Sarah Palin Addresses What President Obama Refuses to See

- by Lisa Graas
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If you've had a chance to read Governor Sarah Palin's latest Facebook Note, you've no doubt discovered that her characteristic reluctance to pull any punches comes through as clearly as ever in regard to the issue addressed -- America's War on Terror. This evening, the governor appeared as a guest on Sean Hannity's radio program and briefly addressed the same points made in her written statement.

Governor Palin's firm, reasoned approach to combating terrorism ranks among her greatest strengths and her latest statement bears this out more clearly than ever. She is concise in her analysis and offers "no nonsense" language that cuts clearly through the obscurities in rhetoric commonly offered by President Obama.

Combating terrorism is arguably the weightiest issue falling within the realm of the President's responsibilities toward the American people. For this reason, this particular statement by Governor Palin could be among her most important ever. Though she makes a great number of very important points, I'd like to address just one as I believe it is the most critical and it is the one which President Obama is least likely to consider.

"We are at war with radical Islamic extremists..."

Governor Palin understands that these acts of terror are rooted solidly in Islamic extremism. Our President doesn't want to see this reality, let alone profess it. His unwillingness to see it is based on his acceptance of multiculturalism, a sort of "Sesame Street"-level view (video example here) that we should always seek to celebrate our differences and that any who would point to the negative aspects of another culture (Christian culture notwithstanding) have thereby reached the depths of immorality. Some have embraced multiculturalism so deeply that they would go so far as to characterize Sarah Palin's statement as "racist". President Obama just may even be among those who believe that.

(See also, Shane Vander Hart's report on Obama's Address to Muslims in Cairo, June, 2009)

While President Obama has spent a great deal of time setting forth his "hope" for "change" around the world, Sarah Palin continues to take the grown-up approach to our gravest national security challenge. If Palin were in the Oval Office, you would not find her using futile "Sesame Street" principles in addressing terrorism. Tossing the proverbial rose petals in the path of Islamic extremists will not appease them, no matter how sincere we may be in the attempt.

Hyperbole aside, I am not alone in recognizing the ignorance of multiculturalist "hopenchangers" like President Obama. I'd like you to consider an explanation of the problem from a Front Page Magazine interview (August, 2007) with Stanford University professor Gregory Davis, PhD, author of Religion of Peace?: Islam's War Against the World. Clearly, what you will find described below represents a reality that President Obama refuses to see and which Sarah Palin has pointed out to him quite succinctly. (Note: Links added for context.)

FrontPage: Why do you think there is so much that the West actually doesn’t know about Islam? Why the impulse to deceive oneself?

Davis: I think that there are several reasons. The first is a natural if unwarrantable reluctance to face the very uncomfortable reality that there is an entire civilization seeking our subjugation under nothing less than a totalitarian system of government, i.e., Islamic (Sharia) law.

When faced with National Socialism and Communism, the West demonstrated a similar unwillingness to face up to very grim realities. The continued emphasis on a "new world order" in which violence and warfare will be swept into the dustbin of history makes it that much more difficult for people to realize that, far from a coming era of perpetual peace and happiness, we are facing a future of conflict and civilizational struggle.

The second reason I believe is the persistence of the multicultural myth that all peoples, religions, and civilizations are morally equivalent. Despite its manifest absurdity, this idea nonetheless continues to taint just about every public discussion on Islam and throttles any kind of objective analysis of the origins of Islamic violence.

Thanks to multiculturalism, every theory except the obvious one -- that Islamic violence has roots in Islam -- is advanced: that the jihadists are acting out of "frustration" due to "poverty," "disenfranchisement," etc. Such theories are belied by such jihadists as the 7/7 bombers in London, who were native Britons, and the more recent British doctors, who seemed to have plenty to live for in Western society.

And then there is of course someone like Osama bin Laden, a multimillionaire many times over, a father, poet, and animal-lover, who nonetheless is willing to throw it all away in order to follow in the footsteps of Muhammad. The unhappy truth is that the jihadists are, to a great extent, acting from genuine, deeply-held religious conviction.

Invariably, the jihadists are serious, pious Muslims, many of whom recently rediscovered the tenets of their faith. It is an uncomfortable fact for a tolerant society such as ours to acknowledge that sincere religious belief can pose an imminent danger to a society's physical safety. We would be better off discarding "religion" as a term and instead focus on the very real distinctions between religions and their implications.

It is comforting to me to know that Sarah Palin understands this threat and offers a clear and prominent voice in America's public discourse as President Obama sleeps at the wheel. Governor Palin is right to say that his approach to terrorism is "fatally flawed". In other words, any plan that is not based on an understanding of the problem outlined above is bound to fail. It's an important message in dangerous times. Let's pray he listens to her.

Please do read Governor Palin's full statement on Facebook.

- Lisa

Lisa Graas is editor of the Palin Twibe Blog and several other websites. She is a regular contributor to Texas for Sarah Palin.