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To: Fred Nerks

It is a fake quote, why lie about a quote?

Here is Truth and Fiction
“””I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”””-Fiction!
This is a corruption of a quote from Obama’s book The Audacity of Hope. It is from a section that talks about the concerns of immigrants who are American citizens.

Here is the accurate and more complete quote: “Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific assurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/o/obama-books.htm

Here is Snopes.
“”I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.””
This statement is a rewording of a passage from page 261 of The Audacity of Hope, in which Barack Obama spoke of the importance of not allowing inflamed public opinion to result in innocent members of immigrant groups being stripped of their rights, denied their due as American citizens, or placed into confinement, as was done with Japanese-Americans during World War II. The original contains no specific mention of “Muslims”:
In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/coilofrage.asp


46 posted on 08/21/2014 11:56:20 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: ansel12

Pffft, muslims should NOT be allowed into the country PERIOD.

I don’t care if they are the most upstanding muslim you can find, I don’t want them here. I see trash bags with their disgusting pedo husbands everywhere I go, grocery store, walking down the street. I am always am nervous around them, who knows what the man is hiding in their walking trashbags.


60 posted on 08/23/2014 2:40:26 AM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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