Like most rational Americans, Col. Allen West (R-FL) isn’t buying the spin from Obama’s surrogates regarding the embassy attacks. It wasn’t “happenstance,” “coincidence” or “spontaneous.”
 
West also criticizes the reaction of the administration to the violence and the murder of embassy personnel as “asinine, naive, inept, incompetent, and borderline ignorant “ ~
 

Fox News Host Jeanine Pirro: “Do you think they’re being disingenuous, or they’re just kind of spinning, or do you think they’re outright distorting the truth?”
 
West: “they’re outright distorting the truth -”

 
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Sorting fact from fiction when it comes to the Middle East mess is not an easy task. Frequently it’s a case of untangling dueling agendas. I find that one of the most credible sources of information is Walid Shoebat, who’s only agenda seems to be the truth.
 
Arabic by birth and a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Shoebat is now a Christian convert and peace activist:

Considering the violent, reactive nature of the extremists to any perceived “offense” to Islam, evidenced by the worldwide protests around the world (even Australia!) this past week, as an “apostate,” Shoebat has nothing to gain and everything to lose by speaking out. And yet, courageously, he does.
 
And what he says, is that at the heart of the embassy attacks, riots and demonstrations is a concerted effort to make free speech against the Islamic religion an international crime:

The attacks on U.S. Embassies had very little to do with the latest film and much more to do with the old story of the Muhammad Cartoon and the failure of Muslims to prosecute internationally the culprits who drew the Muhammad cartoons. This will be another attempt to change the laws globally.
 
Wisam Abdul Waris of Dar Al-Hekma (House of Wisdom) – about whom the Nour Salafist party announced publicly that its call to demonstrate was in support of – began a call to push for the passage of laws to be placed in the Egyptian Constitution – as well as internationally – that would make it illegal to criticize Islam.

 
His article includes direct (translated) sources to substantiate this claim along with video and facebook postings ~ Arabic Sources Reveal the Truth Regarding Attacks on U.S. Embassy in Egypt ~

Make no mistake; the notion that these riots were spawned by an anti-Islam movie is completely and totally fallacious. It is not about the movie; it is about never letting a crisis go to waste. It is all about intimidating countries into implementing laws designed to extinguish free speech rights. The film is nothing more than a tool to be used to exploit politically correct inclinations.

 
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Related:
Anti-American Savages of the Post-American World ~ another excellent article from Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish:

Let us dispense with any pretense that if we do criminalize defamation of religion or prosecute Mohammed cartoons as a hate crime, that this will be because we are tolerant or respect religion. It will be because we are afraid of Muslims and we are right to be afraid of Muslims because our leaders are gutless cowards who have no idea how to deal with anyone whose greatest fear in life isn’t being called a racist on the evening news.