Why the Islamic World Isn't Listening to Obama

Chuck Colson
BreakPoint
February 26, 2009

In his first post-inauguration interview, with an Arabic language television channel, President Obama said he wanted to “initiate a new partnership based on mutual respect and mutual interest” between America and the Muslim world.

On the On Faith website run by the Washington Post and Newsweek, I applauded the President’s comments. What I wanted to add, but didn’t, was the fact that the Christian West has been treating Islam with great respect and sensitivity for decades.

Americans, for example, have gone to war to free Muslim nations like Bosnia, whose people were being persecuted by tyrants. And in Western democracies, Muslim citizens do not face persecution. the rest