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Posted By Klarissa 8 months, 1 week ago in NewsPRESIDENT Obama's "ad dress to the Muslim world" was a masterwork of equivocation and political naiveté.
Let's start with a sentence buried within his text -- possibly in hopes that few might notice. With it, Obama effectively accepts Iran's nuclear ambitions.
"No single nation should pick and choose which nations should hold nuclear weapons," he said.
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Obama's mea culpa vis-à-vis Islam extended beyond the short span of US history. He appropriated the guilt for the Crusades, Western colonialism and support for despotic regimes during the Cold War, and countered that with a flattering narrative about Islam's role in history, featuring outlandish claims that would astonish many Muslims.
Ignoring the role of ancient Greece, pre-Islamic Persia, China and India, he credited Islam with having invented modern medicine, algebra, navigation and even the use of pen and printing.
He went so far as to trace the genesis of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to Cairo's medieval Al Azhar theological school.
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Klarissa8 months, 1 week ago
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Obama said he was seeking "a new beginning between the US and Muslims around the world" -- implying that "Muslims around the world" (including Muslim Americans) represent a monolithic bloc, as Osama bin Laden and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claim.
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Is the president unaware that there are 57 countries with Muslim majorities and a further 60 countries where Muslims represent substantial minorities?
Trying to press almost a quarter of humanity into a single ghetto based on religious apartheid is the fruit of either woeful ignorance or dangerous provocation.-
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Klarissa8 months, 1 week ago
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Obama promised to help change the US taxation system to allow Muslims to pay zakat, an Islamic tax, and threatened to prosecute those who don't allow US Muslim women to cover their hair.
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Despite his anxiety about being "respectful of the values of others," Obama had nothing to say about the abominable treatment of women in many Muslim-majority countries.
The best he could do was this platitude: "Our daughters can contribute just as much to society as our sons."
Emphasizing the Islamic aspect of his identity, Obama said: "I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed." -
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stephen-johnson8 months, 1 week ago
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I wonder if any Muslim symbols on the stage had to be covered when Obama delivered his speech. Just to show the folks at Georgetown that what he did there wasn't personal.
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The speech itself was just more eloquently spoken sophistry from the Panderer-in-Chief. -
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Mutainia8 months, 1 week ago
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Zakat is a tax a Muhammad has to pay under Sharia Law. On the bright side for a Muhammad, it's half what an infidel has to pay in tax under Sharia. The tax an infidel (kaffur) has to pay is called the jizyah. Muhammads say this isn't descrimination.
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CRYMTYPHON8 months, 1 week ago
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Hi Wolf!
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We can't help but notice that you frequently fantasize
Mr. Obama doing things best thought of as non-heterosexual.
We of the left have no problem with the conclusion
this leads to concerning your repressed preferences;
but really, Obama is married;
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offered to do anything to your butt except kick it politicaly
into the night.
Forget your jealous rage;
He will never by yours.
Mend your broken heart as best you can,
and find someone with whom you can realize these fantasies.
But don't tell the right-wingers or they will go kinda ape.
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Sabretooth8 months, 1 week ago
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Lmao, now you have a problem with their attire? You are coming off as an 80 yr old bitter woman with 10 cats and no life to speak of lady...grow up and tackle a real issue for once.
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You people are bloody disgusting, a man destroys your country over an 8 year period and you have not one thing to say about it. Now, you have a leader that is attempting to tackle every issue and at the same time elevate your status in the world, and you fight him every step of the way. Seriously folks, your actions border on treasonous in my opinion, with friends like you America does not need any more terrorists.
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CRYMTYPHON8 months, 1 week ago
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Which is why Obama will make no peace with the Republicans;
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no will Mesodude with you.
Nor Frodo with Sauron;
nor Robin Hood with the Sherrif.
Really you villains are all the same;
you never can tell the diference between being weak and being a grownup,
- until you are thrown to the ground.
Like Obama did to the right in 2008.
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Newenglander8 months, 1 week ago
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You guys can slam President Obama if you so choose, that is your right. I find his approach refreshing compared to our last President. I admire that he is making an attempt at some kind of reconciliation with Muslim nations. You have to realize that the vast majority of Muslims are not terrorists but I do believe that they share a common enmity with the US that goes back many years.To assuage the feelings of many Muslims will produce far greater gains than the acerbic attitude that Bush promulgated towards the Muslim nations.
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Klarissa8 months, 1 week ago
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Newenglander8 months, 1 week ago
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Terrorist Muslims live in Muslim nations. A favorable impression by Muslims as opposed to an unfavorable view could in all reality reduce the number of recruits that radical Muslims recruit. I know I didn't double space this response will this be sufficient?
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CRYMTYPHON8 months, 1 week ago
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Isn't this meek panty-waist kenyan
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the guy from the chicago streets who took the American
Right and bounced it upside down last year in
political fight after fight?
Who offered no quarter, took no prisoners,
and never kissed your posteriors once?
The guy who reduced you to complaints that his speeches
were over-attended? - to sobb that the media loved him
because he kept looking so much better than the pasty white guy and the moose-lady?
Isn't this meek sheep-man the guy whose speeches electrified the world? - till you call half America his disciples?
Is this the same guy who walked in, grabbed the Presidency and stood in the train tracks of the Bush Depression and faced it down with action and calm?
The guy who is doing all the hard things that Bush avoided?
The guy that makes you look so ... whiny ?
Does it seem likely he is meek with foreigners,
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aceofspades18 months, 1 week ago
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I'm leaving for a trip to the Baltic countries next week - I hope the feeling towards the U.S. has improved over the last time I was there when Bush was screwing things up.
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Nothing like having a beer with someone who is native to another country to get a perspective of our own.
BTW - I was in Turkey in Oct before the election the people there were excited about the prospect of Obama being elected.
The previously cited poll bears this out.
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