Posted on 02/06/2015 11:18:03 PM PST by John Semmens
With videos of beheadings, stonings, and incineration of helpless victims by the Islamic State flooding the media, President Obama took the occasion of his address to the National Prayer Breakfast this week as an opportunity to try to dampen the anger of partisans of civilized behavior.
"Let's not forget that 800 years ago Christians committed horrendous crimes against peaceful Muslims during the so-called Crusades," Obama reminded. "Whole populations were massacred—men, women, and children—all in the name of Christ. Five hundred years ago, the Inquisition sent thousands of heretics and apostates to be burned at the stake. From a historical perspective, we can see that the followers of the cross are not blameless when it comes to cruelty and inhumanity. Rather than be so quick to point the finger of blame at Islam, perhaps we should credit them for their patience in waiting so long to try to even the score."
The President rejected contentions that the Crusades might have been seen as a legitimate response to prior Muslim aggression against, and oppression of, Christians. "If people keep trying to reverse previous conquests there'll be no end to bloodshed," Obama warned. "At some point someone must put an end to the tit-for-tat. It seems to me that Christians have the best chance of doing that. It was Jesus who bade his followers to turn the other cheek. It was Mohammed who bade his followers to fight for Islam. Christians can give up the fight and still be true to their faith. Muslims do not have this option. What I am urging here today is that there is a way out of the conflict if both religions simply hew to the tenets of their faiths. If Christians would simply submit and pay the jizya there could be peace and an end to the bloodshed."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=161595.new#new
ping
LOL!
Imho, Obamacare is the jizzya. (The Muslims don't have to have it, just us infidels.)
Actually, if you sit and define Jizzya....it’s a tax on non-practicing members of the religion, and it fits perfectly into your description here for Obamacare. If you practiced Obamacare, you’d be OK.
The question here....are there other pieces of Obamacare that fit into Islam?
Peaceful slimes are the forward operating base for the barbaric savage murderers that walk amongst them!
Where’s the satire?
Good job, John! Thanks again for the ping.
+1
I liked “partisans of civilized behavior”.
Wow.
The leftists still has us beat in satire.
Is it semi-satire because its not funny?
Well done. It’s not easy to do satire about a speech that should’ve been a satire.
What satire?
hey obammy,
Stick it up your ass you lying poser.
Why is this posted as satire?
Actually, Muslims are exempt from penalties for not buying Obamacare. I figure if you are one of us infidels, either you pay up or you pay up.
Have you ever tried stand-up comedy? You’re right up there with Dennis Miller at least.
“If Christians would simply submit and pay the jizya there could be peace and an end to the bloodshed.”
This has to be the part that’s satire. There is no end to
bloodshed with Islam unless you wipe them all out. Even if
you take out everyone they oppose they will just war with
each other until there is only one last fat rat remaining.
I would say that this is exactly what he was doing.
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