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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Obama visits Muslim Brotherhood-tied mosque

Feb 3, 2016 2:03 pm By Robert Spencer

In PJ Media today I discuss why this was the wrong thing to do:

Obama Islamic Society Baltimore

After seven years of pandering to and appeasing the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran, Barack Obama will mark the crowning moment of his presidency: today he will — for the first time as president — visit a mosque in the United States.

A White House official says he intends to “celebrate the contributions Muslim Americans make to our nation.” The Washington Post added that he was making the trip “to promote religious tolerance at a time when rhetoric linking Islam with terrorism is growing.”

In other words, Obama is going to the mosque because of Donald Trump, Ben Carson, and other Republican candidates whom the media has roasted for linking Islam with terrorism.

Of course, the mosque he has chosen to visit is … the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Islamic Society of Baltimore. Obama is more concerned with Republican rhetoric linking Islam with terrorism than with the increase in such rhetoric emanating from Muslims themselves, drawn directly from Islamic canon.

The latest Islamic State video is titled “Kill Them Wherever You Find Them”. This is a quotation from the Qur’an (2:191, 4:89, 9:5).

A few weeks ago, a convert to Islam named Edward Archer shot and seriously wounded Philadelphia police officer Jesse Hartnett. He then engaged in rhetoric linking Islam to terrorism, saying:

I follow Allah. I pledge my allegiance to the Islamic state. That is why I did what I did.

Will Obama discuss these examples — and there are countless more — of Muslims linking Islam to terrorism when he visits the Islamic Society of Baltimore? Will he challenge this mosque and other U.S. mosques to institute honest, transparent, inspectable programs that teach against the understanding of Islam that gives rise to jihad violence?

Not likely. He is going there to celebrate the contributions Muslims have made to our nation. But he will never address the contributions which do not fit his narrative; he will never consider presenting Americans with an objective weighing of the negatives balanced against any positives.

We all know of the economic and quality-of-life negatives he thinks disappear if he chooses to ignore them, like the remodeling of the New York skyline. And the expensive transformation of government buildings in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere into veritable fortresses, each with lovely massive stone blocks outside to prevent jihadis from using truck bombs. Muslims alone provided the impetus for huge advances — and huge expenses — in the development of technology used to screen passengers in airports. Muslims are responsible for air travel being transformed from a glamorous, adventurous activity to a cramped, hectoring, inhospitable affair, with glum, shoeless hordes holding up their beltless trousers while jumping through intrusive and inefficient checkpoints.

We also owe Muslims for insisting upon the political correctness that requires everyone to be humiliated equally. Passengers are poked, prodded, threatened, herded like cattle, and treated as likely criminals while America is hamstrung from efficiently focusing on the true source of the problem.

We also must credit Muslims with increases in the U.S. government. It is now bigger, wealthier (on your tax money), and watching you more closely than it was on September 10, 2001. Muslims can take a bow for the creation of at least two government agencies — the TSA and the Department of Homeland Security — plus a massive expansion in the budgets of all manner of intelligence and law enforcement entities.

Those bloated budgets are one manifestation of what is actually the greatest contribution that Muslims have made to our nation: the slow destruction of the American economy. Osama bin Laden explained that he mounted the 9/11 jihad terror attacks in order to weaken the American economy; in October 2004 he rejoiced at how he had induced the Americans to spend, spend, spend to try to stymie him:

Al-Qaeda spent $500,000 on the event, while America, in the incident and its aftermath, lost — according to the lowest estimate — more than $500 billion, meaning that every dollar of al-Qaeda defeated a million dollars.

And that was in 2004. How many more billions have been spent since then, even aside from the billions wasted on the nation-building misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan? If Osama were alive today, he could look with satisfaction on an America that is poorer, uglier, meaner, more dangerous, less productive, and less efficient than it was on September 10, 2001.

These are undeniable contributions that Muslims have made to our nation, and they are, of course, nothing to celebrate. Obama is certain to allude to none of it at the Islamic Society of Baltimore. Instead, he will — if he follows the pattern of similar remarks he has made previously — speak in airy generalities and indulge in a few wild exaggerations. Maybe he will mention Muhammad Ali or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He will then bask in the comfort of knowing that he, the ISB members, and the mainstream media covering the event are morally superior to Trump, Carson, and anyone else….

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  1. jihad3tracker says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 2:23 pm

    ++++++ HIS LAST YEAR IN OFFICE IS OBVIOUSLY DEDICATED TO GETTING A COOL BILLION DOLLARS FROM THE HOUSE OF SAUD ++++++

    Privately, after he is no longer the Traitor-in-Chief. Hey, have you checked the cost of living in Aruba and Geneva? And the ultra-best private colleges for Daughters are not cheap. Plus Wifey-in-Chief is very keen on keeping European fashion designers busy.

    • Judi says

      Feb 3, 2016 at 3:28 pm

      He’s bought a $4 million villa in Dubai for his retirement.

      • traci94 says

        Feb 3, 2016 at 5:06 pm

        I wouldn’t be surprised at all if he leaves the country after he’s done being president; I find it hard to believe that he would want his girls to live in this country after he makes it so unsafe with all the migrants he wants to bring it.

        • Peter Charles says

          Feb 3, 2016 at 7:38 pm

          If he leaves, I will not miss him at all. Will anyone?

  2. Champ says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 2:28 pm

    Nobama cancels Christmas >> hmm, and yet he’ll visit a MoBro-tied mosque?

    Things that make you go, hmm …

    • maghan says

      Feb 3, 2016 at 2:46 pm

      The issue is whether Obama is an “honorary Muslim” or otherwise. Some mosques forbid it, others say it’s ok only if the visitor has an interest in promoting Islam. In Arabia, non-Muslims are forbidden from entering mosques plus menstruating females.

  3. Jaladhi says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 2:36 pm

    The question is who is not religious intolerant – Muslims or the rest of us? He is not going to tell Muslims to be tolerant, only we have get down from our “high horse” and tolerate Muslim terrorism!! Hypocrisy reigns supreme in the WH.

  4. Ronen says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 2:36 pm

    This man is a disgrace. Hope mrs Clinton doesnt replace him, we’ve had enough of these useful idiot lefties.

  5. underbed cat says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 4:15 pm

    Only 2400 Islamic centers and mosques to go…..criss- crossing the(U.S.) country, left to visit. Whew.

  6. traci94 says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 5:04 pm

    I can hardly read this without feeling sick. I literally can not stand this man and all of his condescending bullshit. It is such an incredible lie to say that Muslim Americans make us feel safe – they might make HIM feel safe because he is one of them, but they don’t make the rest of us feel safe. And there are good reasons that terrorism is linked to Islam – because it’s absolutely true. He is a blind, reality denying jack ass.

    • Budvarakbar says

      Feb 3, 2016 at 6:25 pm

      You left out that he IS a muslim!

    • Peter Charles says

      Feb 3, 2016 at 7:43 pm

      Yes, no whopper is too much with this president, and he told plenty at the mosque.

  7. worldcitizen1919 says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 5:11 pm

    The idea of promoting religious tolerance is a good one but the timing, in an election campaign asks the question of how sincere this visit really is.

    Looks more like political campaigning especially during an election campaign.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 3, 2016 at 5:15 pm

      “worldcitizen1919” wrote:

      The idea of promoting religious tolerance is a good one…
      …………………………….

      Of course–what could *possibly* more evince religious tolerance than the *Muslim Brotherhood*? sarc/off

      Really, how much bs does this Muslim apologist expect us to swallow?

      • Budvarakbar says

        Feb 3, 2016 at 6:31 pm

        The sh-t for brains majority in this country voted the SOB in twice — looks like they swallowed the whole 9 yards — and will keep swallowing it by the buckets full

      • Carolyne says

        Feb 4, 2016 at 9:04 am

        Religious tolerance is a good thing–I’d like to see some of it toward Christians in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, Qatar, etc. I’d like to see some of it from Obama in the form of saving Christian lives in the countries he so admires.

        I believe that Baraq Hussein Obama is a Muslim. He has given every indication of such since he took office. He often talks about the “Contributions” made by Muslims in the US yet fails to name one. That’s because Muslim contributions have been murder and mayhem.

        • worldcitizen1919 says

          Feb 4, 2016 at 9:24 am

          We Baha’is are persecuted in Iran along with Christians and Jews and other minorities so we know the feeling and are always working day and night for religious freedom for all.

          I haven’t met a Baha’i who doesn’t admire Christians and their selfless devotion to serving humanity. We are not that large but we have so much to learn from Christians.

  8. RiseAKnight says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 7:38 pm

    I listed to every second of his speech on YouTube. Believe me … it was very difficult to sit through. I shook my head in disgust through the whole talk. At 40:22 and 43:49 depending on the complete version uploaded he relates the story of a 7 year old from Texas who “emptied his piggy bank to help a mosque that had been vandalized”. No Muslim child would ever, ever, ever own a piggy bank! So … it was a lie. And if he told one lie then he told many more during the course of this speech. If he is a Christian … he is dhimmi. If he is a Muslim he performed 40+ minutes of taqiyya. He also said “Islam was derived from the word salam”. It was NOT. Salam was derived from the word “Shalom”, which is Hebrew. Mohammed changed it to make it sound Arabic. This man is ignorant of Islam as many Muslims are. This statement about Islam being derived from salam is the first and biggest lie in the art of taqiyya.

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 4, 2016 at 9:12 am

      The piggy bank story is too funny. Since Muslims abhor pigs, they would not allow a pig effigy, not even a bank, into their home. Obama is an idiot.

      And if a mosque were vandalized, it was most likely done by a Muslim hoping to blame a Jew or Christian, since Muslims are professional victims. Even instance of vandalism of which I am aware was done to a mosque by a Muslim in hopes of having someone else blamed. Personally, I’d like to drape them all with bacon strips.

      Where did he get the idea that Islam means “Peace.” It means murder, assassination, misogyny, pedophilia, bestiality, torture, slavery, etc. etc. etc. Peace is not considered in Islam.

  9. Eagle says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 8:55 pm

    Fuck this POS. Can’t wait until January 2017.

  10. Westman says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 9:25 pm

    To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld’s immortal words of: “.. you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.”, the Obama and NY Times version is: “..you go to press and speak with the information you make up, not the truth you might want or wish at a later time.” Particularly when you’re trying to sell something.

    Another famous saying of Rumsfeld: “We do have a saying in America: if you’re in a hole, stop digging ….. erm, I’m not sure I should have said that..”

    Most of the West’s leaders, with some notable exceptions, are digging a grave for their culture. They will be future pariahs, falsely thinking peace comes with appeasement to a vicious ideology that is sworn to their enslavement or destruction.

  11. mortimer says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 10:03 pm

    Obama said: “to promote religious tolerance at a time when rhetoric linking Islam with terrorism is growing.”

    However, top Islamic leaders have opposed Obama’s ideas when they spoke to Muslim audiences.
    -in 1997, Grand Imam Tantawi of Al Azhar University (top Muslim in the world) declared suicide operations legal. He told the Arabic daily al-Hayat that the Palestinian suicide bombers acted in self defence against aggressors and their actions were justified under Islamic shari’a (the implication being that this is true even when civilians were targeted declared such operations legal, blaming Israel for fuelling the violence. He told the Arabic daily al-Hayat that the Palestinian suicide bombers acted in self defence against aggressors and their actions were justified under Islamic shari’a (the implication being that this is true even when civilians were targeted.
    -In 1998, Tantawi again in an interview to al-Hayat, declared that Palestinian suicide attacks are legal under shari’a, stating that: “It is every Muslim, Palestinian and Arab’s right to blow himself up in the heart of Israel”.
    -Ayatollah Khomeini approved of Islamic terror as well: “Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for the Holy Warriors! There are hundreds of other ayahs and hadiths urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all this mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.”
    -in December 2015, the present Grand Imam of Al Azhar, Sheikh Tayed said that he was unable to denounce the leaders of ISIS as un-Islamic.
    -in 2015, the former imam of the Grand Mosque of Mecca, Sheikh Adel al-Kalbani, declared that the Islamic State and Saudi Arabia “follow the same thought”. He has stated as well, that ISIS is a “true product of Salafism,” the same brand of Islam as officially espoused by Saudi Arabia. He clearly stated, “We [in Saudi Arabia] follow the same thought [as ISIS], but apply it in a refined way…They draw their ideas from what is written in our own books, from our own principles… we do not criticise the thought on which it (ISIS) is based”.

  12. davej says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 10:12 pm

    A news report I heard today quoted Thomas Jefferson making some laudatory statement about Islam instead of his more critical and reality based assessment.

    Is there some kind of media conspiracy operating here?

    • Nimrod says

      Feb 3, 2016 at 10:26 pm

      Yes, it’s called a cartel. A small enough number of people own the mass media that they can all get together to agree on “journalism standards”.

      It’s no more difficult for these people to get together and come up with “standards” than it is for some bureaucrats on a university campus to get together to come up with “standards” for the university.

  13. Nimrod says

    Feb 3, 2016 at 10:27 pm

    Why did he intentionally go to a mosque with terrorist connections? I don’t believe for a second that this was an accident.

    I think there may be more than one reason why he would. 1) it signals to the large percentage of sharia-supporting Muslims (50%) in the US that the Democrats support Islam even to the point of supporting sharia, jihad, and terrorism. 2) he knows people will point out the terrorist connections of the mosque and he wants controversy so that he can further attempt to denounce critics as “racist”.

    Obama is an Orwellian propagandist that believes in fabricating history in an effort to engineer society. Fortunately we don’t yet have a complete state monopoly on press or communication.

  14. Plutarchus says

    Feb 4, 2016 at 6:24 am

    WHY DID OBAMA GO TO THIS MOSQUE?

    Was it in his self-appointed capacity as Defender-of-Islam-in-Chief outreaching to poor oppressed Moslems and defending their “the religion of world peace” from “bigots” like Donald Trump, and big bad Islamophobic Republicans and counter-jihadists like Pam, Robert and Bonnie. Don’t believe it for a second. What Obama did was completely politically and narcissistically self-serving. I warned of this before with Obama’s unconstitutional executive order on gun control last month. I warned that as the 2016 campaign season roars on grabbing all the headlines; as Trump dukes it out with Cruz and Clinton battles Bernie the Man Child till the end of his term would be resorting to antic after antic to steal attention from those vying for his job out of desperation to stay in the limelight. And that is why Obama paid a visit to a radical mosque that was bound to stir up controversy. There is no other logical explanation.

    http://www.apollospeaks.com/?p=15096

  15. Jeremiah says

    Feb 4, 2016 at 7:15 am

    Should we be concerned that Obama doesn’t care what we think? Does he know something we don’t? How close is the FBI and military to him?

  16. Angemon says

    Feb 4, 2016 at 5:17 pm

    Of course, the mosque he has chosen to visit is … the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Islamic Society of Baltimore.

    He chose the MB over Mubarak back in 2009. He’s surprising no one, really.

  17. sidney penny says

    Feb 4, 2016 at 6:36 pm

    “None of that will come up in today’s media lovefest. In Obama’s America, preening that you are not a “racist” and a “bigot” is far more important than being concerned that many Muslims actually do want to eliminate, destroy, and sabotage the nation he is sworn to protect.”

    Let us say that President Obama is “concerned that many Muslims actually do want to eliminate, destroy, and sabotage the nation he is sworn to protect.”

    Next question is what you expect him to do

  18. sidney penny says

    Feb 4, 2016 at 6:41 pm

    These are undeniable contributions that Muslims have made to our nation, and they are, of course, nothing to celebrate. Obama is certain to allude to none of it at the Islamic Society of Baltimore. Instead, he will — if he follows the pattern of similar remarks he has made previously — speak in airy generalities and indulge in a few wild exaggerations. Maybe he will mention Muhammad Ali or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He will then bask in the comfort of knowing that he, the ISB members, and the mainstream media covering the event are morally superior to Trump, Carson, and anyone else….”

    “speak in airy generalities and indulge in a few wild exaggerations. Maybe he will mention Muhammad Ali or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.”

    Yes,Yes,one refugee becomes a MD or Attorney and everyone celebrates.

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