Posted on 09/11/2010 11:19:29 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama appealed to an unsettled nation Saturday to honor the memory of the Sept. 11 attacks by hewing to the values of diversity and tolerance. "We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust," the president declared.
Speaking at the Pentagon, where nine years ago a hijacked plane smashed into the west side of the building and killed 184 people, Obama conjured a solemn remembrance of that horrible day but also spoke strongly in defense of religious freedom.
"As Americans we are not — and never will be — at war with Islam," the president said. "It was not a religion that attacked us that September day — it was al-Qaida, a sorry band of men which perverts religion."
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Inadvertently, he's got it part right. Damn straight, Americans aren't going to hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust. We preserve the liberty we cherish when we recognize freedom's enemies, call them what they are and stand up to them. The only hunkering we're seeing is coming from the likes of Obama himself and his fellow travelers.
When the President of the United States uses this day, of all days, for those words--calculated for its timing and meaning--he removes any remaining doubt about what and who he is.
Perfect, absolutely perfect.
Did FDR appeal for tolerance after December 7th? /rhetocial question
I feel like I’m living in a Twilight Zone episode when he goes into the PC babble. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but virtually all terrorism on EARTH is committed by Muslims in the name of Islam. Yet we’re supposed to not notice it??? Act as if it isn’t true somehow?
How much do these terrorists have tolerance for others? They sure don’t want to “celebrate diversity” with Jews and Christians, do they? If by “celebrate diversity” you mean want to kill every Jew and Christian in the name of Allah, maybe. And this joker wants us to pretend that it isn’t the case. FUBO.
where was this mans tolerance of the pastor’s 1st amendment right to burn a book which belongs to him on his own property then?
screw you bozo, why did you not preach that crap tot he muslims world on your saying sorry tour?
My days of tolerance are long over.
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." - Thomas MannExcellent quote, relictele!
It is, of course from "The Magic Mountain"
Is it just me but doesn’t that Navy Admiral looks like he is trying to stand far away from Obama meanwhile Gates is standing closer to ODumbo?
Muslim in chief, cocaine user, bi-sexual, Marxist pig....FUBO and the camel you rode in on.
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.” - Thomas Mann
I’ve been looking for a new tagline, thanks.
The Obamas have always said that "they don't give Christmas gifts to the children" and "they don't give birthday gifts" which I am told is what Muslims do.
No Christmas presents.
Tree with Mao on it.
No church to go to on Sunday.
Rev Wright is an ex Muslim
50% of his "G-d America" church was Muslim
Records in Indonesia show him taking in Arabic Muslim classes reserved for the most feverent believers .. His school records there list him as "Muslim" and "Indonesian" and his mother listed him on her passport application as Barack Husseim Obama (Soebarkah) ....
Egyptian minister: “Obama told me he is a Muslim”.
"The Muslim Call to Prayer is one of the Prettiest Sounds on Earth" - said Barack Obama to the New York Times http://infidelsarecool.com/2008/04/07/jeremiah-wright-former-muslim/
Allah is greater than any description I testify that there is no deity except for Allah I testify that Muhammad is a Messenger of Allah Make haste towards the prayer Make haste towards the worship Prayer is better than sleep Allah is the greatest! There is no deity except for Allah
As others noted:
From the NYT article (original now scrubbed!):
"Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated, ... Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”
I too thought he was reciting the call to morning prayers. But, it seems to others more knowledgeable than me, that this call is also an oath to Islam and that if you say it, or wish to convert, this is what you say and THIS IS WHAT he did say: ============================
The first few lines from the "call to prayer" is the shahada. The shahada is not from the koran. It is from the hadiths. Furthermore, it is the SWEARING OF AN OATH to islam. Non-Muslims wishing to convert to Islam do so by a public recitation of the creed.
It is also an oath EVEN if you are tricked or forced into reciting it and even if you wish to renounce it, you can NOT do so without fear for your life.
It goes like this: "Ash-hadu -an-la-ilaha illal-laha, wa ash-hadu anna Mohammad-an Abdo-hu wa Rasulo-uhu wa ash-hadu anna moulana ali-un –vasi-un wa vazir-ah.”
It literally means: "I bear witness that there is no God but Allah, and I bear witness that Mohammad is Allah's servant and His Messenger, and Ali is his successor ’vasi’ and minister ‘vazir’".
And it ALSO means that obama knew exactly what he was saying, knew exactly what it meant, and had no qualms about calling it the most beautiful sound on earth. As with most things, it was a message to his brethren and a finger in the eye of what obama considers stupid Americans.
If after what you have seen; if after what you now know about obama and his policies, here and elsewhere, and you still question whether obama is a muslim, you are too stupid to live. http://infidelsarecool.com/2008/04/07/jeremiah-wright-former-muslim/
Tolerance??????? The only thing I will tolerate is all mooslims retreating to their camel-dung infested middle-east ratholes. Just what don’t people get? mooslims want you and your children to die. mooslims tolerate nothing. Look at the various beheading videos to see if you want your children to see that happen to you...and then to them. Look!
Great play off of that goofy liberal “coexist” bumper sticker. I’m snatching it. ;o)
Gee...maybe BO could get NYC to tolerate granting the permit for St. Nicholas Orthodox Church to rebuild their building, which was destroyed on 9/11.
Very well said.
Every time this butt head speaks he drives another wedge between the races!!!
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