Posted on 11/07/2010 1:51:08 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
MUMBAI, India – President Obama defended his administration’s stance toward Pakistan during a visit to a college Sunday, telling students that the United States is committed to working “with the Pakistani government in order to eradicate this extremism that we consider a cancer within the country.”
The president’s remarks came in response to a question about why the United States has not labeled Pakistan “ a terrorist state.” It was one of a series of tough questions Mr. Obama faced from students at St. Xavier’s College, a 140-year-old Jesuit institution in Mumbai.
The topic of terrorism is a delicate one in India, and Mr. Obama drew some criticism in the media on Saturday, the first day of his trip, for failing to mention neighboring Pakistan by name as a terrorist threat to India. The first question Mr. Obama took – “What do you think about jihad” – seemed to hint at the issue in a roundabout way, and Mr. Obama’s reply was delicate.
“Well, the phrase jihad has a lot of meanings within Islam and is subject to a lot of different interpretations,” he said, going on in a lengthy discourse to say, “All of us recognize that this great religion in the hands of a few extremists has been distorted to justify violence toward innocent people that is never justified. So, I think, one of the challenges that we face is how do we isolate those who have these distorted notions of religious war.”
The president called Pakistan “a country whose people who have enormous potential but it is also right now a country that within it has some of the extremist elements that we discussed in the first question.”(continued)
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Anything good that happens in India on this trip is the result of BUSH's dealings in India not Obama.
“We call him the world king, king of the world,” said Chetman Rawal, 20, who studies commerce at the college. “I think he will change the world.”
What a difference a President makes!!
Sad to say but...Same mentality as Hitler’s followers.
This guy is afraid of coconuts, poisoned food and unruly crowds near the Ghandi memorial (see “1km long air-conditioned bomb-proof tunnel”) but you think he’ll jet into a war zone?!
Who believes Obama really believes that extremists “have these distorted notions of religious war?” Who believes he himself is purposely distorting the role of jihad in Islam — and why?
Exactly what is great about Islam? Women being only worth a fraction of the value of a man?
“I think he will change the world.”
Oh, he will. Just not the way you want or expect.
“In India, Obama Faces Tough Questions From Students”
I’ll be he answered “Present”.
Obama sure thinks he is!.
What is amazing to me is just how many people, including too many Americans, eat this crap up. They want to be subjects, citizenship is too much effort for them.
I watch the young people who are my daughter's friends, they don't share the same concept of freedom with my generation. They are often silly and immature, in their 30s and 40s.
They used to be a great people. They innovated in art, architecture, music, math and science. Later on they decided it was more fun to just blow themselves up and kill people.
Usama Bin Laden referred to the 19 hijackers and other Jihadists as "DEVOTED MUSLIMS".
Sooo wrong....They contributed “0”. They stole it!! Pretty well documented.
Political correctness destroys commonsense. The ongoing “dumbing down” of the worldwide general public and the ongoing political indoctrination of students in government controlled schools, at all levels, worldwide, and the ongoing and worsening political bias of the MSM, the entertainment world, and everything else related to pop culture, are parts of the whole of political correctness. Silly and immature adults are the results of political correctness.
I wonder if they were being sarcastic.
The voice of the spirit of the antiChrist. I wonder how anyone will fill those shoes better than Obama seems to have the potential of doing.
I wish they were. Micheal Jackson was one of their heros though, that pretty well defines them.
they did quite a bit, actually.
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