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Foggy Bottom's foggy thinkers outdid themselves ...
by:Joe Saunders
Leave it to the Obama State Department to turn its own country’s outreach efforts into an Islamic State recruitment poster.
Foggy Bottom’s foggy thinkers outdid themselves this week by using a Twitter account that’s supposed to be aimed at convincing Muslims not to join terrorist outfits to, instead, publicize a Time magazine story about the newly elected mayor of London.
And in the process, take a sideways poke at the presumptive presidential nominee for the Republican Party.
The story was supposed to be about how Mayor-elect Sadiq Khan rejects religious extremism, but a summary headline that included the potential for Donald Trump to win the general election in November put the piece firmly in the land of ISIS propaganda.
“If Donald Trump becomes the President, I’ll be stopped from going there by virtue of my faith,” Khan told the magazine.
Now, leave aside the fact, for the moment, that what Khan claimed wasn’t true. Trump has said from the get-go that his proposed temporary ban on Muslim immigration to the United States would not cover foreign leaders, visiting athletes and the like.
Leave aside the fact that the new mayor of London in all likelihood knew what he said wasn’t true, which means he was lying. He’s got a political image to protect — truth takes second place to that.
And even leave aside that Time magazine writers or editors knew or should have known Khan was lying, and thus shouldn’t have made the quote such a prominent part of the magazine’s coverage.
They’ve got magazines to sell.
Now, consider the decision by the Obama State Department to publicize a link to an article that was not only untrue, but was virtually guaranteed to incite anti-American feelings among the very audience the agency was ostensibly aiming to pacify. The logic of that move is baffling…except in the context of hardball politics.
The link was posted on State’s “Global Engagement” Twitter account.
A cynic might say the Obama minions at State – conditioned as political animals by four years under Hillary Clinton, then four more under Secretary of State John Kerry – are simply poisoning the well for any potential Trump administration.
That would be unfair enough. But did nobody there stop to think that infuriating potential Muslim terrorists is probably a dumb thing to do for someone whose career might well include a stop in some sandy hellhole? When the barbarians are chanting for blood and “allahu Akbar,” they don’t particularly care if an American diplomat is a registered Democrat back home in Chevy Chase.
Granted the State Department hasn’t covered itself with glory during the Obama/Clinton/Kerry years, but self-preservation alone would dictate doing something different from what it did here.
Fortunately for future American diplomats, the target audience of hate-filled Muslim terrorists-in-waiting must not be big followers of the State Department on Twitter. The link had only one response, and it wasn’t referring to Trump at all.
Even without an audience, they still manage to rub people the wrong way..@TheGEC Can you stop calling him “Muslim mayor?” Just happens to be Muslim. Wasn’t elected on a “Muslim” manifesto.— Nuri Yalçın (@nuriyalcin) May 10, 2016
h/t: The Weekly Standard
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