Posted on 02/05/2015 4:21:24 PM PST by Rusty0604
US President Barack Obama has long refused to refer to the scourge of terrorism gripping the Middle East as Islamic extremism, and on Thursday, he defended that position with a bit of history.
The challenges facing Islam today are not unique to the religion, Obama said, but reflective of a "sinful tendency" in all societies to "pervert and distort" faiths.
"Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history," Obama said at the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington. "And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ."
And yet the president's position is in line with that of his Republican predecessor. While coining phrases Obama rejects in characterizing America's war on terrorism, George W. Bush never characterized the fight in religious terms and, in fact, campaigned against the notion.
At the breakfast, Obama also defended worldwide condemnation of Charlie Hebdo's cartoons, and squared why such denouncements were in line with liberal principles.
"If, in fact, we defend the legal right of a person to insult another’s religion, we’re equally obligated to use our free speech to condemn such insults," he told the group to applause.
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Put it into “Perspective?”
Quite the opposite!
What.....a.....PIG! And anyone who isn’t appalled by his statements today is also a PIG!
“Two WRONGS a thousand years apart DO make a right!” - Barack the Kenyan
When the west wholeheartedly goes to war, we don't burn pilots, we burn continents.
Comparing what happened (according to him) centuries ago with what happened yesterday exposes him for what he is.
“what a tangled web of lies we weave, when we first choose to deceive?”?
The Crusades were wars against Islamic aggression and conquest.
I think Europe is lost. When will we wake up? Not so sure about Canada, Australia maybe.
Self-defense isn’t a terrible deed.
No wonder he wants to steal our guns.
What the world needs another Crusade throughout the Middle East. - Turn much of the Middle East into a waste land, the people dead, but the buildings intact. Iran Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan Afghanistan should not exist at all.
Exactly.
A thousand years here, a thousand years there...cheesh. Look at all the violence at the creation of the universe. Lots of fire there, too.
Like his preacher screaming "God Damn America" from the pulpit?
Unless of course you are a bitter clinger, then you are a racist.
You may be right.
They did worse in the name of socialism...
When did the west last wholeheartedly go to war?
The only way to draw a parallel between Islam and
Christianity would be if Islam had had a reformation
hundreds of years ago and was no longer a blood thirsty
hegemonic cult. Alas that hasn’t happened yet so
no cigar.
I'm not sure he ever went to Punahoe, Columbia or Harvard.He seems blissfully unaware that the Crusades were intended
to keep the world safe from blood-thirsty Islamic terrorists.
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