Administrative Law Construction Lesson: When a term-of-art-class-descriptor such as "including" is used, it declares the creation of that term of art for the specified statement. Therefore, Obama actually, legally said (as head federal administrator):
"For the purposes of this statement, I am hereby legally defining a term of art class called "any religion." This term of art class includes the componant "Islam." As I have not used any form of the word "include" for anyything else, there are no other componants in this term of art class."
Construction is therefore: "Americans ‘reject denigration of any religion] — including ONLY Islam.’"
In other words, right in front of everyone's face, the POTUS stated that:
Any religion in America may be denigrated except Islam.
That is the legal meaning of what he said - as the President of the US.
In Clintonian terms, that is the definition of "is," here.
No joke - this is actually what he said, actually means.
I wondered if anyone would catch that.
“Obama: Americans ‘reject denigration of any religion — including Islam’”...............
It occurs to me that by his standards, he is telling the truth. He himelf is not an American, and he is pro-Islam since he was raised in that religion. So, he is telling the truth according to his Muslim understanding.
He notes the tolerance of various faiths, and sees it as good. Since he is not American, he does not need to live by these lofty goals. See, how sly he is?????