Friday, September 21, 2012
"Surreal": Obama and Clinton apologize to Muslims on Pakistani television.
"Surreal": Obama and Clinton apologize to Muslims on Pakistani television. HT: IsraelMatzav.President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton have apologized to Muslims for the movie Innocence of Muslims in an ad shown on Pakistani television. The ad cost $70,000 to make and was shown on seven different Pakistani television stations. President Obama's statement is from Washington, DC on September 12 and Secretary Clinton's remarks are from Morocco on September 13.The State Department has spent some $70,000 dollars to air the ad in Urdu across seven Pakistani TV channels in a bid to disassociate the US government from the inflammatory film, spokesperson Victoria Nuland said. “After the video came out there was concern in lots of bodies politic, including in Pakistan, whether this represented the views of the US government,” Nuland told journalists. “So in order to ensure we reached the largest number of Pakistanis, some 90 million as I understand in this case with these spots, it was the judgment that this was the best way to do it.”So when are the American people going to decided that they have seen enough of their 'leaders' groveling to the Islamic savages? And by the way, hasn't Obama done a great job of 'repairing' America's relations with the Muslim world? Read the full story here, more here.
Related: Religious intolerance an insult to all: Kerry.US Senator John Kerry said on Thursday that religious intolerance is an insult to everybody and condemned senseless intolerance exhibited in the anti-Islam video following a meeting. Senator Kerry made the remarks following an hour-long meeting with Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and Ambassador Sherry Rehman on Capitol Hill. Other members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee also attended the meeting. “All of us in the US, all of us condemn this senseless intolerance exhibited by the video which very few Americans have seen. We feel it is without any legitimacy, any potential redeeming quality. It is an insult to everybody,” said Senator Kerry.Read the full story here.
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