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The Obama Watch
Obama’s Islamophilia Week
While he wages a culture war on Christians, the president tells Americans not to worry about global Islam.
Last week Barack Obama marked the beginning of Ramadan by saying to Muslims that the “United States continues to stand with those who seek the chance to decide their own destiny, to live free from fear and violence, and to practice their faith freely.” While he undercuts Christianity at home — under his Obamacare abortifacient/contraceptive mandate, resistant Catholic and Protestant schools, hospitals, and charities will soon face crushing fines — he never fails to tout Islam abroad.
One would think his allies at the ACLU might cringe at his lavish tributes to global Islam as a great and blameless religion and his “Iftar dinners” at the White House. But they don’t. His undiluted enthusiasm for Islam, which amounts to a case of Islamophilia, never triggers any of the usual separation-of-church-and-state objections and anxieties from them.
The elite’s pooh-poohing of questions from Congressmen this week about Huma Abedin’s well-documented familial ties to the Muslim Brotherhood is an outgrowth of this Islamophilia. Under its chic influence, enlightened Americans are simply not supposed to care about such matters. Rather, they should welcome global Islam’s reach into the White House and the State Department. After all, “jihad” is merely a harmless concept of self-improvement, “a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one’s community,” as Obama security adviser John Brennan has confidently put it.
Attorney General Eric Holder prides himself on refusing to identify radical Islam as a motive for terrorism. He maintained this view even after self-identified Muslim terrorists killed soldiers at the Fort Hood military base, tried to blow up a plane over Detroit on the day of Jesus Christ’s birth, and attempted to bomb tourists in Times Square.
After the Fort Hood shooting by an open jihadist in the military’s very ranks, Obama’s top brass still kept up their politically correct patter about Islam. General George Casey, the Army’s top official, fretted on talk shows about the greater tragedy that could come from the loss of “diversity” a backlash from the Fort Hood shooting might cause.
In 2010, NASA administrator Charles Bolden let slip that Obama’s Islamophilia was even affecting the nation’s space program. Bolden informed a reporter with Al Jazeera that when he took the NASA job Obama made it clear to him that “perhaps foremost he wanted to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science… and math and engineering.”
Obama’s Ramadan tribute last week made a point of thanking Muslims for their scientific endeavors: “Here in the United States, Ramadan reminds us that Islam is part of the fabric of our Nation, and that — from public service to business, from healthcare and science to the arts — Muslim Americans help strengthen our country and enrich our lives.”
Christians, on the other hand, are engaged in a war on “science” and “women,” according to Obama. Single women should live in fear, not of Islamic polygamists and honor-killing proponents, but of Christian chastity advocates and pro-life nurses, if one were to believe Obama’s rhetoric.
As Obama likes to say, America is not and never will be at “war with Islam,” even as he steps up his culture war with Christianity. Imagine if he ever spoke about the Koran as loosely as he speaks about the Bible (he once dismissed St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans as “obscure,” because of its politically incorrect treatment of sodomy). Imagine if he treated imams as arrogantly as he treats pro-life priests. He would have a holy war on his hands.
“I wish Muslims across America and around the world a blessed month, and I look forward to again hosting an iftar dinner here at the White House. Ramadan Kareem,” Obama burbled last week. He has finally found a religion that poses no threat to his “transformative” presidency.
About the Author
George Neumayr, a contributing editor to The American Spectator, is co-author, with Phyllis Schlafly, of the new book, No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom.
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John786| 7.26.12 @ 6:28AM
Whats the point of this article other than an excuse for a racist rant against Muslims on the holy festival of Ramadan. US foreign policy has for too long been high jacked by racist neocon ideologies. This has done and will continue todo untolled damage to US intrests. US decline in part is caused by the irrational war on terror and its continued military provocations in the ME. Instead of wasting money on ethically cleansing Palestinians the resources should be spent on the health and welfare of the American people. Ramadan kareem.
Intelligent Design| 7.26.12 @ 6:32AM
Muslims are not a race. There are Muslims of many races in most countries of the world. Muslims are followers of a political ideology designed to destroy freedom.
Ralph Novy| 7.26.12 @ 5:22PM
Islam is "a political ideology designed to destroy freedom"?
Does your knowledge of history not extend back before 2001? Do you really have no idea how idiotic and false that statement is?
Do a little reading, if you can.
Skippy| 7.27.12 @ 2:02PM
I read the Koran.
All other readings about Islam are moot.
Savage butchers from hell.
And yes, Islam is "a political ideology designed to destroy freedom"?
Show me one Muzzie nation with a glimmer of liberty.
They are the enemy of free men and women, and always have been.
Do a little reading, if you can.
Alan| 7.27.12 @ 5:19PM
Its a religion of 12th century barbarity. Treats women like dogs, enemy of everything that has anything to do with freedom. Theocracy of butchery, destruction and tyranny. Did I miss anything?
gazinya | 7.27.12 @ 7:49PM
Ever hear of a group of friendly Islamist calling themselves, "Boko Haram". They are all the rage in Nigeria. That is Africa, to save you a trip through google. They love their Christian brothers so much they are sending thousand to be with Jesus every year. Maybe some day they will send you to their man made heaven.
Alan| 7.26.12 @ 8:38AM
As stated, Muslims aren't a race you twit, so can the stereotypical "racist" bilge.
Alej| 7.26.12 @ 8:39AM
The point, Abdul, is that Islam is totally incompatible with American culture, even as adulterated as it has become since 1956.
Ramadan up your ass.
Crassus| 7.26.12 @ 11:15AM
NEOCON!!!! NEOCON!!! Here we go again.
Skippy| 7.27.12 @ 2:03PM
He means "Jew".
Stephanie| 7.26.12 @ 12:50PM
WTF? Irrational war on terror? Hmmm, where were you on Sept. 11?
CJW| 7.26.12 @ 1:32PM
Do Muslims kill Jews and Christians during their holy festivals like Ramadan? Is is OK for them to kill Jews and Christians during the holy festivals?
JP| 7.26.12 @ 3:11PM
Err.. do you listen or watch the news coming out of Iraq and Mali. Ramadan is a joyous Islamic fest filled with car bombs and suicide bombers. And when they're not cleansing Egypt of Copts, or Iraq of Chaldean Catholics, or Lebanon of Marionite Catholics they turn on each other in a very festive bout of blood letting. Theirs is a true fellowship of Death.
TLP| 7.26.12 @ 4:25PM
Actually, if you follow the Muslim Holy Days, and their Pilgrimages?
These are Open Season on Fellow Muslims.
More Muslims are killed on their Holy Days, by other Muslims, than at any other time of the year.
In a perfect world, every day would be a Holy Day.
ebonystone| 7.27.12 @ 3:01AM
TROP's "Ramadan Bombathon" scorecard shows them setting a record pace this year, with 332 killed in the first 7 days.
StanAmSpec| 7.26.12 @ 2:39PM
First of all, you cannot "ethnically" cleanse Palestinians, they are culturally and historically ARABS! They are no different than Jordanians Saudis. The irony of course is that they waged a war against Jews, lost, and then have refused to take care of their own. In fact, the Christian West spends far more on them then they do. Jordan could welcome them in with open arms (remember these are all artificial borders anyhow) at any time. But, then how could they use them as a cudgel against Israel if they did that?
JP| 7.26.12 @ 3:16PM
True, most Palestinians are derived from either Egypt or Jordan. Until the 20th Century, Palestine was a forgotten, dung infested backwater of Muslims, scattered Christians, and various mixtures of several nationalities.
TrueBlue | 7.26.12 @ 4:26PM
It was also an arid inhospitable region until the Jews came back and started pumping massive amount of money into irrigation and land improvements. Before they were chased out during WWII by the Nazi-allied Jordanians anyway.
JohnLeo| 7.26.12 @ 3:13PM
Well I'm certainly glad you weren't running the country 70 years ago. In that case we'd all be speaking German today!!!
Butch| 7.26.12 @ 4:05PM
Fear not, John786. After our Muslim-in-chief is done, nothing in the US will be "untolled."
Oldefarte| 7.26.12 @ 9:51PM
Why don't you go blog on CAIR's website where your comments will be much more welcomed?????
wrongheifer| 8.10.12 @ 12:54PM
I'm so sorry to inform you,....
You are the "hijacked racist"....This is still America sir and we still have Christian Holidays and detest Islam!..
New breed of Christian
Intelligent Design| 7.26.12 @ 6:30AM
For a full understanding of Islam, the book to read is Marked for Death - Islam's War Against the West and Me, by Dutch member of parliament Geert Wilders. He has been under a Muslim death threat for several years. Islam is a 7th century totalitarian political ideology designed to destroy freedom. Islam is all about forced state "religion". It is hostile and subversive to the First Amendment, our entire Constitution, and freedom everywhere. There are no moderate Muslims, just Muslims. If a Muslim decides to join the 21st century by committing apostasy, Islam's penalty is death.
TrueBlue | 7.26.12 @ 4:27PM
For a full understanding of Islam just read the Koran. Everything you need to know about them is right there in their own "holy" book.
Ralph Novy| 7.26.12 @ 5:34PM
Wow. A whole paragraph of assertions, only one of which is even vaguely true -- that Geert Wilders has been under "Muslim" death threat for several years. And even that is misleading, because, again, it's only a few Muslim extremists who've done that, not Islam as a whole.
When you hear yourself uttering nasty nonsense like "There are no moderate Muslims, just Muslims," doesn't it even give you a moment's pause to consider that you've "lost it"? If someone else were to say that of Christians, in the face of the wide variety of Christian denominations and sects (not to mention minority positions within those groups), would you not think them simple-minded haters?
darcy| 7.27.12 @ 1:58AM
You're about as convincing as Tokyo Rose and just as transparently deceitful.
Adherents of Islam practice Taqiyya -- lying to infidels -- if it promotes their supremacist agenda, whether that agenda be achieved by violent or subversive means, over decades of infiltration.
Muslims lie. It's what they do. Believe nothing they say that contradicts their stated agenda.
Ralph Novy| 7.27.12 @ 2:32AM
But if what Muslims do is lie, then their "stated agenda" must be nothing but lies. So you're saying don't believe them when they lie about their lies?
Or .... what, exactly?
LMAO
darcy| 7.27.12 @ 4:05AM
Stated: Koran, written statements.
LMAO and ho ho ho!
Intelligent Design| 7.26.12 @ 6:52AM
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEas.....?id=278993
The chief of police in Dubai gets it. He's smarter than our average Congressman or Obama administration fool.
Appleby| 7.26.12 @ 7:02AM
Obama is in fact a Muslim, according to Islamic law, isn't he? I suspect he's trying to lay the groundwork for when he's back in private life and apostasy is looked on with fatwas. And perhaps he is hoping that the crocodile will eat him last.
TLP| 7.26.12 @ 7:29AM
He was BORN to a Muslim Father. That makes him a Muslim. He was raised, till the age of 11, in the Muslim Schools and Mosques of Indonesia, by his Muslim Stepfather, where he knelt on his very own Muslim Prayer Rug, facing Mecca, and prayed to a Pagan God of Blood, and Death, and Murder, and Subjugation, 5 times a day.
That makes him a Muslim.
He told George Stephanopoulus that "The Muslim Call to Prayer is the Most Beautiful Sound in the World". And, then he recited it.
That makes him a Muslim.
He's been to every Country in the Middle East, except ISRAEL.
That makes him a Muslim.
And, the Terrorist Group HAMAS - on their own Official Web Site - have proclaimed the Boy - Named after Mohammed's Horse - to be "The Deliveror" sent by their God of Blood to Destroy the Jews, and Deliver Jerusalem back to the hands of the Muslims. They have even given him the name - ABU HUSSAIN - Son of the Father.
HAMAS THINKS HE'S A MUSLIM!
And, not just any Muslim, but The Muslim MOSES.
Everything he does screams out - "I am a Muslim!"
Are you people DEAF?
DRed| 7.26.12 @ 8:31AM
1. His father was an atheist.
2. Islam, like Christianity, is a faith which one has to confess to believe in.
3. You are an idiot.
Joellen| 7.26.12 @ 8:56AM
DREd, which father are you subscribing to? "Islam, like Christianity is a faith which one has to confess to believe in"? Do tell me when have you recently read that Christians are beheading Muslims for not following their faith? When did you see Christian women and children forced to commit murder of others and themselves all in the name of JESUS CHRIST? When did you see Christian men, and I mean true followers of JESUS CHRIST, get into planes, crash them and murder thousands of people, or shoot up an army base all the time yelling JESUS IS GOD? You sir, best watch who you call an idiot - especially with the comments you espouse.
DRed| 7.26.12 @ 9:01AM
Muslims murdering Christians (or anyone else, for that matter) has nothing to do with whether or not Obama is a muslim. If you believe Obama is a muslim, despite there being no evidence that Obama is a muslim, you are an idiot.
TLP| 7.26.12 @ 11:07AM
If you can just ignore everything that I wrote, above, then you are an Idiot.
But, we already knew that.
DRed| 7.26.12 @ 11:17AM
He was BORN to a Muslim Father- False
That makes him a Muslim-False
He was raised. . .5 times a day- False (except for the part about him having a muslim stepfather)
So why would I listen to you, when you just keep lying and lying and lying?
TLP| 7.26.12 @ 11:31AM
He was Born to a Muslim Father.
You can keep saying that he wasn't, all you want.
That doesn't make it so.
Just like every other piece a Bullsh*t that you spout outta your Lying Stupid Mouth.
DRed| 7.26.12 @ 11:41AM
How do you know that, chump? You read it in an email?
Boar Hunter| 7.26.12 @ 12:03PM
The first area was Obama’s identity — just who was he?
“Obama was steeped in Islam but knew nothing about Christianity,” Klein says.
Klein asked Wright if he converted Obama from being a Muslim into a Christian.
“He said, I don’t know about that. but I can tell you that I made it easy for him to come to an understanding of who Jesus Christ is and not feel that he was turning his back on his Islamic friends and his Islamic traditions and his understanding of Islam,” Klein says.
Idiot? Even Obama's pastor of 20 years couldn't say he ever converted from Islam.
Obama is a drug using communist, racist, associate of criminals and terrorists and a lying Muslim dog.
No one knows who his father is because his mother was a whore.
DRed| 7.26.12 @ 12:06PM
So because his pastor couldn't say if he converted from Islam, therefore he is a muslim. I can't say if you ever converted from Islam. You must be a muslim too. And if you deny it, well, my friend Timmy told me that muslims are commanded to lie.
Boar Hunter| 7.26.12 @ 12:58PM
I was simply pointing out that you referred to someone as an idiot, claiming there was no proof Obama was a muslim.
Obama has actively endorsed Islam through government policy and spoken glowingly of these murdering inbred pedophiles during his entire tenure. His own pastor "of 20 years" (who I would guess knows him better than you) says Obama is "steeped in Islam" and despite his need to appeal to the Black community to obtain votes, Obama was loth to give up his, "Islamic friends and his Islamic traditions."
The fact you choose to ignore evidence does not mean it is not there.
In any event, liar and lover of lies that you are you care not for any evidence.
By the way, Obama is a drug using communist, racist, associate of criminals and terrorists and a lying Muslim dog. No one knows who his father is because his mother was a whore. I don't say that to be inflammatory, I say it because I believe it to be the truth.
You simply hate anyone who believes in God and the one thing you know for certain is that Obama does not.
DRed| 7.26.12 @ 1:11PM
You can believe whatever you want, Boar Hunter. But you're an idiot for believing Obama is a muslim. Look at your 'proof' that he's a muslim. Obama's pastor doesn't know if Obama was a muslim. Assuming everything Rev. Wright said is true, all it proves is that Rev. Wright didn't know if Obama was a muslim. If Obama was a muslim, wouldn't there be, I dunno-people who remembered him being a muslim? Saw him going to the mosque? Praying 5x a day? That sort of thing? Why is it so difficult for you to accept he's not a muslim? You can still hate him for being a drug user.
CJW| 7.26.12 @ 1:25PM
Is there a problem with Obama being a Muslim? Why the outrage?
Stkman| 7.26.12 @ 1:35PM
DRed,
are familiar with the old saying, "if it quacks like a duck"? Need I say more?
I guess if an armed robber robbed you, you would still just call him a robber?
Obama is playing the game a fool who you can. As Lincoln once said, "You can fool some of the the people some of the time, but you can't foll all of the people all of the time." or something like that.
What does it take for you to wake up and face what this man really is. Even if you don't think he is Muslim, you would still have to agree after knowing who his associates in younger life were, and who his pastor was for 20 years that this man has a deep rooted hatred of The United States, it's history and it's culture. Just read "Dream of my Father". Look at that title name too, "Of my Father", not his dreams. His fathers dreams, and his father never was an American, but someone who hated America. And this President vowed to fulfill his fathers dreams.
Boar Hunter| 7.26.12 @ 3:13PM
I dont hate him for being a drug user. I hate him because his mother is a whore.
Ralph Novy| 7.26.12 @ 5:53PM
When you HAVE evidence for any of your assertions, people might be willing to look at it. Until then, only like-minded (i.e., hateful) simpletons are going to be willing to listen to your hysterical, ridiculous rants.
Ralph Novy| 7.26.12 @ 5:50PM
You might want to Google (or otherwise look up) The Children's Crusade(s) of 1212.
Not to mention the "Christian" treatment of indigenous peoples in this hemisphere.
Etc.
Millions upon millions of people prematurely dead -- at the hands of "true followers of Jesus Christ."
Who are the terrorists?
Skippy| 7.27.12 @ 3:07PM
In the century we live in, Muslims.
ebonystone| 7.28.12 @ 10:59PM
Assuming that by "indigenous peoples in this hemisphere", you're referring to the American Indians, then the "millions upon millions" of them died from exposure to Old World diseases like smallpox, measles, mumps, malaria, and yellow fever. As it happened these diseases were brought, unwittingly, by Christian Europeans. But since these diseases were endemic to the Old World, they would have been brought to the New World by the Chinese, Japanese, Arabs, or Africans, had they been the first to discover America.
loulou| 7.26.12 @ 10:42AM
No, YOU'RE the idiot. Or a Muslim.
TLP| 7.26.12 @ 11:05AM
No.
His Mother was an Atheist.
Stkman| 7.26.12 @ 1:37PM
She was an Atheist whore who hated white men and American culture. In the old days it was said of a white woman who slept with a black man that the woman must have hated her father. Maybe she hated her father and herself?
Reggie Love| 7.26.12 @ 2:56PM
Her dad named her Stanley. Can't blame her on that one.
TLP| 7.26.12 @ 11:11AM
Actually, Idiot, the Koran ORDERS its Adherents to LIE, if that's what is needed to advance the Goals of Islam.
You really are this Fckng Stupid, aren't you?
Ralph Novy| 7.26.12 @ 5:55PM
Quote the "command."
StanAmSpec| 7.26.12 @ 2:42PM
Re #2 Yes they are similar but with a distinct difference. Christianity, "confess with your lips AND BELIEVE IN YOUR HEART". Islam requires just the confession of Allah is god and Mohammed is his prophet.
JP| 7.26.12 @ 3:20PM
and 4) Islamic Law does allow for apostasy. An Apostate as far as Muslims go is an absurdity. Once a Muslim, always a Muslim. What's interesting is how many Christians you can find who renounce their religion. But, you find few if any people who were Muslim and are now athiesit. A Muslim who renounces his faith is fair game for jihadists.
Ralph Novy| 7.26.12 @ 5:37PM
We're "deaf" to claptrap like that.
You can shout "the Earth is flat" at the top of your lungs and until you're blue in the face and I'll remain as "deaf" to that as to your scurrilous screed about Obama.
And I don't even like the guy that much.
Gary B| 7.26.12 @ 7:27AM
Have you all noticed the gold curtain that's the backdrop to all of Obama's DC TV appearances? That's just one of the signals he's sending to the Muslim world that he's their mole in the White House. Watch how fast that curtain disappears when Romney is in the White House.
DRed| 7.26.12 @ 9:07AM
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures.....dependence
Hey look, George, it's former President George W. Bush, standing in front of gold curtains sending you a signal that you're an idiot.
DRed| 7.26.12 @ 9:07AM
Sorry, I meant to say Gary. I don't want to offend any Georges.
canuckistani| 7.26.12 @ 11:52AM
Dred, it doesn't matter.
Only two major events have been perpetrated on American soil by Muslims. The rest? Either psychotics or right wing whack jobs.
The Muslim attacks were done principally by Saudis. Saudi Arabia went completely untested after 9/11 by Junior's cabal. Why? That is the question the brain trust on here should be examining, not some bogus argument about BHO's background.
He has killed more terrorists in 3.5 years than Junior did with 400k men and $1T. Facts hurt, so a conjured narrative is all they got.
Boar Hunter| 7.26.12 @ 12:20PM
I assume your referring to American Servicemen since all you liberals believe them to be the real terrorists.
1954 U.S. soldiers have been lost so far in the Afghanistan war according to icasualties
1324 of those deaths occurred in less than 3 1/2 years under the Obama Regime while only 630 of those deaths occurred in 8 years under George W. Bush.
canuckistani| 7.26.12 @ 4:05PM
Yes, the men and women who joined up and saw the strategy in full display when they got off the transport.
The Iraq mission was pure folly, the Afghan mission was a police action that should have started and stopped with the purging of Al Qaeda.
Conoco, Unocal (Karzai being their useful idiot)and the Bush cabal hosted Taliban emissaries in Texas and Washington several times before they went stupid and gave harbor to Bin Ladin.
Musharref experienced the exact same US delicate touch.
Think, for once, please.
Boar Hunter| 7.26.12 @ 5:11PM
I do think, although I do not have to think very hard to see that you are, too ignorant to feed yourself.
Ralph Novy| 7.26.12 @ 5:39PM
Good points!
CJW| 7.26.12 @ 1:28PM
"ONLY" two attacks? So 9/11 to you is "only" and attack?
You are a traitorous scum.
Stkman| 7.26.12 @ 1:41PM
you Canadians have absolutely no say in american politics or how we fight our wars or defend ourselves against terrorism. Until you Canadian pay for 100% of your own defense you should butt out. Now go find a conservative paper up there you can give your opinions on. Oh, thats right, you don't have any up there. You've allowed the French sisssies to be the dominate male figure up there.
canuckistani| 7.26.12 @ 4:15PM
I am not Canadian, but believe their view of the world is probably more useful and reasonable than the views you possess.
They said no to Junior over Iraq, and paid in a diminished relationship like a schoolyard child having a hissy fit. Guess what? They were right.
The US over-reaction to the 9/11 attacks disrupted the borders and commercial enterpirse, for no reason.
The simple fact is that the 9/11 attacks originated in the US, on US flights. Probably cost under $100k in total and had a 75% success rate. We were caught with our pants down and had a president that stared into space as more planes were in the air.
We had a hole at ground zero for a decade after because we could not get our acts together at home.
The "defense" of the US must include more than simple blunt force ability. If you want the country to be a leader, then more brain power is required.
Stkman| 7.26.12 @ 5:29PM
An overeaction? What kind of idiot are you? We under reacted. We should have advised the Muslim world to hand over Asam Bin Laden alive or dead in a recognizable condition within 30 days of the attack and if they didn't hand him to us then we should have nuked Mecca or Medina.
Over react? We should have never sent one single American to spill blood over what filthy Muslims let get out of their yard and into ours. We should have taken Saudi Arabia down since nearly all the hijackers were Saudi citizens as was Bin Laden.
Caught with our pants down? Yep, because liberals like you and your buddy Clinton refuse to face the fact that the world is a mean and nasty place. You pass laws so that the CIA and the FBI can't communicate. You ignore it when a foreign government offers you not once, not twice but three times Osama Bin Laden.
But now, after the fact you want to blame Bush.
Ralph Novy| 7.26.12 @ 5:44PM
Threaten them all, and if they don't comply, kill them all, including their children.
Lemme guess ....
You're one of Jesus's diplomatic missionaries.
Drunken Sailor| 7.26.12 @ 2:05PM
Only two? Try 32
http://www.thereligionofpeace......ttacks.htm
Gary B| 7.26.12 @ 1:48PM
Just testing to see who took the bait when I just said stuff. Obama just says stuff. Every day he unloads another truckload of BS on us. And, every day Americans (those who work anyway) hate him just a little more because he's anti-American. He's against every single thing that has made this country great. The question of the century is... who in their right mind would cast an anti-American, pro-Marxist vote?
Mimi | 7.26.12 @ 8:30AM
When will the majority of Americans WAKE-UP to the slow, grinding and determined militant Islam warriors thru -out the WORLD , out to destroy the WEST, the Religion of PEACE and all free people.....even if it takes our civilization with it!
Where is our Churchill in a time of great denial...to call out to us...of an enemy far greater in treachery than even Hitler. We are dealing with real brutal SAVAGES here.
The LEFT'S political correctness is a great danger to this nation...The Presidents attitude against our traditions as Christians...his WAR with the Catholic church do not bode well for our future, if God forbid he is ever re-elected.
Ralph Novy| 7.26.12 @ 5:58PM
Yes, Mimi ... all these "slow, grinding and determined militant Islam warriors thru -out the WORLD".........
And they're coming for YOU, Mimi!!!!
Run! Run! Hide!
ebonystone| 7.28.12 @ 11:13PM
Well, just in the last week, they came for 4 people in the Philippines, 2 in India, 5 in Thailand, and 13 in Nigeria.
Louis Jenkins| 7.26.12 @ 8:38AM
Science? Math? The muslims have contributed to that? How on earth did they contribute to rocket science? Obama is no doubt a Muslim. He is praised all across the Middle East, and in our own country by the purveyors of peace. Wait until that bunch of camel herders take over our own country. We think that there's a war by Christianity on women? Gays? Liberals? There's an elephant in the room, and he sure isn't a member of the GOP. Everyone, except Neumayr and a few who post here, refuse to see it.
DRed| 7.26.12 @ 8:45AM
There are actually a lot of idiots who think Obama is a muslim, despite, you know, any actual evidence that he's a muslim. So don't feel lonely.
Gary B| 7.26.12 @ 8:52AM
I don't. I'm in very good company.
DRed| 7.26.12 @ 9:04AM
You believe that curtains in the white house, curtains that were there before the Obamas moved in, are a secret message to the muslim world that Obama is their mole. You tell me how smart that is.
Gary B| 7.26.12 @ 9:27AM
The gold curtain, yes. And, it's no a secret.
Louis Jenkins| 7.26.12 @ 9:09AM
Call me an idiot if you like. However, Obama quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, and swims like a duck. I don't believe a Christian president would act the way Obama has or does. And attending J. Wright's church is not Christian. I don't feel lonely. I'm in good company.
DRed| 7.26.12 @ 9:14AM
If you want to argue that Obama isn't really a Christian, that's not that crazy. He's a liberal intellectual. Many liberal intellectuals are not religious. Obama's a politician. You can't get very far in American politics if you're not religious (it's not easy being a non-believer, you know-we face a lot of discrimination). But there's no evidence, whatsoever, that he's a muslim.
Joellen| 7.26.12 @ 9:30AM
No such thing as a "Liberal Intellectual". Once again DRED - you like all liberals - insult instead of conveying facts. For me it doesnt matter if Barrack Hussen Obama is a Muslim - I know he thumbs his nose at the Constitution, which makes many of us wonder of the changes he intends to bring unto America.
TLP| 7.26.12 @ 11:25AM
He's a MUSLIM , and you know it, which is why you spend so much time and effort, pushing your Bullsh*t, that he isn't.
Unlike you, we have eyes, and we have ears, and we have Functioning Brains that can do Math.
Everything he does, Screams out - "I'm a Muslim".
And, if you don't believe me?
Go to NASA and ask them who turned them in to a Muslim Outreach and Group Hug Organization, instead of their Original Mission of Going in to Space?
Just STFU.
You sound like a Dumb@ss, with your feeble excuses for the Kid named after MOHAMMED'S HORSE.
DRed| 7.26.12 @ 11:36AM
You know he's a muslim because he's named after Mohammed's horse? Seriously, that's the argument you think I'm stupid for ignoring?
4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali
Maybe his father read the bible? Or maybe Barak means other things in other languages? Or maybe a kid's name doesn't determine his religion.
DRed| 7.26.12 @ 11:46AM
Is Ehud Barak a muslim?
TLP| 7.26.12 @ 4:32PM
No.
Obama is.
CJW| 7.26.12 @ 5:26PM
DRed
Why are you so upset that some believe Obama is a muslim? Do you view being a muslim as a problem or a defamatory accusation that you have to deny? If Islam is a religion of peace, diversity, and scholarship, then he, or you, should be proud to be a muslim.
ebonystone| 7.28.12 @ 11:17PM
Intellectual, ha! He's an affirmative-action baby, who's been in over his head intellectually ever since he left the madrassa in Indonesia.
canuckistani| 7.26.12 @ 11:55AM
RR went to church one time as president and had astrologers and the fraud Graham in the oval countless times.
Romney is next to the plate and his Christian cred is similar to Voodoo's or Santeria's co-opting of Christian icons. Assad's sect does the same.
Careful what you wish for.
Stkman| 7.26.12 @ 5:34PM
Are you really going to call Billy Graham a fraud?
DRed| 7.26.12 @ 6:13PM
''I go and I keep friends with Mr. Rosenthal at The New York Times and people of that sort, you know,'' he told Mr. Nixon, referring to A. M. Rosenthal, then the newspaper's executive editor. ''And all -- I mean, not all the Jews, but a lot of the Jews are great friends of mine, they swarm around me and are friendly to me because they know that I'm friendly with Israel. But they don't know how I really feel about what they are doing to this country. And I have no power, no way to handle them, but I would stand up if under proper circumstances.'' That sounds like something of a fraud to me.
Or were you talking about Superstar Billy Graham? I always liked that guy.
ebonystone| 7.28.12 @ 11:20PM
Kind of like "Rev. " Wright's co-opting of Christian symbols in his "church"?
Ralph Novy| 7.26.12 @ 6:01PM
"Everyone, except Neumayr and a few who post here, refuse to see it."
Yeah ... we refuse to see pink elephants and boogeymen and chupcabras when they aren't there.
Why are we so darned stubborn about refusing to hallucinate? Well, I guess we're just not "team players" who want to play on the dream team.
Truth to Power| 7.26.12 @ 9:04AM
Progressives aren't pro-Muslim, they are anti-Christian and they just take the enemy of my enemy thing to the extreme. It is hilarious to watch folks that hand wring about the legality of gay marriage suck up to people that kill homosexuals without reservation. Such is life among progressives.
John786| 7.26.12 @ 9:53AM
Must be a full moon today. The neocon bats are out in full force. Islam is not a genetic inheritance. One has to testify with both words and the heart that there is only one GOD and that Prophet Mohammed (pbuh ) is his messenger. Both Judaism and Christianity are regarded by muslims at their inception as islamic faiths - because they call for the worship of the one GOD. Islam adds nothing new to this but is just a final polishing of all the good ( monothesim) in these faiths and universalises them.
SSG Baker| 7.26.12 @ 10:38AM
*blink* uhmm yes, they are considered "people of the book" however they are still inferior to a muslim, and that is in the Koran in black and white. All of the apologists for the Islamic faith make me wonder sometimes if they have actually read the Koran and seen the clear rules laid out. I have, and I read it doing my best not to go into it prejudiced. When your religion allows you to lie to your enemies until it is time to strike, it sort of makes it hard to believe ANY muslim when they call themselves a religion of peace. Yeah, the peace of the grave if you oppose them, the peace of slavery if you bow down to them. Between the preening liberal faux intellectuals, the ignorance and apathy of the American public, and open/covertly hostile forces in the Country, we are going to lose our freedoms. Wake the hell up, no more compromise with evil men and plans. Compromise only works when both sides give up something to gain something. We keep giving up our freedoms and rights slowly, bit by bit and gain NOTHING. Draw the lines, and stand your ground.
Houdini| 7.26.12 @ 12:10PM
Spot on! The little Chamberlains would have everyone make nice with those who are sworn to kill us..right up to the time their heads are separated from the neck. Religion of peace my *ss, it is a religion that instructs its adherents to do anything necessary to subjugate all. We are in a war, unfortunately led by those that believe you can stand in the corner with your hands over your ears and yell na, na, na and make it go away.
MKK| 7.26.12 @ 1:16PM
So why does American Supreme Court justify Koran as the base for making any judgment? why is the congress library hold Koran as the finest book of the world? If the media is brain washing you all, then you can only become the puppets and be fooled by the politician for their benefits and you will all be lost in world where even your own regrets will be a curse upon yourself.
KennesawJack| 7.26.12 @ 1:37PM
Huh?
MKK| 7.26.12 @ 2:09PM
go verify it yourself. I am sure you can do that atleast.
Boar Hunter| 7.26.12 @ 12:33PM
Not a day goes by that muslims fail to kill someone, somewhere in the world.
There is further, not one single place on the planet where they exist peacefully with anyone, even each other.
The penalty for everything in Islam is death.
They still stone apostates to death. They cut off peoples heads for homosexuality or hang them from bridges.
They kill their own children for "honor's" sake.
Butch| 7.26.12 @ 4:27PM
Infidel know you have tread on the toes of Abdul Abulbul Amir!
Butch| 7.26.12 @ 4:30PM
Infidel know,
You have tread on the toes,
of Abdul Abulbul Amir!!
Ralph Novy| 7.26.12 @ 6:04PM
Sorry. I sort of dozed off there for a while ... until you started talking about extreme ideologues who think constant lying is perfectly moral and "compromise" is a dirty word. Were you talking about Muslims or Republicans?
loulou| 7.26.12 @ 11:00AM
Hmmm... Looks Abdul786 is the resident expert on Islam.
Crassus| 7.26.12 @ 11:19AM
NEOCON!! NEOCON!! I'm surprised you can spell the word.
KennesawJack| 7.26.12 @ 1:40PM
So, do you testify with both words and the heart that there is only one God and that the PPM (pedophile prophet Mohammed) is his messenger or do you skip the pedophile part?
Ralph Novy| 7.26.12 @ 6:09PM
I'd imagine they skip over the pedophilic bits -- the way Mormons do regarding Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. And the way other Christians do regarding various of their Biblical heroes' vices.
Anthony| 7.26.12 @ 10:58AM
If you haven't come to grips yet with the reality that Obozo and the radical left are so out of touch with American values, just go to Drudge and see what Rahm Emmanuel had to say about Chik'o'file.
While the former ballerina is doing pirouettes for Farrakahn and his insane, racist, radical Islamist anti-American philosophy, the same Mr. twinkletoes says folks who believe in traditional marriage are not compatable with Chicago values.
Don't tell me Woodstock Nation didn't hijack America and turned all things upside down and inside out.
The American left are a mortal danger to America.
Joellen| 7.26.12 @ 11:34AM
Right on Anthony - here's another example of how the left will demand tolerence but not so much for Christians. In San Francisco they want to put up partitions in tax funded librarys so that the perv's can watch porno without any altercations. Yet GOD FORBID we have the TEN COMMANDMENTS up in tax payer venues or say CHRISTMAS in the public arena. Keep praying folks - only ABBA FATHER is going to save this country.
Americanpatriot| 7.26.12 @ 11:44AM
This president has shown by his actions that he is not a Christian and certainly does not support Christian values. I believe he falsely said he was a Christian in 2008 to get votes rather than it being based on his beliefs. He is a very dangerous man and I hope with all my heart he is not elected.
canuckistani| 7.26.12 @ 12:08PM
Give me one example of a "Christian" president since Lincoln - a deist - sent the country to war over a trade war and continued indignities to a minority?
Truman? Dropped two nukes.
Nixon the Quaker? Nope
Saint Ronny? Only divorced pres and went to church once. Gave rockets to Iran.
Daddy? Probably showed the most Christian restraint with his debt deal compromise and his refusal to go to Baghdad.
Willie? Conjured up an old Baptist "no sex" defense, so possibly Christian.
Junior? went to war on a lie rather than finding the Christian way of not going to war if a chance existed.
BHO? Jury still out, but on balance has focused on social justice - a key Christian tenet.
Boar Hunter| 7.26.12 @ 12:36PM
There is a reason that people like you are called perverts. As is the case with liberals, there is no truth in you. Everything you believe is perverted.
SSG Baker| 7.26.12 @ 1:53PM
Social justice is not a key Christian tenet. Where do people come up with this stuff? Ahh yes, the liberal denominations is where it comes from.
canuckistani| 7.26.12 @ 3:31PM
It comes from the Vatican - you know the real defenders and promulgators of Christ's message. Not the self-serving, Calvinist baloney of the Bible belt.
Stkman| 7.26.12 @ 5:43PM
The Vatican? You don't have an understanding of Christianity then my friend. Look to Christ, not the Vatican.
Please if you would, tell us why Bill Clinton did nothing when Saddam Hussein sent a hit squad to Kuwait to assinate George HW Bush? Now, re-think why Geaorge Jr really went into Iraq? The coward that Bill Clinton is did nothing when a foreign government tried to assasinate a former United States President. Well Mr. Clinton had a responsibility as a sitting President to act. He didn't. Well the next sititng Presidnet happened to be a Bush and he acted. As for weappns of mass destruction all I need to do is look at the film clips of the Kurds who were gassed by Saddam to know the truth. He had em. He moved them, but he had them.
Ralph Novy| 7.26.12 @ 6:13PM
"Social justice is not a key Christian tenet."
Uh-huh.
And the Pope's not Catholic.
Which Christian sub-cult do you belong to? Armed Christian Patriots for the Extermination of Infidels?
LMAO. What a maroon.
SSG Baker| 7.26.12 @ 7:40PM
So the only Christians are members of the Catholic Church?
Good to know that you consider Protestants to be a "Christian sub-cult". As it happens I was raised as an Independent Baptist and current attend a Pentacostal Church in Colorado. Social Justice, bah, another tie in with Marxist beliefs, only let's sugar coat the pill with a veneer of caring in the name of Christ.
SSG Baker| 7.26.12 @ 2:01PM
"Truman? Dropped two nukes." And your point here was? What? That we should have invaded Japan at the cost of untold MILLIONS of civilian and military lives? Were the bombs horrible weapons? Yes. In the end were more lives saved than lost through their use? Yes, both Allied and Japanese lives. have you ever even read the tentative invasion plans for Japan? The conservative estimates of Allied casualities alone were 1 million+, didn't even go into the loss of life on the Japanese side. Things do not happen in a vacuum in history, there are underlying reasons events happen. Wake the hell up from your dream world.
Marie| 7.26.12 @ 11:52AM
I don't know why, but I keep remembering airplanes flying into buildings in NYC and Washington DC.
canuckistani| 7.26.12 @ 12:02PM
Filled with Saudi terrorists, paid with Saudi money.
Explain how Junior handled that fact.
The Muslim problem does not reside within their hate for the west or Jews, it resides in a 1400 year old blood feud about who gets the keys to the palace.
The Syria problem is the key to all of this. If Assad falls and the Sunni majority takes over, Iran is marginalized as are their proxies Hamas and Hezbollah. Israel will be in a predicament when the hegemony of Iran lessens and they are left open to criticism of their amplifying non-existent threats.
Boar Hunter| 7.26.12 @ 12:38PM
Are you implying that the threats to Israel are non-existent?
JmsA| 7.26.12 @ 1:58PM
Mohammed Atta was Egyptian.
Tom Kyba| 7.26.12 @ 12:50PM
DRED, JOHN786 and CANUCKISTANI despise Christians and although they are all enjoying themselves pointing out assorted bits of hyperbole, their attempts to equate all monotheisms are filled with oversimplifications and obfuscations, in other words, hyperbole. You three are notorious for trying to shame others in these comments sections, so perhaps you stellar searchers for the truth would like to set an example for us lesser mortals to follow. We know you consider yourselves superior to all the TLPs and others here but your frantic postings make it clear that it's about more than TLP calling Obama a born muslim.
I'll tell you what I think motivates you cheery fellas in this case; I think that you are sad liberals who were sucked in by Obama's elementary school "I will save the world from itself" shtick from 2008. Since then, your hip, cool dude turned out to be a spoiled little brat, vastly overrated intellectually, and a serial liar who depends on useful idiots like you three stooges to cover for his endless gaffes.
You've glommed on to this issue because you think that "winning" this debate proves that, well maybe all the other right wing criticisms of Narcissus are also wrong. Sorry, but none of your endless Bush or snotty "Ronny" references can erase the disgraceful legacy Obama is recording for himself. You've tied your can to a walking talking joke of a man and leader and no special tricks or issue deflecting will change that.
JD| 7.26.12 @ 1:41PM
The Left has always lumped its enemies together. They do this to make their lives easier, since they can criticize all who disagree with them en masse. More importantly, they get to accuse their enemies of being hypocrites by taking the positions of two different enemies together and pretending that both enemies hold both positions. Throw in straw man arguments against one or both enemies, and they can say anything they want!
You see this when you see liberals accuse you of being an anarchist in one conversation and a totalitarian in another.
A common means of lumping different enemies together is the vague, meaningless term "religion." The Left has robbed it of all meaning. They've redefined it as "believing in something ridiculous", then declared that every belief that differs from theirs is a "religion". They do this to insult, marginalize, and lump together their enemies. We see that here in efforts to lump Christians, Muslims, and Jews. The logic for doing this is absurd - one could just as easily say that communists and libertarians are the same because they both use the words "work" and "economy".
The Left bristles at the use of the terms "heathen" and "infidel" to describe all non-members other groups, yet uses its own word "religion" with impunity. The three terms are the same - a group's way of separating those who are "right" from all others, who are "wrong". The different ways of being wrong are thought to have too little consequence to be separated.
Ralph Novy| 7.26.12 @ 6:17PM
If you've been arguing with people who accuse you of "being an anarchist in one conversation and a totalitarian in another," you haven't been arguing with liberals. You've been arguing with people who love to argue.
canuckistani| 7.26.12 @ 3:40PM
As for my faith, I likely have more Christian genes in one finger than you do in your whole body. I do not pity you, but pray that you will come out of your stupor long enough to realize American political discourse had departed from Christ's message around the time the founders wrote a constitution that kept the royal grants for themselves and refused to grant full rights and citizenship to all natural born persons.
To deny that fact is more folly. It took a civil war and countless amendments to get this country even somewhat on the path to righteousness. More is obviously needed.
Stick to His message at home and pray that your neighbors hear it, but Christ never envisaged his righteous flock - as you claim membership of - would cling to defending the enormous expenditures on military, the perverse right to own and use assault weapons and choose these destructive elements over improving the lives of all citizens.
If you have even some willingness to balance your visceral fear and hate with a smidgen of compassion, you would see it differently.
You are chained by your doubts.
JD| 7.26.12 @ 3:48PM
Funny, I seem to remember a lot of battles in the Old Testament.
Seriously, it's laughable that despite all the anti-Christian things in our society, you're focusing on guns. In fact, you speak as though you're one of those "Christians" who think Christianity is about being a "good" person and nothing more.
canuckistani| 7.26.12 @ 4:00PM
You mean as Jesus suggested?
The OT is a simple retelling of a tribe's conquest - defeat - conquest - defeat over a number of centuries. They used a higher power as the pretext for all of their battles and genocides of many tribes. To the victor goes the spoils and the right to write history.
The NT is entirely different.
JD| 7.26.12 @ 4:14PM
You've confirmed my post. What you've written suggests that you don't think of Jesus as having any tie to the OT, either in being the Son of God or the fulfillment of any prophecy. You just consider him a good pacifist for you to emulate in your earthly life.
Unless he tells people to do things you don't like.
Stkman| 7.26.12 @ 5:53PM
Canuckistani,
Once again you show your ignorance. Even Christ said slaves should work hard for their masters.
No place has ever shown better Christian values than the United States. Do we falter from time to time. Yes, we do. We are faltering now because we put our trust in a liar as President. A man who has no conception of what a real Christian feels in his heart.
Ralph Novy| 7.26.12 @ 6:20PM
You said of Canuckistani:
A man who has no conception of what a real Christian feels in his heart.
Well, I, for one do not want to know what's in there -- and keep it away from my daughter if you know what's good for you.
KennesawJack| 7.26.12 @ 8:47PM
Uh-oh. Would you have to perform an "honor killing" on the poor girl if he did?
SSG Baker| 7.26.12 @ 7:42PM
I do believe I remember reading Christ ordering his disciples to go and purchase a sword if they didn't have one. last I checked you didn't use a sword to cut bread.
John786| 7.26.12 @ 5:17PM
Tommy kyba,
Lighten up bro!
nathan| 7.26.12 @ 2:28PM
I'm not really sure where to start. What always worries me is the simplistic view that most people in the west have of Islam. Most everyone here acts as if there is ONE Islam, there is a total unified religion whose adherents act in concert, the human equivalent of the "Borg". It's not. Like Christianity there are multiple flavors of the religion which are at war with each other. Holy war wars happen in every religion. How many of you even know many significant branches there are? Most of you will say Shia and Sunni. If you stop there you get a passing grade. Throw in Sufi and and that shows you've been going a bit beyond the headlines. And there are who knows how many smaller groups.
Read Ahmed Rashid's latest book "Pakistan On The Brink" and is Islam "Borg" like there? Not remotely. The various groups are running suicide attacks on each other that only remotely have anything to do with the west. Again, we know, or you would know if you all read more, that they REALLY hate each other at least as much or more as they hate us.
nathan| 7.26.12 @ 2:40PM
Understanding the complexities of Islam, the various flavors of the religion, how ethnic divisions play a huge r0le in the actions they take, all of it, ideally will help us make better decisions in how to deal with them. Also we need to understand that in many countries, ours includedd, the overwhelming majority of muslims aren't dedicated hard core jihadists dedicated to imposing sharia everywhere they go. They just want to be left alone like all of us. (Most every poll shows that.)
What that means for this country is that do we take appropriate actions to find those who are planning to carry out acts of terrorism? Absolutely. But the Constitution is still the law of the land. And we treat people as individuals with rights that cannot be violated. The Bill of Rights has to be adhered to. We can no more ignore it to pursue terrorists than we would serial child molestors. Tom Paine said if we to preserve our rights we must defend the rights of those we hate. He was right 200 years ago and he's still right today.
Boar Hunter| 7.26.12 @ 3:37PM
My brain is awash with a plethora of multi colored waterfalls cascading with ideas of how best to describe what an oxygen thieving piece of human fecal material you are.
Which sect is it that kills it's daughters for being raped by their uncles?
Which sect is it that kills homosexuals like you?
Which sect is it that demonstrates in green in the public square along side children dressed in suicide vests chanting death to who gives a crap?
Which sect is it that cant get along with anyone, anywhere because of the pedophile prophet they worship?
I have no interest in trying to understand them, they are self explanatory.
After Obama issued his last apology for some make believe insult to Islam, I determined that each anniversary of 9-11 I will purchase a koran and burn it in bacon grease.
Boar Hunter| 7.26.12 @ 3:39PM
Following this annual event I will celebrate with a nice Ribeye and a couple of single-malts.
nathan| 7.26.12 @ 4:10PM
How wonderfully insightful you are.
Call me all the names you want, but I would prefer to find ways of actually stopping these guys and to do that we need to know who we're fighting, what they're actually about REAL intelligence, not the nonsense you spout here.
Ignorance gets us no where, it never has. Simplistic views about the Japanese, near sighted, bow legged, all sorts of garbage got a lot of Americans killed early on. Do we have to keep repeating our mistakes from the past?
KNOW YOUR ENEMY. And one the reasons for knowing this one is because know them and maybe we don't have ot fight them much. I remind you all again, in 1999 Buchanan wrote if we insist on being in places where we have no legitimate business sooner or later people are going to come at us asymetrically. Two years later it happened. Maybe one thing we can do is quit listening to the neocon democracy jihadistist imperialists and try to mind our own business so these guys can go back to just killing each other.
JD| 7.26.12 @ 4:19PM
"neocon democracy jihadistist imperialists" might be the longest name for a straw man that I've ever heard.
Curiously, what name would you give to someone who comes from Washington, with the police behind him, and forces people to give up their business, wealth, and other earnings to be handed over to the supposedly-oppressed less successful people? Seems like "democracy jihadist imperialist" might fit there, no?
And by the way, are conservatives extinct? One would think so, given your insistence that everyone you don't like is a "NEO-con". If all are neo, where are the originals?
Boar Hunter| 7.26.12 @ 5:15PM
They will never be stopped as long as weak willed, spineless cowards like you and those like you who think we have to understand them and reason with them by appeasement.
Ralph Novy| 7.26.12 @ 6:23PM
It's spelled "boor," not "boar," pal.
JD| 7.26.12 @ 3:52PM
As I wrote earlier, it's about lumping enemies together. At the same time, while people who believe a wide variety of different things might all call themselves "Muslims", it behooves us to have a single meaning for the term "Muslim". It also behooves us to have a term for the people who cause a lot of problems in our world in the name of "Allah". More than not, it seems like those terms refer to the same people.
I'm not sure "Islam" is the right term for the people who want to coexist peacefully yet believe in many of the tenets of the violent Islam that attacks America. It seems they're inventing their own new belief system. Not unlike many Americans who call themselves "Christians" despite opposing so many Christian beliefs.
canuckistani| 7.26.12 @ 3:55PM
Nathan, don't bother.
Their brains are full and slowly degrading.
To watch US foreign policy today is like watching the fall of the British Empire or the French or the Russian or the Roman, for that matter.
The willingness to accuse "them" has been a useful tool of the lazy imperialist forever. They forget the dictums in the Art of War because it was written by an exotic.
BHO has at least infused some nuance into the state department and purged it partially of the zionists and third templars that populated it since Daddy refused to go to Baghdad (the last truly nuanced strategic decision this country has had).
Do we condemn all Germans and Italians and Spaniards as being fascists? Nope, so it is possible that a group can be defeated and replaced with more reasonable people.
I used to think that the red menace was the existential threat to the country. Do we not do business with Red China in increasing billions each year? Why?
The belly of Islam is Saudi Arabia. The 9/11 guys came from there, but yet we hold them in highest esteem - and even Murdoch took their cash to subsidize Faux News. Why?
Answer: commerce has always trumped ideology.
JD| 7.26.12 @ 4:11PM
Ideology has always trumped honesty, actually. I don't feel the least bit criticized by any of your post, because none of it is true. It's littered with accusations of racism, "zionism", "templars" (seriously?). And who on the right loves the Saudis?
It's one thing to explain what's wrong with what you ACTUALLY BELIEVE and do. It's another thing entirely to put words and ideas in others mouths, when your straw men run so contrary to the truth.
I can attack what liberalism actually is, believes, and does. You attack a conservatism that exists only in your imagination.
StanAmSpec| 7.26.12 @ 2:43PM
Of course the irony is that the very things that Obama persecutes Christians for Muslims also believe
cicero| 7.26.12 @ 2:50PM
"The United States stands with those who seek the chance to decide their own destiny, to live free from fear and violence, and practice thier faith freely." So just who was he talking about. I know of no country dominated by a Muslim majority that allows their population to decide thier own destiny, live free from fear and violence, and practice their faith freely. Certainly, he cannot be talking about Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Parkistan, Bankgladesh, and on and on. Even countries that only have a sizeable minority of Muslims have problems providing the above quoted benefits. The Netherlands, Ghana, Sudan, etc., all coome to mind. Only the West provides such benefits, and you never hear our fearless leader lauding us for being able to do so.
Reggie Love| 7.26.12 @ 2:57PM
I don't think Obama is a muslim. He is almost certainly an aetheist.
Drunken Sailor| 7.26.12 @ 3:44PM
Nope. Obama worships Obama.
He is a practitioner of Selfism.
Boar Hunter| 7.26.12 @ 3:45PM
I believe that you are correct.
Communism is Obama's only religion.
Obama is also not a racist, so far as the blacks are concerned, Obama holds them in disdain as well.
The whole point of his attendance in Reverend Wright's Black Theology church was to obtain the support of the African American community. They are simply a means to an end.
Drunken Sailor| 7.26.12 @ 3:51PM
Exactly. Michelle should watch her back. As soon as she is no longer useful he will most likely toss her under the same bus as dear grandma.
Boar Hunter| 7.26.12 @ 5:16PM
He dare not touch the wookie...she bites!
JD| 7.26.12 @ 4:00PM
DRed was hysterically screaming that there is "no evidence that he's a Muslim", which is of course, false. Evidence is not proof, and doesn't even need to be strong, but of course some exists. His undue friendliness to fundamentalist Muslim nations, despite their abhorrent human rights situations, is "evidence" that he has some REASON to be especially friendly to them. That reason could be kinship.
But more likely, as others here have been saying, he's just a political opportunist. The enemy of his enemy is his friend.
DRed| 7.26.12 @ 4:22PM
Which fundamentalist muslim nations is Obama unduly friendly with? Saudi Arabia? I'll give you that one. Can you think of any reason an American president would have to be friendly with the Saudis other than a secret muslim kinship? Perhaps I should have said that there's no evidence that Obama is a muslim that isn't laughably stupid. Look at what your fellow travelers have come up with. He's a muslim because of the name of Mohammed's horse. He's a muslim because he stood in front of a gold curtain. He's a muslim because some guy said he didn't know if he used to be a muslim. He's a muslim because his father, who wasn't a muslim, was a muslim. He's a muslim because look at who his pastor was. I mean, he did stand in front of that curtain. That's true!
JD| 7.26.12 @ 4:43PM
Your side frequently assumes all its conservative enemies are Christians simply because they're conservative. Why can't someone use similar logic to assume the young Indonesian was Muslim?
And if you don't like the guilt by association, don't use it against me!
As for undue friendliness to Muslims, that pervades the Democratic party, which is far too silent on the Muslim world's human rights issues, relative to its nit-picking of American groups that don't donate to the Party.
DRed| 7.26.12 @ 4:54PM
I thought we were talking about the fundamentalist countries that Obama is unduly friendly with. Which ones were those again? Let's try to tackle one issue at a time.
I'm not saying you're an idiot because there are a lot of idiots who believe Obama is a secret muslim. I'm saying people who believe that are idiots. There's no guilt by association there.
nathan| 7.26.12 @ 4:24PM
JD come on, in the aftermath of Sabra and Chatila what condemnation did we level at Israel? THE ONE TRUE DEMOCRACY that acted anything but. Picture this if you will, during the Falangist militia attack, which Sharon (future prime minister no less) knew about and did nothing to stop, women and children tried to escape the carnage and were pushed back in by the IDF. No one knows the number of dead but in the hundreds if not thousands, "maybe" equal to the sum total of all the individual deaths from terrorist attacks in the last 20+ years?
We say almost nothing about Israel's ghastly human rights record on the West Bank. And frankly it is. So yes, if we can tolerate excesses by our trusted ally, then we can reach out to others with less than perfect records including the Chinese and others.
And besides, given our human rights failures over the last 11 years both here and abroad, our glass house is way too big to throw stones. And Abu Ghraib wasn't even the half of it. Padilla, and just so much more. No one listens to us any more when we lecture them on human rights. Not after "Ghost Plane" and Bagram and all the rest. We simply don't walk it any more and it will take decades to rebuild our shattered reputation.
Kingofthenet| 7.26.12 @ 4:39PM
I think the British might have to quarantine Willard for 'Foot in Mouth Disease'.
JD| 7.26.12 @ 4:46PM
You believe that tabloid garbage? Talk about wishful thinking!
There are so many things wrong with that story that even a reading of liberal coverage of it makes it laughable.
What's less funny is that the Left is trying to pick it up and run with it. Can you imagine how they'd respond if Fox News ran a story about Obama's campaign saying things like that?
DRed| 7.26.12 @ 5:00PM
Mittens has managed to piss off the Brits all by himself, just by being Mittens.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new.....-care.html
The telegraph's a Tory paper, by the way. This is why Mittens wants to avoid saying things in public. He sucks at it. Aside from his amazing inability to relate to normal people, he's contradicted himself so many times that every time he opens his mouth he's going to anger someone he's lied to in the past. Obama is going to destroy him on the campaign trail.
Ralph Novy| 7.26.12 @ 5:19PM
Wow. New meaning for "delusional paranoid."
Get help.
Or barricade yourself in your mountain cabin and await the onslaught of Muslims ... or Chinese ... or Russians ... or Canadians (whoever is your "mortal enemy of the week") and leave the rest of us to our fate.
Please.
Hardcard| 7.26.12 @ 5:55PM
oblamo is not a moslem , his birth father is frank marshall, so that makes him a communist. his daddy odingo bingo was a stand-in.
Oldefarte| 7.26.12 @ 9:57PM
In consideration of George's excellent editorial along with the numerous other facts concerning this POTUS present here by bloggers, I ask the same question that I've been asking since before 11/4/08.......WHAT MENTAL PROCESSES WERE AT WORK THAT ALLOWED THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER-VOTERS TO ELECT HIM [Obviously and apprently some here did vote for him in 2008, but are reluctant to admit same] ??????
Oldefarte| 7.26.12 @ 10:02PM
PS: As much ranting comments that are present here concerning the numerous stories/editorials regarding Obama describing his negative aspects, I fail to recall any commentaries that definately and definatively state/indicate that same will vote for Romney in November. It's one thing to vent your frustation but the one/only solution to these problems of the last three years is to vote to defeat him, right?????
SSG Baker| 7.26.12 @ 11:12PM
I am proud to say I am voting for Romney, would rather it had been Sanctorum.