IN NEED OF OUTREACH – AT 8:37 A.M. ET:  Reflecting on our story just below, maybe President Obama should assign NASA to reach out to this guy, who needs it.  But outreach is unlikely, as it would acknowledge that this chap's philosophy actually exists, or is in any way a problem:

LEADERS of the global Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir have called on Australian Muslims to spurn secular democracy and Western notions of moderate Islam and join the struggle for a transnational Islamic state.

British Hizb ut-Tahrir leader Burhan Hanif told participants at a conference in western Sydney yesterday that democracy is "haram" (forbidden) for Muslims, whose political engagement should be be based purely on Islamic law.

"We must adhere to Islam and Islam alone," Mr Hanif told about 500 participants attending the convention in Lidcombe.

"We should not be conned or succumb to the disingenuous and flawed narrative that the only way to engage politically is through the secular democratic process. It is prohibited and haram."

He said democracy was incompatible with Islam because the Koran insisted Allah was the sole lawmaker, and Muslim political involvement could not be based on "secular and erroneous concepts such as democracy and freedom".

His view was echoed by an Australian HT official, Wassim Dourehi, who told the conference Muslims should not support "any kafir (non-believer) political party", because humans have no right to make laws.

COMMENT:  You read something like this, and realize it's being taught throughout the Muslim world.  And yet, the current administration denies that we are fighting any kind of ideology.  Why have arrived at the point where we not only aren't permitted to name our enemy, we're not even permitted, in polite company, to describe him.

And, tell me, what kind of outreach will have an impact on a man like this, or his followers?

I suspect that part of the reason for Obama's blindness is the training he had in the tents of lefists and Marxists during his upbringing.  My own experience with the left has taught me that it's a segment of society where lying is a way of life, where creating illusions is considered honorable.  To the true believer of the left, America doesn't fight evil ideologies; it only fights on behalf of capitalism.  The ideas slide off the leftist tongue so easily.

July 5, 2010