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The Dream Of Muslim Outreach Has Become A Nightmare
Townhall.com ^ | July 21, 2016 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 07/21/2016 4:04:37 AM PDT by Kaslin

When President Obama entered office, he dreamed that his hope-and-change messaging and his references to his familial Islamic roots would win over the Muslim world. The soon-to-be Nobel Peace Prize laureate would make the U.S. liked in the Middle East. Then, terrorism would decrease.

But, as with his approach to racial relations, Obama's remedies proved worse than the original illness.

Obama gave his first presidential interview to Al Arabiya, noting that he has Muslims in his family. He implicitly blamed America's strained relations with many Middle Eastern countries on his supposedly insensitive predecessor, George W. Bush.

The new message of the Obama administration was that the Islamic world was understandably hostile because of what America had done rather than what it represented.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: barack0bama; husseinobama; isis; middleeast; miserablefailure; muslimamericans; muslimvote; vdh; victordavishanson
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1 posted on 07/21/2016 4:04:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
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2 posted on 07/21/2016 4:06:38 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: All

“They’re bugs, Wyatt...ain’t no livin’ with bugs...”


3 posted on 07/21/2016 4:10:15 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Kaslin

Obama is a closet Muslim. Like many, he is not a practicing Muslim

Were he not, he would be apostate and certainly dead


4 posted on 07/21/2016 4:14:14 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: Kaslin
Here is the legacy of this obama administration:

"Did Muslim Vote In Virginia Swing Senate Control"

'The Detroit Free Press reports Muslims played a critical role in the November midterm elections.

Imam Mahdy Bray, Speaking at a Muslim American Society and Islamic Circle of North America convention in Dearborn, highlighted the effective effort to turn out Muslim voters in Virginia.

The effort was so organized that Muslim taxi drivers in northern Virginia took the day off to ferry Muslims to the polls, said Imam Mahdy Bray, a speaker at the convention. Volunteers also made phone calls to Muslims in Virginia to urge them to vote, he said.

As a result, Democrat James Webb ousted incumbent Republican George Allen by about 9,000 votes in a race in which 50,000 Muslims went to the polls -- 47,000 of them voting for Webb, Bray said.
[March 2007]

If 96 percent of Muslims are going to vote Democratic, that would make them a more reliable Democratic constituency than African Americans. Democrats consistently receive only about 80 percent of African American votes.

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"In the first majority-Muslim U.S. city, residents tense about its future"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/for-the-first-majority-muslim-us-city-residents-tense-about-its-future/2015/11/21/45d0ea96-8a24-11e5-be39-0034bb576eee_story.html

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Islamville, South Carolina's all-Muslim town, faces Trump effect: 'We feel unsafe'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/18/islamville-south-carolina-donald-trump-of-course-we-feel-uncomfortable-and-unsafe

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Muslim Migrant beats rapes US woman while chanting Allahu Akbar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8iNJzy0e6w

5 posted on 07/21/2016 4:14:19 AM PDT by Mr Apple (HILLARY -- NO COOKIES, NO CANDIES, NO CAKE, NO DESSERTS NO CASHEWS / NO TO THE WALRUS LOOK)
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To: Kaslin

In truth, religious intolerance, gender apartheid, illiteracy, autocracy, statism, tribalism and religious fundamentalism all guarantee poverty, economic stagnation and scapegoating. While much of Asia and Latin America progressed through reform, the Middle East blame-gamed its miseries on affluent Western nations and on Israel.

6 posted on 07/21/2016 4:15:36 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Kaslin

“Muslim outreach” is simply appeasement, hoping you are the last to be eaten by the crocodile. Granted, liberals live in a fantasy land where if we set up midnight basketball for thugs they will stop being thugs, if we give free stuff to people they will stop demanding more free stuff, and if we appease people who want us dead, that they will no longer want us dead.

Muslims don’t care about outreach or compromise. They care about Dar al-Salam, which doesn’t mean “If we tell you we respect you, then I can practice my religion and you can practice yours and that is the end of it”, it means “Be a muslim, be a kaffir, or be dead. In the end, those are the only choices. We will bide our time, but that is the end result.”

Liberals like to fool themselves into thinking it is not.


7 posted on 07/21/2016 4:30:02 AM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Mr Apple

I watched that video. Did you notice the mug shot? The attitude apparent...the smirk...the chin raised, nose in the air? It reminded me of Obama.


8 posted on 07/21/2016 4:36:31 AM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Kaslin

would make the U.S. liked in the Middle East. Then, terrorism would decrease.

Missing the boat here. Its not about liking or disliking us. Its only about Islam taking over the world. Islam a system of oppression can not thrive where there is freedom and liberty. So anywhere that freedom and liberty exist Islam must attack and destroy


9 posted on 07/21/2016 4:38:01 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: Kaslin

10 posted on 07/21/2016 4:43:06 AM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: Kaslin

Islam’s advances inside this great republic since 09/11/2001 are unprecedented.

The greatest anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life collective for nearly 1400 years vs an upstart republic that was a promoter of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAsV5-Hv-7U

Fislam


11 posted on 07/21/2016 5:14:46 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Kaslin

Muslim Interfaith Dialogue:

Would you like me to use a curved or serrated blade to cut your head off?


12 posted on 07/21/2016 5:48:57 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Kaslin

When you reach out to savages, you get savagery in return.


13 posted on 07/21/2016 5:53:50 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: Kaslin
...interpreted by Islamists as guilt and weakness to be exploited rather than magnanimity to be reciprocated.

Here's the money quote. This is what ALWAYS happens when you appease bullies. Anyone who has watched 4th graders in the schoolyard knows enough about human nature to know this. You stop a bully by beating his butt till he can't sit down, not by kissing it.

14 posted on 07/21/2016 6:20:36 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (They aren't being radicalized; they're being activated.)
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To: Kaslin

His Moslem roots do not help him with the Msolem world. He is either a Moslem or he is Apostate. I suspect strongly the former.


15 posted on 07/21/2016 6:39:17 AM PDT by arthurus (http://www.newenglishreview.org/Emmet_Scott/Mohammed_%26_Charlemagne_Revisited%3A_The_Epilogue)
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To: Kaslin
In truth, religious intolerance, gender apartheid, illiteracy, autocracy, statism, tribalism and religious fundamentalism all guarantee poverty, economic stagnation and scapegoating

And, perhaps foremost, massive levels of inbreeding, which produces idiot offspring. Generation for generation... The rest follows naturally.

16 posted on 07/21/2016 6:58:30 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: Kaslin

is pork served in the white hut?

one way or another, should be easy enough to find out...


17 posted on 07/21/2016 7:29:33 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: Kaslin

Until the West stops viewing terrorism as entertainment, nothing will change.


18 posted on 07/21/2016 7:41:42 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: bert
Were he not, he would be apostate and certainly dead

Not if his presidency is 18th level taquilla, or whatever their lying is called.

19 posted on 07/21/2016 7:43:53 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.)
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To: pabianice

Yep, this ain’t a movie we’re watching.

(see tag line)


20 posted on 07/21/2016 7:45:26 AM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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