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OBAMA IN CAIRO: Sounded More Like Chic Sheik than US President! (panelists residingn in Eastern to Pacific Time.)
UPDATED: Expert Panelists Weigh-in on 6000 word speech
No doubt about it: Barack Hussein Obama wowed the Islamic world in Cairo, Egypt this week by quoting from the Quran and proclaiming, “(I consider) it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear."
Hey, why stop there? Why not just turn over the title deed to The United States?...Oh, I forgot, they don’t want it because it is already mortgaged to the hilt! “Under water,” as they say.
Barack Hussein also thanked the progressive and advanced Middle
Eastern Muslims for everything from algebra to the pen, though he curiously failed to mention that Muslim nations so often throw people in prison for daring to use a pen of free speech.
After hearing Obama’s remarks, even Charles Hurt of New York Post felt compelled to ask, “And anyway, where exactly is that in the oath of office he (Obama) took?”
A panel of four experts are available on this topic as your interview guests: Former Muslim terrorist Walid Shoebat, JihadWatch.org founder Robert Spencer, Floyd Brown, founder of ExposeObama.com, and Christian Freedom International President Jim Jacobson (Interview one, two, three or all four, together or separately).
ABOUT FLOYD BROWN…
Floyd Brown is president of the National Campaign Fund, which launched www.exposeobama.com and as a media commentator, he has appeared on many network and cable TV shows including the CBS Evening News, ABC’s Primetime, NBC’s Today Show, FOX News, CNN, MSNBC and more. Brown authored three books, including the first bestselling Clinton expose “Slick Willie: Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton” in 1992. Floyd later launched the impeachment movement against President Clinton as president of Citizens United Inc. Brown organized national campaigns, including one securing the confirmation of Judge Clarence Thomas.
FLOYD BROWN’S ARTICLE ON OBAMA:
Obama White House Extols His Muslim Background
By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown
One year ago in June 2008, Floyd produced a television ad which asked the simple question, “Was Barack Obama ever a Muslim?” The Obama campaign came unglued. It earned Floyd prominent placement on a special Obama website called “Fight the Smears.”
The news media jumped on the band wagon. Newsweek reported: “Barack Obama has never been Muslim and never practiced Islam. But rumors about his religion intended to frighten some voters persist, and they mostly return to one point of fact: his name.” The Boston Globe wrote: “Obama is a member of the United Church of Christ. His Kenyan paternal grandfather and Indonesian stepfather were Muslim, but he attended secular and Catholic schools and was never a practicing Muslim.”
The attacks on Floyd grew personal; Chris Matthews on MSNBC, all but called Floyd a racist saying, “This guy hides under a rock every couple generations, shows up again with another ad against a black candidate”. (There never was a black nominee to do ads against before Obama, but facts are not important to Matthews). Obama even blamed Floyd for breaking his pledge to use public financing for his campaign saying, “527s pop up pretty quickly and have enormous influence and we’ve seen them – there was an ad, one in South Dakota by Floyd Brown I think where it took a speech that I had made extolling faith and made it seem as if I had said that America was a Muslim nation.”
Now all has changed with Barack Obama’s coming out to the Muslim world. Jake Taper of ABC News reports, “The other day we heard a comment from a White House aide that never would have been uttered during the primaries or general election campaign. During a conference call in preparation for President Obama’s trip to Cairo, Egypt, where he will address the Muslim world, deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Denis McDonough said ‘the President himself experienced Islam on three continents before he was able to — or before he’s been able to visit, really, the heart of the Islamic world — you know, growing up in Indonesia, having a Muslim father — obviously Muslim Americans (are) a key part of Illinois and Chicago.’”
Tapper also reported, “In his April 6 address to the Turkish Parliament, President Obama referenced how many ‘Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim majority country. I know, because I am one of them.’”
It is time for the Obama team to apologize for their attacks of last year. Obama’s official website said, “But shameful, shadowy attackers have been lying about Barack’s religion, claiming he is a Muslim instead of a committed Christian. When people fabricate stories about someone’s faith to denigrate them politically, that’s an attack on people of all faiths.”
Media reporting on these issues were inaccurate and biased. The best reporting disclosed that Obama regularly attended Friday prayers at the mosque with his adopted Muslim stepfather in Indonesia. He attended both Roman Catholic and public schools in Indonesia, but by Indonesian law the religious training he received in both schools was Islamic. Despite this information, Newsweek’s Richard Wolffe disingenuously wrote the following sentence, “In five years there, Obama attended a Roman Catholic school, then a public elementary school, where he sat through a class each week of religious studies.” The only religion Wolffe mentioned is not the religion Obama studied, giving the reader an inaccurate impression.
A few moments of candor did appear in 2008, like when Nicholas Kristof, columnist for the New York Times reported, “he told me last year, on the record, that the Muslim call to prayer is ‘one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset.’” This is the same call to prayer which denounces all other religions with this sentence, “I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship except Allah”. Inside the Islamic world, the “call to prayer” frightens minority groups, and is a symbol of oppression because these nations have strictly limited religious freedom.
So when Obama bows to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, says Iran has a right to Nuclear reactors, tells Hamas and the PLO that Israel should give up large portions of Jerusalem, nobody should be surprised. However, many Americans seemed shocked by the dramatic policy shifts.
We wonder what Donna Caskey thinks now? Caskey, a 62-year-old retired school teacher in South Carolina told the Boston Globe she researched the issue of Obama’s Muslim roots, saying, "I did a lot of research, and that is such bunk.” She emailed around findings. "We do have a lot of people in our state, bless their darling hearts, they're gullible." Sorry, Donna, you’re the gullible one. Obama’s now changed his story.
ABOUT FORMER MUSLIM TERRORIST WALID SHOEBAT…
Walid’s editorial on Oama Cairo speech:
http://www.ffmuorg.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58&Itemid=101
Born Born in Bethlehem, Walid's grandfather was the Muslim Mukhtar (chieftain) of Beit Sahour-Bethlehem (The Shepherd's Fields) and a friend of Haj-Ameen Al-Husseni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and notorious friend of Adolf Hitler.
As a young man, he became a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and participated in acts of terror and violence against Israel, and was later imprisoned in the Russian Compound, Jerusalem's central prison for incitement and violence against Israel.
After his release, he continued his life of violence and rioting in Bethlehem and the Temple Mount. After entering the U.S, he worked as a counselor for the Arab Student Organization at Loop College in Chicago and continued his anti-Israel activities.
In 1993, Walid studied the Bible in a challenge to convert his wife to Islam. Six months later, after intense study, Walid realized that everything he had been taught about Jews was a lie. Convinced he was on the side of evil, he became an advocate for his former enemy.
Driven by a deep passion to heal his own soul, and to bring the truth about the Jews, Israel and the threat of fundamentalist Islam to the world, Walid shed his former life and his work as a software engineer and set out to tirelessly bring the cause against the evil of Islamic Fundamentalist to tens of millions of people throughout the world: churches, synagogues, civic groups, government leaders and media.
Walid is the author of several best selling books including “Why I Left Jihad,” “Why We Want To Kill You” and “God’s War on Terror.”
Walid is an American citizen and lives in the USA with his wife and children, under this assumed name. Walid has spoken all over America and the world including Chile, Mexico, Canada, UK, and South Africa. He has appeared on national television also all over the world including CNN, CNN International, FOX News, ITN, RTE, NBC, CBS, and ABC and ABC Australia. He has also been featured on BBC radio 4, 5 and the largest radio audience on the BBC World Service reaching 180 million people.
Walid has the unique insight so as people can now fully understand the issue of terrorism from the perspective of someone who was once a terrorist. He has given lectures at Harvard Law School, Columbia University, Oxford University UK, National Constitution Center, UCLA, USC, University of Georgia, Washington University, Penn State, San Diego State and many others, as well as speaking on Capitol Hill.
ABOUT ROBERT SPENCER…
NOTE: Please read Robert Spencer’s eye-opening article, “Platitudes and naivete: Obama's Cairo speech” at: http://www.jihadwatch.org/
Here is the beginning 20% of that article:
NOTE: Here is the text as prepared for delivery, provided by the White House, via USA Today, June 4, 2009 -- with my comments interspersed. –Robert Spencer
I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning,
...whose Grand Sheikh, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, has given his approval — on Islamic grounds — to suicide bombing.
and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt's advancement. Together, you represent the harmony between tradition and progress. I am grateful for your hospitality, and the hospitality of the people of Egypt. I am also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: assalaamu alaykum.
According to Islamic law, a Muslim may only extend this greeting -- Peace be upon you -- to a fellow Muslim. To a non-Muslim he is to say, "Peace be upon those who are rightly guided," i.e., Peace be upon the Muslims. Islamic law is silent about what Muslims must do when naive non-Muslim Islamophilic Presidents offer the greeting to Muslims.
We meet at a time of tension between the United States and Muslims around the world – tension rooted in historical forces that go beyond any current policy debate. The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of co-existence and cooperation, but also conflict and religious wars. More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations. Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam.
"Co-existence and cooperation"? When and where, exactly?
Note that Obama lists only ways in which the West has, in his view, mistreated the Islamic world. Not a word about the jihad doctrine, not a word about Islamic supremacism and the imperative to make war against and subjugate non-Muslims as dhimmis. Not a word about the culture of hatred and contempt for non-Muslims that existed long before the spread of American culture ("modernity and globalization") around the world, which Obama D'Souzaishly suggests is responsible for the hostility Muslims have for the West.
Violent extremists have exploited these tensions in a small but potent minority of Muslims. The attacks of September 11th, 2001 and the continued efforts of these extremists to engage in violence against civilians has led some in my country to view Islam as inevitably hostile not only to America and Western countries, but also to human rights. This has bred more fear and mistrust.
The idea that the jihadists are a "small but potent minority of Muslims" is universally accepted dogma, but has no evidence to back it up. The evidence that appears to back it up is highly tendentious -- check out here how Dalia Mogahed (now an Obama adviser) and John Esposito cooked survey data from the Islamic world to increase the number of "moderates."
ROBERT SPENCER is the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of eight books on Islam and jihad, including the New York Times bestsellers The Truth About Muhammad and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades). Spencer is a weekly columnist for Human Events and FrontPage Magazine, and has led seminars on Islam and jihad for the United States Central Command, United States Army Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army's Asymmetric Warfare Group, the FBI, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the U.S. intelligence community.
Spencer has also written eleven monographs and well over three hundred articles about jihad and Islamic terrorism. Along with the bestsellers The Truth About Muhammad (Regnery) and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) (Regnery), he is the author of Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith (Encounter); Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West (Regnery); and Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn't (Regnery), a refutation of moral equivalence and call for all the beneficiaries and heirs of Judeo-Christian Western civilization, whatever their own religious or philosophical perspective may be, to defend it from the global jihad. He is coauthor, with Daniel Ali, of Inside Islam: A Guide for Catholics (Ascension), and editor of the essay collection The Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims (Prometheus). His latest book is Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs, an expose of how jihadist groups are advancing their agenda in the U.S. today by means other than terrorist attacks. Spencer's books have been translated into many languages, including Spanish, Italian, Finnish, and Bahasa Indonesia.
Along with his weekly columns, Spencer has completed a weekly Qur'an commentary at Jihad Watch, Blogging the Qur'an, which has been translated into Czech, Danish, German and Italian. He is an Associate Fellow of the American Freedom Alliance and a contributing writer to Steven Emerson's Investigative Project on Terrorism. His articles on Islam and other topics have appeared in the New York Post, the Washington Times, the Dallas Morning News, Canada's National Post, Middle East Quarterly, WorldNet Daily, First Things, Insight in the News, National Review Online, and many other journals.
In addition to the seminars on Islam and jihad that Spencer has led for the United States Central Command, United States Army Command and General Staff College, a Department of Homeland Security task force, the FBI, branches of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the U.S. intelligence community, he has discussed jihad, Islam, and terrorism at a workshop sponsored by the U.S. State Department and the German Foreign Ministry. He has also appeared on the BBC, CNN, FoxNews, PBS, MSNBC, CNBC, C-Span, France24 and Croatia National Televison (HTV), as well as on numerous radio programs including Bill O'Reilly's Radio Factor, The Laura Ingraham Show, Bill Bennett's Morning in America, Michael Savage's Savage Nation, The Sean Hannity Show, The Alan Colmes Show, The G. Gordon Liddy Show, The Neal Boortz Show, The Michael Medved Show, The Michael Reagan Show, The Rusty Humphries Show, The Larry Elder Show, The Barbara Simpson Show, Vatican Radio, and many others.
Spencer (MA, Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) has been studying Islamic theology, law, and history in depth since 1980. As an Adjunct Fellow with the Free Congress Foundation in 2002 and 2003, he wrote a series of monographs on Islam that are still available from the Foundation: An Introduction to the Qur'an; Women and Islam; An Islamic Primer; Islam and the West; The Islamic Disinformation Lobby; Islam vs. Christianity; and Jihad in Context. More recently he has also written monographs for the David Horowitz Freedom Center: What Americans Need to Know About Jihad; The Violent Oppression of Women In Islam (with Phyllis Chesler); Islamic Leaders' Plan for Genocide; and Muslim Persecution of Christians.
ABOUT JIM JACOBSON…
Jim Jacobson is president of Christian Freedom International (CFI), a humanitarian organization dedicated to helping persecuted Christians around the world. Jim is familiar with Muslim matters in the Middle East, Indonesia and throughout the world. For more information, visit www.christianfreedom.org
Statement by Jacobson on Obama’s Cairo speech:
“We’re very disappointed in what President Obama said...and more so about what he didn’t say,” He delivered an eloquent speech in Cairo. Unfortunately, his words don’t square with the facts. Many of his statements were just plain wrong. He also missed a major opportunity to address the important issues of human rights and religious freedom.
“We are dismayed about President Obama’s failure to address the monumental crisis of Christian persecution in Muslim-majority nations during a speech he gave earlier today in Cairo, Egypt.
“In his speech, Obama promised the Muslim world a new relationship with the United States based on mutual interest and respect, although CFI questions why the President did not place a stronger demand on Muslims to reciprocate the effort. According to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, 17 of the 27 countries targeted for religious persecution contains a Muslim majority – including Egypt, President Obama has said that the West has been perceived by Muslims to be hostile to the traditions of Islam, but the fact is that no Christian majority society anywhere today oppresses Muslims.”
“While the President claimed that ‘Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance,’ there is no freedom in Muslim-majority countries for Christians to freely practice their own religion, attend publicly funded universities such as Al-Azhar, or even freedom to wear clothing other than Islam’s traditional head scarves and burqas.
“At the conclusion of his remarks, Obama stated that ‘there’s one rule that lies at the heart of every religion – that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us,’ These words are clearly from Matthew 7:12 in the Bible, however, not every religion has the words of Jesus Christ at its heart. The truth of the matter is that Muslim nations must reciprocate that mutual interest and respect that President Obama speaks of…and that means treating Christians the same way Islamic governments demand that Western nations treat Muslims.” –Jim Jacobson
IS AMERICA A ‘MUSLIM NATION’? HARDLY
STATISTICS ON MUSLIM NATIONS:
• In Indonesia, with a population of 240,271,522, more than 86% of its residents (206,635,508 adherents) are Muslim;
• In Pakistan, with a population of 176,242,949, approximately 95% of its residents (167,430,801 adherents) are Muslim;
• In Bangladesh, with a population of 156,050,833, approximately 83% of its residents (129,522,191 adherents) are Muslim;
• In Nigeria, with a population of 149,229,090, approximately 50% of its residents (74,614,545 adherents) are Muslim;
• In Egypt, with a population of 83,082,869, approximately 90% of its residents (74,774,582 adherents) are Muslim;
• In Iran, with a population of 66,429,284, approximately 98% of its residents (65,100,698 adherents) are Muslim;
• In Afghanistan, with a population of 33,609,937, approximately 99% of its residents (33,273,837 adherents) are Muslim;
• In Saudi Arabia, with a population of 28,686,633, everyone must be a Muslim.
America has less than half of the number of Muslim adherents in France, a nation with less than a third of our overall population.
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