Posted on 07/10/2007 8:00:51 PM PDT by anglian
Any country would be lucky to have as president someone with Obama's sensitivity and his sort of reflective leadership. Here is my unsolicited advice to him for keeping the spark alive: Remember that you're called Barack Obama; that your father was a Muslim. Do not turn your back on this heritage; instead use it as the spark that might push your campaign ahead. In this growing world war between Islam and the West, you should be proud of your Muslim legacy. Make it a central plank of your campaign to become world leader.
There is no contradiction between this and the Christian convictions you have, but you also need to flaunt the Islamic tradition as part of your character and worldview so as to become a uniquely ecumenical president in a world increasingly in the throes of religious strife. That aspect of your deeper richness has been deliberately muted by your team in favor of a solely Christian profile. This is wrong.
What the world needs from the United States is for it to show that its democratic system is mature enough to produce a president who is both black and Muslim. In a day and age when the most important fault-line is that between Islam and the West, a president who is a Muslim, and who is as proud of this as he is proud of being black and Christian, can only evoke true leadership. Barack Obama should embrace that Muslim spark.
Chibli Mallat is a lawyer and the EU Jean Monnet Chair at St. Joseph's University in Beirut and S.J. Quinney Chair of Middle Eastern Politics and Law at the University of Utah. His latest book, "Presidential Talk," a collection of speeches on his Lebanese presidential campaign trail. He wrote this commentary for The DAILY STAR.
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I wonder if Clinton Inc. even has people at the Lebanon Daily Star
NEVER, EVER, TRUST A MOSLEM!
If he doesn’t remember, we will.
Since he looks more like his Irish grandfather than anyone, why doesn’t he embrace his Irish heritage?
This from the Lebanon Daily Star.
Maybe they're right. Obama's too good for us to keep all to ourselves.
It's only just; we should send him over there. We clearly don't deserve him.
/sarc
Heh. Yah. Run with that. Please.
Who would allow a Muslim to be in charge of thousands of nuclear weapons? The liberal media.
Exactly, being as he is half white... why does he not embrace that as well? He acts ashamed of it... I think I will call his office tomorrow and ask..
The writer does have a point. Anyone seeking to become "world leader" had better pick his team wisely, and you can't be on both teams.
Evidently yet another university “in the Jesuit tradition,” a kind of Lebanese Georgetown.
http://www.usj.edu.lb/english/mission.php
The Rector’s name is given as Sélim Abou s.j.
Yeah. The United States ought to demonstrate that it has a mature, democratic system.
You Muslims can stay in tribal societies with 7th century values, but we Americans are really on the hook to demonstrate our political maturity.
He belongs to an avowed racists enabling church that may or may not be following true Christian principles.
His best friends seem to be on the seamy side with some avowing the down fall of the country he hopes someday lead.
Trust Osama Obama, give me a physical break.......
Here’s the full description of him from the College of Law at the University of Utah:
Chibli Wajdi Mallat
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B.A., Beirut University College (1982)
LL.M, Georgetown University (1983)
Ph.D, University of London (1990)
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I thought I smelled Georgetown there somewhere! If you want a hillary connection, keep in mind that Georgetown’s favorite alumnus is ClintBilly.
Yeah, that'll work. I didn't realize Muslims were so "ecumenical."
Precisely why Obama cannot be POTUS. His roots would cause glee in the Muslim world and anything he did that benefitted Muslims here and abroad would be regarded with suspicion.
Anyone who thinks Obama will be elected President is smoking something. The whole Obama “phenomenon” is just a big fantasy of single white women who regret never having slept with a black man while in grad school. There, I said it.
Remember that you're called Barack HUSSEIN Obama...
Fixed....
Barf alert?
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