Libyan leader and general nutjob Muammar Gaddafi called for Palestinians to revolt against Israel yesterday.

Per Reuters Africa:

Gaddafi is respected in many parts of the Arab world for his uncompromising criticism of Israel and Arab leaders who have dealings with the Jewish state, though some people in the region dismiss his initiatives as unrealistic.

That’s an understatement.

In his first big speech since the happenings in Egypt, the radical Muslim leader said on state television, in a speech given to mark Mohamed’s birthday, a holy day in the Islamic calendar:

Fleets of boats should take Palestinians … and wait by the Palestinian shores until the problem is resolved. This is a time of popular revolutions.

We need to create a problem for the world. This is not a declaration of war. This is a call for peace.

All Arab states which have relations with Israel are cowardly regimes.

Palestinians want Israel to allow all refugees who fled or were forced to leave in the war of Israel’s creation in 1948 to return, along with their descendants.

However, Israel says any resettlement of Palestinian refugees must occur outside of its borders.

This nutjob also called for all Muslim countries to join forces against the West. He claimed that the world was divided into white, alluding to the United States, Europe and their allies, and green for the Muslim world.

The white colour has decided to get rid of the green colour. These countries should be united against the white colour because all of these white countries are the enemies of Islam.

While he actually said that violent acts committed by Osama Bin Laden’s al Qaeda network went against Islam because they killed innocent people, he hedged his bet by claiming that there was a political explanation for the emergence of militant Islamists:

Why did this movement emerge? Regardless of its behaviour, in my analysis this movement appeared in response to the American arrogance towards the Islamic nation and in response to its hegemony of the Islamic world.

It was a response to … the submission of rulers in the Islamic world, the subservience of rulers in the Islamic world to this arrogance from Europe and the United States

Gaddafi has for decades challenged what he describes as Western imperialism. His oil exporting country spent years under international sanctions for seeking banned weapons and sponsoring militant groups. The ban was lifted in 2004.

For you gentle readers out there who don’t know a whole lot about this radical Muslim, per answers.com:

(born 1942, Surt, Libya) Ruler of Libya from 1969. Son of a Bedouin farmer, he was born in a tent in the desert. He graduated from the University of Libya and Libya’s military academy and was a devout Muslim and ardent nationalist. As a captain in the army, he led the 1969 coup that deposed King Idris I. He espoused his own form of Islamic socialism, and his foreign policy was anti-Western and anti-Israel. In 1970 he closed U.S. and British military bases and expelled Italians and Jews. He banned alcoholic beverages and gambling and in 1973 nationalized the oil industry. He made unsuccessful attempts to unify Libya with other countries. His government was repeatedly linked with terrorist incidents in Europe and elsewhere, and he supported groups trying to overthrow neighbouring governments. He narrowly escaped death in 1986 when U.S. planes bombed sites in Libya, including his own residence.

About that 1986 bombing…

Thirty five years later, how does this Muslim nutjob feel about the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? Well, after all, it’s Valentine’s Day:

In President Barack Hussein Obama’s Speech to the Muslim World at the University of Cairo on June 4, 2009, he said:

…I do so recognizing that change cannot happen overnight. I know there’s been a lot of publicity about this speech, but no single speech can eradicate years of mistrust, nor can I answer in the time that I have this afternoon all the complex questions that brought us to this point. But I am convinced that in order to move forward, we must say openly to each other the things we hold in our hearts and that too often are said only behind closed doors. There must be a sustained effort to listen to each other; to learn from each other; to respect one another; and to seek common ground. As the Holy Koran tells us, “Be conscious of God and speak always the truth.” (Applause.) That is what I will try to do today — to speak the truth as best I can, humbled by the task before us, and firm in my belief that the interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.

Now part of this conviction is rooted in my own experience. I’m a Christian, but my father came from a Kenyan family that includes generations of Muslims. As a boy, I spent several years in Indonesia and heard the call of the azaan at the break of dawn and at the fall of dusk. As a young man, I worked in Chicago communities where many found dignity and peace in their Muslim faith.

As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. It was Islam — at places like Al-Azhar — that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities — (applause) — it was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed. Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation. And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality. (Applause.)

Evidently, the Cairo speech let Gaddafi, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other radicals know exactly where this American President stood, as far as “the religion of peace” and its followers were concerned.

Even at the expense of our allies.