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Obama pledges new start with Muslims
reuters ^ | January 20, 2009 | Sue Pleming

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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KEYWORDS: bhoforeignpolicy; bhoinauguration; bhomiddleeast; bhonwo; husseinobama; muslimvote; speech

1 posted on 01/20/2009 7:36:57 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

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.


2 posted on 01/20/2009 7:38:28 PM PST by Tarpon (America's first principles, freedom, liberty, market economy and self-reliance will never fail.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Within two years the drug addled cocaine sniffer will be the biggest joke in the world.


3 posted on 01/20/2009 7:39:56 PM PST by avacado
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“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.


4 posted on 01/20/2009 7:40:35 PM PST by headstamp 2 (Been here before)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
His American mother, Ann Dunham, married Muslim Indonesian Lolo Soetoro after the end of her marriage to Obama's Muslim Kenyan father.

Fixed.

5 posted on 01/20/2009 7:43:12 PM PST by null and void (KENYAN GO HOME!)
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To: Tarpon

The total sellout begins. The Mooselimbs have a bud in the White House.


6 posted on 01/20/2009 7:43:14 PM PST by shankbear (Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Rahm Emmanuel community outreach program.


7 posted on 01/20/2009 7:43:41 PM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: Tarpon

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 hasn’t 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.


8 posted on 01/20/2009 7:44:52 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (Welcome to Obama's America... Be afraid, be very afraid)
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To: Tarpon

Mutual respect from people who have vowed to murder you? Is he just stupid?


9 posted on 01/20/2009 7:44:57 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. Margret Thatcher)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I still find it hard to believe that “Obambi” is too stupid to realize that Islam is the enemy of the United States! This is going to be a very painful lesson to learn and I am afraid that a lot of people well be hurt or killed because of his ignorance and cowardice!
10 posted on 01/20/2009 7:45:50 PM PST by WellyP
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Mutual respect from people who have vowed to murder you? Is he just stupid?
* * * * * * * * *

He’s a closet muslim and racist, and he’s a libtard- of course he’s stupid!


11 posted on 01/20/2009 7:47:02 PM PST by Canedawg ("When white will embrace what is right."..this is the hope and change "they" want.)
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To: headstamp 2
based on mutual interest and mutual respect...

911 didn't teach the Kenyan/Hawaiian/Manchurian Candidate much about respect did it?

12 posted on 01/20/2009 7:47:17 PM PST by BigFinn ( TIOBOW=This Is Only The Beginning Of Weird.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

FU Obama.

Bush liberated more Muslims than any US President in history you moron.


13 posted on 01/20/2009 7:48:15 PM PST by DB
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To: Tarpon
Did anyone else find that offensive? That the most rabid abortionist in the history of mankind labled a Christian?

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

14 posted on 01/20/2009 7:51:51 PM PST by Operation_Shock_N_Awe (Isaiah 6:8)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“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.


15 posted on 01/20/2009 7:52:27 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Coming to You From the Front Lines of Occupied America)
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To: Free ThinkerNY; nutmeg; MeekOneGOP; knews_hound
"An Obama presidency will stoke ethnic and religious chauvinism in Indonesia and Indonesia's Islamic fundamentalists will use an Obama presidency to radicalize a new contingent of militants from the ranks of Islam's moderates. Individuals who are mesmerized by the phantasmagorical image of one of their own now inhabiting the White House and who will see it as a sign of America's impending submission and our nation's acquiescence to the superiority of Islam."

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?

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

16 posted on 01/20/2009 7:53:47 PM PST by expatguy (Support "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" - DONATE)
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To: headstamp 2

Fricking moron. American leftists always start of with the premise of hate America first and it always gets us in trouble.


17 posted on 01/20/2009 7:55:07 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How long will it e before Obomation moves his prayer rug into the Oval Office?


18 posted on 01/20/2009 7:58:44 PM PST by dalereed (/)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

New Start?

HOW ABOUT THEY EFFING START BY NOT FLYING EFFING PLANES INTO OUR BUILDINGS?


19 posted on 01/20/2009 8:00:39 PM PST by rlmorel ("A barrel of monkeys is not fun. In fact, a barrel of monkeys can be quite terrifying!")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

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.


20 posted on 01/20/2009 8:05:35 PM PST by CodeToad
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To: Free ThinkerNY
“Obama, a practicing Christian”

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.

21 posted on 01/20/2009 8:19:08 PM PST by ChicagahAl (It's mourning in America. Mourning our dearly departed freedom, liberty, security and wealth.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It sure didn’t take him long to sell us out.


22 posted on 01/20/2009 8:29:20 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

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.


23 posted on 01/20/2009 8:32:14 PM PST by generalhammond (Obama IS the Manchurian puppet - thankyou America)
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To: CodeToad
Oh, and Muslims do not care for Muslims renouncing Islam and taking up Christianity. It is a fatal affair to Muslims.

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.

24 posted on 01/20/2009 8:33:19 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
Did y'all hear him list the religious folk in America?

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.

25 posted on 01/20/2009 8:34:31 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Hmm. Just can’t grasp the “enormity” of this. Yup.


26 posted on 01/20/2009 8:40:39 PM PST by swatbuznik
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To: Lizavetta

I didn’t hear him. I avoided him like the plague.

It would have made me sick, though.


27 posted on 01/20/2009 8:45:37 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Lizavetta

I have no doubt that he is a closet muslim, just waiting for the right opportunity to come out.


28 posted on 01/20/2009 8:46:30 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

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.


29 posted on 01/20/2009 8:53:31 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY ((((Truth to a Liberal, is like a crucifix to a vampire))))
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To: metmom
I agree with you wholeheartedly, except he will maintain the passive face and it will be his minions who will push the Muslim doctrine/laws. The Messiah will not be directly tainted by such thuggery and fascism.

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.

30 posted on 01/20/2009 8:55:52 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Obama, a practicing Christian

Well, no, he's not. Has he even been baptized? I doubt it.

31 posted on 01/20/2009 8:59:30 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
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.

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?

32 posted on 01/20/2009 9:00:24 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"Obama, a practicing Christian,"

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.

33 posted on 01/20/2009 9:01:21 PM PST by Hillarys nightmare (So Proud to be living in "Jesus Land" ! Don't you wish everyone did?)
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To: Lizavetta
"And B. Hussein Obama lists the Muslims - not only a minority but a hostile minority - ahead of the Jewish people."

It makes me sick that he managed to mention them period.

But I'm not surprised!

34 posted on 01/20/2009 9:08:57 PM PST by Hillarys nightmare (So Proud to be living in "Jesus Land" ! Don't you wish everyone did?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

They are burning his picture in Tehran that’s a good start.


35 posted on 01/20/2009 9:09:59 PM PST by Mike Darancette (0 parties while the economy burns.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
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The time for change is now....
36 posted on 01/20/2009 9:17:36 PM PST by GulfWar1Vet
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To: Lizavetta
where Jews have been for many, many years and have succeeded in so many fields and achieved the American dream

....but....but.... the muslims have succeeded in driving taxi's and running liquor stores..../sac on.

37 posted on 01/20/2009 9:31:58 PM PST by SweetCaroline (Dear GOD help us save your babies from the Abortionist.)
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To: headstamp 2

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


38 posted on 01/20/2009 9:32:06 PM PST by phatus maximus ( John 6:29. Learn it, love it, live it.)
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To: phatus maximus
Hurry!! look out the window... It's the big FIX.
I will keep an open mind, he is the President I supose, I have a bad feeling about all this.
39 posted on 01/20/2009 10:07:07 PM PST by Rj SNOW 916
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect," said Obama"

The US Military, with GWB as CINC recently freed 50,000,000 muslims from tyranny and slaughter, you POS.

40 posted on 01/20/2009 10:12:47 PM PST by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
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To: Free ThinkerNY

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.


41 posted on 01/21/2009 1:25:22 AM PST by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew

Patchwork heritage?

Whatever happened to melting pot?


42 posted on 01/21/2009 4:07:01 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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