Was it three, or five, years? Besides, a true 'Manchurian candidate' would salute the US flag.
Posted on 12/04/2007 1:35:57 PM PST by shrinkermd
The rumors first surfaced during Obama's run for Senate but took off in a viral e-mail campaign in 2006. One e-mail called Obama "The Enemy Within." GOP strategist Ed Rogers also pointedly mentioned Obama's middle name, Hussein. In January, the Obama campaign was forced to denounce Fox News for repeating a false Insight magazine report that he had spent fours years in an Indonesian madrasa, an Islamic school. Though CNN sent out a reporter who found that the school Obama had attended had nothing in common with the Pakistani incubators for jihadists, and though his campaign has set the record straight repeatedly, last week the Washington Post ran a front-page story about Obama's "Muslim ties."
That the rumors are false and vile is self-evident. That they persist in the face of the facts speaks to the power of the underlying calumny -- that Muslim Americans in positions of power in the United States represent a fifth column, an internal security threat of the sort believed to have been posed by Japanese Americans during World War II.
It also speaks to the post-9/11 revival of the ancient Christian loathing of Muslims that predated by centuries the 1529 Ottoman Siege of Vienna. Today, Muslim peoples are frequently stereotyped as mobs or hordes who are particularly prone to violence and generally supportive of terrorism. And an ugly undertone of the immigration debate has been the insinuation that efforts to restrict illegal immigration should focus on keeping out the "bad" Muslims who have overrun Europe, not the "good" Mexicans who only want to work here.
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Was it three, or five, years? Besides, a true 'Manchurian candidate' would salute the US flag.
Well, loathing is sort of a loaded term. But aside from that:
Did Christians have a problem with Muslims before the Muslim conquest of Constantinople in 1453? How about before the Muslim Conquest of the Holy Land in 1077 (this is what started the Crusades)? Did Christians have a problem with Muslims before the Muslim conquest of Spain in about 700? How about before the Muslim wars against the Byzantine Empire in the 600's? Does the problem go back that far?
Boy, those Christians!
Our sure blame us for the Ottomans trying to take Vienna.
No, he’s the Oprarian candidate.
“”And an ugly undertone of the immigration debate has been the insinuation that efforts to restrict illegal immigration should focus on keeping out the “bad” Muslims who have overrun Europe, not the “good” Mexicans who only want to work here.””
Sounds like a white urban liberal fantasy how they wish their opponents would think.
Well...there is the terrorist thing.
And as to Obama, his leftist, wholly big government, socialistic/maxistic tendencies are more than enough for me to label him as another enemy to the basic value systems and innstitutions our republic rests on.
If that weren;t enough (and it most certainly is), then, for safety's sake, at a time when we are at war with abject muslim/islamic terrorists and those who support and abett them, I believe we would be foolish to elect a President who did attend muslim schools as a youth (regardless of the variety) named Hussein Obama. But that's just my own feeling and is no more hard to understand than being leary of any politician who had tried to be elected in 1942 named Tojo-san.
Total ignorance of the history of Muslim conquest. Clearly the editorial staff of the LAT had public school educations.
Mohammad did not attend a Indonesian madrassa either. So apparently he has no "Muslim ties". Like good liberal crackpots the LA Times can sure be oh-so-indignant while being dumber then a box of rocks.
This article is a flat out, effing lie. This whole thing about Obama came first from the Hillary camp and the lying LA times knows it.
Heck, they blame us for everything else -- except maybe the weather...oh wait...that too.
In Muslim law, a child born to a Muslim father is a Muslim-period. There is no other option. This makes Obama a Muslim to 1.3 billion people.
Yeah, Muslims have been trying to eliminate Christians from day 1. But all history seems to know is how evil those crusaders were. How dare Christians fight back.
Could it be because his faux Christianity is simply a ruse to gain power over the Infidel enemy, exactly the type of deception which is sanctioned by the Koran?
If that is so, then it is quite important. Do you have a source?
Wouldn’t a Muslim father and Muslim step-father qualify as “Muslim ties”?
It is okay to question Mitt Romney’s qualifications because of his Mormonosity and it is okay to slur Mark Foley falsely as a child predator and by extension attack the GOP but we are supposed to ignore the possible indoctrination by the guy who refuses to wear a flag pin and to respect the flag of this country.
The LA Times has lied and fabricated news before, their words hold no weight.
"that Muslim peoples are frequently stereotyped as ...particularly prone to violence and generally supportive of terrorism"
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