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With the American and Kenyan flags behind him, then-Sen. Barack Obama speaks to students at University of Nairobi, Monday, Aug. 28, 2006. (AP File Photo) (CNSNews.com) When he visits his fathers homeland in Africa later this month, President Obama is expected to run into vocal opposition over his administrations high-profile promotion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues.
Obamas trip to Kenya, his first as president, is scheduled to take place four weeks after the White House was bathed in rainbow colors to mark the U.S. Supreme Court ruling declaring that same-sex marriage is a right.
At a small pro-family demonstration at the parliament in Nairobi Monday, organized by the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya, participants called on the American president not to raise the subject during his visit.
It is important for us as Kenyans to know that the U.S. is not God, local media quoted evangelical Bishop Mark Kariuki as saying, adding that Obama should not use the visit to talk about the gay issue.
Irungu Kangata, a lawmaker in President Uhuru Kenyattas The National Alliance (TNA) party, was blunter: We are telling Mr. Obama when he comes to Kenya this month and he tries to bring the abortion agenda, the gay agenda, we shall tell him to shut up and go home.
According to The Standard of Nairobi, Kangata said Kenyans would demonstrate against Obama over the issue during his visit.
Kenyas The Daily Nation quoted several other lawmakers views on the matter.
Anybody who tries to come and preach to this country that they should allow homosexuality, I think hes totally lost, said TNA lawmaker Jamleck Kamau.
And I would also like to add, our son from the U.S., Barack Obama, when he comes here, to simply avoid that topic completely, added Kamau, because Kenyans will not be happy with him if he comes to bring the issue of homosexuality in this country.
Liberal thoughts are being entertained in some countries under the guise of human rights, the speaker of the National Assembly, Justin Muturi, told an Anglican Church congregation. We must be vigilant and guard against it. We must lead an upright society and not allow obnoxious behavior as we have a responsibility to protect our children.
Rose Mitaru, one of 47 female lawmakers representing counties across the country, said that allowing same-sex marriage in Kenya would open floodgates of evil synonymous with the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah.
TNA lawmaker Cecily Mbarire urged the government to reject any foreign aid tied to efforts to legalize same-sex marriage.
On Sunday, Deputy President William Ruto delivered a church sermon in Nairobi in which he said homosexuality was against the plan of God.
God did not create man and woman so that men would marry men and women marry women, The Daily Nation quoted him as saying.
Those who want to engage in those businesses, they can do it in their countries, and they can do it wherever it is they want. In Kenya, we will stand firm.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest indicated Monday that Obama would not avoid the topic during his visit.
We have been clear that when the president travels around the world, he does not hesitate to raise concerns about human rights, he told a press briefing, in response to a question on the Kenyan criticism.
Im confident the president will not hesitate to make clear that the protection of basic universal human rights in Kenya is also a priority and consistent with the values that we hold dear here in the United States of America, Earnest said.
Everybody has to be treated equally
Obama is scheduled to visit Kenya later this month to open the sixth Global Entrepreneurship Summit, an Obama initiative aimed at promoting entrepreneurship, particularly in Muslim societies. He will then visit Ethiopia for bilateral and African Union meetings. It will be his fourth trip to sub-Saharan Africa during his presidency.
Homosexuality is frowned on in many African countries, both Christian and Muslim. The Obama administrations State Department has made promotion of LGBT issues a foreign policy priority.
Obamas last visit to the continent coincided with the June 2013 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act, and the LGBT question came up during a joint press appearance with Senegalese President Macky Sall.
Asked about the issue of homosexuality in Africa, Obama said he believed that every country, every group of people, every religion have different customs, different traditions.
But when it comes to how the state treats people, how the law treats people, I believe that everybody has to be treated equally, he said. I dont believe in discrimination of any sort. Thats my personal view.
In his response, Sall said Senegal was not ready to change to decriminalize homosexuality, and that countries should respect each others choices.
He also said Senegal does not discriminate in terms of inalienable rights of the human being.
According to data compiled by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA), same-sex sexual acts are illegal in 76 countries around the world, 36 of them in Africa.
In May 2014, the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights, which reports to the African Union, passed a resolution calling on African countries to end all acts of violence and abuse
including those targeting persons on the basis of their imputed or real sexual orientation or gender identities, ensuring proper investigation and diligent prosecution of perpetrators, and establishing judicial procedures responsive to the needs of victims.
"When Raila Odinga lost the presidential election last week (12/27/2007) to Mwai Kibaki, he claimed the vote was rigged, whereupon his tribal followers went on murderous rampages such as in the town of Eldoret, where on New Years Day dozens of people were burned to death in a church set on fire. Throughout Kenya, hundreds of people have been politically murdered in the last few days."
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Up to 1,000 killed in Kenyan crisis: Odinga
AOL India Editorial
Last Updated: January 07, 2008
Odinga, who turned 63 on Monday, faces a dilemma of responding to international pressure to avoid provoking more violence while also maintaining momentum to oust Kibaki.
http://www.aol.in/news/story/2008010710489019000001/
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From Atlas Shrugs:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/kenyas_killing_fields/index.html
"...this hasn't even gotten into the relationship between Obama and Raila Odinga, yet another politician who ran on the 'hope & change' theme while utilizing criminal ties, who would then stage a violent and bloody uprising when national elections didn't go his way. Somehow we don't hear much about the nightly phone calls between Sen. Obama and Raila Odinga these days..."
Kenya's first truly free and fair democratic election was in December 2002, won by Mwai Kibaki and a multi-ethnic coalition party NARC (National Rainbow Coalition). One of the leaders of that coalition was Raila Odinga.
Kibaki didn't give him positions in the new government that he felt were important enough, so Odinga formed an opposition party, ODM (Orange Democratic Movement, orange the symbol color of opposition).
When Raila Odinga lost the presidential election last week (12/27/2007) to Mwai Kibaki, he claimed the vote was rigged, whereupon his tribal followers went on murderous rampages such as in the town of Eldoret, where on New Years Day dozens of people were burned to death in a church set on fire.
Throughout Kenya, hundreds of people have been politically murdered in the last few days.
Kenya's 37 million people are divided up into over three dozen tribes and sub-tribes, but the two dominant ones are Kikuyu and Luo. Kenyan politics since independence in 1963 has essentially been a duke-out between them.
The father of Kenyan independence and president until 1978 was Jomo Kenyatta, a Kikuyu. His main political opponent was Oginga Odinga, known as "OO," a Luo and Raila's father.
While Kenyatta was pro-West and sided with America in the Cold War, OO [Oginga Odinga, Raila's father] was a Communist who was aided and supported by the Soviet Union.
That's why Raila went to school in East Germany (born in 1945, he graduated from Magdeburg University in 1970), and named his first-born son after Fidel Castro.
Thus it likely won't shock you to learn that Raila has now made a deal for support from the Soviets' successors as world-champion enemies of the West and democratic freedoms: Moslem fundamentalists.
The Evangelical Alliance of Kenya has posted on its website a photograph copy of a Memorandum of Understanding, dated and signed on August 29, 2007, between Raila Odinga and Shiekh Abdullah Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum of Kenya.
It pledges the support of Kenyan Moslems for Raila's election. In return, as President of Kenya, Raila agrees to 14 actions, listed a) through n) on page two. Read them all, and be sure you're sitting down. Here's a sample:
b) Within 6 months re-write the Constitution of Kenya to recognize Shariah as the only true law sanctioned by the Holy Quran for Muslim declared regions.
c) With immediate effect dismiss the Commissioner of Police who has allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists to oppress the Kenyan Muslim community.
g) Within one year facilitate the establishment of a Shariah court in every Kenyan divisional headquarters. [Note: everywhere in Kenya, not just in "Muslim declared regions."]
Again, read all of them, for others are just as bad or worse.
It may also not surprise you that Raila is not Moslem himself, but claims to be a practicing Anglican. Only a minority of Luo are Moslem (most are Christian). Kenya on the whole is Christian, with 80% of Kenyans either Protestant or Roman Catholic, while only 10% are Moslem.
And here is the biggest non-surprise: Raila Odinga has, in his own words, a "close personal friendship" with Barrack Hussein Obama Junior.
When Obama went to Kenya in August of 2006, he was hosted by Raila and spoke in praise of him at rallies in Nairobi:
Much more at:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/kenyas_killing_fields/index.html
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MUST SEE VIDEO OF OBAMA IN KENYA CAMPAIGNING FOR MARXIST THUG/"COUSIN" ODINGA!
"Barack Obama and Raila Odinga -- Did the Illinois senator violate the Logan Act in campaigning for his 'genocidist' cousin's bid for the Kenyan presidency?":
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=obama+odinga ____________________________________________________________
January 8, 2008
Odinga says Obama is his cousin
Split picture Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga (l) and US presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama (r) Mr Obama (r) is descended from the same Luo tribe as Mr Odinga (l)
Odinga on Obama
Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has said he is a cousin of US presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
Mr Odinga told the BBC's The World Today that Senator Obama's father was his maternal uncle.
....getting pop corn ready, icing down the Pepsi....this is going to be good...a rat without a country...LMAO...I love this!!!
Considering what America has become, he’s definitely an American.
why shouldn't he force it on the closed minded folks of kenya?
do it, barry
We don't even know his real name, let alone his country. Is he Soetoro or Obama? Barry or Barack?
He is truly Patient Zero in the new movement to "self identify"
“I sure hope no muslims throw him off a tall building for being gay”
Now, now...let’s not be hasty.
Correction: Raila Odinga apparently never made it to president of Kenya. He was instead Prime Minister of Kenya.
Obama Decides to Put American Embassy to Israel in Kenya
A biography released in July 2006 indicated that Raila was far more involved in the attempted coup than he had previously claimed. After its publication, some MPs called for Raila to be arrested and charged,[9] but the statute of limitations had already passed and, since the information was contained in a biography, Raila could not be said to have openly confessed his involvement.[10] His mother died in 1984, but it took the prison wardens two months to inform him of her death.[citation needed]
Released on 6 February 1988, he was rearrested in September 1988 for his involvement with human rights and pro-democracy activists[11] pressing for multi-party democracy in Kenya, which was then a one-party state. To his political followers, he is also referred as Agwambo, the meaning of which is difficult to specify, or Jakom, meaning Chairman.
Raila was released on 12 June 1989, only to be incarcerated again on 5 July 1990, together with Kenneth Matiba, and former Nairobi Mayor Charles Rubia.[12] Raila was released on 21 June 1991, and in October, he fled the country to Norway with a hint that the corrupt Kenyan government attempted unsuccessfully to assassinate him.[13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raila_Odinga#Detention
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Yes, but is Jerusalem the capital of Kenya now?
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Give Obama and company (UN) time...no telling how the map will look if things keep going this way.
The only sure thing is that Israel and a select number will be around when God decides to set things straight.
And after the Scotus decision might not be that far off.
Can’t help who Laz likes or doesn’t like and don’t care.
They also think America is a prime mission field for evangelism.
I detest gay marriage and the vulgar spectacle of gay rights parades, but you won’t catch me praising these savages in Africa whose greatest life accomplishment is sticking a bone in their nose.
Africa, India come to mind and others south of the equator or near to it. Until recently they had no air-conditioning...so their cultures have not advanced. We all know what it's like to work in soaring hot temps. So living in that year round does make a difference.
Ouch. That’s gotta sting Mr. Resident.
Who is that he is kissing? When and where did it happen?
I worked with 5 or 6, and I can assure you, that is true.
And when he pulls out wads of (our) cash and begins throwing into the air, suddenly the tune changes to, “We love the gay!”
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