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.
… and also for our enemies.
Obama lies A LOT ...
I would like the author to explain the “Kill the infidel wherever you find him” passage and the 100+ other Koran passages that command death to infidels.
“I think I understand the process of your thinking”
Yeah, I think I understand it, too. Though I have come to a different conclusion, Mr. Youssef. MY seems like a decent guy and a good preacher.
al-Sisi repeated his beliefs that the terrorists are not religious at all. Yes that is right because the terrorists believe in a sytem of pre-Islamic belief. Keep in mind the 12th Imama was supposed to show up and he did not, so many of the so called Islamists have become disgusted in the teachings of Islam as the Shitites and Sunnis beleive in the the 12th Imam. So they are going back to the 7th century beliefs and values of the pagan religions of the Arab nomadic people that they were at one time. Beheading, burning and senseless killing are just pagans whom worship a black rock. The religion is based on the issues spoken of in the Old testament times - sacrifice of young for the belief in a pagan god.
0bama was registered as a Muslim in that Indonesian school. His stepfather was a Muslim. This author sounds ignorant when he phrases it to sound like 0bama was only acquainted with Muslims by casual contact.
O has no “Islamic dilemma” or problem with Muslim terrorists
O is one. Period. Without any dilemmas, pauses, contradictions, qualifications, or hesitations.
From his point of view, he has no problems with the IslamoNazi murderers at all, any of them
(Picture of the famous, well=tanned, smiling, unworried Alfred E. Newman goes here.....)
**The Scriptures command me to pray for those in leadership. **
Jewish Prayer...”Oh bless and keep the Czar-far away from us!”
This man seems totally stand-up to me. And brave.
These gestures are a waste of time for all parties. Odip$hit will not waste one brain cell on this crap.
As a Kid, I used to watch Crusader Rabbit Cartoons.
I don’t think Obama did.
Embrace your inner raghead!
Appreciation for your attempt, sir, but there lies the error in your thinking. It has been quite clear for years that Obama despises America and seeks to further weaken the country, not restore greatness.
I don’t think that Dr. Youssef had to go against his family. He was not Muslim. He grew up in a Coptic Christian family.
Pr. Youssef’s mother was advised by her doctor that he should have been aborted because of potential risks to her health.
Thanks be to God that she placed her trust—and Michael’s neonatal life—in Him!
I apologize if I have misremembered the details of his background. I may have confused him with Ravi Zacharias, whose family were Hindu. But I do know that Youssef is a riveting and intelligent preacher.
That was the most powerful conviction of obama being an islamist than I have ever read. Thank you for the post Kaslin.
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