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Some Muslim Americans Feel Shunned by Obama
The New York Times ^ | June 24, 2008 | ANDREA ELLIOTT

Posted on 06/23/2008 6:40:27 PM PDT by george76

As Senator Barack Obama courted voters in Iowa last December, Representative Keith Ellison, the country’s first Muslim congressman, stepped forward eagerly to help.

Mr. Ellison ...volunteered to speak on Mr. Obama’s behalf at a mosque in Cedar Rapids, one of the nation’s oldest Muslim enclaves. But before the rally could take place, aides to Mr. Obama asked Mr. Ellison to cancel the trip because it might stir controversy. Another aide appeared at Mr. Ellison’s Washington office to explain.

“I will never forget the quote,” Mr. Ellison said, leaning forward in his chair as he recalled the aide’s words. “He said, ‘We have a very tightly wrapped message.’ ”

When Mr. Obama began his presidential campaign, Muslim Americans from California to Virginia responded with enthusiasm, seeing him as a long-awaited champion of civil liberties, religious tolerance and diplomacy in foreign affairs. But more than a year later, many say, he has not returned their embrace.

While the senator has visited churches and synagogues, he has yet to appear at a single mosque.

Muslim and Arab-American organizations have tried repeatedly to arrange meetings with Mr. Obama, but officials with those groups say their invitations — unlike those of their Jewish and Christian counterparts — have been ignored. Last week, two Muslim women wearing head scarves were barred by campaign volunteers from appearing behind Mr. Obama at a rally in Detroit.

In interviews, Muslim political and civic leaders said they understood that their support for Mr. Obama could be a problem for him at a time when some Americans are deeply suspicious of Muslims. Yet those leaders nonetheless expressed disappointment and even anger at the distance that Mr. Obama has kept from them.

“This is the ‘hope campaign,’ this is the ‘change campaign,’ ”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois; US: Iowa; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2008; barack; barackobama; cedarrapids; ia2008; islam; keithellison; mi2008; mosque; muslim; muslimamericans; muslims; muslimvote; nobama08; obama; obamatruthfile; snub
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To: KarlInOhio

It is getting very crowded under BO’s bus.


41 posted on 06/23/2008 8:28:58 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76
Thanks, this looks like a front page story for tomorrow. Check today's frontpages. They are in comment# 35, if the window doesn't open correctly, the same story with different Obama-ethanol headines.
42 posted on 06/23/2008 8:57:10 PM PDT by neverdem (I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
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To: PhilDragoo; All

Combined graphics

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2008/06/new-posts.html


43 posted on 06/23/2008 9:20:21 PM PDT by FARS
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To: george76; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
We have a very tightly wrapped message
...and that message is, don't take a knife to a gunfight. ;') Thanks geo.
44 posted on 06/23/2008 9:34:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: george76

Every time I see that photo, I think of the phrase that I’ve heard used by a younger generation: Half Baked.


45 posted on 06/23/2008 9:36:52 PM PDT by happygrl
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To: PhilDragoo
hahahahaaaaa !


46 posted on 06/23/2008 9:59:11 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (McRINO needs reach across the aisle to Conservatives for a CHANGE! Dang him!!!)
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To: george76
hope and ‘change campaign,’

- - - - - - -

I'm thinkin' the kind of "change" they need is the diapers
and/or Depends kind, ya know ??? ...

:^D

47 posted on 06/23/2008 10:09:30 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (McRINO needs reach across the aisle to Conservatives for a CHANGE! Dang him!!!)
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To: All; 1035rep; 1curiousmind; 4woodenboats; 2ndDivisionVet; 5Madman2; 68skylark; AdmSmith; ...

Statistical Threshold Analysis of Islamic behavior - direct and to the point.

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2008/06/read-and-beware-wrath-of-islam.html


48 posted on 06/23/2008 10:28:07 PM PDT by FARS
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To: FARS

Thanks for the ping!


49 posted on 06/23/2008 11:01:03 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: FARS

Thanks FARS.


50 posted on 06/23/2008 11:08:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: george76

This is all a ruse...right out of the communist playbook...every dictator and anarchist of note backs Obama because they know what he stands for—revolutionary change, so dear to their rotten hearts...

We need this bum the way the world needed Hitler or Mussolini..or Hussein or Kim Il Jung or Castro..

Thanks for the Ping FARS


51 posted on 06/23/2008 11:51:10 PM PDT by billmor (The American Voter--the Sleeping Tiger. Kicked in the back end.)
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To: stravinskyrules
Exactly.

Muslims are the biggest bunch of thin-skinned crybabies to ever exist. And now their promised one is shunning them?

Hey Mohammeds: Obama does not want to see you! The fraud just needs your vote in November and your taxpayer dollars in January, suckers!!!

Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!


52 posted on 06/24/2008 12:00:36 AM PDT by Prole (Pray for the families of Chris and Channon.)
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To: Lizavetta; Matchett-PI
"...The jig is up, folks. He's their Muslim candidate and only a dipsh*t can't see that..."

The jig is up front, Liza, and most dipshits can see it.

How the DNC gets rid of him before the General election should be entertaining - possibly with fireworks and stuff ........... FRegards

53 posted on 06/24/2008 2:15:39 AM PDT by gonzo ( What Part Of "Shall Not Be Infringed" does anyone have a problem with? The USSC will soon wonder ..)
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To: george76
Last week, two Muslim women operatives from known terrorist front organizations wearing head scarves were barred by campaign volunteers from appearing behind Mr. Obama at a rally in Detroit.

Fixed.

54 posted on 06/24/2008 3:05:38 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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To: FARS; Noumenon; Matchett-PI; oldglory; Bob Ireland; M Kehoe; mcmuffin; Peter W. Kessler; ...
Fars, this data needs to be posted time and time again. If I have violated any copyright laws, then I apologize, and this will be pulled:

READ AND BEWARE THE WRATH OF ISLAM Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult. In it's fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life. Alan Note: All loyalty is to Allah and only Allah, not to any state or nation. All behavior has to conform to the Koranic sharia dictates, the Sura and the Hadith (as defined and interpreted by Mullahs - often contradicting each other) and the INFALLIBLE example set by Allah's Prophet Mohammad, perfection on earth, by how he lived his life. Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and military components. The religious component is a beard for all of the other components. Islamization begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their religious privileges. When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of the other components tend to creep in as well. Here's how it works.( SOMEONE SHOULD MAKE SURE BUSH & RICE READ THIS ONE AND RIGHT AWAY ) !! As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a peace- loving minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. This is the case in: United States -- Muslim 0.6% Australia -- Muslim 1.5% Canada -- Muslim 1.9% China -- Muslim 1.8% Italy -- Muslim 1.5% Norway -- Muslim 1.8% At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs. This is happening in: Denmark -- Muslim 2% Germany -- Muslim 3.7% United Kingdom -- Muslim 2.7% Spain -- Muslim 4% Thailand -- Muslim 4.6% From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves -- along with threats for failure to comply. This is occurring in: France -- Muslim 8% Philippines -- Muslim 5% Sweden -- Muslim 5% Switzerland -- Muslim 4.3% The Netherlands -- Muslim 5.5% Trinidad &Tobago -- Muslim 5.8% At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over the entire world. When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. In Paris , we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam, and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam , with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections, in: Guyana -- Muslim 10% India -- Muslim 13.4% Israel -- Muslim 16% Kenya -- Muslim 10% Russia -- Muslim 15% After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in: Ethiopia -- Muslim 32.8% At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in: Bosnia -- Muslim 40% Chad -- Muslim 53.1% Lebanon -- Muslim 59.7% From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in: Albania -- Muslim 70% Malaysia -- Muslim 60.4% Qatar -- Muslim 77.5% Sudan -- Muslim 70% After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State- run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as has been experienced and in some ways is on-going in: Bangladesh -- Muslim 83% Egypt -- Muslim 90% Gaza -- Muslim 98.7% Indonesia -- Muslim 86.1% Iran -- Muslim 98% Iraq -- Muslim 97% Jordan -- Muslim 92% Morocco -- Muslim 98.7% Pakistan -- Muslim 97% Palestine -- Muslim 99% Syria -- Muslim 90% Tajikistan -- Muslim 90% Turkey -- Muslim 99.8% United Arab Emirates -- Muslim 96% 100% will usher in the peace of 'Dar-es-Salaam' -- the Islamic House of Peace. Here there's supposed to be peace, because everybody is a Muslim, the Madrasses are the only schools, and the Koran is the only word, such as in: Afghanistan -- Muslim 100% Saudi Arabia -- Muslim 100% Somalia -- Muslim 100% Yemen -- Muslim 100% Unfortunately, peace is never achieved, as in these 100% states the most radical Muslims intimidate and spew hatred, and satisfy their blood lust by killing less radical Muslims, for a variety of reasons. 'Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; the tribe against the world, and all of us against the infid el. -- Leon Uris, 'The Haj'It is important to understand that in some countries, with well under 100% Muslim populations, such as France, the minority Muslim populations live in ghettos, within which they are 100% Muslim, and within which they live by Sharia Law. The national police do not even enter these ghettos. There are no national courts nor schools nor non-Muslim religious facilities. In such situations, Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. The children attend madrasses. They learn only the Koran. To even associate with an infidel is a crime punishable with death. Therefore, in some areas of certain nations, Muslim Imams and extremists exercise more power than the national average would indicate. Today's 1.5 billion Muslims make up 22% of the world's population. But their birth rates dwarf the birth rates of Christians, Hindus, Buddists, and Jews, and all other believers. Muslims will exceed 50% of the world's population by the end of this century. Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond's book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat.

The only answer, as I see it, is to act as individuals. The cult-of-islam spreads as a cancer, and as each of us recognizes the cancer in our midst, we will have to eradicate it, with the focus on the leaders/purveyors of this cult.

The 'system' of islam is ingrained in a mortal enemy, sworn to kill us. We have to respond in kind, and our Federal gummint is not our friend. 'Political-Correctness' is just another form of 'Control'.

We're gonna have to solve this one as Individual Americans, folks, but what-the-hell - that's what makes us Americans! Buy and read the Book: Unintended Consequences by John Ross It answers a lot of questions as to what an individual can do. Guess the USSS will be callin' again - I'll be at the range ................ FRegards

55 posted on 06/24/2008 3:50:55 AM PDT by gonzo ( What Part Of "Shall Not Be Infringed" does anyone have a problem with? The USSC will soon wonder ..)
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To: FARS

Excellent analysis FARS...thank you for printing it. Hope it’s an eye opener...we’ve got some catching up to do with the world’s realities.


56 posted on 06/24/2008 5:19:35 AM PDT by milford421 (U.N. OUT OF U.S.)
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To: F15Eagle

““Mr. Ellison ...volunteered to speak on Mr. Obama’s behalf at a mosque in Cedar Rapids”

A vote for Obama is a vote for islam. Absolutely.”

Correct as usual F15. Obama’s camp is trying to distance themselves from this perception...that’s the reason for the supposed “snub”...


57 posted on 06/24/2008 5:21:35 AM PDT by milford421 (U.N. OUT OF U.S.)
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To: gonzo

Dude, just post the link - the guy has a good website, easy to read, and you’ll be paying him for his effort with the hit count.

Not sure what you could entitle your link.

“Historical progression of Islamic takeover”?


58 posted on 06/24/2008 5:29:41 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: george76

A chance to make a dent in the Muslim vote

Remember, 54,000 of 60,000 voting Muslims in Florida in 2000 voted for GW Bush

It’ll probably be the exact opposite this year, unless NoBama keeps up this “fighting the smear” tactic


59 posted on 06/24/2008 5:48:29 AM PDT by MadIsh32 (The token Muslim :))
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To: george76

A chance to make a dent in the Muslim vote

Remember, 54,000 of 60,000 voting Muslims in Florida in 2000 voted for GW Bush

It’ll probably be the exact opposite this year, unless NoBama keeps up this “fighting the smear” tactic


60 posted on 06/24/2008 5:48:31 AM PDT by MadIsh32 (The token Muslim :))
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