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Obama Condemns Attempts To "Stigmatize" Muslims In Wake Of Brussels Attacks
CBSNews ^ | March 26, 2016

Posted on 03/26/2016 9:50:05 AM PDT by Steelfish

REENA FLORES CBS NEWS March 26, 2016 Obama Condemns Attempts To "Stigmatize" Muslims In Wake Of Brussels Attacks

With at least one Republican candidate for the White House endorsing patrols of U.S. Muslim neighborhoods in the wake of this week's deadly bombings in Brussels, President Obama is cautioning against such approaches, saying any such proposals would "stigmatize" Muslim-Americans.

"As we move forward in this fight, we have to wield another weapon alongside our airstrikes, our military, our counterterrorism work and our diplomacy," the president said in a video released Saturday. "That's the power of our example."

Mr. Obama called on the U.S. to "reject any attempt to stigmatize Muslim-Americans, and their enormous contributions to our country and our way of life."

"Such attempts are contrary to our character, to our values and to our history as a nation built around the idea of religious freedom," he said.

While he did not name Texas Sen. Ted Cruz specifically, he alluded to the GOP presidential contender's plan to police pockets of Muslims in the U.S., which Cruz has defended despite widespread criticism from members of his own party.

The president noted that such actions are a "counterproductive" approach to defeating extremists abroad because it "plays right into the hands of terrorists who want to turn us against one another, who need a reason to recruit more people to their hateful cause."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; newyork; trump
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1 posted on 03/26/2016 9:50:05 AM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Just shut up, 0Muslim.


2 posted on 03/26/2016 9:51:54 AM PDT by kiryandil (.)
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To: Steelfish

Free country, free speech because these are christian values not muslim values.


3 posted on 03/26/2016 9:51:55 AM PDT by seawolf101
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We’ll stigmatize a belief system if it embraces fomenting such things, or nodding and winking such things.

If Muslims want to reinvent Islam so that it doesn’t do such things, they are more than welcome to do so. But excuses we will not buy. The gospel never did this.


4 posted on 03/26/2016 9:52:09 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Steelfish

Unless muslims repudiate or change large parts of their book, there can be no peace.
Their book commands them otherwise.
It also commands them to kill anyone who tries to repudiate or change their book.

Catch-22

Mad Mo made it so.


5 posted on 03/26/2016 9:54:15 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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6 posted on 03/26/2016 9:54:16 AM PDT by kiryandil (.)
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Obama can't help himself supporting them this way; he is with them in Spirit. After all, he stood proudly, with his administration, in Havana before the Che Guevara memorial.

The Democrats in his party have said nothing to the contrary so they must be supporting the radical terrorists in spirit too.

7 posted on 03/26/2016 9:54:44 AM PDT by CptnObvious
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8 posted on 03/26/2016 9:54:45 AM PDT by kiryandil (.)
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Right, all those mussies who marched in protest to all the murders committed ...


9 posted on 03/26/2016 9:54:54 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Steelfish

If Obama got his way, or if Hillary wins, she'll be wearing a burhka.

10 posted on 03/26/2016 9:54:55 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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Our motives as perceived by Obama is none of Obama’s official constitutional buiness.

Obama’s official constitutional business is to PROTECT AMERICA AND AMERICANS FROM ENEMY INVASION.

The only question remaining is why hasn’t Obama been impeached yet and what will it take to do so?


11 posted on 03/26/2016 9:55:06 AM PDT by Jim W N
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Funny how doing nothing plays into their hands too.
Close the border to Islam now.


12 posted on 03/26/2016 9:56:17 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

The Apocalypse of the bible never seems to indicate the presence of something corresponding to Islam.

Maybe they were all evangelized by that point.


13 posted on 03/26/2016 9:58:08 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Maher: Obama's Pulling His Numbers on Islam 'Right Out of His A**,' 'It's Not One Small Slice'

Bill Maher: Democrats Risk Losing Election If Can't Say 'Islamic Extremism'


14 posted on 03/26/2016 9:58:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Steelfish

These buzzard no good raghead mongrel stuck in the 7th Century meatheads have been demonstrating to the world, since 1972, easily, their self-stigmatizing!


15 posted on 03/26/2016 9:58:41 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: grey_whiskers

Splish splash we all took a bath.


16 posted on 03/26/2016 9:59:12 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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While he did not name Texas Sen. Ted Cruz specifically, he alluded to the GOP presidential contender’s plan to police pockets of Muslims in the U.S., which Cruz has defended despite widespread criticism from members of his own party.

The president noted that such actions are a “counterproductive” approach to defeating extremists abroad because it “plays right into the hands of terrorists who want to turn us against one another, who need a reason to recruit more people to their hateful cause.”


So I hope I understand what he’s saying.

1. There are certain strands of Muslims who hate us and want to kill us by any means necessary.

2. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but those who are try to hide in Muslim communities.

3. These Muslims, who already hate us and want us exterminated, will be offended if we increase surveillance of Muslim communities to try to ferret out the terrorists.

4. So because Muslim terrorists will be offended, we can’t do anything about the Muslim terrorists, because the greatest sin of all is if we offend those who hate us and want us dead.

5. The Muslims who hate us will use our reactions against them to recruit more terrorists, so that means we are not allowed to say or do anything in response to terror cells in our midst.

Clearly I am missing something, Mr. Obama. Please help me understand your logic.


17 posted on 03/26/2016 10:02:51 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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ISLAM = SEDITION TO THE US CONSTITUTION.

QED

18 posted on 03/26/2016 10:04:14 AM PDT by Paladin2
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Obama’s deeds and actions have revealed him to be an anti Christian moslem so what else would he say?


19 posted on 03/26/2016 10:04:52 AM PDT by protest1
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yeah,
We wouldn’t want to stigmatize those beheading us or raping us or bombing us now would we?
Yo moosie turds, eat pooh and die mookabookers.


20 posted on 03/26/2016 10:08:39 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Arrest Hillary and charge the bitch.)
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