Obama has been listening
to
his racist and anti-American
mentor and pastor, Jeremiah
Wright,
for over 20 years.
year
event
On March 14th, 2007, the Obama Campaign
told the LA Times that Obama was not a "practicing Muslim."
But Muslims do not see
practice as key. For them, that Obama was born to a line of
Muslim males makes him born a Muslim. Further, all children born
with an Arabic name based on the H-S-N trilateral root can be assumed to be Muslim, so they will understand Obama's
full name, Barack Hussein Obama, to proclaim him a born Muslim.
Obama's father was a Muslim. Obama's grandfather was a Muslim.
Obama's stepfather was a Muslim. Sarah, who Obama calls
grandmother is a Muslim. Obama's stepbrothers and stepsisters are
Muslims.
Obama's sister Maya was quoted by the New York Times as saying,
"My whole family was Muslim."
For a time, he was educated and lived as a Muslim. Only
Obama knows what he is today.
But his official
website says: "Obama Has Never Been A Muslim, And Is a
Committed Christian."
This is the basic problem with Obama -- his dissimulation.
What follows is what is publicly known about Obama and religion.
Riddle me this:
What's the difference between Osama ben Laden's religious mentor and
Barack Hussein Obama's religious mentor?
Ben Laden's religious mentor says "Allah damn America!"
1960
Obama's mother Anna
is often reported as being an atheist. Her parents, Stanley
and Madelyn Dunham, were
Baptists. While living in Mercer Island, Washington, during
the 1950's, Madelyn and Stanley shed their Methodist and Baptist
upbringing and began attending, along with Anna, Sunday services at the
East Shore
Unitarian Church in nearby Bellevue.
Obama
Senior was a Muslim, as was his extended family. Although Obama
Senior was not a practicing Muslim, he was buried in Muslim rites.
1968
After Anna's divorce from Barack
Senior, she marries Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo.
Anna will have a daughter with Lolo, named Maya.
Soetoro is also a Muslim and
promptly moved his new family to Jakarta,
Indonesia, the worlds most populous Muslim country.
1971
All Indonesian students are required to study religion at school and a young Barry Soetoro, being a Muslim, would have been
required to study Islam daily in school.
He would have been taught to read and write Arabic, to recite his prayers properly, to read and recite from the Quran and to study the laws of Islam.
In his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," Obama mentions studying
the Quran and describes the public school as "a Muslim school."
According to
Tine Hahiyary,
one of Obama's teachers and the principal
from 1971 through 1989, Barry actively took part in the Islamic religious
lessons during his time at the school. His teacher was
named Maimunah and she lived in the Puncak area, the Cianjur Regency.
"I remembered that he had studied "mengaji" (recitation of the Quran)" Tine
said.
Obama himself
recalls, "In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell
mother I made faces during Koranic studies."
Our
guy in Jakarta writes: "The actual usage of the word 'mengaji' in
Indonesian and Malaysian societies means the study of learning to recite
the Quran in the Arabic language rather than the native tongue.
"Mengagi" is a word and a term that is accorded the highest value and
status in the mindset of fundamentalist societies here in Southeast
Asia. To put it quite simply, 'mengaji classes' are not something
that a non practicing or so-called moderate Muslim family would ever
send their child to. To put this in a Christian context, this is
something above and beyond simply enrolling your child in Sunday school
classes."
"The fact that Obama had attended mengaji classes is well known in
Indonesia and has left many there wondering just when Obama is going to
come out of the closet."
"As I've stated before, the evidence seems to quite clearly show that
both Ann Dunham and her husband Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo were in fact
devout Muslims themselves and they raised their son as such."
1972
In
2007, Obama's classmate Rony Amiris
describes young Barry as enjoying playing football and marbles and of being a very devout Muslim.
Amir said, "Barry was previously quite religious in Islam.
"We previously often asked him to the prayer room close to the house. If he was wearing a sarong he looked funny," said Rony.
Amiris now the manager of the Bank Mandiri, Jakarta,
recently said, "Barry was previously quite
religious in Islam. His birth father, Barack Hussein Obama was a Muslim
economist from Kenya. Before marrying Ann Dunham, Hussein Obama was married to a
woman from Kenya who had seven children. All the relatives of Barry's father
were very devout Muslims"
Rony extrapolates further, that Obama at one point had to change his religion if
he ever intended later to run for the office of President of the United States
because America would never elect a Muslim to the be President of the United
States.
1972
In 2007, Emirsyah Satar, CEO of Garuda Indonesia, was
quoted as
saying, "He (Obama) was often in the prayer room wearing a 'sarong', at that
time."
"He was quite religious in Islam but only after marrying Michelle, he
changed his religion."
1972
Upon
Dunham's divorce from Lolo she
sent 10-year-old Barack to live with her
parents in Honolulu, while she and his half-sister stayed
in Indonesia.
There is little or no mention of Obama and religion for the next 15
years.
1987
When Obama first undertook his
agitating
work in Chicago's South Side poor neighborhoods, he was un-churched.
Yet his office was in a Church and most of the folks he needed to
agitate and organize were Church people -- pastors and congregants --
who took their churches and their church-going very seriously.
Again and again, he was asked by pastors and church ladies, "Where do
you go to Church, young man?"
There were personal and political motivations for Obama to belong to a
congregation, as well.
So, Obama finally joined a church, in part to deepen what one friend
called "a whole web of relationships" in the community that gave him a
strong political base and a well-connected mentor.
Trinity describes itself as a "congregation which is
Unashamedly Black
and Unapologetically Christian. Our roots in the Black religious
experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are an
African people, and remain 'true to our native land,' the mother continent, the
cradle of civilization."
"Trinity has a non-negotiable commitment to Africa, is committed to the historical education of African people in diaspora
and committed to liberation, restoration, and economic parity."
Trinity United Church of Christ adopted the Black Value System written
by the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee chaired by Vallmer Jordan in
1981. They believe in the following 12 precepts and covenantal
statements. These Black Ethics must be taught and exemplified in
homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever Blacks are gathered.
They must reflect on the following concepts:
1. Commitment to God
2. Commitment to the Black Community
3. Commitment to the Black Family
4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education
5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
6. Adherence to the Black Work Ethic
7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
8. Disavowal of the Pursuit of "Middleclassness"
9. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills
available to the Black Community
10. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for
Strengthening and Supporting Black Institutions
11. Pledge allegiance to all Black leadership who espouse and embrace
the Black Value System
12. Personal commitment to embracement of the Black Value System.
Please read the "Black Value System"
again -- only this time, substitute the word "White" for "Black."
If your church had such a "White Value System" Jesse and Al and the
NAACP would have 10,000 demonstrators out front in a heartbeat.
HERE is the
expanded "Black Value System" and it's a MUST READ.
There are 15 videos on Trinity United Church of Christ "About"
page. You can access them by staring video #1 (double-click) and
then clicking the Menu button on the player after its started. The
2nd video is truly disturbing. In it you can hear the Rev. Wright
spew 5 minutes of hate speech.
Note: The videos referenced in the above
paragraph have been taken down -- more scrubbing of the Internet by
Obama's forces -- but HERE'S the
link to the YouTube version and it's a must watch.
Here is
an item
from the American Spectator that needs further research -- "Trinity, his
close financial and ideological relationship to former SDS members."
1988
Obama soon falls
under the spell of the leftist black
nationalist preacher, who
preaches African-American
unity through antipathy toward whites. Wright, who acts as Obama's
personal spiritual adviser, is militantly Afrocentric. His
website proudly claims, "We
are an African people, and remain 'true to our native land,' the mother
continent, the cradle of civilization."
Wright, who married the Obamas, remains a
major influence on the presidential candidate. The title of Obama’s second book, The
"Audacity of Hope," is borrowed from one of
Wright’s sermons.
When he
took over Trinity United Church of Christ in 1972, Rev. Jeremiah
Wright Jr. was a maverick pastor with a wardrobe of dashikis and a
militant message.
Wright had grown up in Philadelphia, the son of a Baptist minister. he
had resisted his father's vocation at first, joining the Marines out of
college, dabbling with liquor, Islam, and black nationalism
in the
sixties. But the call of his faith had apparently remained, a
steady tug on his heart, and eventually he'd entered Howard, then the
University of Chicago, where he spent six years studying for a Ph.D. in
the history of religion.
He graduated from Howard University and earned bachelor's and master's
degrees in English with a focus on African spirituals. At the
University of Chicago Divinity School, he earned another
masters
degree in the
history of religions with a focus on Islam.
In a Trinity church bulleting, Rev. Wright pens the following: "Most of
our members do not know that my Master’s Degree from the University of
Chicago’s Divinity School was in the area of Islam in West Africa during
the 19th Century -- when the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was at its
zenith."
This video,
also available above,
presents an example
of the Rev. Wright's beliefs -- it is truly disturbing.
Wright sought to
build his church on the black
theology of
liberation, the Marxist ideology introduced in 1968 by Rev. James Cone of New York.
It
emphasizes Africa's contribution to Christianity rather than that of
mainstream white theologians.
At Trinity UCC's 2007 Trumpet Gala, Wright named
the "Honorable Minister
Louis Farrakhan," acting head of the Nation of Islam,
as Trinity's "Man of the Year," and awarded him the the "Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., Lifetime Achievement Trumpeteer
Award."
It was Farrakhan, who was quoted saying, "White people are potential
humans -- they haven't evolved yet"
(More
racist quotes from Louis Farrakhan and a
video that will
introduce you to T. H. L. Farrakhan)
Ben Wallace-Wells notes in Rolling Stone: "This is as openly radical a
background as any significant American political figure has ever emerged
from."
Obama chose this minister and his church very
carefully. He "could have picked any church -- the spare,
spiritual places in Hyde Park, the awesome pomp and procession of the
cathedrals downtown. He could have picked a mosque, for that
matter, or even a synagogue. Obama chose Trinity United. He
picked Jeremiah Wright. Obama writes in his autobiography that on
the day he chose this church, he felt the spirit of black memory and
history moving through Wright, and 'felt for the first time how that
spirit carried within it, nascent, incomplete, the possibility of moving
beyond our narrow dreams.'"
1988
There is much confusion surrounding the date of Obama's conversion.
Newspaper reports place this event in 1988. On Fox News,
March 14th, 2007, Obama himself placed this even in 1992, but continues
to say he's been a Christian for 20 years -- you figure it out..
Nobody, except Obama knows if his conversion to Christianity is real or
not. Although some reports and even Obama have referred to a
"baptism", there doesn't appear to be any record of a baptism.
Chicago-based journalist, broadcaster and critic
Andy Martin, when asked about Obama's baptism, wrote, "I have never
been able to obtain any evidence that he was baptized, although I asked
for those records."
It seems that Obama's conversion occurred when he answered one of Rev.
Jeremiah A. Wright's altar calls by
walking down the aisle
of Trinity Church to make a formal commitment of his faith.
Cathleen Falsani, religion columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times,
writes, "He (Obama) described his conversion experience in
his mid-20s, how he walked the aisle at Trinity United Church of Christ
one Sunday in a public affirmation of his private change of heart."
"I came to Christianity through the black church tradition where the
line between evangelical and non-evangelical is completely blurred.
Nobody knows exactly what it means."
"Does it mean that you feel you've got a personal relationship with
Christ the savior? Then that's directly part of the black church
experience. Does it mean you're born-again in a classic sense,
with all the accoutrements that go along with that, as it's understood
by some other tradition? I'm not sure."
"There are aspects of Christian tradition that I'm comfortable with and
aspects that I'm not. There are passages of the Bible that make
perfect sense to me and others that I go, 'Ya know, I'm not sure about
that.'"
"It wasn't an epiphany,"
he says of that public profession of faith. "It was much more of a
gradual process for me. I know there are some people who fall out. Which
is wonderful. God bless them.... I think it was just a moment to certify
or publicly affirm a growing faith in me."
The specifically
political character of his new church is what drew Obama out of his
skeptical isolation and into religion. Obama wrote::
"But as the months passed in Chicago, I found myself drawn to the
church."
"For one thing, I believed and still believe in the power of
African-American religious tradition to spur social change . . . the
black church understands in an intimate way the biblical call to feed
the hungry and cloth the naked and challenge the powers and
principalities . . . I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort
to the weary or a hedge against death; it is an active, palpable agent
in the world. It is a source of hope."
"It was because of these newfound understandings that I was finally able
to walk down the aisle of Trinity United Church of Christ one day and
affirm my Christian faith."
In other words, Obama’s membership at Trinity UCC resulted from his
familiarity with Wright’s political views. Even Obama’s phrase
“challenge the powers and principalities” is a particular favorite of
black-liberation theologists.
Falsani
warns us that Obama’s walking the aisle at Trinity is poles apart from
what Christians commonly refer to as being "saved, transformed or washed
in the blood." In other words, it’s not to be confused with what
Jesus called being "born again." As Mr. Obama himself explains,
"It wasn’t an epiphany … but just a moment to certify or publicly affirm a
growing faith in me."
In another account of this event, Manya Brachear, writing in the Chicago
Tribune, describes the event thusly: "When Obama sought his own
church community, he felt increasingly at home at Trinity. Before
leaving for Harvard Law School in 1988, he responded to one of Wright's
altar calls and declared a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Falsani
wonders, "What kind of faith is it that is growing in Barack Obama? Is it
the historic Christian faith? Not according to the good senator,
who describes his faith as: (1) Suspicious of dogma (2) Without any
monopoly on the truth (3) Nontransferable to others (4) Infused with a
big healthy dose of doubt, and (5) Indulgent of and compatible with all
other religions."
Unlike traditional Christianity, which Mr. Obama
bemoans for its "call to evangelize and proselytize," the good senator’s
faith is strictly a personal and private affair. Although he has
no qualms about parading it in public in hopes of bolstering his
political career, he would never dream of preaching it to others in
hopes of converting them to Christ.
At the core of Obama's faith -- whether lapsed
Muslim, new Christian or some mixture of the two -- is African nativism. Obama's having pledged
allegiance to the Black Value System raises political issues of its
own.
Request for info:
If anyone, anywhere, can validate Obama's baptism, please contact me via
email with a source, link or other documentation.
1988
Obama officially becomes an apostate Muslim by his
conversion and the question needs to be asked, was Obama's conversion faith-based or political expediency?
In either case,
Muslims view Obama as first a Muslim and then as an apostate Muslim.
He faces the death penalty in nearly the entire Islamic world.
There is no dispute among either ancient or modern
Muslim scholars that under Islamic law, a murtadd, "one who turns his back on Islam," an apostate, must be put to death. Irtidad,
apostasy, is committing treason against God, and traitors deserve to be killed. At a minimum, other Muslims would shun him if not kill him and his mother. The fact they are eagerly welcomed by the Muslim community begs the question, is he their 'Manchurian' candidate?
At a minimum, Obama should be asked if he will support the efforts of Christian missionaries in Islamic countries to peacefully convert
Muslims to Christianity.
But the big
question remains -- did Obama actually convert?
Has he publicly rejected his Muslim religion and accepted Christ?
Why should Reverend Wright’s past
as Muslim concern us?
First, Reverend Wright’s
hate sermons are virtually identical as those
given by his good friend, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who
followed in the footsteps of Malcolm X. For example, this
description by Ben Wallace Wells, published in Rolling Stone makes clear
the connection:
Wright takes the pulpit here one Sunday and solemnly, sonorously
declares that he will recite ten essential facts about the United
States. "Fact number one: We’ve got more black men in prison than
there are in college," he intones.
"Fact number two: Racism is how this country was founded and how this
country is still run!" There is thumping applause; Wright has a
cadence and power.
Now the reverend begins to preach. "We are deeply involved in the
importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of
professional KILLERS. . . . We believe in white supremacy and black
inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. . . . We
conducted radiation experiments on our own people. . . . We care nothing
about human life if the ends justify the means!"
The crowd whoops and amens as Wright builds to his climax: "And.
And. And! GAWD! Has GOT! To be SICK! OF
THIS SHIT! ...
1990
Pope Benedict XVI fought the infiltration of Marxists promoting
Liberation Theology in the church. In "Liberation Theology" (2007)
he wrote:
"...where the Marxist ideology of liberation had been consistently
applied, a total lack of freedom had developed, whose horrors were now
laid bare before the eyes of the entire world. Wherever politics
tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes
to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic."
Several prior remarks by Obama's pastor have caught the
media's attention:
Wright on 9/11: "White America got their wake-up call after 9/11.
White America and the Western world came to realize people of color had
not gone away, faded in the woodwork, or just disappeared as the Great
White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns." On
the Sunday after the attacks, Dr. Wright blamed America.
Wright on the disappearance of Natalee Holloway: "Black women are being
raped daily in Africa. One white girl from Alabama gets drunk at a
graduation trip to Aruba, goes off and gives it up while in a foreign
country and that stays in the news for months."
Wright on Israel: "The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian
territories for over 40 years now. Divestment has now hit the
table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up
Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the
Palestinians have lived because of Zionism."
Wright on America: He has used the term "middleclassness" in a
derogatory manner; frequently mentions "white arrogance" and the
"oppression" of African-Americans today; and has referred to "this
racist United States of America."
Obama says, "Who knew?"
1992
Obama and Michelle Robinson of Chicago,
Illinois are
married (October 18, 1992). The
ceremony was performed by Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. at Trinity United
Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois.
1992
Obama’s family connections to Islam
would endure, however. For example, his brother Roy opted for Islam over
Christianity, as Obama recounted when describing his 1992 wedding.
"The person who made
me proudest of all," Obama wrote, "was
Roy. Actually, now we call him Abongo, his Luo name, for two years ago
he decided to reassert his African heritage and Islamic faith. He
has sworn off pork and tobacco and alcohol."
Abongo "Roy" Obama is a Luo activist and a militant Muslim
who argues
that the black man must "liberate himself from the poisoning influences
of European culture." He urges his younger brother to embrace his
African heritage.
2001
In 2001, Obama’s Trinity United
Church of Christ
passed a resolution declaring that:
“WHEREAS: The institution of Slavery is internationally recognized as
crime for which there is no statute of limitations, AND
WHEREAS: Uncompensated labor was demanded from enslaved Africans and
their descendants for more than two centuries on U.S. soil; AND
WHEREAS: The principle that reparations is the appropriate remedy
whenever government unjustly abrogates the rights of a domestic group or
foreign people whose rights such government is obligated to protect or
uphold has been internationally recognized…”
2006
In a
speech made at Howard University in January 2006, Rev. Wright
offered the following conspiracy theories:
"America is still the No. 1 killer in the world. ... We are deeply
involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns, and the
training of professional killers. ... We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and
Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion
turned against Castro and Ghadhafi. ... We put [Nelson] Mandela in
prison and supported apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We
believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more
than we believe in God."
His voice rising, Mr. Wright said, "We supported Zionism shamelessly
while ignoring the Palestinians and branding anybody who spoke out
against it as being anti-Semitic. ... We care nothing about human life
if the end justifies the means ..."
Concluding, Mr. Wright said: "We started the AIDS virus. ... We are only
able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World
people live in grinding poverty. ..."
It isn’t so much the anger that Wright manifests that will be
off-putting to mainstream Americans of all creeds and colors, but the
conspiracy-theory lunacy that he spews. Almost all Americans gave
up on supremacy theories decades ago; most of those who espoused them
are dead. No one has argued in the mainstream in any way, shape,
or form for that kind of nonsense since the Dixiecrat movement died out
in the 1960s. An ill-worded valediction for Strom Thurmond six
years ago drew so much condemnation that it forced Trent Lott out of his
leadership position in the Senate, although to be fair, former Klan
Kleagle Robert Byrd remains in the Senate -- as a Democrat.
Most Americans would find the notion that we are crypto-supremacists
insulting and offensive. And yet two of the most popular people in
the U. S. choose to attend the church of a minister who apparently makes
that a recurring theme of his ministry. In Obama’s case, he has
given over $22,000 to support Wright and his message in 2006 alone.
2007
On January 24. the Obama campaign released the following
statement, "To be clear, Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was
not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United
Church of Christ in Chicago.
This statement is refuted by the campaign on March 14th. (Below)
2007
On February 27th, 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 world.
Obama's pastor Jeremiah A. Wright
told The New York Times in an
interview, published March 6th: "When his (Obama's) enemies find
out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli," with Nation of Islam leader Louis
Farrakhan to visit Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, "a lot of his Jewish
support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell."
2007
On April 11th, 2008, in Levittown, Penn., Obama was asked
about his church’s magazine giving an award to Rev. Louis Farrakhan.
"This was done by a magazine that was connected to the church," Obama
explained. "I would have never done it. It was primary
focused on the rehabilitation work that they do for ex-offenders in
Chicago. That doesn’t excuse it, that just explains it."
The first time Obama said this, I could believe he was misinformed
[update: indeed, the first time he said this, he only said he "assumed"
this was the reason]. The second time, perhaps that he was caught
off guard and didn’t have his story straight. Now, I can only
conclude that he is intentionally choosing to blatantly lie about this,
hoping that no one will notice and call him on it.
Let’s recall the facts: The magazine explicitly explained in the video
it prepared for the banquet at which Farrakhan was honored that it was
honoring Farrakhan for his purported dedication to "truth, education,
and leadership." [Surprise, surprise, the video seems to have been
pulled from YouTube.] Obama's spiritual mentor Rev. Wright,
meanwhile praised Farrakhan in the magazine for his "astounding and
eye-opening" analysis of the "racial ills of this nation," a
"perspective" that is "helpful and honest." I even got hold of the
interview the magazine did with Farrakhan. No mention was made in
any of these sources of "rehabilitation work for ex-offenders."
On March 14th, in a
statement to The Times, the Obama campaign offered this statement to
correct their previous statement:
"Obama has never been a practicing Muslim. The statement added
that as a child, Obama had spent time in the neighborhood's Islamic
center."
This is a departure from the earlier statement made by the Obama
campaign on January 24. "To be clear, Senator Obama has never been a
Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed
Christian who attends the United
Church of Christ in Chicago.
But Muslims do not see
practice as key.
For them, that Obama was born to a line of Muslim males makes him born a
Muslim. Further, all children born with an Arabic name based on
the H-S-N trilateral root (Hussein, Hassan, and others) can be assumed
to be Muslim, so they will understand Obama's full name, Barack Hussein
Obama, to proclaim him a born Muslim.
In three months Barrack's campaign has gone from describing the U.S.
presidential hopeful as never having been a Muslim and never having been
raised as a Muslim to now having never having been a practicing Muslim.
Obama's father was a Muslim. Obama's grandfather was a Muslim.
Obama's stepfather was a Muslim. Sarah, who Obama calls
grandmother is a Muslim. Obama's stepbrothers and stepsisters are
Muslims. To Muslims, Obama IS a
Muslim, no matter what he says.
His official
website still contains the statement: "Obama Has Never Been A Muslim, And Is a
Committed Christian."
And, the original statement began, "To be clear ..."
This is the biggest problem with Obama, dissimulation and al-taqiyya as a political tactic.
What's with the semantics? Statements from Obama's campaign appear
to have evolved, to say the least.
2007
From the New York Times, "Mr. Obama has written that
when he became a Christian, he 'felt God’s spirit beckoning' and
'submitted myself to His will and dedicated myself to discovering His
truth.' While he has said he shares core Christian beliefs in God and in
Jesus as his resurrected son."
2007
April 30th, The New York Times has a report on its front page about Obama's strained relationship with his pastor, also known as his
"spiritual mentor." The Times does tend to downplay some of the
harsher statements that Pastor Wright has made about Israel, Wright's
support for Louis Farrakhan; trips to Libya and more.
Pastor Wright is a supporter of Louis Farrakhan, and in 1984
traveled with him to visit Col. Muammar al-Gadaffi, an archenemy of
Israel and America and a firm supporter of terror groups.
Wright has also been a severe critic of Israel. In his own words:
"The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for almost
40 years now. It took a divestment campaign to wake the business
community up concerning the South Africa issue. Divestment has now hit
the table again as a strategy to wake the business community up and to
wake Americans up concerning the injustice and the racism under which
the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism."
2007
Sen. Barack Obama told a church convention Saturday that some
right-wing evangelical leaders have exploited and politicized
religious beliefs in an effort to sow division.
"Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us
together and faith started being used to drive us apart," the Democratic
presidential candidate said in a 30-minute speech before the national
meeting of the United Church of Christ.
2007
For Obama the acknowledgment of his religious upbringing has not been
forthcoming and despite all the evidence to the contrary Obama continues
to deny the fact that he was ever a Muslim. In the alternative,
Obama would apparently have us to believe that one can somehow embrace
Christianity without having to renounce Islam
So is Barack Obama really a stealth Muslim masquerading as a Christian?
That all depends on what your definition of "is" is.
Obama must answer this simple question. "Do you renounce Islam and
accept Christ?
Did you know, he never has.
2007
On
December 22nd, in a small-town café in
Pleasantville, Omaha, Obama was asked a
question that typically only circulates on the Internet.
As he sat down to have a slice of pie with a small group of potential
voters and an elderly woman asked him about being Muslim.
"I've always been a Christian," the Illinois Democrat responded
in true Clintonesque fashion, "I
have never practiced [Islam]."
Even though his father was a Muslim. His stepfather is a Muslim.
His grandfather was a Muslim, His step-grandmother is a Muslim.
His half-brothers and sisters are Muslims. His 1st cousin Rail
Odinga is a Muslim who conspired with Shiekh Abdullah Abdi, chairman of
the National Muslim Leaders Forum of Kenya to install an Islamic
government in Kenya, Obama insists he was never a Muslim.
In his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," Obama mentions studying
the Quran. His teacher Tine Hahiyary said that she remembered that he
had studied "menjaji" (recitation of the Quran)." Classmate Rony
Amiris described Obama as being a very devout Muslim, saying, "Barry was
previously quite religious in Islam." Another classmate, Emirsyah Satar,
now the CEO of Garuda Indonesia, was
quoted as
saying, "He (Obama) was often in the prayer room wearing a 'sarong'.
(See 1971 and 1972, above.)
Yet, on his official campaign website, Obama has posted
this statement, "Barack has never been a Muslim or practiced any
other faith besides Christianity."
What was he for the 27 years before his alleged
conversion if he wasn't a Muslim?
2007
An American Expat in Southeast Asia blog, written by an American who
has lived in Indonesia for 20 years and has met with both the Taliban
and al-Qaeda, contains the following:
"Barack Hussein Obama might have convinced some Americans that he is no
longer a Muslim, but so far he has not convinced many in the world's
most populous Muslim country who still see him as a Muslim and a
crusader for Islam and world peace."
"Barack Hussein Obama's race, his staunch opposition to the war in Iraq,
his sympathy to Islam and Muslims worldwide and his Muslim heritage
receive the Indonesian media coverage. There is no mention of his
apostasy."
"A good example of how some of the Indonesian media is reporting on
Obama's religion can be found in the following."
"Ayah kandung Obama disebut-sebut seorang
Muslim, dan Barack Obama juga disebutkan pernah memeluk Islam. Setalah
tinggal di AS dan diasuh neneknya, Obama mengaku telah memeluk Kristen.
Masalah agama apa yang sekarang dianut Obama, itu adalah prinsip dirinya
yang harus dihormati siapapun. Dan hanya Obama sendiri yang tahu dan
akan mempertanggungjawabkan di hadapan Tuhan yang diyakininya."
"begin my translation..."
"Obama's father was mentioned to be a Muslim
and Barack Obama had embraced Islam. After living in the USA and
being taken care of by his grandmother, Obama claimed to embrace
Christianity. The problem with religion and what is now followed
by Obama is a principal he himself must honor. And only Obama
personally will account before God for his beliefs."
"What I found interesting in the article was the use of the word 'mengaku'
when refering to Obama's conversion from Islam to Christianity.
The word 'mengaku' in Indonesian means "claimed" and as such leaves the
insinuation to the native Indonesian reader being that Obama might
actually still be a Muslim.
But this is how Indonesians see Obama,
they don't see him as an apostate at all, they see him as a crusader for
the cause of Islam."
I am Usama K. Dakdok, President of The Straight Way of Grace Ministry.
I am invited by churches all over America to speak about ISLAM and its
threat to America and the West.
I have had concerns about Senator Obama's honesty regarding his so
called Christian faith.
I called The United Church of Christ in Chicago Illinois, where Senator
Obama is a member. If Senator Obama were indeed a Christian, he
would be regarded as an "Apostate" which according to Islamic Law, would
mean he would be subject to a death warrant imposed upon anyone who
leaves Islam, according to the Prophet Mohammed. Many Muslims who
have left Islam have been murdered on this basis worldwide.
Putting Islamic law aside, Obama would still be condemned by Islam.
However, in Senator Obama's instance, Muslims in America are joyously
happy to think that Obama would be a Muslim President in the white
House. Obama is deceiving America. Muslims would not be
endorsing a Muslim who left Islam and became a Christian.
It is important to note that I had four witnesses to this telephone
conversation with his church. The date, time and length of the
entire conversation can be verified by phone records. The
following is the conversation I had with the church, regarding his
membership there.
"My name is Usama, and I am from Egypt. I am interested in joining
the church. I need to ask some questions please." The
operator directed me to the membership office. I proceeded to ask
questions that only a Muslim would ask. "What is the difference
between Baptists and your church?" She responded, " We believe
exactly what Baptists believe." My second question was, "How big
is your church and what kind of church is it?" She responded, "We
are a Black African American Church and we have 6000 members. I
asked, "Do I have to attend Sunday school classes or other meetings to
be a member?" She answered "No." I asked, "Do I have to be
baptized to join the church?" She again answered, "No." I
asked, "Do I have to pay a membership Fee to join?" Her answer was
No. I then asked her what I needed to do to join. She told
me that I needed to attend two Sunday School classes in a row and then I
would walk the aisle. I replied, "That sounds easy. One last
question please. IF I AM MUSLIM AND I BELIEVE IN PROPHET MOHAMMED,
PEACE BE UPON HIM AND I ALSO BELIEVE IN JESUS, PEACE BE UPON HIM, DO I
HAVE TO GIVE UP MY ISLAMIC FAITH TO BE A MEMBER IN YOUR CHURCH?"
SHE ANSWERED, "NO. WE HAVE MANY MUSLIM MEMBERS IN OUR CHURCH."
It is important to note that Muslims would not attend church.
I asked her, "Is that how Senator Barak Hussein Obama became a member?"
There was silence. I went on and stated that his father and step
father were Muslims, his grandfathers and grandmother are Muslims, his
uncles and aunts, nephews and nieces and cousins are Muslims and
everyone in his family in Kenya are Muslims. She replied to me, "I
am sorry, I cannot answer these questions for you." I of course
sensed she was uncomfortable. I ended the conversation by saying
to her, "YOUR CHURCH HAS DONE GREAT HARM TO THIS COUNTRY BY COVERING A
WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING AND THAT WOLF IS SENATOR BARAcK HUSSEIN OBAMA."
End of phone call.
This is fraud to the people of the United States of America.
Sincerely,
Usama Dakdok
2008
The San Francisco Chronicle
reported on February, 28th, that the IRS is investigating the United
Church of Christ over a speech Obama gave at its national meeting last
year after he became a candidate for president, the denomination said
Tuesday.
In a letter the denomination received Monday, the IRS said "reasonable
belief exists" that the circumstances surrounding the speech violated
restrictions on political activity for tax-exempt organizations. The
denomination has denied any wrongdoing.
The IRS said in the letter that it was concerned about articles posted
on the church's Web site and on other sites stating that Obama had
addressed nearly 10,000 people at the event. The agency also said Obama
volunteers had staffed campaign tables "outside the center to promote
his campaign."
Amy Brundage, an Obama spokeswoman, insisted the speech was not a
campaign event. In the address, Obama spoke about his personal spiritual
journey and had said that faith had been misused in the past to divide
Americans, partly because of the Christian right.
2008
March 14th --
In one of the biggest lies he ever told -- Obama says he "vehemently
condemns" the words of his pastor and mentor, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright,
an official member of Obama's campaign, as a
member of Obama's African American Religious Leadership Committee.
What an absolute pile of crap!
Obama says he's never witnessed or heard these statement before.
Obama and his wife Michelle have been listening to this man for 20 years.
Obama is a bold-faced liar to now claim he
had no idea the "the Rev" was such an anti-American, racist,
hate-monger!
Why hasn't Obama denounced "the Rev" at any time in the past 20 years?
The answer, of course, is because Obama wasn't running for national
office before -- that's one reason.
Another?
Obama and Wright are of the same mind -- now and then!
2008
March 14th -- Barack may not have heard Wright's rants, but did he read
them?
In the Trinity United Church of Christ
Bulletin,
January 21, 2007, on pages 9 and 10, "The Pastor's Page," are these
words:
"We have lost over 3,000 boys and girls in an illegal and unjust war,
and the media is on a feeding frenzy about Barack Obama’s church.
Where is the outrage about the 3,000 dead American military personnel
and the 600,000 dead Iraqi civilians who are dead for no reason
other than greed and ego? What’s goin’ on?"
"I use his words today on the third Sunday of a New Year to keep before
you the painful truth of who we are and where it is we are in this
racist United States of America! What’s goin’ on?"
"The reality, however, is that the entire war in Iraq and the larger
"war on terror" have been based on lies, half-truths and distortions to
serve the agenda of the United States imperialism. Where is the
public outcry? Where is the outrage? What’s goin’ on?"
He may never have heard Wright actually say the U. S. was racist or some
aspiring empire. But he never read it in his bulletin? Ever?
2008
Israpundit broke
the news that
Obama’s church published an opinion piece that accused Israel of
developing an "ethnic bomb" the purpose of which is to kill black
people and Arabs.
2008
March 23rd -- Obama has been linked to another
controversial pastor, this time a declared spiritual adviser who has
called white American mayors "slave masters," and referred to black
preachers and politicians who "protect" the "white man" as "house
niggers."
"We don't have slave masters, we got mayors," exclaimed James Meeks, an
Illinois state senator and pastor of one of the largest churches in the
state, in an August, 2006 sermon broadcast on a Chicago community
television channel.
Continued Meeks in the sermon: "But they are still the same white people
who are presiding over systems where black people are not able to be
educated. You got some preachers that are house niggers. You got some
elected officials that are house niggers. Rather than them try and break
this up, they're gonna fight you to protect that white man."
Meeks has campaigned for Obama and allowed Obama to campaign at his
church during the presidential candidate's 2004 senatorial run -- a
violation of federal election law.
A recent Meeks endorsement of Obama is touted on the presidential
candidate's campaign website.
In a 2004 interview with Cathleen Falsani of the Chicago Sun-Times,
Obama described Meeks as an adviser who he seeks out for spiritual
council.
Obama told the Sun-Times that the day after he won a 2004 senatorial
primary, he stopped by Meeks' Salem Baptist Church for Wednesday-night
Bible study.
In 2006, Meeks informed his church during a sermon he may run for
Illinois governor. He was recorded telling the mostly black congregation
any "white Christian" who doesn't vote for him is a "racist."
"If I do run and there are two people in the race who both are not
standing for morality, if I don't have every white Christian vote in the
state of Illinois, I will stand on top of the Sears Tower and call every
one of y'all racist," Meeks said from his pulpit.
2008
Mar 24th -- I assume you all have your copies of The Audacity of Hope
in paperback breviary form. If you
turn to the chapter entitled "Faith," beginning on Page 195, and
read as far as Page 208, I think that even if you don’t concur with my
reading, you may suspect that I am onto something. In these pages,
Sen. Obama is telling us that he doesn’t really have any profound
religious belief, but that in his early Chicago days he felt he needed
to acquire some spiritual "street cred."
2008
Mar 26th -- Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of
Christ in Chicago where Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been a member for
two decades,
slurred Italians in a piece published in the most recent issue of
Trumpet Newsmagazine.
"(Jesus') enemies had their opinion about Him," Wright wrote in a eulogy
of the late scholar Asa Hilliard in the November/December 2007 issue.
"The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the
Galileans."
Wright continued, "From the circumstances surrounding Jesus' birth (in a
barn in a township that was under the Apartheid Roman government that
said his daddy had to be in), up to and including the circumstances
surrounding Jesus' death on a cross, a Roman cross, public lynching
Italian style
"He refused to be defined by others and Dr. Asa Hilliard also refused to
be defined by others. The government runs everything from the
White House to the schoolhouse, from the Capitol to the Klan, white
supremacy is clearly in charge, but Asa, like Jesus, refused to be
defined by an oppressive government because Asa got his identity from an
Omnipotent God."
Every issue of the magazine published last year included Wright's
column, "The Message," in which he covered a range of subjects,
including his views on other African-American churches as expressed in
his April 2007 commentary "Facing the Rising Sun."
"In a world that is controlled by white supremacy, in a country that is
on its way to hell in a hand basket because of lying politicians, in a
culture that still thinks 'white is right' and with young people who do
not have a clue as to our story, our history, our legacy or our destiny,
we still have African-American Christians who are more concerned about 'bling
bling' than about freeing our minds," Wright wrote.
According to his federal income tax return for 2006, Obama gave the
Trinity United church that year $22,500 in contributions.
2008
Mar 28th --
Jim Geraghty live-blogged Barack Obama’s appearance today on The
View, where he continues his efforts to distance himself from his
pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and his incendiary sermons.
AP has already noted Obama’s statement that he would have left
Trinity United had Wright’s repeated rhetoric not escaped his notice,
but Geraghty caught Obama minimizing Wright in a way that contradicts
Obama’s own statements earlier in the campaign and in his book, Dreams
from My Father (emphasis mine):
"I talked to [Wright] after this episode. I think he’s saddened
by what’s happened. I feel badly that he has been characterized in just
this one way. But he was my pastor. I think people overstate this
idea of mentor or spiritual adviser. He was my pastor."
People tend to overstate the idea of mentor or spiritual adviser? I
wonder why? Could it be because Obama himself emphasized it at the
beginning of his campaign?
Obama says that rather than advising him on strategy, Wright helps
keep his priorities straight and his moral compass calibrated.
"What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day
political advice," Obama said. "He’s much more of a sounding board for
me to make sure that I am speaking as truthfully about what I believe as
possible and that I’m not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla
and stress that’s involved in national politics." …
Though Wright and Obama do not often talk one-on-one often, the
senator does check with his pastor before making any bold political
moves.
Also, Wright didn’t just serve as Obama’s pastor, political adviser, and
calibrator of the moral compass. Wright had an official position
as an adviser to the campaign in outreach to African-American
communities. That Obama claims he didn’t know about Wright’s
positions on race in America before appointing Wright to that task asks
people to believe that Obama is, frankly, a fool rather than someone who
couldn’t calculate the political damage of "US of KKK-A" and allegations
that the American government created HIV to commit genocide.
Obama asks us to trust his judgment and believe that he is a new breed
of truth-teller in American politics. Instead, he has demonstrated
years of bad judgment in immersing himself in conspiracy-theory theology
and anti-American rants, supporting it with tens of thousands of dollars
in donations, and then trying to excuse it away with threadbare
rationalizations and minimalizations. He will engage in all sorts
of doubletalk to achieve victory, which is nothing new in politics --
and exposes Obama as nothing exceptional at all, except in his stunning
lack of experience.
Update (AP): A quick
Google search reveals that there sure are a lot of people out there
who were confused on this "pastor vs. mentor" point. Including Obama’s
hometown paper, in an article written before the Wright scandal
broke big.
2008
Mar 31st -- During the recent media super storm: Obama's Pastor Disaster, CBS 2
Chicago has strangely not released
the video they have of Obama at Trinity
United Church of Christ for a Book Signing/Church Service with Pastor
Wright.
According to a Chicago Tribune article, at the Service Obama spoke to
the cheering congregation and the choir sang, "Hallelujah Barack." After the service Wright and Obama sat together, laughing,
talking and signing books.
Leaving one to wonder, if a republican
candidate had this sort of controversy swirling around would the footage
have found it's way to the national and cable news networks by now?
2008
Mar 31st -- I have observed
this phenomenon in this website --Yahoo and YouTube are the worst --
it's good to have it confirmed from an outside source.
The website for Sen. Barack Obama's church -- Trinity United Church of
Christ in Chicago -- not long ago described the "Black Value System" in
the "About Us" section of its website.
And it used to provide a link to the Trumpet Magazine that once gave an
award to Louis Farrakhan -- a magazine published by Rev. Jeremiah
Wright's daughter.
You can see the old webpage, including both the Black Value System and a
link to Trumpet
HERE
Interestingly, Trumpet used to have a web presence and now it doesn't
seem to.
Here's the
Google cache of the Trumpet Magazine heralding Louis Farrakhan
("When Minister Farrakhan speaks, Black America listens," says the Rev.
Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, likening the Minister’s influence to the E. F.
Hutton commercials of old. "Everybody may not agree with him, but they
listen…Minister Farrakhan will be remembered as one of the 20th and 21st
century giants of the African American religious experience.")
Through a web archive search I also found THIS ARTICLE from the
September 2005 Trumpet, in which Rev. Wright wrote: "Conservative
fanatics line up on the side of al-Qaeda or they line up behind George
Bush. Both are terrorists! Both believe that war is the answer. Both
believe in murdering innocent people…"
Apr 1st -- From the
Political XFile: Barack Obama's god isn't the loving, forgiving,
wise, and powerful God most Christians know. Obama's god, the god of
Trinity, is not in the business of bringing people together, instead he
is a god that is totally exclusive to the black community. White
Americans need to realize that Obama's god is not here for
understanding, or reconciliation. Obama's god is here to participate in
the destruction of the white race by any means possible.
Barack Obama's Jesus, a black man, was sent to this world by God to
endure the pain and humiliation of black people in order to free them
from the oppression of whites and transform them into liberating
servants. Trinity's Jesus is not the Jesus of the bible. So when Obama
says Rev. Wright, "introduced me to Jesus," he is speaking of a Jesus
that belongs solely to the black community. In the words of Rev.
Wright's mentor and most prominent theologian in this religion, James
Cone, "Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified
totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and
against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the
black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God
which participates in the destruction of the white enemy."
Many people doubt that Obama can believe this filth, but Obama admits
that the first thing that attracted him to Trinity was the "Black Value
System." A system based on James Cone's revelation that Jesus is for
black people only, "In the New Testament, Jesus is not for all, but for
the oppressed, the poor and unwanted of society, and against oppressors
... Either God is for black people in their fight for liberation and
against the white oppressors, or he is not." Add to this his twenty year
membership, marriage, and baptism of his daughters and you have a
Presidential candidate that is up to his ears in hatred of white people.
America be warned, Obama's god is very similar to the god of jihad and
terror. Obama's faith and extreme Islam share a common thread: they both
see America as an oppressor that god has decided to destroy. As James
Cone says, "What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power,
which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and
now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this
holy activity, we must reject his love."
2008
Apr 1st -- As racism, bigotry, and anti-Americanism are
central themes of Rev. Wright's, you'd have to believe all of the
following to believe that the senator didn't know about what was going
on in his church for 20 years:
* You'd have to believe that the senator was sleeping during all of the
sermons he attended for 20 years.
* You'd have to believe that his wife, Michelle, was also was sleeping
for 20 years, as she would have surely told him if she heard such bias
and insanity (about AIDs, for example).
* You'd have to believe that neither the senator nor his wife read any
of the church publications, where you could find Rev. Wright's bigotry,
racism and activities, such as visiting Libya to meet with Moammar
Gadhafi or awarding that infamous bigot, Louis Farrakhan, a lifetime
achievement award.
* You'd have to believe that the senator and his wife weren't reading
general-circulation newspapers or watching television news, where they
would have found Rev. Wright's pronouncements and activities.
* You'd have to believe that neither the senator nor his wife talked to
other members of the congregation or other members of the larger
community who were aware of Rev. Wright's bigotry and racism.
* You'd have to believe that the senator never talked to his pastor, as
he would have surely picked up his central focus if he did. A
professional politician and a highly political pastor talk for 20 years,
but only of Christ and family. That would take a miracle sent from
God.
* Finally, you'd have to believe that the senator never heard or read
the sermon, which the senator says inspired his book The Audacity of
Hope. Had he even read that one sermon, he would have had a good
taste of Rev. Wright's bigotry, racism and hatred of whites.
Despite all that, the senator first tried to claim he "heard no evil."
He wasn't in the pew when the bigotry, racism, and anti-Americanism
poured forth. Having told that whopper, and sensing he was turning
into a Pinocchio with an ever-longer nose, he seemed to change his story
in the Philadelphia speech. There he tried to come up with a more
believable lie. He admitted he knew Wright to be "an occasionally
fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy." He said he
disagreed with many of his political views "just as many of you" have
disagreed with your pastors, priests and rabbis.
This seemed to suggest that, although he heard some of Rev. Wright's
poisonous pronouncements, he still could not disown his pastor, who was
like an "uncle" to him, and who he could no more disown than he could
disown the black community. This was what I call lie No. 2.
Then, when he subsequently appeared on Barbara Walters' television show
"The View," he went back to his original "hear no evil" version of the
lie, i.e., lie No. 1. He didn't hear this stuff, and if he
did he would have been uncomfortable, and might have left the church.
2008
2008
April 15th -- There is a
poll, being conducted by Andrew Sullivan, on AOL's Hot Seat."
The poll question:
Is Obama a fake Christian?
The results:
58% Yes
29% No
13% I'm not sure
More than 7 out of 10 respondents don't believe Obama (241,736 +).
2008
April 24th -- Rev. Jeremiah Wright was
interviewed by loony leftist Bill Moyers (airing on PBS tomorrow)
and imagine my surprise; he claims his words were twisted.
"I felt it was unfair,"
Mr. Wright said, according to excerpts of the
interview released Thursday.
"I felt it was unjust. I felt
it was untrue. I felt for those who were doing that, were doing it
for some very devious reasons."
In Mr. Wright’s sermons, he suggested that Americans bore some
responsibility for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, saying
"America’s chickens are coming home to roost." He also blamed the
government for the spread of AIDS among African-Americans, characterized
the United States government as corrupt and referred to the "U.S. of K.K.K. A."
He did not apologize or back away from his remarks in the interview,
instead saying that people wanted to paint him as "some sort of
fanatic."
"It’s to paint me as something -- 'Something’s wrong with me.
There’s nothing wrong with this country ... for its policies.
We’re perfect. Our hands are free. Our hands have no blood
on them,' That’s not a failure to communicate.
The message that is being communicated by the sound bites is exactly
what those pushing those sound bites want to communicate."
When asked what the people who aired the clips "wanted to communicate,"
Mr. Wright said, "I think they wanted to communicate that I am
unpatriotic, that I am un-American, that I am filled with hate speech,
that I have a cult at Trinity United Church of Christ. And by the way,
guess
who goes to his church, hint, hint, hint? That’s what they
wanted to communicate."
Yes, that’s about right. Because it’s all true.
And, Wright says Obama renounced him just for political reasons -- the
same reason Obama joined the church in the first place.
4/27/08
On April 27th, Fox News reported that the ex-Muslim,
Rev. Jeremiah Wright, pastor and mentor to Obama and who holds a masters
degree in the history of religions with a focus on Islam, is now being
guarded by members of the goon-squad from the Nation of Islam. According to Wright, he has received threats. (Link to follow)
And on the 28th, the Rev. Wright said that he will
try to change national policy by "coming
after" Obama if he is elected president.
The pastor also insisted Obama "didn’t denounce" him and "didn’t
distance himself" from Wright’s controversial remarks, but "did what
politicians do."
Wright implied Obama still agrees with him by saying: "He had to
distance himself, because he's a politician, from what the media was
saying I had said, which was [portrayed as] anti-American."
And while we're throwing Rev. Wright quotes around, who
first said "Chickens Coming Home to Roost?"
Answer: Malcolm X -- the quote was in regard to the assassination
of President Kennedy in November, 1963
Ambassador Edward Peck, who Rev. Wright identified as the source of his
now famous "chickens coming home to roost" quote is now denying it.
The entire sermon was broadcast on Hugh Hewitt's show last week, and
Wright himself is the one that mentions Malcolm X and "chickens coming
home to roost," demonstrating Wright is lying and his affection for
Malcolm.
And, how bad was Reverend Wright's appearance before the National Press
Club this morning?
Bad enough that even CNN contributor Roland Martin -- who yesterday
enthused about Wright's address to the Detroit NAACP, who gave Wright's
chat with Bill Moyers an 'A' -- flunked it with an 'F.'
Bad enough that David Gergen condemned it as "narcissistic almost beyond
belief."
Bad enough that, introducing a panel discussion of the speech, the
palpably distressed CNN Newsroom host Tony Harris let out an audible
groan of "ah, boy," and later wondered how much damage had been done.
5/14/08
"Trumpet," Rev. Jeremiah Wright's news magazine, has
featured images of Obama on its cover with Nation of Islam Minister
and hater, Louis Farrakhan -- at least three times:
Here’s one of the images, featuring pictures of Barack Obama, Rev.
Wright, the founder of the Nation of Islam, Elijah Muhammad, and Louis Farrakhan.
And here's another featuring the hater, Farrakhan.
For
more about the deranged, hateful content of Trumpet.
5/14/08
Early in the presidential campaign, Mike Huckabee, who is also a
minister, ran a political ad in which he wished everyone a Merry
Christmas. It’s what we do in this country in at Christmastime.
When Huckabee's ad came out there was a roar from the mainstream media
over a bookcase in the background that was lit in such a way that the
front edges of it appeared as a cross. Huckabee's campaign
dismissed any suggestion the effect was staged.
Now, I didn't understand what the fuss in the 5th estate was about about
-- but the press was suggesting Huckabee was doing something terribly,
terribly wrong and their fury extended several news cycles
Now Obama, who has never even been baptized, is being presented to the
electorate in the flyer above, standing behind a church pulpit,
protected by the huge cross hanging behind and above him. The ad
clearly conflates politics and religion and clearly is intended to
communicate a political message.
Has the press insisted Obama respect the separation of church and state?
No!
Has the press been outraged at a church being used to present a clear
political message? No!
Has the press reported this hypocrisy? No!
The point here is that Obama is blatantly campaigning not on issues, but
on religion -- and he is getting a pass from the media.
Huckabee was criticized for a perfectly appropriate Christmas ad, while
Obama’s use of a church and the surrounding images to blatantly campaign
to Evangelicals is not even covered.
Not a peep!
6/1/08
Obama quits racist church!
Obama whined, "This is not a decision I come to lightly ... and it is
one I make with some sadness."
Sure, everybody gets sad when they get busted.
"I'm not denouncing the church and I'm not interested in people who want
me to denounce the church," he said,
adding,
"It’s not a church worthy of denouncing."
Sure, they're a bunch of racists, but being a
racist myself, I can't denounce the church nor its pastors, including
the new one, who is a racist, as well. (video)
"It's clear that now that I'm a candidate for president, every time
something is said in the church by anyone associated with Trinity,
including guest pastors, the remarks will imputed to me even if they
totally conflict with my long-held views, statements and principles," he
said.
His "long-held views" statement is a joke. Read the
"Obama and Race" page to get a sense of
Obama's "long-held views," example: -- "I ceased to
advertise my mother’s race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I
began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites"
or the statement under the "Latest News" graphic.
The hate has been going on in that building as
long as Obama and his wife have been members -- they know it, and they
are part of it -- and he isn't leaving the church for anything that goes
on there, or anything being taught there, he's leaving because of all
the media attention they are getting.
6/1/08
More video of Rev. Michael "Vanilla Ice" Pfleger’s race-baiting
sermon last week at Trinity United Church of Christ has emerged on
YouTube.
"America is the greatest sin against God."
(00:58)
6/1/08
Described in a 2004 Chicago Sun Times article as someone Barack
Obama regularly seeks out for "spiritual counsel," James Meeks, who will
serve as an Obama delegate at the 2008 Democratic convention in Denver,
is a long-time political ally to the democratic frontrunner.
When Obama ran for the U.S. Senate in 2003, he frequently campaigned at
Salem Baptist Church while Rev. Meeks appeared in television ads
supporting the Illinois senator’s campaign…
Since that time, not only has Meeks himself served on Obama’s
exploratory committee for the presidency and been listed on the Obama’s
campaign website as one of the senator’s "influential black supporters,"
but his church choir was called on to raise their voices in praise at a
rally the night Obama announced his run for the White House back in
2007.
Interestingly, the Chicago Sun Times has also reported that both Meeks
and Obama share a history of substantial campaign contributions from
indicted real estate magnate Tony Rezko.
James Meeks: Obama’s Other Bigoted Spiritual Leader (02:39)
And just take a look at the congregation. Once again, the whole
building erupts in applause, shouts and dances of agreement -- a little
long, but a one-minute viewing will give you the sense of this man.
6/1/08
Like his poor white grandmother,
Obama has now thrown all of the
"Reverends" under the bus, but just look at what
he said previously:
"Well, my pastor (Wright) is certainly someone who I have an enormous
amount of respect for."
"I have a number of friends who are ministers. Reverend Meeks is a
close friend and colleague of mine in the state Senate. Father
Michael Pfleger is a dear friend, and somebody I interact with closely."
6/2/08
Obama's communications director
Robert Gibbs made
this statement
about Obama quitting his racist church:
"I think what [decision] Barack Obama made in the past few days is a
deeply personal, not political decision," Gibbs said in an exclusive
appearance on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."
"Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he’s also a bridge between
God and man in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful
precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something
higher."
"And he’s also a wonderful teacher. I think it’s important for all
of us, of whatever faith, to have teachers in the flesh and also
teachers in history."
6/16/08
Obama
headed to church this Father’s Day Sunday in his hometown of Chicago
-- the first time he’s been to church since he severed relations with
his former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright. The Obama family
attended services at Chicago’s Apostolic Church of God, one of the
city’s largest African-American congregations.
Obama took to the pulpit to deliver a speech on fatherhood, a tenet that
should be strengthened, he observed. "Too many fathers are also
missing. Too many fathers are MIA. Too many fathers are
AWOL. Missing from too many lives and too many homes.
They’ve abandoned their responsibilities, they’re acting like boys
instead of men, and the foundations of our family have suffered because
of it. You know and I know this is true everywhere, but nowhere is
it more true than in the African-American community."
Obama knows a lot about this subject. His
own father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., went AWOL and abandoned Obama at the age of two,
because his family was a hindrance to his career ambitions.
Obama's denial about who his father really was is best illustrated by
this passage from his first book, "...never emulate white men and brown
men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s
image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes
I sought in myself..."
Bigamy, child abandonment, alcoholism and spousal abuse -- are some of
his father's attributes.
The photo-op over, the senator left the sanctuary before the actual
sermon.
This is interesting -- the Apostolic Church of
God's website
states, "We
believe in water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, and the receiving
of the Holy Ghost."
Does that mean Obama will finally get baptized and become a real
Christian? Swearing allegiance to the Black Value System really
doesn't make one a Christian, no matter what Obama says.
I'll be watching.
6/26/08
Evangelical leader James Dobson took issue Tuesday with a recent speech
by Barack Obama, saying the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee
has distorted the Bible and pushed a "fruitcake interpretation" of the
Constitution.
Click
here to hear James Dobson’s 18-minute commentary on Barack Obama.
6/26/08
Obama says, "We are no longer a Christian Nation" (00:17)
Obama, you should read George Washington's 1790 letter to the Jewish community
of Newport, Rhode Island. He understood:
The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud
themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal
policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of
conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that
toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people,
that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent national gifts. For
happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction,
to persecution no assistance requires only that they who live under its
protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all
occasions their effectual support.
May the children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue
to...enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in
safety under his own vine and figtree, and there shall be none to make him
afraid.
Oh, by the way, Obama, the United States of America is very much a "Christian Nation."
Protestants comprise 51.3% of its population, Roman Catholics 23.9%, Mormons
1.7%, other Christian 1.6%, Jewish 1.7%, Buddhist 0.7%, Muslim 0.6%. -- That's
78.5% of its population who are Christian -- Source:
CIA World Fact Book
Once again, Obama demonstrates that he doesn't know what he's talking about.
