White House lawyer Rashad Hussain has been named as President Obama’s special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, a group that represents 57 Islamic countries worldwide. The expressed goal of this new appointment is to repair U.S.-Islamic relations which have been strained due to the fact that some of their adherents keep trying to blow us up, kill us, threaten us, and pretty much revile our Western ways. We have earned the name “Great Satan”, as opposed to “Little Satan”, which is reserved exclusively for Ahmadinejad. (At least, according to his former girlfriends.)

Hussain is the perfect candidate for this new venture because only one letter separates his last name from Obama’s middle name and he is apparently an expert on the Quran. So we have name recognition and religious fervor working in our favor already. Once Hussain is on the job, I can just see all the extremist Muslims laying down their arms and inviting us all over for falafel and Khubz ‘Arabee. Mmmm, mmmm, mmm. Sorry, no alcohol or BLT sandwiches.

Obama has not forgotten his awesome Cairo speech, in which he reached out to the Muslim world in the hopes of forming new and improved partnerships. A New Beginning, I believe it was. This news would be more warmly received in America, if not for that nagging fact that they have some adherents in their religion that want to kill us, and the “non-Kill America Muslims” are seemingly impotent to condemn or ferret out the “Kill America” brand of Muslims.

Robert Spencer, director extraordinaire of Jihad Watch, explains the futility of being so “Kodak Moment-y” with Muslim nations.

“It takes two to repair relations, and he’s not going to be able to do it on his own. He’s reaching out and reaching out and reaching out, and all he is doing is giving them the impression that we’re weak, and that’s really the way in which the Islamic Jihad groups operate. They understand weakness and strength. They don’t understand conciliation; they see it as weakness.”

This is one element that Americans seem to overlook in their desire for everyone to just get along. “Dog eat dog” may be an old and archaic mentality, but it is very alive and well within Muslim nations. We, as a Nation, would do well to consider this when dealing with Iran in the future. Sending Hillary Clinton to speak to any Iranian official is very much looked upon as being weak of us. These are people that believe in Jihad. We are a Nation that gets angry when American Idol is delayed.

The OIC is not just some tame Islamic feel-good Organization. According to Spencer, the OIC is

“..waging a war against free speech at the United Nations and elsewhere, trying to stifle critics of Islam and Jihad, trying to vilify and smear anybody who speaks honestly about Jihad activity as a hateful bigot and so-on.”

So why would Obama want to send an envoy to the OIC in the first place, since they are a group that will not condemn Jihad? And why would he send Rashad Hussain? Spencer clears the air on that last question:

“Rashad Hussain defended publically Sami Al-Arian, who was a professor at the University of South Florida, who is now in prison for his role as a leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.”

Rashad Hussain and OIC have some common beliefs that they can build on to strengthen U.S.-Islamic relations. It all makes perfect sense now. Nothing brings people together, or countries together, quite like a good old Jihad, now does it?

So this is our New Beginning? We, as a Nation, are going to be forced to make nicey-nice with nations who may or may not want to see us wiped off the planet, and the only people we can look to in this endeavor are a lawyer who digs Jihad and a President who bows to the Mayor of Tampa….?

Outstanding.