Obama said: “Whoever wants to enter paradise, the Prophet Muhammad taught, ‘let him treat people the way he would love to be treated.’” That saying comes from this hadith: It has been narrated on the authority of ‘Abd al-Rahman b. Abd Rabb al-Ka’ba who said: I entered the mosque when ‘Abdullah b. ‘Amr b. al-‘As […]
Obama: Islamic State says they’re “holy warriors who speak for Islam. I refuse to give them legitimacy.”
What makes Obama think that the Islamic State is looking to him for legitimacy? Where did he get the idea that any Muslim looks to any non-Muslim to legitimize his understanding of Islam? The Qur’an calls Muslims “the best of people” (3:110) and unbelievers “the most vile of created beings” (98:6). Does Obama think that […]
Obama: “We can’t suggest that Islam itself is at the root of the problem. That betrays our values.”
How does it betray our values? He didn’t say. When did denial and willful ignorance become core American values? He didn’t say that, either. His chief support for his claim that the Islamic State is not Muslim and doesn’t represent Islam in any way was this: “The vast majority of the people they kill are […]
Obama to Muslims: “Your entire community so often is targeted or blamed for the violent acts of the very few”
Here again, Obama is repeating talking points from Hamas-linked CAIR and its allies. It is an extremely common complaint among Islamic supremacists in the U.S. that the entire Muslim community is being blamed for the actions of a few, that counter-terror efforts demonize innocent Muslims, and the like. Trump’s proposal for a temporary moratorium on […]
Obama to Christians: “If we’re serious about freedom of religion…an attack on one faith is an attack on all our faiths”
One of the most pernicious and least-remarked aspects of Obama’s speech at the Baltimore mosque Wednesday was that throughout it, he assumed that the religious freedom of Muslims was under attack in the United States. It is not. Obama is conflating legitimate concern about terrorism with attempts to infringe the First Amendment. He is taking […]
Obama had Georgetown U cover “JESUS” but didn’t have Baltimore mosque cover “ALLAH”
It was three and a half years ago: Obama asked Georgetown University to cover over IHS, which is an abbreviation for Jesus derived from IHΣ, the first three letters of the name Jesus in Greek, while he was speaking there. But yesterday Obama stood without hesitation under the Arabic for Allah at the Islamic Society […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Obama at Muslim Brotherhood-linked mosque: “Islam has always been part of America”
In FrontPage today I discuss the remarkable falsehoods Barack Obama purveyed at the Islamic Society of Baltimore yesterday. When Barack Obama visited the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Islamic Society of Baltimore on Wednesday, he said: “The first thing I want to say is two words that Muslim Americans don’t hear often enough: Thank you.” While Obama has been […]
Mosque Obama visited under FBI surveillance since 2010: one of its members plotted to blow up a federal building
Obama is the President of the United States. He must know all this. That he could plead ignorance of it is inconceivable. So in light of it, why did he go? And when he went, why did he not bother to include even a word about how the Muslims in the U.S., who he thinks […]
Video: Robert Spencer on Newsmax on Obama’s mosque visit
I appeared on Newsmax TV’s Steve Malzberg Show today to discuss Obama’s visit to the Islamic Society of Baltimore.
Obama at Islamic Society of Baltimore: “Muslim Americans keep us safe”
The apotheosis of the Muslim victimhood myth. FBI hate crime statistics show that the hysteria over “Islamophobia” is unfounded, but that matters not at all to Barack Obama. “Obama rebuts anti-Muslim rhetoric in first U.S. mosque visit,” by Kevin Liptak, PJ Media, February 3, 2016: (CNN)Seeking to rebut what he views as perilous election-year bombast […]