
It should be noted that Barack Obama began talking about Islam yesterday hours before the attacks on Americans in Libya and Egypt. Delivering his speech commemorating September 11, before violence broke out, Obama could not resist inserting a boilerplate reassurance that Americans are not a danger to Muslim people. In doing so, he turned a speech that was supposed to be about the murder of Americans by a foreign enemy into another apology for the imaginary straw-man of American Islamophobia:
I’ve always said that our fight is with al Qadea and its affiliates, not with Islam or any other religion. ...