the United States has abandoned them. Why intervene in Libya but not Syria? That suspicion fuels numerous conspiracy theories. Second, they resent how they’ve been treated as refugees.
But our unpopularity in the Moslem world is Bush's fault, right?
Tip to Instapundit.
