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Obama laments “distorted impression” many Americans have of Muslims

Jun 23, 2015 11:22 am By Robert Spencer

Obama said: “Here in America, many people personally don’t know someone who is Muslim. They mostly hear about Muslims in the news — and that can obviously lead to a very distorted impression.” The idea that Americans have a “distorted impression” of Muslims because they don’t know any Muslims personally is a condescending talking point that Obama picked up from Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood-tied groups such as the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

People don’t have a negative impression of Islam because they haven’t met kind, friendly Muslims. People don’t have a negative impression of Islam because of some fictional “Islamophobia industry,” either. People have a negative impression of Islam because Islamic jihad terrorists invoke Islamic texts and teachings to justify hatred, violence, brutality and oppression. No amount of contact with kind, friendly Muslims will change that. One man who decided that he shouldn’t oppose jihad terror after going into a mosque does not, unfortunately, alter the reality of jihad terror.

“Obama laments ‘distorted impression’ of Muslims,” by Ben Kamisar, The Hill, June 23, 2015:

President Obama stressed religious tolerance during an Iftar dinner to celebrate the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, linking the murders of nine black Christians in South Carolina with the killings of three Muslims in North Carolina earlier this year.

“Our prayers remain with Charleston and Mother Emanuel church,” Obama said Monday night, using the nickname of the historically black church in Charleston where nine people were killed Wednesday night after a gunman opened fire in a Bible study.

“As Americans, we insist that nobody should be targeted because of who they are, or what they look like, who they love, how they worship. We stand united against these hateful acts.”

Obama lamented the “distorted impression” that many Americans have of Muslims.

“Here in America, many people personally don’t know someone who is Muslim. They mostly hear about Muslims in the news — and that can obviously lead to a very distorted impression,” Obama said.

He shared the story of protesters outside of an Arizona mosque who held up “offensive signs against Islam and Muslims. But when the congregants invited the protesters in to pray, some completely changed their minds….

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  1. Joseph says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 11:35 am

    People have negative impressions of Muzlims because of what they do and because of their so called “holy book” the Koran and what it contains.
    There are over 26,188 reasons why I distrust ANY Muzlim

    • boakai ngombu says

      Jun 23, 2015 at 11:49 am

      People have a “distorted impression” of Muslims (slaves; constrained by SHARIA, an enslavement tool) because the academe and journalists have failed to properly inform that those who follow Muhammad (lately contrived; full of lusts) do not live in concord with anyone. And, many church leaders don’t know their scriptures and those of others well enough to teach the difference between righteousness and wickedness. And POTUS has lied often and remains impenitent while breaking fast with those who would use him, thus giving a confusing impression of his intent.

    • Joseph says

      Jun 23, 2015 at 3:28 pm

      NOW it is 26,198 reasons why I don’t trust Muzlims

  2. IQ al Rassooli says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 11:42 am

    Obama and his wife NEVER miss an opportunity to claim Black VICTIMHOOD nor that of Islam

    Obama is a PATHOLOGICAL LIAR like his mentor Muhammad and again NEVER misses a chance to wilfully with malice aforethought DECEIVE the American people

    He is the LEAST respected leader in the world especially by Muslims & Arabs of all people

    The Arabic media (TV & print) call him the equivalent in Arabic to Nigger donkey

    Not ONCE did he or his despicable wife EVER comment about the destruction of Christians in Arab & Muslim lands!

    I have absolutely no doubt that History will show that he and his wife were (and are) the WORST and most anti American couple that ever lived in the White House

    IQ al Rassooli
    Kafir & Proud!

    • mortimer says

      Jun 23, 2015 at 12:07 pm

      Agree. Obama’s silence on the persecution of minorities by Muslims gives them TACIT APPROVAL to continue.

      To fail to speak a word on behalf of the oppressed is WORSE THAN ANY CRIME.

      • Ren says

        Jun 23, 2015 at 4:02 pm

        He too (Obama) is using deception in order to cover up true islam.

    • Lizzy Lass (@LizzytheLass) says

      Jun 23, 2015 at 12:17 pm

      100% correct.
      he wont acknowledge crimes by muslims because it would mean condemning muslims and causing riots in the streets. this from the followers of the religion of “piece” – 1 piece here and 1 piece there.

    • Huck Folder says

      Jun 23, 2015 at 2:11 pm

      Does anyone have a record of obuMBoy’s response to the Fort Hood shootings? Did he call those ugly murders?

      Can someone more eloquent than I, do a comparative analysis of the ‘parking-lot 3’, the ME church 9 and the Fort Hood 13, or any other grouping which will illuminate this prick’s hypocrisy and bigotry?

      “The U.S. President’s initial response to the attack came during a scheduled speech at the Tribal Nations Conference for America’s 564 federally recognized Native American tribes. Obama was criticized by the media for being “INSENSITIVE”, as he addressed the shooting only three minutes into his prepared speech, and then for NOT according it SUFFICIENT GRAVITAS. Later, the President delivered the memorial eulogy for the victims. Reaction to his memorial speech was largely positive, with some deeming it one of his best. The speech was criticized by a Wall Street Journal reporter, who found the speech largely ABSENT OF EMOTION, [typical of a psychopath?] while a National Review columnist criticized Obama for refusing to acknowledge ISLAMIC TERRORISM as having a role in the shooting.”

      • Cecilia Ellis says

        Jun 24, 2015 at 2:50 am

        Huck, your proposed project interests me. Because I read all your posts, I will gladly do the project for you. I claim no eloquence; so don’t get your hopes too high. Given my schedule, however, it will probably take me several days to do the research. I am as interested as are you in cataloging the discrepancies in POTUS responses. I recall exactly what he said about the Ft. Hood shootings, but I will save that for the report. As a teaser, remember that he said nothing – absolutely nothing – regarding the death of Chris Kyle (someone who killed Muslims). Perhaps his comforting words at the murder, by Muslims, of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans might balance the scale . . . oops, that was caused by a video, which no one has seen, making fun of Molech. So much provoking . . . so little time. That will go into the “Let’s Say It Was Caused By a Video Slandering the Prophet” category. At any rate, I’ll keep you posted if it should take any longer.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Jun 23, 2015 at 2:40 pm

      Obama’s latest discourse to the foolish & stupid members of his constituency is A PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO “RE-BRAND” Muslim violence.

      Americans are now in the middle of a national mourning stage for the inexcusable Charleston church slayings — murders arising from the hatred of a white person for humans who are different from him.

      LET ME SUGGEST THIS TO CONSIDER as a change in terminology by every reader here at Jihad Watch : remove “terrorist attack” from all of your conversations about jihad. REPLACE THOSE 2 WORDS WIH ******* “HATE CRIME” ********.

      Then there will be a truly accurate attribution of Islam’s reason for its abundant ceaseless slaughter of Muslim (Sunni / Shia) and Infidel. Yes, Qur’anic passages, selected Hadiths and parts of the Sira are the SPECIFIC justifications when violence is perpetrated BUT THE ROOT OF ALL THOSE WRITINGS IS HATE . . . The essential all-consuming trait of Muhammad’s consciousness after going to Medina.

  3. Linde Barrera says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 11:44 am

    Why, oh why, should my president care what I think of Muslims, if I am not threatening or hurting any Muslims? I don’t like Islam because one of its core texts says “Kill the infidels (non- Muslims) wherever you find them.” Does that hurt Muslims? I have a right to my opinions, whether anyone else likes my opinions or not!

  4. somehistory says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 11:52 am

    1 unholy book, some other unholy writings, one evil, unholy raper of children, murderer of innocents, practicer of vile, disgusting things from satan…and thousands….millions of adherents who follow the snakes evil commands to lie, kill, torture, steal, rape, starve, burn….

    After having met, and even gotten to know some adherents of the evil, vile, worship of satan….
    I know all I need to know to have an informed opinion of islam and those who follow it *religiously.*

  5. ECAW says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 12:01 pm

    You only need to know one Muslim, the one who made it all up. The more closely Muslims follow his example the crueller, more domineering and more dangerous they are. The less closely they follow his example the more like ordinary, decent human beings they are and the more in danger they are from the other lot.

  6. somehistory says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 12:02 pm

    Wondering…how did his muslim guests feel about the line: “who they love”?

    And who are these ones who were protesting, went inside the barracks, and *completely changed their minds*? “Changed their minds” how?
    If one visit inside the barracks to *pray,* caused them to *change their minds*…what did they think, and what did they know before their one visit?
    It’s all so suspect and from a known liar, untrustworthy. And besides, a hundred, a thousand, a hundred thousand, a million, or billions of non muslims could visit a barracks, and the truth of islam will not change.
    It will stay an evil, odious teaching from an evil odious snake.

  7. Dave J says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 12:02 pm

    Speaking of distortion Mr. President, the biggest distortion of all is to call Islam a “religion of peace”.

    It is not a religion – it is a vile, criminal enterprise devoted to supremacy and the death of all who oppose it.

    The only “peace” it knows is the peace that will follow it’s slaughter of the last infidel.

    • wallace says

      Jun 23, 2015 at 12:16 pm

      No Dave J, even the slaughter of the last infidel wouldn’t bring peace, they will take their bloodlust out on each other, Allah must have his sacrificies.

  8. Helios Megistos says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 12:03 pm

    Such absolute denial of reality is surely a valid ground for a trip to the loony-bin in a straight-jacket as he is clearly unable to discharge the powers of the presidency; of course, the same applies to Joe foot-in-the-mouth Biden…and to pretty much the entire polity! #Ann Coulter should be appointed magistratus extraordinarius…I do not see any other way to prevent the complete destruction of the moribund republic! http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wsBCZdAyZz4/T6rpuj0O8_I/AAAAAAAAI3I/2Zm9IZIXKjU/s1600/obama+straight+jacket.jpg

  9. pdxnag says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 12:05 pm

    Anecdotally, many non-pious people who self-identify as “Muslim” are wonderful humans. They are not however made so by Islam, but rather in spite of Islam.

    Obama’s distorted logic: Larry is nice. Larry is a man. Therefor all men are nice.

    • voegelinian says

      Jun 23, 2015 at 2:42 pm

      many non-pious people who self-identify as “Muslim”

      I’ll have to add that reckless descriptor to my growing list of euphemistic ways of keeping the Moderate Muslim meme functional without having to utter the words that a robust (albeit asymptotic) Counter-Jihadist has learned (wisely) to reject.

      To be clear: that reckless descriptor quoted above may very well be true; but it obscures — potentially disastrously — the problem of our inability to adequately distinguish them from co-religionists who are practicing taqiyya, muruna, and other tactics of Islamic deceit. It also tends to reinforce our tendency, on a macro level, of acquiescing to Muslim presence in our society as a fait accompli.

  10. Kuffar says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 12:08 pm

    When I hear the word muslim, I think terrorist… By their fruits you shall know them…

    Still as true today as 2000 years ago…

  11. 11B40 says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 12:10 pm

    Greetings:

    In the afterglow of Fathers’ Day, this teaching comes to mind: “You shouldn’t have to drink the ocean to know it’s salty,”

  12. mortimer says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 12:13 pm

    America’s distrust of Muslims has almost doubled in a year from 40% to 70% because of the atrocities of ISIS.

    The fact that no protest has been forthcoming from Muslims shows that the majority of Muslims do not oppose ISIS, but believe it is practicing ISLAM.

    SILENCE MEANS APPROVAL. Muslims show Americans that they are fellow conspirators with ISIS and that they took the oath of allegiance to the US with a DOUBLE MIND.

    Double-minded Muslims living in the US are waiting to make ISLAM the established religion of the US in opposition to what the US Constitution says about NO ESTABISHMENT.

    Still, Obama has no criticism of any American jihadists or those who are obviously supporting them!

    Obama has no problem condemning a white supremacist, but can’t condemn ISLAMIC SUPREMACISM AND MISOGYNY.

    • somehistory says

      Jun 23, 2015 at 1:22 pm

      Mortimer,

      You may know this already, but there is, in the U.S. a law, which is “statement by adoption” or “confession by adoption.” This means that if someone were to say, to me or in my presence, “somehistory, (you) stole the money and hid it at my house,” and I did not say anything in reply, if I did not deny the statement, then I would be said to be adopting it as my own. This could be used against me in court as though I had confessed to the crime of robbery. The only time this is not applied is when the person making the statement is law enforcement official.

      By remaining silent, they condemn themselves. They are in agreement with what isis, iran, sa, pakistan, and all of the other places where atrocities are happening every day, through the government or with its approval.

      • voegelinian says

        Jun 23, 2015 at 2:51 pm

        But remember what the Counter-Jihad Asymptotics say: If that Muslim who acquiesces in silent assent to deadly sedition happens to be a citizen, he is magically immune from any appropriate measures we can take to protect our societies. For, you see, once we factor in

        1) taqiyya, muruna, and the other tactics of Islamic deception

        2) innumerable cases of the False Moderate throughout the West

        3) the blueprint (both perennial in Islamic holy texts, and current in seditious materials such as the “explanatory memorandum” seized in the Holy Land Foundation trial proceedings — innumerable seditious materials and sermons in various Islamic centers and mosques over the years)

        — we must reasonably conclude the dreaded A word (dreaded to PC MCs and their decaffeinated cousins, the asymptotics) — all Muslims who are not currently plotting terror, stabbing, shooting, or expl9oding, are guity of tacit acquiescence and enablement of deadly sedition against our society.

        The dreaded “A” word
        http://hesperado.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-dreaded-word.html

        • voegelinian says

          Jun 23, 2015 at 2:53 pm

          #2 didn’t complete the sentence (though the reader can figure it out) — i.e. the blueprint for the supremacist-expansionst sedition & sabotage of our society by hook (violence) AND by crook (stealth)

        • Angemon says

          Jun 24, 2015 at 10:23 am

          voegelinian posted:

          “But remember what the Counter-Jihad Asymptotics say: If that Muslim who acquiesces in silent assent to deadly sedition happens to be a citizen, he is magically immune from any appropriate measures we can take to protect our societies.”

          Isn’t it fascinating how you rail on and on about what “Counter-Jihad Asymptotics say” without actually quoting them? Why, one might even start to think you’re lying!

  13. Angemon says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 12:27 pm

    “Here in America, many people personally don’t know someone who is Muslim. They mostly hear about Muslims in the news — and that can obviously lead to a very distorted impression,” Obama said.

    Oh, for f***’s sake. I know people who happen to be muslims, good and bad (in both senses), and that changes nothing: islam is not what muslims do/say but what its texts teach. Those texts won’t change because average Joe American happens to meet a “good” muslim. The subtext is this: “Americans need to stop hearing about muslims in the news alone, they need to meet them, so let’s import a few more millions”.

    And, of course, Americans don’t need to hear about muslims following islamic orthodoxy and persecuting people from other religion half a world away: there are examples of that in America.

    • voegelinian says

      Jun 23, 2015 at 2:59 pm

      ” I know people who happen to be muslims, good and bad (in both senses), and that changes nothing: islam is not what muslims do/say but what its texts teach.”

      Correction: the Muslims you know who are good in the good sense are only apparently good in your estimation. Given everything we know (or should know, by now) of Islamic deception in all its tactics (taqiyya, muruna, kitman, etc.), given the innumerable, diverse cases of the False Moderate that have been uncovered in various places throughout the West, given the horrendously pernicious and seditious purport of the holy texts of all Muslims, given what innumerable Muslims (clerics, pundits, propagandists, academics, ordinary people) have said in speech and in writing in modern times in various places all warps and woofs of a coherent tapestry of supremacist-expansionist hatred in a framework of a clear directive to conquer us by hook (violence) AND by crook (various forms of stealth and deception — we would be disastrously unreasonable were we to conclude that any given Muslim we think is “good” in a good sense is really good in any sense that would be pragmatically useful on a macro scale for what should be our #1 priority, the safety of our societies.

      • Angemon says

        Jun 24, 2015 at 10:26 am

        voegelinian posted:

        “Correction: the Muslims you know who are good in the good sense are only apparently good in your estimation.”

        So now you’re trying to correct me on the people I know and you don’t without even bothering to acknowledge the full weight of what I posted. Nothing is too low for you, eh?

        • Western Canadian says

          Jun 24, 2015 at 3:59 pm

          I suspect that his status as the ruler of the kingdom of assdom is not in any jeopardy….

  14. Red Bee says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 12:29 pm

    I don’t know about the image of Muslims, but by far the largest part of the western electorate has a distorted image of Islam or at least an incorrect one. There is no good definition of the term “Muslim”; not that I am aware of anyway. There is however a very good definition of Islam: Islam is the result of the Koran, the Hadith and the Sunna. Islam teaches that the Koran was dictated to Muhammad by the angel Gabriel on Allah’s command. Therefore the Koran contains the words of Allah himself and is perfect and eternal as Allah is.

    It would be a good thing if non-Muslims and “moderate Muslims” alike (the last are probably oblivious to what Islam really is too) did take a closer look at the Koran and see what they are dealing with instead of assuming it is just another religious book. They can do so at my website (click my name). I designed it to enable visitors to draw their own conclusions before reading mine. I bet a lot of people will get a surprise when they spend 10 minutes.

    I feel confident in making this claim by the sheer fact president Obama get’s away with this speech and George W. Bush got away with “Islam is peace”. Do not listen to the advertizers but check out the product yourself. You don’t buy a car or a house before you examined it yourself do you?

    • Know Thy Enemy says

      Jun 23, 2015 at 1:43 pm

      There is actually a very good definition of the term ‘Muslim’. Muslim means someone who calls Muhammad a “messenger of God” and who believes that the Quran is from God.

      A Muslim may believe and practice things that are different from other Muslims, however, such beliefs and practices do not dictate whether he is Muslim or not. Only the above mentioned two requirements make someone a “Muslim”, and this fact is accepted throughout the world.

      Note: For all practical purposes to anti-jihadis, the Ahmediyyas are Muslims too, even if other Muhammadans refuse to accept them as such.

      • IQ al Rassooli says

        Jun 23, 2015 at 2:44 pm

        Red Bee & know thy enemy

        Since my mother tongue is Arabic (I hail from Iraq) and my subject is Islam, please allow me to explain:

        In Arabic Islam has a root verb ASLAMA which ONLY means SUBMISSION

        That is Submission to a One & Only God

        This word has absolutely NOTHING to do with Muhammad & his Quran since according to the Quran all the following Hebrews, Israelites & Jews were MUSLIMS~

        Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, al Asbat (Tibes of Israel), Moses, king David, Solomon, Jesus, the Apostles and many more WERE ALL Muslims!

        If & when you ask any follower of Muhammad how is it possible that they were Muslims centuries BEFORE Muhammad & his Quran, you will get the most asinine, illogical and stupid explanations imaginable!

        Hence Islam is Submission and a Muslim is one who submits to the will of One God

        The Arabs under Muhammad arrogated this concept only to themselves in spite of the FACT that Abraham & the Israelites were the FIRST to accept the will of and obedience to One God

        Like everything about Muhammad & his followers, they Plagiarise, Plunder, Pirate & or Pervert everything they know from the beliefs, fetishes and traditions of OTHERS & then FALSELY claim them as their own!

        Thus Muhammad metamorphosed the Pagan god of the Arabs called Allah (their supreme rock god centuries BEFORE Muhammad) and transformed him to the One & Only God of the Bible

        Allah is NOT God and most certainly NOT the same as the God of Jesus Moses & Abraham BECAUSE Allah is Muhammad’s the ventriloquists mouthpiece! Allah = Muhammad and no human being on Earth can prove me WRONG!

        IQ al Rassooli
        Kafir & Proud!

        • Jaladhi says

          Jun 23, 2015 at 3:41 pm

          >”Allah is NOT God and most certainly NOT the same as the God of Jesus Moses & Abraham BECAUSE Allah is Muhammad’s the ventriloquists mouthpiece! Allah = Muhammad and no human being on Earth can prove me WRONG!”<

          That's why I call him Mo/allah – allah is simply alter ego of Mo!!

        • Huck Folder says

          Jun 23, 2015 at 5:37 pm

          allah = The Wizard of Oz

    • underbed cat says

      Jun 23, 2015 at 2:48 pm

      Red Bee do you know about the existence of the Muslim Brotherhood in America?
      The history and the “I” organizations that were created by the MB to promote the “religion of peace”. words to deceive, such as “islamaphobia”, charity organizations that supported terror operations and trial, ..mosques across the country funded(NAIT)by Saudi Arabia…inroads to government, national security, FBI, health organizations, schools, IRS, congressman, senators. oil production, food production, pharmaceutical companies, the list of influence is staggering and so is in my opinion the money. So I believe that there is a difference between President Bush and Pres. Obama’s understanding. President Bush, may not have read the Koran or only read or heard the peaceful verses spoken. President Obama, in my opinion, knows the Koran, Sharia Law, and has meet with the Muslim Brotherhood in the White House and in Egypt,… big difference. in my opinion. Obama and Bush both disconnected the “religion of peace” from terror. One by design the other by was done by the same conclusion that many Americans think but don’t know that one religion calls for “killing the infidels”. Information, facts of doctrine are called “slander”, “racist” ( and we all know doctrine of religion is not a race) but somehow it is called hate speech.
      The religion of peace” does not allow for examination ‘fact phobic”, due to penalty attached to the inquirer.

    • voegelinian says

      Jun 23, 2015 at 3:03 pm

      Muslims who are probably oblivious to what Islam really is

      Yet another permutation of the “moderate Muslim”, repackaged with sweetener to make it palatable to the Counter-Jihad which has otherwise learned (wisely) to deride and reject the term moderate Muslim.

      • Angemon says

        Jun 24, 2015 at 10:32 am

        voegelinian posted:

        “Muslims who are probably oblivious to what Islam really is

        Yet another permutation of the “moderate Muslim”, repackaged with sweetener to make it palatable to the Counter-Jihad which has otherwise learned (wisely) to deride and reject the term moderate Muslim.”

        Nope. That’s blatantly false, and just another example of the twisted web you weave when you try to deceive. A “moderate” muslim would be someone who knows what islam says but ignores it. A muslim oblivious to what islam really is is a muslim who doesn’t know what islam really is. Only you would try to conflate two things who, by their very definition, are opposites.

        And, of course, you never address a comment I made you last year: one becomes a muslim by muttering some arabic words in front of a muslim. No knowledge of islam is necessary, so it’s impossible to know from one’s description as muslim what they know about islam.

  15. Wellington says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 12:46 pm

    I have a negative impression of Muslims because their belief system, Islam, is, as Bertrand Russell observed almost a century ago, a totalitarian ideology, which, like all totalitarian ideologies, singles out certain groups of people for second-class or death (in Islam’s case non-believers and apostates) and is a mortal enemy of freedom.

    Likewise, I have a negative impression of Nazis because their belief system, Nazism, is a totalitarian ideology which singles out certain groups of people for second-class status or death (in Nazism’s case particular ethnic and racial groups) and is a mortal enemy of freedom.

    I have a negative impression of Marxists because their belief system, Marxism, singles out certain groups of people for death (in Marxism’s case the middle and upper classes) and is a mortal enemy of freedom.

    I don’t need to know Muslims (though I do) or Nazis or Marxists (taught with some). What I do need to know is what these people believe in. And since I do know what they believe in, I think myself fully justified despising what they believe in. Therefore, I have every right to have a negative view of Muslims, Nazis and Marxists. This ain’t rocket science. Just basic understanding and common sense, though it’s fitting that someone like Obama doesn’t get this because he has neither basic understanding nor common sense.

    • epistemology says

      Jun 23, 2015 at 3:00 pm

      Hi Wellington, nice to hear from you my friend

      That’s the point Islam is a totalitarian ideology same as Nazism. The Nazis felt superior because they thought they belonged to the master race, whereas the Muslims think they’re superior on account of their belief. Meanwhile it’s common knowledge that Nazis and Muslims were on very good terms as they shared the same anti-Semitism. You’re right the adherents of totalitarian ideologies hate freedom, especially freedom of speech, as the various cartoon terror attacks have proven.

      Obama would better deplore his “distorted impression” of Jews, it’s a shame the way he treats BIbi. I wish you a better president next year and all the best to you and your loved ones

      • Wellington says

        Jun 23, 2015 at 4:56 pm

        Thanks for your good wishes, epistemology. Best to you and yours too.

        As for getting a better President come January of 2017, it would be hard to do worse though Hillary might be able to manage this should she win. She’s horrible, corrupt, incompetent and, like Obama, loathes traditional America. She also has, perhaps even more so than Obama, a good bit of the demagogue in her. Trouble is other Democratic possibilities for President are woeful and the Republican field, while definitely better, has a lot of only so-so candidates in it. Keep your eye on Fiorina. She may be the best of the Republican bunch. She’s got some Reagan in her and she is very positive towards Israel. Long time to go yet and much can happen, though God forbid Hillary succeeds Barack. Take care, my friend.

    • Angemon says

      Jun 24, 2015 at 10:39 am

      Wellington posted:

      “I have a negative impression of Muslims because their belief system, Islam, is, as Bertrand Russell observed almost a century ago, a totalitarian ideology, which, like all totalitarian ideologies, singles out certain groups of people for second-class or death (in Islam’s case non-believers and apostates) and is a mortal enemy of freedom.”

      Yup, pretty much.

  16. F. Grade says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 12:56 pm

    Americans and just about everyone else, especially all those non Muslim peoples like Christians for example, lament the distorted impression this Muslim fascist leaning President has of reality. Rotting from the top down while the Muslim reality will be coming around one of these days to bite more innocents in the proverbial ass.

  17. KrazyKafir says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 1:11 pm

    People’s views of Islam are built upon the, endless, never-ending, Islamic terrorist attacks, day in, and day out, month after month, year after year, decade after decade, in every corner of this planet.

  18. Know Thy Enemy says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 1:34 pm

    I recently came across this article (link below) written by a former Israeli ambassador who has studied Obama carefully, and he explained why Obama is so pro-Muslim. [My personal observation too is that Obama is more of a pro-Muslim, and not necessarily pro-Islam. Compare him with Turkey’s Erdogan. Erdogan is pro-Islam whereas Obama is pro-Muslim. Have you noticed how he provides equal support to CAIR (a Sunni organization) and Iran (a Shia country)].

    Anyway, the diplomat mentions that Obama’s mother married twice, both times to Muslims, and both men abandoned Obama when he was still young. The reason why Obama works so hard at groveling to Muslims is to seek acceptance of his fathers’ co-religionists. …. And THAT explains it!

    The article is available at Foreign Policy website which allows readers to read the article once. Subsequent visits requires registration.

    http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/06/19/barack-obama-muslim-world-outreach-consequences-israel-ambassador-michael-oren/

    • Know Thy Enemy says

      Jun 23, 2015 at 1:57 pm

      This also explains why Obama repeatedly humiliated Israel and PM Netanyahu. He did it not because he is a Quran following anti-semite, but because he knew that if he is seen as tolerant towards Israel, the Muslims will think low of him. However, Muslims thinking low of him is exactly what he does not want. He wants the opposite! He wants their acceptance!

    • voegelinian says

      Jun 23, 2015 at 3:08 pm

      Interesting theory, and it may have some truth; but it wouldn’t reasonably explain why the mainstream majority throughout the West is also similarly anxiously concerned to defend, respect and protect Muslims. As I realized recently, what’s really going on with the Mainstream Myopia to the problem of Islam is that they are anxiously concerned about what they perceive to be a vast majority of hundreds of millions of multiculturally diverse Ethnic People who might become the victims of evil white Western bigotry if we become too critical of Islam.

      And for that reason, when the Counter-Jihad harps on Islam and ignores the problem of Muslims, it will continue to talk past the Mainstream it is trying to persuade. Of course, the problem is both Islam and Muslims; but the Counter-Jihad in its own asymptotic anxiety to avoid “bigotry” has become fixated on the ideological issue of Islam (“we hate Islam, we don’t hate Muslims”; etc.).

      • Know Thy Enemy says

        Jun 24, 2015 at 4:13 am

        IMO different people have different reasons why they defend, respect, and protect Muslims. The academics do it for the reason explained by the Israeli diplomat in the article. (This is in addition to the reason that you have mentioned). Here is what he says:

        How did the president arrive at his unique approach to Islam? The question became central to my research for Obama 101. One answer lies in the universities in which he studied and taught — Columbia, Harvard, and the University of Chicago — and where such ideas were long popular. Many of them could be traced to Orientalism, Edward Said’s scathing critique of Middle East studies, and subsequent articles in which he insisted that all scholars of the region be “genuinely engaged and sympathetic … to the Islamic world.” Published in 1978, Orientalism became the single most influential book in American humanities. As a visiting lecturer in the United States starting in the 1980s, I saw how Said’s work influenced not only Middle East studies but became a mainstay of syllabi for courses ranging from French colonial literature to Italian-African history. The notion that Islam was a uniform, universal entity with which the West must peacefully engage became widespread on American campuses and eventually penetrated the policymaking community. One of the primary texts in my Obama 101 course was the 2008 monograph, “Strategic Leadership: Framework for a 21st Century National Security Strategy,” written by foreign-relations experts, many of whom would soon hold senior positions in the new administration. While striving to place its relations with the Middle East on a new basis, the authors advised, America must seek “improved relations with more moderate elements of political Islam” and adapt “a narrative of pride in the achievements of Islam.”

        Obama does it because, in addition to attending schools influenced by Orientalism, he has been hungry for acceptance by his father’s co-religionists.

        The non-Muslim, non-white minorities do it not only because they see Muslims as a fellow minority who need to be protected from ‘oppressive’ majority, but also because they perceive Muslims to be people who do not hesitate to ‘fight back to the oppressors’.

        The MSM does it because they are for-profit businesses who see most profit in pushing the narrative of authorities vs. minorities, and of course Muslims to them are among the most oppressed minorities.

        The educated people do it for the reason that you explained, and the uneducated ones do it because all the other mentioned groups tell them that this is the proper thing to do!

        In the end of course we have a situation where everyone defends, respects, and protects Muslims, and the few who do not, are shunned, maligned, and ostracized!

        Personally I have no idea how to bring about a change in people’s attitude’s towards Muslims. What I do know is that we need to resist and save ourselves from all the naive and deluded people, until some miracle happens and the general society begins to see Islam for the evil that it truly is, and realizes that just as followers of Nazism are called Nazis, the followers of Islam are called Muslims!

      • Angemon says

        Jun 24, 2015 at 10:34 am

        voegelinian posted:

        “As I realized recently, what’s really going on with the Mainstream Myopia to the problem of Islam is that they are anxiously concerned about what they perceive to be a vast majority of hundreds of millions of multiculturally diverse Ethnic People who might become the victims of evil white Western bigotry if we become too critical of Islam. ”

        So why don’t we see Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Shintoism, Zoroastrianism, Coptic Christianity, etc, getting the same treatment as islam?

        • Know Thy Enemy says

          Jun 24, 2015 at 1:04 pm

          Angemon, what do you believe is the reason behind that?

        • Peggy says

          Jun 24, 2015 at 9:46 pm

          Exactly. There are many more minorities which we could protect but we have chose Islam, the worst evil.
          If we feel so protective towards minorities why do we not feel equally protective for non Muslims in the ME who are also minorities.
          I do agree with you that the reason given by Know Thy Enemy cannot be correct. I have made my opinion on why we are told we must respect and protect Muslims more than once on this site. I could be wrong but I may be closer to the truth.
          Islam is the best tool to use if one wants to control the world. Only the 1% at the top will have any real power.

      • voegelinian says

        Jun 24, 2015 at 1:45 pm

        Yeah sure Know Thy Enemy, academic Saidism was one factor; but even Said was only a symptom, not the underlying cause, since we can find academics before him (in some cases long before him) who said essentially the same thing. I think there has occurred a broader, vaguer sociological & cultural process than your breakdown seems to account for, predisposing relatively intelligent and decent people to conflate civil rights with Muslim rights. Your breakdown seems somewhat dependent on only two explanatory mechanisms — Macchiavellian mendacity on the part of the Elites and stupid sheep-like acquiescence on the part of ordinary people. Left out of your breakdown is a positive factor with posiitive content making people feel they are on the side of the angels when they defend Muslims from too much criticism.

        • Know Thy Enemy says

          Jun 25, 2015 at 4:54 am

          Your comment reminded me of another reason why people, especially westerners, defend, respect, and protect Muslims. This reason has to do with a particular human nature, and [in recent times] it was first mentioned by Osama Bin Laden. As most readers of JW already know, OBL said that it was natural for a person to like a strong horse than a weak horse. OBL was a very bad man but he was correct about the human nature to like the strong horse.

          Hence, it is not that people feel “they are on the side of the angels when they defend Muslims,” What really happens is that they side with the strong horse- something we are programmed by nature to do.

          Many JW’ers responded to OBL’s statement by terming his attitude to be a Middle-Eastern (or Muslim) cultural tendency that favors strength, and they contrasted it with the western tendency to root for some weaker horse and give him strength. However, I propose that favoring the stronger horse is more in tune with the human psyche.

          Throughout human history people have favored the strong. They had to! Going with the weak meant destruction. Liking the strong is built into our very psyche.

          “I think there has occurred a broader, vaguer sociological & cultural process than your breakdown seems to account for, predisposing relatively intelligent and decent people to conflate civil rights with Muslim rights.”

          The current age ever since WWII is unusual for westerners where most people have only seen prosperity and security and this fact has strongly influenced the process that has occurred. Thanks to the prosperity and security, people can afford to play games and root for the weaker horses. However, experiencing 6-7 decades of good times does not mean that our deeper psychology has changed. We still get attracted to strong horses. And Muslims are strongest of all the weak horses! This is the reason why they are favored so much! (This is my answer to Angemon’s and Peggy’s query as to why westerners are so protective of Muslims over other minorities.)

          I must clarify that what Muslims have is a strong-horse mask, but this mask is so well made and presented, that it easily fools others.

          As for the westerners, they are no longer the strong horse that they used to be. People probably are not consciously aware of the west’s weakening, but the Muslims’ strength is obvious to them, hence their respect for Muslims, their favor towards Muslims, and the reason why they defend and protect them.

        • ICH says

          Jun 25, 2015 at 7:14 am

          I agree people gravitate towards the strong horse.
          That is the shame of it. We spend more time looking for
          faults. Apologizing for the past and making sure we
          never “appear” to be racist-homophobic etc etc.

          All things ISLAM will hang you for.

          Our grandparents would be ashamed.
          But then we dont care about ourselves anymore.

          We are bad bad bad picking on those poor muslims ( sarcasm )

  19. Gleaner1 says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 1:34 pm

    Of all Obama’s untrue and offensive remarks, this one must be close to the top for blinding patronising arrogance. Who flew those bloody planes into those towers, the pixies ?

    In my view, this piece of something gives black stewardship of a great nation a bad name, he and Bliar should both be tried in a court of law for their lies and gross treason.

    Thank heaven America has some quality black statesmen and leaders, they will have much to make amends for oneday.

  20. Richie says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 1:36 pm

    How about Obama openly condemn the Islamic sex slave trade or the genocide against Coptic Christians? It will never happen.

    This is my favorite Pat Condell video, about why its good to be anti Islam:

    https://youtu.be/jIaGWURONRU

    and how in the mind of leftists none of the crimes carried out by Muslims in the name of Islam- has anything to do with Islam:

    https://youtu.be/N46mIHEGHN0

    Obama IS a Muslim, which is why he goes great lengths to defend the Islam

  21. Georg says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 1:44 pm

    “As Americans, we insist that nobody should be targeted because of who they are.”

    Unless they are Jewish, it appears. Then there is not only no insistence, there isn’t even recognition. How shameful and screamingly bigoted. Here is a link of Obama yet again refusing to acknowledge the anti-Semitic nature of the Hyper Cacher shootings in Paris. I’ll go ahead and presume he maintains the shootings in Belgium at the Holocaust museum were random as well. How the Hyper Cacher shootings were “random” and the Chapel Hill murders ethnically motivated is impossible to reconcile without accounting for simple bigotry. The murders in Charleston appear to be undoubtedly racist in nature, but it also appear fairly plain the shooter was mentally ill. Why is it the running down of civilians in Europe, such as in Graz, Austria last week are never deemed bigoted despite the fact that the attackers have been exclusively Muslim, with the latest one in Graz having liked several Islamic supremacist pages on Facebook, including a preacher who has said outrageously offensive and supremacist things against non-believers? I don’t believe Obama is stupid, he’s versed in law, so I can only conclude he is a racist — that, I insist.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx81Y3AynZk

    Forget the fact that he implies stories of Jihad are sexy…

    • Shmooviyet says

      Jun 23, 2015 at 2:21 pm

      Thank You, Georg: You pinned the tail on that donkey.

    • Western Canadian says

      Jun 23, 2015 at 3:40 pm

      Or unless then are whites or Asians (not the bbc variety…,.) being attacked by gangs of black thugs, beaten and too often murdered for the crime of breathing while white or asian….. The most common and by an incredibly huge margin, kind of targeted hate crimes in the US. And in the world, if you leave out the same crimes being committed by muslims everywhere…. Which he has never seriously objected to or spoken out against.

  22. Edward says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 2:12 pm

    Obama laments “distorted impression” many Americans have of Muslims”

    No distorted impressions, we have, but concerned about their errant civility behaviors. The Muslim’s written convictions in total profess’ the demise of deviant adherents or non-believers of Islam. Atrocities’ that have occurred around the world provide damning evidence of Muslim’s being involved just by discovering their MO finger prints, further sustained by their photos and videos of accomplished terrorism; by which the jihad’s gleefully and boastfully provide ad nauseam!

    No…Our impressions are not caused by emotions, but by our cognizant reasoning reality….awareness of wrong behavior’s, by which are very hard to dismiss. For they truly cause virtue enhancement of our Courage determination to overcome this oppression. Thought can be the seed for eventual manifestation!

  23. Shmooviyet says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 2:15 pm

    How DARE he make any sort of comparison between those two events. The victims in the Charleston church obviously WELCOMED that POS in to pray with them, and paid for their kindness and tolerance with their lives. I’ve always felt warmly included at the West Indian Methodist church my family attends.
    I would NOT feel too welcome entering a mosque to sit with and pray with its’ members, knowing what I’ve learned of islam and the koran. Particularly being the gender and race I am. The IS photos on one of PG’s articles today don’t engender a warm fuzzy feeling– they fill me with nausea, grief and contempt. (Yeah, I know, those aren’t the “moderates”, yada yada.)
    I am SICK of this president and his obsession with islam.

  24. Mike says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 2:17 pm

    Its a shame that the President of a nation founded on Christian principals can never find any examples of Muslims being intolerant. He once said, ” I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds ever turn in an ugly direction”. Sounds like a treasonous statement to me.

  25. Sam says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 2:20 pm

    Obama is a brainwashed, arrogant idiot, incapable of understanding the truth about anything let alone Islam. Shame on us too that this country, like it or not, elected him twice. We are in trouble.

    • Peggy says

      Jun 24, 2015 at 9:56 pm

      No, Obama is not brainwashed. He is the one doing the brainwashing.

  26. Carlos Danger says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 2:26 pm

    As an agnostic, I don’t care what holy joes and sky pilots have to say, but I certainly watch what they do. Muslims constitute the greatest threat to freedom in my lifetime. They are despotic and savage, and must be repelled if Western Civilization is to survive.
    Fortunately, they are often stupid, obvious, and weak.
    Unfortunately, they have plenty of help from left wing politicians, clergy, academics, and journalists.

    • Peggy says

      Jun 24, 2015 at 10:01 pm

      If Muslims are so stupid how do you suppose they got the whole world to back them and excuse their evil?
      If they are so stupid then someone much smarter is pulling their strings.
      If our leaders and media are falling for their BS then they are even more stupid than the Muslims.
      We have a huge problem on our hands.

  27. cs says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 2:33 pm

    I recommend you click on the link, then go to the comments session, the comments are more “pissed” than we are here, it just blew my mind it is something like 100% rejection. lol.

    • voegelinian says

      Jun 24, 2015 at 2:02 pm

      From what I saw, they are not very usefully pissed.

  28. Bamaguje says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 3:22 pm

    I don’t personally know any Taoists, atheists or Santeria adherents either, yet I hold no negative opinions about them.

  29. pennant8 says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 3:44 pm

    Simply put, Islam is a lousy brand name. It’s a tough sell. Islam couldn’t get any Madison Avenue advertising whiz kids to create to create a catchy slogan. What’s the best they could come up with, something like “Islam, love it or we’ll kill you?”

  30. Januk36 says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 4:04 pm

    You don’t need to know Einstein to know and understand his theories. It helsp though to be an Einstein.

  31. Robert_K says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 4:55 pm

    “Here in America, many people personally don’t know someone who is Muslim. They mostly hear about Muslims in the news — and that can obviously lead to a very distorted impression.”

    Perhaps these Americans mostly hear about Muslims from Sheikh Obama, the New York Dhimmi Times and National Palestine Radio (Once featured on CAIR’s Website’s Homepage). What distorted impressions could they possibly have?

  32. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 5:33 pm

    … linking the murders of nine black Christians in South Carolina with the killings of three Muslims in North Carolina earlier this year.

    Linking a murder done in an argument over a parking space to one incited by Prez Barack Hussein’s own racial incitements. What, did Prez Barack think only edgy black folk go off when incited? What he and his buddy the crook racist Sec’y of “Justice” Eric Holder have done over the past six years reads right into the narrative of neo-Nazis; it gives them good reason to say I told you so.

    But whatever. The point is that Moslem “Americans” and black Americans are now both firmly entrenched in a shared victimhood status, a comfort zone feathered with legal prerogatives and of course taxpayer money.

    There is an underlying unspoken predicate in this country and Europe that racism is by definition by whites on non-whites. That is total bullsheet, with ample evidence to disprove it. For example, when black youth self-form over Twitter roving gangs who ran through the Gold Coast of Chicago sucker punching white people because they were white, it was mentioned on the TV but there was no 24/7 coverage of such widespread, organized racist violence. Just a mention and close the book.

  33. Raizen says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 6:16 pm

    Maybe if they stopped trying to kill us, they’d be viewed in a more positive light.

    • Mo says

      Jun 23, 2015 at 8:45 pm

      @ Raizen

      “Maybe if they stopped trying to kill us, they’d be viewed in a more positive light.”

      BINGO! Now there’s an idea!

  34. John says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 6:30 pm

    many people personally don’t know someone who is Muslim. They mostly hear about Muslims in the news — and that can obviously lead to a very distorted impression,” Obama said

    I’m so tired of hearing this claim, and it’s implication that if we all just knew individual Muslims our opinions of Islam would presumably be more favorable. I beg to differ. In my own case, many years ago, I had only the slightest knowledge of what Islam was all about, and didn’t particularly care. The Muslims I knew then seemed ok as people, and seemed fairly Westernized. That all changed for me with the Satanic Verses fatwa, when these same (university students) Muslims agreed that the book should be banned and Rushdie punished. They claimed that Rushdie should not be killed, and acted as if that made their stance reasonable. That’s when I first began wondering to myself: really? you think a book you don’t like should be banned and the author jailed? That’s when I began reading Ibn Warraq and others and developed a quite negative view of Islam. Not because I didn’t know any Muslims, but because I did know some and began to hear some of their opinions. I’m sure I’m not the only one who has had a WTF moment listening to a Muslim friend or acquaintance.

  35. sheik yer'mami says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 7:34 pm

    For Obama, Islam is the base of all things. Its his “normal”, and everything outside of Islam is deviant, abnormal and must be brought into line. In other words, we must submit.

    Those who still don’t get it: Obama may be a lunatic leftist to some, but underneath, he has all the traits of a hardcore Muslim brother. He proves it every day.

    • susan says

      Jun 24, 2015 at 7:20 am

      DING DING DING!
      Best comment prize.

  36. Alissa says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 7:49 pm

    Can someone please tell me why obama hasn’t been impeached?

    • cjk says

      Jun 23, 2015 at 8:29 pm

      Because he’s a poor black man struggling in this white racist hellhole that every colored person in the world is trying to get into.

  37. qedlin says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 7:57 pm

    The only distorted view of islam Americans have is the one he, the pathological liar is spewing.

    • cjk says

      Jun 23, 2015 at 8:33 pm

      Good point because when the Devil is trying hard to sell you something it makes you wonder what it is.

  38. Joe Shmo says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 8:32 pm

    I had a good friend who is a Muslim for many years. I once asked him if he was a believer and he said “nah, not anymore. There’s a lot of crazy stuff in the Koran” I tried pressing him on it, but he didn’t want to tell me. Not that I know what that crazy stuff is, my respect for him went right up too.

    • Edward says

      Jun 23, 2015 at 11:27 pm

      “There’s a lot of crazy stuff in the Koran”

      Joe Shmo, ask your friend if what he has learned from the Koran is based on deception.

      Ask him what the passage of Surah 3:54 says about Allah.

      If you look into this website yourself you will get a hint.
      http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Allah_the_Best_Deceiver

      The Qur’an openly states many times that Allah is the ‘best deceiver’. The root word used in these verses is Makr which means deception.

      • Aton says

        Jun 24, 2015 at 7:55 am

        >>The Qur’an openly states many times that Allah is the ‘best deceiver’.

        Interesting.

        So the inbred deception and self-deception that we see across the Middle East is actually a central teaching of the Koran. No wonder the entire society is based upon lies and deceit, because their god, guide and mentor is the greatest of all the liars and cheats.

        Interesting. Thanks for that.

  39. Nosurprises says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 10:46 pm

    does he mean the distorted view that Islam is peaceful?

  40. Renee says

    Jun 23, 2015 at 11:36 pm

    I have met and have known closely, muslims who repeatedly stated that they hated Jews.
    I have met an ex-muslim from New York who said he was taught to hate Jews
    So I am under the impressions that indeed they do. Of course, this has nothing to do with islam.

  41. Xero_G says

    Jun 24, 2015 at 12:21 am

    I agree with Obama; if only I could meet an actual Muslim, I would forget all the hateful, genocidal, supremacist verses of the Koran. If I met a real Muslim, I would surely forget all the murders, violence, and terrorism done in the name of Islam. I would dismiss the deceptions, the global Jihad, the beheadings, the burning alive of captives, the ISIS caliphate, the destruction of the World Trade Center… I could forget that Muslims want to impose their religious totalitarian cult upon me.

    If only I could meet a real Muslim person, I could live in a world of unicorns, rainbows, peace, tolerance, and justice for all religions..

  42. Green Infidel says

    Jun 24, 2015 at 1:58 am

    “Here in America, many people personally don’t know someone who is Muslim.”

    Is this a codeword for “everyone should know a Muslim” – eg “send the refugees out to every community”?

  43. Katnis says

    Jun 24, 2015 at 2:35 am

    I think fewer people would have a distorted view of islam if more muslims would stand up and speak out against the horrors committed by ISIS, the Charlie Hebdo murderers, and all the crimes committed in the name of “allah,” and so on.

    By remaining silent, the majority of muslims support the horror we have witnessed.

  44. More Ham Ed says

    Jun 24, 2015 at 4:16 am

    Those who are following the unholy ko ‘ran the most closely seem to be distorting the concept of peace:

    http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

  45. qedlin says

    Jun 24, 2015 at 4:16 am

    Obama thinks Americans don’t know muslims. Here is what we do know:
    Center for security policy polling company, June 1-10, 2015, 600 muslims in America:

    1. “I believe that violence against those what insult the prophet Muhammad, the Quran, or Islamic faith is sometimes acceptable.”
    a. Agree 29%
    b. Disagree 61%
    2. “Violence against Americans here in the US can be justified as part of the global jihad.”
    a. Agree 25%
    b. Disagree 64%
    3. “Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to sharia.”
    a. Agree 51%
    b. Disagree 32%

    With 5-8 million that’s almost a million that justify jihad and violence against Americans and over 2 million that want sharia, which is antithetical to freedom, liberty and a constitutional republic. Muslims need to make a choice – submit to constitutional rule or leave.

  46. Cindy says

    Jun 24, 2015 at 5:40 am

    This president has lost his complete mind. We know all too well what the murdering Muslim’s are like. Cutting people’s heads of for the world to see. Yes we know what they are like.

  47. Shafee al-Zindig says

    Jun 24, 2015 at 7:23 am

    Testing

  48. Shafee al-Zindig says

    Jun 24, 2015 at 7:39 am

    As an ex-Muslim who personally knows hundreds of Muslims both family and acquaintances, I still think Islam stinks. Does that still make me a hater of Muslims? No. Islam the evil ideology? Yes.

    What also seems to have escaped many people’s notice is that these Iftar (breaking the fast) ritual meals only serve Halal meat. Anybody who knows anything about Halal knows that the meat is from animals that have been barbarically slaughtered without any prior numbing to reduce their pain and anxiety. The Potus doesn’t seem to be at all bothered about this whilst hobnobbing with his fellow haters.

    Don’t forget also that the Halal certifying Islamic organizations are not noted for pro-American views. So America is funding their own enemies to destroy it from within.
    (Posted also on Breitbart under my Discus name mashaba1)

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jun 25, 2015 at 7:26 am

      Hi mate! Long time no see.

      I remember your moniker. I remember you warning us about Tablighi Jamaat.

      Nice to see you posting here again.

      • Shafee al-Zindig says

        Jun 25, 2015 at 12:07 pm

        Hi there too. I still follow Jihad Watch and read the comments. Unfortunately I no longer have much time to comment because I am too busy with work commitments. Regards

  49. duh_swami says

    Jun 24, 2015 at 8:11 am

    Not to be too redundant, but the bottom line is not who you know, it’s ‘never trust anyone who believes Allah is God’…

  50. Kasey says

    Jun 24, 2015 at 8:38 am

    Meanwhile in Australia, the outspoken comments of an accused Islamist on national TV has caused a furroar. As also today’s copy of The Australian newspaper…plus>

    Zaky Mallah is just symptomatic of the ABC’s unlawful bias. Time for reform
    Andrew Bolt
    June 24 2015 (8:15am)

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    The Australian lists the five questions the ABC refused to answer over Q&A’s decision to use an Islamist extremist who has served jail for threatening to kill ASIO officers:

    FIVE QUESTIONS ABC REFUSE TO ANSWER

    1 – Did Q&A approach Zaky Mallah to join the show’s audience, or did he approach Q&A?

    2 – Were the Q&A team aware of the general nature of the question that Zaky Mallah was going to ask?

    3 – Did the ABC pay for Zaky Mallah to appear on Q&A?

    4 – Did the ABC pay for his transport or travel to the program?

    5 – Can you please release the correspondence between Mallah and the ABC.

    The answer to question 2 is clearly “yes”, and I hope the Liberals do more than just fume at what is actually symptomatic of the systematic bias of the ABC that starts at the very top, and is particularly flagrant at Q&A. Remember how Q&A stacked an audience with Muslim radicals to confront the Attorney-General? Remember this astonishing panel? Remember this panel, and the set-up questions from radicals in the audience, including the Muslim panelist who raved about the “legitimate grievances” of jihadists and urged us to be “very cynical about the Government’s use of these [anti-terrorism] raids to politicise the Muslim problem of terrorism”?

    So let’s see what comes of this anger:

    Mallah’s appearance on Q&A was deliberately manufactured by the ABC to ambush guests… “The Liberals have just justified to many Australian Muslims in the community tonight to leave and go to Syria and join ISIL (Islamic State) because of ministers like him,” Mallah said on the program in response to comments by Mr Ciobo.

    Tony Abbott said the ABC had “betrayed Australians” and called Q&A a “lefty lynch mob” for ­providing a national platform for ­Mallah, who he described as a “convicted criminal and terrorist sympathiser”.

    In comments to the Coalition partyroom, Mr Abbott said he would consider a government-wide boycott of Q&A.

    “We all know that Q&A is a lefty lynch mob and we will be looking at this and we will bring something back when we return,” he told angry MPs…

    Contacting ABC boss Mark Scott, chairman Jim Spigelman and Q&A host Tony Jones, [Communications Minister Malcolm] Turnbull said it “beggars belief” that Mallah was included in a live audience…

    “He had served a term of imprisonment for threatening to kill ASIO officers. He had been charged with threatening suicide attacks and preparing for terrorist attacks in that context, although had been acquitted. He had travelled to Syria in the pursuit of what he described as ‘jihad’. “His social media presence is vile, abusive and violent,” Mr Turnbull said. “Surely we have learned to take threats of this kind, to take people like this, extremely seriously….’

    …the ABC board will engage in an external review of Q&A, including its audience makeup and its commitment to balance, impartiality and accuracy.

    Government MP Alex Hawke wrote to the ABC demanding Q&A be taken off-air while the ­review was undertaken and asked for all communications between the public broadcaster and Mallah to be released.

    UPDATE

    Good on Immigration Minister Peter Dutton for repeatedly calling out the ABC reporter this morning for running a “rearguard” action and “protection racket” for Q&A.

    UPDATE

    Has Labor said anything about this scandal?

    UPDATE

    Getting it said:

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  51. mortimer says

    Jun 24, 2015 at 9:06 am

    Obama’s ‘uninformed bigots’ slander against Americans is meant to distract people from the urgent issues in Islam:

    1 No Golden Rule 2 No free speech 3 No democracy 4 Jihad – holy war of world conquest 5 Honour killings 6 Taqiyya – sacred lying 7 Taqlid – group think 8 Misogyny – repression of women 9 Rape of kafirs as jihad prizes 10 Genocide 11 Ethnic cleansing 12 Anti-Semitism 13 Al-Walaa wal-Baraa – Islamic apartheid 14 Torture 15 Plundering 16 Cruel and unusual punishments 17 Backwardness – stagnation 18 Violence against women 19 Slavery 20 Discriminatory Sharia law 21 Hatred of the arts 22 Pedophilia disguised as child marriage 23 Fifty generations of cousin marriage and genetic defects 24 Cruelty to animals 25 Extortion tax to humiliate disbelievers 26 No historic basis 27 Anti-intellectual obscurantism 28 FGM 29 Arab racism 30 Theocratic totalitarianism 31 Vigilantism 32 Supremacism

    • jihad3tracker says

      Jun 24, 2015 at 9:31 am

      Muslims could come back at you with a response beginning with “But, on the other hand . . .” if that hand were not already chopped off.

      BTW, if readers here have not recently looked at the commentary on Jordan Denari’s magnificently ironclad argument against cartooning Muhammad (in Robert’s Time magazine hotlinked post several days ago) — jump over there for a smidgeon of comfort. Counter-jihadists piled on that unfortunate young organism with well-merited remarks . . .

      The score tallies around 20 to 3 currently, so it appears that Ms. Denari’s association with Lean & Esposito could keep her out of the PhD candidate playoffs — although considering how far Left and seditionist “elite” campuses are nowadays, perhaps not.

      There still is a chance, however, of her landing in the rarified air of our FISA court’s most-granted warrant requests for listening in on phone conversations. That might be seen as an accomplishment of some kind.

      • jihad3tracker says

        Jun 24, 2015 at 1:27 pm

        CLARIFYING — Go to the actual Time webpage posting of Denari’s article. Access comments about it by clicking on a tiny icon on the right side at the article’s concluding paragraph.

  52. Linda Rivera says

    Jun 24, 2015 at 10:05 am

    Obama is a Muslim. He constantly shows us by his words and American-destroying acts how Muslims are.

    Before Obama was elected he practiced taqiyya – Muslim deception and lies:

    Barbaric mass murderer and huge sex slaver, founder of Islam, Mohammad declared:
    WAR IS DECEPTION.

    Obama declared himself to be a good Christian. Now in power, he makes no attempt to conceal his rabid hate for Jesus Christ, the Bible and Christianity.

    Barack Obama Mocks & Attacks Jesus and the Bible

  53. Concerned Canadian says

    Jun 24, 2015 at 10:18 am

    To all of us , he is the worst President ever.

    To the followers of “John Stewart” Obama is a prince.

    Mainstream media we all know it left leaning.

    But this is all Hollywood. How many “real” Americans do you
    feel are not falling for it ?

    Its not a matter of red vs blue. Too simple.

    People have to notice whats going on?!

  54. Hokken says

    Jun 24, 2015 at 10:52 am

    I often hear “I know some lovely muslims”, of course, but muslims are not lovely because of Islam but because they still haven’t fully adhered to Islam yet and there is still some clarity in their heart.

  55. Lioness says

    Jun 24, 2015 at 12:03 pm

    I thought we all knew a muslim; we know Hussein Obama, and we don’t like what we see.

  56. More Ham Ed says

    Jun 24, 2015 at 5:16 pm

    According to secular surveys, based on population percentage of various muslim countries, upwards of 400 million muslims worldwide believe in the death penalty for leaving islam. That certainly doesn’t help with the “impression” of islam.

    http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-beliefs-about-sharia/

  57. frederick c king says

    Jun 24, 2015 at 5:44 pm

    Obama is a fool. He opens our borders , and fails to try to get the looters back to work.

    • spot on says

      Jun 25, 2015 at 11:59 am

      Frederick, It all depends on the point of view. From our point of view, he is a fool. From his point of view, he is achieving all his hard fought goals. He wants our borders open to dilute the Republican vote. Unemployed looters work cheaper than employed looters. Heck, many of the looters in Ferguson didn’t get paid as they were promised and were carrying signs to that effect several weeks after the riots. They were demanding $5000 each as promised for looting Ferguson.

  58. nfw says

    Jun 24, 2015 at 11:28 pm

    Sounds as though Barry, the kid from Indonesia who became Pres Obozo, is delirious from fasting during Ramadan. Unfortunately his delirium has come to mean the Truth is seen as a distorted impression in his view.

  59. underbed cat says

    Jun 25, 2015 at 3:22 pm

    No, Mr. O, many people know muslims…. but they don’t know about Islam. it was somewhere around the late 60’s. i had a female classmate who carried around a Koran, on top of all her school books. Very nice, polite, smart almost blond hair, who kinda of told me about Islam, funny looking back, she was honest about somethings that totally so they say ,”freaked me out”. Like the penalty for theft…etc…etc removal of body parts, she also spoke about Mohammed…a name I barely heard before, about the Koran, Allah. .She invited me to her home. There the answers came when noticing her father appeared to be foreign. however he did not seem interested in the conversation as he sipped his drink. She was more a serious calm. minded girl like me, but…this new (but) old religion was news to me. Lately I know people who know friendly, hardworking muslims, but they no nothing about Islam, sharia law, tacyyia etc….but when you do it all seems to change.

  60. Greg Zotta says

    Jun 26, 2015 at 2:04 am

    No Moderate Muslims
    There is no such thing as a moderate Muslim, because they wouldn’t be Muslims. If you are a Muslim, then you believe in the teachings of Muhammed and the goal of Islam is “World Islam” as stated in the Q’uran. Therefore, if you do not believe in those teachings, then you should not be a Muslim. The problem is once you are a Muslim you are always a Muslim.
    Islam is a political and military system masquerading as a religion. Muslims can lie to the infidel to promote Islam. The Muslim Brotherhood calls for a “Civilization-Jihadist Process,” in which they would destroy the Western civilization from within. Radical Muslims believe the infidels will have to convert to Islam, be enslaved or be killed. They state, we do not want to democratize Islam, we want to Islamize democracy. That is what we want.
    In the Christian faith, it is a sin to commit murder and you can go to Hell. In Islam, if you kill the infidel and die in the action you are martyred and promised paradise and 72 Virgins.
    In the United States we do not want to become a Muslim nation and be put under Sharia law, with Honor Killings. That is why we must remain vigilant to protect our freedom. Look at what has been happening in Germany, Great Britain and France.

    • qedlin says

      Jun 26, 2015 at 2:27 am

      The way I have come to understand the cult of islam is, since everything is backwards from rational, principled beliefs like just about all other religions, the bad muslims are the ones we hope to live next to if we must, since they do their little cultic rituals and otherwise don’t blow themselves up, rape your women, kill your men and take your stuff; the good muslims obey big Mo to the letter and do all the above in the name of peace, of course.

      bad muslims = gooder
      good muslims = badder/worst

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