[Via FrontPage Magazine]
As the world reacts with shock and horror at the increasingly savage deeds of the Islamic State (IS)—in this case, the recent immolation of a captive—U.S. President Obama’s response has been one of nonjudgmental relativism.
Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast on February 5, Obama counseled Americans to get off their “high horse” and remember that Christians have been equally guilty of such atrocities:
Unless we get on our high horse and think this [beheadings, sex-slavery, crucifixion, roasting humans] is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.
There is so much to be said here. First, the obvious: the wide gulf between violence and hate “justified in the name of Christ” and violence and hate “justified in the name of Muhammad” is that Christ never justified it, while Muhammad continuously did.
This is not just a theoretic point; it is the very reason that Muslims are still committing savage atrocities. Every evil act IS commits—whether beheading, crucifying, raping, enslaving, or immolating humans—has precedents in the deeds of Muhammad, that most “perfect” and “moral” man, per Koran 33:21 and 68:4 (see “The Islamic State and Islam” for parallels).
Does Obama know something about Christ—who eschewed violence and told people to love and forgive their enemies—that we don’t? Perhaps he’s clinging to that solitary verse that academics like Philip Jenkins habitually highlight, that Christ—who “spoke to the multitudes in parables and without a parable spoke not” once said, “I come not to bring peace but a sword.” (Matt. 10:34, 13:34).
Jesus was not commanding violence against non-Christians but rather predicting that Christians will be persecuted, including by family members (as, for example, when a Muslim family slaughters their child for “apostatizing” to Christianity as happens frequently).
Conversely, in its fatwa justifying the burning of the Jordanian captive, the Islamic State cites Muhammad putting out the eyes of some with “heated irons” (he also cut their hands and feet off). The fatwa also cites Khalid bin al-Walid—the heroic “Sword of Allah”—who burned apostates to death, including one man whose head he set on fire to cook his dinner on.
Nor is the Islamic State alone in burning people. Recently a “mob accused of burning alive a Christian couple in an industrial kiln in Pakistan allegedly wrapped a pregnant mother in cotton so she would catch fire more easily.”
As for the Islamic “authorities,” Al Azhar—the Islamic world’s oldest and most prestigious university which cohosted Obama’s 2009 “New Beginning” speech—still assigns books that justify every barbarity IS commits, including burning people alive. Moreover, Al Azhar—a religious institution concerned with what is and is not Islamic—has called for the cutting off of the hands and feet of IS members, thereby legitimizing such acts according to Islamic law.
On the other hand, does Obama know of some secret document in the halls of the Vatican that calls for amputating, beheading or immolating enemies of Christ to support his religious relativism?… Keep reading
John C. Barile says
Mr. Obama is a hypocrite, indifferent to Muslim persecution of Christians.
Shane says
Like most left wingers, Obama is secretly glad that the Muslims are killing Christians as left wingers view Christians as their greatest enemies.
The Crusades were justified by Muslim aggression.
Why We Are Afraid, A 1,400 Year Secret http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Qpy0mXg8Y
The Crusades: A Defensive Response to Islamic Aggression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2OyapO4TNo&list=PL0190DA95A29367A7
Richie says
Its the oddest thing- atheists on the left who delight in mocking Christians often defend Islam. They want Christian wiped out, and see the Muslims as being an ally in this cause- The leftists fail to realize Muslims will kill them with equal ease. The only atheists Ive heard go after Islam without fear is pat Condell and the late Christopher Hitchens
biff says
Progressives are ok with lies and manipulation as long as it fits their end game. In the minds of the self anointed the ends justify the means.
The jokes really on the US population itself.
They elected a president who spends all his time, energy, money etc on things that disassemble the country that elected him. He despises everything about America that differentiates it from Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt etc. All the success spots in the world.
On paper, the job of president would seem to be to look after the people that elected you.
Instead it’s bolstering the unemployment with immigrants. Breaking down walls to talk to communists in Cuba, CAIR, endless nonsense about “Islam the religion of peace” while citizens get slaughtered.
Press Corps interviews from the twilight zone. Verbal gymnastics as a solution to every problem.
It’s sucking up to Saudi Arabia days after Charlie Hebdo.
It’s about symbolic environmentalism and something he heard about once called a “pipeline”.
It’s bailing out wall street friends and the revolving door of people back and forth between Washington and NY.
I’m pretty sure that in the history books, the Obama socialist radical enviromentalist muslim sympathizer years will be pinned as the period when the USA really started accelerating their own destruction.
Until this point it’s always felt that the USA would decline, but we would never be alive to see it.
In the last few years it’s become quite clear how fast and easily a country can be destroyed from the inside.
Decline of the Roman Empire is the template for what goes down next.
The USA will eventually fragment into dysfunctional states aligned with each other.
(I’m not American and don;t live in the USA)
Spot On says
You are right. Obama is defending his killer friends. How would it be if a violent killer, while standing in front of a judge told the judge to get off his “high horse” because an ancestor of the judge did some bad things 1000 or 10000 years ago. What kind corrupt logic is this?
Actually, before and during the Crusades, it was common for Muslims to kidnap young Christian children. The girls were turned into concubines and the boys were castrated and used as slave soldiers or servants. See the authoritive book “Slave Soldiers” for factual historical accounts of this Islamic savagery. This would have been reason enough for Christians to go to war.
Ahmed says
MURDERERS. That is what should be used to be accurate. Killing happens in a combat with equal chance to be killed.
thomas pellow says
“The Historical Reality of the Muslim Conquests”
by Raymond Ibrahim,
‘Jihad Watch’
(March 2012).
http://www.meforum.org/3182/history-muslim-conquests
jihad3tracker says
This article brings up an extremely important fact about Islam — a fact that is often overlooked : MUHAMMAD IS REGARDED BY MUSLIMS AS THE IDEAL MAN . . .
IF HE DID SOMETHING, ALL MUSLIMS MAY DO THAT VERY SAME DEED.
Most of the time, when talking about the violence of Islamic supremacist jihad committed around the world, the writer cites a chapter and verse in the Qur’an which permits or encourages that violence, but does not go on to include the many times Muhammad was murderous against his fellow humans.
G. Hardy says
This man is bereft of any principles, any faith, or any backbone. He’s only sympathetic to Islam because he’s a leftist, and they habitually defend this horrible creed because they somehow consider it a third world phenomenon, and because they loathe Christianity and the west.
He clearly knows nothing about the crusades, which started when Alexios Comnenos appealed for western help against ongoing Islamic incursions into the east of his empire following the Battle of Manzikert. I doubt whether Barack Hussein Obama has ever heard of Emperor Alexios or Manzikert. A typical ignorant, smug, self-satisfied, politically correct, culturally Marxist modern ‘man’, who is used to being lionised for rmouthing platitudes and cliches.
Alexius Comnenus says
You are among the very few Americans who know the history. Obama does not know nothing about the real history. The crusades were infact a reaction to the many centuries of genocide, crime against humanity the muslims were doing in the name of their islam. Obama never heard about Charles Martel and his oustanding victory at Tours Oct. 10 732, or the gratest naval battle at Lepanto Oct. 7, 1571, or the victory of the Christians at Vienna Sept. 13, 1683.
Islam wants to subdue the entire world and murder all its oponents.
My compliments to you Hardys.
Alexius
Kakodaemon says
Alexius,There was a time when American’s were ignorant of the true nature of the Crusades and historic Muslim aggression, because for years people were taught the progressive left’s version of it in schools and in the media and movies.
But recently, I have been reading many comment sections in mainstream news sites, , at least 80 percent of people know the truth about the defensive nature of the Crusades, due to sites like JW, and others.
Jaladhi says
A Muslim will never ever criticize another Muslim!!! He blames crusades ffor Christian atrocities during crusades but does remember what Muslims did in their holy jihad which finally prompted the reaction of crusades. No He won’t “remember” that since his fellow sunnah member could do nothing atrocious. Just like other Muslims his definition of evil and good is completely reversed – evil is good(done by Muslims) and good is evil(done by non-Muslims)!!
Shame on the people who elected him twice a leader of a great country which going down the drain fast!
Don McKellar says
Moslems criticize and murder each other (as a form of criticism) all the time. They do not criticize Islam. Big difference.
voegelinian says
“Moslems criticize and murder each other (as a form of criticism) all the time. ”
Only in terms of re-defining the other Muslim as no longer a (true) Muslim. So, from their perspective, it’s not Muslim-vs.-Muslim criticism/killing.
deja vu says
Written by the prophet Isaiah 700 yeas before the birth of Christ:
“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness….
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
And prudent in their own sight!” Isaiah 5:20-21
Champ says
A Muslim will never ever criticize another Muslim!!!
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So true, Jaladhi! ..and they won’t even speak the *truth* about their evil prophet, either. To them muhammad is the ‘perfect man’; which is, of course, ridiculous!
jihad3tracker says
Yes, Martin, proof is the perfect word for WHAT WE SEE OBAMA DOING AT THE “PRAYER” BREAKFAST.
That coming-together of people was an “OK” time for the president to step out of his non-sectarian, non-religious official role — AND BE A CHRISTIAN ! ! !
BUT WHAT HE DID INSTEAD IS SHOW HIS CONTEMPT FOR JESUS, THE CHRIST.
The more I reflect on his remarks, the more astonished I am at how transparently he revealed his DISTANCE FROM REAL LOVE FOR THE “SON OF GOD” . . .
I am not a Christian, thus having no emotional investment in being unfair to Obama — but I and ANY PERCEPTIVE PERSON can see where BHO’s actual religious attachment is : TO ISLAM.
Joseph says
Great Martin I’ll be there right by your side. In our free time I’ll tell you about Jesus Christ.
Joseph says
OK, how about between machine gun bursts then? Remember, they say that there are no atheists in foxholes. Agnostics either. It still will be a great time though.
Kakodaemon says
BHO is no Christian, he joined Jeremiah Wright’s church in Chicago because it furthered his political career. He’s a phony. He is a secular atheist. But he is very sympathetic to Islam.
His professed Christianity is as faked as his professed patriotism.
Champ says
Kakodaemon, I agree, obama is NOT a Christian …hear, hear!
Joseph says
Martin, that would be great. We could talk all day in between the “head shot” count game. Hope you like fishing too.
One more thing… THANK YOU for serving, you honor your country and freedom.
Lu says
I am an atheist too – but this is not about religion, it is about civilization, about us – the West.
Our ancestors worked and fought hard to get us where we are – free people living safely in our countries. Barbaric cult is trying to subdue us and undo hundreds of years of struggle for freedom.
In this fight Christians and all other religions are my allies. None of them is trying to kill me for being infidel … so please understand this clearly. Educated atheists are fighting side by side with you for the same freedom we all in West (still) enjoy.
Champ says
I am agnostic, atheist what ever….. but I don’t see Christians, Buddists, Jews, Sikhs, Hindu’s etc…. doing what mudslimes are doing, I would fight for any of the above, and fight against islam…
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Awesome, Martin Infidel! …you’re a good man for clarifying your position and for stating that; since a few atheists, here, prefer taking shots at *anyone* that believes in God on Jihad Watch, rather than taking aim at the real enemy: islam & company. Bravo!
Joseph says
Gee, I thought Martin n’ I were getting along just fine. Religion was dropped and I think I found a real Brit friend. You are correct that Islam is the issue here but the little side talk of fishing, machining and cars was nice. I also don’t snub my nose at atheists or agnostics, especially when they got my 6 or sitting across from me at the dinner table
Martin, fishing here in the US is great but there are days where you still get skunked(not a single bite all day)
Champ says
This is a public forum, so there are no private conversations; and I have many great friends, here, whom are both agnostic and atheist, and they never resort to insulting Christians, etc.
Joseph says
If I insulted anyone I apologize.
jayell says
“Obarmy is a muslim of the highest order”. Absolutely. We all which team HE bats for. He’s simply parroting the rubbish that ‘good muslims’ spout. Ignore him.
cs says
He is full of taqqiyya.
Don McKellar says
What were the dates for the Inquisition and the Crusades, again? Hundreds of years ago. HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO, Obama, you tool! WHO CARES?
But on the other hand, turning it back on him: Those Christians on the Crusades and the Inquisition were the most pious and devout of Christians. So he is saying that ISIS are indeed the most pious of moslems, isn’t he? YES YOU ARE, OBAMA. GOTCHA! ISIS (and all the rest of the Islamic terrorist groups) is the equivalant of the Catholic Church back during the Crusades and the Inquisition. ie: the true, leading centre of that religion. No escape, Obama. You said it.
biff says
Really only one thing for you Americans out there.
Please, no more Muslim Presidents in 2017.
petey says
and no more Hilarys either…PLEASE…
vox populi says
do I read correctly what Mr Oblablama says, i.e. that in terms of “weltanschaaung”, behavioral, cultural and historical evolution, and level of respect for human being and life, today’s islam is not better than the average medieval inquisitor and / or crusader ?
Shall this blatant accusation and public comparison of islam to a retrograd, medieval and primitive behavior not be considered as a plain islamophobic consideration ?
Kevin Walker says
Crusades were in defence, self-preservation. Whereas mohammedan transgression is always an offense, an attempt to subjugate other cultures.
Champ says
Crusades were in defence, self-preservation. Whereas mohammedan transgression is always an offense, an attempt to subjugate other cultures.
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Indeed, Kevin Walker! …I wholly agree.
AnneM says
Mr. Obama’s nose just got longer with all the lies he said.
Champ says
…in his case his ears keep getting bigger 🙂
Angemon says
Indeed there is, but it’s unlikely to change the minds of Obamaphiles and “progressives” – facts that don’t fit the narrative are to be discarded.
Renee says
The sword that Christ refers to is the Word He speaks! That is why the apostles say to put on the armor of Gods Word. Jesus says that his words are LIKE a sword, because it is the truth, it will divide dark and light and lie from truth. Jesus never tells us to use a real sword. When muslims say allah is one and raise one finger as a sign, does that mean that he is a number or a finger? Surely not.
By the way, how many babies cut to pieces in the name of CHOICE these days?
John Stefan Obeda says
“Jesus never tells us to use a real sword”. So I quote you Renee. Let me add this thought Renee. The Spirit of Jesus inspired the apostle Paul to write: “. . . for he (the government) is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.” (Romans 13:4). Many believe, as I do, that the “sword” of which Paul speaks here is the sword of execution, i.e. capital punishment.
Katnis says
Thanks for this article. It’s important to read and understand this again and again and again.
It is also not ok to try and equate Christianity with Islam in any way. Obama is either very misinformed or he is lying.
Lurene Gisee says
My first thought was that we’re not back in the era of the Crusades. It’s February of 2015 and the Crusades, the Salem Witch Trials, Prohibition and the like are all history. HISTORY. We want to discuss the here and now and so should our president. He is speaking foolishly.
pongidae rex says
This man is a Muslim. His election is one of the greatest frauds in American history.
Champ says
True!
Champ says
NOBAMA IS A NIGHTMARE AND THE PRESIDENT FROM HELL!
…sorry for yelling but this liar makes me sooo mad >:-|
Wellington says
I taught American history courses for many decades, first at the high school level and then at the college level. I can say unequivocally that Barack Obama is the only President about whom it can be said that he was a fool while Chief Executive. No other President since the Presidency began in 1789, when one of the greatest human beings who ever lived became America’s first President, was a fool. Yes, there were some sub-par Presidents to be sure, for instance Pierce, Buchanan and Carter, and there were Presidents who were decent men but who trusted their friends too much, for instance Grant and Harding, but no President (yes, not even Carter, though he comes the closest I think without being such) was a fool while President.
Obama is. Clearly. Irrefutably. Tragically. The man is appalling.
Champ says
obama stated:
Unless we get on our high horse and think this [beheadings, sex-slavery, crucifixion, roasting humans] is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.
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I’ve heard malevolent mohammedans–and their ilk–make similar statements like this, but for the president of the United States to say these things goes beyond the pale!!! …it’s completely insane that he’s our president. Beam me up Scottie! lol!
Wellington says
Ditto, Champ. He is simply horrible.
Ed says
Calm down infidels! Caliphate-in-Chief also insulted Isslam by saying that Islamic State is not Islamic.
Lurene Gisee says
Whether they are “true” to Islam or not, I don’t care. You can call them the Micky Mouse Empire for all I care. What matters is that they are comparable to the monsters of history like Pol Pot in Cambodia, Jim Jones of The People’s Temple Mass Murder and Vladimir Lenin who murdered, starved and tortured millions of his own people. One does not need to add the Nazis. The world knows full well what ISIS is and what the key problems with Islam are today — Iran, multiple dictatorial states, etc. Call me an Islamophobe. I don’t care. In fact, I admit it. But to me, it’s not a religion, it’s a philosophy of dictatorialism and financial theft across nation states. Like, when Arafat died, he had millions. His wife took the millions to Paris for years of shopping sprees. The folks in Gaza, as folks in other Islamic states, were ripped off of their own people’s wealth.
Abraham says
What was troubling with his speech is that no none stood up and rebuked the President for it. The audience sat there quietly and allowed him to make a comparison between Islam and Christianity.
Islofob IS-1 says
I read Obama’s polls were heading up last week. we at 50% and heading higher.
Then he goes off the “prompt” and for the second time confirms his faith.
The American people are again getting a wake up call, islam and those who follow it. Just listen to our “leader”, the thing is ringing off the wall.
Mirren10 says
Just another witless moral equivalencer, who spouts the same utter rubbish we have so often read here, from mohammedans and their useful idiot apologists.
But what is **horrifying** is that this is coming from the **President of the United States**, the so-called ‘leader of the free world’. What is even *more* horrifying, is that no-one at that ‘Breakfast’ had the moral courage to stand up and point out what utter nonsense this drivel is.
But I suppose one shouldn’t expect anything better from obama; this is the moral cretin, after all, who spoke to the UN, saying ”the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of islam”, and who said in his ghost written ‘autobiography’, that if the political winds changed in an ugly direction, he would *stand with the muslims *.
Really, the creature couldn’t have made his intentions any more clear. IS has pointed up, with dramatic clarity, what islam stands for, backed up with copious quotes from koran, hadith and sunnah, so obama is just doing what he clearly stated he would do.
Gord Peters says
It is ridiculous for Obama to compare the atrocities of Islam (sanctioned by their holy book) to those acts committed by ‘self proclaimed’ Christians (who were not real Christians at all, and had no support from the Bible) during the crusades.
Momma says
Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast on February 5, Obama counseled Americans to get off their “high horse” and remember that Christians have been equally guilty of such atrocities:
Funny how Obama had to go back to 1095 to find fault with Christians. However, his ignorance is shining through and his devotion to Islam is also shining through.
Lurene Gisee says
Regarding Obama’s “high horse” remark, someone should have reminded him that the guy burned by ISIS a few days ago was not on a high horse. He was in a cage being burned alive. What could that man have done about the Crusades, about the development of airplanes, apple pie or criminals like the one who lit the match to murder him? I know my words seem odd, but I’m trying to emphasize the complete nonsense that Obama was speaking that day.
Lurene Gisee says
Obama is serving his second term. He can not run again for president. It’s easy to forget, I know. Today, folks are now talking about who will run from the Democratic party and the Republican party in the next election. The main thing: Obama will not win any voter popularity contests this week, no matter who runs in next election. People are beginning to ignore his ideas. We’ve had many presidents like this in American history, though.
Dr. G. de Porras says
No need to wonder Obama’s statements, since it is a muslim. Does anyone where he was baptized the Mohammedan Obama know,. Dr. G. de Porras
No deben extrañar las declaraciones de Obama, ya que el mismo es un muslim. ¿ Sabe alguien donde fue bautizado el mahometano Obama,. Dr. G. de Porras