Obama Ash Wednesday message
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 9, 2011
Statement by the President on Ash Wednesday
Michelle and I join with millions of Christians here and across the world to mark Ash Wednesday. As we observe the season of Lent, we receive with thanksgiving this opportunity for grace and repentance, recommit ourselves to our faith, and remember our obligations to one another.
The word "Taqiyya" literally means: "Concealing, precaution, guarding.” It is employed in disguising one's beliefs, intentions, convictions, ideas, feelings, opinions or strategies.Falsehoods told to protect oneself, or to promote the cause of Islam are sanctioned in the Qur'an and Sunna, including lying under oath in testimony before a court, deceiving by making distorted statements to the media. A Muslim is even permitted to deny or denounce his faith if, in so doing, he protects or furthers the interests of Islam, so long as he remains faithful to Islam in his heart.
-- edited extract from Understanding Taqiyya ― Islamic Principle of Lying for the Sake of Allah, Islam Watch
Still he’s not saying what particular denomination. If he was a member of White’s church isn’t that an independent church, not affiliated with any denomination? Just wondering.
Ps, IOW, I don’t think that just because he didn’t go to a church to receive ashes doesn’t mean he’s not a Christian as he says he is, is all I’m saying.
Just like his recitation of the Declaration, he manages to leave out any reference to God in general, and Jesus in particular.
I wonder if he'll be serving halal snacks at the game party tonight?
I wonder who wrote that statement for Sheik Hussein?