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Obama tells Arabic network US is 'not your enemy'
Yahoo! News via AP ^ | January 27, 2009 | Paul Schemm

Posted on 01/27/2009 8:20:51 AM PST by justiceseeker93

CAIRO, Egypt - President Barack Obama chose an Arabic-language statellite TV network for his first formal television interview as president, delivering a message Tuesday to the Muslim world that "Americans are not your enemy."

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The president expressed an intention to engage the Middle East immediately and his new envoy to the region, former Sen. George J. Mitchell, was expected to arrive in Egypt on Tuesday...

"My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy," Obama told the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya news channel, which is privately owned by a Saudi businessman.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alarabiya; bhointerview; bhomiddleeast; husseinobama; middleeast; mitchell; muslim; obama
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Obama's first call to a foreign head of state was to Mahmoud Abbas (PLO), now his first formal TV interview as president is with an Arab-language station. His first impressions are negative ones, but then again, only a fool would expect anything much different.
1 posted on 01/27/2009 8:20:52 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

This is like the leader of an alien invasion interupting National TV...we are not your enemy, we come in peace,,great stuff for SNL, but they won’t touch it.


2 posted on 01/27/2009 8:22:29 AM PST by Oldexpat (Drill Here, Drill There..we must drill everywhere.)
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To: Oldexpat
"TO SERVE ARABS"...is a cookbook!!!!!
3 posted on 01/27/2009 8:26:04 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

We aren’t their enemy? Fooled me.


4 posted on 01/27/2009 8:27:24 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: justiceseeker93
I am absolutely convinced that, in his heart of hearts, Obama genuinely hates the United States of America and the Constitution he swore to preserve, protect and defend. I believe he meant not one word of his oath of office.
5 posted on 01/27/2009 8:29:59 AM PST by Wolfstar (Some day when we meet up yonder, we'll stroll hand in hand again, in a land that knows no parting)
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To: justiceseeker93

Ok, even if FR is being monitored I am going to say it: our current president has sh!t for brains. There is no other explanation. (Yes, socialists have sh!t for brains.) (Oh alright I am irritated by the current state of affairs.)


6 posted on 01/27/2009 8:32:54 AM PST by svcw (Great selection of gift baskets: http://baskettastic.com/)
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To: justiceseeker93

So we were racist for bringing up his Muslim background before the election, then he goes on Arab television and brags up his Muslim background....AND guarantees the Arabs a return to the CARTER YEARS! OMG!


7 posted on 01/27/2009 8:33:03 AM PST by cake_crumb (Waiting for Dear Leader Obama to drop sea levels and heal Earth.)
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To: Da Coyote

Hamas likes him again. Lovely.


8 posted on 01/27/2009 8:34:06 AM PST by cake_crumb (Waiting for Dear Leader Obama to drop sea levels and heal Earth.)
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To: justiceseeker93

We be you dhimmis - jus’ ax us.


9 posted on 01/27/2009 8:34:15 AM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: justiceseeker93

From the article:

“Obama’s predecessor, former President George W. Bush, launched wars in Iraq and Afghanistan which prompted a massive backlash against the U.S. in the Muslim world.”

Everything was just peachy before President Bush arbitrarily launched two wars for no reason. They loved us before that. /s


10 posted on 01/27/2009 8:34:24 AM PST by chickpundit (Palin '12)
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To: justiceseeker93

Obama has bought lock, stock and barrel into the Jimmy Carter/ Rodney King school of diplomacy... Can’t we all just get along?

The problem is the Islamic faith and those who use it to attack the United States and turn other Muslims against western ideas, gives no quarter to it’s enemies.

There is no ‘getting along’... You are either Muslim, or you are the infidel.

In their eyes Barry is the worst type of Muslim there is, he rejected their faith and he joined the infidels, they will never listen to him or his foolish assertions.

Unfortunately, through interviews such as this, he’s already presenting himself as a foolish stooge. They will never respect him, and they will never fear him, and that is very bad news for the United States.


11 posted on 01/27/2009 8:36:14 AM PST by jerod (They were pro-abortion, for gun control & wanted a cleaner environment at all cost - The NAZI party)
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To: justiceseeker93
Obama cited his Muslim background and relatives, practically a taboo issue during the U.S. presidential campaign, and said in the interview, which aired Tuesday, that one of his main tasks was to communicate to Muslims "that the Americans are not your enemy."

This should be the headline: Obama now admits to Muslim background!

12 posted on 01/27/2009 8:37:04 AM PST by Zevonismymuse
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To: Wolfstar

I’m inclined to agree with you. I believe he is a Communist. Shortly after swearing in as our President, he issues executive orders not to protect our country and its sovereignty, but rather, to weaken it. Also, he further attacks innocent human life (America), and forces tax payers to fund abortion in other countries. He draws us closer to nationalizing private business.

Judging by his actions, and his history (or lack thereof), I believe his alliances and loyalties rests not on our Constitution and the freedoms we hold dear, but on further implementing his Socialist/Communist goals.

Read:

Communist Goals (1963)

Documention below

Congressional Record—Appendix, pp. A34-A35

January 10, 1963

Current Communist Goals

EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 10, 1963

Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.

At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:

[From “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen]

CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [”]united force[”] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.


13 posted on 01/27/2009 8:37:55 AM PST by This Just In (Support Christian Homeschoolers)
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"Obama's predecessor, former President George W. Bush, launched wars in Iraq and Afghanistan which prompted a massive backlash against the U.S. in the Muslim world."



THE MUSLIMS STARTED THE WOT, NOT PRESIDENT BUSH

14 posted on 01/27/2009 8:38:28 AM PST by cake_crumb (Waiting for Dear Leader Obama to drop sea levels and heal Earth.)
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To: Wolfstar

Another severley deluded naive socialist.

Chamberlain would be proud.

Idiots!


15 posted on 01/27/2009 8:39:34 AM PST by Liberals are Evil Socialists!
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To: Zevonismymuse
"This should be the headline: Obama now admits to Muslim background!"

Remember when WE were racists for that?

16 posted on 01/27/2009 8:39:51 AM PST by cake_crumb (Waiting for Dear Leader Obama to drop sea levels and heal Earth.)
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To: ml/nj; firebrand; rmlew; dennisw; juliej; OldFriend; nyyankeefan; giantsfan123; redpoll; ...

Ping!!!


17 posted on 01/27/2009 8:41:31 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

Not our enemy? Maybe he should read “History of Jihad”.


18 posted on 01/27/2009 8:43:56 AM PST by Nachum
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To: cake_crumb

As if this helps, an ex Muslim telling Muslims we aren’t their enemies. They hate him more than they hate us. I talked to several people today about this that voted for Obama, and are starting to realize all that stuff I was telling them a couple months ago might have not been a bunch of conservative garbage! I told ya so just doesn’t make it feel any better.


19 posted on 01/27/2009 8:45:06 AM PST by Edizzl79 (you want my guns..come and get em...I dare ya....)
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To: justiceseeker93

He’s trying to tell them that WE don’t see them as our enemies..

What this colossal dunce is not grasping is that THEY will and always HAVE seen the USA as their enemy!!


20 posted on 01/27/2009 8:46:22 AM PST by J40000
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