Posted on 08/25/2010 7:15:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Is Barack Hussein Obama a Muslim?
No.
But there's a reason 24 percent of Americans believe President Obama is a Muslim: Obama spends an inordinate amount of time stumping for Islam. Obama's not Muslim. But he proselytizes for Islamic goals and dreams like a member of the faithful.
He routinely cites his background to establish his Islamic bona fides with the Muslim world. "I am a Christian, but my father came from a Kenyan family that includes generations of Muslims," he told a Muslim audience in Cairo. "As a boy, I spent several years in Indonesia and heard the call of the azaan at the break of dawn and the fall of dusk. ... I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed." This is language that falls short of embracing Islam as a believer, but is geared toward telling the Muslim world, "I am on your side." Acknowledging his Muslim parentage on Muslim soil, speaking of Islam's "revelation," talking about living in a Muslim country -- that sort of rhetoric has a purpose.
Obama's first interview after his election was with Al-Arabiya. In that interview, he proclaimed that the United States had to "start by listening, because all too often the United States starts by dictating." He then followed up this blatant pandering and pathetic apologetics with the explanation that his job was to "communicate the fact that the United States has a stake in the well-being of the Muslim world, that the language we use has to be a language of respect."
In Cairo, Obama said his job as president of the United States is to "fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear." That's certainly not the job of the president of the United States. It is not even the job of the most ardently tolerant Christian. Is it any wonder that so many people believe Obama to be an emissary of Islam?
Obama's bow to the Saudi king reinforced American perceptions that he was in bed with Islamism. American leaders do not bow before foreign leaders. Period. But not only did Obama bow, he specifically bowed to the leader of the Muslim country where Mecca lies. Then the White House ridiculously attempted to claim that the bow never happened in the first place.
Obama has consistently sided with Muslims against American allies. He has thrown Israel under the bus by requiring concessions on "settlements" even as he does nothing about Palestinian violence. He has endorsed the idea of a "contiguous" Palestinian state, which by definition would mean splitting Israel in half. He has barred Israel from taking action against Iran even as Iran goes nuclear. He has backed a UN resolution condemning Israel's nuclear weapons and ignoring Iran's. He has supported Raila Odinga, a radical Muslim politician in Kenya who has pledged to rewrite Kenya's Constitution to recognize Shariah as the only true law and establish Shariah courts in every Kenyan divisional headquarters. He has abandoned Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, an anti-Islamist in Bangladesh who has been imprisoned and prosecuted for supporting Israel's right to exist. He has endorsed the mosque two blocks from Ground Zero despite the fact that the imam of the proposed "bridge-building" mosque is a radical Islamist who refuses to condemn Hamas and believes that the United States is responsible for 9/11.
Obama administration officials also act as though they're members of the Saudi public relations staff. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that his "foremost" mission was to "find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering." Obama counterterrorism adviser John Brennan calls Jerusalem "al-Quds."
It bears repeating: Obama's not a Muslim. But there are only two possible reasons why he would draw himself this close to the Muslim world in speech and deed. First, he could be duping the Muslim world, keeping his friends close and his enemies closer. This seems utterly unlikely as his most sincere statements seem to come with regard to the Muslim world. Second, he could feel true kinship with the Muslim world based on his childhood experiences and his Marxist multiculturalism. This rings true.
For the last time: Obama's not a Muslim. He's a sellout to the radical Muslim world. If a swath of the American people mistakes a president who sells out to Islamism for a Muslim president, there's only one person to blame: Obama himself.
If it quacks.....
...“And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States.”...
Here’s a book about islam’s contribution to our Nation “at our founding”:
http://www.amazon.com/Victory-Tripoli-Americas-Barbary-Established/dp/0471444154
I'd say that if he is, I don't see how he can uphold our Constitution while believing that it should be sublimated to the dictates of a revealed religion that requires all adherents work toward that goal.
Looking at the big picture and considering all the supposed religious ideological conflicts and the confusion created comparing what he says with what he does one may conclude he is himself confused and without direction. I suggest that what makes sense considering all -the simple answer is what reality actually is.
I conclude that Obama is neither Muslim nor Christian in the convential sense but rather a synthesis of portions of both premised in perversions of each focused upon what furthers his cause which is simply put socialism -Islamic Liberation Theology is his religion...
Remarks by the President at Easter Prayer Breakfast
For even after the passage of 2,000 years, we can still picture the moment in our mind’s eye. The young man from Nazareth marched through Jerusalem; object of scorn and derision and abuse and torture by an empire.
This quote is troubling -was Jesus an object of scorn and derision and abuse and torture by an empire? If so, which 'empire'? Some may assume the 'empire' Obama refers to was Roman not Jewish or for that matter not both Roman and Jewish... What if it was the "Western Empire" e.g. that reprsented by the west -the primary member being yours truly, the United States of America?
Islamic Liberation Theology - Resisting the Empire by: Hamid Dabashi (PDF ebook)
-excerpt from conclusion of book:
Resisting the US-inspired globalized empire (which should never be equated with Americans at large, the overwhelming majority of which have a healthy dose of either active resistance to or else nagging suspicion about its efficacy) can no longer be in terms of a singular ideology embedded in a medieval theology, or an ideologically updated version of it to resist a center-based ‘‘Western’’ empire, or else contingent on spectacular acts of senseless and iconic violence. Resisting that empire requires regional alliances based on crosscurrents of ideas, sentiments, ideologies, and cultures. The worst aspect of Islamic ideology was its persistent reliance on Islamic Law (Shari’ah), the consequences of which for a free and democratic society is simply catastrophic, for it mutates the free and autonomous citizens of a potential republic into the legal subjects of a medieval jurisprudence that no matter how liberally it is interpreted it remains deadly contrary to creation of free and autonomous citizens of a republic. The only way that an (Islamic) liberation theology can be part of a global resistance to the US (or any other) empire is to be party to an equally liberating and global conversation, safeguard its theological monotheism by embracing it within a multifaceted theodicy that instead of trying to account for the existence of evil in the world in fact embraces its own alternatives and oppositions.
“Say for the sake of argument he is...So What.”
“I’d say that if he is, I don’t see how he can uphold our Constitution while believing that it should be sublimated to the dictates of a revealed religion that requires all adherents work toward that goal.”
JUST WHERE IS HE UPHOLDING THE CONSTITUTION??
Sorry for the caps, but I’m pissed !
The White House said he is "obviously" a Christian. Isn't their word good enough for you?
“If it quacks.....”
Well, yeah, there’s that, too, I guess ... heh heh.
Honest people have to admit they they still don't know. That in itself is scary.
I'd say that if he is, I don't see how he can uphold our Constitution while believing that it should be sublimated to the dictates of a revealed religion that requires all adherents work toward that goal.
That's a powerful point. A good Muslim could never make a good US president by definition.
I agree. Islam and the Constitution are mutually exclusive, as far as I can see.
Yes, I’d read about that.
I’ll check out the book. Thanks.
Ben Shapiro is Jewish.
He’s POTUS and that’s what bothers me!
questions which this press or so called press and media will not ask.
If they are so quick to tell us he is a Christian which they are then tell us which church does he go to?
Why does he not go?
Why not celebrate Christmas and Ester.
Why not shout up a religion they say he is?
No the so called press will just repeat white house talking point and that is why they have become a joke.
Obama is a socialist opportunist.
He worships no god except himself and marxism’s law of conflicting economic forces.
sort of a “god of forces.”
I've seen pictures of Mooshell and Obey-me coming out of restaurants after dark on this vacation. Near 10:00 on Tuesday evening I think.
Anyone seen a picture of them eating breakfast or lunch? Bacon and eggs anyone?
Obama may not be a Muslim. But until he comes out and says, “Jesus is the only way to the Father and heaven,” he is not a true Christian either.
When Jesus claimed that He is the only way, the only truth, and the only giver of eternal life (John 14:6), He drew a line in the sand. You either believe Me and my claims or reject Me. And wanting it or not, by rejecting Me, you would be joining forces with all My enemies.
interesting point
I’ve only seen photo’s of them coming out of restaurants when it is dark or getting dark.
Wouldn’t it be nice for many talk show hosts, right wing folk on TV and the so called press/media stop being PC and actually ask questions, investigate and do their job.
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