Obama says the Muslim call to
prayer is "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth."
year
event
As Barack Obama's candidacy comes under increasing scrutiny, his
account of his religious upbringing deserves careful attention for what
it tells us about the candidate's integrity.
Obama asserted in December, "I've always been a Christian," and he has
adamantly denied ever having been a Muslim. "The only connection
I've had to Islam is that my grandfather on my father's side came from
that country [Kenya]. But I've never practiced Islam." In
February, he claimed: "I have never been a Muslim. … other than my
name and the fact that I lived in a populous Muslim country for 4 years
when I was a child [Indonesia, 1967-71] I have very little connection to
the Islamic religion."
"Always" and "never" leave little room for equivocation. But many
biographical facts, culled mainly from the American press, suggest that,
when growing up, the Democratic candidate for president both saw himself
and was seen as a Muslim.
Read "Barack
Obama's Muslim Childhood," by noted
authority on the Middle East and Islam, Dr. Daniel Pipes. Dr.
Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum and Taube/Diller
distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford
University.
Obama
introduces "Islamic Community Day" bill -- Synopsis of Bill as
introduced: Declares November 1, 1997 to be South Shore Islamic
Community Center Day.
2001
Beyond the visits to his Muslim relatives in Africa, Obama had little to
say about Islam and Muslims until the events of 9/11. After that
date, Obama begins to become more public in his support of Muslims and
their cause.
2001
Obama is protective of
civil rights for Muslims in the U.S.,
saying, "In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani
Americans have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and
FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense
of security and belonging," he laments. "I will stand with them
should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
2001
Obama
sponsors Illinois Senate Bill 750
creating the "Halal Food Act," providing for inspections by the
Department of Agriculture to ensure that all food labeled Halal is
prepared according to Islamic law.
Islamization
-- here's how it works and why Halal food plays a role.
2003
Obama calls the Iraq war "a botched
and ill-advised U.S.
military incursion into a Muslim
country."
2006
In August, Obama took a taxpayer-funded trip to Africa.
While he was in northern Kenya, he was photographed in full Muslim regalia.
The photo appears in the
February 4th, 2008 edition of "The Examiner," under the caption,
"Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is dressed in Muslim
attire while on a trip to Kenya." (Click source image to enlarge)
[Geeska Afrika caption:] U.S. Senator Barack Obama, right, is dressed as
a Somali Elder by Sheikh Mahmed Hassan, left, during his visit to Wajir,
a rural area in northeastern Kenya, near the borders with Somalia and
Ethiopia. The area is at the epicenter of a severe drought that has hit
the Horn of Africa region, after erratic and insufficient rains during
the April-June season.
2/27/07
Barack Hussein Obama
said the Muslim call to prayer is "one of the prettiest sounds on
Earth."
In an interview with Nicholas Kristof, published in The New York Times, Obama recited the
Muslim call to prayer, the Adhan, "with a
first-class [Arabic] accent."
The opening lines of the Adhan (Azaan) is
the Shahada:
"Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that Muhammad is his prophet... "
According to Islamic scholars, reciting the Shahada, the Muslim
declaration of faith,
makes one a Muslim. This simple yet profound statement
expresses a Muslim's complete acceptance of, and total commitment to,
the message of Islam.
Obama knows this from his Quranic studies -- and he knows the New York
Times will publish this fact and it will be seen throughout the Islamic world.
Regardless of Obama's religion, what message is he sending the
world's 1.2 billion Muslims?
I suppose it's easy for Obama to remember the Shahada for the 35 years
since he left Indonesia -- and in 'first-class' Arabic -- especially
since he believes the Muslim call to prayer is "one of the prettiest
sounds on Earth."
The fact that Obama can recall the Shahada after 35 years and the fact
that he believes that the daily call to prayer is "one of the prettiest
sounds on Earth" say that those Muslim prayers run through his head
often -- what does that make him?
Obama
shows his Muslim/Palestinian solidarity and sensitivity, by telling Muscatine,
Illinois Democratic party activists that he supports relaxing
restrictions on aid to the Palestinian people.
He
said they have
suffered the most as a result of stalled peace efforts with Israel. "Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people."
4/30/07
In an
interview with the New York Times, Maya
Soetoro-Ng, Obama’s younger half sister, told the Times, "My whole
family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim." (Alternate
link)
I assume Maya thinks of her brother, Obama, as a member of her family?
Although Anna Dunham is often described as an atheist, I assume Maya thinks of
her mother as a member of her family, as well.
How else would one interpret that statement?
1/31/08
Obama
told a French magazine in an interview that if he wins office, he
will hold a summit with Muslim countries to better the United States'
image in the world.
"Once I'm elected, I want to organize a summit in the Muslim world, with
all the heads of state, to have an honest discussion about ways to
bridge the gap that grows every day between Muslims and the West."
2/20/08
Firas Ahmad comments on "Our Obama Problem" at
altmuslim.com.
"But for many reasons, Muslims are one constituency Obama does not want
to court. With a wink and a nod, Obama's Muslim supporters
continue to work for a candidate who cannot afford to wink back at them.
Given his perceived "closeness" to Islam, and the fact that he shares a
name with a former Iraqi dictator, it could be strategic suicide for the
Obama campaign to vocally acknowledge organized Muslim support. At
a time when endorsements are worn like badges of honor, no major
candidate is looking for the Muslim vote."
Falsehoods told to prevent the denigration of Islam, to protect
oneself, or to promote the cause of Islam are sanctioned in the Qur’an
and Sunna, including lying under oath in testimony before a court, and
deceiving by making distorted statements to the media such as the claim
that Islam is a "religion of peace." A Muslim is even permitted to
deny or denounce his faith if, in so doing, he protects or furthers the
interests of Islam, so long as he remains faithful to Islam in his
heart.
Like many Islamic practices,
taqiyya was formed within the context of
the culture of Arab tribalism, expansionary warfare, Bedouin raiding and
inter-tribal conflict. Taqiyya has been used by Muslims since the 7th
century to confuse, confound and divide "the enemy."
3/4/08
Obama
said that America, under his Presidency, will stop being a "bully."
(Video)
He also
said an Obama presidency would work to regain the trust of Muslims
worldwide with Washington-led aid programs in Muslim countries.
3/5/08
Most Arab-Americans
support Obama and many feel a kinship with the Democrat, who they
say can repair America's reputation abroad.
"The American image in the outside world has been damaged, and we want
someone who will reach out to others and say, 'Let's sit at the table
and talk,'" said Saleh Mubarak, who emigrated from Syria in 1981.
"That's what attracted me to Obama. He said, 'I will sit with
Iran, I will sit with anyone.'"
"The biography, the empathy factor, they feel Obama understands the
community," said James Zogby, a senior analyst for Zogby International
and founder and president of the Arab American Institute, a Washington,
D.C., organization that researches politics and policy in the
Arab-American community.
Arab-Americans also remember a line in Obama's speech at the 2004
Democratic National Convention, "If there's an Arab-American family
being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that
threatens my civil liberties."
3/10/08
Obama, is seeking, once
again, to validate, embolden, and encourage the followers of Osama
Bin Laden and other terrorist groups by removing our soldiers from a
battlefield where we have never known defeat. Worse still hundreds
of thousands of craven unthinking Americans are more than willing to
allow Obama-mania to permit Americas enemies to survive another day,
replenish their strength, and strategize again how best to harm the
United States.
3/12/08
Whose Fault Is It? The Barack Hussein Obama flap,
that is. Who was the one who started this mess? Which
bigoted, anti-Islamic right wing nutjob was responsible for initially
using Barack’s incendiary middle name as a clever political device?
Sometime before Barack Obama’s middle name slipped into the realm of the
unmentionable, it was supposed to be a selling point of his candidacy.
"Well, I think if you’ve got a guy named Barack Hussein Obama, that’s a
pretty good contrast to George W. Bush," Mr. Obama told PBS’s Tavis
Smiley on October 18, 2007. "If you believe that we’ve got to heal
America and we’ve got to repair our standing in the world, then I think
my supporters believe that I am the messenger who can deliver that
message."
Somehow, that was supposed to make him better than George W. Bush, but
seeing as George W. Bush’s middle name is actually "Walker," as in
Walker, Texas Ranger, it's hard to make that argument with a straight
face. Walker beats Hussein hands down. In fact, if he could
have beat the real Hussein, he probably would have, except that our
government preferred that Saddam go down after a fight, not with a clean
blow to the jugular.
We think this means his name is now fair game for anyone.
3/12/08
Was Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King on the mark last week
when he asserted Islamic terrorists would rejoice if Obama becomes the
next U.S. president?
What do the terrorists think about these policies? Well, journalist,
Aaron Klein, recently
asked
them:
Ramadan Adassi, leader of the Al Aqsa Brigades terror group in the West
Bank's Anskar refugee camp, pointed to Obama's rise to stardom as "an
important success. He won popularity in spite of the Zionists and
the conservatives."
Abu Hamed, leader of the Al Aqsa Brigades in the northern Gaza Strip,
explained the Democrat candidates' anti-war positions "prove that
important leaders are understanding the situation differently and are
understanding the price and the consequences of the American policy in
Iraq and in the world."
Muhammad Saadi, a senior leader of Islamic Jihad in the northern West
Bank town of Jenin, said talk of withdrawal from Iraq makes him feel
"proud."
"As Arabs and Muslims we feel proud of this talk," he told me for my
book. "Very proud from the great successes of the Iraqi
resistance. This success that brought the big superpower of the
world to discuss a possible withdrawal."
Abu Abdullah, a leader of Hamas' military wing in the Gaza Strip, was
more direct: The policy of withdrawal, he stated, "proves the strategy
of the resistance is the right strategy against the occupation."
What about dialogue with America's enemies, such as sit-downs with
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Obama has so fervently
advocated?
Muhammad Abdel-Al, spokesperson and a senior leader of the Popular
Resistance Committees terror group, recently explained to me U.S.
willingness to negotiate and initiate dialogue "shows the Islamic
resistance is bringing the giant [America] to is knees."
"It would be a great achievement complemented by more and more dead
American soldiers they will carry in coffins to the U.S.," said Abdel-Al.
Post from Tony Wicher's Blog for Peace
(Hosted by the official Obama
'08 website)
A different relationship with Israel: key to Middle East peace
By Tony Wicher - Feb 16th, 2007 at 11:09 am EST
The current treatment of the Palestinians is worse than South African
apartheid ever was -- it combines the worst features of apartheid and
military occupation. The purpose of it is simply to drive the
Palestinians out. There has never been any serious intention of
allowing a Palestinian state. Israel is the product of a 19th
century ideology, Zionism, that combines good old-fashioned colonialism
with good old-fashioned segregationism. In the time of Theodore
Herzl this was considered normal, but times have changed. Israel
will not be able to complete the colonial project. It will have to
make an accommodation with the Palestinians. But a Palestinian
state is not the way. The "Green line,"”, the 1967 line, etc. must
be regarded as temporary armistice lines. They cannot be the basis
for a permanent political settlement. The only way to settle this
conflict is reunification, not partition. Israelis and
Palestinians must agree to live together as equal citizens in a
democratic state -- whether they like it or not. There is no real
alternative, other than endless war.
The treatment of the Palestinians by Israelis is the number one cause
and justification for terrorism. As long as it goes on the
terrorists can justly claim moral equivalence. As long as the
United States continues with its current unqualified support of Israel
and Israeli apartheid, it makes itself the object of terrorism as well.
This must stop. Only the United States can make Israel do the
right thing. The next U.S. administration must understand that
this is the key to Middle East peace and to defeating terrorism.
Outside this mosque (see photo at link) in Anaheim, California (State
College Drive) we finally got definitive evidence of two things:
1. Word has been out in the Islamic community worldwide for some time
(specially Indonesia and Malaysia) to begin overt support for Obama.
2. We heard rumors of the Islamic Republic of Iran also passing the word
to their American agents and clerics to support Obama but had nothing
tangible till now.
3. The photo above was taken during the last week of March, 2008 by an
AntiMullah person who happened to see this woman and was delighted to
have a camera on hand.
4. Don't be misled by there only being one person. Mosques have
been told to get the message across effectively rather than to hold
demonstrations, since there was no protest involved where numbers rather
than a "bilingual" sign become important.
Note the "bilingual" aspect uses English lettering for Persian (not
Arabic) words to reach a broader audience than writing it in Farsi
(Persian) fonts.
4/9/08
Tom Bevan expresses puzzlement over a passage of the
keynote speech given by Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Keith
Ellison at the Muslim Youth Leadership Symposium this past
weekend in Illinois. According to a
report of his speech, Ellison touted the virtues of
Islamic illumination for an enlightened understanding of
current events:
Ellison went on to say if more people knew of what
Islam had to teach, the controversy created by
statements from presidential candidate Barack Obama's
former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, might not have
occurred.
Without more in the way of a direct quotation, it would be
imprudent to make too much of this passage. But it's
interesting to see Ellison speaking on events related to the
Obama campaign. In
"Louis Farrakhan's first Congressman," I took a look at
Ellison's troubling public record and past associations
before his election to Congress. Ellison's record and
associations previewed similar issues that have begun to
emerge in the course of Obama's campaign.
4/9/08
A group of young men in Gaza gather before each primary in support
of Senator Barack Obama. These well-dressed young men, looking
vastly different from the street photos of the poor and depressed we
usually see, meet in an internet cafe and make random phone calls to
American voters, urging a vote for Obama. They believe he can
bring peace to the Middle East.
And, who is paying for these phone calls and for the
online-time? And when was the last time Gazans were involved in
American politics?
2008
Welcome to Obama Youth, a
website for young supporters of Barack Obama. The purpose of this
site is to provide both individuals and groups a central place to share
ideas, locate resources, organize events and communicate about
supporting the candidacy of Senator Obama. While many of us may not yet
be old enough to vote, we still have the ability to make a difference,
spread the word, and shape Obama's platform.
Why do you think the Islamic crescent was chosen by this
organization to symbolize "Obama Youth?"
And be sure to watch the short video (at link) that calls for the end of the
"useless war."
NOTE: Click the link -- a BRAND NEW
LOGO!
Here is another example of the Obamalytes scrubbing the Internet of
content that reflects negatively on the "anointed one."
In this case they have removed the original Islamic crescent, displayed
above, and replaced it with a less controversial, modified campaign
logo.
Haven't got a clue about the video?
4/10/08
It was a celebration of Palestinian culture -- a night
of music, dancing and a dash of politics. Local Arab Americans
were bidding farewell to
Rashid Khalidi, an internationally known scholar, critic of Israel
and PLO operative, who was leaving town for a job in New York.
A special tribute came from Khalidi's friend and frequent dinner
companion, the young state Sen. Barack Obama. Speaking to the
crowd, Obama reminisced about meals prepared by Khalidi's wife, Mona,
and conversations that had challenged his thinking.
Obama's presence at such events, as he worked to build a political base
in Chicago, has led some Palestinian leaders to believe that he might
deal differently with the Middle East than either of his opponents for
the White House.
"I am confident that Barack Obama is more sympathetic to the position of
ending the occupation than either of the other candidates," said Hussein
Ibish, a senior fellow for the American Task Force on Palestine,
referring to the Israeli presence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that
began after the 1967 war. More than his rivals for the White
House, Ibish said, Obama sees a "moral imperative" in resolving the
conflict and is most likely to apply pressure to both sides to make
concessions.
"That's my personal opinion," Ibish said, "and I think it for a very
large number of circumstantial reasons, and what he's said."
4/10/08
Obama: Al-Qaeda is not -- where?
Barack Obama
has a problem when he gets off script. In Gary, Indiana,
Obama wants to make the point that al-Qaeda needs to be pursued, but in
Pakistan. Unfortunately, Obama almost makes a big mistake, and the
walk-back isn’t exactly effective:
Note the problem Obama creates for himself in this stumble. He
stopped just short of saying that al-Qaeda isn’t in Iraq. He
wanted to say it, but he stopped himself, and for good reason --
al-Qaeda is in Iraq. Saying otherwise would have made him look
ill-informed, and he knows it. He corrects himself to say that AQ
senior leadership isn’t in Iraq.
Given that, and given his buildup of warning how great a strategic
danger AQ presents to the US, then why does Obama want to retreat from
Iraq? We’re trying to take down the whole network. An
effective strategy would have us fighting them in Iraq and in the
Pakistan/Afghanistan theater -- which we’re doing now. We managed
to fight two wars simultaneously in 1941-1945 on much larger scales than
we face today. If he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time,
should he really be Commander in Chief? (via
Jim Geraghty)
4/11/08
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Friday
it was not his place to criticize former President Jimmy Carter if
he were to meet with Hamas.
4/16/08
While Sen. Barack Obama sought to improve his relationship with the
Jewish community today by meeting with leaders Philadelphia, comments by
a Hamas political adviser this weekend could potentially hurt the
Democratic presidential candidate.
During an interview on WABC radio Sunday, top Hamas political adviser
Ahmed Yousef said the terrorist group
supports Obama’s foreign policy vision.
"We don’t mind -- actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will
(win) the election and I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great
man with great principle, and he has a vision to change America to make
it in a position to lead the world community but not with domination and
arrogance," Yousef said in response to a question about the group’s
willingness to meet with either of the Democratic presidential
candidates.
4/22/08
Democratic White House contender Barack Obama could not hide
his irritation Monday when asked by a reporter what he thought about
former president Jimmy Carter's meeting with Hamas last week.
"Why can't I just eat my waffle?" the Illinois senator said as he ate
breakfast in Scranton, Pennsylvania, according to MSNBC television
pictures.
Pressed again for an answer, he replied: "Just let me eat my waffle."
Adding insult to...insult, a fellow customer of the Glider Diner in
Scranton has put Obama's waffle plate -- the one on which he was focused
when rudely interrupted by reporters --
on eBay.
4/23/08
Two years ago, Hatem El-Hady was the chairman of the Toledo,
Ohio-based Islamic charity,
Kindhearts, which was
closed by the
US government in February 2006 for terrorist fundraising and all its
assets frozen. Today, El-Hady has redirected his fundraising
efforts for his newest cause -- Barack Obama for President.
El-Hady has his own
dedicated page on Barack Obama's official website, chronicling his
fundraising on behalf of the Democratic Party presidential candidate.
Not only that, but he has none other than Barack Obama's wife, Michelle
Obama, listed as one of his friends and one of
her 224 listed friends.
But his leadership of Kindhearts is not the only thing that has brought
him scrutiny by federal law enforcement officials. Last summer,
El-Hady was questioned by the FBI concerning his knowledge of possible
conspirators in a UK-based terror plot.
The Department of Justice had a very
different
version of events. According to the DOJ, Kindhearts assumed the role
of lead terrorist fundraising in the US after the government had closed
other such Islamic "charities."
"KindHearts is the progeny of Holy Land Foundation and Global Relief
Foundation, which attempted to mask their support for terrorism behind
the façade of charitable giving," said Stuart Levey, Treasury Under
Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.
Not only was Kindhearts engaged in providing funds for HAMAS in Lebanon
and the West Bank, it had hired as a fundraising specialist the man
identified as the designated HAMAS bag man in the US, Mohammed El-Mezain.
And as investigative reporter Joe Kaufman revealed in "The
Black Hearts of Kindhearts," a number of other Kindhearts officials
were tied to terrorist fundraising and support, as well.
Not any more -- the Obamalytes have removed her name from
Hatem's friend's list -- busy little beavers are scrubbing away at the
web. --
Update:
Now the entire page has disappeared????
Commenting on the Iranian preference for a Democrat in the White House,
Sergei Barseghian, a columnist for the reformist Etemad Meli newspaper
noted that in Farsi,the words "Oo ba ma" would translate as
"He's with us."
The sympathy his candidacy has aroused among many Iranians stems from a
variety of factors, including his African heritage, his Muslim
family ties, and a belief that Obama would move to end Washington's
30-year Cold War with Tehran -- or at least reduce the prospect of a
U.S. military attack on the Islamic Republic. "I think people want
him to win," said Shi'ite cleric Mehdi Karroubi, the reformist former
parliament speaker defeated by Ahmadinejad in Iran's 2005 presidential
contest.
It's Obama's declared willingness to engage in "aggressive personal
diplomacy" with the Iranian leadership that has generated the most
interest among senior officials in Tehran.
"Obama is a man of engagement, a man of negotiations," one Iranian
official said. Amir Mohebbian, an analyst close to Iranian
conservative politicians, argues that "the mentality of Iranian decision
makers is ready for that."
4/26/08
Yesterday's
blogger call with John McCain contained a remarkable exchange in
which McCain, noting the fact that Hamas has endorsed Obama for
President, said:
"It's very clear who Hamas wants to be the next president of the
United States. So apparently has Danny Ortega and several others.
I think that people should understand that I will be Hamas's worst
nightmare.... If senator Obama is favored by Hamas I think people
can make judgments accordingly."
5/4/08
May 4th -- On "Meet the Press" this morning Obama
mistook
Iran for Israel when talking about defending them against an Iranian
attack.
He said, "Israel is an ally of ours, it's the most important ally we
have in the region and there is no doubt that we would act forcefully
and appropriately on any attack against Iran, nuclear or
otherwise"
5/11/08
It's no surprise that
the media are in the tank for Barack Obama,
but the willingness of the New York Times to simply misrepresent the
facts -- while pretending to act as a fact-checker! -- is pretty
breathtaking. You may think the Times is an outlier, if not a joke, but
I suspect that many more news outlets are prepared to follow the Times'
lead in flat-out misreporting the facts, if that's what it takes to get
Obama elected.
The Times story is "On McCain, Obama and a Hamas Link." It takes John
McCain to task for pointing out that Hamas has endorsed Obama. The Times
reporter, Larry Rohter, says that John McCain has "again portrayed the
Democratic contender as being the favorite of Hamas, the militant
Palestinian group." Of course, this is not McCain's "portrayal;" it is
an indisputable fact that Hamas has endorsed Obama and has said that it
hopes he will be elected. But the paper's most egregious error, in its
campaign "fact check" column, is yet to come.
Rohter notes that charges and counter-charges have gone back and forth
between the McCain and Obama campaigns, but Rohter judges that McCain is
mostly at fault:
But important nuances appear to have been lost in the partisan salvos,
particularly on Mr. McCain’s side.
McCain, Rohter writes, is guilty because he says that Obama has
advocated "unconditional" meetings with Iran's President:
[I]n a fund-raising letter sent out in April, a spokesman for Mr. McCain
wrote: "We need change in America, but not the kind of change that wins
kind words from Hamas, surrenders in Iraq and will hold unconditional
talks with Iranian President Ahmadinejad."
That, the Times says, is wrong.
But, who you gonna believe -- well, here's the video -- is the Times lying --
is Obama's Campaign lying -- you decide.
Not good enough? How about the fact that Obama's web site
contains this statement:
Diplomacy: Obama is the only major candidate who
supports tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without
preconditions.
After relentlessly labeling anyone who brings up the issue of Barack
Obama’s Muslim origins as a bigot, a racist, or a lunatic, suddenly this
morning the New York Times publishes an op-ed that actually admits Obama
was born a Muslim -- and that it might cause serious problems in an
Obama presidency.
5/14/08
PowerLine blog
observes that Obama and his legion of supporters in the MSM may not
like the fact that Hamas supports his candidacy, or that John McCain and
his supporters mention this fact. But it's not difficult to understand
why Hamas favors Obama. Consider this statement by Obama regarding
Lebanon:
"This effort to undermine Lebanon’s elected government needs to stop,
and all those who have influence with Hezbollah must press them to stand
down immediately. . . It’s time to engage in diplomatic efforts to help
build a new Lebanese consensus that focuses on electoral reform, an end
to the current corrupt patronage system, and the development of the
economy that provides for a fair distribution of services, opportunities
and employment."
The naivety of this statement is staggering. As Noah Pollak asks: "Does
Obama understand that the people who 'have influence with Hezbollah'
happen to be the same people on whose behalf Hezbollah is rampaging
through Lebanon?" And does he really believe that Hezbollah and its
sponsors can be pacified or neutralized by electoral reform, an end to
corrupt patronage, and "fair" distribution of services?
Obama may well fail to comprehend the first point and believe the
second, just as naive leftists of an earlier generation thought that Ho
Chi Minh was, at root, an agrarian reformer. In any case, Pollak is
correct that "Obama is rhetorically cornered; since his only
prescription for the Middle East is diplomatic engagement, every disease
gets re-diagnosed as something curable through talking."
No wonder he's Hamas' man.
5/17/08
John McCain, speaking in front of the National Rifle Association had
some advice for young Mr. Obama:
"I have some news for Senator Obama: talking, not even with soaring
rhetoric, (unconditional)... in unconditional meetings with a man who
calls Israel a 'stinking corpse,' and arms terrorists who kill
Americans, will not convince Iran to give up its nuclear programs."
"It is reckless, it is reckless to suggest that unconditional meetings
will advance our interests."
"You know, it would be a wonderful thing if we lived in a world where we
don’t have enemies. But that’s not the world we live in. And
until Senator Obama understands that reality, the American people have
every reason to doubt whether he has the strength, judgment, and
determination to keep us safe."
And wants to know why is this open anti-Semite and supporter of Israel's
annihilation getting to discuss "the Arab-Israeli conflict" in a
private, one-on-one meeting with Obama? What was said? I
think we can do the math.
Qazwini is an agent of the Iranian government, spreading its
propaganda. He was sent to the U.S. by Iran to help radicalize his
mosque, the Islamic Center of America, which -- at the time -- was
becoming moderate with women not covering their hair and mixing with
men. All that has changed, under Qazwini.
Qazwini is very open about his support for Palestinian homicide
bombings, HAMAS, and Hezbollah, and he's a good friend of Hezbollah
spiritual leader, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah -- the man who
issued the fatwa to Hezbollah terrorists to murder over 300 U.S. Marines
and U.S. Embassy civilians in cold blood. Qazwini's mosque has
held rallies and celebrations in support of Hezbollah, and many of
Hezbollah's biggest money-launderers and agents in America are his
congregants.
Hamas leader Ahmed Yousef has been quoted saying, "We like
Mr. Obama and we hope that he will win the election."
A controversy unfolded last month when Hamas political adviser Ahmed
Yousef told Aaron Klein, author of "Schmoozing with Terrorists," and
WABC radio, his group hopes Obama will win the presidential election and
change America's foreign policy.
5/20/08
Obama displays profound ignorance of asymmetric warfare.
By stating that Iran isn't a
threat because they spend much less on defense than the US, Obama displays a
complete ignorance of how asymmetric warfare operates. The AQ "defense
budget" for pulling off 9/11, was by comparison to the US, essentially zero.
An analysis of the Iranian order of battle and where they've been spending their
defense dollars over the past 10 years would show that they are a serious threat
in certain specific areas. They've been investing heavily in coastal
batteries, anti-ship missile systems, silent diesel electric subs, and such.
They could turn the narrow strait of Hormuz into an un-navigable scrap yard
faster than the US Navy could stop them or the US Air force could neutralize
those batteries and missiles.
Are the Iranians going to bomb NYC or invade Chicago? No. Can they
be a major pain in the ass to the rest of the world if they decided to
suicidally squeeze oil shipments through the straight? Absolutely!
A persistent questioner at a campaign stop Thursday grilled Barack Obama
on his ties to a professor with pro-Palestinian views, prompting Obama
to speak at some length against "guilt by association" and about his
support for the Jewish community.
The at-times heated exchange occurred during a town hall event held at a
synagogue in Boca Raton, Fla. The questioner focused on Obama’s
relationship to Rashid Khalidi, a professor of Arab studies at Columbia
University who has drawn fire for some of his criticisms of Israel.
Obama responded by saying he has met Khalidi and spoken with him in an
academic context, when Obama was teaching at the University of Chicago.
In the 1970s, when Khalidi taught at a university in Beirut, he often
spoke to reporters on behalf of Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation
Organization. In the early 1990s, he advised the Palestinian
delegation during peace negotiations. Khalidi now occupies a
prestigious professorship of Arab studies at Columbia
"He is not one of my advisers. He’s not one of my foreign policy
people," Obama said. "He is a respected scholar, although he
vehemently disagrees with a lot of Israel’s policy."
Obama then objected to the suggestion that his contacts with Khalidi
mean he shares Khalidi’s views.
"Part of my philosophy … is I believe in listening to people even when I
disagree with them," Obama said. "And part of the reason that the
Jewish community in Chicago is so close to me is because they know that
on many occasions I’ve spoken out vigorously against anti-Semitism, even
in my own community, even when it’s not convenient.
Yo! Obama, exactly when is anti-Semitism
convenient? When the media is absent? When it's just you,
Michelle, Wright and Farrakhan?
5/25/08
Is Iran gunning for a victory by presidential candidate Barack
Obama?
Despite the official line that it won’t make any difference who wins the
U.S. presidency (after all, they say, America is totally under the thumb
of "Zionists"), Iranians are watching the U.S. elections closely and
rooting for a victory by the Illinois senator, who has said he's willing
to agree to unconditional talks with Iran.
"I should say, he is a phenomenon, based on what he has said so far,"
Sadegh Kharazzi, a former Iranian diplomat squarely in the reformist
camp now out of power, said. "Unless he is drawn into traditional
Democratic Party ways, his election as a president will be welcomed in
Iran."
Wrote the conservative daily Hamshahri on May 7:
Obama has adopted the friendliest strategies regarding Iran, because he
believes that America should change its policy in dealing with Tehran,
while other candidates have more hostile policies.
6/6/08
On Wednesday, Obama, appearing in front of the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee,
said Jerusalem should be Israel's undivided capital, saying,
"Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain
undivided."
Well, on Thursday, Palestinian leaders reacted with anger and
dismay to this statement, so Obama immediately flip-flopped on his
support for Israel's stance on Jerusalem, saying Palestinians and
Israelis had to negotiate the future of the holy city.
Two positions in two days -- this guy is very confused -- and let's be
very clear about this -- under pressure from Palestinians and
terrorists, Obama caved in on one of Israel's most fundamental issues.
Not a good sign for those meetings with
Ahmadinejad that Obama keeps talking about.
6/7/08
Another Terrorist In Obama-Land -- Rashid Khalidi -- Anti-Israel Agenda?
(06:03)
6/11/08
I almost don't believe what I just read in The New York Times -- and
from Thomas Friedman, no less:
"This column will probably get Barack Obama in trouble, but that’s not
my problem. I cannot tell a lie: Many Egyptians and other Arab Muslims
really like him and hope that he wins the presidency."
The MEMRI Blog
reports
that an editorial, the Saudi paper Al-Watan stated that U.S. Democratic
presidential candidate Barack Obama is more capable than anyone else of
bringing about change in U.S. policy, particularly in all things
connected to the Middle East.
The paper added that in light of Obama's intent to conduct a dialogue
with Iran, the Middle East countries should launch a dialogue with him
and help him better understand what is going on.
One can only imagine what change the Saudis what kind of change the are
hoping for.
6/16/08
FReeper, "GovernmentIsTheProblem,"
comments on this Obama quote, "Sometimes this is a difficult road
being in politics. Sometimes you can become fearful, sometimes you
can become vain, sometimes you can seek power just for power’s sake
instead of because you want to do service to God. I just want all
of you to pray that I can be an instrument of God in the same way that
Pastor Ron and all of you are instruments of God . . . We’re going
to keep on praising together. I am confident that we can create
a Kingdom right here on Earth."
HE IS TALKING ABOUT JIHAD!!!!!
The first part of this statement is the INTERNAL struggle.
"Sometimes this is a difficult road being in politics. Sometimes
you can become fearful, sometimes you can become vain, sometimes you can
seek power just for power’s sake instead of because you want to do
service to God."
The SECOND part is about the EXTERNAL struggle.
"I just want all of you to pray that I can be an instrument of God in
the same way that Pastor Ron and all of you are instruments of God . . .
We’re going to keep on praising together. I am confident that we
can create a Kingdom right here on Earth."
There are 2 jihads, he talks about them both in this paragraph.
6/19/08
Yesterday, while Obama advisers Sen. John Kerry and ex-White House
counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke were praising the Supreme Court
ruling that bin Laden can appeal to U.S. courts, Obama was wrapping up
his trip to Michigan by meeting with a group of "community
leaders."
One of those so-called leaders has been identified as Osama Siblani,
publisher of the Arab American News, and an agent of Hezbollah.
Siblani,, an open supporter of the terrorist group, was handpicked for
the meeting by the Obama campaign and Obama spoke one-to-one with
Siblani.
Siblani's brother works for Al-Manar a/k/a Hezbollah TV in Lebanon, and
Siblani's newspaper is Hezbollah's house organ in America. Sources
say Hezbollah has funneled money to the paper. Siblani was at a
small 2006 Dearborn meeting identified in the Kuwaiti newspaper, Al-Seyassah,
as a meeting of Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah's American Hezbollah agents.
Nasrallah has been a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, the
commander of Hezbolla troops in Bekaa, and a member
of the Shura Council, Hezbollah’s highest institution.
Siblani has openly praised Hezbollah, the group that murdered over 300
U.S. Marines and U.S. Embassy employees, as "freedom fighters"
everywhere from Hezbollah rallies to interviews on National Public Radio
to a Detroit radio station which constantly has him on, unchallenged.
At a 2006 pro-Hezbollah rally in Dearborn, Siblani called for the
participants to "pray for the Hezbollah martyrs."
This video
shows Siblani leading a Michigan rally and repeatedly asking, "Who is
the terrorist?" -- and the crowd responds, "Bush, George Bush." He
then goes on to question the crowd, "Who is the freedom fighter?" -- and
they shout "Hezbollah, Hezbollah" -- and this rally takes place in
America.
The very fact that Obama invited Siblani to talk with him is yet
another sign that Barack Obama has no problem with supporters of
terrorists who murder Americans.
Previously, Obama had a
private meeting with an imam who is an agent of Hezbollah and the
government of Iran. Why is he meeting with one of Hezbollah's most
important imams and agents in America, Imam Hassan Qazwini?
Why is this anti-Semite and supporter of Israel's annihilation getting
to discuss "the Arab-Israeli conflict" in a private one-on-one meeting
with Obama? What was said?
Debbie Schlussel
has written about Qazwini and his mosque for almost a decade.
He is tight with the Government of Iran, and he is an agent of the
Iranian government, spreading its propaganda. He was sent to the
U.S. by Iran to help radicalize his mosque, the Islamic Center of
America, which, at the time, was becoming moderate with women not
covering their hair and mixing with men.
All that has changed, under Qazwini.
"I will stand with them should the political
winds shift in an ugly direction." -- Barack Hussein Obama
6/18/08
"There are elections in America now. Along came a black
citizen of Kenyan African origins, a Muslim, who had studied in an
Islamic school in Indonesia. His name is Obama."
"All the people in the Arab and Islamic world and in Africa applauded
this man. They welcomed him and prayed for him and for his
success, and they may have even been involved in legitimate contribution
campaigns to enable him to win the American presidency."
"Our African Kenyan Brother [Obama]... Made Statements [About Jerusalem]
That Shocked All His Supporters In The Arab World, In Africa, And In The
Islamic World"
"But we were taken by surprise when our African Kenyan brother [Obama],
who is an American national, made statements that shocked all his
supporters in the Arab world, in Africa, and in the Islamic world.
"We hope that this is merely an elections 'clearance sale,' as they say
in Egypt -- in other words, merely an elections lie. As you know,
this is the farce of elections -- a person lies and lies to people, just
so that they will vote for him, and afterwards, when they say to him,
'You promised this and that,' he says: 'No, this was just elections
propaganda.' This is the farce of democracy for you. He
says: 'This was propaganda, and you thought I was being serious. I
was fooling you to get your votes.'
"Allah willing, it will turn out that this was merely elections
propaganda.
Libyan Leader Mu'ammar Al-Qaddafi
marking the anniversary of the U.S. air raid on Libya. The
address aired on Al-Jazeera TV on June 11, 2008
6/19/08
Obama says if Osama bin Laden were captured on his watch,
he'd want to ensure he doesn't become a martyr if he were
prosecuted. Obama said he's not sure that the terrorist mastermind
would be captured alive.
But if he were, Obama said he would want to bring him to justice "in a
way that allows the entire world to understand the murderous acts that
he's engaged in and not to make him into a martyr."
"I will stand with them should the political
winds shift in an ugly direction." -- Barack Hussein Obama
7/4/08
The Obama campaign faces a burgeoning problem: the tendency of
certain highly-placed Muslims overseas to declare that he is of their
faith. The latest to do so is Libya's Qadhafi, in remarks made
marking the anniversary of the U.S. air raid on Libya. MEMRI provides
this
transcript:
"There are elections in America now. Along came a black citizen of
Kenyan African origins, a Muslim, who had studied in an Islamic school
in Indonesia. His name is Obama. All the people in the Arab
and Islamic world and in Africa applauded this man. They welcomed
him and prayed for him and for his success, and they may have even been
involved in legitimate contribution campaigns to enable him to win the
American presidency."
"We still hope that this black man will take pride in his African and
Islamic identity, and in his faith, and that [he will know] that he has
rights in America, and that he will change America from evil to good,
and that America will establish relations that will serve it well with
other peoples, especially the Arabs."
Americans believe that Barack Obama has every right to become a
Christian as an adult and proclaim his faith in Jesus Christ. Americans
understand that true religious identity depends on the faith one
accepts. But we deceive ourselves if we believe the rest of the
world thinks this way.
The Muslim world sees it differently. A baby born to a Muslim
father is a Muslim. One who leaves Islam for another faith is an
apostate. It's scriptural.
Facts are stubborn things.
7/17/08
On Sunday CNN aired an
interview Barack Obama recently gave to Fareed Zakaria, in which the
candidate expressed the opinion that Islamic jihad is a result of U.S.
foreign policy failure.
The possibility that the jihad might have arisen not as a reaction to
actions of America and the West -- and cannot be ended by our actions,
either, with the possible exception of overwhelming military and
cultural force -- is something Obama will not admit to.
Obama blames jihad on poverty, even though most of the terrorists we
know by name are professionals and college educated -- many are
physicians and engineers.
Is Obama really ignorant of the fact that there is an expansionist and
supremacist imperative shared by all orthodox sects and schools of
Islam? Is he really ignorant of the fact that jihad is the will of
Mohammed, is
1,500 years old and for Muslims, there's nothing extreme about it?
Islam divides the world into two parts. Dar al-Islam (Dar es
Salaam) is the abode of peace. It is inhabited exclusively by
Muslims and Dhimmi.
The other is Dar al-Harb, the abode of war. It is inhabited by
kuffār, an Arabic word meaning "rejecter." It is usually
translated into English as "infidel" or "unbeliever" --
that's you.
Jihad exists for the sole purpose of converting the abode of Dar al-Harb
into the abode of Dar al-Islam. It has nothing to do with poverty -- and
Obama knows that.
7/21/08
Obama's campaign has
hired Hiam Nawas as its Muslim liaison, according to two sources
familiar with the move.
Nawas, a Jordanian-American who filled a similar role for the campaign
of General Wesley Clark in 2004, has a role complicated by the fact that
Obama has been forced repeatedly to deny that he is Muslim, a situation
which grates on some Muslim-Americans.
Shades of the NAFTA kerfluffle -- Obama gets to
tell us one thing while Nawas tells her constituency something else.
7/25/08
8/9/08
Obama's Muslim Outreach Adviser
resigned this week amid questions about his involvement in an
Islamic investment fund and fundamentalist groups.
Chicago lawyer Mazen Asbahi, who was appointed National Coordinator for
Muslim American affairs by the Obama campaign on July 26, stepped down
Monday after an Internet newsletter wrote about his brief stint on an
Islamic investment fund's board, which also included a fundamentalist
imam.
Mr. Asbahi was brought on in part to bridge to reach out to the Muslim
communities in Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
"We need Muslim Americans to get excited about the Campaign, and there's
a lot to get excited about!" Mr. Asbahi wrote in a statement
posted on the campaign blog when he was appointed.
Asbahi served on the board of Allied Assets Advisors Fund, a
Delaware-registered trust. Allied Asset Advisors is a subsidiary
of the North American Islamic Trust. The trust, which is supported
financially by the government of Saudi Arabia, holds title to many
mosques in the U.S. and promotes a conservative brand of Islam
compatible with the ideology of the
Muslim Brotherhood and also akin to the fundamentalist
style predominant in Saudi Arabia.
Mr. Asbahi said he resigned because he did not want to distract Obama's
campaign.
There's one of those "damned distractions"
again.
8/23/08
The effort to minimize any grounds for fearing Obama has
an abiding, if covert, attachment to Islam has prompted him to risk
offending Muslims in order to avoid off-message controversies and photo
ops. It is, therefore, curious in the extreme that he is giving a
prominent role at next week's Democratic convention to a leader of
an organization identified by the Department of Justice as a Muslim
Brotherhood front organization and an unindicted co-conspirator in a
terrorism financing conspiracy.
Dr. Ingrid Mattson is the president of the Islamic Society of North
America (ISNA), an organization created by the radical, Saudi-financed
Muslim Students Association. She will represent the Muslim
community at the first-ever interfaith prayer service at a Democratic
nominating convention.
Now, we know from the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) trial that ISNA is one
of many Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated groups operating in America.
We also know from a Brotherhood document entered into evidence in that
case (which is currently being retried after the first prosecution
resulted in a mistrial) that, "The work [of Brotherhood members] in
America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the
Western civilization from within, and 'sabotaging' its miserable house
by their hands and the hands of believers so that it is eliminated and
God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."
The question is why would Barak Obama's campaign -- which has prevented
Muslim women wearing head coverings from being in the background of
photographs with the candidate and which recently fired a
Muslim-outreach coordinator who had ties to another unindicted HLF
co-conspirator -- allowed itself to be put in such company?
8/28/08
Old videos appear to show that a radical Muslim named Khalid
Al-Mansour
helped Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama gain
acceptance into Harvard Law School.
Civil rights activist Percy Sutton recalled being solicited by Dr.
Khalid A-Mansour to write a letter of recommendation to help Obama gain
acceptance into Harvard Law School in this undated television interview
available
HERE.
"I was introduced to him [Obama] by a friend who was raising money for
him and the friends name was Dr. Khalid al Mansour from Texas," Sutton
said. "He is the principle adviser to one of the world's richest
men. He told me about Obama. He wrote to me about him and
his introduction was 'there is a young man that has applied to Harvard
and I know that you have a few friends left there because you used to go
up there to speak, would you please write a letter in support of
him?'...I wrote a letter in support of him to my friends at Harvard
saying to them I thought there was a genius that was going to be
available and I sure hoped they would treat him kindly."
There are many videos available on the internet featuring Khalid Al-Mansour,
who describes himself as an author, scholar and businessman, blasting
the Jewish culture and Christianity and preaching the virtues of Islam,
reminiscent of the controversial clips discovered of Obama’s longtime
friend and former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright that rocked headlines
earlier this spring.
In one of the videos, titled "Christians
Designed Discrimination" uploaded by a YouTube user named
IslamStudios, Al-Mansour said, "White people don't feel bad, whatever
you do to them, they deserve it, God wants you to do it and that's when
you cut out the nose, cut out the ears, take flesh out of their body,
don't worry because God wants you to do it."
He also draws lines between whites and African Americans. "The
Christianity that white people got and the Christianity that black
people got was not the same," he added.
In this video,
Al-Monsour said white people fear Islam. "The whites are saying we
can’t take over Islam, we are going to destroy it. They don’t care
if you become a Buddhist, they don’t care if you are a Confuscist, you
can be a Christian, you can be anything in this world you want, the only
thing they are afraid of is Islam because there is 1 billion 200
million, they don’t want you with that league!
9/2/08
Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden was
quoted
Monday as telling senior Israeli officials behind closed doors that the
Jewish state will have to reconcile itself to a nuclear Iran.
In the unsourced report, Army Radio also quoted Biden as saying that he
opposed "opening a additional military and diplomatic front."
Biden, chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has
long been considered strongly pro-Israel. His nomination as Barack
Obama's running mate had been expected to shore up the Democrats'
strength with U.S. Jewish voters.
Army Radio said Israeli officials expressed "amazement" over the remarks
attributed to him.
Change you can believe in.
9/4/08
Obama had close ties to a top Saudi adviser at an early
age.
New evidence has emerged that Democratic presidential candidate Barack
Obama was closely associated as early as age 25 to a key adviser to a
Saudi billionaire who had mentored the founding members of the Black
Panthers.
In a videotaped interview this year on New York’s all news cable channel
NY1, a prominent African-American businessman and political figure made
the curious disclosures about Obama.
Percy Sutton, the former borough president of Manhattan, off-handedly
revealed the unusual circumstances about his first encounter with the
young Obama.
"I was introduced to (Obama) by a friend who was raising money for him,"
Sutton told NY1 city hall reporter Dominic Carter.
"The friend’s name is Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, from Texas," Sutton said.
"He is the principal adviser to one of the world’s richest men. He
told me about Obama."
Sutton, the founder of Inner City Broadcasting, said al-Mansour
contacted him to ask a favor: Would Sutton write a letter in support of
Obama’s application to Harvard Law School?
"He wrote to me about him," Sutton recalled. "And his introduction was
there is a young man that has applied to Harvard. I know that you
have a few friends up there because you used to go up there to speak.
Would you please write a letter in support of him?"
Sutton said he acted on his friend al-Mansour’s advice.
"I wrote a letter of support of him to my friends at Harvard, saying to
them I thought there was a genius that was going to be available and I
certainly hoped they would treat him kindly," Sutton told NY1.
Sutton did not say why al-Mansour was helping Obama, how he discovered
him, or from whom he was raising money on Obama’s behalf.
On Monday, in Michigan, Obama became
exercised when talking about the need to give even suspected
terrorists legal rights.
"We may think this is Mohammed the terrorist," he said at a campaign
rally, but "it might be Mohammed the cab driver. You might think
it’s Barack the bomb thrower. But it might be Barack the guy
running for president."
Continuing, he got more heated, his voice booming. Referring to
the Constitution, he said: "Don’t mock the Constitution! Don’t
make fun of it! Don’t suggest that it’s un-American to abide by
what the founding fathers set up! It’s worked pretty well for 200
years!!"
I'm reminded of two quotes -- the first -- "I
will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly
direction." -- Barack Hussein Obama
The second -- "We will use your laws to defeat you" -- Osama bin Laden.
9/14/08
Peggy Shapiro, writing in
American Thinker, says Obama's Muslim Outreach Coordinator, Mazen
Asbahi, resigned in August after only ten days in his position, when it
was revealed that he had ties to groups associated with the Muslim
Brotherhood. However, there is a question whether Asbahi has
actually left.
Asbahi's official stint on the Obama team ended when it came to light
that he was one of six trustees of Allied Asset Advisors Funds, a
"subsidiary of the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) and an advisor to
the Dow Jones Islamic Fund. Both NAIT and Dow Jones Islamic Fund
fall under the umbrella of Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).
NAIT, which owns nearly a third of all U.S. mosques and Muslim centers,
many funded by the Saudi government, advocates a radical form of Islam.
In a report annotated by almost 500 sources, the Global Muslim
Brotherhood Daily Report concludes that ""ISNA was created in the matrix
of early organizations design to propagate Saudi/Muslim Brotherhood
fundamentalism throughout the world... ISNA and its key leaders
have a disturbing record of association with organizations and
individuals that are accused and/or convicted of providing assistance to
terrorist organizations as defined by the U.S State Department...
The largest body of evidence concerning these associations relates to
ISNA's support of the Palestinian terrorist groups Hamas and Palestinian
Islamic Jihad."
As with his other radical associations (William Ayers, Samantha Power,
Reverend Wright), Mazen Asbahi may be quietly waiting behind the
scenes to resume his place when the election is over. Investor's
Business Daily reports that Asbahi "has not stopped working on behalf of
Obama." They quote the "former" coordinator as saying that,
"despite his official exit he was still "110%" behind Obama and that he
was participating in campaign conference calls on Muslim outreach."
Leaving the campaign was a "strategic decision," according to Asbahi.
Associates who unnerve, if not terrify, most Americans may be
temporarily put aside for "strategic" campaign purposes, but who will be
influencing the course of the nation if there is an Obama Whitehouse and
the President is finally up front?
10/2/08
Here's more -- Gateway Pundit
reports that the Obama Campaign is holding several illegal "Get Out
the Muslim Vote" Drives at swing state mosques this week!
You can go to Eid Celebrations and sign up to vote for Obama at
the same time!!
Central Ohioans Against Terrorism
is reporting that Muslim Americans for Obama has announced a series of
"get out the vote" events at mosques in Michigan, Pennsylvania, New
York, New Jersey, Virginia, and Ohio this week during Ramadan
celebrations.
The announcement was posted at the
Asian Americans for Obama website:
They are asking volunteers to
please wear the appropriate clothing.
These "get out the vote" events flagrantly violate the tax exempt status
of these participating mosques which are strictly prohibited
from supporting or endorsing any kind of partisan political
activity.
The lawsuit, filed by Philip Berg in federal
court has taken a bizarre and disturbing twist. Rather than just
producing a birth certificate proving his eligibility for the office of
POTUS, Obama has filed a motion to dismiss.
Of the 1,143,358 resident and active
attorneys in the United States, Obama selected
Joe Sandler, of the Washington law firm Sandler, Reiff, and Young to
represent him in this filing.
Sandler's role for CAIR has been to intimidate people who dare to
expose the goals and actions of Islamofascists. For example, last
year he tried to get Jihad expert Robert Spencer banned from speaking to
the Young American Foundation by using a threatening letter.
Sandler followed up by threatening columnist Mike Adams for writing
about the Spencer incident.
The question is, why would a guy who wants to assume the role of
Commander-in-Chief select a lawyer with terrorist connections to
represent him in a law suit?
This is just another of those "guilt by associations" that Obama
dismisses as a "distraction" and the mainstream media chooses to ignore.
Is there anybody around Obama that doesn't hate this country?
10/7/08
A leading critic of Islam isn't surprised there has been
virtually no coverage or action taken against a Muslim group that has
been
running an illegal "get out the vote" campaign in swing-state
mosques.
The group, Muslim Americans for Obama [MAFO], insists that all of its
voter registration activity is non-partisan, despite the fact that its
mission statement says it was launched in August 2008 "to provide a
vehicle for Muslim-American supporters of Barack Obama to organize and
mobilize our fellow citizens to get out the vote to elect Barack Obama
the next president of the United States."
Continuing, the group's website states: "Although there is only a short
period of time until the election..., there is much work to be done for
supporters of Barack Obama's candidacy. [MAFO] was formed to offer a
vehicle for Muslim-Americans to mobilize quickly and effectively so that
our community turns out in great numbers for Barack Obama on Election
Day."
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- The leader of a jihadi group in Iraq
argued Friday that the election of Barack Obama as president represented
a victory for radical Islamic groups that had battled American forces
since the invasion of Iraq.
Dressed in intricately decorated red and gold robes and a matching fez,
Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said that the president-elect
has an Allah-given capacity to handle any burdens he'll face as the
nation's leader.
The Nation of Islam has taught that whites are descended from the devil
and that blacks are the chosen people of Allah.
11/10/08
Let my people go!
President-elect Obama's advisers are quietly
crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned
terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, a plan
that would make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison.
Under plans being put together in Obama's camp, some detainees would be
released and many others would be prosecuted in U.S. criminal courts.
A third group of detainees -- the ones whose cases are most entangled in
highly classified information -- might have to go before a new court
designed especially to handle sensitive national security cases,
according to advisers and Democrats involved in the talks.
Advisers participating directly in the planning spoke on condition of
anonymity because the plans aren't final.
Prosecuting all detainees in federal courts raises a host of problems.
Evidence gathered through military interrogation or from intelligence
sources might be thrown out. Defendants would have the right to
confront witnesses, meaning undercover CIA officers or terrorist
turncoats might have to take the stand, jeopardizing their cover and
revealing classified intelligence tactics.
11/17/08
Obama has
decided to base his diplomatic approach to the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict on the Saudi peace plan, the Times of London reports today.
A "senior Obama adviser" tells the Times that Obama will back the plan
that divides Jerusalem into two capitals and pulls Israel back to
pre-1967 borders.
The proposal gives Israel an effective veto on the return of Arabs who
voluntarily left in 1948 while requiring it to restore the Golan
Heights to Syria and allow the Palestinians to establish a state capital
in east Jerusalem.
Obama has changed his position from his speech at American Israel Public
Affairs Committee (AIPAC). In early June, he told the
Israeli-supporting political action group that Jerusalem "must remain
undivided," drawing thunderous applause and roars of criticism later
from Palestinian groups. Within hours, Obama retreated to the
position that Jerusalem should be left to the two sides to negotiate in
the final settlement.
Now he has switched sides to the exact opposite of what he argued at
AIPAC. One has to wonder what all of those Jewish voters who
supported Obama will think of this new position on Israel’s borders and
security.
Obama reportedly told Mahmoud Abbas that "Israel would be crazy" not to
accept the plan. He concluded that the Saudi plan would give
Israel peace with the entire Muslim world. Really? It might
make it palatable for some states like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to
start diplomatic relations with Israel, and perhaps even Syria if they
get back the Golan Heights. But who believes that Iran, Yemen,
Libya, Sudan, and the proxy armies of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic
Jihad will suddenly discover brotherly love with such a settlement?
They want Israel wiped off the map, literally in Iran’s case, and the
Israelis driven into the Mediterranean.
Israel can decide on its own to take a risk and adopt the smaller
borders in exchange for the promise of peace. Obama should have stuck
with his AIPAC speech, or the initial retreat from it.
11/18/08
This week, top Hamas adviser Ahmed Yousef -- the
same Hamas official who
endorsed
Obama last spring -- revealed to an Arabic newspaper that during the
presidential campaign, aides to Obama were already, as Obama might say,
"sitting down" with members of the terrorist organization.
"We were in contact with a number of Obama's aides through the Internet,
and later met with some of them in Gaza, but they advised us not to come
out with any statements, as they may have a negative effect on his
election campaign," Yousef told the London-based Al-Hayat.
According to Yousef, Al-Hayat reported, Hamas's contact with Obama's
advisers was "ongoing, adding that he was still on good terms with some
of the aides he had befriended while residing in the U.S."
12/6/08
Obama is considering making a major
foreign policy speech in an Islamic capital during his first 100
days as president in an effort to mend rifts between the U.S. and the
Muslim world.
Helene Cooper of The New York Times spoke to several sources, including
diplomats, about which Islamic capital Obama might choose, and the
consensus was Cairo, Egypt.
The reason: Process of elimination.
A speech in Baghdad would appear to validate the Iraq war, which Obama
opposed. A visit to Damascus, the Syrian capital, "would look as
if he was rewarding the Syrians and it’s too soon for that," Ziad Asali,
president of the American Task Force on Palestine, told Cooper.
Asali also ruled out:
Ramallah on the West Bank, noting that "Palestinians seek Jerusalem as
their capital."
Tehran in Iran. "Too soon for that." Amman, Jordan. "Been there, done
that."
Islamabad, Pakistan. "Too dangerous."
Ankara, Turkey. "Too safe."
As for Jakarta, Indonesia, where Obama spent part of his youth, "people
would yawn about that," said Asali.
One of Obama’s foreign policy advisers ruled out Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,
and other capitals around the Persian Gulf.
Cooper concluded: "It’s got to be Cairo. Egypt is perfect. It’s
certainly Muslim enough, populous enough and relevant enough. It’s
an American ally, but there are enough tensions in the relationship that
the choice will feel bold."
