Posted on 01/20/2009 7:36:57 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (Reuters) President Barack Obama promised to improve U.S. ties with the Muslim world in his inauguration address on Tuesday, after tensions that followed the September 11 attacks and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect," said Obama, who became the first black president of the United States.
Obama, a practicing Christian, spent several years of his childhood in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim nation. His American mother, Ann Dunham, married Muslim Indonesian Lolo Soetoro after the end of her marriage to Obama's Kenyan father.
"To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist," Obama said.
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Maybe Osama-Obama would like to say a few words about how he plans on brining the caliphate to America?
The error of Obama begins.
Within two years the drug addled cocaine sniffer will be the biggest joke in the world.
“To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist,” Obama said.”
This is all pie in the sky fun and games until he draws back a bloody stump.
Fixed.
The total sellout begins. The Mooselimbs have a bud in the White House.
Rahm Emmanuel community outreach program.
hee-hee, good luck with that.
Back to enflamed, anti-American hatred in Iran!
-MM
Guess that whole moving-forward-with-the-Arab-world thing President Obama talked about today hasnt reached the streets of Tehran yet:
Pro-Gazan Iranian demonstrators carrying a British flag, burn a photo of US President-elect Barack Obama, during an anti-Israeli, anti-US and anti-British protest in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009.
Mutual respect from people who have vowed to murder you? Is he just stupid?
Mutual respect from people who have vowed to murder you? Is he just stupid?
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He’s a closet muslim and racist, and he’s a libtard- of course he’s stupid!
911 didn't teach the Kenyan/Hawaiian/Manchurian Candidate much about respect did it?
FU Obama.
Bush liberated more Muslims than any US President in history you moron.
Thou Shalt Kill Thy Babies, must have been that missing 11th Commandment everyone keeps talking about. Maybe I'll pick up another Bible... perahps instead of the KJV, I'll get the NKOV (new king obama version).
Of course he demonstrated his Chrsitianity by having gay Heretic Gene Robinson give a "prayer" at the inauguration.
And then lets not forget the shout out to his habibs (ha-beebs).
So I propose this.... if we are going to give "mutual respect" to our mooslimb friends, does this mean we get to behead them in the streets and force them to endure the most depraved acts of torture?.... you know to make things mutual. /rant
“To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect,” said Obama, who became the first black president of the United States.
Americans have no mutual interest with the muslim world.
The muslim world seeks the destruction of America and western civilization. We are their enemies and they are ours..... If President Obama or his handlers fail to understand this they will place American lives in jeopardy.
Tee-shirts emblazoned with messianic images of Barack Hussein Obama are already starting to replace the Osama Bin Laden tee-shirts that have been so popular in Indonesia. In Indonesia Barack Obama is fast becoming the "Che Guevara" of Indonesia's young wannabe Islamists.
I've been promising updates for a long time and I know I owe my fellow FReepers - to be honest I'm still a bit pissed off that parts of my blog were copied for Corsi's New York Times best seller - he never sought by permission to copy my work and translations (translations that took me time to do and then have some jackass just steal from you)
The craziest thing is that the idiot copyrighted my own work in his book Obama Nation
I suppose because Im overseas that Corsi and his publishers think they can do what they want with impunity - if any FReepers seriously know of a lawyer to assist me - please advise -
I want to keep writing I really do - I just wish that I could do so and not have my original work stolen - what is the point of the Creative Commons license on my blog anyway?
Fricking moron. American leftists always start of with the premise of hate America first and it always gets us in trouble.
How long will it e before Obomation moves his prayer rug into the Oval Office?
New Start?
HOW ABOUT THEY EFFING START BY NOT FLYING EFFING PLANES INTO OUR BUILDINGS?
Obama’s inexperience is talking. He thinks the US has never talked with those idiots. He thinks we’ve made enemies out of them somehow and it is all our fault. This is going to be good watching him stagger home with his tail between his legs.
Oh, and Muslims do not care for Muslims renouncing Islam and taking up Christianity. It is a fatal affair to Muslims.
Obama, a practicing Black Liberation Theologist. Not the same thing.
“To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent”
That is the trademark of Democrats and other Totalitarians, such as Radical Islamists. Orwellian.
It sure didn’t take him long to sell us out.
So now concerted Arab oil money has bought the Islamists a compliant US president as well as a secretary of state who’s husband has a library well funded by “questionable” Arab “businessmen”, just like that traitor Carter. I smell a Muslim rat’s bribery whenever I hear treasonous comments come from either a politician or a media stooge.
Except that muslims are allowed to lie to infidels to further the cause of islam.
The muzzies will understand his apparent defection from islam.
So all he has to do is bide his time and have a reconversion.
In this order: Christians, Muslims, Jews, and Hindus.
That's right. Muslims ranked higher than Jews.
In America, where Jews have been for many, many years and have succeeded in so many fields and achieved the American dream and more importantly have not conspired to bring America to its knees.
And B. Hussein Obama lists the Muslims - not only a minority but a hostile minority - ahead of the Jewish people.
Makes me sick.
Hmm. Just can’t grasp the “enormity” of this. Yup.
I didn’t hear him. I avoided him like the plague.
It would have made me sick, though.
I have no doubt that he is a closet muslim, just waiting for the right opportunity to come out.
Comrade Obama will continue to sell us out every chance he gets. We need to steel ourselves against the global jihad. Obama wants to soften us up. Following him is suicidal.
He will maintain the clean cut, non-confrontational, non-incendiary, occasionally rebuking (of his street crew) persona. But the agenda will go forth nonetheless.
Either America is so clueless or their hatred of Bush pushed them to elect the anti-Bush......I don't know.
But to think we have been battling Muslims for 7 years and we have elected someone with a turbo leftist voting background, a Muslim social background with the name Hussein, who associates with many anti-American types is astounding to me.
Well, no, he's not. Has he even been baptized? I doubt it.
And yet, he's poised to sign the most sweeping pro-abortion legislation in American history, if it passes Congress. Considering the Muslims hate us already, how will making legal one of the procedures they consider heinous help relations?
I watched an interview with O a few months ago, where he was being asked some very probing questions about his faith.
Being a Christian myself, I listened intently to his answers concerning his faith; and when asked about eternal salvation, his reply was that he didn't believe in life after death.
The fundamental teaching of Christianity is that there is indeed life after death, and that without acceptance of Jesus as GOD'S Savior; there is no Christian faith.
I knew then that his profession of faith in Christ was a ruse.
Kinda makes one wonder about all the so called called Christians who voted for him.
It makes me sick that he managed to mention them period.
But I'm not surprised!
They are burning his picture in Tehran that’s a good start.
....but....but.... the muslims have succeeded in driving taxi's and running liquor stores..../sac on.
Um yeah...they will unclench their fist, lie and cheat while pretending to be honest, screw us over and put us all at risk...but we’ll have negotiated so it’s all good!! /sarc
The US Military, with GWB as CINC recently freed 50,000,000 muslims from tyranny and slaughter, you POS.
Please note that his outreach to “the Muslim world” immediately followed his remark, “For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus - and non-believers.”
I submit that this is a contradiction. If Muslims are, on the one hand, part of a “patchwork heritage”, how can they, on the other hand, constitute an apparently separate and autonomous “world” ? The very notion of a “Muslim world” is frightening in itself, is it not? Aren’t we in the era of “One World” ? One for all and all for one ? What is this “Muslim World” ? ... the elephant in the living room.
Patchwork heritage?
Whatever happened to melting pot?
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