Posted on 02/21/2015 12:58:59 PM PST by xzins
American and European citizens and journalists are spurring jihadi violence by protesting the arrival of Muslim populations into their societies, President Barack Obama declared Thursday.
“We’ve also seen, most recently in Europe, a rise in inexcusable acts of anti-Semitism, or in some cases, anti-Muslim sentiment or anti-immigrant sentiment,” Obama told a Feb. 19 audience of U.S. and foreign officials and advocates, who met to discuss ways to minimize jihadi violence.
Peaceful criticism of Islamic culture is bad, he suggested. ”When people spew hatred toward others — because of their faith or because they’re immigrants — it feeds into terrorist narratives. … It feeds a cycle of fear and resentment and a sense of injustice upon which extremists prey,” he said.
So “we have to ensure that our diverse societies truly welcome and respect people of all faiths and backgrounds,” said Obama.
He insisted the conflict between Muslim and Western cultures is not caused by fundamentally different attitudes about freedom and religious solidarity.
The violence is caused by tit-for-tat “cycles of conflict,” and lack of dialogue. he said.
In the Arab region, “the terror campaigns between Sunnis and Shia will only end when major powers address their differences through dialogue … [when] political, civic and religious leaders [begin] rejecting sectarian strife.”
In Europe and America, governments should guide public debate over Muslim culture, Obama insisted. “We all recognize the need for more dialogues across countries and cultures. … So let’s bring our youth together to promote understanding and cooperation,” he said.
“That’s what the United States will do with our virtual exchange program — named after Ambassador Chris Stevens — to connect 1 million young people from America and the Middle East and North Africa for dialogue,” he added.
Since October 2014, tens of thousands of German citizens and families have been marching quietly and peacefully to protest the local government’s plan to settle many Muslims in their city.
The peaceful “PEGIDA” protests have expanded to other cities and countries since the jihad attacks in France, Belgium and Denmark, but have been met with opposition by an alliance of progressives and Islamists.
“PEGIDA” stands for “Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West.”
Those protests have been angrily criticized by establishment leaders. ”In the name of the government and the chancellor I can say quite clearly that there is no place in Germany for religious hatred, no matter which religion people belong to,” the spokesman for Germany’s prime minister said in December. ”There is no place for Islamophobia, anti-Semitism or any form of xenophobia or racism,” said Angela Merkel’s spokeswoman Christiane Wirtz.
The elite support for immigration of Muslims comes as polls show rising American and European opposition to immigrant Muslims’ mixture of religion and culture, which endorses polygamy, hostility to free speech, anti-Semitism, and which doesn’t value free enterprise, equality for non-Muslims, personal freedom or sexual equality.
No, Obama, you traitor. Americans are criticizing islam because they’re murderous thugs. You’ve got it backwards. Americans are not the stupid ones here....well, most of them aren’t.
Because ragheads never murder or hurt people in any other scenario, right?
If the movement of population was from the West to the Middle East, then Obama would decry it as colonialism.
President psychobabble.
"Government" is not going to guide my debate about anything, slimeball. Take your stinking "government" and "guide" it up your backside.
doesn't matter what happens, the goathumpers are safety wired to the terrorist/murderous thug position anyway so fill in the blank... 
“In Europe and America, governments should guide public debate over Muslim culture, Obama insisted.”
This guy gets more brazen in his fascism by the day.
A big vigorous F.U. to every single American who voted for him.
When you Criticize Islam you Criticize Obama ?
Lord have mercy.
The Muslim-Marxist is truly sick in the head or totally EVIL.
Obama, Indonesian Moslem impostor-traitor to the US
Constitution, is ONLY supported by al QAeda,
Islamic terrorists, and their so-willing enablers,
known as the hated and EXEMPT US Congress.
aww hell, I believe Jesus Christ Himself would call Islam vile, based on the lies of a pervert prophet..Christians must stand and say Islam is evil, period, nothing else, a blasphemy to God.
so obozzo the muzzie wants to ban free speech, kill all christians and whites and make the world the hellhole of his memories..
Screw Islam, may all find their way from its hellish grasp and find the only Path to salvation, Jesus Christ..
The "elite?"
Well, well, aren't they just so special.
Perhaps they can go advise the muzz how special "the elite" are.
Face to face.
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The propagandists seamlessly drew from injustice against blacks to pointing out injustice to that other minority in our midst, undocumented aliens. The message was clear: Instead of forcing undocumented aliens to suffer the injustices the Medgar Evers, James Meredith, MLK, Jr., Rosa Parks, etc., let's cut to the chase and the final chapter!
Surely all can see the wisdom in just accepting undocumented aliens as full-fledged American citizens that will proudly stand and be part of our future communities, even more than the white folk that have been fighting the black man tooth and nail for centuries!
I'm sure lots of black folks see what they would consider the benefits of community organizing, Barry style!
HF
Hey, Hussein, you need to shut up or we’ll get mad.
In 1916 Theodore Roosevelt, former President of the United States, wrote a book entitled “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”. His advice is uncannily relevant almost a century later. We should heed his advice if we wish to survive as a civilization in the 21st Century.
Teddy wrote, “Christianity is not a creed of Africa and Asia at this moment because the seventh century Christians of Asia and Africa had trained themselves not to fight.” Meanwhile TR continues, “The Moslems (Muslims) were trained to fight. Christianity was saved in Europe solely because the peoples of Europe fought back.”
‘Mohammedans (Muslims), wherever they held complete sway, where the Christians had been unable to resist them, Christianity has ultimately disappeared. From the hammer of Charles Martel (Battle of Tours) to the sword of Sobieski (the siege of Vienna), Christianity owed its safety in Europe to the fact that it was able to show that it could and would fight as well as the Mohammedan aggressor.”
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