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Dear President Obama, I Have a Solution for Your “Islamist” Dilemma
Townhall.com ^ | February 8, 2015 | Michael Youssef

Posted on 02/08/2015 1:52:23 PM PST by Kaslin

Dear President Obama,

Please know that I am one of those who pray for you on a regular basis. The Scriptures command me to pray for those in leadership.

Please also know that any criticism I have regarding your foreign policies are neither personal nor political. I have found some across the aisle from you who have equally questionable views regarding such policies.

Although I don’t presume to enter into your mind nor know your motives, I think I understand the process of your thinking regarding radical Islam. Incidentally, I think also some of the President George W. Bush’s administration may share some of your views.

Given your childhood years spent in Indonesia, and your friendships then with some Muslims at school and in that country in general, you have a deep aversion to calling fundamentalist Muslims by the appropriate name: “Islamists” or “Jihadists.” You fear that by doing so, you would appear to paint all Muslims with the same brush.

I also grew up in a majority-Muslim country. As a boy living under that country’s dictatorship, I dreamed of living under the American flag, with all its liberties. But I also loved my school friends who were Muslims. To this day, I have many fine friends who are Muslims.

However, many of my Muslim friends are not afraid to label adherents to political Islam as “Islamists.” After all, the terrorists refer to themselves as the “true Muslims.” To deny them those categories would be like those who deny your claim to be “a Christian”.

Some of the fine Muslims that come to mind also include Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah.

For example, I have observed President el-Sisi since his days as Field Marshall el-Sisi, and I’ve listened to many of his speeches. I’ve concluded that they come no finer than him in the Muslim world.

Recently, after experiencing the horror of a terrorist attack upon his military personnel in the Sinai, el-Sisi repeated his belief that terrorists are actually not religious at all. The best translation I can offer of his comments are: “If Allah does not force people to worship him or believe in him, who are those people [referring to Islamists and the Muslim Brotherhood] to force people to worship and believe their way?”

And yet, to my puzzlement, Mr. Obama, you reject acceptance and cooperation with President el-Sisi and refuse to abandon your fondness for the Muslim Brotherhood. You continue to see el-Sisi as the leader of a coup, instead of the steward of the wishes of 33 million Egyptians who took to the streets to rid the country of the Islamist terrorist group in charge.

Whatever the reasons for your stance, I ask you to reconsider. Let me assure you that the US and all of the Western World, if not the whole world, would do well to ask President el-Sisi to lead the global effort to rid the world of Islamist terrorists.

I know it would take humility to take such bold action. But I’ve heard you a few times, and you use the word “humility” quite a lot.

To throw American resources and prestige behind a good Muslim leader would truly earn you the respect for being a man who wants to get the job done, regardless of who gets the credit. In fact, you’ll get a whole lot of credit as a wise man that rejects “egotism” and “stubborn pride”.

President Obama, please consider these simple thoughts from a US immigrant—an immigrant who is not a hyphenated American, but just an American. An immigrant who dearly loves his country and seeks only its best and greatness again.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: 0bama; alsisi; egypt; immigration; isis; middleeast; muslims
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To: TigersEye

I believe Obama was just a boy at the time....


21 posted on 02/08/2015 8:29:56 PM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: jtal

Subject: Free Will

It’s interesting the way socialists approach theological concepts but when it comes to Islam they are not the only ones who refuse to approach the issue. That even includes leading Christian clergy including Pope Francis.
Followers of Mohammed not only claim, but truly believe that God has authorized them to kill those who refuse to submit to their version of God’s will. That is a basic tenet of that religion. A claim which goes unchallanged. While it’s understandable for atheists which most socialists are, not to approach that claim on a theological basis.

It’s bewildering why any Christian clergy refuse to admit it even exists and is a basic part of Islam creed and worse yet are unable to condem it.

The Koran which was not given to Mohammed by God but by some angel .Demanding enforcement of sharia law which draws heavily from the Torah.It is a pseudo religious concoction using monotheistic selected texts, taken and misconstrued from the old .(bible) and new tertaments. Both of which cite the Almighty has granted free will to accept or obey his laws and is the final judge not man. Sodom and Gormora , “Let he who is without sin cast the stone” are outstanding examples from both books. One deals with sin and God’s decision toward a group the other to an individual, neither is left to man.

Yet followers of Mohammed under the severest of penalties are forbidden to read either which would refute that assertion in a creed which institutionalizes disgusting arab tribal views, observances,and customs. Claiming adhearants are authorized by our Creator to demand submission to it or suffer an ignominious death administered by followers of Islam simply because they answer the call to prayer 5 times a day.

http://www.theusmat.com/islamandfreewill.htm


22 posted on 02/08/2015 8:35:33 PM PST by mosesdapoet (Some of my best rebuttals are in FR's along with meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: Osage Orange

Which makes absolutely no difference at all to my point about the author’s ignorance.


23 posted on 02/08/2015 10:07:50 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: Kaslin
In fact, you’ll get a whole lot of credit as a wise man that rejects “egotism” and “stubborn pride”.

Nah, you won't. That ship has already sailed, run up on the reef and sunk. Nobody's fooled any more.

24 posted on 02/09/2015 1:34:44 PM PST by Kenton
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To: TigersEye
Fair enough..........

But Odinga was just a little kid. His parents filled out his school paperwork.

That all said...it's obvious to anyone who pays attention...Odinga leans hard to the left..and appears to gaze toward Mecca.

25 posted on 02/10/2015 12:18:59 PM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: Osage Orange

Regardless of who filled out the paperwork it was 0bama who sat in Muslim classes from the age of five to the age of eleven.


26 posted on 02/10/2015 12:57:17 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: TigersEye
I sat in plenty of classes during that age range.

And don't remember crap about them....

But...hey..Odinga obviously hates the Jews..and seems to love muzzies.

No argument there..

27 posted on 02/10/2015 1:02:20 PM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: Osage Orange

Some people consider those the “formative years.”


28 posted on 02/10/2015 1:07:51 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: TigersEye
Some people think man is causing the oceans to rise, and the ground to shake too......

You will have the last word..............

29 posted on 02/10/2015 1:10:35 PM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: Osage Orange
0bama seems to have remembered something about them...


30 posted on 02/10/2015 1:11:45 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: Osage Orange

You certainly seem to have some argument with me. Exactly what it is I don’t know.


31 posted on 02/10/2015 1:13:04 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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Perhaps 0bama learned more about Islam as an adult...


32 posted on 02/10/2015 1:15:03 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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