Sunday, August 02, 2015

Obama's condescending and neo colonial lectures to his African hosts

Mark Steyn notes a certain cowardice in Obama's lecturing of his African hosts, while he ignores the brutal treatment of gays by Muslims in the Middle East:
President Obama has wrapped up his tour of Africa. It was notable, insofar as that word can be applied to the trip, for his somewhat condescending and neo-colonial lecture to his hosts on the need to ease up on the old homophobia.

Certainly, Africa is not terribly gay-friendly. But nor are other parts of the planet. In his ardent wooing of Iran, for example, he doesn't seem to have been perturbed in the least by his new best friends' executions of homosexuals, anymore than he is by the brutalization of gays elsewhere in the Muslim world. You might deduce in his highly selective criticism a certain cowardice. I'll bet the mullahs do.
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