President Obama Seeks to Bridge Differences with Islam
Jerome Socolovsky | Washington 18 March 2010US President Barack Obama has again postponed his trip to Indonesia because of pressing issues in the U.S. The trip is part of his ongoing effort to reach out to Muslims worldwide. Last year, he gave a speech in Cairo that was considered a landmark in the effort to bridge differences between Islam and the West. Many Muslims believe he should do more.
Of course they do, and they will never be happy until we cater to their every demand. Does the author of this article, even begin to realize that?
Frictions between Islam and the West often flare up – like when when a Danish newspaper published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed – or when Muslim girls in Europe went to school wearing veils, or new minarets in Switzerland were banned.
If Muslims cannot deal with freedom of speech, and expression that is their problem. The West should not change a thing to suit a backwards ideology like Islam. If Muslims do not like the rules of the West, they should move to an Islamic country. We owe them nothing.
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have also complicated America’s relationship with the Islamic world.
Last year, President Obama went to Cairo hoping to change that. He extended the traditional Muslim greeting, and said while he is a Christian, his father’s family includes generations of Muslims. “I’ve come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning, between the United States and Muslims around the world,” he said.
The real translation of this is that Obama wants us to cater to Islam, and respect the religion of war.
He declared that the U.S. is not at war with Islam, but is against violent extremists who exploit the tensions between Islam and the West.
Herein lies the problem, because Islam is at war with us. Those “violent extremists” are only following the Islamic scriptures.
Those tensions go all the way back to the Crusades – when Christian armies invaded the Holy Land.
The Crusades were the result of 100’s of years of Muslim aggression, and if they did not happen, we would all be living under Islamic rule now.
Since the September 11 attacks, attempts to bridge the differences between the two civilizations have acquired a new urgency.
Recently, Sunni and Shi’ite clerics met with Christian counterparts at the National Cathedral in Washington.
So what? Interfaith dialogue has been going on for centuries, and now the problem is in our backyard. The talks are just a stall tactic by Muslims, as their agenda of taking over the world moves forward. How can we believe anything that they say anyway? As their religion encourages them to lie.
Professor Ahmad El Tayeb of Al Azhar University in Cairo said the President’s speech there was a landmark. “I was there, and I admired that speech very much. But we are still waiting to see practical results,” he said.
He says the U.S. shouldn’t side with Israel or fight wars in Muslim countries.
Of course not, and their hatred of Jews stems from Islam itself.
Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.
As for not fighting in Islamic countries, in other words Muslim countries should be allowed to harbor terrorist organizations. Apparently the author of this article, has no problem with this endless list of demands.
Fouad Ajami heads the Middle East Studies program at the School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. “I think in many ways some of the issues Mr. Obama raised were legitimate ones. But he overpromised, he overpromised, and eventually he was going to come down to earth,” he said.
Ajami says there’s only so much an American president can do. He says the conflict is actually within Islam. “In fact what has happened over the last generation is that Islam has been hijacked for all practical purposes by the most extreme elements in the Muslim world. And you have these radical preachers in Yemen, you have these radical preachers in south Asia, you have these radical preachers in Pakistan. And I think that the Muslims finally awakened to the fact that their faith is in danger, that their faith has become in many ways synonymous with radicalism,” he said.
Mohammad himself was a terrorist.
Volume 4, Book 52, Number 220:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “I have been sent with the shortest expressions bearing the widest meanings, and I have been made victorious with terror (cast in the hearts of the enemy), and while I was sleeping, the keys of the treasures of the world were brought to me and put in my hand.” Abu Huraira added: Allah’s Apostle has left the world and now you, people, are bringing out those treasures (i.e. the Prophet did not benefit by them).
So did Mohammad hijack the religion that he started? Come on Ajami, you are going to have a lot better than the “hijacked” con.
The president’s task is not easy. At home, critics accuse him of apologizing for America.
Still, Mr. Obama holds up his own country as a place where people of all religions can thrive. “And that includes nearly 7 million American Muslims in our country today who, by the way, enjoy incomes and educational levels that are higher than the American average,” he said.
He is apologizing for America, and we are sick of it. Like I said earlier, we do not owe Muslims a thing. Their education levels do not mean that they do not want Islam to dominate America. It only makes them more dangerous.
Several hundred Muslims worship every Friday at the Islamic Cultural Center in Washington, D.C.
Some are diplomats from nearby embassies. But many are citizens who have lived in America for decades. They still believe in Mr. Obama’s message. “People think he’s going to do the thing in a snap, he cannot do that,” said Mohamed Adje, a worshiper.
Another worshiper, Mohammed Abdul Meguid Saleh, added “No way can push everything fast. Everything is going to be okay. It’s not easy, it take time to get everything together.”
When the president travels to Indonesia, he’ll have another opportunity to reach out to the Muslim world. It’s a place that is personal for him – he lived there as a child. So at the very least, he can once again present himself as a symbol of hope for reconciliation between Islam and the West.
If you noticed, the author does not care that nothing has been asked of the Islamic world. He is ready to drop to his knees in submission, I will not! Will you?
The guy is obsessed with islam which makes perfectly sense for those of us who are convinced that he is actually mahoundian himself. You have to get rid of him before his term is up or he will wreck havoc on your nation. He's as bad as EU is for us on this side of the pond.
Do you see much difference between Obama, and the Labour Party?
According to Andrew Neather, former speech-writer to Tony Blair, the muz import was deliberate to change the population of Great Britain. They wanted to rub the noses of the conservatives in multi diversity. But it's not only going on in UK. Every leftist/liberal in any EU-country is obsessed with multikulti and appeasing islam. They are united in the goal to destroy the west. But they will never achieve their goal, their utopia is the proletarian dictatorship because after west is destroyed, the muz won't allow it. Their dream is the global ummah. And the muz will outnumber them. And they are fierce and much more violent than them.
So the leftists are more concerned with spiting the conservatives, than their families future generations living under Islamic rule. How childish.
All the seven parties in our parliament is pro-muz, from the commies to the conservatives and all in between. That is why the Sweden Democrates are gaining more popular day by day because they're opposed to islam and massimmigration. That is also why the Seven-party as we call them fears them so much. That's what they really are, a Hydra with seven heads. Because if SD enters the parliament in september, then they can demand the cards on the table. They can't keep on bluffing anymore but has to show the numbers and the statistics which I know blocked from us.
I mean you know the drill from the PC MC's, immigration is "enriching" nothing else. The truth is that it probably costs hundreds of millions a year. And they claim there are only 500000 muz while many of us think they are twice as much or even 1½ million.
Those who promote the multiculti does not live among the enrichers themselves. They all live in ethnic white, sometimes even known as upper class areas. Not a cultural enricher in sight there. And of course the hypocrites put their own children in white private schools. Even the leader of the commies Lars Ohly has chosen to put his children in private schools. They're nothing but blabber humanists and halal-hippies the whole lot of them. They all deserve to be drawned and quartered if you ask me. You know, the guy who shot king Gustav III in the late 18th century, Anckarström, he was first lashed. Then they cut of one hand. Then they beheaded him and finished it with drawning and quartering him. Somehow they knew how to handle traitors just a couple of centuries ago. 🙂
My country is dead broke, and the politicians do not even consider the money that illegals cost us. It is like we owe them something. Some politicians here are waking up.
Vijay Kumar: Running for Congress on an Anti-Sharia Platform
https://loganswarning.com/2010/02/03/vijay-kumar-r…
I like this Vijay, too bad there aren’t more of him to go around. Especially the FairTax part is a given that he would get my vote.
It's not 7 million Mos in America, it's 2 million. There is phenomenal waste in our govt., NPR, VOA, PBS, these are all funded by our insane Congress and administered by liberals. You could save a couple hundred million a year right there, shut them down.
Those Mos know the score – not too fast, the infidels may get alarmed!
Hey , no one has said a word about how much Obama's trip cancellation is going to cost. Afterall, many rooms and meeting rooms with nonrefundable deposits and penalties, expensive ancillary service ( how many limos have already been shipped to Indonesia and will now ned to be flown back as just one tiny example), not too mention how much Indonesia and Australia have spent prepping Do they get reimbursed? Shouldn't they – he canceled so he MAY be able to sign a bill, not an earthquake or any type of real emergency. . I estimate it will cost $50 million to $100 million to cancel this trip on short notice. But hey what's a $100 million when you are spending Trillions!
They pump up their numbers for false political clout. Our government should not be funding any news outlets. Now I know why VOA is always pro-Islamic.
Obama HAD to stay home. It's make or break time in the Capital Building as I type this. This vote, today, will break Obama like the dry twig he is. If the vote passes, Obama will have succeeded in destroying the Democrap Party in America. Either way the American people are winners. the 2010 elections this fall will break the dem's super majority in Congress….and the elections in 2012 will complete the job. The American people are becoming pissed off, and showing it.
According to new channels on both sides, the mad Dictator has the votes.
Maybe Barokeydoke ought to bow down to the meteorite by sticking his ass in the air like a punk waiting to be mounted by some alpha male so he can show them he is honoring their illiterate mass murdering pedophile….that ought to get their attention.
He'll be in the back row so he can cop an eyeful. I'm reliably informed the last row has the best view.
I like what Mosab Yousef has said in a MEMRI interview, that it is blasphemy when US Presidents say that the US is not at war with Islam.
He seeks to bridge differences with islam by aiding in their jihad against Israel.
Despite our unflagging attempts to engage moslems in a peace process, there remains only one way in which to "bridge differences with islam;" 250 grains applied to the base of the skull.
Re: Chris' comment (above) that:
"So the leftists are more concerned with spiting the conservatives, than their families future generations living under Islamic rule. How childish."
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Lefties don't want to have families – that would be to increase the number of white … er… they can't say "people" what with all the angst and racial guilt for some of their ancestors having a go at buying some black slaves from the muslims for a bit back when, so they pretend it's natural to be self-hating homos and lesbos and they encourage that sort of thing instead… Submission is already in their blood, has been since the Kumbaya days and they don't want to give up their favourite addictions to self loathing and self-flagellations… which in a weird way may have been started by the protestant work ethics' own gratification-deferment ideals…
PS: Hey Chris where's my Raper Murder I mean Rupert Murdoch pics? If I lose any more Factbook – er, Fakebook profiles I guess I'll acknowledge that theCIA has won big in their plot to spy on ALL of us just to renew their tax-thefts at budget time by puning all the anti-islame groups, while leaving all the jihadi groups up so they can justify their existance to Congrees…
;-(
I didn't forget, I will get to it asap. 🙂
OGM the news have been shocking this week about the oil spill, what do you think about it?