In FrontPage today I discuss the remarkable falsehoods Barack Obama purveyed at the Islamic Society of Baltimore yesterday.
When Barack Obama visited the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Islamic Society of Baltimore on Wednesday, he said: “The first thing I want to say is two words that Muslim Americans don’t hear often enough: Thank you.”
While Obama has been President, Muslims have murdered non-Muslims, avowedly in the cause of Islam, at Fort Hood, Boston, Chattanooga, and San Bernardino, and attempted to do so in many, many other places. Imagine if armed Baptists screaming “Jesus is Lord” had committed murder, and explained that they were doing so in order to advance Christianity, in four American cities, and had attempted to do so in many others. Imagine that those killers were supporters of a global Christian movement that had repeatedly called for attacks on U.S. civilians and declared its determination to destroy the United States.
Imagine how incongruous it would be in that case for the President of the United States to visit a church and say: “The first thing I want to say is two words that Christian Americans don’t hear often enough: Thank you.” And imagine how unlikely it would be that Barack Obama would ever have done that.
But his visit to the Islamic Society of Baltimore was the apotheosis of the Muslim victimhood myth, as he signaled yet again to the world (and worldwide jihadis) that in the U.S., Muslims are victims, victims of unwarranted concern over jihad terror, and thus that concern is likely to lessen even more, as Obama dismantles still more of our counter-terror apparatus.
“We’ve seen children bullied, we’ve seen mosques vandalized,” Obama claimed. “It’s not who we are. We’re one American family. And when any part of our family begins to feel separate or second class, it tears at the heart of our nation” – he said to his gender-segregated Muslim audience, with the womensitting in the back. In reality, Muslims are not victimized in American society: FBI hate crime statistics show that the hysteria over “Islamophobia” is unfounded, but that matters not at all to Barack Obama. At the mosque, he said: “If we’re serious about freedom of religion — and I’m talking to my fellow Christians who are the majority in this country — we have to understand that an attack on one faith is an attack on all faiths.”
Once again Obama felt free to scold and admonish Christians, but said nothing about Muslims in the U.S. needing to clean house and work for real reform that would mitigate jihad terror. And his premise was false: there is no attempt to restrict Muslims’ freedom of religion. Donald Trump hasn’t called for that; nor has Ben Carson or any serious analyst. But the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) (a representative of which accompanied Obama to the mosque Wednesday) and other Islamic advocacy groups have consistently charged that counter-terror efforts and attempts to restrict the political, supremacist and authoritarian aspects of Sharia that are at variance with Constitutional principles were tantamount to restricting Muslims’ religious freedom.
Now the President of the United States has endorsed their false narrative, which will only further stigmatize initiatives to understand the jihadis’ ideology and counter it effectively. He further criticized those who dare to suggest that Islam might have something to do with Islamic terrorism by criticizing those who say that the U.S. is at war with Islam: “That kind of mind-set helps our enemies,” he intoned. “It helps our enemies recruit. It makes us all less safe.”
The U.S. certainly isn’t at war with Islam, but segments of the Islamic world are at war with the U.S., and Obama did not explain what might be done to counter the beliefs that have given rise to that idea. He is, of course, against studying the beliefs of the enemy. Yet he said proudly: “Jefferson and John Adams had their own copies of the Qur’an,” without bothering to mention that they had them in order to understand the ideology of the enemy the new nation faced in the Barbary Pirates. They held, of course, the same ideology he ignores and denies today, the one he ordered all traces of removed from counterterror training.
“Islam,” Obama declared, “has always been part of America.” Really? There were Muslims at Jamestown? In the Massachusetts Bay Colony? At Roanoke? Obama’s statement is so wildly ridiculous that it doesn’t just invite parody; it pleads for it. Remember the Muslims among the Founding Fathers, Yahya al-Adams and Iskandar Hamilton? Remember the Muslims who told James Madison about Muhammad’s Constitution of Medina so that he could lay out the foundations of a republic in the U.S. Constitution? Remember the Muslims who fought so valiantly in the Revolutionary Jihad, and the Jihad of 1812, and the Mexican Jihad, and the Civil War, aka the Jihad Between the Caliphates? Remember all the controversies about whether Muslim soldiers in the Civil War could make sex slaves out of the wives and daughters of Confederate commanders? The jihad suicide attacks that broke the Germans’ will to fight on during World War I?
Burrowing deeper into fantasy, Obama proclaimed: “Generations of Muslim Americans helped to build our nation.” He didn’t mention the real contributions Muslims have made to our nation: you know, like rearranging the New York skyline, transforming government buildings into grim, nervous fortresses, making air travel into exercise in annoyance and humiliation that it is today, and draining the American economy with two futile wars and hundreds of billions spent on security and counterterror initiatives.
In detailing the contributions that Muslims have made to the U.S., Obama said: “Muslim Americans keep up safe. They are our police. They are our fire fighters. They’re in (the Department of) Homeland Security.” And remember: none of them were screened for jihadi sympathies. To have done so would have been “Islamophobic,” and transgressed against the prevailing dogma that Islam is a Religion of Peace that non-Muslims are wrong and bigoted to be concerned about.
The most ominous thing Obama said in this speech full of treacle and humbug was this: “We’re not going to strengthen our leadership around the world by allowing politicians to insult Muslims or pit groups of Americans against each other. That’s not who we are. That’s not keeping America safe.” So what is he going to do? Destroy the First Amendment and disallow politicians to insult Muslims?
Obama decried “phony tough talk and bluster and over-the-top claims.” Yet in the final analysis, that was all he offered.

mortimer says
Islamopandering won’t work. Muslims normatively believe in conspiracy theories, rather than facts. Muslims believe what their leaders want them to believe. Islam does not use independent critical thought, but AUTHORITARIAN thought.
Eventually, Muslims (if they have any brains) realize their mullahs are lying to them…heck, the mullahs know they are lying and so all Muslims come to realize the lies, if they live long enough.
Muslims will all realize Obama is shovelling loads of hot, steaming, malodorous taqiyya. They will be more aware of the taqiyya even than Robert Spencer.
Obama’s exaggerations, outright falsehoods and pandering innuendos are reprehensible. Indirectly, Obama slanders anyone who uses critical thought and independent analysis.
Ralph Statum says
jihad3tracker says
Hello Ralph !
From a 2nd Amendment EX-Democrat in the gun loving Commonwealth of Virginia.
There is a local joke in the northern county where my wigwam resides that the reason our crime rate is so low is that the bad guys know that oodles of us legally carry concealed, but they cannot tell who is armed at any particular location.
I bought a Ruger SR40 C about 3 years ago — Ruger is one of our older solid $$ value firearms makers. Back in the mid-70s, when I was hand loading 3 rifle calibers and 4 pistol calibers, I had a Super Blackhawk in .45 L.C., nicknamed — deservedly — my hand cannon.
Anyway, back to the video. Thanks for putting it up, and maybe you have also noticed that chicks who dig guns are A) cute B) hot C) funny D) already have boyfriends. Alas, such is life in modern America outside of Leftist pansy ass privilege guilt environs: bend-over-and-take-it-Infidel big cities, in other words.
Keep on truckin’ — as the old Hippie expression goes . . ..
mortimer says
Obama has clearly taken aim at the freedom of expression in this speech. HE and HE ALONE will decide WHO will be able to speak and the CONTENT of their messages.
“We’re not going to strengthen our leadership around the world by ALLOWING politicians to insult Muslims …” -Obama
ALLOWING…let that word sink in. WHO is going to ALLOW?
This is censorship. Obama is saying that Islam and Muslims are perfect and therefore anyone who criticizes them must be wrong.
wtd says
US Congressional House Resolution 569 – Condemning violence, bigotry, and hateful rhetoric towards Muslims in the United States
This bill was introduced (12/17/2015) Sponsored by Rep. Beyer, Donald S., Jr. [D-VA-8]
Beyer is on the House – Judiciary Committee. Adding insult to injury….There are 123 traitorous cosponsors
Ralph Statum says
http://libertygb.org.uk/news/us-courts-have-ruled-muslims-cannot-be-us-citizens
wtd says
Ah, Culturist John recognized in the UK? Small world, indeed!
grace says
A few years back, I used to think Julian Assange might be a traitor for exposing govt secrets. Ha! A few hundred thousand moslems, many rapes, many beheadings, stonings and lunches between western govt leaders and moslems, and covert halal certifications paying billions to islam, later, I think I know who the real traitors are now.
Don McKellar says
“And when any part of our family begins to feel separate or second class, it tears at the heart of our nation” – he said to his gender-segregated Muslim audience, with the women sitting in the back.”
I mean holy crap, does the irony of this not spark in his brain? Not even a flicker?
“Yet he said proudly: “Jefferson and John Adams had their own copies of the Qur’an,” without bothering to mention that they had them in order to understand the ideology of the enemy the new nation faced in the Barbary Pirates.”
What can be said of this? He must have, at some point, asked why or read or heard why they had those books? Or did he learn one day about it and smile about how cool he thought that was because he assumed it was because they dug Islam? I mean, come on.
“We’re not going to strengthen our leadership around the world by allowing politicians to insult Muslims or pit groups of Americans against each other. That’s not who we are. That’s not keeping America safe.”
Indeed another chilling, almost veiled threat here. With the clock ticking on his regime and nothing to lose, it is possible he might do something very rash.
Whenever I read or hear people like him or Hillary Clinton making claims that “insulting” Islam is a recruitment tool for terror groups, and that we should embrace Islam instead as “a part of America” and shut up about it and they’ll help protect us, I think about the Good Cop, Bad Cop routine. “You better shut up about Islam or my friend here, he’ll go crazy and attack you. If you stop talking about it, I’ll protect you, but I won’t be able to control him if you don’t. That’s a good dhimmi.”
Mockingjay says
“… he said to his gender-segregated Muslim audience, with the women sitting in the back.”
The women and girls in hijab all really seem to love him.
Custos Custodum says
If you go back over Obama’s pronouncements over the years, you discover that he positively gets off on putting lies over on his audience – the bigger and the more brazen the lie, the better. Clearly, his hate flows from deep within his soul, unencumbered by any flickering conscience.
Incidentally, in the same vein, Obama (like all Muslims) revels in putting down ordinary African Americans. Obama is well aware that Muslims (even non-Arabic speaking Muslims) freely use the word abeed (literally “slave”) to refer to people of African decent.
It bears repeating and considering that the number of slaves traded into Islamic countries was far higher than the number landed on the territory of the current U.S. (Historians now assume the U.S. number was around 800,000.)
Jonathan Higbee says
Islam always a part of America? Revisionist history by a know-nothing Enlightenment-traitor president.
A part of America exactly how? Like how a carbuncle can be part of one’s rear end? Yes, that’s the way.
Relevant quote from
http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/us/obama-could-learn-from-thomas-jeffersons-1801-response-to-muslims-during-the-barbary-coast-war
—quote begins
In 1786, Jefferson and John Adams met with Tripoli’s ambassador to Great Britain. They asked this ‘diplomat’ by what right his nation attacked American ships and enslaved her citizens and why the Muslims held such hostility toward this new nation, with which neither Tripoli nor any of the other Barbary Coast nations had any previous contact. The answer was quite revealing. Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja (the ambassador) replied that Islam:
“Was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Qur’an, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”
That is indeed quite revealing. Yet, America continued paying ransoms to these terrorists for the next fifteen years or so. Until Jefferson became President. Then, the Pasha (leader) of Tripoli sent a demand to the new leader for an immediate payment of $225,000 and $25,000 per year on an ongoing basis. Jefferson flatly refused, leading the Pasha to cut down the flagpole of the American consulate and declaring war on the United States. The rest of the terrorist states followed suit.
Jefferson had formerly been against raising a navy, but this soon changed as he was determined to meet force with force. A squadron of vessels was sent to the area and Congress authorized Jefferson to have the US ships seize all vessels and goods that belonged to the Pasha and anything else deemed necessary. As they saw the US was actually committed to the fight, Algiers and Tunis quickly abandoned the war and allegiance to Tripoli. Obviously, the US won the war. In fact, this was the reason why the line “to the shores of Tripoli” was added to the Marine Corps hymn.
—quote ends
And the relevant history can be found elsewhere in more detail. For example in the following old book:
https://books.google.com/books?id=CnMUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA342&dq=Was+founded+on+the+Laws+of+their+Prophet&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjO-OPQt97KAhWLbj4KHcrwDsQQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=Was%20founded%20on%20the%20Laws%20of%20their%20Prophet&f=false
…from The Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States of America …, Volume 2.
Obama believes everything is equal. It ain’t. More info:
Why Islam? Of the three great monotheistic religions only one did not go through the Enlightenment
http://moralarc.org/why-islam-of-the-three-great-monotheistic-religions-one-did-not-go-through-enlightenment/
The religion of the “non-religious” left: anti-free-speech, anti-science, anti-Enlightenment
http://jonathanshome.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-religion-of-non-religious-left-anti.html
ich says
he makes me ill
I guess if you have a puppet kissing your ass you may not want to blow people up
is that his thinking?
Carolyne says
To ich—
Yes.
zulu says
Canada: Trudeau: We strive to show that “Islam is not incompatible” with Western values
http://en.cijnews.com/?p=25349
mortimer says
Obama’s Left and Islam need to control information: a slave is one who cannot speak his mind
The inability of Islam to allow freedom of speech is based on its predominant themes of dualism and submission. Islam is based on the model of slavery: there is a slave; there is a slave-owner. The slave has no rights. For a free person, the chief right that guarantees the other rights is freedom of speech. Euripides wrote: “A Slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.” This is insightful. Free speech is the first right Mohammed took away from his opposition: the right to criticize him. He particularly wanted his followers to avoid contact with outsiders, so they might not hear any criticism of his cult. Isolation is a mind-bending, thought-control technique practiced in all narcissistic religious cults. There are 14 Koranic verses that tell Muslims not to befriend the kafirs.
In a liberal society, censoring any criticism of Islam would mean giving Islam special rights that other faiths do not have: Islamists want the right to criticize others faiths (and other sects of Islam besides their own), and the right of Islam to be above criticism. Islam’s primary need is to remove freedom of expression from the kufaar in order to gain a monopoly of information about Islam. Kufaar are semi-slaves and only Muslims have rights in an Islamic society. In practice, only the Islamic authoritarian state has the right to express an opinion about anything. All opinions are censored and/or punished sooner or later by the state or by the mullahs.
“Fitna” is similar to heresy or wrong thinking that disagrees with Mohammed. Mohammed himself punished wrong thinking with death, and all Muslims are required to follow his authentic tradition (Sunna). Fitna crimes are punished by death. All kufaar are ipso facto guilty.
quotha raven says
To Mortimer – who posits that “All kufaar are ipso facto guilty.”
Exactly right, and why Obama’s incomplete quote from the Qur’an at this same fete, “Islam prohibits terrorism, for the Qur’an says whoever kills an innocent, it is as if he has killed all mankind” is so evil. No kufaar is “an innocent” as you so clearly show above.
Thank you, Mortimer, for another instructive and compelling comment.
Cheers!
quotha raven
wtd says
History, Mr. Obama, confirms you exaggerate and lie like an islamic prayer rug. War or tribute are not considerations between “friends”, “allies”, ‘comrades’…and islam was never part or parcel of the American fabric. The identity “Barbary” is simply interchangeable with “Islamic” and the picture of relations between Islam and the USA reveal an acrimonious affair – at best.
VQR, A National Journal of Literature & Discussion,
ISSUE: Autumn 1944
http://www.vqronline.org/essay/mellimelli-problem-president-jefferson-north-african-diplomacy
“Mellimelli: A Problem for President Jefferson in North African Diplomacy” By Julia H. Macleod
The recent political tribulations of the Department of State in dealing with North Africa must have stirred the ghosts of early Secretaries to ironic laughter. If Mr. Hull thought he had a headache in Algiers, Tunis, or Tripoli, he might have taken grim comfort in contemplating the greater trials of his predecessors; for the pirate states of the Barbary Coast were an unmitigated nuisance to the governments of the first four Presidents of the United States, and they drove more than one Secretary of State to profane and undiplomatic language. Compared with the irritations endured by Secretary James Madison, for example, Mr. Hull’s troubles were but as the buzzing of gnats; and President Roosevelt’s problems in North Africa may be complex and disturbing, but President Jefferson often found diplomacy with that area a downright personal annoyance.
As long as the American colonies were a part of the British Empire, merchant ships from Boston, New York, or Philadelphia enjoyed the protection of His Majesty’s royal navy. But after the Fourth of July, 1776, American merchantmen found themselves fugitives from countless perils on the high seas. The Barbary pirates were a particular menace to commerce in the Mediterranean. In 1799 President John Adams sent out consuls to Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli and began a long and costly sequence of diplomatic horse trades designed to buy off the pirates. Eventually, as all the world knows, the American navy resorted to arms and won at the point of its guns what the infant nation had been unable to purchase—immunity from piratical depredation.
(go read the whole thing – 16-MINUTE READ)
More http://clements.umich.edu/exhibits/online/barbary/barbary-introduction.php :
At a time when water was the most economically viable way to transport goods, the Mediterranean was vital to American prosperity. Presidents Washington and Adams chose to pay exorbitant tributes to the Barbary powers, though the bribes failed to ensure full protection from piracy and were subject to the whims of the Bashaw of Tripoli, the Bey of Tunis, the Sultan of Morocco, and the Dey of Algiers. With tribute prices escalating, the newly elected President Thomas Jefferson bypassed Congress and sent the nation’s fledgling navy to confront the Barbary powers. In 1815, President James Madison sent a naval force to the Mediterranean to finish what Jefferson started, and finally put an end to the Barbary piracy.
This online exhibit highlights the Clements Library’s best holdings related to the Barbary Wars. Featured items include manuscripts, books, maps, and engravings documenting the United States’ first interactions with the Arab world and the early development of the U.S. Navy. The heart of this material comes from three manuscript collections:
The Tobias Lear papers, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsmss/umich-wcl-M-1044lea
the John Rodgers papers, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsmss/umich-wcl-M-2502rod
and the Isaac Chauncey papers. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsmss/umich-wcl-M-1266cha
Together, these collections document the highest level of naval and diplomatic decision-making during and after the wars. Additionally, the exhibit relies on several other manuscript collections that contain discussions of and references to early American activities in the Mediterranean. Also showcased is the Clements’ collection of 19th-century Barbary captivity narratives, books that informed and inflamed the American public on the home front, as well as images of the naval conflict and maps of the region. We hope that the exhibit will draw attention to an often-neglected episode in American history, and inspire researchers and enthusiasts to pursue new discoveries at the Clements Library.
Project archivist Philip Heslip identified and compiled the manuscripts and collections used in this exhibit in conjunction with his work on the manuscripts division’s National Endowment for the Humanities processing grant “Landmark Events in the Early American Republic.”
Westman says
Obama isn’t the only entity selling the Kool Aid:
A rather young but vibrant LDS (Mormons) church is a leader among, “the declaration that all religions have valid revelatory experiences”
LDS First Presidency statement, Feb 15, 1978, excerpt:
“The great religious leaders of the world such as Mohammed, Confucius, and the Reformers, as well as philosophers including Socrates, Plato, and others, received a portion of God’s light. Moral truths were given to them by God to enlighten whole nations and to bring a higher level of understanding to individuals.”
This next quote from the article, “Latter-day Saint Perspective of Muhammad”, on lds..org, will leave you disoriented:
“Yet examples of dialogue and cooperation abound, including visits of Muslim dignitaries at Church headquarters in Salt Lake City; Muslim use of Church canning facilities to produce halal (ritually clean) food products; Church humanitarian aid and disaster relief sent to predominantly Muslim areas including Jordan, Kosovo, and Turkey; academic agreements between Brigham Young University and various educational and governmental institutions in the Islamic world; the existence of the Muslim Student Association at BYU; and expanding collaboration between the Church and Islamic organizations to safeguard traditional family values worldwide. ”
Halal and MSA promoted at private BYU…dizzy yet?
From the sane article: “Elder Pratt went on to express his admiration for Muhammad’s teachings, asserting that, ‘upon the whole, … [Muslims] have better morals and better institutions than many Christian nations.’”
President Obama should be quoting the LDS Church as an example of the acceptance he seeks for Islam.
Dar says
“Obama isn’t the only entity selling the Kool Aid:”
Someone who can draw could make a cartoon of Obama and his kool-aid stand.
Stipe says
Members of the LGBT Community who are rejected for employment at Christian centers/churches use the law to enforce them being employed. I wonder what would happen if something like that happened at this Islamic center.
john spielman says
they will be too scared to apply
Ronen says
“Islam,” Obama declared, “has always been part of America.”
Well… this already seems to be stupid even for usful idiot Obama. Just as you think he has reached rock bottom, he manages to break his own record of stupidity and hypocricy.
What an a**hole
gabi says
Do Obama know America’s history? When was islam “always” a part of America? Maybe Arabian oil is a biiiig (huuuuuge) part of American dollar, but I see Obama confuses things: oil IS NOT identical with islam! I’m sure the weakest American student knows what Obama don’t know: the foundation of America is Christian (and native American’s religion&traditions), NOT Muslim!! BTW, where did Obama attended school, in Saudi Arabia?
Mockingjay says
I wonder: will Obama stop this lying nonsense when there are 300,000 dead, as Daniel Pipes wrote? Or will it really take 3 million? Or not even then?
Carolyne says
Not even then. He is one of them.
somehistory says
He is not a Christian…by any stretch of the imagination and allowing just about any *meaning* to the word. t is clear who he considers his enemies to be.
There were no Christians in the barracks to whom he could speak.
Christians take direction from Christ and follow the commandments of His Father. It is a Christian duty to “Preach the Word” and this includes the part about warning that satan is like a “roaring lion seeking to devour” and uses any and all means that evil demon can dream up to make people worship him. One of the main tools the devil is using today is islam.
Taking heart from the Psalm: “Just a little while longer and the wicked one will be no more (37:10).”
mortimer says
Obama is a Neville Chamberlain throwing Christians and Jews and other minorities to the Muslim crocodile. He really believes ‘niceness’ will appease a savage beast, but Islam is supremacist totalitarianism. A totalitarian wants to TOTALIZE everything, everywhere in TOTALITY. A totalitarian wants IT ALL…not just a piece. Obama can’t imagine that.
Obama is a Quisling selling out to the totalitarians. His name will permanently appear on the roll of DISHONOR and INFAMY.
Obama is an enemy of the First Amendment.
Lynne says
Trudeau may be following in his footsteps.
خَليفة says
But Obama was correct about Muslims being in America since the beginning of time. Recall that Muslims believe ALL animals are Muslims. – the funny thing is that Mohamed believed the world was flat, like a rolled out pizza dough. It is clear from Islamic texts that he believed the world to be so much smaller than it really is. Any one with reasoning power would wonder why the “great and mighty OZ” Opps, I mean Allah did not accurately described the world to Muhammed, but OZ did not, so Mohammed died believing the sun and moon orbit around a flat Earth. That same reasoning person quickly realizes that Allah is OZ and OZ is Mohammed.
Obama’s glossolalia knows no bounds in the spewing of taqiyya.
mortimer says
Obama and his Leftards are in a SICK CODEPENDENCY with their ‘noble savages’…an evil alliance to destroy Western civilization.
The cultural Marxists use the ‘noble savages’ and the ‘noble savages’ use the Leftards right back.
The question is: What will happen to Obama’s Leftards when they try to dismount the tiger.
Bob says
Obama illustrates the fact that no muslim can be relied upon to tell the truth about Islam.
This is for two reasons.
First Mohammed decreed death to any muslim who became an apostate, and this is a part of sharia law. And telling the bad truth about Islam could well cause a muslim to be dubbed an apostate and killed. Wafa Sultan began to tell the truth about Islam and now has had a fatwah issued for her death.
Second Mohammed taught and sharia law supports that a muslim should lie to advance Islam.
So although there may be some muslims who actually will tell the truth about islam, they are few and far between. And they put their lives at risk when they do.
Islam is a subversive political ideology mixed with religion that seeks to replace our constitution with sharia law. And sharia law is opposed to freedom of speech , freedom of the press, freedom of artistic expression, freedom of religion, equal protection of law and due process of law
We should amend the constitution to provide that Islam is not to be considered a religion within the meaning of the constitution and laws of the United States or any state thereof, and that no court shall enforce or recognize sharia law.
Georg says
“Obama decried ‘phony tough talk and bluster and over-the-top claims.’ Yet in the final analysis, that was all he offered.”
Nice catch…
A similar irony is often attached to people who see racism here, there and everywhere.
R says
This article, while good, doesn’t even scratch the surface. You can, seriously, sit here for days, ripping apart all of the lies and inaccuracies in this speech.
yohanan says
Spencer is right there was no iftar celebrationin the Pres Jefferson’s dinner with the Tunisian envoy to the United States. Sidi Soliman Mellimelli.
https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/tunisian-envoy
>Mellimelli was in Washington during Ramadan, a month-long period in which Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset. To accommodate his guest’s religious obligation, Jefferson’s invitation to the President’s House on December 9 changed the time of dinner from the usual “half after three” to “precisely at sunset.”12<
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
There is another passage of this speech that I have not seen commented upon anywhere. According to
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/cnsnewscom-staff/obama-more-thousand-years-people-have-been-drawn-islams-message-peace
== QUOTE ==
President Barack Obama said today in a speech at the Islamic Society of Baltimore that one fact that has not been “communicated on a regular basis through our media” is that “for more than a thousand years people have been drawn to Islam’s message of peace.”
“Whoever wants to enter paradise, the Prophet Mohammad taught, let him treat people the way he would love to be treated,” Obama said. “And for Christians like myself I am assuming that sounds familiar.”
== UNQUOTE ==
Yes, it does sound familiar, as familiar as the Golden Rule.
But I am sick and tired of these armchair imams who quote
our favorite prophet without citing chapter and verse so
that we can verify the quote, in context, in the Quran or Sunnah.
I have never heard of this quote. Where does it come from?
don vito says
So let us blame slavery in the US on the Founding Islamic Fathers.
epistemology says
That’s exactly the problem, no first amendment any more. They haven’t got any idea about muzzie supremacy
Angemon says
Maybe at Roanoke – the missing colonists could have been taken as slaves by an Ottoman ship.
Jeremiah says
Obama is right. Islam has always been part of America. Even before the War of Independence we were at war with Islam. That war was finally concluded around 1815 with a Marine victory.
Arthur says
Pity the poor Secret Service agents defending this delusional or deceptive president from throngs of Mohammedians. If I were in the Secret Service, I would be signing up for the counterfeiting team!
Wellington says
Disgusting man, whether by way of willful ignorance or outright deceit. Easily the worst President in American history—-by far.
davej says
Obama is really rubbing it in our faces now. Trying to transform the history of America’s previous encounters with Muslims (piracy) and the eloquent assessment of the Islamic creed by contemporaries such as Thomas Jefferson, into some fatuous tale of Muslim contributions to American life.
It is the Big Lie technique, again.
Midway says
Obama’s a destructive agent of Satan. Pure & simple.
Napoleon Bonaparte says
‘With all this bad shit happening in the world it is more important than ever to ”chill out”. I recommend chilling out with Viking Trance – Smart Dog Videos’. Napoleon Bonaparte
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
What is this video doing here? It’s a not-very-enjoyable music video that has nothing to do with Islam.
Charles Martel says
What our Ayatollah-in-Chief is saying is a reflection of what the “leaders” of Europe did with their agreeing to the 1973 “Euro Arab Dialogue”. We will align ourselves with Islamic countries who hate the West and be their patsy. Look how well that has worked out for the EU. Now, 43 years later, he wants us to capitulate to Sharia. No damn way! It’s time to stand up for America and our way of life, not commit cultural suicide.
Richard says
Some would say that actuality for Obama is the series of events which make up a Democratic attempt to win the Presidential office, overt personal aspirations and the forthcoming Legacy Period. This is his reality – Islam and ‘Muslims’ are simply incorporated in a covert personal ontology of coercion.
Bob says
In a nutshell, if Charles Manson had started Christianity, it would look a lot like Islam, except Manson wasn’t a pedophile.
Carolyne says
In the picture above of Obama shaking hands with the crowd, it might just be coincidence but he seems not to be touching the women’s hands, I note they have covered their hair, likely so that a male will not go into a sexual frenzy at the mere sight of female hair, but I wonder about the hand-shaking.
Someone should tell him that it is our culture not to segregate women from men and put women in the back. I know his culture is Kenyan Muslim, but someone ought to tell him………
red rose says
Obama wants to turn USA into what is happening to Europe and UK. We the ones who actually love this country should stand up and NOT allow this.
Where’s Obama’s cry for the killing and torturing of Christians in the Middle East and Africa?
sly311 says
Notice how happy and comfortable the huckster is in his own element?
Mike Solomon says
in barry’s famous cairo speech he quoted the holy quran more than 100 times! go figure?
UNCLE VLADDI says
If “radicalization” was a real threat, (or even a real thing) then why don’t Christian Jews Hindus Buddhists Zoroastrians or Jains ever get “radicalized!”?
Kasey says
My reply to Rumama Ahmed’s recent speech [she is an advisor to The White House”] is:
If the indoctrination of you mind and the attitudes of males within your ideolgy hadn’t caused you personally, to advertise the recognition of your faith as a necessity, you wouldn’t have to wear that scarf by compulsion, but have the free will “not to”, as do most other “free” American women.
You should try to step back from your indoctrination and associated peer pressures and consider to do just as they do,ie exert some real “free will”, then think again.