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For in the end, we remain “one nation, under God, indivisible.” And we can only achieve “liberty and justice for all” if we live by that one rule at the heart of every great religion, including Islam —- that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

I wonder where are the passages in the Koran that say this? I know it's a teaching of Jesus, and while I can't quote the passages in the New Testament, it seems to me He was very precise and clear in the instruction, and that you were intended to apply it not only to your own circle or society, but all people, all the time, even when you didn't know them from Adam.

I think Obama is lying with the statment. I think the Golden Rule is alien to the Koran. But most people placidly and willingly engage the illusion that all religions say, more or less, the same thing. It's the path of least resistence in "getting along." A line from a movie: "Being a criminal is the easy way. It's like water. Water takes the path of least resistence. And so you get crooked rivers, and crooked men."

And crooked political policy.

" I think Obama is lying with the statment. I think the Golden Rule is alien to the Koran. But most people placidly and willingly engage the illusion that all religions say, more or less, the same thing. It's the path of least resistance in "getting along." A line from a movie: "Being a criminal is the easy way. It's like water. Water takes the path of least resistance. And so you get crooked rivers, and crooked men."

Broad and wide is the road of many religions, belief systems, ideas, political movements, following leaders, that lead to destruction.

Matthew 7 : 13,14,15,

13. “You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell[f] is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way.
14. But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.
The Tree and Its Fruit
15. “Beware of false prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep but are really vicious wolves.