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Obama’s mosque visit demonstrates tacit acceptance of a form of gender apartheid
nytlive.nytimes.com ^ | 02.03.16 | Asra Q. Nomani and Ify Okoye

Posted on 02/04/2016 6:41:10 AM PST by Trumpinator

President Obama should be aware that on any given day a woman or girl worshiping in the mosque would be dispatched away from the musallah where he will stand to speak out against “Islamophobia,” to the “prayer room for females,” as one worshipper described it.

“While the free world awaits a Muslim reformation, the leader of the free world shows blatant disregard for gender equality by visiting a mosque that treats females like second-class citizens,” says Raheel Raza, a Pakistani-Canadian activist, author and cofounder of the Muslim Reform Movement, a new initiative that we support, advocating for peace, women’s rights and secular governance. “This makes our work as activists extremely difficult because equality is one of the main tenets of our reform movement.”

The president has an opportunity to shine light in a place once associated with the darkest extremes of Islam. His motorcade will re-trace the path of al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki: FBI surveillance notes document that al-Awlaki, then a local imam, drove down Johnnycake Road to enter the Islamic Society of Baltimore at 5:56 p.m. on the evening of November 11, 2001. (A copy of the notes was released under the Freedom of Information Act).

Today, in an estimated two-thirds of mosques around the United States, women and girls are segregated in dark basements, sparse balconies, separate rooms and even behind shower curtains in the “sisters’ section,” listening to Friday sermons piped in through shaky sound systems and watching them, if we are lucky, via TV screens. It’s too often only on “interfaith” occasions like the president’s visit that women and girls get to step forward into the “brothers’ section.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; US: Maryland; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2016election; baltimore; blackkk; election2016; islam; maryland; newyork; obama; trump; waronwomen
I am so incensed by this visit by a Obama to a jihadi mosque. I am glad non-jihadi Muslims are calling Obama out on it in this case from the left - at least. The right wing argument I support is that Islamism is not compatible with democracy - our immigration policies bar supporters of totalitarian systems from entering so should we ban advocates of Sharia.
1 posted on 02/04/2016 6:41:10 AM PST by Trumpinator
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The future must not belong to those who deny the true nature of Islam

John Quincy Adams on Islam

In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.

Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extinction of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. It is, indeed, amongst the mysterious dealings of God, that this delusion should have been suffered for so many ages, and during so many generations of human kind, to prevail over the doctrines of the meek and peaceful and benevolent Jesus (Blunt, 1830, 29:269, capitals in orig.).


2 posted on 02/04/2016 6:41:46 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Trumpinator

Obama hates women.


3 posted on 02/04/2016 6:43:13 AM PST by Durbin
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To: Trumpinator

Feminism and Homosexualism are required for society until the advent of the Islamic State and Shariah.


4 posted on 02/04/2016 6:48:30 AM PST by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali sono feccia.)
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To: Trumpinator

Gender apartheid, an imam who “despises” gays simply for being gay. Yeah, Obama knows how to pick’em.


5 posted on 02/04/2016 6:49:14 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Durbin

As do all Muslims.


6 posted on 02/04/2016 6:51:09 AM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

As the left comes to embrace Islam, one of the side effects will be the sidelining and denigration of women. This is already ingrained in ghetto culture so this is just part of the natural progression.


7 posted on 02/04/2016 6:58:39 AM PST by BRK
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(Stop hating Obama because he is black! You rayciss, you!)


8 posted on 02/04/2016 7:25:12 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: 17th Miss Regt

I actually hate the half white part of Obama.


9 posted on 02/04/2016 7:25:53 AM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: Trumpinator

What about the Frank Marshall Davis - communist part?


10 posted on 02/04/2016 7:29:29 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Trumpinator

I despise the anti-American part.


11 posted on 02/04/2016 7:30:13 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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Both sides of his family (regardless of who his dad really is) were communist.


12 posted on 02/04/2016 7:30:17 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Trumpinator

Our Emperor likely felt right at home in that place.


13 posted on 02/04/2016 7:47:55 AM PST by armydawg505
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To: Trumpinator
Today, in an estimated two-thirds of mosques around the United States, women and girls are segregated ..."

Women are separated from men in a lot of orthodox synagogues and some conservative ones.

14 posted on 02/04/2016 7:53:14 AM PST by wideminded
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15 posted on 02/04/2016 8:05:32 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Why didn’t Obama go to a mosque in Washington? Why go to this particular mosque?


16 posted on 02/04/2016 8:44:52 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Obama = ISIS Fanboy)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

John Quincy Adams on Islam

In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.

Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extinction of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. It is, indeed, amongst the mysterious dealings of God, that this delusion should have been suffered for so many ages, and during so many generations of human kind, to prevail over the doctrines of the meek and peaceful and benevolent Jesus (Blunt, 1830, 29:269, capitals

Good morning, I mention on another post today about Ben Franklin and his Navy the baby American Navy at the time.

Hey Freepers, Adams sounds like he speaks of the devil himself. God is testing us.


17 posted on 02/04/2016 8:49:00 AM PST by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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Could you imagine if O praised Catholicism as strongly? The feminists, gays, and atheists would literally crap their ugly pants!

“Mysogenistic!” “Undiverse!” “Separation of church and state!”

Instead, he praises a faith that hates women, screws over gays with boys and goats, and preaches theocracy, and the media swoons.


18 posted on 02/04/2016 9:12:18 AM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Trumpinator; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

It is a travesty that such segregation occurs on U.S. soil.

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


19 posted on 02/04/2016 8:29:53 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Terrorism, the thing that shall not be named by the MSM)
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