Posted on 09/20/2015 12:32:10 PM PDT by DanMiller
Although claiming repeatedly that Islam is the religion of peace, tolerance, otherwise good and therefore welcome in America, the media are horrified that Donald Trump failed to "correct" the "highly offensive" claim by a member of the audience at a New Hampshire rally that Obama is a Muslim.
The media and others also seem to be offended by the parallel claim that Obama is not a Christian. However, Islam and Christianity have very different theological foundations and share very few beliefs. Hence, if Obama is a Muslim, He cannot also be a Christian.
True, Obama has occasionally claimed to be a Christian; if He is instead a Muslim He has lied about being a Christian. He has also lied about many other things, including Obamacare and, more recently, the nuke "deal" with Iran.
The claim that Obama is a Muslim seems to have produced significantly more media outrage than claims that He lied about Obamacare, the nuke "deal" and other topics. Perhaps in Obama's America presidents are expected to lie as a matter of routine. Had Trump's questioner merely claimed that Obama is not a Christian, without also claiming that He is a Muslim, would the outrage have been less? It seems to me that the major problem is that Trump's questioner claimed that Obama is a Muslim.
If what we read in the press and hear on television is true (and I don't think it is), being a Muslim is per se good. According to Obama, Islam helps to make His America great. Is it among the very few aspects of American exceptionalism of which He is proud?
Muslims don't generally live in flyover regions (except in some jihad training compounds), clinging to their guns and bibles. Would Obama think better of Christians in flyover regions if they were to cling instead to their beheading implements and Qurans? What if they dealt with homosexuals (and political dissidents of all types) as do Iran (the peace partner featured in Obama's nuke "deal") and other Islamic countries?
Clerks of court in Iran don't refuse to issue marriage licenses to homosexuals; torturing and hanging them (along with other regime opponents) must be politically correct and, therefore, acceptable.
Islamic reality, on which Obama and the media are generally silent aside, why should Trump be disparaged for failing to come to Obama's defense by denying that He is a Muslim? What sort of defense would that be? Hasn't Obama told us that Christians (unlike Muslims) are warlike and bad (please see the next to last video at the end of this post.)
Is being called a Muslim worse than being called a sexual predator?
Sometimes, presidents are accused of doing very bad things. President Clinton was accused of being a sexual predator. In western countries, sexual predation of any sort is often considered undesirable -- although less so when the predators are Muslims who believe that Mohamed had the right ideas about sex.
Please see also, Ayan Hirsi Ali's autobiography, Infidel. Much of it is about sex in the Muslim world where women are born to be submissive to men, who own them.
Hillary immediately came to her husband's defense and blamed the accusations of sexual predation on a vast right wing conspiracy.
For some, former President Clinton remains a highly respected Democrat.
Are claims that Obama is a Muslim also part of a vast right-wing conspiracy, which all right-thinking people, Republicans as well as Democrats, should publicly reject, admonish and silence? Jeb Bush and several other RINOs seem to think so.
Is Obama a Muslim?
I don't know whether Obama is a Muslim. I do understand that He appears to have substantially more affinity for that religion than for any other and is far more likely to defend Islam than to defend Christianity, Judaism or any other religion.
Is many Islamic countries, Christians, Muslims and the few remaining Jews are being persecuted in the most vicious ways conceivable by Muslims. Why are the asylum and immigration policies of Obama's America so different for Christians, Jews and Muslims?
Might the differences be on account of Obama's destructively great affinity for Islam? Does He agree with this preacher that Muslim males who migrate to previously non-Islamic countries should help to make them Islamic by breeding with local women to produce Muslim children? Wouldn't that make Obama even more proud of His America?
I guess we can't permit Obama to be insulted. Right? Wrong!
Marked to read and view later. Thanks.
Nope, no apology yet.
Interesting condemnation of the press... Hey MSM - are you showing your true colors?
Islamphobia is a made up term to cow us into submission.
Islam: a religion spread by the sword since its inception.
Includes slavery, miscogeny, conquest and beheadings.
Phobia: irrational fear.
Seems rational to fear beheading, slavery and conquest.
what was there for Trump to correct?
He is not one, but they are his true love.
No, they have simply become definitively anti white/Christian/male
Hardly. They made a hero of some Muslim kid who built a bomb timer and took it to school. Imagine what would have happened if he had worn a confederate flag shirt.
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