Controversial new missile defence logo 25, February 2010
Posted by thegulfblog.com in American ME Relations.Tags: Gaffney, Islam, Missile defence controversy, neoconservative, New missile defence logo, Omaba Islam, Right wing
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This is the US Department of Defence’s new logo for their missile defence programme. Yet, in the same way that changing a product’s name can incite curious passions, it has created a minor storm with right-wing lunatics in America who maintain that this is but the latest symbol of President Obama’s continuing submission to Islam.
The fact that it vaguely resembles Islam’s crescent moon has been taken along with other absurd ‘signs’ that President Obama, who had next to nothing to do with its design, is seeking to send stealthy messages to…err…Muslims that…err…he is a Muslim? Insn’t going to shoot down Muslim missiles? Is going to turn America into an Islamic Republic? Or some such plan that would look out of place in a trashy spy novel.
Idiot in chief for the lunatic fringe is Frank Gaffney. A very well-educated man, obtaining degrees from Georgetown School of Foreign Service and from Johns Hopkins, who nevertheless emphatically shows that education is not everything; that it is eminently possible to have a quarter of a million dollar education and still be barking, barking mad.
Gaffney is also a Birther, someone who believes that Obama is secretly quasi-following a Muslim Brotherhood agenda, that Al Jazeera and Al Arabiyya (!) should be taken off the air “one way or another” and that Saddam Hussein was involved in the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, the 9/11 attacks and the Oklahoma Bombing too.
Next time you see some ass on Iranian TV spouting utter rubbish or some terrorist denouncing the West as infidels, let’s not forget that America too has its fair share of people with but the vaguest and most fleeting of associations with reality and who are perfectly happy to twist, make up and ignore facts as and when they see fit. Gaffney et al have the veneer of decorum, manners and rationality, yet his/their ideas are just as insidious and just as dangerous.
Hat tip: Marc Lynch
UPDATE:
Turns out I was more correct that I could have imagined; this new logo was actually designed under the Bush Administration…I always knew he was closet Muslim sympathizer/fan/whatever.
Hat tip: Abstract JK
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They say there’s a special relationship between the UK and the USA and your timely relay of this warning of imagined manifest dangers to American way of life is timely.
I’ll be nipping down to my local pizza parlor this weekend. Soon it may no longer be possible to get pizza with Italian (pork sausage). I suppose I’ll develop a taste for lamb pizza – but one can never be sure.
I was so disturbed by this troubling situation that I misposted.
My first paragraph should read “They say there’s a special relationship between the UK and the USA and your timely relay of this warming of imagined manifest dangers to the American way of life is proof again of this relationship.” I haven’t seen this on any “Old European” blogs.
I think I’m worried that when the reversion comes, “Dancing with the Stars” will no longer be shown on our TV.
There are some things too horrible to contemplate. It’s hard to keep my wits about me.