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Posted By Klarissa 8 months, 1 week ago in News

PRESIDENT 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.

    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.

    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.

      The speech itself was just more eloquently spoken sophistry from the Panderer-in-Chief.

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      k9kssr8 months, 1 week ago

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      What is zakat?

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      Wolfie20078 months, 1 week ago

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      Michelle most likely refused to kiss Barry when she and the girls met him in Paris. What with all his butt kissing in Cairo his breath prolly stunk for three days.

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      Klarissa8 months, 1 week ago

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      and the carefully planned photo opp apparel for the Normandy event.

      Military in uniform. Men in dark suits, women in navy or other quiet wear. Michelle in all white, to stand out in the photo opps.

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      TheRealizer8 months, 1 week ago

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      I have invaded a hate fest!!!

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      Klarissa8 months, 1 week ago

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      the realizer - have you ever been on television?? Did they give you a list of what to, and what not to wear????

      Photo opps are a game the subjects play with the media.

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      Joer4x48 months, 1 week ago

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      Looking back over history the Europeans appeased Hitler. Where did it get them? Can you say defeated in shambles and shame?

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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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        new englander, how will "some kind of reconciliation with Muslim nations." affect terrorists"

        You mention "far greater gains". What gains are you referring to?

        Muslim nations are not our problem. Terrorist Muslims are the problem.

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        CRYMTYPHON8 months, 1 week ago

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        Isn't this meek panty-waist kenyan
        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,
        when he so tough with domestic opponents?

        Or do you just wish ?

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          Klarissa8 months, 1 week ago

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          President Obama Job Approval
          Poll Date Sample Approve Disapprove Spread
          RCP Average 05/26 - 06/04 -- 59.7 34.5 +25.2

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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.
          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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