“I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”
Not Catholicism. Not Judaism. Only Islam.
Instead, they overlap, and share common principles — principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
I also know civilization’s debt to Islam.
More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims…
Anti-colonialism, you say?
The Obama administration’s Department of Justice official Edward Perez, who is the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, refuses to say that his department won’t attempt to criminalize blasphemy in the future.
The video:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wwv9l6W8yc[/youtube]
Where is this headed? To this:
What an American President should be doing is to be telling the Islamic world that the US honors free speech and it is guaranteed by our Constitution and we have no intention of ending that freedom nor matter who is offended by it. We should NOT be kowtowing to Islam, which is what is happening right now. Islam needs to make accommodations to democracy, not the other way around.
I have little use for a religion which condones and encourages the murder of those who have nothing to do with the perceived offense, even you’re really gullible enough to believe this is all about a movie (It’s not).
Rising anger provoked by an anti-Islam film has seen protestors storm U.S. embassies in Muslim countries from Egypt to Yemen, where four people have been killed and dozens others injured.
Chanting ‘death to America’, hundreds of protestors marched on the U.S. Embassy compound in Yemen’s capital today, where they burned the American flag, used stones to smash windows, and set fire to cars, before breaking through the main gate of the heavily fortified compound in eastern Sana’a.
I have little use for a religion which is perpetually offended by pretty much anything and everything.
I have absolutely no use for a President who holds Islam in higher regard than the Constitution he swore to defend.
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DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
president bongo has and will violate our constitution when ever it suits him and his gang of commie traitors.this entire administration needs to be arrested for treason and excuted after a trial by veterans.
BRUCE
YES SIR RIGHT AFTER THE ELECTION , WHICH WILL ROCK
WITH MITT ROMNEY AND PAUL RYAN,
Egypt has issued arrest warrants for Florida Pastor Terry Jones and seven Coptic Christian Egyptians including Nakoula Bassely Nakoula.
If they face their charges IN EGYPT they can get the DEATH PENALTY.
One question for Obama: will you extradite them?
DrJohn
YES TO YOUR POST, THEY WON’T CHANGE AMERICA,
THEY HAVE TO CHANGE THEMSELVES, AND KILL THEIR OWN MURDERERS,
IT’S A TREND WITH THEM INGRAINED IN THEIR CORE, THEY HAVE TO TAKE THEIR CORE
AND DESTROY IT, BEFORE WE CAN EVEN LOOK AT THEM AS HUMAN
Council Of Shia Muslim Scholars In North America Demands Government Submit To Sharia & Censor Innocence Of Muslims
http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.ca/2012/09/council-of-shia-muslim-scholars-in.html
What this White House needs to see is about 30 million angry armed citizens gathered around the building (WH) chanting death to the muslim brotherhood, death to islam. If they want a religious war, it would be a good idea to see who has the most weapons. I know I have dipped all my bullets in bacon grease. Just for lubrication and sending certain believers to hell.
He SWORE to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America….
He hates the Constitution of the United States of America
How can anyone in their ‘right mind’ TRUST this President???
NOW ABOUT THE SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER
-HOW NO ONE GETS A REASSIGNED SS NUMBER
An intensive investigation has revealed the identity of the man whose Social Security number (SSN) is being used by President Obama:
-Jean Paul Ludwig, who was born in France in 1890,
– Immigrated to the United States in 1924, and
– Was assigned SSN 042-68-4425 (Obama’s current SSN) on or about March 1977.
Ludwig lived most of his adult life in Connecticut . Because of that, his SSN begins with the digits 042, which are among only a select few reserved for Connecticut residents.|:
-Obama never lived or worked in that state!
– Therefore, there is no reason on earth for his SSN to start with the digits 042.
– None whatsoever!
Now comes the best part! Ludwig spent the final months of his life in
Hawaii , where he died. Conveniently, Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, worked:
– Part-time in the Probate Office in the Honolulu Hawaii Courthouse, and
– Therefore had access to the SSNs of deceased individuals.
– The Social Security Administration was never informed of Ludwig’s death, and
– Because he never received Social Security benefits there were no benefits to stop and
– Therefore, no questions were ever raised.
The suspicion, of course, is that Dunham, knowing her grandson was not
a U.S. Citizen, either because he was born in Kenya or became a citizen
of Indonesia upon his adoption by Lolo Soetoro simply scoured the
probate records until she found someone who died who was not receiving
Social Security benefits, and selected Mr. Ludwig’s Connecticut SSN for Obama.
I know where my birth certificate came from and I strongly suspect that Obama’s came from an Adobe software program and not in an Adobe construction.
I personally believe the Muslim religion should be declared a terrorist organization. How many other organizations would be allowed a policy of, “Join our organization, or we will kill you, and if you leave it, we will kill you,” and not be declared a terrorist organization?
@FAITH7: Your comment is a bunch of emotional nonsense without any empirical evidence.
@Nan G: I think I (and any reasonable minded person) can answer that question: NO
The initial statement of this article is just another example of how the ultra-right-wing’s ideological considerations influence their logical processes. The statement, “…to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear…” does not excluded “… Catholicism… Judaism… (and not) Islam….” Instead, the statement can be construed just to be talking about one religion, as a class of many religions—a larger class.
The importance of the fact that there is no necessary implication that the statement concerned includes one religion, to the exclusion of other religions, illustrates a general bias when interpreting English language statements.
This criticism might seem somewhat esoteric in nature, but it lies at the heart of many conservative misunderstandings—drawing unwarranted conclusions, where they don’t exist—but which nevertheless feed their anger.
@liberal1(objectivity):
How long did you have to think about your response to come up with that bit of clap-trap? Obama was clearly speaking of only one religion, Islam. When you have to use terms like “could be, might be, can be construed, I think he meant” then you are just spinning like a top, and a cheap one at that.
DOMESTICALLY:
The first opinion poll after last week’s attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya has recorded a five-point drop in approval for Obama’s handling of foreign policy.
“The fall was steeper among independents, going from 53 percent in August to 41 percent,” NBC reported.
The new poll recorded Obama’s foreign policy disapproval rate at 46 percent, up from 40 since last month. That ties with the April 2011 result as the highest disapproval rate for Obama’s handling of foreign policy, as measured by the 18 NBC/Wall Street Journal polls since shortly after he took office.
INTERNATIONALLY:
Despite Obama’s background and deliberate outreach to the Islamic world, international opinion polls have not found an improvement in America’s standing in the eyes of Muslims.
Pew Global Attitudes Project survey last June found that in four key Muslim countries – Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon – U.S. favorability ratings were even lower in 2012 than they were in 2008.
A Zogby International poll in mid-2011 found that favorable views of the U.S. had dropped by more than half in six Arab countries over two years, from an average 33 percent in 2009 to 15 percent in 2011. The countries were Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.
In a Pew poll conducted two months after Hosni Mubarak’s departure, 79 percent of Egyptians viewed the U.S. in an unfavorable light – 10 percent more than the 69 percent measured in 2006.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/09/19/8-takeaways-from-the-nbc-wall-street-journal-poll/
Obama said this in his weekly address:
What kind of place would the US have been IF the Founders’ believed we should REJECT the denigration of any religion?
Well, Obama’s ”church” for 20 years would never have been allowed to be founded.
James Cone, the founder of black liberation theology offered a blasphemous challenge to church leaders in the United States…..
OOPS!
Obama didn’t think it through, did he?
But, even before that, what if no Christians had stood up to the Catholic leadership who knew Latin and only shared what parts of their Bible as needs be to keep their flock under foot?
OOPS!
Obama was STONED all through his history classes, wasn’t he?
And even before that, Jesus was highly critical of his own congregations, 5 out of 7, as he spoke of them being not prepared for his coming back (Sardis) , putting up with false teachers (Philedelphia) , for lacking enthusiasm (Laodicea) and so on…and earlier in his life Jesus was HIGHLY denigrating of what the Jewish religion had devolved into.
But let’s go to Obama’s seeming favorite, Islam.
Mohammad was incredibly critical of both Judaism and Christianity, even teaching that only HE had proper translations of the Hebrew and Greek scriptures.
Where the real Bible and Mohammad’s version differ ( a lot, btw) Muslims to this day believe their version is correct in the face of archeologic and theologic evidence.
They VIOLENTLY back up their cracked viewpoint.
Obama seems blind to that.
Liberal1[objectivity]
the MUSLIMS ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO KILL FOR THEIR RELIGION,
THEY HAVE DEMONSTRATED IT AGAIN FOR THE WORLD TO REGRET HAVING OPEN THEIR BORDERS FOR THEM FOR COMPASSION AND PITY FOR THEM WHO COME LIKE LAMBS PLEADING AND ACQUIESCING TO ANY LAWS PROMISSING TO ABIDE AND SAYING THEY ARE PEACEFUL ALONG WITH THEIR RELIGION, SO THE GOOD PEOPLE OF THE FREE WORLD ARE TAKING THAT MUCH LIES AND LETTING THEM EMIGRATE, THEN TIME PAST AND YOU SEE THE MONSTER HAS MULTIPLY WITH MULTIPLE HEADS, SCARING THE SHIT OUT OF THE CITIZENS WHO ARE STOCK WITH THEM,
TOO LATE FOR DEPORTING THEM BACK TO THEIR MISERY IN A CROWDED LAND WITH MULTIPLE WALKING BEINGS,