This video came out, uhhh, early in the, uhhh, primaries, but now that Dr. Smooth is the, umm, presumptive nominee and more people will start, uhhh, paying attention, it may be worth a careful second look.
Warning: He’s flying solo without the Teleprompter.
He says he will have credibility in the Muslim World because he lived there.
In an interview with the New York Times, he noted that when he lived in Indonesia, he attended a Muslim school, learned the Indonesian language (which he still speaks), and studied the Koran. He can still recite the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer and recited them “with a first-rate accent.”
Nicest of all, Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”
From Grand Old Partisan, the opening lines accompanying that prettiest soundtrack.
Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that Muhammad is his prophet…
While Obama may have cleaned up his act at the AIPAC conference last week, at the same conference in March, his “experience” (empathy?) concerning Muslims showed through.
Less experienced than Mrs. Clinton in the thicket of Jewish and Middle Eastern politics, he became a bit tangled in the eyes of some voters during his appearance Monday at the same conference that Mrs. Clinton attended, a forum sponsored by the America Israel Public Affairs Committee, known as Aipac.
Several Jewish conferencegoers said they were concerned by Mr. Obama’s remark Sunday in Iowa where, in a reference to the Middle East, he said, “Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people.”
None of which is to say Obama is a Muslim, but one of his grandfathers was a Muslim, and in his formative years he was immersed in the culture. Isn’t it legitimate to question his predispositions, sympathies, and biases toward particular groups based on his “experience?” Are we just supposed to accept the positive experiences he says he gained without some of the corollaries that go with them?
He told an audience in February.
Once I’m elected, I want to organize a summit in the Muslim world, with all the heads of state, to have an honest discussion about ways to bridge the gap that grows every day between Muslims and the West.
And what will he tell those Islamo-fascist regimes that have called for the destruction of the United States and Israel? Picture skinny little Obama, with his Harvard Mouth, telling Ahmadinejad, Assad, and Mubarak that he just wants everyone to get along. Obama would be the mouse in the snake pit. He wouldn’t be able to get the time of day, never mind any diminution of the centuries-old hatred of the the Jews and the West, which passes for Islamic foreign policy.
But there is no doubt he will get along just fine with Hamas.
Top Hamas political adviser Ahmed Yousef said the terrorist group supports Obama’s foreign policy vision.
“We don’t mind–actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will (win) the election and I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle, and he has a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community but not with domination and arrogance,” Yousef said . . .
So are we to be faulted for suggesting that if Obama’s experience growing up in a Muslim country gives him credibility with the Muslim world, that the other side of that coin makes him the preferred choice of Muslims, terrorist or otherwise?
Would his credibility in the Muslim world work to the detriment of our world?
H/T The Obama File
Also find Bill Dupray at The Patriot Room.
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