Fuck Muhammad!!!

[HairOfTheDog]

He scolded Egypt for bombing ISIS?

No, he didn't -- at least not that I heard or read.

The Pentagon and the White House are neither condemning nor condoning the bombings because there wasn't advance communication between our two countries.

We have a tricky relationship with Egypt right now. Egypt is formally our ally and the US has recently provided Egypt with helicopters and such, as requested, to fight off al-Qaeda. But, after the overthrow of Morsi when Sisi took over, Egypt has been pushing for arms from the US while not joining the US-led coalition to fight IS. So, Egypt is now pushing on Russia and China to supply them, supposedly. The new Egyptian government has also been at odds with Israel.

Personally, I understand why Obama wouldn't want to position the US as being at war with Islam, which is the image IS would like to have portrayed. All IS members claim to be Islamic, but not all Islamic people/Muslims support IS, not by a long shot. IS is slaughtering way more Muslims than they are people of other religions. We are fighting against terrorists and extremists who are using (and bastardizing) Islam to justify their actions. I don't have a problem calling them Islamic Extremists myself, however.

In regards to Obama weighing in on the Chapel Hill killings, I wish he hadn't. He said if the 3 college students were killed because they were Muslims, it was a hate crime (or something to that effect). True enough. But, based on everything that I've read about the case, the shooter isn't operating with a full deck, he's a vocal atheist who denounces all religions, and he'd had numerous threatening run ins with his neighbors of all faiths over parking in the complex before he finally lost his shit and shot the three students to death, the three students who happened to be Muslim. I don't think the suspect's motive was to kill Muslims, but we'll see what the investigation uncovers. In any case, I wish the President would have limited his public statement to expressing condolences. But, many people including the victims' families felt Obama said too little too late about the murders of the three Muslim students. I didn't like it when Obama made the comment about Trayvon Martin looking like his would-be son when there was a criminal investigation underway either, but many Americans praised his statements. So...

In my opinion, Obama and his administration have been frustratingly inconsistent as to what constitutes racial and religious discrimination and labeling.