James Zogby: Obama's Speech Was 'Right on Target'

Newsmax ^ | February 06, 2015 | Melissa Clyne

[Steelfish]

James Zogby: Obama's Speech Was 'Right on Target' Friday, 06 Feb 2015 By Melissa Clyne

James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, said Friday on "America’s Forum" on Newsmax TV that President Barack Obama was "right on target" in his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast in which he compared the Islamic State’s (ISIS) barbaric acts to those committed by Christians during the Crusades and the Inquisition.

"As [Obama] said that when we do this, we're not doing this from a position of patronizing other societies as much as we are speaking from the experience of a culture and a civilization that has erred in the past, that continues to err in the present, and that understands its own flaws and understands the need to move forward," Zogby said.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Zogby is a Musloid, in case it was unclear.

[Paladin2]

Bammy was over his intended target.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I’ll bet most Imams agreed with him, too.

[molson209]

Obama will be making himself Supreme Leader before his term is up

[2ndDivisionVet]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Yep. On target.

And it’s you and me in the cross-hairs.

[MeshugeMikey]

Arab American Institute

EH?

they get together and discuss rugs or what???

[Dqban22]

In response to President Barack Obama drawing a parallel between the barbaric acts of the Islamic State today with actions by Christians during the Crusades, which ended 700 years ago, evangelist Franklin Graham said there was a difference between Jesus Christ who “taught peace “ and did “not take life” versus Mohammed, who “was a warrior and killed many innocent people.”

Reverend Graham further said that, “True followers of Christ emulate Christ – true followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.”

How The Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
|May 2, 2005 | Thomas Woods

http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0101.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8ysmbkCzQU

Ask a college student today what he knows about the Catholic Church and his answer might come down to one word: “corruption.” But that one word should be “civilization.”

Western civilization has given us the miracles of modern science, the wealth of free-market economics, the security of the rule of law, a unique sense of human rights and freedom, charity as a virtue, splendid art and music, a philosophy grounded in reason, and innumerable other gifts that we take for granted as the wealthiest and most powerful civilization in history.

But what is the ultimate source of these gifts? Bestselling author and professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr. provides the long neglected answer: the Catholic Church. Woods’s story goes far beyond the familiar tale of monks copying manuscripts and preserving the wisdom of classical antiquity. In How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, you’ll learn:

• Why modern science was born in the Catholic Church
• How Catholic priests developed the idea of free-market economics five hundred years before Adam Smith
• How the Catholic Church invented the university
• Why what you know about the Galileo affair is wrong
• How Western law grew out of Church canon law
• How the Church humanized the West by insisting on the sacredness of all human life No institution has done more to shape Western civilization than the two-thousand-year-old Catholic Church—and in ways that many of us have forgotten or never known. How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization is essential reading for recovering this lost truth.

[oldbrowser]

The difference is that muslims are still living in the dark ages and the rest of the world has evolved in the last one thousand years.

[ScottfromNJ]

“in which he compared the Islamic State’s (ISIS) barbaric acts to those committed by Christians during the Crusades and the Inquisition.”

And no comment by Obama about the good examples Christians generally set today, with instructions to Islam about how that example should be followed?

[doc maverick]

I think the Pentagon needs to do a study on Obama’s defective personality instead of wasting tax dollars on some stupid Putin/Aspergers horse schit!

[The_Media_never_lie]

Isn’t it very clear which side Zogby and Obama are on.

[Dqban22]

Obama obscene attack to Christianity. All Obama knows about the Crusades and the Inquisition is what he was taught while in Indonesia by his Islamic professors, a distorted view of History and reality that was fulfilled later in U.S. by Marxist professors who feed Obama’s visceral hate to U.S.

[ldish]

have saying that all along...he’ll try in some way to stay and he is embolden enough to try it...does anyone stand in his way is now big question...only 50% chance of that...with obamacare crap, bengazi, the border, over stepping authority in so many other ways and with all his appointments and loser AG there should be millions surrounding the WH now and every day until he os put in jail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Vendome]

Flippin Moron.

The Crusades would have never been necessary but for Islams march across the Holy Lands and southern Europe.

There was never a time that Christianity deigned to rule the world under one religion, at the point of a sword.

Islam has, since its founding 1,400 years ago, been at perpetual war with the rest of humanity and continues their crusade to this day.

When did Christianity enslave 300 little girls as sexual slaves? Thatz Boko Haram, a franchise of Islam.

Were the Christians of Africa at war with Islam these last 20 years? Islam clubbed and macheted their way to dominance over a peaceful people, who were willing to share their existence with lunatic murderers and 1.5 million of them died.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It is to me.

[cripplecreek]

The muslim expansion across the mideast, North Africa and southern Europe was conducted at the edge of a blade. The Crusades were a response.

[Vendome]

And were it not for Charles Martel and The Battle of Tours, Muslims would have completely overun all of Europe.

[CodeToad]

Forget the Crusades, they were ineffective. Let’s play Cowboys and Muslims!