Obama faces backlash over Crusades remark at prayer breakfast

marketwatch.com ^ | Feb 6, 2015 10:44 a.m. ET | By Tim Rostan

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

President Obama, catching intensifying flak from the political right for failing to utter the phrase “radical Islam” — sorry, no substitutions allowed (other than “Islamic extremism”) — gave every appearance at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday of having heard his critics. And having decided to do, effectively, the opposite of what they’d demanded. If he did not exactly imply then he certainly granted his political adversaries the leeway to infer that he sees a moral equivalency between the murderous acts being committed under the banner of Islamic terrorist groups and centuries-ago Christian campaigns.

See: Terrorism poses no existential threat to the U.S., writes Stratfor security analyst

And: Obama calls ISIS a ‘vicious death cult’ at prayer breakfast

He not only avoided, again, the prescribed terminology in his comments on the recent wave of terrorist acts committed by the so-called Islamic State and by Boko Haram and others but, in an attempt at contextualizing those acts, included a passage that he had to assume would trigger a visceral reaction from foes:

“Humanity,” Obama said, “has been grappling with these questions throughout human history. And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”

And visceral that reaction has been, as Twitter activity under the hashtag #PrayerBreakfast ably demonstrates:

[Lent]

Comparing the excesses of medieval Christendom with modern Islam - hey I’m all for that. But make no mistake about it, the 1st crusade was in response to a cry for help by the eastern church from - the Jihad of Islam. The decline of eastern Christianity was because of the Jihad. So ultimately Obam is also historically challenged in a manner consistent with believing Islam was/is a religion of peace.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I find it hilarious how all of the Kenyan’s little hookers and butt boys in his “media” have had to pivot away from attacking Chris Kyle in order to defend dumbsh*t’s “prayer” breakfast remarks about the Crusades. Barry is wearing out his retards. They’re tap dancing for him as fast as they can and it isn’t working out.

[Rome2000]

PLEASE look at the linked video

It is absolutely INSANE (but predictable due to Universal Suffrage) that this EVIL FOREIGNER is President.

FLASHBACK: KENYA 2006 - Welcome Home Senator Obama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCxCg6Y5w6Q

This is mind blowing and clear evidence to anyone with an ounce of brain matter that this son of a bitch is NO AMERICAN.

Undoing the damage wrought by this fiend might take decades, unless the RIGHT gets serious about dismantling the marxist machine and ramming into place policies that ensure no communist is ever elected to any Federal or State office EVER again.

[ballplayer]

It may be insanity folks,maybe not,but it is not a surprise to me,I don’t know who runs the media but it’s right in front of them,Obama’s book,Audacity Of Hope,page 261,Obama writes,”I will always stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction”,
Now tell me what direction the wind is blowing.