Obama Calls Anti-Blasphmey Riots "Natural;" Begins Running a State Department-Produced Apology Ad in Pakistan

"Natural."

resident Barack Obama said he thinks Muslim protests against Western criticism of Islam are “natural.”

“The natural protests that arose because of the video… were used as an excuse by extremists,” Obama said during an hour-long town-hall interview on the Spanish-language Univision channel.

Obama did not use the interview to affirm the First Amendment, or to champion the right of Americans to speak freely amid criticism and threats from Islamic advocates.

Meanwhile, we're sorry for your banditry.

U.S. Embassy advertisements condemning an anti-Islam video appeared on Pakistani television on Thursday in an attempt to undercut anger against the United States, where the film was produced. Hundreds of youths, however, clashed with security officials as they tried in vain to reach the embassy in Islamabad amid outrage in many countries over the film’s vulgar depiction of the Prophet Muhammad.

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The television ads in Pakistan feature clips of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during press appearances in Washington in which they condemned the video. Their words were subtitled in Urdu.

“We absolutely reject its content and message,” said Clinton in the advertisement.

Obama promised to sell American values of liberty abroad, but what he's actually doing is selling foreign values of blasphemy and Rule of Mob to America.

posted by Ace at 04:54 PM

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