You Don’t Know What Obama Said
at the Mosque
by
Dennis Prager
Tuesday, Feb 9, 2016
Tuesday, Feb 9, 2016
If you seek to
understand Barack Obama and his views, the best place to go is his speeches.
But you have to read them in their entirety, not rely on hearing them or on the
media’s summary of them. When you do, you realize how often what Obama says is
morally and intellectually confused and even untrue.
The
most recent example was his speech last week at a mosque in Baltimore. In
addition to reassuring Muslim Americans that they are as American as Americans
of every other faith — – a point that any president, Republican or Democrat,
would and should make – President Obama spoke a lot of nonsense, some of it
dangerous.
President
Obama: “So let’s start with this fact: For more than a thousand years, people
have been drawn to Islam’s message of peace. And the very word itself, Islam,
comes from salam — peace.”
Why
did Obama say this? Even Muslim websites acknowledge that “Islam” means
“submission” [to Allah], that it comes from the Arabic root “aslama” meaning
submission, and that “Islam” is in the command form of that verb.
That’s
why “Muslim” means “One who submits,” not “One who is peaceful.”
Obama:
“Jefferson and John Adams had their own copies of the Quran.”
The
reason Jefferson had a copy of the Quran was to try to understand it in light
of what the Muslim ambassador from Tripoli had told him and John Adams. When
asked why Tripoli pirates were attacking American ships and enslaving
Americans, the Muslim ambassador explained that Muslims are commanded to do so
by the Quran: “It was written in their Quran that all nations which had not
acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the
faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every mussulman [Muslim] who was
slain in this warfare was sure to go to Paradise.”
That’s
why Jefferson and Adams had Qurans.
Obama:
“And how do we move forward together? … It can’t be just a burden on the Muslim
community — although the Muslim community has to play a role.”
Most
Americans would say that the American Muslim community has to play “the” role,
not “a” role in preventing violent Islam from capturing the minds of American
Muslims, and in helping authorities identify extremist Muslims.
Obama:
“Second, as Americans, we have to stay true to our core values, and that
includes freedom of religion for all faiths.”
This
is so obviously true that one wonders why the president felt it necessary to
mention it.
Obama:
“There are Christians who are targeted now in the Middle East, despite having
been there for centuries, and there are Jews who’ve lived in places like France
for centuries who now feel obliged to leave because they feel themselves under
assault – sometimes by Muslims.”
One
would have expected that after mentioning “Christians targeted now in the
Middle East,” he would have mentioned “Jews targeted now in the Middle East.”
That, however, would presumably have been too controversial to say. So, the
president mentioned the many Jews in France “who now feel obliged to leave”
their country because “they feel themselves under assault” — and then came the
corker: “sometimes by Muslims.”
Sometimes?
French Jews have recently been murdered, tortured and harassed more than at any
time since the Holocaust. And virtually every one of those attacks has been
perpetrated by Muslims.
Obama:
“We have to be consistent in condemning hateful rhetoric and violence against
everyone. And that includes against Muslims here in the United States of
America.”
Two
facts are relevant here. One is that religious hate crimes are exceedingly rare
in America. The other is that in 2014, the last year for which we have data,
Jews were targets of hate crimes four times more frequently than Muslims.
Obama:
“I often hear it said that we need moral clarity in this fight. And the
suggestion is somehow that if I would simply say, these are all Islamic
terrorists, then we would actually have solved the problem by now, apparently.”
The
president has made extensive use of the straw man — a false target that he then
attacks. This is one such example. No one has ever said that if the president
were to identify Islamic terrorists by name instead of nameless “violent
extremists,” “we would actually have solved the problem by now.”
What
drives most Americans crazy is that the president of the United States refuses
to name the enemy. And this rewriting of reality filters down. Increasingly,
for example, when (and if) 9/11 is taught in American schools, the attackers
are never identified as Muslims.
Obama:
“And, by the way, the notion that America is at war with Islam ignores the fact
that the world’s religions are a part of who we are.”
Another
straw man. No American of any stature has said that “America is at war with
Islam.”
Obama:
“In the discussion I had before I came out, some people said, why is there
always a burden on us? When a young man in Charleston shoots African-Americans
in a church, there’s not an expectation that every white person in America
suddenly is explaining that they’re not racist.”
This
point alone should have been publicized by the media — that the president of
the United States tells Muslims that they have no moral obligation to condemn
violence committed in the name of Islam.
Obama:
“American Muslims are better positioned than anybody to show that it is
possible to be faithful to Islam … and to believe in democracy.”
That
is actually true. Given that theocracy, not democracy, is a central tenet of
Islam, if an Islam compatible with democracy ever develops, it will probably
develop in America.
Obama:
“These are the voices of Muslim scholars, some of whom join us today, who know
Islam has a tradition of respect for other faiths.”
Another
falsehood. Islam has no such tradition. Islam has always demanded that Jews and
Christians be treated as humiliated second-class citizens — when not forced to
choose between conversion or death.
Now
you know what President Obama said at the Islamic Society of Baltimore. But if
you just read or listened to the mainstream media, you would have missed it
because none of this was reported. It was all about, as the headline in USA
Today put it, “At Baltimore mosque, Obama condemns anti-Muslim bigotry.”
“MSM Protecting Potus”
cji
2/11/16
Each day unreality
pours forth
rewriting even what
one hears
misidentifying one’s
own ears
disengaging what one
has seen
9/11 Paris France
Middle East
protecting potus
beyond lies
causing mirrors and
illusions
considering most
readers stupid
most Americans beyond
thought
while the illegals
and welfare
demand and depend on
RNC
they depend on those
working
parasites beginning
at the top
views mispresented
rhetoric
some truth – some
illusion
all meant to be
misleading
politically
correctness astray
each day unreality
pours forth!
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