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No Comment Yet on Why Obama Held Meeting on 9/11 With Terrorist-Supporting Cleric
ijreview ^ | September 13, 2014 | Victoria Taft

Posted on 09/12/2014 10:14:33 PM PDT by Hojczyk

President Obama held an Oval Office meeting with Middle Eastern-based Arab Christians on 9/11, one member of whom is a loud and proud supporter of the terrorist group Hezbollah.

The day before, members of the same group, holding a conference under the name In Defense of Christians, booed and shouted down keynote speaker Senator Ted Cruz

”It’s surprising White House staffers allowed Maronite Patriarch Bashara Rai to meet with the President in the first place. As the Washington Free Beacon reports, the Lebanon-based Hezbollah supporting cleric isn’t shy about his views.

“Everyone says why is Hezbollah carrying arms?” said Rai in a 2011 interview with Al-Arabiya. “We responded that the international community did not exert pressure on Israel to withdraw from Lebanese territory. As long as there is an occupied Lebanese territory, Hezbollah will maintain that it wants to carry arms in defense of its land. What will we say to it then? Isn’t [Hezbollah] right?”

And, surprisingly, Rai wasn’t the only terrorist-supporting cleric invited to the meeting. From the Washington Free Beacon:

According to an IDC press release, another attendee at the meeting with Obama was Orthodox Church Patriarch Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, who posted photos on Facebook from his meeting with a “high level delegation from Hezbollah” last week. Antioch Church patriarch Gregory III Laham, who has called anti-Christian terrorism in Iraq a “Zionist conspiracy against Islam,” also attended, according to the press release.

The United States has listed Hezbollah as a terrorist organization since 1997, but the terror group and its mirror organization Islamic Jihad have been responsible for terrorist attacks since the 1980s. The group is responsible for bombing the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, killing 241 men. The White House still has not commented on the meeting.

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To: lee martell
<)>There are remarks I wont even make to my family, in voice or in print.

Be safe and keep it close!!!

21 posted on 09/13/2014 3:00:50 AM PDT by varon (Para bellum)
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To: Hojczyk; All
hmm..the plot thickens; David Horowitz (Radical Son), had an book out in L90s, about how US D'Rats
and Islamic beliefs/values converged in their hatred of Western Civ./Americans' Tranditional Values.

22 posted on 09/13/2014 3:14:09 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics in always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
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To: MasterGunner01

I’d like to think what you posted is sarcasm.

History though teaches us that every socialist/fascist/etc. regime, no matter how peaceful at first, requires violence to complete the overthrow.

They learned that they cannot depend on the ‘Occupy’ groups. They are good for noise and distraction, even the black community won’t quite rally to their cause. Ferguson proved that after they bussed in rioters and the locals disengaged from the mayhem.

The only ones it seems capable of the loyal intensity needed will come from the islamic community.

The beauty of this observation is that as Americans, we may protest and yes...even riot, but deep, deep down we have a hard time really dividing ourselves up. Somehow we still understand the meaning of United We Stand....

So the regime is turning to the one community that can execute enough violence to bring about martial law.

The only potential loose-end in their plan is the much discounted Tea Party, Preppers, etc. I cannot help but think of the lockdown that occurred in Boston and the reports of regime people visiting and releasing watchlist people at the hospital.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, is what it appears to be.


23 posted on 09/13/2014 3:35:56 AM PDT by EBH (And the angel poured out his cup...)
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To: Hojczyk

24 posted on 09/13/2014 4:20:56 AM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: Hojczyk

He met with the muzzie because it would’ve been bad optics for him to play golf on 911.


25 posted on 09/13/2014 5:20:01 AM PDT by FreedomGuru (Time for torches and pitchforks.)
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To: lonevoice

Call in a shaman...


26 posted on 09/13/2014 5:20:09 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Hojczyk

More like he did not want to mourn those souls of all faiths who were so foully murdered by his mussie buddies.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter; and we will not fail~~George W. Bush

Have You Forgotten?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpoudLoc8sY

Alan Jackson’s - 9/11 TRIBUTE - Where were you when the world stopped turning that September day?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaY0inU3rgs


27 posted on 09/13/2014 5:25:59 AM PDT by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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28 posted on 09/13/2014 5:30:33 AM PDT by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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To: FreedomGuru

It was bad optics for him to meet with them on 9/11 too! For the rest of us it was a solemn day, just as Pearl Harbor is.


29 posted on 09/13/2014 5:32:18 AM PDT by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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30 posted on 09/13/2014 5:52:12 AM PDT by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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To: lonevoice

bttt


31 posted on 09/13/2014 6:04:07 AM PDT by petercooper ("I was for letting people keep their health insurance, before I wasn't". --- Barack Obama)
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To: FreedomStar3028

OBAMA: ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE

THE REAL FACE OF OBAMA AND ISLAM

OTRANTO - MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS BY MUSLIMS

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF

“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” George Santayana

800 Italians Men Beheaded in Otranto in 1480 for Refusing Islam, by the Turks, with the Approval of Sultan Mehmet II

http://www.antisharia.com/2011/07/26/800-italian-men-beheaded-in-otranto-in-1480-for-refusing-islamby-the-turks-with-the-approval-of-sultan-mehmet-ii/

On August 14, 1480, a massacre happened on a hill outside the city of Otranto, in southern Italy, here 800 of the town’s men were taken to a place called the Hill of the Minerva, and, one by one, beheaded in full view of their fellow prisoners. It became known as the Hill of the Martyrs. They died because they refused to convert to Islam. The 800 men of Otranto were martyrs. But due to their sacrifice, however, the Ottoman invasion was slowed and Rome was spared the same fate that had befallen Constantinople only 27 years before.

The city of Constantinople had been taken in 1453 and for 3 days its people were made slaves or killed or raped and the city was looted, all with the permission of the Sultan, Mehmet (Muhammad) II,who was then 21.Mehmet is the Turkish way of saying Muhammad.

The people of Otranto knew of the siege of Constantinople and that when that city fell the Muslims pillaged the city, but the key moment came when they reached Hagia Sophia.

After breaking down the church’s bronze gates, they found inside a huge throng of Byzantines who had taken refuge and who were praying that the city might be delivered by some miracle. The Christians were seized and separated according to age and gender. The infants and elderly were brutally murdered; the men, including some of the city’s most prominent senators, were carted off to the slave markets; and the women and girls were taken by soldiers to be raped or sent into a life of slavery.

At Otranto, the terms of the Muslims were ostensibly generous. If the town surrendered, the defenders would be permitted to live. They said no, it was repeated and again it was no. It was the city against 18,000 Muslims and it lasted 2 weeks.

Slaughter, Sacrilege, and Slavery

Turkish troops entered and killed anyone in their path. They made their way to the cathedral. As in the Hagia Sophia, the invaders found the church filled with people praying with Archbishop Stefano Agricoli, Bishop Stephen Pendinelli, and Count Largo, the commander of the soldiers. The Ottomans commanded:

1.The archbishop to throw away his crucifix, abjure the Christian faith, and embrace Islam. When he refused, his head was cut off before the weeping congregation.

2.Bishop Pendinelli and Count Largo likewise would not convert and were also put to death, reportedly by being slowly sawed in half.

3.As was the custom, the priests were murdered and the cathedral was stripped of all Christian symbols and turned into a stable for the horses. The Ottomans then gathered up the surviving people of Otranto and took them as captives.

The people of Otranto faced the same end as the Christians of Constantinople. All of the men over the age of 50 were slaughtered; the women and children under the age of 15 were either slain or sent away to Albania to be slaves. According to some contemporary sources, the total number of dead was as high as 12,000, with another 5,000 pressed into slavery.

800 Men who Survived told to Convert to Islam or Die

The Muslim commander ordered the men of Otranto, 800 survivors of the battle, those who were not over 50 and had not been already killed in battle or later, or were not children and had not be killed or enslaved, to be brought before him. He gave them one chance to convert to Islam or die. To convince them, he instructed an Italian apostate priest named Giovanni to preach. The former priest called on the men of Otranto to abandon the Christian faith, and they would get many benefits.

One of the men of Otranto, a tailor named Antonio Primaldi (he is also named Antonio Pezzulla in some sources), came forward to speak to the survivors. He called out that he was ready to die for Christ a thousand times. He then added, according to the chronicler Giovanni Laggetto in the Historia della guerra di Otranto del 1480:

“My brothers, till today we have fought in defense of our country, to save our lives, and for our lords; now it is time that we fight to save our souls for our Lord, so that having died on the cross for us, it is good that we should die for him, standing firm and constant in the faith, and with this earthly death we will win eternal life and the glory of martyrs.”

At this, the men of Otranto cried out with one voice that they too were willing to die a thousand times for Christ.

The Execution

The next morning, August 14, the 800 prisoners were bound together with ropes. The victims repeated their pledge to be faithful to Christ, and the Ottomans chose the courageous Antonio Primaldi as the first to be executed.

The old tailor gave one final exhortation to his fellow prisoners and knelt before the executioner. The blade fell and decapitated him, but then, as the chronicler Saverio de Marco claimed in the Compendiosa istoria degli ottocento martiri otrantini (“The Brief History of the 800 Martyrs of Otranto”), the headless corpse stood back upright. The body supposedly proved unmovable, so it remained standing for the entire duration of the gruesome executions.

Stunned by this apparent miracle, one of the executioners converted on the spot and was immediately killed. The executioners then returned to their horrendous business. The bodies were placed into a mass grave, and the Turks prepared to begin their march to Rome.


32 posted on 09/13/2014 6:12:56 AM PDT by Dqban22
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To: FreedomStar3028

I don’t think it’s a secret anymore. Free Republic and members are at the top of the stacks of many DC departments.


33 posted on 09/13/2014 6:18:06 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
...held an Oval Office meeting with Middle Eastern-based Arab Christians on 9/11, one member of whom is a loud and proud supporter of the terrorist group Hezbollah. The day before, members of the same group, holding a conference under the name In Defense of Christians, booed and shouted down keynote speaker Senator Ted Cruz...
See, Ted Cruz is no different than Obama, other than that Obama and Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln have so much in common. /s
34 posted on 09/13/2014 9:47:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Antioch Church patriarch Gregory III Laham, who has called anti-Christian terrorism in Iraq a “Zionist conspiracy against Islam,” also attended, according to the press release.
He's the same fake Christian SOB who demanded Cruz be removed -- and no surprise, he supports both jihad and Assad.
35 posted on 09/13/2014 9:50:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: lee martell

I understand and feel the same way.

The new Gestapo has eyes and ears everywhere. We can trust very few.

The Progressives who “Celebrate Diversity”, tout “COEXIST”, etc. would stand in line to help load us in the cattle cars and smirk at us as they did it.

They are in for a rude awakening. And that awakening will be performed with relish.


36 posted on 09/13/2014 11:50:20 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: lee martell

Even the braindead Obots are experiencing flickers of awareness.


Yes, they are. But very few will admit it.


37 posted on 09/13/2014 11:53:05 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: EBH
Part of what I said was in jest, but part was not. Remember that this man and his administration allowed the illegal transfer of over 2,000 guns purchased in the USA to cross the border into Mexico to arm drug cartels. Another was the export of USA purchased firearms to MS-13 gangs in Honduras. The State Department was aware if this . . . and by these actions, America could be said to have declared war on Mexico and Honduras (albeit discreetly).

I would not put it past Dear Leader and Holder's DoJ to arm inner city street gangs to terrorize and prey on the American people at large. These people in DC are that out of control and that twisted. Meanwhile, the MSM will circle the wagons to protect their “Messiah” Barry Obonzo, the one trick pony. It's not amazing considering how much the members of the MSM hate this country and its people.

38 posted on 09/13/2014 3:58:34 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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39 posted on 09/14/2014 11:42:55 AM PDT by SJackson (incompetent and feckless..the story of the Obama presidency. No hand on the f***ing tiller, Hillary)
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To: Hojczyk

Maronites used to be allied with Israel. That was back when Israel didn’t run half-assed military campaigns in Lebanon, and didn’t withdraw and leave them high and dry. Faced with Hizbollah on their own, the Maronites did the only thing they could, bend over and spread the other cheeks. And this is all Israel’s fault. Really.

But never mind that. It’s not Israel’s fault that Obama meets with members of Eastern churches that are chummy with Hizbollah. He did that because he’s chummy with Hizbollah.

What we need is EMA (Eastern Minorities Alliance) to unite all the divers threatened minorities in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe (including Kurds and Alawites) against our common enemy: Pan Islamist wack jobs. As for Obama, he’s part of that threat. As such, whom he meets or doesn’t meet with is not the issue.


40 posted on 09/14/2014 3:28:02 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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