Posted on 09/12/2010 12:05:20 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
President Barack Obama, marking the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, said the best way to honor those who died is to "stay true to our traditions here at home as a diverse and tolerant nation.''
He said the U.S. is at war with al Qaeda and its allies, but it "never will be at war with Islam.''
Mr. Obama marked the anniversary by speaking at the Pentagon, where 125 people were killed, including 59 passengers and crew members and five terrorists on board an American Airlines jet that crashed into the west wall.
The president didn't mention intense opposition to the building of an Islamic cultural center, including a mosque, near the site of the former World Trade Center in New York. Nor did he mention plans, now abandoned, by a fringe Florida pastor to burn copies of the Quran, Islam's sacred text.
But he cautioned that the terrorists who attacked the U.S. intended to divide the nation and called for a commitment to religious freedoms.
He said Americans "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."
"We champion the rights of every American, including the right to worship as one chooses," Mr. Obama said, "as service members and civilians from many faiths do just steps from here, at the very spot where the terrorists struck this building."
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Yeah. The real danger is obese felines.
Reading Obama’s speech, I noticed his repetitive use of the phrase, “I am my brother’s keeper; I am my sister’s keeper.”
I’m curious as to his meaning and etymology of phrase as he has used it on several occasions on the campaign trail.
A better study of a Christian perspective is found at the below link.
On the topic of “I Am My Brother’s Keeper” by Charles H. Spurgeon.
http://www.biblebb.com/files/spurgeon/1399.htm
Liberals hide behind tolerance like it’s an absolute as long as it benefits them and their allies.
Obama: “It was al Qaeda, a sorry band of men which perverts religion.”
Actually, they weren’t believers of just any religion. They were believers of Islam. AND, they weren’t perverting Islam. Jihad does not call for the peaceful conversion of non-believers. Peaceful Muslims who do not support conquering the world for Islam are the ones who are perverting Islam’s original intent.
http://www.danielpipes.org/990/what-is-jihad
This sort of “tolerance,” tolerance of evil, is like how a freezing person gradually “tolerates” the lowering of his body temperature until hypothermia sets in, and the result is always death.
Are we now counting the pigs that killed these innocent Americans among the dead that they killed?
This “reporter” should be keel-hauled.
He’s a (Gl)asshole alright!
So is that how the Clintons get Obama out of their way, by greasing his path to the head of the UN and that first Presidency of the World that Bill had once wanted?
This is the most idiotic formulation I've ever heard. What is Al Qaeda but a variety of Islam, one dedicated to our destruction as "infidels"?
This guy is a putz.
White flag alert.
He learned about tolerance and being his brother’s keeper in the Church of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
/s/
I wish I had a dollar for every person who told me that extreme Islamists are “ignorant” and “need to be educated” as though they are running around in poverty.
But they guys who flew into the towers were all college educated. As were the men who bombed the subways in London. They are all college educated.
Until we can name our enemy accurately, we are helpless.
I am not surprised that the Kenyan Clown elects to note the minaret (the "tower of voices") to be erected at the crash site.
Barack Hussein claims to be a Christian— I wish the scales would fall from his eyes and he would see ISLAM is not compatible with Christianity.Wish he would discover what is written how a believer asked God once
I know your eyes are pure—How long will you tolerate evil?
Now that is my memory of the English translation from the ancient Hebrew—but I believe it one of the very few time
tolerance,or anything like it is written of.And God cannot tolerate evil.For hath the light to do with darkness?
“Obama Calls for Tolerance”
Absolutely, Barack. We’re with you there!
Tolerance for small businesses.
Tolerance for big businesses.
Tolerance for native American oil.
Corn for the Corn Flakes and Kix, not cars!
Tolerance for the Constitution!
Tolerance truth and honesty!
Tolerance for American exceptionalism.
Tolerance for the history of American freedom-fighting around the world.
Tolerance for the accurate reporting of the history of American support of hurting and hungry people everywhere for the last 60 years!
Yes, Barack, TOLERANCE!!!
You haven’t shown us any.
Except tolerance for shady deals, lies, subterfuge, theft, Communism, and destruction of America. Worst of all, you tolerate Nancy Pelosi!
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