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Obama faces backlash over Crusades remark at prayer breakfast
marketwatch.com ^ | Feb 6, 2015 10:44 a.m. ET | By Tim Rostan

Posted on 02/06/2015 2:17:55 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

President Obama, catching intensifying flak from the political right for failing to utter the phrase “radical Islam” — sorry, no substitutions allowed (other than “Islamic extremism”) — gave every appearance at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday of having heard his critics. And having decided to do, effectively, the opposite of what they’d demanded. If he did not exactly imply then he certainly granted his political adversaries the leeway to infer that he sees a moral equivalency between the murderous acts being committed under the banner of Islamic terrorist groups and centuries-ago Christian campaigns.

See: Terrorism poses no existential threat to the U.S., writes Stratfor security analyst

And: Obama calls ISIS a ‘vicious death cult’ at prayer breakfast

He not only avoided, again, the prescribed terminology in his comments on the recent wave of terrorist acts committed by the so-called Islamic State and by Boko Haram and others but, in an attempt at contextualizing those acts, included a passage that he had to assume would trigger a visceral reaction from foes:

“Humanity,” Obama said, “has been grappling with these questions throughout human history. 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. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”

And visceral that reaction has been, as Twitter activity under the hashtag #PrayerBreakfast ably demonstrates:

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: crusades; jarrett; jarrettpuppeteer; obama; prayerbreakfast
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1 posted on 02/06/2015 2:17:56 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Insanity on display once more.


2 posted on 02/06/2015 2:22:16 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Obama doesn’t care.


3 posted on 02/06/2015 2:23:42 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Once in a while the mask slips on a leftist...


4 posted on 02/06/2015 2:23:48 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

backlash from whom?

I have talked to a number of people today and not one of them had any idea about this as the media is again in lack out mode.

The GOP will not run a press conference about this and other issues and statements about bozo.


5 posted on 02/06/2015 2:25:33 PM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: manc

There is a GOP? I thought a private equity fund sold them to the Democrats 6 years ago......


6 posted on 02/06/2015 2:27:26 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

could have been sooner


7 posted on 02/06/2015 2:29:44 PM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: manc

Fox has covered it extensively but I heard there was nada on the alphabets. No surprise there.

And it is all over Facebook and people are furious. Not all are low info voters.


8 posted on 02/06/2015 2:31:14 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: manc

: )


9 posted on 02/06/2015 2:31:19 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

How many different ways can this idiot say, “I’m an Mooselimb” before the public believes him?


10 posted on 02/06/2015 2:32:09 PM PST by Portcall24
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MioNZBRrKZg


11 posted on 02/06/2015 2:33:19 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: Portcall24
How many different ways can this idiot say, “I’m an Mooselimb” before the public believes him?

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heres a NEW way.....




12 posted on 02/06/2015 2:36:27 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: stephenjohnbanker
ISLAM IS NOT A THREAT? Tell that to…

Former Muslim, Brother Rachid - Schools President Obama on Islam

2/6/15 | The Indicrat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnkPmeF3fSY

Excellent Speech. Brother Rachid addresses President Obama about ISIL and Islam; he explains to him how ISIL is imitating the prophet Muhammad in every detail they do. ISIL represents Islam.

ISLAM RELIGION OF THE SWORD

Obama’s father was Muslim, and by Islamic law, he was Muslim by birth. He was educated as Muslim in Indonesia, the most populated Muslim country in the world. Obama knows their prayers, and praised them as the most beautiful sound in the world. He studied the ”holy” Koran and Muhammad teachings. (Obama never call holy the Bible)

Obama’s sickly sweet version of Islam contradicts reality.

Obama, might not know American history, or that United States have 50 states, no 53; but he knows well the bloody history of Islam, even though he still call it a “religion of peace”.

It is a well known fact the bloody history of Islam, but Obama, and a gutless media, still call it a “religion of peace”, even though that in the name of Allah more than 220 millions infidels have been slaughtered by Muslim, since the prophet of Allah beheaded in 627 AD over 700 hundred men and the pubescent boys and enslaved the women and children. In doing this, he wiped entirely the last remaining major tribe of Jews in Medina: the Qurayza.

Under Obama’s lawless regime we might see beheading in U.S. spreading as a virus more lethal than Ebola.

Beheading is Islam M.O., That’s Why Mohammed Owned a Sword Named “Cleaver of Vertebrae”

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On September 30, 2014

Islam really is the religion of the sword. Mohammed had a huge sword collection, a lot of them stolen from other people, and he gave a name to each of his swords because he was kind of a psycho. One of his favorite swords was Dhu al-Faqar or “Cleaver of Vertebrae”. When you see this kind of sword on a Jihadist flag, that’s ole Faqar. Muslim legend says that the sword was given to Mohammed by an angel. Actually he looted it in battle or his followers did.”

“Dhu al-Faqar is the name of this sword, taken as Booty by the prophet Muhammad at the Battle of Badr. It is reported that the prophet Muhammad gave the sword to Ali b. Abi Talib, and that Ali returned from the Battle of Uhud covered with blood from his hands to his shoulders, having Dhu al-Faqar with him. “

To avoid the fate of Lebanon o Eurasia, mass deportation of Muslims is in order. Close the door to more Muslim immigration. Close Mosques involve in promotion of hate against US or promoting Islamic terrorism.

It’s Time to Take the Islamic State Seriously Rev. James V. Schall, S.J.

http://www.crisismagazine.com/2014/time-take-islamic-state-seriously

CRISIS MAGAZINE September 23, 2014

13 posted on 02/06/2015 2:42:16 PM PST by Dqban22 (Hpo<p> http://i.imgur.com/26RbAPxjpg)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Nothing new from this damn dunce.


14 posted on 02/06/2015 2:44:21 PM PST by Logical me
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To: ilovesarah2012

I caught the end of Jake Tapper’s program on CNN this afternoon. He did cover it, but he had some dufus from a Catholic group that supported Obama in his presidential campaign, who defend his remarks, because it was a reminder to Christians to recall our own foibles and evil deeds. Or something to that effect.


15 posted on 02/06/2015 2:47:13 PM PST by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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To: ilovesarah2012

I think someone created the hashtag...#BlackPresidentsMatter...


16 posted on 02/06/2015 2:47:33 PM PST by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Dqban22

ISLAM is from the DEVIL.


17 posted on 02/06/2015 2:55:45 PM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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To: Biggirl
ISLAM is from the DEVIL.

And 0bama is a son of islam!

18 posted on 02/06/2015 3:11:27 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

19 posted on 02/06/2015 3:15:18 PM PST by Iron Munro
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

He us a fiend.


20 posted on 02/06/2015 3:27:59 PM PST by ZULU (Je Suis Charlie. . GET IT OBAMA, OR DON'T YOU??)
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