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President Bush Rededicates Islamic Center of Washington The Islamic Center of D.C.
The White House ^ | June 27, 2007

Posted on 06/27/2007 2:34:18 PM PDT by PhiKapMom

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To: Spiff

I remembered when he went there after 9-11 which I thought was strange. I know I would have remembered if I had seen the opening of evening of the Convention in 2004 and it was by an Iman.


41 posted on 06/27/2007 3:46:01 PM PDT by PhiKapMom ( Inhofe for Senate 08 -- Broken Glass Republican -- vote out the RATs in 2008)
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To: hoosierham

The size of a lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell big ones.

As Hitler explained in Mein Kampf


42 posted on 06/27/2007 3:46:55 PM PDT by EBH (May God Save Our Country)
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To: mimaw
mimaw wrote:
We can’t be at war with every muslim in the world.

But they can be - and ARE - at war with us.

If not actually armed, "at war in their hearts" with the infidel West.

I guess we weren't at war with every German, Italian and Japanese, either.

- John

43 posted on 06/27/2007 3:48:16 PM PDT by Fishrrman
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To: PhiKapMom

I am beyond sick of PC.


44 posted on 06/27/2007 3:54:25 PM PDT by Atchafalaya (When you are there thats the best)
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To: mimaw

When was the last time we heard from a moderate muslim condeming terrorism? Do they condemn acts of terrorism in their mosques? Remember the moderate muslim professor from Florida that visited the White House a few years ago? The same guy who was sending money to Hamas I believe. If that is an example of moderate muslims then we are all in trouble. What’s next sharia law in the U.S.?


45 posted on 06/27/2007 3:55:45 PM PDT by Lobbyist (I want my American dream!!!!)
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To: pacelvi

Very good analysis — I need to remember this analysis of Turkey and the Ottoman empire.


46 posted on 06/27/2007 4:09:45 PM PDT by Sundog (It's a good day for a catharsis.)
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To: PhiKapMom

My disappointment with this President continues to grow. Very disappointing comments.


47 posted on 06/27/2007 4:18:05 PM PDT by mad puppy (I'd rather live a day on my feet than a year on my knees)
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To: mimaw

I think the problem is.....the leader of this particular organization is one who declared that THIS administration planned 9-11.....if what I read yesterday was correct.


48 posted on 06/27/2007 4:22:09 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Being Challenged Builds Character! Being Coddled Destroys Character!)
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To: Spiff

Vernon Richards wrote:

“The true Islamic concept of peace goes something like this: “Peace comes through submission to Muhammad and his concept of Allah” (i.e. Islam). As such the Islamic concept of peace, meaning making the whole world Muslim, is actually a mandate for war. It was inevitable and unavoidable that the conflict would eventually reach our borders, and so it has.”

John Quincy Adams wrote:

In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar [i.e., Muhammad], 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 (Adams’s capital letters)… Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. The war is yet flagrant… While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and goodwill towards men.”

Lord Tebbit wrote:

“The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science, or art or literature, or technology in the last 500 years”

Andre Servier, 1922 wrote:

“Islam was not a torch, as has been claimed, but an extinguisher. Conceived in a barbarous brain for the use of a barbarous people, it was - and it remains - incapable of adapting itself to civilization. Wherever it has dominated, it has broken the impulse towards progress and checked the evolution of society.”

Theodore Roosevelt wrote:

“The Greeks who triumphed at Marathon and Salamis did a work without which the world would have been deprived of the social value of Plato and Aristotle, of Aeschylus, Herodotus, and Thucydides. The civilization of Europe, America, and Australia exists today at all only because of the victories of civilized man over the enemies of civilization, because the victories stretching through the centuries from the days of Miltiades and Themistocles to those of Charles Martel in the eighth century and those of John Sobieski in the seventeenth century.”

“During the thousand years that included the careers of the Frankish soldier and the Polish king, the Christians of Asia and Africa proved unable to wage successful war with the Moslem conquerors; and in consequence Christianity practically vanished from the two continents; and today nobody can find in them any “social values” whatever, in the sense in which we use the words, so far as the sphere of Mohammedan influence. There are such “social values” today in Europe, America, and Australia only because during those thousand years the Christians of Europe possessed the warlike power to do what the Christians of Asia and Africa had failed to do - that is, to beat back the Moslem invader.”

David Selbourne – The Losing Battle with Islam:

“Of course, there are distinguished precedents even for the bleakest and coarsest of these judgements. To Montesquieu in 1748, Islam’s ‘destructive spirit’ spoke ‘only by the sword’; to Schopenhauer in 1819, the Koran was a ‘wretched book’ in which he had ‘not been able to discover one single idea of value’; to De Tocqueville in 1843, Islam was ‘deadly’, ‘to be feared’ and a ‘form of decadence’”. –

Winston Churchill, wrote in 1899:

“The religion of Islam above all others was founded upon the sword … Moreover it provides incentives to slaughter, and in three continents has produced fighting breeds of men – filled with a wild and merciless fanaticism”.

John Quincy Adams who wrote in 1829:

“The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God. The vanquished may purchase their lives, by the payment of tribute; the victorious may be appeased by a false and delusive promise of peace; and the faithful follower of the prophet, may submit to the imperious necessities of defeat: but the command to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always obligatory, when it can be made effective. The commands of the prophet may be performed alike, by fraud, or by force”.

John Wesley (1703-91) who wrote,

“Ever since the religion of Islam appeared in the world, the espousers of it...have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations, rending and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws, and grinding them with their iron teeth; that numberless cities are raised from the foundation, and only their name remaining; that many countries, which were once as the garden of God, are now a desolate wilderness; and that so many once numerous and powerful nations are vanished from the earth! Such was, and is at this day, the rage, the fury, the revenge, of these destroyers of human kind”.

Hilaire Belloc who wrote in 1938:

“Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake off the domination of Europeans — still nominally Christian — and reappear as the prime enemy of our civilization? The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be. And for my part I cannot but believe that a main unexpected thing of the future is the return of Islam”.

Bishop Fulton J Sheen who wrote in 1950:

“Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it into account, there is still grave danger that the temporal power of Islam may return and, with it, the menace that it may shake off a West which has ceased to be Christian, and affirm itself as a great anti-Christian world Power”.

Patriarch Cyrus of Alexandria, while negotiating the surrender of Alexandria to the Muslims, 640 AD:

“I am afraid that God has sent these men to lay waste the world”.

Gregory Palamus of Thessalonica, 1354:

“For these impious people, hated by God and infamous, boast of having got the better of the Romans by their love of God…they live by the bow, the sword and debauchery, finding pleasure in taking slaves, devoting themselves to murder, pillage, spoil…and not only do they commit these crimes, but even — what an aberration — they believe that God approves of them. This is what I think of them, now that I know precisely about their way of life.”.

William Eaton, US Consul to Tunis, wrote in 1799:

“Considered as a nation, they are deplorably wretched, because they have no property in the soil to inspire an ambition to cultivate it. They are abject slaves to the despotism of their government, and they are humiliated by tyranny, the worst of all tyrannies, the despotism of priestcraft. They live in more solemn fear of the frowns of a bigot who has been dead and rotten above a thousand years, than of the living despot whose frown would cost them their lives…The ignorance, superstitious tradition and civil and religious tyranny, which depress the human mind here, exclude improvement of every kind…”

And how about this quote from Ayatollah Khomeini from 1942:

“Islam makes it incumbent on all adult males, provided they are not disabled and incapacitated, to prepare themselves for the conquest of [other] countries so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world. But those who study Islamic Holy War will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world…. Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured by [the unbelievers] Islam says Kill them [the non-Muslims], put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]. Does this mean sitting back until [non-Muslims] overcome us Islam says Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill you! Does this mean that we should surrender to the enemy Islam says Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for Holy Warriors! There are hundreds of other [Koranic] verses and Hadiths [sayings of the Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all that mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.” - Ayatollah Khomeini

In defense of the UK, Winston Churchill 1941:

You cannot tell from appearances how things will go. Sometimes imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done. Those people who are imaginative see many more dangers than perhaps exist; certainly many more than will happen; but then they must also pray to be given that extra courage to carry this far-reaching imagination. But for everyone, surely, what we have gone through in this period - I am addressing myself to the School - surely from this period of ten months this is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. We stood all alone a year ago, and to many countries it seemed that our account was closed, we were finished. All this tradition of ours, our songs, our School history, this part of the history of this country, were gone and finished and liquidated


49 posted on 06/27/2007 4:30:14 PM PDT by pacelvi
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To: PhiKapMom

This is the filthy armpit in which Bush took off his shoes a mere 4 days after 9/11 and shamed all Americans by declaring “Islam is Peace”. Here he goes again. Just revolting.


50 posted on 06/27/2007 4:31:02 PM PDT by montag813
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To: PhiKapMom

This smells of desperation....


51 posted on 06/27/2007 4:31:44 PM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: EBH

Mein Kampf = My Struggle = Jihad


52 posted on 06/27/2007 4:34:32 PM PDT by pacelvi
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To: Robe
Really, it's an attempt to support some Muslims against those terrorists who are actually adherent to the words and principles of the Koran and the example of Mohamed.

Desperate?

I think it's really the opposite. It's having hope. Maybe a false hope, maybe stubborn complacency, but not desperation.

53 posted on 06/27/2007 4:36:06 PM PDT by unspun (What do you think? Please think, before you answer.)
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To: PhiKapMom
"...and wondered what others who had originally supported Bush in two or four elections were thinking about this latest out of the President."

Exactly the same as you are thinking.

And it isn't pretty...

54 posted on 06/27/2007 4:42:57 PM PDT by Czar ( StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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To: PhiKapMom


55 posted on 06/27/2007 5:16:27 PM PDT by TexKat ((Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.))
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To: mad puppy

I agree — totally disappointed in how this Administration has turned out.


56 posted on 06/27/2007 7:04:04 PM PDT by PhiKapMom ( Inhofe for Senate 08 -- Broken Glass Republican -- vote out the RATs in 2008)
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To: Lobbyist

When’s the last time the MSM looked for one?


57 posted on 06/27/2007 7:32:30 PM PDT by mimaw
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To: pacelvi
“there are millions of descent Muslims in this world that want the same things for their families that we do. “

BULL-SHIT

The only good Muslim is an Ex-Muslim.
"B-- Sh---" ?? You really think this is a false statement? Then go stand by the ANSWER freaks and demand an end to our engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan. But, then, you probably think our allies in those countries really just want to eat their children -- and ours.

Truly, people are seeing ghosts around here.

58 posted on 06/27/2007 8:08:45 PM PDT by nicollo (all economics are politics)
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To: mimaw

Good point!


59 posted on 06/27/2007 8:35:30 PM PDT by Lobbyist (I want my American dream!!!!)
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To: unspun
Really, it's an attempt to support some Muslims against those terrorists who are actually adherent to the words and principles of the Koran and the example of Mohamed. Desperate? I think it's really the opposite. It's having hope. Maybe a false hope, maybe stubborn complacency, but not desperation.

Yes..Desperation.. Because.. They are muslim before anything else....This smells of capitulation.....

60 posted on 06/27/2007 10:13:34 PM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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