Yesterday, I posted on Obama's latest act of savage theater: Obama and Swiftboat Kerry to Honor Vicious Jew-Hater and 9/11 Fan. The jawdropping award went viral, and today the Obama adminstration is "postponing it." They should be out and out cancelling it and apologizing to Americans and all freedom-loving civilized people across the world. Instead, they wuss out this way, but it is better than giving this savage an award.
Expect cries of "islamophobia" and "the Zionists are running the wooooorld!" from the usual suspects. I am glad that Obama reacted to the outrage by good and decent human beings.
Miami Herald: US postpones award for Egyptian woman over tweets By BRADLEY KLAPPER Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is postponing an award for an Egyptian activist who rallied worldwide attention against forced "virginity tests" on female protesters because of anti-American and anti-Semitic comments discovered on her Twitter account.
The State Department announced earlier this week that Samira Ibrahim would be among 10 recipients of the International Women of Courage award presented by Secretary of State John Kerry and first lady Michelle Obama on Friday. But State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Friday the U.S. would hold off on awarding Ibrahim while officials investigate the tweets, which include support for attacks against U.S. diplomatic installations and praise for a terrorist assault against Israeli citizens in Bulgaria.
Ibrahim, who has already arrived in the U.S, says her account was hacked, though the comments stretch back several months. After five Israelis were killed in a bus explosion in July, she welcomed the "good news." In other posts, she declared Saudi Arabia's royal family "dirtier than Jews" and attributed all crimes against society to Jews and referenced Adolf Hitler.
"We, as a department, became aware very late in the process about Samira
Ibrahim's alleged public comments," Nuland told reporters. "In conversations
with us in the last 24 hours, Ms. Ibrahim has categorically denied authorship.
She asserts that she was hacked. But we need some time, and in order to be
prudent, to conduct our own review.
The tweets were first reported by the conservative publication The Weekly
Standard.
Ibrahim was among seven women subjected to forced "virginity tests" after being
detained during a protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square in March 2011. She helped
bring worldwide attention to the tests, which prompted the military to forbid
the practice last year.
"Not only did she speak out about that, but she also became a real leader in
her country in trying to address gender-based violence and other human rights
abuses," Nuland said. "So it was on that basis that she was initially
selected."
The State Department said Ibrahim also was arrested in high school "for
writing a paper that criticized Arab leaders' insincere support of the
Palestinian cause." She is a coordinator of the Know Your Rights movement,
which seeks to raise political awareness and advocate women's rights in Upper
Egypt.
