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Marking Sept. 11, Obama Calls for Tolerance
wsj.com ^ | Sept. 11, 2010 | Laura Meckler

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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KEYWORDS: 9thanniversary; bho44; husseinobama
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To: Darkwolf377

“Duval Patrick here in Massachusetts said 9/11 was a failure of communication”

Thanks to Jamie Gorelick, it was


41 posted on 09/12/2010 6:24:20 AM PDT by silverleaf (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
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To: ransomnote

the muslims were so impressed by obama they decided en masse to no longer threaten death to anyone who disrespects their religion

sarc


42 posted on 09/12/2010 6:25:32 AM PDT by silverleaf (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Why must we be tolerant of an intolerant Sect/religion...
America Wake up... The pressitutes are bought & paid for by the Arab money....likewise the party in power.


43 posted on 09/12/2010 6:39:46 AM PDT by Strutt9
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Obama hasn’t been to Ground Zero since he threw his flowers into the reflecting pond there.

Or should I say he hasn’t gone to ground zero since becoming president....

He doesn’t want to offend muslims.


44 posted on 09/12/2010 7:13:09 AM PDT by usmcobra (.Islam: providing Live Targets for United States Marines since 1786!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“...and tolerant nation.’’

Excatly how many 9/11 attacks am I supposed to tolerate?


45 posted on 09/12/2010 7:16:01 AM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: Free ThinkerNY

In his Ramadan speech and his Rosh Hashanah speech, Obama lectured the infidels on how they should tolerate Islam:

Obama’s Rosh Hashanah speech compared to Palin’s:
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/20739

Obama’s Ramadan speech:

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2010/08/president-obamas-speech-on-ram.html


46 posted on 09/12/2010 8:45:57 AM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Tolerance is the last and only virtue of the completely immoral society.


47 posted on 09/12/2010 8:53:31 AM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: snowsislander

Adding to your post no. 37:

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/07/30/another-memorial-to-jihad/

“Another Memorial To Jihad?”
2010 JULY 30
BY SALLY MEININGER
tags: Flight 93 memorial, jihad, Radical Islam

Photo credit Zombietime

SNIPPET: “Not content with making Ground Zero a symbol of Islamic triumphalism with a 13-15 story Cordoba House mosque, plans are in the works to memorialize the sacred ground of the crash site of Flight 93 in Shanksville, PA.”

SNIPPET: “The 93 ft wind chime ‘Tower of Voices’ is patterned after a minaret, topped by a crescent shape. A minaret is the tower used to call Muslims to prayer. Coincidence that the chimes are called voices?”


48 posted on 09/12/2010 9:05:07 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: TexasTransplant

Big Black Cube should be a big Black Glass Hole

Now there would be a place to build the mosque.


49 posted on 09/12/2010 9:09:55 AM PDT by IM2MAD
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Good picture - I like the emblem on his turban. I just noticed that the man is holding the knife blade backwards (cutting edge away from striking direction). Now, I have never taken part in a knife wielding protest so maybe this is just good ‘raving maniac’ etiquette. But it has me wondering if some of these crowds are astro-turf. Like maybe someone climbs a minarette and announces that ‘all who are in their homes during the time of the scheduled street protest will be killed’ and then perhaps a reading of the locations and times that crowds are to assemble with knifes to ‘greet’ the hired MSM cameras.


50 posted on 09/12/2010 5:31:55 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote
I just noticed that the man is holding the knife blade backwards (cutting edge away from striking direction)

He's holding it in the throat slitting and beheading direction...

51 posted on 09/12/2010 5:40:31 PM PDT by Gritty (With enemies on both sides of the gate, what we'll see is not a 9/11, but 9/11 squared-Selwyn Duke)
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