Posted on 09/11/2010 10:59:10 AM PDT by Qbert
President Obama stressed that America was not at war with Islam as he decried the "sorry band of men" who attacked the nation nine years ago in memorial ceremonies at the Pentagon on Saturday.
"The perpetrators of this evil act didn't simply attack America; they attacked the very idea of America itself -- all that we stand for and represent in the world," Obama said. "And so the highest honor we can pay those we lost, indeed our greatest weapon in this ongoing war, is to do what our adversaries fear the most -- to stay true to who we are, as Americans; to renew our sense of common purpose; to say that we define the character of our country, and we will not let the acts of some small band of murderers who slaughter the innocent and cower in caves distort who we are."
One hundred and twenty-five people in the Pentagon were killed when hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 plowed into the side of the building. Fifty-nine were killed on plane. The president spoke at the Pentagon ceremonies while first lady Michelle Obama spoke along with former first lady Laura Bush at the site in Shanksville, Pa., where 40 were killed on United Flight 93 when passengers overtook the hijackers and drove the plane into the ground.
Michelle Obama lauded the former first lady "for all her work to help the nation heal in the days and months after the attack."
Vice President Joe Biden joined remembrance ceremonies at Ground Zero, where the World Trade Center towers were felled. More than 2,600 were killed in the attacks on the landmark buildings, and 147 died on the two planes that struck the towers. The victims of all the attacks hailed from 80 different countries.
With the backdrop of recent controversies that overshadowed the run-up to the ninth anniversary -- a mosque project that has drawn bitter protests near Ground Zero and a Florida pastor's plans to burn Qurans that sparked deadly protests in Afghanistan -- Obama implored Americans to "not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust."
"They may wish to drive us apart, but we will not give in to their hatred and prejudice," he said. "For Scripture teaches us to 'get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.'
"They may seek to spark conflict between different faiths, but as Americans we are not -- and never will be -- at war with Islam. It was not a religion that attacked us that September day -- it was al-Qaeda, a sorry band of men which perverts religion. And just as we condemn intolerance and extremism abroad, so will we stay true to our traditions here at home as a diverse and tolerant nation.
"We champion the rights of every American, including the right to worship as one chooses -- as service members and civilians from many faiths do just steps from here, at the very spot where the terrorists struck this building."
Obama said that "we will keep alive the virtues and values that make us who we are and who we must always be."
Islam is the only major “religion” that has never gone through a reformation.
We don’t need “moderate” muslims, we need reformed muslims.
The real “sorry band” is you and all your administration flunkies dipwad.
They were too busy dancing in the streets to bother.
If this is true, why was the whole muzzie world partying on the night of 09-11-01? Take your muzzie crap somewhere else Barry.
You know, just when I don’t think that I could possibly hate this mutherf*cker more than I already do, he opens his pie-hole and proves me wrong.
Go to HELL, Stroker!
Look who's talking.
Keep talking, assclown.
The most striking words in this “message” to me were:
“acts of some small band of murderers”.....he still rejects the idea that this is a world wide problem of huge magnitude and murderers that are far from being a small band. He is a fool...and an idiot....and any who listen to him or follow him or support him are equal idiots.
“We champion the rights of every American, including the right to worship as one chooses — as service members and civilians from many faiths do just steps from here, at the very spot where the terrorists struck this building.”
Ground Zero mosque. Even at a memorial for those killed on 9/11 he’s bringing up that d*mn mosque. This man is despicable.
He’s just repeating what Pres. Bush said about that. The rest of it is despicable whitewash for islam.
BTTT
And traitors and commie S.O.B.s
Same guys in UK, France, Spain, Turkey, Sudan,Somalia, Yemen, Iran, Palestine....How is that ??!!!
Don’t you connect the dots Ob-Oumma ?
Mister OUBAMAN is playing on the equivocity,ambiguousness, of words like “God” and “religion” as a good liberal relativist ! So are doing the muslims in the free countries to grow and go forward with their agenda ....Using freedom to spread their totalitarianism!
NO FREEDOM WITHOUT TRUTH and MORAL
“’sorry band of men’ hit us on 9/11”
And what belief system set them on that path? Hinduism?
What about the victory in Iraq??
and the war in Afghanistan??
who are we fighting??
Obama is such a sorry sack of sh-t.
HE IS the spit on those graves.
“For the ten thousandth time Obama, IT WAS ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS AND RADICALS THAT ATTACKED US ON 9/11!”
This semantic game is the same ruse the Libs use in the immigration debate- define something broadly in order to make any opposition to it appear ‘hateful’, and to try to control people:
If you support Arizona’s laws, then you are supposedly against ‘all’ immigrants, and not simply against illegal immigrants breaking outlaws. Similarly, by attempting to remove the term ‘radical Islam’ and its variants from the lexicon, the Libs make it appear that ‘all’ Muslims are being targeted by opponents (so that they can curry favor, etc.).
But Libs never seem to realize that we care about *actions* and not words...
“some small band of murderers”
Is that what were calling them these days?
The radical islamists are taught the same works as the so-called moderates. Maybe it is the moderates who are the apostates since the radicals are just doing what they are exhorted to do.
muslims around the world cheered and danced in the streets at the news of 9-11. They were smart enough not to do this here, but I’ll bet they would have if unrestrained.
No matter what you do to or for a muslim, at the end of the day, you are still an infidel.
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