Posted on 04/11/2009 12:15:10 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama definitely bowed down when he shook the hand of Saudi Arabian King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud at the G-20 in London last week. Despite the continuing outrage of conservatives and Arab-bashers, what Obama did was entirely appropriate, too. Here's my guide to Arabian royal protocol and American common sense.
In the videotape zapping around the Internet, Obama looks slightly awkward, as if he wasn't quite sure whether to bow, shake hands or do both. It turned out to be a deep bow- cum-handshake, it was certainly more than the nod-handshake he gave Queen Elizabeth II, but it was not quite a formal diplomatic bow from the waist. Maybe that's why the White House is, unofficially, denying the Obama bow.
A simple handshake would have sufficed. Obama certainly did not need to bow at all, as far as Saudi royal protocol is concerned. I have attended Abdullah's majlis in Riyadh a few times and witnessed his own personal distaste for obsequious shows of respect. In the context of a tribal society, Abdullah is a sheikh, indeed the sheikh of sheikhs, and as such his subjects would typically greet him at his Saudi-style town meetings with a kiss on the shoulder and a kiss on the hand.
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The Saudi leads a society that is steeped in custom, even if he himself is trying to loosen tradition a bit. As a much younger man, even if he is president of the world's most powerful country, Obama is entirely proper in showing pointed respect for an elder counterpart. Moreover, Abdullah holds a variety of positions that deserve and require recognition-king; custodian of the holy mosques of Mecca and Medina; elder statesman of the Arab world; son of the founder of his country.
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0bama wants to put whites into slavery, where he thinks they belong.
BTW, he didn't bow. He had a cramp and had to double over. He did have a cold, ya know LOL
I can’t take the MSM anymore either.
Ya know China is steep in culture and to show his respect Obama should kowtow before the Chinese President
No doubt, huh? Obama needs to realize the game is up... He isn’t fooling anyone with this stuff. A strong case could be made that what Obama did was more appropriately called a “Salaam”, and it is sort of like a Catholic kissing the Pope’s ring — only it’s what a Muslim might do for the Keeper of the Holy Places of Islam...
And, as Barack reminds us ALL THE TIME — ESPECIALLY when he was in TURKEY — he KNOWS the Muslim ways. He said it himself. He was EDUCATED in the Koran and Islam studies through SCHOOL as a child in Indonesia — just like I was personally educated in a Catholic School, and learned about the Roman Catholic religion and our beliefs, and “customs”,
There is NO WAY he was not taught that this was the PROPER way, you MUST greet him. At least that was true back when Obama was taught, and it’s also what a HARDLINE, DEVOUT Muslim would do ANYWAY even if no longer REQUIRED...
Even if Obama’s isn’t a Muslim anymore, and he’s truly just an Atheist Communist or a Racist believing in some Anti-White Black Values Theology called Christian. Well, that COULD cause a problem for him. See the RADICAL terrorists in Islam are directed to silence apostates, and they only do that one way, really... So maybe he is practicing “double taqquiya?” kind of like a “double agent”? He honestly would probably be stupid enough to do that... LOL Wouldn’t want to be him, that’s for sure...
Criminey, he didn't have this problem with the other royalty. Just this one.
If you ask me, Obama was doing nothing more than jockstrap sniffing.
“Despite the continuing outrage of conservatives and Arab-bashers...”
At least Time admits BO is a Muslim.
I would have thought that the counterpart of a popularly-elected American president would have been, e.g., the president of France, or at least the indirectly-elected Chancellor of Germany.
An autocratic, hereditary monarch is not the counterpart of a democratically-elected U.S. president.
Regards,
cum-handshake?
He didn’t bow to anybody until he got before the leader of the country that invented whabbisim; kin to 90% of the very guys who attacked America on 9-11.
Inside of two years after this cretin Obama took the oath this nation will be at war with itself, literally.
When is it appropriate to bow? Americans don’t bow to anybody, do they?
The answers are obvious and no spin can change them. Obama has now placed the United States as subservient under this Islamic Sheik. In the book, “2012 The Evolution†by A. Adams, the President greets the Sheik with a bow at an official function, just like this one, and then later turns the country over. This book is amazing. Obama’s Cabinet are following this book like it was a script! The buyout is already happening.
LLS
if it was perfectly appropriate then why lie about doing it>?
“cum-handshake”
So those other stories about Barry are true, eh?
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