Posted on 09/10/2010 1:47:12 PM PDT by matt1234
According to the following source, it ends today: http://www.holidays.net/ramadan/dates.htm
Obama is NOT a muslim. He understands Islam, he was trained in Islam, he has a lot of affection for the religion. But he doesn’t practice it.
You’re right. He only prays to himself.
Does Islam teach that it's O.K. to lie in certain circumstances?
Further, the concept of Al Takeyya permits behavior of a Muslim that is contrary to his faith if pretending to befriend infidels, and may:
Consume alcohol
Skip prayers
Skip fasting during the month of Ramadan
Renounce his belief in Allah
Pray to another diety in place of Allah
Lie under oath
With all due respect, how do you know? Are you in his inner circle?
I don’t know how any of us can state absolutely what he believes.
I think a watch can be regarded as something other than jewelry.
A good point. A watch might be deemed functional rather than ornamental. I know that some muslim men wear a compass on their watchband so that they know which way to face during prayer. That would make a watchband doubly functional.
Or the male cast members of Jersey Shore...
I know enough of the muslim faith to know that he isn’t practicing. He’s not much into practicing Christianity either, but Islam has a lot more rules about day-to-day life that must be followed that he clearly doesn’t follow, that it’s easy to say that he’s not a practicing Muslim.
What kind of stone design is that?
Certainly qualifies as islamic/non-western in style.
I don’t know how any of us can state absolutely what he believes.
Well, we DO know how ABSOLUTELY he acts in public. And his actual in-public acts are more powerful witnesses than his (few, infrequent, missing and backwards and inconsistent) public statements about being even a lukewarm believer even in Jesus Christ as a historical figure, much less a practicing christian who believes in Christ as The Savior of our souls. In one statement, Obama even demoted Jesus to that most holy status of "an admired teacher."
Even more striking is his absolute lack of any public actions to indicate he is even a closet christian of ANY denomination.
So I will go with his public actions: He is NOT a practicing Christian of ANY denomination. He may or may not be a non-practicing Muslim, but EVERY foreign policy decision he has made, EVERY speech he has read from his teleprompter, and EVERY public action his administration has made about ANY religious decision shows he has a deep-seated burning inner hatred of ALL western Christian religions of EVERY denomination.
By the way, exactly what is his evidence of being a christian at all?
Great post.
He’s NOT a Christian.
Amen.
>>So glad I’m free in Christ & don’t have to put up with legalistic nonsense.<<
I’m with you on that one! What a feeling of freedom. All these religions where you have to earn your way in or somehow earn a better place or something. Jesus paid the full price for me!!
>>Obama is NOT a muslim. He understands Islam, he was trained in Islam, he has a lot of affection for the religion. But he doesn’t practice it.<<
Who do you think you are kidding? The Imam would not have asked him to be the Caliph of all of Islam if he didn’t know proof positive that Obama was a Muslim in good standing with the Muslim community. The Caliph is the top guy in all of Islam. They know for a fact that he is in fact he is a Muslim.
I don’t see the fruits of being a Christian. But you won’t get me to take God’s place in pronouncing which of his creation He has chosen. I can only be responsible for my own Salvation, not for judging the salvation of others.
According to the following source, it ends today: http://www.holidays.net/ramadan/dates.htm
I researched this a little yesterday. I think the end of Ramadan depends on your position on the globe. This is because the start and end of Ramadan are based on lunar observances. Of course, at any given time, at two points on the earth, the view of the moon differs (assuming you can see the moon at all.) Note that the linked source uses dates from the Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA), which states that September 10 is the end date. In other parts of the world the end date might be September 9.
There you go again!
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