The Islamic democracy project is nothing if not beguiling. From Clinton’s Orwellian “peace process” through Bush’s cloying “freedom agenda” to Obama’s contortion of an Islamist ascendancy into “the Arab Spring,” the dream teems with self-congratulation, so much so that its debilitating downsides go unseen and unaddressed.

From World Net Daily: The difference between Jimmy Carter’s mistakes in handling the 1979 revolution in Iran and Obama’s handling of the 2011 revolution in Egypt is that Carter’s team made mistakes out of ignorance and naiveté. Thirty-one years later, Obama’s diplomatic team cannot claim naiveté in dealing with the Muslim Brotherhood and the radical [...]

From Intellectual Conservative: If the Obama Administration wants Egypt to have a more representative form of government it is difficult to comprehend how it will be facilitated with the inclusion of the Muslim Brotherhood. All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: the United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. [...]

From World Net Daily: Thursday was the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. Weakened politically and likely at this point in his administration to lose the 2012 presidential election, the “mullah in chief,” Barack Hussein Obama decided to show his face at the annual event and pretend that he is a believer in Judeo-Christian culture [...]

From Michelle Malkin: I’ve noted Islamic attacks on Coptic Christians at home and abroad dating back to 2005 and Good Friday 2006. The latest wave of violence came over the New Year’s Day holiday in Egyptand follows increased Muslim persecution of Christians in Nigeria, thePhilippines, Baghdad, and across the Middle East: For Christians in the Middle East, there is no [...]

From NewsMax.com: * Major outdoor speech, large crowd expected * Obama popular in Indonesia, where he lived as child * US and Indonesia to announce new partnership on trip By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will visit Indonesia’s largest mosque and make a major outdoor speech directed at the global Muslim community [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: Members of Mr Obama’s White House team reportedly visited India last month and told Indian officials they were concerned that if the president wore the traditional headscarf during a visit to the Golden Temple, the photographs might be used to portray him as a Muslim, according to the New Delhi-based Indian Express. Mr [...]

From World Net Daily: A coming series of “superhero” cartoons promoting the tenets of Islam under the title of “The 99″ – which has been praised by President Obama – is drawing a terse warning from an expert who has analyzed media impact onpeople for decades. “These are not the types of heroes you want your children [...]

From Townhall.com: “The bottom line is this – if the Koran is burned, our troops will be in greater danger. It’s that simple…” That remark came from a certain military officer (an officer who will remain unnamed here), during a special press briefing I attended regarding upcoming foreign troop deployments. The news of a threatened [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: Just as she has on the morning of Sept 11 for the last nine years, Wanda Ortiz arrived at Ground Zero with her twin daughters to celebrate the life of her husband Emilio, the father her girls never knew. For almost a decade, this has been a day of solemn remembrance, private memories [...]

From Human Events: The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist. Leave aside Obama’s fanatical opposition to allowing Illinois hospitals to save the lives of babies with God-given souls inadvertently born alive during [...]

From CNSNews.com: While President Barack Obama’s overall approval rating averaged 48 percent for the first seven months of 2010, it was 78 percent among Muslim Americans, according to the Gallup Poll. That gave the president a higher approval rating among Muslims than among any other religious category reported by the poll. Members of other non-Christian [...]

From CNSNews.com: Why has President Barack Obama on at least two occasions told specifically Muslim audiences that America is a nation of—among other things—“non-believers”? The Pledge of Allegiance says America is one nation under God, our national motto says in God we trust, the Declaration of Independence says we are endowed by our Creator with [...]

From Human Events: A new poll out Thursday from the Pew Research Center shows nearly one in five Americans believe President Barack Obama is a Muslim. From the link: A new national survey by the Pew Research Center finds that nearly one-in-five Americans (18%) now say Obama is a Muslim, up from 11% in March [...]

From National Review: I have tried diligently to detect some subtle rationale for this administration’s policy toward the Muslim world. There have been some good moves, particularly the emphasis on Afghanistan and the serious effort, after eight years of grapefruit-league tokenism, to apply all means — aid, diplomacy, and force — to produce the desired [...]

From World Net Daily: His campaign blamed “shameful, shadowy attackers.” The media actually blamed the media (and human nature). But the only person to blame for the surprising number of Americans who think the president is a Muslim is Barack Hussein Obama. So says author and Boston talk-radio personality Chuck Morse. “Obama bears the lion’s [...]

From NewsMax.com: Evangelist Franklin Graham suggested that President Barack Obama has close ties to Islam, and stated emphatically that the president was “born” Muslim. Questioned about Obama’s faith and the controversy over a proposed ground zero mosque, the son of America’s most legendary preacher told CNN’s John King on Thursday that Americans have to accept [...]

From The LA Times: President Obama busily continued his five-state cross-country political money collection tour today. But he took time out to declare that he has “no regrets” about his firm statement of support for a new mosque and social center near the site in New York City of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Shortly [...]

From World Net Daily: With President Obama igniting political controversy by commenting on the right of American Muslims to build an Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero, it is worth noting the close ties of several Obama administration officials to the cleric behind the proposed project. The ties include a religion adviser to Obama, [...]

From CNSNews.com: Americans increasingly are convinced — incorrectly — that President Barack Obama is a Muslim, and a growing number are thoroughly confused about his religion. Nearly one in five people, or 18 percent, said they think Obama is Muslim, up from the 11 percent who said so in March 2009, according to a poll [...]