Posted on 01/16/2015 12:13:03 PM PST by Starman417
Germany’s Angela Merkel was there arm and arm with French President Francois Hollande. They were there to show solidarity in the face of the gruesome murders of the Charlie Hebdo journalists and policemen. Binyamin Netanyahu was there. So was Mahmoud Abbas, who was strangely smiling in a sea of glum faces. Also present was David Cameron. Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita also went. Putin did not go, but sent his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. King Abdullah II of Jordan also went along with many leaders from around the world.
But no Obama.
Joe Biden and John Kerry did not go too. Eric Holder was in town, but opted out. This strikes me as a deliberate act by Obama to snub the event. The question is ‘why’. His spokesman gave some lame excuse that the onerous security arrangements would have inconvenienced Parisians.
I think the real reason lies elsewhere. In my opinion, I think Obama was sending a message to Muslims that he sympathizes with their anger at those who mock their prophet. The attack on Charlie Hebdo was prompted by the cartoons about Prophet Mohammed.
In a speech following the Benghazi attack, Obama said, ‘The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam.’ Mocking the Prophet of Islam was precisely what Charlie Hebdo was doing in their cartoons.
Obama may have lied about keeping your health care plans, red lines, transparency and many things, but he meant it when he made this promise to Muslims. Going to the Paris march himself or sending someone more high ranking that the US ambassador would have been construed by the jihadists and millions of Muslims who support them that Obama supports Charlie Hebdo’s right to lampoon their Prophet.
Obama, having lived in Muslim majority Indonesia, must understand Islam pretty well. He would surely know that criticizing their Prophet would enrage Muslims, sometimes to the point of violence. As I explained in my earlier article, there are a number of hadiths in which Prophet Mohammed ordered people to be killed for poking fun at him.
Lest there be doubt as to what mainstream Muslims feel about those who blaspheme their Prophet or insult Islam, here is a partial list:
1) The Salman Rushdie affair. The Ayatollah Khomeini gave him a death sentence for writing the book, ‘The Satanic Verses.’
2) Egyptian student, al-Banna got a three year sentence for atheism and insulting Islam.
3 ) Rally in Pakistan honored the Charlie Hebdo killers.
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He was demonstrating American Exceptionalism.
“Audacity of Hope” from page 261:
“Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
And now we see the political winds shift in an ugly direction...does this very quote suddenly explain why Obama nor any American representative was at the French rally?
Valerie Jarrett made him stay home.
Let Soetoro tell you why in his own words:
“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
Dreams From My Father
page 261
It would offend 0bama's Muslim Brotherhood.
We know who and what he is.
Black Privilege.
He didn’t go because Valerie Jarrett said not to go. It was just a “parade,” after all.
1. Earlier criticized Chrarlie Hebdo for a Mohammad Cartoon?
2. Threw a film maker in jail for making Charlie Hebdo like stuff?
Obama and company have picked sides in this battle. They're with the other team.
torn here.
the paris action meant nothing. nothing ahs changd. merkel in the front has already again become a muslim apologist.
this was nothing more than a political Live Aid feelgood bs piece.
as per obama i’d rather have him not represent us anywhere.
Too tired after his vacation on the taxpayers’ dime.
I think a big part of it was/is that, he simply doesn’t like sharing attention. 40 or so world leaders? It wouldn’t be just about him.
I think Paris was snubbed because it strikes at political correctness, which the left has come to rely on far too heavily, sort of like a drug (and with similar effects).
if anyone is suprised they should read his book where he said clearly if tings got ugly he,d stand with the muslims.
how much more ugly do they need to see who he’s standing with?
Well folks we have Obama's books. Read them! It answers a lot of questions you may have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOIbgd5qcrg
This tragic 3-minute video is the perfect demonstration of “fully integrated” islam.
Or Valerie Jarrett did not tell him to go.
Or, he did not know it happened because it was not on ESPN.
He and his people put more thought, and emotion, into a statement about a dead black ESPN anchor than the slaughtered in Paris.
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