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She made me do it: Conservative Muslim Indonesia minister says Michelle Obama forced handshake
AP ^ | November 9, 2010

Posted on 11/09/2010 11:00:37 AM PST by maggief

sns-ap-as-indonesia-michelles-handshake JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A conservative Muslim government minister admits he shook hands with first lady Michelle Obama in welcoming her to Indonesia but says it wasn't his choice.

Footage on YouTube shows otherwise, sparking a debate that has lit up Facebook, Twitter and the rest of the blogosphere.

"I tried to prevent (being touched) with my hands but Mrs. Michelle held her hands too far toward me (so) we touched," Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring told tens of thousands of followers on Twitter.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: indonesia; islamiclaw; jakarta; michelleobama; misogynist; obamagaffes; obamascandals; protocol; sharialaw; xenophobia
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To: maggief

Wasn’t there in the past someone either from the State Department or the White House staff who would advise on matters of protocol and decorum with regards to state visits? This Regime whines and apologizes about “America the Arrogant”, yet how does that Regime behave toward foreign ministers and heads of state? And yes, Moochelle, you are part of the regime, even in a figurehead role of First Lady. I do not think much of Islamics, but with regards to state visits (and this falls under the category of a state visit), there is a certain decorum expected. It is not grovelling, it is simply very basic good manners.
BTW, I do not consider bowing to the Saudi King to be proper decorum. That was groveling.

Is Letitia Baldridge still alive?


41 posted on 11/09/2010 11:19:08 AM PST by Fred Hayek (FUBO! I salute you with the soles of my shoes.)
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To: cameraeye

Don’t they usually kill the woman? ;-P


42 posted on 11/09/2010 11:20:22 AM PST by MortMan (To Obama "Kill them all and let [God] sort them out" is an abortion slogan.)
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To: maggief

It reminds me of a story my old friend, a former congressman’s staff member, used to tell. In the Congressman’s NY office, there was an orthodox rabbi who would visit about once a week for very minor reasons, wasting the staff’s time while he tried to seem important. One day the head of the office got revenge. After a polite visit, she said goodbye and cordially shook his hand. The look on his face was priceless, because he knew he had to go through a time-consuming cleansing ritual as a result. The office head was pretty happy, though, that she was wasting his time like that, after he had wasted hers.

I bet Michelle knew exactly what she was doing. If that guy didn’t want his hand shaken by a woman, he shouldn’t have gotten anywhere close.

I’m not sure this was advisable on Michelle’s part, in the big picture, but I am pretty amused anyway.


43 posted on 11/09/2010 11:20:40 AM PST by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: maggief
but says it wasn't his choice Over here in America they where not our choice either!
44 posted on 11/09/2010 11:23:37 AM PST by ColdOne
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To: SENTINEL

Which in some silly kind of way makes me give her a bit of respect...just a tiny bit...

On the other side of thought on this, what does it say about who is in charge?

Obama bows, Michele holds herself upright for a handshake...


45 posted on 11/09/2010 11:24:26 AM PST by EBH ( Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.)
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To: maggief; a fool in paradise
Hand-raped by a Wookie.

The poor guy will need years of therapy.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

46 posted on 11/09/2010 11:25:01 AM PST by The Comedian (I really missed you. Next time, I'll adjust for windage.)
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To: maggief

“A conservative Muslim government minister admits he shook hands with first lady Michelle Obama in welcoming her to Indonesia but says it wasn’t his choice. “

You got punked by the FL, beech. Take it and like it.


47 posted on 11/09/2010 11:26:30 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: maggief

I think this is the first time he’s let Muchelle slip her leash and enter a Muslim country. I guess it would be hard to explain why he shipped his wife and kids home before continuing from India to the land of his Muslim childhood.

I hear she refuses to wear a burkha, too.

As for this Muslim minister, he’s clearly lying about not being able to help touching her. Stone him and cut off his head!


48 posted on 11/09/2010 11:27:36 AM PST by Cicero
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To: agere_contra

Post of the day.


49 posted on 11/09/2010 11:27:36 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 658 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: maggief

The koranimal considers chewy less than her or najis & that makes her “unclean” by her tolerant, loving & peaceful standards of sharia standards.

Generally, koranimals like to wear gloves when shaking hands with Infidels/Kafirs. BUT, in this case, the indonesian is a greater than koranimal.

Sickos.


50 posted on 11/09/2010 11:28:00 AM PST by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: EBH
On the other side of thought on this, what does it say about who is in charge? Obama bows, Michele holds herself upright for a handshake...

Quite simply, Michelle Obama grew up in America while Barack did not. Michelle said that she had never been proud of this country in her adult life UNTIL NOW. She sure as hell isn't going to go stooping to other people NOW.

51 posted on 11/09/2010 11:30:23 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: maggief
Oh darn.

Now they'll both have to have their heads cut of in the name of Allah and his "religion" of "peace".

52 posted on 11/09/2010 11:36:37 AM PST by DocH (Official Right-Wing Extremist Veteran Seal Of Approval)
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To: maggief
I have absolutely no love for Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring and even less for Michelle Obama. My dislike for Sembiring stems from his being a Muslim. My dislike for Michelle Obama stems from my knowledge that she is part of a cadre of leftists which seeks to enslave this country and would even aid activist Muslims in imposing Sharia law and other un-American dictates on the people of this free nation.

I have to wonder, though, just how far we have to go with the ridiculous desire on the part of our political class to not "offend" people of other nations who have absolutely absurd customs. In other words "Just what in the hell is wrong with the two having touched each other???"

53 posted on 11/09/2010 11:39:59 AM PST by davisfh (Islam is a mental illness with global social consequences)
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To: MortMan

My bad!


54 posted on 11/09/2010 11:39:59 AM PST by cameraeye (A happy kufir!)
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To: AppyPappy

At first I could not figure out what you meant by “FL”. Florida maybe? Now I realize you meant “First Lady”. This is technically inaccurate. The correct term is “GW”, for Gilded Wookie.


55 posted on 11/09/2010 11:45:48 AM PST by I Buried My Guns (Novare Res!)
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To: married21

“One day the head of the office got revenge. After a polite visit, she said goodbye and cordially shook his hand. The look on his face was priceless, because he knew he had to go through a time-consuming cleansing ritual as a result. The office head was pretty happy, though, that she was wasting his time like that, after he had wasted hers.”

What “cleansing ritual”? News to me.

According to Judaism, touch between a man and a woman is so personal and so charged with potential energy, that (after puberty) it is reserved only for one’s spouse (or parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, etc).

This perserves sensuality for husband and wife. When you never touch anyone from the opposite gender, and the only one you do touch is your wife/husband, there is magic in what people might call a “simple touch” (let alone sex, wooo-hooo!).

No clue about a “cleansing ritual.” Maybe if he was a Levite, she was menstrating woman, and someone was sacrificing something at the Temple that day.

Last I checked, the Mosiach is not here and there is no Temple.


56 posted on 11/09/2010 11:47:21 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: maggief
Hmmmm, does this mean she will be stoned to death for adultery, or he will? Sounds like he's lining up his witnesses via twitter
57 posted on 11/09/2010 11:59:31 AM PST by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: silverleaf

Maybe barry will be forced to divorce moochelle. She will have to stay behind in that country.


58 posted on 11/09/2010 12:23:09 PM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: agere_contra
My advice. Let the Wookie win.

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LOL! Post of the Thread Award!

59 posted on 11/09/2010 12:30:13 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Are there any women in that crowd? ;)


60 posted on 11/09/2010 12:34:22 PM PST by freedomlover (Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
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