That just goes to show ya' that OSAMA Hussien Obama is more than willing to throw his own family under the bus in his quest for power. And I thought the Clinton's were the most power-mad scum of the earth.
Posted on 06/28/2008 9:35:21 AM PDT by Beckwith
Beckwith responds to The Washington Post.
The first thing I have to say about "An Attack That Came Out of the Ether," published by The Washington Post on June 28th, is that at NO time was I ever contacted by this woman, Danielle Allen. I spoke to two male Post reporters, who spoke to me over the phone for a period of months. The first contact was in the fall of 2007. They told me they were trying to track down the source of emails they considered negative to the Obamamessiah.
Allen obsesses about the "Muslim" Obama stories, but steers clear of Obama's relationships with communists, Marxists, socialists, terrorists and convicted swindlers. The trick she attempts to use is to knock down one or two or three items and the other four thousand don't count.
The following notice appears on my website's "About" page: "I don't write this stuff -- I cherry-pick it and publish it here -- every attempt is made to provide attribution and/or links to the original source -- if you don't like the writer's viewpoint -- send them an email -- not me. If the reader finds content that is incorrect, I will correct or delete it upon the submission of two links to an independent source with more accurate information."
And I mean just that and I do just that. I want The Obama File to be able to withstand the type of attack that Allen attempts in this article.
When Allen quotes me: "If 20 percent of what's on my Web site is true, this guy is a clear and present danger," she left out the whole quote. I told her reporters that I believed that The Obama File content was better than 95% accurate, but that If 20 percent of what's on my Web site is true, this guy is a clear and present danger. I still believe that.
Allen writes, "There was 'Beckwith,' whom she pegged as a veteran from Boston, old enough to vote for John F. Kennedy, in uniform by 1964, and host of a Web site that devotes considerable space to an 'Obama file' that says the senator is 'by birth, blood and training, a Muslim.'"
That statement is true. Just ask Obama's sister Maya. In an interview with the New York Times, published on April 30th, 2007, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama’s younger half sister, told the Times, "My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim."
I assume Maya thinks of her brother, Obama, as a member of her family?
Even if Maya didn't make such a statement. Islam is patrilinear. The son of a Muslim is a Muslim (birth, blood) and Obama did study Islam, the Quran and the Hadith at the Besuki Primary School in Jakarta, Indonesia for two years (training). Further, he attended mengaji classes where he studied the Quran in its native Arabic.
In his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," Obama mentions studying the Quran and describes the public school as "a Muslim school." He wrote, "In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell mother I made faces during Koranic studies."
According to Tine Hahiyary, one of Obama's teachers and the principal from 1971 through 1989, Barry actively took part in the Islamic religious lessons during his time at the school. His teacher was named Maimunah and she lived in the Puncak area, the Cianjur Regency.
"I remembered that he had studied "mengaji" (recitation of the Quran)" Tine said.
These facts can account for the startling statement Obama made on February 27th, 2007, when he said the Muslim call to prayer was "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth."
In an interview with Nicholas Kristof, published in The New York Times, Obama recited the Muslim call to prayer, the Adhan, "with a first-class [Arabic] accent."
The opening lines of the Adhan (Azaan) is the Shahada:
Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that Muhammad is his prophet...
According to Islamic scholars, reciting the Shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith, makes one a Muslim. This simple yet profound statement expresses a Muslim's complete acceptance of, and total commitment to, the message of Islam.
Obama knows this from his Quranic studies -- and he knows the New York Times will publish this fact and it will be seen throughout the Islamic world.
Regardless of Obama's religion, what message is he sending the world's 1.2 billion Muslims?
I suppose it's easy for Obama to remember the Shahada for the 35 years since he left Indonesia -- and in 'first-class' Arabic -- especially since he believes the Muslim call to prayer is "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth." -- no matter what religion he belongs to, or not, those Muslim prayers run through his head, and often -- what does that really make him?
And although I do have a Boston accent, of which I'm proud (you can hear it on the webcast at the link on the main page), Allen gets in a little ethnic stereotyping by calling my accent a "... thick Boston brogue" -- Bostonians don't have brogues -- my antecedents from Ireland do -- it's a good thing I don't have a chip on my shoulder and charge "racism" at such obvious stereotyping -- like some folks might do.
And there is no "unnamed 'colleague' in Europe" -- that's probably my friend and fellow FReeper, ExpatGuy, who operates the "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" blog (a truly great resource). But, what the heck, Europe, Southeast Asia, they're all foreign places.
Allen is also incorrect when she writes, "His initial goal was to take swats at the liberal left. 'Then this new guy comes along called Obama,' he said." -- All one has to do is to read the "About" page on my website to get it right -- "The Obama File is a spinoff of www.FreedomsEnemies.com where it started out as a single page. Freedom's Enemies documents the relationship between the political left and Islamofascism. Along comes Obama -- with a foot in each camp -- and The Obama File just evolved.
The reason I spun off The Obama File is that I did not want the Freedoms Enemies website a pejorative to the information I was compiling on Obama.
This sentence is also false -- "Beckwith said he built a Web site that features hundreds of pages of material intended to undermine Obama." -- There are 18 pages on my website. Because I take pains to document and provide attribution for everything, those 18 pages link to thousands of source articles, primarily from mainstream media sources (including The Washington Post), and my intention is not to "undermine" poor Barry -- it is to "oppose the most liberal (read "left-wing") member of the U. S. Senate sitting in the Oval Office" -- just like it says on my "About" page.
I suppose it could have been more of a hatchet job, but what amazes me is Allen's obsession with the Muslim thing -- that rumor is a year old and has been fed more by Obama and his family more than anyone else.
Why hasn't Allen attempted to knock down Obama's relationship with communists, Marxists, socialists, terrorists, convicted swindlers, and, dare I say it, DHIMMICRATS!
Could it be that those long-term relationships are just too easy to document?
I appreciate all that you, expatguy, JeffHead, and Free Republic as a whole do for us everyday folks who just want the truth.
I use Free Republic, your site, JeffHead’s, and others to try and educate liberal associates. I now say associates because I'm losing what I thought were strong friendships since I don't support democrats - especially Obama. But I will not stay quiet about my conservatism anymore. There is too much at stake.
Please stay safe. History has constantly shown that liberals/marxists/communists/democrats/progressives/socialists would rather destroy dissent than debate it rationally.
Keeping all of the truthseekers in my prayers,
Kitten1
Excellent rebuttal! I don’t believe that WP will touch it — they do hit jobs, but don’t correct errors.
FReep On!
Thanks for your hard work, and thanks for posting this.
Maybe Allen has a response? (We don’t know that dallen is Danielle Allen, but ya never know until ya try).
That would not be a surprise, considering the following under Danielle S. Allen of the Institute for Advanced Study...
"A.B. Princeton University (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), 1993"
Recall Michelle Obama's thesis from that institution...the one that was written like it was from a girl in junior high. (I recall even on the first page, one of the sentences had three BASIC grammatical errors [e.g., comma splice] in it!)
Dr. Danielle Allen is as much an embarrassment as Mrs. Obama, but it's not surprising or unusual in the modern American Academy. Her grammar might be a bit better, and she does have a bit better understanding of things that the young Michelle, but her analysis is embarrassingly gap-filled and fundamentally flawed.
I have to wonder if Danielle Allen's investigations are intentionally biased because of political intent only, or if these are driven by funding, too.
Excellent point from the 10th on division of property.
One of the benefits of the pressure on Barack Obama has been that it has forced him to show that he is very willing to be disingenuous and dishonest. The more he’s backed into corners, the less he will be able to get away with the Messiah routine.
For example, note his pandering on the recent SCOTUS decisions. He was “for the DC Gun Ban before he was against it.”
A question to be posed in a national debate (that won’t be asked, of course) would be: “When was the last time you recited the Shahada?” He will lie, of course, or twist the answer..but as long as he is forced to keep lying, more and more people are seeing how dishonest he is. For example, a followup could be, “okay...when did you last say the words of it?” if he tries to weasel his first answer around “recited.”
I know, I know, he's not a Shi'ite. But still...
Or perhaps a campaign poster of the candidate, "Taquiyya Kitman"...? ;-)
Way to go!
That just goes to show ya' that OSAMA Hussien Obama is more than willing to throw his own family under the bus in his quest for power. And I thought the Clinton's were the most power-mad scum of the earth.
Very very well written. If the Washington Post published it, it would put a serious dent in Obama. But only if your letter lead to more investigating of Obama’s birth as a Muslim, his Indonesian Muslim years and years as a leftist agitator in America
I think it’s a given that she probably did little of the research herself, delegating that to underlings and fascist
jack boots at sites groups like demunderground or MoveOn.
It’s also possible the work had been done under other auspices and then shopped around for an appropriate media entry/portal to front it.
Allah is Most Great. Allah is Most Great.
Allah is Most Great. Allah is Most Great.
I bear witness that there is none worthy of being worshipped except Allah.
I bear witness that there is none worthy of being worshipped except Allah.
I bear witness that Muhammad is the Apostle of Allah.
I bear witness that Muhammad is the Apostle of Allah.
Come to prayer. Come to prayer.
Come to Success. Come to Success.
Allah is Most Great. Allah is Most Great.
There is none worthy of being worshipped except Allah.
I find it very disturbing and creepy. If his supporters are doing this for a presidential nominee, what they heck would they be capable of if he were to be elected, God help us all.
Still, I did take some comfort in the words of a very dear FRiend, who reminded me that even though an evil deed may bring newcomers to this site out of curiosity, if they have an open mind, chances are they'll stay and learn.
We're growing, they're shrinking, reeling in the relentless pain of inevitability, and acting out in agony. That's not going to change.
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“At least the Washington Post could have put a link to my website somewhere in this article -”
They know that to discredit you they have to keep your site as hidden as possible.
It wouldnt hurt for JimRob to prominently link to your site on the activism page and let people judge for themselves.
basil, that pic gives new meaning to the term “Second Amendment Sisters”, what a hoot.
It’s only right to put her info out then...
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