Islam has never been radical as described in the MSM etc. today....it has always been without reason, just a mindless cult of fear that oppresses their own and kills those who do not believe in their wicked Muhammad.
Posted on 02/19/2015 9:04:47 AM PST by COUNTrecount
We hear a lot about the United States' Judeo-Christian heritage, but according to President Obama, "Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding."
That's what the president told a White House conference on "countering violent extremism" on Wednesday.
Obama has said similar things in the past:
"I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story,” Obama said in a June 2009 speech in Cairo, Egypt. "Islam has always been part of America," he said in a 2010 statement marking the start of Ramadan. And in a 2014 statement marking Eid, Obama said the holiday "also reminds us of the many achievements and contributions of Muslim Americans to building the very fabric of our nation and strengthening the core of our democracy."
In his speech on Wednesday, Obama was making the point that Western nations must show that they "welcome people of all faiths," at a time when "extremists" are saying that Western nations are "hostile to Muslims."
"Here in America, Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding. Generations -- (applause) -- Generations of Muslim immigrants came here and went to work as farmers and merchants and factory workers, helped to lay railroads and to build up America.
"The first Islamic center in New York City was founded in the 1890s. America's first mosque, this was an interesting fact, was in North Dakota." (It was established in 1929).
Both of those milestones happened well after America's founding, however. In fact, the new nation's first dealings with Islam were tense and unpleasant.
According to a Heritage Foundation paper, shortly after America's founding, the United States "was dragged into the affairs of the Islamic world by an escalating series of unprovoked attacks on Americans by Muslim pirates, the terrorists of the era," who looted American ships and captured American sailors, holding them for ransom or selling them as slaves.
The paper notes that America's struggle with Muslim pirates from the Barbary States (modern-day Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) began soon after the 13 colonies declared their independence from Britain in 1776 and continued for roughly four decades.
In his remarks on Wednesday, President Obama said Muslim Americans now serve as police officers, firefighters, soldiers, "and in our intelligence communities and in homeland security."
He said Muslim American heroes are buried at Arlington National Cemetery, "having given their lives in defense of all of us."
"And, of course, that's the story extremists and terrorists don't want the world to know -- Muslims succeeding and thriving in America. Because when that truth is known, it exposes their propaganda as the lie that it is.
"It's also a story that every American must never forget, because it reminds us all that hatred and bigotry and prejudice have no place in our country. It is not just counterproductive. It doesn't just aid terrorists. It's wrong. It's contrary to who we are."
So-called hate crimes against Muslims escalated in this country after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 -- attacks perpetrated by Islamic radicals -- but they have never reached the level of hate crimes against Jews, according to the FBI's annual Uniform Crime Reporting statistics.
In 2013, for example, 62.4 percent of hate crime victims were attacked because of anti-Jewish bias, while 11.6 percent were victims of anti-Islamic bias.
Compare that with the year before the 2001 terror attacks: In 2000, of the 1,699 victims of anti-religious hate crime, 74.6 percent were victims of an offender's anti-Jewish bias; and only 2.1 percent were victims of an offender's anti-Islamic bias.
President Obama on Wednesday stressed that U.S. is not at war with Islam:"We are at war with people who have perverted Islam," he said.
He also said the West and Islam are not in conflict; and that Islam is not incompatible with modern life, although in the same speech he urged other countries to invest in the education of both males and females -- "because countries will not be truly successful if half their populations, if their girls and their women, are denied opportunity."
In a speech to the same summit on Thursday, Obama noted that many Americans don't personally know a single Muslim, and they form a distorted impression about Islam by what they hear on the news.
Defeatism has been woven into the presidency since 2008.
Islam has never been radical as described in the MSM etc. today....it has always been without reason, just a mindless cult of fear that oppresses their own and kills those who do not believe in their wicked Muhammad.
Bump
Obama hates this country.
He’s had a chip on his shoulder since his tortured childhood spent mentoring with communist perverts.
For Obama Islam is a horse to ride...
Islam allows Obama to express his hatred for the United States without having to own that hatred. Islam is Obama’s club - used to ‘fight back’ against the perceived injustices of white culture.
It’s stupid...
Muslims are treated with kindness and fairness in the United States. Much more so than they would receive in some thuggy Islamic country. Notice how none of them choose to go back to the ‘home country’. That should be a hint. Obama and Jeh are attempting to stir the pot... cause more hated ... work out their own problems.
Islam’s a horse democrats ride - a horse they hope will firmly establish their ‘victim status’ once again. It’s not going to work. They’re wrong. Blacks need to work out their own feelings of inferiority - and Islam really is the religion from hell - in it’s current un-reformed form.
But there is an Imam.
IMAM OBAMA
Jizya? Or, do you mean by building up a US Navy? If the latter, a good investment!
“We have been fighting Muslims since Thomas Jefferson days”
‘(From the halls of Montezuma) to the shores of Tripoli.”
Islam has been a thorn in the hide of mankind and civilization for several hundred years. Anyone saying they “have been woven into the fabric of our country (America) since its founding” must practice keeping a straight face while making the statement.
Anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of American History I recognizes this as absolute BS.
If anything it reflects the moorish practice—name escapes me—of lying to achieve an Islamic goal.
“Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding”
Ya know my boxers always seem to have that piece of fabric that immediately goes and sticks in the crack, now I know why.
I don’t have profanity adequate to address this insanity.
Flash Broken News:
Brian Williams reporting on video of Mo-Ham, a Muslim, riding with Paul Revere on that fateful night.
Well somebody had to hang the lanterns in the Old North Minaret.
THE INFIDELS ARE COMING! THE INFIDELS ARE COMING!
Taqiyya.
I had the TV on mute and even seeing Obama’s lying Muslim face made me want to blow chucks..Oh Obama, do everyone a favor and go join ISIS already you know you want to. You know that he is just dying to scream out Allah Akbar
LOL see post 113
Hence, the creation of the U.S. Marine Corps (Corpse if you're Obama) is traceable to Muslims.
This is another case where Obama lies to try and convince people he is the man of knowledge. He certainly was not alluding/speaking to the time Pres. Jefferson sent Marines to Tripoli to tell the Muslims to leave US ships alone. Obama though real in flesh is imaginary as to life’s history i.e. no viable records. A person who can speak lies like a Mussolini with projected jaw can gather a big bunch of fools especially if they can be made to think they are of the same color. Obama is not a ‘black’ man but a dark skinned man with SE Asia heritage.
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