Obama’s Ramadan Pandering
by Robert Spencer
08/17/2010
Ramadan didn’t fall around Christmas time this year, but Barack Obama came bearing gifts anyway. At an Iftar dinner Friday night at the White House (the third night of Ramadan), Obama endorsed the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero.
In doing so, he was in effect saying that Muslims could build a triumphal mosque marking Islam’s superiority and victory—which is how the Ground Zero mosque will be viewed in the Islamic world—and can lie about their funding (as Ground Zero mosque Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has done), and lie about their commitment to interreligious dialogue and harmony (as Rauf has also done), and refuse to denounce jihad terrorists (as Rauf has refused to denounce Hamas), and all that is just fine with the President of the United States.
For Obama, it’s all about religious freedom. Apparently now the principle of religious freedom now gives religious groups an absolute right to build anything anywhere. Expect Shinto revivalists to build a shrine to the kamikazes at Pearl Harbor any day now, and self-proclaimed Christian Ku Klux Klansmen to build a chapel honoring the Confederate dead at the site of the murder of Martin Luther King. It’s religious freedom! It’s the American way!
Obama brought more goodies for Muslims in the U.S. and around the world in his Ramadan message this year. In it, he claimed that during Ramadan Muslims “provide support to others to advance opportunity and prosperity for people everywhere.”
Oh, really?
When have past Ramadans ever resulted in any advancement of “opportunity and prosperity for people everywhere,” Mr. President? In reality, it’s against Islamic law to give zakat, the almsgiving that is one of the pillars of Islam and is required of every Muslim, to non-Muslims.
That’s why Western governmental agencies and Christian charities build and staff schools and hospitals in impoverished parts of Africa and Asia, but oil-rich Muslim countries have never undertaken similar endeavors. With the sharp divide in Islam between believers and unbelievers, such that Muslims are commanded to be “merciful to one another, but ruthless to the unbelievers” (Koran 48:29), there is no basis in Islamic law for the idea that Islam fosters the advance of “opportunity and prosperity for people everywhere.”
Obama also said that Ramadan’s rituals of fasting and prayer “remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings.”
It would be kind of him to explain how the Koran’s designation of non-Muslims as “the most vile of created beings” (98:6) advances human dignity, much less tolerance or justice. The Koran’s command that Muslims must fight against Jews and Christians until they pay a religion-based poll tax, jizya, “with willing submission and feel themselves subdued” (9:29) likewise militates against the idea of universal human dignity that Obama professes to have discovered in Islam.
“And here in the United States,” Obama continued, “Ramadan is a reminder that Islam has always been part of America and that American Muslims have made extraordinary contributions to our country.”
Islam has always been a part of America? Really? Will Obama provide us with a list of the Muslim Founding Fathers, the Muslim heroes of the American Revolution, the names of the Muslims killed fighting in the Civil War, World War I, and World War II—surely the President will have no trouble coming up with all that, will he? And he could also throw in a list of those “extraordinary contributions” that Muslims have made to our country. Aside from being the impetus for some extraordinary innovations in airport security, I can’t think of any. But I sure Barack Obama must be way ahead of me.
And so for this Ramadan, Barack Obama gave U.S. Muslims a grand mosque at Ground Zero, and an American pedigree as sterling and impeachable as his own. Will this be enough to stop the jihad against the U.S.? Smarter bets would be on its instead growing bolder than ever.
Comments
Imagine no religion. It's EZ if U try.
In his own words from his book, the president makes it extremely clear where his loyalties lie! “ Quote from Obama’s book: Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction..'"
The man's religion aside, his loyalties are clear and they are in fact extremely pro Muslim. Or could it be that as in his entire presidency so far, his own words in his own book are also just a bald faced lie?
There is little doubt tha The President of the most powefulcounty in the worldis a Muslim. Perhaps not a very goodone, although that may be a front to constrain criticism while he advances the cause of Islam.
Hopefully he will be voted out next time.
i obama president of the americas am the only ruler I AM THE PEACE MAKER I AM MESSIAH, And i will allow the mosquento be built !you can not stop me because i will bring peace to the world ! ah ah ah, this whas written in the Christian bible by a man called the ANTI CHRIST, sorry obama but you overstepping the legitime mark,proclaiming AND SHOWING that YOU CAN. i really feel sorry for the poor I . that will follow you, Sorry guy wake up before nit is to late, and you get woken up early in the morning by an orchestra of screams and winches from so called prayers.
YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT MUSLIMS ARE SO WRONG , WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THAT ANY MUSLIM YOU KNOW OR AROUND YOU GIVE YOU ANY HARM I BET NONE OF YOU GUYS MAKING COMMENTS ABOUT MUSLIMS WILL HAVE AN ANSWER AND IF YOU ACCIDENTLY DO, JUST LOOK AT YOUR HAND AS AN EXAMPLE ALL FIVE FINGERS ARE NOT ALIKE, WHAT I AM TRYING TO SAY IS THERE ARE GOOD AND BAD PEOPLE IN EVERY NATION WEATHER ITS A MUSLIM CHRISTAN JEW OR HINDU SO PLEASE DONT JUST BLAME MUSLIMS LOOK AT YOUR SELF WHAT GOOD THINGS HAVE YOU DONE BEFORE YOU MAKE A COMMENT ABOUT MUSLIMS.
PEACE.
Dr. Spencer...You have truly created a popular buglite that lures all the crazy moths to the flame. Just look at these comments! It seems like most of your disciples are certifiably insane. I know you are a thoughtful,intellectual man. Do you ever want grab your book royalties and jump on a tube-raft to the Cayman Islands?
Paul Revere is probably turning over in his grave! See what you've done Robert Spencer? I've read every single one of your well researched books and learned copious amounts of Islamist history and radical theological context. But did you really expect to harness such paranoia among the natives?
Do you sometimes think that your zealous cure for naivite exceeds the disease?
I would rather die than live under a muslim state.
burn all mosques to the ground, send the ragheads back to the middle east. get rid of Obama!!!!!!!1
I guess that makes him a PIMP. In my opinion it does.
Most of the Muslim voices that we hear argue that Sharia Law is Gods law and is therefore superior to mans' law. Taken at face value this means that Muslims who hold this view and observe the Koranic injunction to fight (Jihad) for Muslim dominance everywhere, desire to replace democratic institutions with Sharia. They are not simply dissenters, they are engaged in efforts to overthrow of the Constitution and the government of the United States in order to replace it with another system of government. I wonder what the New York Times would call that?
Most of the Muslim voices that we hear argue that Sharia Law is Gods law and is therefore superior to mans' law. Taken at face value this means that Muslims who hold this view and observe the Koranic injunction to fight (Jihad) for Muslim dominance everywhere, desire to replace democratic institutions with Sharia. They are not simply dissenters, they are engaged in efforts to overthrow of the Constitution and the government of the United States in order to replace it with another system of government. I wonder what the New York Times would call that?
Most of the Muslim voices that we hear argue that Sharia Law is Gods law and is therefore superior to mans' law. Taken at face value this means that Muslims who hold this view and observe the Koranic injunction to fight (Jihad) for Muslim dominance everywhere, desire to replace democratic institutions with Sharia. They are not simply dissenters, they are engaged in efforts to overthrow of the Constitution and the government of the United States in order to replace it with another system of government. I wonder what the New York Times would call that?
The real enemy to our nation is our own tolerance shown to this political system that covers itself under the umbrella of religion.Granted that the founding fathers believed in freedom of religion and included this freedom because it was essential to the unity of the 13 initial states.(Which by the way were all Christian denominations).With the expansion of the nation came other states and other religious philosophies which were accepted,however anything against the principles stated in the declaration of Independence and the Constitution had to be excluded.No religious concept that was in contradiction to our system would be allowed.
Now our tolerance is allowing this pseudo religion,which is based on the usurpation of the Judeo-Christian history and with the written goal of total destruction of Judaism and Christian-ism,to receive the benefits of religious status.
This is not a religion it is a farce,it is all the anti establishment compacted under a deception.Call me what ever you want,racist,bigot islamophobic whatever,but you can not deny that their political agenda is contrary to all our principles and therefore should be totally eliminated.It is not the radicals alone that are the problem, the so called moderates also believe all the BS that is fed to them.So if they believe in their so called religion,how can they not be in odds with us ?You have seen in various cases ,these people are under life treats for trespasses against their beliefs. Look around the world,Muslim creating problems,Europe,Russia,China,Africa and the jewel of them all , the Middle East.Tolerance to this will be our demise.
we as americans need to unite against this islamic enemy and fight at all cost. Perhaps a civil war against the Government that wants to trade us to foreign interests.
Anonymous on Wed 2010-08-18 ,11:32, " Tolerance to this will be our demise" You are 100% right, muslims are using our laws against us ,to gain advancement of their cult. I can only say we in the West MUST start positive discrimination against muslims here if not ,then as you say "Tolerance to this will our demise" So wake up America before its too late. www.blip.tv/file/1382254
OMG! You know I have Muslims friends and I love their food alot and I would one day build a Christian Temple to worship my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ near Saddam Hussein's Mansion or perhaps near a Mosque in Arabia or perhaps in Turkey or Yemen or Jordan or maybe near Mecca to see the reaction of the Muslim world. Glory to God!