The caliphate in the White House. It makes you wonder what the Obama administration would have called the 19 jihadis on 911. Frustrated illegal alien ......pilots?
Direct from the "you can't make this stuff up" department:
The president's top
counterterrorism adviser on Wednesday called jihad a "legitimate tenet of
Islam," arguing that the term "jihadists" should not be used to describe
America's enemies.
During a speech at the
Center for Strategic and International Studies, John Brennan described violent
extremists as victims of "political, economic and social forces," but said that
those plotting attacks on the United States should not be described in
"religious terms."
He repeated the
administration argument that the enemy is not "terrorism," because terrorism is
a "tactic," and not terror, because terror is a "state of mind" -- though
Brennan's title, deputy national security adviser for counterterrorism and
homeland security, includes the word "terrorism" in it. But then Brennan said
that the word "jihad" should not be applied either.
"Nor do we describe our
enemy as 'jihadists' or 'Islamists' because jihad is a holy struggle, a
legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community, and
there is nothing holy or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men,
women and children," Brennan said.
The technical, broadest
definition of jihad is a "struggle" in the name of Islam and the term does not
connote "holy war" for all Muslims. However, jihad frequently connotes images of
military combat or warfare, and some of the world's most wanted terrorists
including Usama bin Laden commonly use the word to call for war against the
West.
Brennan defined the enemy as
members of bin Laden's Al Qaeda network and "its terrorist affiliates."
But Brennan argued that it
would be "counterproductive" for the United States to use the term, as it would
"play into the false perception" that the "murderers" leading war against the
West are doing so in the name of a "holy cause."
"Moreover, describing our
enemy in religious terms would lend credence to the lie propagated by Al Qaeda
and its affiliates to justify terrorism -- that the United States is somehow at
war against Islam," he said.
The comment comes after
Brennan, in a February speech in which he described his respect for the
tolerance and devotion of Middle Eastern nations, referred to Jerusalem on first
reference by its Arabic name, Al-Quds.
"In all my travels the city
I have come to love most is al-Quds, Jerusalem, where three great faiths come
together," Brennan said at an event co-sponsored by the White House Office of
Public Engagement and the Islamic Center at New York University and the Islamic
Law Students Association at NYU.
Atlas is the featured story over at Big Journalism. Much thanks to Mike Walsh, who is the best editor evuh! Obama has removed Islam from jihad, or jihad from Islam. Next thing you know, he'll be denying the holocaust.
Read the whole disgusting thing here, and speak your mind.
Of all the subversive acts ever in the history of the United States of
America, and even during this post-American Administration, this one is the
killer: Barack Obama plans
to remove all discussion of Islam and jihad from the central document of our
national security strategy. Under Bush, the National Security Strategy document
declared:
The struggle against militant Islamic radicalism is the great ideological
conflict of the early years of the 21st century.
Now it won’t say anything about “militant Islamic radicalism” at all.
According to the Associated Press, Obama is trying to “change not just how
the United States talks to Muslim nations, but also what it talks to them about,
from health care and science to business startups and education.” Jihad Watch
director Robert Spencer says that this shift “reflects Obama’s core assumption
that the jihad against the United States is our fault, and can be quelled by our
overtures of good will to the Islamic world.” In other words, if we would just
be nice to Muslim countries and talk to them about health care and education
instead of fighting against jihad terrorism, they will stop hating us. Spencer
adds:
This is based on the further assumption that there is no Islamic imperative
to jihad against unbelievers simply because they are
unbelievers.
But there is. And the jihad president can’t wish it away.
Obama is going to Qatar to get back to his roots, I suspect, and "boost ties" with the Muslim world again. Why don't the Muslims boost ties with us? Boost as in apology for centuries of jihadi wars, enslavements, exterminations, Jew-hatred not boost as in blast.
Why doesn't the Muslim world take stock, and stop their relentless imperialism campaigns, their violence and murder of non-Muslims and live side-by-side with non-Muslims? Because they can't. It is forbidden in their religion. EXPUNGE THOSE VILE TEXTS FROM THE KORAN.
Obama is going on the charm offensive to Muslim states at a forum in Qatar. What's he going to do, bring a couple of sacrificial dead Jews to the banquet? That'll score huge ululululululululs.
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama’s charm offensive on Muslim states comes to a weekend forum in Qatar, where he will send a video message and his chief diplomat will give a speech, organizers said Thursday.
Obama will deliver his message to the seventh annual US-Islamic World Forum in the Qatari capital, which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will attend Sunday with other senior US officials, The Brookings Institution said.
The gathering organized by the think-tank’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy and Qatar’s foreign affairs ministry brings “leaders from across the Muslim world for an intensive three-day dialogue with key US officials, societal leaders and policy experts,” Brookings said.
“With President Obama determined to turn the page in America’s relations with Muslim communities around the globe, this year’s Forum will examine how to craft more robust partnerships that can help repair the deep divisions our societies,” Brookings President Strobe Talbott said in a statement.
Talbott, who was a key diplomat in president Bill Clinton’s administration, is also due at the forum, along with Richard Holbrooke, the US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan and Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry.
Brookings said Clinton will join Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani, the prime minister of Qatar who doubles as foreign minister, in delivering a speech, but no further details were immediately available.
[...]
A year into his administration, Obama has yet to achieve any significant momentum on stalled peace talks between the Palestinians and the Israelis, and Muslim audiences are now less receptive to his promise of a “new beginning” with the Muslim world.
Ah, the sacrificial Jews.............. we knew that was coming. Islamic Jew-hatred must be slaked.
The visit to Qatar would complement the Obama administration’s efforts to improve ties with the Muslim world.
In his inauguration speech last year, Obama vowed to seek a “new way forward” with the Muslim world “based on mutual interest and mutual respect,” after eight rocky years under his predecessor George W. Bush.
Islam is in trouble at the heart of its birthplace, Saudi
Arabia, and consequently in other Muslim countries. Muslim leaders and media
are desperately trying to regain control both internally and externally.
Muslims are starting to openly and defiantly question; while the international
image of Islam is being tarnished daily with every act of terror, hate speech
and calls for jihad from the pulpits of mosques. The traditional open calls for
violence and jihad Islam got away with for centuries is now under scrutiny
especially after 9/11. Islam is now under the microscope. That is the quagmire
of Muslims today. How can they continue teaching their basic religious jihad
education but still save face and Islam’s reputation in a culture where image
and honor is everything.
The West is not fully aware of what is happening in the
Muslim world today where taboo topics are being discussed by brave Muslim
reformists and former Muslims. There are ground breaking Arabic TV and internet
shows aired inside homes in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Algeria, etc, discussing
what ordinary Muslims were never allowed to heard before. The brilliant Rachid
Hmami, a Former Muslim turned Christian and originally from Morocco, has a
show, Suaal Garii ‘Daring Question,’ that is making shock waves across the
Middle East. Another equally effective show, is that of the brave Coptic
priest, Father Zakareya Botros, who was imprisoned in Egypt for proselytizing
to Muslims. Father Botros’s show is a huge success in exposing tyranny,
contradictions and weaknesses in Islam. Muslims who call in, are often in
shocked by what they hear for the first time about their own religion, yet
another proof that Muslim establishment intentionally spreads misinformation and
ignorance of basic Muslim doctrines to Muslims. Many Muslims, even from Saudi
Arabia, call in to renounce Islam.
Unprecedented defiance is happening in the heart of the
Muslim world. Recently a prominent Egyptian female attorney and human rights
advocate, Nagla
Al Imam, announced she left Islam and became a Christian and insists that she
will remain in Egypt, in defiance of Islamic law condemning her to death. She
is now under intense
24-hour security. Islam is in trouble from within.
Both, King Abdullah, custodian of the two Holy Mosques of
Islam in Mecca and Medina, and the Islamic establishment everywhere, are
extremely alarmed by the status of Islam today. Their power to control Muslims,
trained for centuries to blind submission, is slipping away. Huge sums of oil
money dedicated to rescue Islam’s image, is not enough to do the job.
That is where Obama’s services come to the rescue of King
Abdulla. Obama’s bow to the king was no small matter, but of great significance
in Muslim culture. It is a Muslim symbol of subjugation and inferiority.
It was said that Obama decision to hold a
trial in New York of the confessed mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad,
and the rest of the Guantanamo detainees, is proof of the US’s just legal
system. But the Muslim world already knows that. Not one Muslim country
demanded such a trial or claimed the KSM was innocent. To the contrary, the
Muslim public, in general, think that Americans are stupid for opening their
country to such terrorists and giving visas to terrorists while often denying
it to legitimate travelers. Recently, my daughter innocently asked, why is
America trying to tame untamable terrorists, it is like “having a pet shark”.
The claims that such a trial will give an
opportunity to the terrorists to justify their actions and hate propaganda, is
true, but it is much more than that. Such a trial will vindicate and justify
mainstream Islamic education of hatred and will help Muslim establishment
tighten their screws. It will greatly boost to the status quo in Muslim
counties and an opportunity for Arab media and Muslim clerics to justify 9/11,
their hate propaganda, incitement to violence and outright lies. This trial
will be a set back to Muslim reformers, human rights activists and Arab
feminists. It is telling them there is a good reason for Islamic violence
dictated by Sharia law.
This trial will create unnecessary sympathy
among the many uninformed Western citizens to Islamist fictitious ‘causes’ and
finger-pointing Muslims have been taught and believed in since birth. Like the
OJ Simpson trial, a good portion of Americans will be confused over glaring
truths which will cause a huge set back to America’s war on terror.
Knowingly or unknowingly, Obama has given a
great gift for the New Year to the custodian of Islam, King Abdullah; a
self-imposed trial by the victim nation of 9/11, a free televised propaganda
machine from ground zero, to rescue mainstream Islam’s reputation. Protecting
the image of Islam is one of the basic duties of Muslim leaders and the utmost
obligation of every Muslim who is obliged by Islamic law to lie, cheat and kill
for its sake.
By holding such a trial in New York, America,
intentionally or unintentionally, will be contributing to reforming Islam’s
image, supporting its old ways of doing business and suppressing the brave
reformation movements across the Muslim world, a true New Year’s gift to King
Abdullah.
"Bush Doctrine: the United States had
the right to secure itself from countries that harbor or give aid to
terrorist groups. including the controversial policy of preventive war, which held that the United States should depose foreign regimes
that represented a potential or perceived threat to the security of the
United States. And a policy of
spreading democracy around the world, especially in the Middle East, as a strategy for combating terrorism. Some of these policies were codified in a National Security Council text entitled the National Security Strategy of the United States published on September 20, 2002.[5]"
Obama Doctrine: Abandon friends and allies. Pay oodles and googles of jizya to Islamic terror states that foment and actively support Islamic jihad, and keep fingers crossed that they kill us slower. And when they do get one, Obama alternates between blaming Bush or blaming Israel. if your are a jihad mass murderer who tries to blow up a passenger jet, Obama wants to male a deal with you.
Yemen, like Pakistan and others, seems to have mastered the double-game
($$). While the U.S. is paying for an anti-terror police unit in Yemen, and using
Special Ops to train it, Yemen is non-committal in the fight against jihad. How
many billions will they bilk from U.S. taxpayers? From the LA Times, Yemen
dismisses Al Qaeda threat as ‘exaggerated’:
Yemeni officials on Sunday dismissed the threat
posed by Al Qaeda in their country as “exaggerated” and downplayed the
possibility of cooperating closely with the United States in fighting Islamic
militants, even as the U.S. and Britain temporarily closed their
diplomatic outposts in Yemen because of unspecified Al Qaeda threats.
The statements by Yemen’s foreign minister, chief
of national security and Interior Ministry came a day after the region’s top
American military commander vowed to step up U.S. military support for the
beleaguered Arabian Peninsula nation.
Analysts said the Yemeni statements reflected
domestic political concerns about President Ali Abdullah Saleh appearing weak
and beholden to the West as he faces numerous political challenges.
But Yemeni officials Sunday appeared to rebuff any
close cooperation with the West. Foreign Minister Abubakr Qirbi told a
government-run newspaper that his country welcomed intelligence-sharing but had
made no commitment to conducting anti-terrorism operations in conjunction with
the West.
“Yemen has its own short-term and long-term
schemes to tackle terrorists anywhere in the republic that only call for
intelligence and information coordination with other countries,” he told the
daily newspaper Politics, the official Saba news agency
reported.
CNN interviewed controversial former CIA Analyst Michael Scheuer, who
dropped a few nuggets of interest as well. He stated that the U.S. has dumped
money and munitions into Yemen since 9/11 and al Qaeda has only grown there;
that al Qaeda helped to get Yemeni president Alu Abdullah Saleh into power; and
the number of AQ in Yemen is drastically underestimated. Click the video below
to watch/listen.
In case the Yemeni’s word isn’t good enough, and many dismiss Scheuer
out of the box, here’s a February 2009 post from the Long War Journal that adds
credence to the notion that Yemen won’t be much help, but will take the money,
Yemen
strikes multifaceted deals with al Qaeda:
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh recently
struck a deal with Ayman Zawahiri, and Yemen is in the process of emptying its
jails of known jihadists. The Yemeni government is recruiting these established
jihadists to attack its domestic enemies as it refrains from serious
counter-terror measures against the newly formed Al Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula. The tripartite relationship between the Yemeni regime and al Qaeda
enables all participants to further their goals at the expense of national,
regional, and global security.
News reports from Yemen detail a meeting in
Sana’a between President Saleh and a number of so-called reformed jihadists
late January. The militants demanded freedom for imprisoned associates. A
presidential committee identified 170 jihadists eligible for release, and 95
were released Saturday. Other reports indicate that authorities have cleared for
release a total of 300 of the 400 total suspected al Qaeda in prison.
Again, from the LA Times report:
A member of a smaller Shiite Muslim sect, [Yemeni
President] Saleh has been accused for years of gaining political allies by
turning a blind eye to the growing influence of Sunni extremists who have begun
enforcing Islamic dress codes and setting up religious schools.
UPDATE: OT related, I am sure Obama will send them new trucks!
Yesterday the French police arrested two Muslims accused of having
contact with the North African cell of Al-Qaeda: "Al-Qaida pour le Maghreb
Islamique" (Aqmi).
Today it was reported that one of them (they are brothers) is a nuclear
engineer working at the most advanced site of nuclear research, Geneva's CERN
(CEntre de Recherche Nucléaire), Europe's most guarded site of top nuclear
research.
Both are French citizens of Algerian origin (Muslims).
This arrest, according with most articles, would be a most important step
to discover the links of the aforementioned terrorist organization in
Europe.
The two are suspected to have given information about some sites to attack
in France.
The police are working on 2 computers, 3 HDs and some USB keys confiscated
to the two.
"Perhaps we have avoided the worst," declared the French Minister of Home
Affairs.
This also raise some concern about the security of nuclear facilities
employing personnel who, for their origin and/or religion, could be "sensitive to
islamist doctrines."
UPDATE: Al-Qaeda suspect was nuclear researcher at CERN
One of two suspected al-Qaeda collaborators arrested in France this week was
a researcher at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in
Switzerland, a judicial source said on Friday.(here)
French agents have arrested a researcher from Europe's top atomic lab on
suspicion of links to al-Qaeda, fuelling fears that terrorists could be
targeting the nuclear industry.
The 32-year-old man, who was detained along with his brother, works for the
prestigious European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Geneva,
Switzerland, according to French police sources.
''The inquiry will doubtless say what were the objectives in France or
elsewhere and indicate perhaps that we have avoided the worst possible
scenario,'' said Brice Hortefeux, the French Interior Minister.
An intelligence source told Le Figaro that ''this is a very high
level'' case.
The suspect is believed to have been in contact with members of al-Qaeda in
the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), an Algerian-based terrorist organisation which
joined Osama bin Laden's network in 2007.
A source said French intelligence officers had intercepted messages in which
the man had suggested targets in France.
''He had expressed a wish or a desire to commit terrorist actions, but had
not materially prepared them,'' said the source.
The suspect had been under surveillance for about 18 months after he was
identified during an investigation into a French network which sent Islamic
radicals to Afghanistan.
Judge Christophe Teissier, an investigating magistrate specialising in the
fight against terrorism, opened a formal inquiry last month into his activities.
The man was arrested on suspicion of involvement in a criminal association
linked to a terrorist undertaking by the Central Directorate of Interior
Intelligence (DCRI) at his home in Vienne, eastern France.
His 25-year-old brother was also arrested as police seized two computers,
three hard discs and two USB keys at their home.
The president pandered to Muslims: praised their accomplishments, commiserated with their grievances, and apologized for injustices done to them by centuries of colonialism -- without once mentioning the history of rampant and violent Arab colonialism. He avoided any mention of Jihadi tenets, or of the Islamic political ideology of supremacy over non Muslims -- principles embedded in Sharia law. These are taught and sanctioned openly by Al-Azhar, the university that hosted him, the foremost center of Sharia studies. Obama underscored the supposed American mistreatment of terrorists and apologized for torture in Guantanamo, forgetting that Islamic regimes are brutal to their own people. The president also repudiated significant U.S. contributions in both the lives of its soldiers and humanitarian aid to Muslims across the globe made throughout history -- despite Muslim attacks against America and Americans. In short, parts of his speech sounded like a new Pan-Arab messiah come to usher the Arab world back into its rightful world dominion.
Most disturbing was the president’s call to defend Muslims against negative stereotypes. A dangerous precedent is set when freedom of speech is silenced and ideological criticism forbidden. This, again, is the stuff of nightmarish totalitarian regimes. The beauty of the US Constitution is its balance, and the wisdom it embraces by distinguishing between that which should be protected and defended and that which should be prosecuted and decried. Encouraging laws to make criticism of Islam an offense punishable by law is troubling.
Since arriving in the US, I have enjoyed the freedom to educate my Arab brothers and sisters in the Middle East, who yearn for real freedom - and I have seen successes. Mr. Obama calls these very successes into question rather than championing freedom.
As the president embarks on his new task to defend Muslims “against negative stereotypes,” does this mean he will somehow interfere and undermine that message? Or, perhaps it means he may join with the Organization of Islamic Conference, the 57 Muslim countries that work relentlessly to promote a United Nations resolution to suppress voices of dissent against Islam? I am confident we would all come to regret this.
Obama sidesteps the acute state of affairs in the Islamic world with flattery, failing to encourage accountability for rhetoric, practices and the behavior that feed stereotypes. I did not hear an exhortation to the Islamic world to open itself to diversity, to accept women as equal citizens with the same rights and protection under law as men. I did not hear a challenge to the Muslim world to accept other religions and their ability to practice openly within the Islamic world -- where the practice of Christianity, Judaism and other religions could cost an individual his or her life. I did not hear a call to erase for all time, Dhimmi racism -- the Sharia law-based dictate that Christians and Jews are inferior and should be suppressed. Are these “…the principles of justice, tolerance and dignity for human beings”?
In contrast, I see my people’s heart bleeding and know the pressing need for self-correction and honest examination for the sake of urgent repair. Obama dangles the carrot but shies away from the imperative issues boiling beneath the surface.
Obama’s reality makes my work and that of others who speak up against intolerant Islamic doctrines more challenging. He undermines this mission by placating abusive, xenophobic policies and enabling those within the Islamic world to subjugate others, to coerce others to its beliefs, and to continue these pursuits with his blessing.
The president failed to join freedom-loving individuals, liberated Arabs like myself. He failed to lead the Muslim world into modernization and vital reform.
Rather than calling out, “The house is on fire.” Obama smiles and tells us how beautiful the house is as it burns out of control and threatens to destroy us.
To the question I received on my e-mail; “Who should we believe, Obama or you?” I elaborated to my Moroccan reader that Obama is a politician who wishes to use sweet talk and to whitewash reality to make amends with Muslims.
I, on the other hand am a pragmatic Arab woman who escaped the prison of Islam to the free world and now devotes her life to expressing views freely and pressing for a genuine difference in Islam. We cannot have it both ways. Intolerance never tolerates freedom.
Pres. Barack Obama was elected, by an overwhelming majority, on a program in which America’s rapprochement with Islam stands pre-eminent. This is a legitimate political aim in the quest for world peace. The questions are: how to achieve it, and why there is no reciprocal effort from the Muslim world represented by the Organization of the Islamic World (OIC). This body could express its regrets for over a millennium of jihad wars, land expropriations, enslavements, and humiliations of the conquered non-Muslim populations on three continents. Obama’s Cairo discourse fits perfectly into his agenda. It flatters Muslim sensibilities and expresses the Muslim view of historical tolerance and cultural superiority over infidel civilizations. When Obama mentioned the “Isra” event, he referred to Muhammad’s ascension to heaven and his return in one night on a winged mule named Buraq. There he greets two Muslim prophets, Moses and Jesus/Isa, who are not the biblical figures. The image used here by the American president as a symbolic interfaith reconciliation between the three faiths is a meeting between three Muslim prophets and not the figureheads of the three monotheistic religions. Besides, the Isra event is not recognised by non-Muslims, and it didn’t happen in Jerusalem, as this name does not appear once in the Koran.
The president’s speech is similar to many such declarations by European leaders. The question it raises is how much the West is ready to forgo truth and its basic principles in its supplication for obtaining peace with Islam. Clearly, the full Islamization of the West is the quickest way to obtain it. Obama’s political program in connection with the Alliance of Civilizations conforms to an OIC strategy that has already been accepted by the EU. In history, this policy has a name: the dhimmitude syndrome.
— Bat Ye’or’s latest book was published in Italy: Verso il Califfato Universale, Come l’Europa è diventata complice dell’espansionismo musulmano, Lindau, Torino: May 2009. (Toward the Universal Caliphate: How Europe Became an Accomplice of Muslim Expansionism.)
The following is a short comment Caroline Glick wrote about Obama's speech yesterday for NRO.
Mark Levin read it on his radio show yesterday. If you'd like to hear him, this
is the link.
The
recitation starts around 40 minutes into the clip.
From an Israeli perspective, Pres. Barack Obama’s
speech today in Cairo was deeply disturbing. Both rhetorically and
programmatically, Obama’s speech was a renunciation of America’s strategic
alliance with Israel.
Rhetorically, Obama sugar coated the pathologies of
the Islamic world — from the tyranny that characterizes its regimes, to the
misogyny, xenophobia, Jew hatred, and general intolerance that characterizes its
societies. In so doing he made clear that his idea of pressing the restart
button with the Islamic world involves erasing the moral distinctions between
the Islamic world and the free world.
In contrast, Obama’s perverse
characterization of Israel — of the sources of its legitimacy and of its
behavior — made clear that he shares the Arab world’s view that there is
something basically illegitimate about the Jewish state.
In 1922 the
League of Nations mandated Great Britain to facilitate the reconstitution of the
Jewish commonwealth in the Land of Israel on both sides of the Jordan River. The
international community’s decision to work towards the reestablishment of Jewish
sovereignty in Israel owed to its recognition of the Jewish people’s legal,
historic, and moral rights to our homeland.
Arab propaganda finds this
basic and fundamental truth inconvenient. So for the past 60 years, the Arabs
have been advancing the fiction that Israel’s existence owes solely to European
guilt over the Holocaust. As far as the Arabs are concerned, the Jews have no
legal, historic, or moral right to what the Arabs see as Islamic land.
In
his address, while Obama admonished the Arabs for their pervasive Jew hatred and
Holocaust denial, he effectively accepted and legitimized their view that Israel
owes its existence to the Holocaust when he said, “the aspiration for a Jewish
homeland is rooted in a tragic history that cannot be denied,” and then went on
to talk about the Holocaust.
Just as abominably, Obama compared Israel to
Southern slave owners and Palestinians to black slaves in the antebellum south.
He used the Arab euphemism “resistance” to discuss Palestinian terrorism, and
generally ignored the fact that every Palestinian political faction is also a
terrorist organization.
In addition to his morally outrageous
characterization of Israel and factually inaccurate account of its foundations,
Obama struck out at the Jewish state through the two policies he outlined in his
address. His first policy involves coercing Israel into barring all Jewish
construction in Judea and Samaria (otherwise known as the West Bank), and
Jerusalem.
Obama claims that this policy will increase prospects for
peace. But this is untrue. As Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas made
clear in his Washington Post interview last week, Obama’s trenchant
campaign against Jewish construction in these areas has convinced the
Palestinians they have no reason to be flexible in their positions towards
Israel. Indeed, Obama’s assault on Israeli construction and his unsubstantiated,
bigoted claim that the presence of Jews in Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem impedes
progress towards peace ensures that there will be no agreement whatsoever
between Israel and the Palestinians.
After all, why would the
Palestinians make a deal with Israel when they know that Obama will blame Israel
for the absence of a peace agreement?
Even more strategically devastating
than his castigation of Israel as the villain in the Arab-Israel conflict is
Obama’s stated policy towards Iran. In Cairo, Obama offered Iran nuclear energy
in exchange for its nuclear-weapons program. This offer has been on the table
since 2003 and has been repeatedly rejected by the Iranians. Indeed, they
rejected it yet again last week.
Obama must know that his policy will not
lead to the hoped for change in Iran’s behavior. And since he must know this,
the only rational explanation for his decision to adopt a policy he knows will
fail is that he is comfortable with the idea of Iran becoming a nuclear power.
And this is something that Israel cannot abide by.
The only silver lining
for Israelis from the president’s speech in Cairo and his general positions on
the Middle East is that Obama has overplayed his hand. Far from bending to his
will, a large majority of Israelis perceives Obama as a hostile force and has
rallied in support of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu against the
administration. This public support gives Netanyahu the maneuver room he needs
to take the actions that Israel needs to take to defend against the prospect of
a nuclear armed Iran and to assert its national rights and to defend itself
against Palestinian terrorists and other Arab and non-Arab anti-Semites who wish
it ill.
— Caroline B. Glick is the senior fellow for
Middle Eastern affairs at the Center for Security Policy and the senior
contributing editor of The Jerusalem Post.
This is the brave new world of Obama? This is the unity and harmony he campaigned on? This is vile and sick, and he is the architect. Remember when Obama's wife Michelle said "for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country”? Well, I can honestly say for the first time in my adult life I am ashamed of my country. Obama should never have sanctioned such evil. Evil is made possible by the sanction you give it. Withdraw your sanction (Ayn Rand).
After Obama's speech in Cairo yesterday, he arranged a roundtable with eight
journalists. Yedioth Ahronoth, an Israeli paper, was invited to send a
correspondent as were several Arab papers. Nahum Barnea reports (translation):
After Obama’s speech yesterday at Cairo University, we gathered, six senior
journalists from all over the Muslim world and I, the reporter for Yedioth
Ahronoth, around a circular table in a side room. The president wanted to give
us an interview.
The original group had eight. The Syrian did not show after hearing that a
reporter from Israel had been invited. The Lebanese, Naoum Sarkis, had been
sitting with us all at the front of the hall but when he realized where I was
from and whom I was representing, he passed on the opportunity and
fled.
Lebanon and Syria, two countries that share a common border with Israel,
respectively act as a state-sponsor and base for terror against Israel. The
reporters from these countries would not even sit in the same room as a Jew --
even after bathing in Obama's healing rhetoric. Other Arab journalists did stay,
including a Palestinian, to hear Obama compare Bibi to Nixon. "Only the
anti-Communist Nixon could have opened the doors to China," Obama said. Of
course, Nixon was also forced to resign.
Frank Gaffney heard what I heard in Cairo -- particularly worth mentioning is Barack Hussein Obama's quote that he had "'known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed.' An interesting choice of words that, 'first revealed.' Not 'established,' 'founded' or 'invented.' The President is, after all, a careful writer, so he must have deliberately eschewed verbs that reflect man's role, in favor of the theological version of events promoted by Islam."
At least as troubling are what amount to instances of presidential dawa, the Arabic term for Islamic proselytization. For example, Mr. Obama referred four times in his speech to "the Holy Koran." It seems unimaginable that he ever would ever use the adjective to describe the Bible or the Book of Mormon.
Then, the man now happy to call himself Barack Hussein Obama (in contrast to his attitude during the campaign) boasts of having "known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed." An interesting choice of words that, "first revealed." Not "established," "founded" or "invented." The President is, after all, a careful writer, so he must have deliberately eschewed verbs that reflect man's role, in favor of the theological version of events promoted by Islam. Thus, Mr. Obama has gone beyond the kind of "respectful language" he has pledged to use towards Islam. He is employing what amounts to code - bespeaking the kind of submissive attitude Islam demands of all, believers and non-believers alike.
Elsewhere in the speech, Mr. Obama actually declared that "I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear." Note that, although he referred in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian-Arab conflict to "vile stereotypes" of Jews, he did not describe it as "part of his responsibility as President" to counter anti-Semitic representations.
Unremarked was the fact that such incitement is daily fare served up by the state media controlled by his host in Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak, by the Palestinian Authority's Mahmoud Abbas and by every other despot in the region with whom Mr. Obama seeks to "engage." Worse yet, no mention was made of the fact that some of those "vile stereotypes" - notably, that Jews are "descendants of apes and pigs" - are to be found in "the Holy Koran," itself.
Perhaps the most stunning bit of dawa of all was a phrase the President employed that, on its face, denies the divinity of Jesus - something surprising from a self-described committed Christian. In connection with his discussion of the "situation between Israelis, Palestinians and Arabs," Mr. Obama said, "...When Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed (peace be upon them) joined in prayer."
Muslims use the term "peace be upon them" to ask for blessings on deceased holy men. In other words, its use construes all three in the way Islam does - as dead prophets - a treatment wholly at odds with the teachings of Christianity which, of course, holds Jesus as the immortal Son of God.
If Mr. Obama were genuinely ignorant about Islam, such a statement might be ascribed to nothing more than a sop to "interfaith dialogue." For a man who now pridefully boasts of his intimate familiarity with Muslims and their faith, it raises troubling questions about his own religious beliefs. At the very least, it conveys a strongly discordant message to "the Muslim world" about a fundamental tenet of the faith he professes.
Finally, what are we to make of Mr. Obama statements about America and Islam? Since he took office, the President has engaged repeatedly in the sort of hyping of Muslims and their role in the United States that is standard Muslim Brotherhood fare. In his inaugural address, he described our nation as one of "Christians, Muslims and Jews." Shortly thereafter, he further reversed the demographic ordering of these populations by size in his first broadcast interview (with the Saudi-owned al-Arabiya network), calling America a country of "Muslims, Christians and Jews."
Yesterday in Cairo, the President declared that "Islam has always been a part of America's story." Now, to be sure, Muslims, like peoples of other faiths, have made contributions to U.S. history. But they have generally done so in the same way others have, namely as Americans - not as some separate community, but as part of the "E pluribus unum" (out of many, one) that Mr. Obama properly extolled in The Speech.
Unfortunately, a pattern is being established whereby President Obama routinely exaggerates the Muslim character of America. For example, at Cairo University, he claimed there are nearly seven million Muslims in this country - a falsehood promoted by the Muslim Brotherhood and its friends - when the actual number is well-less than half that. Shortly before The Speech, in an interview with a French network, Mr. Obama said, "If you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world."
Incredible as these statements may seem, even more astounding is their implication for those who adhere to Shariah. The President's remarks about America as a Muslim nation would give rise to its treatment by them as part of dar al-Islam, the world of Islam, as opposed to dar al-harb (i.e., the non-Muslim world).
Were the former to be the case, Shariah requires faithful Muslims to rid the United States of infidel control or occupation. And we know from last year's successful prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation - a so-called "charity" engaged in money-laundering for one of the Muslim Brotherhood's terrorist operations, Hamas - that such an agenda tracks precisely with the Brothers' mission here: "To destroy Western civilization from within America, by its own miserable hand."
This reality makes one of Mr. Obama's promises in Cairo especially chilling. Near the end of his address, the President expressed concern that religious freedom in the United States was being impinged by "rules on charitable giving [that] have made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation." He went on to pledge: "That is why I am committed to working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat."
Let us be clear: Muslim charities have run into difficulty with "the rules" because they have been convicted in federal court of using the Muslim obligation to perform zakat (tithing to charity) to funnel money to terrorists. At this writing, it is unclear precisely what Mr. Obama has in mind with respect to this commitment to "ensure [Muslims] can fulfill zakat." But you can bet that the Brotherhood will try to translate it into the release of their imprisoned operatives and new latitude to raise money for their Shariah-promoting, and therefore seditious, activities in America.
I could go on, but you get the point. The Speech contained a number of statements about the laudable qualities of America, the need for freedom in the Muslim world, about women's rights and the desirability of peace. But its preponderant and much more important message was one that could have been crafted by the Muslim Brotherhood: America has a president who is, wittingly or not, advancing the Brotherhood's agenda of masking the true nature of Shariah and encouraging the West's submission to it.
Not that we needed reminding, but it is instructive to point out the lies, false promises and how disingenuous dear leader really is. This over at Tundra Tabloids:
Thanks to TINSC for sending the speech Obama gave at the annual conference for the Jewish lobby group, AIPAC, on June 4th, 2008, during his campaign for the White House. Indeed, there was something to be learned from it, as well as from the one he delivered to the Muslim world in Cairo on June 4th, 2009, exactly one year later. What a difference a year makes.
Obama said last year while addressing AIPAC:
"And
then there are those who would lay all the problems of the Middle East
at the doorstep of Israel and its supporters as if the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the root of all trouble in the region."
But in speaking to a packed hall
in Cairo, Obama carefully placed the mentioning of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict before the portion dealing with Iran and
nuclear weapons. This was not done by accident, Obama is sending a
crystal clear message that he intends to place all of his energies in
forcing a solution onto Israel (come on, you know that's what is going
to happen) before he focuses the US's full attention on Iran and its
nuclear weapons quest.
Obama: The second major source of tension that we need to discuss is the situation between Israelis, Palestinians and the Arab world.
The third source of tension is our shared interest in the rights and responsibilities of nations on nuclear weapons.
Obama,
like many other politicians is caught stating something that he more
than likely, never truly believed in himself, but for political
expediency, he lied for what he thought was for the greater good. If
not for the stakes being so high, such a fib would not be considered
such a serious breach of faith. But the future of Israel is indeed at
stake, and had many known of his true intentions on the June 4th of
last year, perhaps he might have net been able to deliver his other
speech exactly a year later. KGS
MR.
WIESEL: Mr. President, Chancellor Merkel, Bertrand, ladies and gentlemen. As I
came here today it was actually a way of coming and visit my father's grave --
but he had no grave. His grave is somewhere in the sky. This has become in those
years the largest cemetery of the Jewish people.
The day he died was one
of the darkest in my life. He became sick, weak, and I was there. I was there
when he suffered. I was there when he asked for help, for water. I was there to
receive his last words. But I was not there when he called for me, although we
were in the same block; he on the upper bed and I on the lower bed. He called my
name, and I was too afraid to move. All of us were. And then he died. I was
there, but I was not there.
And I thought one day I will come back and
speak to him, and tell him of the world that has become mine. I speak to him of
times in which memory has become a sacred duty of all people of good will -- in
America, where I live, or in Europe or in Germany, where you, Chancellor Merkel,
are a leader with great courage and moral aspirations.
What can I tell
him that the world has learned? I am not so sure. Mr. President, we have such
high hopes for you because you, with your moral vision of history, will be able
and compelled to change this world into a better place, where people will stop
waging war -- every war is absurd and meaningless; where people will stop hating
one another; where people will hate the otherness of the other rather than
respect it.
But the world hasn't learned. When I was liberated in 1945,
April 11, by the American army, somehow many of us were convinced that at least
one lesson will have been learned -- that never again will there be war; that
hatred is not an option, that racism is stupid; and the will to conquer other
people's minds or territories or aspirations, that will is meaningless.
I
was so hopeful. Paradoxically, I was so hopeful then. Many of us were, although
we had the right to give up on humanity, to give up on culture, to give up on
education, to give up on the possibility of living one's life with dignity in a
world that has no place for dignity.
We rejected that possibility and we
said, no, we must continue believing in a future, because the world has learned.
But again, the world hasn't. Had the world learned, there would have been no
Cambodia and no Rwanda and no Darfur and no Bosnia.
Will the world ever
learn? I think that is why Buchenwald is so important -- as important, of
course, but differently as Auschwitz. It's important because here the large --
the big camp was a kind of international community. People came there from all
horizons -- political, economic, culture. The first globalization essay,
experiment, were made in Buchenwald. And all that was meant to diminish the
humanity of human beings.
You spoke of humanity, Mr. President. Though
unto us, in those times, it was human to be inhuman. And now the world has
learned, I hope. And of course this hope includes so many of what now would be
your vision for the future, Mr. President. A sense of security for Israel, a
sense of security for its neighbors, to bring peace in that place. The time must
come. It's enough -- enough to go to cemeteries, enough to weep for oceans. It's
enough. There must come a moment -- a moment of bringing people
together.
And therefore we say anyone who comes here should go back with
that resolution. Memory must bring people together rather than set them apart.
Memories here not to sow anger in our hearts, but on the contrary, a sense of
solidarity that all those who need us. What else can we do except invoke that
memory so that people everywhere who say the 21st century is a century of new
beginnings, filled with promise and infinite hope, and at times profound
gratitude to all those who believe in our task, which is to improve the human
condition.
A great man, Camus, wrote at the end of his marvelous novel,
The Plague: "After all," he said, "after the tragedy, never the rest...there is
more in the human being to celebrate than to denigrate." Even that can be found
as truth -- painful as it is -- in Buchenwald.
Thank you, Mr. President,
for allowing me to come back to my father's grave, which is still in my heart.
Elie Wiesel text hat tip Jonathan Galt
UPDATE: Merkel speaks and Obama's speech (disingenuous)
The youtuber who made this video, Afrisynergy, did not capture Elie Wiesel's remarks (SHOCKA!). I will continue to search............ you must see it.
Obama is speaking at Buchenwald. It is difficult for him -- he has no teleprompter so he cannot do powerful or politically theatrical. It is painful to watch him ..... he is recounting what happened there (sort of empty). We know what happened. Say something. He rebukes those who deny the holocaust. Thank G-d for that. He is wooden.
Merkel seems very unimpressed. Though she herself is impressive. She is stoic, though clearly deeply moved.
Elie Wiesel is there. He was liberated there. He comes to speak. Heartbreaking. (I must find the video of Wiesel's speech). He speaks:
Hatred is not an option.
Every war is absurd and meaningless.
If the world had learned, there would have been no Cambodia, no Bosnia, no Darfur ............. woe unto us, in those times it was human to be inhuman.
We have such hope for you, Mr. President.
The time has come. It's enough.
The memory here is not to grow anger in our hearts.
Our task is to improve the human condition.
Quoting Camus's The Plague, after all, after the tragedy there is more in this human being to celebrate than to denigrate. Even that can be found as truth ......even in Buchenwald.
Overwhelming.
UPDATE: Janice wrote me: I'm a faithful reader and had to write. Wiesel's words
were absolutely transforming! What a good man, who in such simple words brought
such meaning to the day. How can Obama leave that stage unchanged. There is a
God, who in his wisdom placed Obama next to such a great and good man, which
such power in his aura. If there is no change in Obama after that moment in
time, we are all truly doomed.
Why is that the Muslims can expel, kill, behead, subjugate all non-Muslim people who live in their 57 countries, but the Jews cannot live in their tiny homeland? This is a serious question. This is the question.
Why is the most aggressive, relentless, backward, violent people in history given every benefit of the blood and sweat of free peoples? They are indulged in their worst abuses. Why aren't the Jews given their basic human rights?
Why is it always about the Jews? Obama's speech was anti-semitic. Obama has to prove his bonafides to the ummah by delivering the Jews? Obama (along with the ummah) treats the Jews as an apartheid people.
There is no such thing as a "settler". There are only Jews who live in the homeland. Obama has no right, no right, to throw the Jews out. If Muslims won't live among the Jews, they'll have to leave. That works for me :)
Settlements are merely this year's model. Oslo, self-determination, Gaza blah blah blah ....... the Muslims never have to meet any condition. 16 years, NOT ONE CONDITION. Push the Jews further into a ghetto and all you've done is given the Muslims yet another victory over the Jews. In this Islamic colonialism, the line in the sand is moved yet again, to the Jews' terrible detriment. No more. Hamas (Iran) is in charge to the West, Hezb'Allah (Iran) to the north is sure to win the Lebanon elections - this is the poisonous fruit of appeasement. No more Jewish land to barbarians.
Obama the Humble declares there will be no more "dictating" to other countries.
We should "forge partnerships as opposed to simply dictating solutions," he told
the G-20 summit. In Middle East negotiations, he told al-Arabiya, America will
henceforth "start by listening, because all too often the United States starts
by dictating."
An admirable sentiment. It applies to everyone — Iran, Russia, Cuba, Syria, even
Venezuela. Except Israel. Israel is ordered to freeze all settlement activity.
As Secretary of State Clinton imperiously explained the diktat: "a stop to
settlements — not some settlements, not outposts, not natural-growth
exceptions."
What's the issue? No "natural growth" means strangling to death the thriving
towns close to the 1949 armistice line, many of them suburbs of Jerusalem, that
every negotiation over the past decade has envisioned Israel retaining.
It means no increase in population. Which means no babies. Or if you have
babies, no housing for them — not even within the existing town boundaries.
Which means for every child born, someone has to move out. No community can
survive like that.
The obvious objective is to undermine and destroy these towns — even before
negotiations.
To what end? Over the last decade, the U.S. government has understood that
any final peace treaty would involve Israel retaining some of the close-in
settlements — and compensating the Palestinians accordingly with land from
within Israel itself.
That was envisioned in the Clinton plan in the Camp David negotiations in
2000, and again at Taba in 2001. After all, why turn towns to rubble when,
instead, Arabs and Jews can stay in their homes if the 1949 armistice line is
shifted slightly into the Palestinian side to capture the major close-in Jewish
settlements, and then shifted into Israeli territory to capture Israeli land to
give to the Palestinians?
This idea is not only logical, not only accepted by both Democratic and
Republican administrations for the last decade, but was agreed to in writing in
the letters of understanding exchanged between Israel and the United States in
2004 — and subsequently overwhelmingly endorsed by a concurrent resolution of
Congress.
Yet the Obama State Department has repeatedly refused to endorse these
agreements or even say it will honor them. This from a president who piously
insists that all parties to the conflict honor previous obligations.
The entire "natural growth" issue is a concoction. It's farcical to suggest
that the peace process is moribund because a teacher in the Jewish Quarter of
Jerusalem is making an addition to her house to accommodate new grandchildren —
when Gaza is run by Hamas terrorists dedicated to permanent war with Israel and
when Mahmoud Abbas, having turned down every one of Ehud Olmert's peace offers,
brazenly declares that he is in a waiting mode — waiting for Hamas to become
moderate and for Israel to cave — before he'll do anything to advance peace.
In his much-heralded "Muslim world" address in Cairo on Thursday, Obama
declared that the Palestinian people's "situation" is "intolerable."
Indeed it is, the result of 60 years of Palestinian leadership that gave its
people corruption, tyranny, religious intolerance and forced militarization;
leadership that for three generations — Haj Amin al-Husseini in 1947, Yasser
Arafat in 2000, Abbas in December 2008 — rejected every offer of independence
and dignity, choosing destitution and despair rather than accept any settlement
not accompanied by the extinction of Israel.
In the 16 years since the Oslo accords turned the West Bank and Gaza over to
the Palestinians, their leaders — Fatah and Hamas alike — built no schools, no
roads, no courthouses, no hospitals, no institutions that would relieve their
people's suffering. Instead they poured everything into an infrastructure of war
and terror, all the while depositing billions (from gullible Western donors)
into their Swiss bank accounts.
Obama says he came to Cairo to tell the truth. But he uttered not a word of
that. Instead, among all the bromides and lofty sentiments, he issued but one
concrete declaration of new American policy: "The United States does not accept
the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements," thus reinforcing the myth that
Palestinian misery and statelessness are the fault of Israel and the
settlements.
(Photo: Palestinian militants from the Popular Resistance Committee
wear masks to conceal their identities from the camera as they pose with their
weapons while watching the televised speech of US President Barack Obama in
front of journalists at a training base in Gaza City, Thursday, June 4, 2009.
Quoting from the Quran for emphasis, President Barack Obama called for a "new
beginning between the United States and Muslims" Thursday and said together,
they could confront violent extremism across the globe and advance the timeless
search for peace in the Middle East.) hat tip Hal
Dr. Andrew Bostom wrote to me to enlighten us on Obama's selective Koranic cherry picking:
Immediately
following the murderous acts of jihad terrorism committed on September
11, 2001, Ibn Warraq highlighted the tragic irony of many apologists
quoting selectively from Qur’an 5:32-“whoso slays a soul . . . shall be
as if he had slain mankind altogether; and whoso gives life to a soul,
shall be as if he has given life to mankind altogether”- attempting to
demonstrate that the Qur’ran disapproved of violence and killing.
Firstly, these wonderful sounding
words come from a preexisting Jewish text (Mishnah, IV Division 5),
“Thus was created a single man, to teach us that every person who loses a single
soul, it shall be written about him as if he has lost the entire world, and
every person who sustains a single soul, it shall be written about him as if he
has sustained the entire world.”
And apologists for Islam-just like
President Obama-quote the Koranic words out of context. For the very next verse
offers quite a different meaning from that of 5:32, which was “laid…down for the
Israelites,” as stated in verse, 5:33, continuing:
“…Our apostles brought them [the Jews]
veritable proofs: yet it was not long before many of them committed great evils
in the land. Those that make war against Allah and His apostle [Muhammad] and
spread disorder shall be put to death or crucified or have their hands and feet
cut off on alternate sides, or be banished from the country. (Qur’an
5:33)”
Mike Pence speaks out against Obama's grovel to the jihad in Cairo:
"I think first and foremost the people of the United States stand with Israel. I think we support a Middle East peace process so long as we begin to see Palestinians follow that historic road map, disarm terrorists within their midst, and those are things we haven't seen yet. So moral equivalency between those two causes from the President of the United States of America I thought was disappointing and was a disservice to our ally Israel.”
It seems to me we ought to be asking not our cherished ally Israel to make yet another concession, another step. Remember, they pulled out of Gaza and then Hamas has taken all of that over completely, necessitating military action a number of months ago. We need, and I think, the President of the United States of America standing strongly with our ally Israel would have done well to at least in the first instance call on the Palestinians and their supporters across the Arab world to begin to see real concessions within the Palestinian movement, a real effort to defang Hamas, to disarm terrorists."
Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.
And it only got worse. It was terrible. My heart is heavy for my country and the free world.
The media can spin their subjugation and adulation a million different ways, but America
did not vote for a "Muslim presidency," which is what this is. Obama
deceitfully hid his Muslim background and schooling and his agenda. Little did America
know that Obama's objective would be a conversion of this nation to
"the largest Muslim country in the world". From the moment he spoke as President, in the inaugural address, Islam was falsely given a preeminent place in the
creation of America. In this speech, he quoted from the Koran three times. Why doesn't anybody
comment on this? Why doesn't anyone ever comment on what he projected
vs. what he is? Why won't all those talking heads state the obvious?
The Asia Times said Obama made a mistake by speaking in Cairo.
“Why should the president of the United States address the ‘Muslim
world?,” it asked. “What would happen if the leader of a big country
addressed the ‘Christian world’? Half the world would giggle and the
other half would sulk."
“To speak to
the ‘Muslim world’ is to speak not to a fact, but rather to an
aspiration," the paper stated, "and that is the aspiration that Islam
shall be a global state religion as its founders intended. To address
this aspiration is to breathe life into it. For an American president
to validate such an aspiration is madness.”
He quoted extensively from the Koran.
In his typically anti-semitic fashion, Obama came down very hard on the Jews in his speech today to the Muslim world.(Full text of speech here)
MK Aryeh Eldad in Israel said, "Obama makes a shocking parallel between the destruction of European
Jewry and the suffering that the Arabs of Israel brought upon
themselves when they declared war on Israel."
“If Obama does not understand the difference between them, perhaps he will understand it better when he visits the
concentration camp in the comings days. And if he doesn’t understand it
even there, then Islam will once again teach it to him, just as it
taught his predecessor on 9/11.”
The moral equivalence did not end there. Obama equated "the two peoples":
America will not turn our backs on the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity, and a state of their own.
For decades, there has been a stalemate: two peoples with legitimate
aspirations, each with a painful history that makes compromise elusive.
It is easy to point fingers – for Palestinians to point to the
displacement brought by Israel’s founding, and for Israelis to point to
the constant hostility and attacks throughout its history from within
its borders as well as beyond. But if we see this conflict only from
one side or the other, then we will be blind to the truth: the only
resolution is for the aspirations of both sides to be met through two
states, where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security.
There has not been a day, not one day, since the birth of modern Israel when she was not under attack by the Arabs. Not one.There are 25 Arab/Islamic countries, one tiny Jewish state. There is already a "two state solution" in place. Jordan is Palestine. Muslims in Gaza were given whole industries, factories (a way to make a living) and billions and billions in aid, to what end? Jewish genocide.
Israel must also live up to its obligations to ensure that Palestinians can live, and work, and develop their society.
Who is stopping them? They live to hate the Jews, and yet Obama insists the Jews be responsible for their executioners - this is rich.
I say, NO MORE LAND FOR ISLAM. NO MORE ISLAMIC COLONIALISM!
Obama's speech was a lesson in taqiya (lies to advance Islam). He called Islam a force of
religious tolerance and racial equality ..... in the face of all the barbarism. He stated that “Muslims have
enriched the U.S. and have won Nobel prizes.” They have, in fact, received less than a handful of the international Nobel prizes. It is an interesting point to make, considering the glaring omission of the Jews contribution to humanity. Here are the facts:
The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000, or 20% of the world population. They received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature 1988 - Najib Mahfooz.
Peace: 1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat 1994 - Yaser Arafat
Physics: 1999 - Ahmed Zewail
Medicine: 1960 - Peter Brian Medawar [UPDATE:Atheist/agnostic, not Muslim, and only half Arab] 1998 - Ferid Mourad
The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000, or about 0.002% of the world population.
I think the part where he compares Israelis with white supremacists to be most enlightening. Jews suffered under Hitler...."Palestinians" suffer under occupation.
His perfect pronunciation of 'Koran' and assalaamu alaykum in the Arabic way is certainly code for his Muslim bonafides. "Peace be upon them all (the prophets)".
He spoke of Cairo University being a source of Egypt’s advancement. Has he read the work of the leading scholars of Islam at Cairo University? No mention of the terrible hate taught at these universities. Dr. Bostom has written volumes on just this thing. Go here.
Obama spoke about the tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims - but who denies, oppresses and abuses the Muslims worse than the Muslims? Colonialism is the strawman used by haters of the West. Why doesn't Obama speak of Islamic supremacism and Islamic expansionism?
More dangerous nonsense: "the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam." Yes, the West is hostile to misogyny, honor killings, racism, Jew hatred .............ugh.
As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. It was Islam – at places like Al-Azhar University – that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed.
What revisionist nonsense. Do show us "how the arrival and steady
spread of Islam, where it did spread, and was not opposed, made the
world "a better place"?" More here. What advancements were made in Science, Medicine, Technology? These are Islamic lies: here's a starting point, and Fjordman has written a great deal about this very thing. This is a lie just as Palestine is an Islamic lie.
I think I should cite the Pope, when he quoted a Byzantine emperor who linked Islam to
violence."Show me just what Mohammed
brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such
as his command to spread by the sword the faith he
preached."
America was not immune from Obama's flair for historical revisionism.
I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America’s story. The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco. In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President John Adams wrote, "The United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims." And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. They have fought in our wars, served in government, stood for civil rights, started businesses, taught at our Universities, excelled in our sports arenas, won Nobel Prizes, built our tallest building, and lit the Olympic Torch. And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers – Thomas Jefferson – kept in his personal library.
How amusing that Obama would bring up Tripoli, a war America had to fight against the Barbary Muslim pirates, and won. Another war against the historically aggressive and belligerent Islam. It seems disingenuous that Obama's pull quote from John Adams (which was a negotiated point in a peace agreement). How ridiculous.
Here is what John Adams's son, John Quincy Adams, said about Islam:
In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.
And Muslims have fought in our wars? Perhaps this is a recent development. The Muslims fought with Hitler - it's hard to know what Obama is talking about.
Obama said: "And I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear." No, it is his responsibility to represent America, all Americans. I think Islam should fight "stereotypes" in thought and in deed.
"In Ankara, I made clear that America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam." Obama has promised. But what if Islam is at war with us? What if Islam attacks America again? What then? Bin Laden reiterated, again today, "the long war against the infidels".
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden
called for a long war against "infidels and their agents" and warned
Muslims that alliances with Christians and Jews would turn them into
apostates.
"We either live under the light of Islam or we die with dignity ...
brace yourselves for a long war against the world's infidels and their
agents," bin Laden said in the recording posted on an Islamist website
on Thursday.
Bin Laden said Obama had planted "seeds of hatred" among Muslims. His
deputy Ayman al-Zawahri called the U.S. president a criminal in another
recording on Tuesday and warned Muslims against falling for his
polished words.
Obama said,
"Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace"
Is such a big lie even possible after all we have been through as a nation?
Obama declared Iran's right to peaceful nuclear power. The mullahs must have been dancing naked in the forest. We, in America, are not allowed clean nuclear power (or drill our own oil); instead we must buy foreign oil and fund the jihad. But the Islamic jihadi regime of Iran can develop nuclear technology and energy. This was incredible.
Obama: In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically-elected Iranian government.
Yes, Obama said that, and went on to say the most ridiculous statement uttered by a grown man:
I understand those who protest that some countries have weapons that others do not. No single nation should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons. That is why I strongly reaffirmed America’s commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons. And any nation – including Iran – should have the right to access peaceful nuclear power if it complies with its responsibilities under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. That commitment is at the core of the Treaty, and it must be kept for all who fully abide by it. And I am hopeful that all countries in the region can share in this goal.
Such stupidity is breathtaking. At least I hope that he is stupid and not evil. Nuclear weapons in the hands of democratic, righteous nations have kept evil in check over the past 50 years. Does Hussein believe that evil will give up its weapons of mass destruction? They say he is not a stupid man. So what is he?
Children in Israel during bomb drill
On democracy, Obama said:
So let me be clear: no system of government can or should be imposed upon one nation by any other.
Really, that's news to Japan and Germany post WW2. And that's news to all of the previously Christian nations that were barbarically destroyed and taken over by Islam ..... and there are all those cute little Soviet Republics.
And then, this chestnut:
This last point is important because there are some who advocate for democracy only when they are out of power; once in power, they are ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.
It sounds autobiographical ................
Obama preached about religious freedom -- speaking in a country where there is none. And that goes also for Obama's visit yesterday to Saudi Arabia.
Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. We see it in the history of Andalusia and Cordoba during the Inquisition. I saw it firsthand as a child in Indonesia, where devout Christians worshiped freely in an overwhelmingly Muslim country. That is the spirit we need today.
Obama was ugly and stern with the Jews in his speech - NO MORE SETTLEMENTS! (And stood there waiting for applause for his Jewish ethnic cleansing). As if Jews wanting to live in peace and security was a war against humanity. In the same breath, Obama SPOKE OF CHRISTIANS IN MUSLIM COUNTRIES AS "Christians [who] worshiped freely in an overwhelmingly Muslim country".
And Obama's service to Islam did not stop there. His next jawdropper:
OBAMA: For instance, in the United States, rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation. That is why I am committed to working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat.
More money for jihad. Think Holy Land foundation. Islamic charities fund jihad.
OBAMA: Likewise, it is important for Western countries to avoid impeding Muslim citizens from practicing religion as they see fit – for instance, by dictating what clothes a Muslim woman should wear. We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism.
One assault on free men (and women) after another:
The sixth issue that I want to address is women’s rights. I know there is debate about this issue. I reject the view of some in the West that a woman who chooses to cover her hair is somehow less equal, but I do believe that a woman who is denied an education is denied equality. And it is no coincidence that countries where women are well-educated are far more likely to be prosperous. Now let me be clear: issues of women’s equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam. In Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia, we have seen Muslim-majority countries elect a woman to lead. Meanwhile, the struggle for women’s equality continues in many aspects of American life, and in countries around the world.
THE STRUGGLE FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY CONTINUES IN MANY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN LIFE.
Iranian execution
Rape victim lashed
FGM - clitorectomy
Amina and Sarah said, Honor Killing victims in Texas
Obama continued:
I do not believe that women must make the same choices as men in order to be equal, and I respect those women who choose to live their lives in traditional roles. But it should be their choice.
Traditional roles for women in Islam. Oh, the humanity.
Making the world safe for Islamic male oppression, subjugation and ownership.
"That
is why the U.S. government has gone to court to protect the right of
women and girls to wear the hijab, and to punish those who would deny
it."
He goes on to say he will increase Muslim students coming into this country.
On education, we will expand exchange programs, and increase scholarships, like the one that brought my father to America, while encouraging more Americans to study in Muslim communities. And we will match promising Muslim students with internships in America
And as our country goes bankrupt:
We will open centers of scientific excellence in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and appoint new Science Envoys to collaborate on programs that develop new sources of energy, create green jobs, digitize records, clean water, and grow new crops. And today I am announcing a new global effort with the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
The Organization of the Islamic Conference.
Obama never once mentioned terror or terrorism. Not once. He never mentioned democracy in Iraq, Afghanistan or the lack of it in Saudi Arabia, Egypt ....... He actually spoke of the savages, Hamas, with .... respect.
The Palestinian Authority must develop its capacity to govern, with institutions that serve the needs of its people. Hamas does have support among some Palestinians, but they also have responsibilities.
If there is one thing that is perfectly clear, it's that Obama cannot distinguish between good and evil, right and wrong, and this puts us all in grave danger.
OBAMA: The Holy Koran tells us, “O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.”
And may God’s peace be upon you.
Got it?
Israel MK Zevulun Orlev said upon hearing Obama's speech: "The speech arouses fears and concerns regarding the future of American relations towards Israel. I fear an erosion of the traditional American commitment to Israel’s security needs and its very existence and independence. Our response must not be to cave in, but rather to have dialogue with, and persuade the Administration, while waging an emergency call-up of all the resources of Israel and the Jewish nation. ”
I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be
hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years,
Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning,
and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source
of Egypt's advancement. Together, you represent the harmony between
tradition and progress. I am grateful for your hospitality, and the
hospitality of the people of Egypt. I am also proud to carry with me
the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace from
Muslim communities in my country: assalaamu alaykum.
According to Islamic law, a Muslim may only extend this greeting --
Peace be upon you -- to a fellow Muslim. To a non-Muslim he is to say,
"Peace be upon those who are rightly guided," i.e., Peace be upon the
Muslims. Islamic law is silent about what Muslims must do when naive
non-Muslim Islamophilic Presidents offer the greeting to Muslims...
Enough with the rest of Obama's speech, it's just more of what I've heard already, when I sat in on a seminar to hear the OIC's Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu give a talk about "Islam in Europe". I'm sure that the OIC 's Secretary General is now grinning from ear to ear after hearing Obama promote everyone of his talking points, and with the backing of the United States of America...
It's Thursday, it must be Cairo. Here's Obama's wrap up today. Something for
everyone.:
The Holy Koran tells us, "O mankind! We have created
you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you
may know one another."
The Talmud tells us: "The whole of the Torah is for
the purpose of promoting peace."
The Holy Bible tells us, "Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called sons of God."
NB: The entire White House research
staff couldn't come up with a Koranic verse that, like Obama's Jewish and
Christian examples, explicitly extols the virtues of "peace." Still, Obama's
selection from the Koran was the next best thing. It occurs in a section called
"The Chambers," one of the most soothing (and atypical)
in all of the Koran, and certainly a change of pace from the previous chapter,
"The Victory," where you'll find one of Islam's
recurring themes: "And whoever does not believe in Allah and His Apostle,
then surely We have prepared burning fire for the
unbelievers." (48.13)
Here, take a random walk through the Koran yourself and
see what you find.
Oh, and while we're on the subject of the Torah, Mr,
President, here's what the Torah's most authoritative commentator, our great
sage Rashi, has to say about its "purpose": Why, then,
does the Torah begin with the story of Creation? Rashi answers, “For should the people of the world say to Israel, ‘You are
robbers, for you took by force the land of the seven nations of Canaan,’ Israel
may reply to them, ‘All the earth belongs to the Holy One, Blessed Be He; He
created it and gave it to whom He pleased.’
The mention of terror group Hamas as a leader of Palestinians has some wondering just how far President Obama is going to change U.S. policy toward the Mideast. FOX News
UPDATE: BTW, Mubarak was not there. The Muslim Brotherhood was, but not the President of the country.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will not be among 3,000 people to attend U.S. President Barack Obama’s historic speech shortly after noon Thursday, a possible bad omen for the American leader trying to win respect in the Muslim world.
The official reason for his absence is the death of his 12-year-old grandson, but the child died in mid-May after health complications. Mubarak’s eldest son Jamal will stand in for his father, according to the independent Egyptian daily al-Masry al-Youm. Jamal is viewed as the future heir to take over as president of Egypt.
Remarks of President Barack Obama A New Beginning Cairo, Egypt June 4, 2009
I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt’s advancement. Together, you represent the harmony between tradition and progress. I am grateful for your hospitality, and the hospitality of the people of Egypt. I am also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: assalaamu alaykum.
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