Islam is a Religion of Peace and DemocRats aren't World Communists begging for America to be subjugated to UN-World-Governance.
I just know this will be a big disappointment for you, but I don't give a flyhing f**k what the Arab press or Arab world thinks because, despite your childlike faith, they will never see things our way.
"we come off as nothing more than a bunch of racist cretins..."
Well don't you just have the most dazzling politically correct multicultural cards to toss on the table?
To paraphrase a great president: "My policy toward militant Islam and anyone that supports them is quite simple. We win - they lose." And don't even try to suggest this "deal" doesn't constitute potential additional exposure to the Islamic terrorists.
In other words, take your trembling timidity somewhere else. We're all full up around here.