I don’t like this five pillars bit he’s always using.
It gives me the creeps every time.
I read that in his most recent speech, there were actually SIX pillars.
Innovation, Education, Information, Infrastructure and Deficit Reduction are the first five.
The sixth is Government Reform.
“For those interested, the ‘Five Pillars of Islam’ are Shahada (accepting Muhammad as God’s messenger), Salat (praying 5 times per day), Sawm (the 3 ritual fasting periods), Zakat (being charitable and responsible), and the Hajj (a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month known as Dhu al-Hijjah). It should be noted that while not wholly accepted by all Muslims, the more fundamentalists believe in a Sixth Pillar, that of Jihad, ‘The Struggle’. A few sects believe in ‘Seven Pillars’ which adds as the first pillar, Walayah, the Pillar of Submission to God and his prophets.”-—Obama: Five Pillars of ‘Change’ or ‘Islam’?: http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=8146
Government Reform-——jihad?
The jihadists in Egypt and all over the world are clamoring for “government reform”.
Did Obama wake them all up?
I’m not liking this.
OBAMA, ISLAM, AND THE HARD LEFT
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2519664/posts
Excerpt:
Posted on Sunday, May 23, 2010 7:50:33 PM by MestaMachine
Time to refresh our memory:
The most beautiful sound obama has ever heard
From the article:
“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 (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”
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The first few lines from the “call to prayer” is the shahada. The shahada is not from the koran. It is from the hadith. 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.
Those of us who tried to warn people can’t just sit now and say I told you so with a silly smirk on our faces. We haven’t won anything. We are vindicated but trapped by the lack of awareness about islam in the American public at large.
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As for the five pillars, he began his -residency with five pillars and his pillars have five pillars.
Because of his position in the world and the stakes in their game, he is permitted to engage in taqyya, pretending to be Christian, even eating pork, as long as his HEART is pure and his allegiance is to allah. What he does makes no difference in a war as long as allah and the believers win.
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/opinion/06kristof.html?_r=2
“I was a little Jakarta street kid,” he said in a wide-ranging interview in his office (excerpts are on my blog, www.nytimes.com/ontheground). He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them.
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 (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”
Moreover, Mr. Obama’s own grandfather in Kenya was a Muslim. Mr. Obama never met his grandfather and says he isn’t sure if his grandfather’s two wives were simultaneous or consecutive, or even if he was Sunni or Shiite. (O.K., maybe Mr. Obama should just give up on Alabama.)
Our biggest mistake since World War II has been a lack of sensitivity to other people’s nationalism, from Vietnam to Iraq. Perhaps as a result of his background, Mr. Obama has been unusually sensitive to such issues and to the need to project respect rather than arrogance. He has consistently shown great instincts.
Mr. Obama’s visit to Africa last year hit just the right diplomatic notes. In Kenya, he warmly greeted the president — but denounced corruption and went out of his way to visit a bold newspaper that government agents had ransacked. In South Africa, he respectfully but firmly criticized the government’s unscientific bungling of the AIDS epidemic. In Chad, he visited Darfur refugees.
“My experience growing up in Indonesia or having family in small villages in Africa — I think it makes me much more mindful of the importance of issues like personal security or freedom from corruption,” he said, adding: “I’ve witnessed it in much more direct ways than I think the average American has witnessed it.”
As a senator, Mr. Obama has not only seized the issue of nuclear proliferation, but also the question of small arms. For a majority of the world’s inhabitants, those AK-47s and R.P.G.’s are the weapons of mass destruction.