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Why does Obama smile at dictators, and why does he bow to an Islamic King?
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1 John 2:3-6
By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. The one who says, "I have come to know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.
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Obadiah 1:15
"For the day of the LORD draws near on all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you. Your dealings will return on your own head.
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Revelation 13:1
And the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore. Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns were ten diadems, and on his heads were blasphemous names.
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Genesis 12:3
And I will bless those who bless you,
And the one who curses you I will curse.
And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed."
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1 John 2:18-19
Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us.
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| Shalom in Christ Jesus, |
Barack Obama painted in a
crucifixion pose with a crown of thorns; add that to the previous 'Triumphal entry on a donkey', and other un-Christian happenings, sworn in without a Bible, and Muslims calling Obama the first "Muslim" President and now his bowing
to the Saudi King.
I do not believe Barack
Obama is The Antichrist, but he clearly is giving us a
crash course in how someone could appear from virtual obscurity to political
stardom overnight and be blatantly worshipped by both his followers and an
bedazzled media without as much as a hint that something about this is abnormal
from the public. Just note the picture montage below from Obama's
adoring media fans and how he portrayed in a "Messianic" light. It is no secret
that photographers assigned to President George W. Bush did their very best to
capture him is his worst light always publishing the most unbecoming picture
they could photograph of him. Those such as Jewish photographer Jill Greenberg who refers to herself as 'the manipulator' unabashedly admitted this. I do not
reject her incredible talent as a photographer, but to disengenuinely make
someone look like an idiot because you disagree with his or her ideas is quite
a different story. Many others towards the end of his presidency also took many
terrible photos of him that made him look like an utter fool to prove their
point of view. Although I had many problems with the Bush policies, this is
utter deception, and now it working in reverse to make Obama look super human.
Before getting to the
current events of the Middle East I thought I would both title and begin this
alert with a piece that contains the provocative statement: "Why does Obama
smile at dictators?" In all fairness, he seems to smile at most everyone, as if
he is on the catwalk. However, his huge cheesy grin at some of most evil men on
the planet is disturbing.
There is certainly madness
visible to those enlightened by The Holy Spirit surrounding President Barack
Hussein Obama and his supporters both at home and abroad. Can you imagine only
a few years back a president being routinely portrayed at home as "The messiah"
in both artwork and photography as well as many other forms of media and by the
statements made by his followers who practically worship him. At the same time,
in the Middle East this same president is gradually cutting off Israel, one of
our greatest allies and only democracies in that part of the world, while
literally bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia. As my scriptural understanding
has grown, he or his successor along with other Muslim kings and Sultans are
very strong candidates for one of the Ten Horns/Ten Kings of Daniel 7:7, 7:20, 7:24 and Revelation 12:3, 12:18, 13:1, 17:3, 17:7, 17:12, and 17:16.
As the same time, the
Western Nations more each day seem to fit the picture of a
political/economic/religious whore in alliance with Rome and all false
Christendom and their alliance with the false religions that found their origin
in Babylon, drunk from the blood of the saints riding this beast that hates her
(as Islam does) [Note: I am not completely convinced of this scenario, but it
is one hypothesis that I work with among a few]. I believe Obama's bowing to
the Saudi King may show the real state of affairs and power in the world.
It seems it is only a short
time before the little horn arises now. May we all keep are lamps trimmed and
burning as I have been witnessing incredible increases in trials and
persecutions among believers as walking the walk grows more difficult each day
for those who wish to walk in truth. I do not mean to discourage but only be
honest and false words and positive confessions coming from most only help to
deceive and set one up for failure.
The hardest times in the
history of man are soon to be upon us. Hopefully the Lord will rescue/rapture
us before we see too many hard times but most of the world's Christian population
are facing severe persecution and already consider themselves to be in
tribulation and the Pre-Tribulation Rapture is mainly a Western Church
Eschatological position. I am not knocking pre-trib, just saying be prepared if
the Lord tarries or if were all some how a little wrong on our Second Coming
predictions just like virtually all the believers were at Christ's First
Coming.
[One last note: This alert
not even address on the concerns many write to me every day regarding this
president such as his still unreleased long form birth certificate, the one
that all American Citizens are required by law to produce except for apparently
BO that is. There is just so much, but much of this stretches the bounds of
what we do as a ministry and yet it speaks volumes of the deception that has
encompassed all facets of society. It is as if we are living in a dense fog
where the majority of society is spiritually drunk off their rockers and cannot
see between spiritual day and night. I will do my best to cover these issues
without spending too much time on politics, yet as this alert clearly
indicates, the threshold between politics and spirituality is closing very
quickly.]
So please, keep your eyes in
His Word,
May the Lord bless you and
keep you,
BE/\LERT!
Scott
Brisk
BELOW: Obama "Messianic Montage from Mainstream Press and official Obama press releases:
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THE JERUSALEM POST [Mirkaei Tikshoret] - By Shmuley Boteach - April 22, 2009
The picture of the president of the United States smiling broadly as he met President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela startled me. Our president is a nice guy. Chavez is anything but.
The State Department maintains that Chávez has attacked democratic traditions and has put Venezuelan democracy on life support with unchecked concentration of power, political persecution, and intimidation. Foreign Affairs magazine says that Chávez is a power-hungry dictator with autocratic and megalomaniacal tendencies whose authoritarian vision and policies are a serious threat to his people. In testimony before the US Senate, the South American project director for the Center for Strategic International Studies said that Chavez's government engages in "arresting opposition leaders, torturing some members of the opposition (according to human rights organizations) and encouraging, if not directing, its squads of Bolivarian Circles to beat up members of Congress and intimidate voters-all with impunity."
In spite of a presidential term limit of six years, Chávez has suggested that he would like to remain in power for 25 years. Hmmm. An autocratic dictator who abuses human rights and undermines democracy being warmly embraced by the American president. There's something wrong with that picture.
Then there was the incident of President Barack Obama seeming to bow before King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at the G-20 summit in London. The president's people denied it was a bow, but it certainly was a sign of great deference from the American president to the dictator of a country who just six weeks ago sentenced a 75-year-old woman to 40 lashes for having been secluded with her nephew after he delivered bread to her home. This is the same Abdullah whom, when asked why Saudi Arabia prohibits the public practice of religions other than Islam, said, "It is absurd to impose on an individual or a society rights that are alien to its beliefs or principles."
Obama is also pursuing a renewed relationship with Cuba, a country which engages in systemic human rights abuses, including torture, arbitrary imprisonment, unfair trials and extrajudicial executions. Censorship is so extensive that Cubans face five-year prison sentences for connecting to the Internet illegally. And not only is emigration illegal, but even discussing it carries a six-month prison sentence.
WATCHING ALL THIS, I was wondering what the new standards were. How oppressive must a leader be before we determine that he has not merited a hug by the democratic standard-bearer of the free world, the president of the United States? Yes, I get it. We have to speak to our enemies, and America has to push "reset" on its relationship with many of these countries. We should try and change them through charm. But who said the president himself, rather than a lower-level diplomat, must do so?
And if Obama feels that he has to be the one to greet a man like Chavez, must it be with the kind of ear-to-ear grin that one might show girl scouts selling cookies? It must surely be disheartening for those who suffer oppression in countries like Venezuela, Cuba and Saudi Arabia to see the American president backslapping their oppressors when these victims have always looked up to the United States as their champions.
In Turkey, Obama boldly declared that "the United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam." But the person who was at war with Islam, Saddam Hussein, the man who killed nearly one million Muslims, was removed by a country which has already paid with the lives of 4,500 of its servicemen and women. The same is true of the Taliban, another group whom the Obama administration is considering talking to, who beat Muslim women in the streets of Afghanistan. Yet the president seems reluctant to publicly identify these real enemies of Islam.
LIKE MANY AMERICANS, I have been awed by our president's capacity to draw those who hate us near. He is a man of considerable charm and grace. But I have to admit that I am increasingly troubled by his seeming inability to call out rogue dictators.
While he was campaigning for the presidency, Obama promised, "As president I will recognize the Armenian genocide." But in a press conference in Ankara with President Abdullah Gul, he refused to use the word "genocide" when challenged by a reporter on the issue. Yet, it was Obama's early foreign policy adviser Samantha Power of Harvard who wrote A Problem from Hell, the definitive book on the American non-intervention in repeated 20th-century genocides, beginning with the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks which killed 1.5 million between the years of 1915 and 1923. When I read the book it changed my life.
As a Jew who does not want the world to forget the Holocaust, I can only imagine the pain of the Armenian community as it struggles to have modern Turkey acknowledge the crime. And why should modern Turkey not oblige? No one is blaming it for something that happened 90 years ago. It is not today's generation which is at fault. But nations must come to terms with their own history. Could any of us imagine what kind of country the US would be if it denied that it was ever responsible for the abomination of African-American slavery and segregation?
ALL THIS LEADS to one important question. Suppose Obama succeeds in building friendships with Chavez, Castro, Ahmadinejad and the Taliban. What then? Does America still get to feel that it stands for something? Will we still be the beacon of liberty and freedom to the rest of the world, or will we have sold out in the name of political expediency? And do any of us seriously believe that presidential friendship is going to get a megalomaniac like Hugo Chavez to ease up on the levers of power, or are we just feeding his ego by showing him he can be a tyrant and still have a beer with the president of the United States? Will the Iranians really stop enriching uranium through diplomacy rather than economic sanctions?
I know that the Bush administration made many mistakes, and I am a fan of President Obama precisely because of his sunny optimism. But Bush was not, as Chavez once called him, the devil, and it could just be that his emphasis on America being the great champion of democracy and freedom, a mantle that was most eloquently articulated by president Kennedy in his inaugural address, is a legacy that ought to belong to Obama as much as it did to his predecessor.
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Arms outstretched, he wears crown of thorns on his brow
WORLDNETDAILY - By Drew Zahn - April 25, 2009
On his 100th day in office, President Obama will be "crowned" in messianic imagery at New York City's Union Square.
Artist Michael D'Antuono's painting "The Truth" - featuring Obama with his arms outstretched and wearing a crown of thorns upon his head - will be unveiled on April 29 at the Square's South Plaza.
According to a statement released about the portrait, "The 30" x 54" acrylic painting on canvas depicts President Obama appearing much like Jesus Christ on the Cross: atop his head, a crown of thorns; behind him, the dark veil being lifted (or lowered) on the Presidential Seal. But is he revealing or concealing, and is he being crucified or glorified?"
Even the title of the piece, "The Truth," suggests a play on biblical themes, as Jesus said in John 14:6, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
"More than a presidential portrait," writes D'Antuono on a website touting the painting, "'The Truth' is a politically, religiously and socially-charged statement on our nation's current political climate and deep partisan divide that is sure to create a dialogue."
Like others in the news who have depicted Obama in Christ-like imagery, D'Antuono insists he isn't claiming the man is Messiah, but only inviting "individual interpretations."
"'The Truth,' like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder," claims the exhibit's press release.
D'Antuono even invites the public to email him with reactions to the piece, answering his posed question, "What's your truth?"
As WND has reported, D'Antuono follows others who have cast Obama in messianic imagery. ...
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Artist cancels Messiah Obama display
Thousands of emails, calls objected to president wearing crown of thorns
WORLDNETDAILY - By Drew Zahn - April 28, 2009
An artist who planned to unveil a portrait of Barack Obama in a Christ-like pose with a crown of thorns upon his brow has announced he is canceling the event, due to "overwhelming public outrage." ...
A statement released D'Antuono now claims the artist chose to cancel the event after being flooded with thousands of emails, phone calls, online blogs and other forms of public criticism, all within 48 hours of releasing the controversial image online. ...
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Obama: I Will Speak the Truth, as the Koran Says
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ARUTZ SHEVA (Israeli National News) - By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu - June 4, 2009
Ed. Note: The above picture is a poster from a protest in Israel of Obama's anti-Israel policies. This
protest group described by The Jerusalem Post as "far right-wing", but I
would suggest they are just right.
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The oracle concerning Egypt.
Behold, the LORD is riding on a swift cloud and is about to come to Egypt;
The idols of Egypt will tremble at His presence,
And the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.
- Isaiah 19:1
President Barack Obama's speech in Cairo Thursday called for a sweeping change in Muslim-American relations, based on the establishment of a Palestinian Authority state.
He told 3,000 guests at Cairo University that he will put pressure on the Palestinian Authority to stop terror and on Israel to cease a Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria. He did not specifically state whether Jerusalem neighborhoods are part of the "occupation" that he said must end.
His only reference to Jerusalem was a quote from the Koran that describes Moses, Jesus and Mohammed joining together in prayer, and a call for "Jerusalem [to be] a secure home for Jews, Christians and Muslims."
President Obama opened the speech with the Islamic greeting, "Peace unto you" in Arabic and reminded his listeners of his Muslim background. He quoted the Koran several times in his Cairo speech, stating that the Muslim holy book states, "Be conscious of G-d and speak always the truth."
The focus of his speech was a list of six sources of conflict that he said must be confronted in order to reach peace -- extremism, the Palestinian Authority-Israel dispute, nuclear weapons, democracy, religious tolerance, women's rights and economic growth and development.
Concerning Israel, he made it perfectly clear that will personally pressure for an end to the "occupation" that he said has caused displacement to the Arab population in Israel for 60 years. His speech specifically defined the Arabs in Judea, Samaria and Gaza as a "Palestinian people," and he mentioned their "suffering" immediately after referring to the Holocaust.
President Obama said that just as the Holocaust cannot be denied, Israel must recognize the right of Arabs to a PA state, which he called Palestine. "Jews have undergone thousands of years of persecution...and I will go to Buchenwald" this week to visit the Nazi death camp where Jews were butchered.
"Denying the Holocaust and threatening Israel with destruction is wrong," he declared.
"On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people have suffered in pursuit of a homeland and have suffered for 60 years of displacement." He accused Israel of being responsible for "humiliation" of Arabs. "Let there be no doubt that the situation for the Palestinian people" is intolerable and America "will not turn its back" on the need for a PA state, he said.
"The U.S. does not accept the settlements, and they violate previous agreements," according to the president. He was referring to the American Roadmap plan, which does not specifically call on Israel to surrender Judea, Samaria and Gaza but instead calls for negotiations on the borders of a PA state.
The president also blamed Israel for the lack of opportunity for Arabs under PA rule, despite the local Arab economy having enjoyed unprecedented economic growth following the end of Jordanian and Egyptian occupation in the 1967 Six-Day War. The socio-economic situation deteriorated with the influence of the Palestine Liberation Organization under the rule of Yasser Arafat.
President Obama insisted that "Israel must live up to its obligations" for economic opportunity for Arabs and implicitly compared the situation of Arabs with that of blacks in 19th and early 20th century America.
He also demanded a total halt to terrorism, warning that "moral authority" is not claimed by rockets and bus bombings, but held out the opportunity for the Hamas terrorist organization to deny violence and recognize Israel.
While saying that the U.S. cannot impose peace, he added, "America will align our policies with those who pursue peace, and we will say in public what we say in private.... Many Muslims recognize Israel will not go away, and many Israelis see the need for a PA state."
He also called on Arab states to contribute to the PA economy and society. The Arab world has pledged billions of dollars to help the government of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas but has fulfilled only a small fraction of its pledges.
The president preceded the issue of the PA-Israeli dispute with the need to end extremism. President Obama described the Muslim religion as one that "emphasizes the idea of religious tolerance and racial equality." He declared that the U.S. "is not at war with Islam" but that the country will "relentlessly confront violence extremists who present a threat to our security."
Concerning Iran, he asserted that it can have nuclear power if it abides by international treaties. President Obama did not spell out any specific measures to convince Tehran to end its current policy of non-cooperation with international inspectors while it continues to reach nuclear capability by enriching uranium, a key element for a nuclear weapon.
The fourth area of conflict that he addressed is democracy, which he said the U.S. cannot impose. He added that the U.S. will work with countries "that recognize the will of the people." He specially pointed to discrimination of Copts in Egypt.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was notably absent from the speech, the official explanation being the death of his 12-year-old grandson nearly a month ago. Civil rights defenders have roundly attacked his regime as being authoritarian and suppressive.
The fifth and sixth areas of conflict that President Obama said should be address are women's rights and economic development, both of which he stated help pave the road to peace and prosperity.
Earlier in his remarks, he warned that a "single speech" cannot "erase years of distrust." He praised Islam as a force of religious tolerance and racial equality and said that Muslims "have always been a part of American sources."
The president stated that "Muslims have enriched the U.S. and have won Nobel prizes," although in fact less than handful of Muslims have won international Nobel prices.
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REUTERS [Thomson-Reuters] - By Ross Colvin and David Alexander - June 4, 2009
CAIRO - President Barack Obama sought to change Muslim perceptions of the United States on Thursday in a speech that urged Arabs and Israelis to declare in public the realities he said they accept in private.
Addressing the world's more than 1 billion Muslims from Cairo, Obama called for a "new beginning" in ties between Washington and the Islamic world in his speech that also tackled grievances over two U.S.-led wars and tensions over Iran. ...
In his keynote speech, occasionally interrupted by shouts of "we love you," Obama said he did not want U.S. troops to stay in Iraq or Afghanistan forever and offered mutual respect in seeking to resolve differences with long-time foe, Tehran.
"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," Obama said in the address that included quotes from Islam's holy book, the Koran.
"I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect," he said. "America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition." ...
Highlighting hostility the U.S. leader faces from some quarters, al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, in a message on a website, warned Muslims against alliance with Christians and Jews, saying it would annul their faith.
The supreme leader of Washington's regional arch foe, Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said before Obama spoke that America was "deeply hated" and only action, not "slogans," could change that.
The choice of Cairo for the speech underscored Obama's focus on the Middle East, where he faces big foreign policy challenges, from trying to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks to curbing Iran's nuclear plans that Washington says is to build atomic bombs. Tehran denies any such aims.
His trip included touring a 14th century mosque and the pyramids in the desert on the edge of Cairo. He was seen off at the airport, walking up the red carpet in the t-shirt and trousers he wore while visiting the ancient pharaonic sites.
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Although the administration tried to lower expectations in recent days about what the speech would accomplish, there were high hopes in the region that he would take a tougher line on Israel and follow up his words with actions.
He offered few specifics on democracy, rule of law and human rights in the Arab world, issues many hoped he would spell out.
"He should have been outspoken about democracy and the universal principles of human rights," said Syrian lawyer Mohannad al-Hassani.
Obama, who wants to build a coalition of Muslim governments to back his diplomatic moves, affirmed his commitment to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying it was in the interest of all concerned parties.
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"This speech was very inspiring and I think many people will welcome it, because he tried to be neutral and honest and objective," said Egyptian analyst Khalil al-Anani.
"The Islamic world does not need moral or political sermons. It needs a fundamental change in American policy," said MP Hassan Fadlallah of Lebanon's Hezbollah.
Mohamed Habib, deputy leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, said: "It's a public relations address more than anything else." (Additional by Reuters bureaus; Writing by David Alexander and Edmund Blair; Editing by Samia Nakhoul)Read Full Report Also:Supreme Leader of Iran: Muslim Nations 'Hate America'THE WASHINGTON POST [Wash Post Group/Graham] - By Thomas Erdbrink and William Branigin - June 4, 2009 TEHRAN, -- Iran's supreme leader dismissed President Obama's speech at Cairo University Thursday, saying the Muslim world continues to "hate America." And he criticized the United States and its allies for asserting that Iran seeks nuclear weapons, which he insisted are forbidden under Iran's brand of Islam. Speaking shortly before Obama delivered his address, in which he called for a "new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that "beautiful speeches" could not remove the hatred felt in the Muslim world against America. "People of the Middle East, the Muslim region and North Africa -- people of these regions -- hate America from the bottom of their heart," Khamenei said at a gathering to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution and Khamenei's predecessor as the predominantly Shiite Muslim country's supreme religious leader. ... Read Full Report
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ASSOCIATED PRESS - By Jennifer Loven - June 4, 2009
Ed. Note: The above picture
is a souvenir plaque sold in Egypt for President Barack Obama's arrival. What I
find quite intriguing is that they are referring to BO as the 'TUTANKHAMON' of
the world, obviously a "messianic" figure which ties in quite nicely with the
resurgence of the Black Athena movement here in America that views the history
of ancient Greece and Europe traced back to North Africa and especially Egypt.
They will even go so far as to declare that the Jews came out of Egypt and
Christ came out of Egypt because they were black Africans. Some of you may have
seen a picture circulate of a pharaoh such as in this picture who looks
suspiciously like Barack Obama while those who the follow the Black Athena
movement are declaring his reincarnation as "the messiah". Sometimes I do not
know whether to crack up laughing or fall to my knees in tears, as this is just
how crazy yet so very serious they have become.
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CAIRO - There was a time when Barack Obama wasn't eager to highlight his ties to Islam.
Just a year ago, he was a presidential candidate trying to counter false Internet rumors that he was a Muslim as he sought the support of American voters.
Now, Obama is the U.S. president. And his audience is bigger and more diverse: a world that includes 1.5 billion Muslims.
Obama sought common ground with Muslims on Thursday by tracing personal links to Islam throughout his life as he laid out his vision for a strengthened relationship between America and followers of that faith.
"I am a Christian, but my father came from a Kenyan family that includes generations of Muslims," Obama said.
"As a boy, I spent several years in Indonesia and heard the call of the azaan at the break of dawn and the fall of dusk," he continued. "As a young man, I worked in Chicago communities where many found dignity and peace in their Muslim faith. As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam ... I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America's story."
He also referred to himself by his full name-Barack Hussein Obama-and said he's "known Islam on three continents," experiences he said guide his convictions for a renewed relationship between Americans and Muslims.
And, he quoted from the Quran and issued a greeting of peace heard in Muslim communities in the United States, saying "assalaamu alaykum." ...
Obama played both diplomat and tourist in his brief visit to Cairo.
After spending the night at Saudi King Abdullah's horse farm in the desert outside Riyadh, Obama had a relatively low-key arrival in Cairo compared with the lavish scene that greeted the U.S. president in Saudi Arabia.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak dispatched Foreign Minister Ahmad Aboul Gheit to meet Obama at the airport before heading to Egypt's imposing, ornate Qubba Palace on a lush property in the middle of Cairo. Nearly two dozen horses led the motorcade down the wide, palm-lined palace drive.
The U.S. president jogged up the steps to greet his Egyptian counterpart with a handshake and the region's traditional double cheek kiss. As the two leaders stood on a balcony, a military band in blue dress uniforms played both countries' national anthems. Then, the leaders headed into private meetings on a range of issues, including Iran's disputed nuclear ambitions and the quest for peace in the Middle East.
Next up was a visit to the Sultan Hassan mosque, a 600-year-old center of Islamic worship and study whose image appears on Egypt's 100 pound note.
The mosque is considered the jewel of Egypt's unique style of Islamic architecture under its medieval Mamluk rulers. Its courtyard is surrounded by four massive 100 foot arches each dedicated to the teaching of Sunni Islam's four schools and in its heyday its dormitories held students from around the Muslim world.
Obama and Clinton removed their shoes and, in stocking feet, sauntered down an ancient stone passageway as lanterns swayed gently from metal cables overhead. Obama peppered the tour guide with questions throughout.
After the speech, the president met with reporters from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Palestinian territories, Malaysia and Indonesia. Later, he was stopping at the Great Pyramids of Giza on the capital's outskirts. ...
Associated Press Writers Maggie Michael and Patrick Quinn contributed to this report.
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CNN [Turner Broadcasting/Time Warner] - June 4, 2009
President Obama delivered his long-awaited and wide-ranging speech Thursday on American and Muslim relations, offering a hand of friendship to Islam and addressing an array of quandaries and conflicts dividing the two cultures.
At Egypt's Cairo University, Obama quoted from the Quran as he expounded on Islam's glories and rights, the legitimate rights of Israel and the Palestinians, Iranian nuclear aspirations, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, women's rights, economic development, and religious rights and democracy in the Muslim world.
The address, billed as a fence-mending mission between the United States and Islam, urged those present and the people across the globe viewing the speech on television to enter a new, productive and peaceful chapter in their relationship. ...
Obama reiterated a statement he made in Turkey in April.
"In Ankara, I made clear that America is not -- and never will be -- at war with Islam.
"We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security -- because we reject the same thing that people of all faiths reject: the killing of innocent men, women and children. And it is my first duty as president to protect the American people."
Obama explored the Palestinian and Israeli conflict, endorsing a two-state solution and urging compromise and understanding between "two peoples with legitimate aspirations."
And then he entered into the conflict's thickets, understanding claims from both sides. He said the United States "does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements" seen by Muslims as impediments to Middle East peace.
"This construction violates previous agreements and undermines efforts to achieve peace. It is time for these settlements to stop."
Calling America's "strong bond" with Israel "unbreakable," he said, "It is based upon cultural and historical ties and the recognition that the aspiration for a Jewish homeland is rooted in a tragic history that cannot be denied."
He denounced the denial of the Holocaust and anti-Semitic stereotyping, and criticized anyone who would threaten Israel's destruction.
Expounding on the plight of Palestinians, Obama said "it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people -- Muslims and Christians -- have suffered in pursuit of a homeland." ...
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Arab World Skeptical about Obama Overture
DER SPIEGEL [BMG: Bertelsmann Media Group/Gruner & Jahr Magazines] - By Bernhard Zand in Riyadh - June 3, 2009
US President Barack Obama is eager to improve relations with the Muslim world. But many in the Middle East are skeptical that this week's presidential visit will be enough. While attitudes toward the US have improved since Bush left office, Israel remains a major hurdle. ...
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The expected attendance of the Brotherhood members is already stirring some criticism from conservatives in the U.S. who say they do not represent the kind of moderate Muslims Obama should be appealing to.
FOX NEWS [News Corporation/Murdoch] - June 3, 2009
Egyptian lawmakers from the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood are expected to attend President Obama's highly anticipated speech to the Muslim world Thursday in Cairo. Khaled Hamza, editor of the Muslim Brotherhood Web site, confirmed to FOXNews.com that 10 members of the Brotherhood's parliamentary bloc received official invitations to attend the speech. The list includes Mohammed Saad el-Katatni, head of the parliamentary bloc. The expected attendance of the Brotherhood members already is stirring some criticism from conservatives in the U.S. who say they do not represent the kind of moderate Muslims Obama should be appealing to. "What kind of signal are we sending?" said Rep. Pete Hoekstra, ranking Republican on the House intelligence committee, warning that such an invitation will be seen more as a sign of weakness than strength. "I think the president takes some big risks by unilaterally putting out these olive branches." ... Read Full Report |
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THE POLITICO [Allbritton Communications Co] - By Mike Allen - June 4, 2009
... "Much has been made of the fact that an African-American with the name Barack Hussein Obama could be elected President. But my personal story is not so unique," he said in the Grand Hall of Cairo University. "The dream of opportunity for all people has not come true for everyone in America, but its promise exists for all who come to our shores."
The 55-minute speech was remarkable and historic not so much for the delivery or even the words, but for the context, the orator, the moment. Obama included blunt talk about the United States, Israel, Iraq, his predecessor and al Qaeda.
"I am aware that some question or justify the events of 9/11," he said, speaking before a red curtain and six pairs of U.S. and Egyptian flags. "But let us be clear: al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 people on that day."
The president, who left the room to applause from an audience carefully chosen to reflect diverse perspectives, invoked the "Holy Koran" twice, and the "Holy Bible" once. ...
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| Obama: U.S. 'one of largest Muslim countries' |
President makes inaccurate statement as White House stresses his Islamic roots
WORLDNETDAILY - By Aaron Klein - June 3, 2009
JERUSALEM - The number of Muslims in the U.S. would make America "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world," claimed President Obama in an interview released last night.
His assertion, which is factually inaccurate, comes one day before he is set to deliver a much-anticipated address to the Muslim world from Cairo, Egypt.
Teasing the speech with the French television network Canal Plus, Obama commented.
"Now, the flip side is I think that the United States and the West generally, we have to educate ourselves more effectively on Islam. And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. And so there's got to be a better dialogue and a better understanding between the two peoples."
He continued that his Muslim outreach aims to establish "better dialogue" so the Muslim world understands more effectively "how the U.S. but also how the West thinks about many of these difficult issues like terrorism, like democracy, to discuss the framework for what's happened in Iraq and Afghanistan and our outreach to Iran, and also how we view the prospects for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians."
As the Weekly Standard points out, Obama's claim American Muslims could make the U.S. one of the largest Islamic countries is not demographically true. The most generous estimates put America's Muslim population at about 8 million, which would barely place the U.S. in the top 42 Muslim countries.
The Standard's Michael Goldfarb comments, "Obama is undertaking a very significant reorientation of American foreign policy, and one hopes that he isn't doing so on the very mistaken belief that the U.S. is one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.
"Actually, if you look at the number of Jewish Americans, we'd be the largest Jewish country in the world after Israel. And America is the largest Christian country in the world. This context might be useful to the president as he tries to help the Muslim world better understand the United States," Goldfarb writes.
Meanwhile, ABC News' Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller report the White House's new approach of stressing Obama's Islamic roots as part of the president's outreach to the Muslim world. The move is in contrast to Obama's stance during the presidential campaign, during which the mere mention of his middle name - Hussein - was strongly condemned as fear-mongering by Obama's spokesmen.
During a conference call in preparation for the president's Muslim address tomorrow, 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." ...
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Delivered In Egypt On Mideast Tour
"A New Beginning"
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, 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.
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Concerning the mosque where Obama spoke:
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Egypt's grand mufti invites president to speak at prominent sharia center
WORLDNETDAILY - By Aaron Klein - May 10, 2009
TEL AVIV, Israel - The grand mufti of Egypt has invited President Obama to address Muslims around the globe from one of the most important mosques in the Islamic world.
The invitation to speak from Egypt's Al Azhar mosque follows an announcement over this past weekend that Obama will travel to Egypt next month to deliver his promised address to the Muslim world.
According to Al-Masri Al-Yawm, a state-run Egyptian newspaper, Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa and other scholars from Egypt's Al Azhar University invited Obama to use the mosque as venue for the president's upcoming visit, explaining it would promote a culture of dialogue between Islam and the West.
Al AZhar University is the most respected Sunni Islamic learning center in the world and is the second oldest degree-granting school in the world. Clerics at the university's attendant mosque decide Islamic sharia law matters for Sunni Muslims internationally.
The university opened studies in 975 AD. It was founded by the Fatimid dynasty of Egypt, which is descended from the daughter of the Islamic figure Muhammad. ...
... Obama decided upon Egypt because the country "in many ways represents the heart of the Arab world." He said the issues of democracy and human rights "are things that are on the president's mind, and we'll have a chance to discuss those in more depth on the trip." ...
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Israeli Leaders React to Obama Speech
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ARUTZ SHEVA (Israeli National News) - By Maayana Miskin - June 4, 2009
Israeli leaders were largely optimistic in their responses to United States President Barak Obama's speech in Cairo on Thursday. Obama mentioned the Israeli-Arab conflict in his address, and called for the establishment of a PA-led Arab state.
"We share President Obama's hope that the American effort heralds the beginning of a new era, one that will bring an end to the conflict and to Arab recognition of Israel as the nation of the Jewish people," the government said in a press release.
There was no official Israeli reaction to Obama's call for an Arab state in Judea and Samaria, or to his warning that Israel must not build or expand Jewish homes in those areas. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other senior leaders have said that they intend to allow construction within existing Jewish communities.
President Shimon Peres had particularly warm praise for the speech, which he termed "brave" and "filled with vision."
Defense Minister Ehud Barak praised the American president for stressing universal values in his speech. "The address gives encouragement and strength to moderates and those who seek peace, while challenging terrorism and the violence and extremism that threatens regional stability," he said.
Israel will do its part to advance regional peace, while looking out for its security needs, Barak said. He expressed hope that the Arab world would heed Obama's call to end terrorism and violence.
While responses from the cabinet were largely positive, there was criticism of Obama's speech as well. Minister Daniel Hershkowitz, head of the Jewish Home party, said Obama "ignored the fact that the Palestinians have not abandoned terror," and called on the government to reject Obama's call to freeze Jewish growth in Judea and Samaria.
His fellow Jewish Home member, MK Zevulun Orlev, expressed concern as well, saying the speech "raises fears" about America's relationship with Israel. Obama's words suggested that the American commitment to Israel's security may be weakening, he said.
The Judea and Samaria (Yesha) Council had harsher criticism, accusing Obama of "giving priority to Arab lies." Obama referred in his speech to Palestinian Authority Arabs, saying, "For more than 60 years they have endured the pain of dislocation" -- attributing Arab suffering to the creation of the state of Israel, and not to the Six Day War, when Israel took control of Judea, Samaria and Gaza.
The council blamed weak Israeli public relations for America's acceptance of the Arab narrative, saying "the Jewish truth... has been said in a weak and unsure voice."
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ANALYSIS: President's words worry Israel's backers
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES [News World Communications/Moon-Unification Church] - By Barbara Slavin - June 5, 2009 During a major address in Egypt on Thursday, President Obama reached out in friendship to Muslims around the world and distanced himself from Israeli policies more than any other president in decades. Although Mr. Obama said the U.S. bond with Israel is "unbreakable," analysts pointed to subtle but significant shifts in language that indicated that Mr. Obama was not in lock step with the Israeli government on issues including Iran and Palestinian grievances. "This is a very different approach than other presidents have used," said Lee H. Hamilton, president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and co-chairman of the 2006 Iraq Study Group. Mr. Obama won praise from many analysts, including Mr. Hamilton, for speaking out in Cairo against Muslims who deny the Holocaust or indulge in anti-Semitic behavior. But he also worried some Israel supporters by seeming to equate the Palestinian narrative of suffering after the founding of Israel in 1948 with the Jewish narrative of centuries of persecution that culminated in the Nazi massacre of 6 million Jews. ... Read Full Report
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Skeptics Warn of Backlash to 'Great Expectations'
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ARUTZ SHEVA (Israeli National News) - By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu - June 4, 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama's speech "to the Muslim world" on Thursday did not meet many Arab expectations that he state concrete policies in favor of the Muslim world and against Israel. He reached beyond authoritarian Arab governments and appealed to the "man on the street" with promises of equality, democracy and economic development.
The Muslim world's expectations of the historic speech varied from cautious hope to deep skepticism among leaders and spokesmen for the 1.4 billion strong Muslim world. The buildup to the speech was so intense that a wide range of commentators have stated the creation of "Great Expectations" could boomerang.
James Zogby, founder of the Arab-American Institute and a leading Arab spokesman in the United States, warned that "expectations are high and dare not be let down. This speech must be more than banal clichés ("we are not at war with Muslims") or a repetition of hollow visions. It must be bigger, more consequential and more substantial."
The president's speech was one of his typical rhetorical successes, most analysts said, but the clichés that Zogby feared were not spared, with several quotes from the Koran as well as one from the Talmud.
Except for previously announced condemnations of terror in the Palestinian Authority and of a Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria, President Obama did not mention any specific plan except to use his "personal" efforts to put pressure on both Israel and the PA. He has the means to use economic and defense aid as a lever, assuming Congress supports him.
The problem with his message for many Muslims, including those in Egypt, is that those who did not hear the speech live will be dependent on negative interpretations from media, much of which is state-controlled. ...
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Obama Wants PA State, PA Majority Sees No Fatah-Hamas Unity
ARUTZ SHEVA (Israeli National News) - By Hillel Fendel - June 4, 2009
Even as U.S. President Barack Obama tells the world there must be a Palestinian state, the residents of such a "state" themselves say this is not a viable possibility.
A poll released this week shows that 51% of Arabs in Judea, Samaria and Gaza believe that unity between the two new Arab entities in the Land of Israel - Hamas-controlled Gaza and Fatah-ruled Judea and Samaria - will happen "only after a long time." Another 27% says the split is permanent.
Obama did not explain in his Cairo speech heard around the world how he plans to get the two groups to unite. "Hamas must put an end to violence, recognize past agreements, and recognize Israel's right to exist," Obama said, but did not elaborate how this might occur.
Palestinian Authority sources report that PA security forces killed at least two Hamas terrorists today (Thursday) - possibly by drowning them. The two were hiding out in the cellar of a house, and there have been reports that the PA forces flooded the house with water, thus drowning the two.
The incident occurred in Kalkilya, east of Kfar Saba. ...
AFP reported that the civil rights group Amnesty International has "lambasted both Hamas and Fatah for arbitrary detentions, torture and suppression of freedom of speech in their respective areas of control."
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US Ducks Bush Support for Jewish Cities in Yesha
ARUTZ SHEVA (Israeli National News) - By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu - June 3, 2009
The U.S. State Department Tuesday refused to state whether the Obama administration will honor a promise by the previous government that Israel will retain sovereignty over large Jewish areas in Judea and Samaria, in the event that a new Palestinian Authority state is created.
Then-President George W. Bush wrote former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2004, "In light of new realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli populations centers, it is unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949, and all previous efforts to negotiate a two-state solution have reached the same conclusion."
Sylvie Lucas, President of the Economic and Social Council, charged that the refusal of the United States to state whether it is backing the commitment is problematic because "we are continually calling, for example, on the Palestinians - all factions of the Palestinians - to abide by the commitments that previous Palestinian governments have made. And yet you stand at that podium unwilling to declare whether or not the United States feels obligated to abide by the commitment that a previous United States government made." ...
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Barack Meets Barak: Handshake or Arm Twist?
ARUTZ SHEVA (Israeli National News) - By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu - June 2, 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama made an unscheduled appearance Tuesday at a meeting between visiting Defense Minister Ehud Barak and the President's national security advisor, General Jim Jones. The White House did not announce why the President entered.
The brief handshake between the two men may be a gesture in an effort to soothe concerns by the Netanyahu government that the United States is taking too tough a stand with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. The leader of the Likud party explicitly has rejected the American demand for a halt to all construction for Jews in Judea and Samaria. ...
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New Outpost Named "Obama Hilltop"
ARUTZ SHEVA (Israeli National News) - By Hillel Fendel - June 5, 2009
Jewish youths in Judea and Samaria, refusing to accept Obama's "no Jews" decree, have built yet another neighborhood outpost - and named it "Obama Hilltop."
The few against the mighty? With U.S. President Barack Obama having told billions of people across the world that a Palestinian state will happen, and that Jews have few if any rights in Judea and Samaria, several dozen Jewish youths in Israel continue to build more outpost neighborhoods in those very areas.
When Israel's armed forces come to raze the structures, the youths rebuild them once more.
Ramat Migron, Pnei Shilo
This pattern has repeated itself several times just this week. On Tuesday, youths who had been thrown out of Ramat Migron - outside Migron, north of Jerusalem - set up camp in an abandoned army base near Shilo. Army forces arrived the next day on the scene, named Pnei Shilo, and destroyed the lone wooden hut. The youths say they will return - or rebuild somewhere else. ...
Obama Hilltop
Near Kokhav Yaakov, between Jerusalem and Beit El, a new outpost was formed on Friday morning, tentatively called Givat Obama, or Obama Hilltop. The builders say the name is "in recognition of the president's actions, which have led to a dramatic increase in the number of outposts being built throughout Judea and Samaria." ...
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS [Mortimer Zuckerman] - BY Michael Saul - June 5, 2009
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OBAMA PLAN: DOA?
Obama Backfires: Media Raise Doubts, Egypt Snubs 'Instant Peace'
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ARUTZ SHEVA (Israeli National News) - By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu - June 1, 2009
Two days before U.S. President Barack Obama's high-profile visit to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, Israel's mass media has raised doubts about the president's intentions while both Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Egypt have rejected parts of his vision for a new Middle East.
Israel' largest newspaper, Yediot Acharonot, published an op-ed article Monday morning, stating that the Obama government "assumes that the support of Arab and Islamic countries will aid America in exiting Iraq and in successfully dealing with its enemies in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and with the Iranian nuclear project."
The writer, Nahum Barnea, one of Israel's most widely known journalists, added that Prime Minister Netanyahu is worried that American diplomatic plans, including its idea of acting against Iran in exchange for a "two-state solution," may topple his government.
Shmuel Rosner, writing in Maariv, was more specific. "Among [the president's] advisers, there are those who seemed to be inclined toward this view" that Washington would be better off trying to engineer the collapse of the Likud-led coalition government. He noted that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is rumored to favor that strategy.
Former Israel Ambassador to the U.S. Zalman Shoval wrote in Yisrael HaYom, the second-largest Hebrew-language paper in the country, "If the Obama administration decides that the issue of settlements will top the list of issues that are to be resolved - the failure of its planned move is assured in advance."
Prime Minister Netanyahu flatly told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee Monday morning that "freezing life" in Judea and Samaria is not reasonable. He said he accepts the need to dismantle hilltop communities that the U.S. considers illegal but rejects President Obama's immediate halt on all building in Judea and Samaria.
He said the call for stopping all construction is unreasonable and must be part of a final status agreement with the Palestinian Authority, which has American support for agreeing to most of its demands for a new PA state.
The outcome of White House talks with Jordanian King Abdullah II, Prime Minister Netanyahu and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has encouraged the PA and the Arab world to expect President Obama to back his words with actions. Abbas traveled to Jordan on Sunday to coordinate policy before the president arrives in Saudi Arabia and Egypt later this week.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit flatly rejected Washington's pan-Arab peace plan. In an interview with the Saudi newspaper A-sharq Al Awsat, Gheit said the Arab world would not agree to President Obama's suggestion that it prove its good faith by opening its skies to Israel's El Al Airlines.
He said that Muslim countries want Israel to surrender all of Judea and Samaria, as well as the Old City in Jerusalem and several large neighborhoods in the capital, before making any moves that would indicate recognition of the Jewish state.
Gheit echoed Abbas's refusal to define Israel as a Jewish state, a term that would preclude carrying out the Saudi 2002 Peace Plan proposal for the immigration to Israel of millions of foreign Arabs claming ancestry there. ...
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Bowing to the Islamic King
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ARUTZ SHEVA (Israeli National News) - By Maayana Miskin - April 3, 2009
United -States President Barack Obama was caught on camera by journalists on Wednesday bowing in deference to Saudi King Abdullah as he greeted him at the opening of the G20 meeting in London, prior to being photographed with British royalty.
Obama later expressed support for the 2002 Saudi Plan in his meeting Thursday with the Saudi monarch. The two also discussed global economic issues and terrorism, White House staff said.
The meeting between Obama and Abdullah was the first face-to-face talk between the two. The meeting created a storm of debate, primarily among American conservatives, when pictures and a video were released that appeared to show Obama bowing to the Saudi monarch at the G20 photo-op.
Obama reportedly expressed support for the 2002 Saudi Initiative upon winning the presidential election in November of 2008. In his first meeting with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Obama had been quoted as saying of the plan, "The Israelis would be crazy not to support this initiative."
In January of 2009, Saudi officials warned that the U.S. would need to "drastically revise" its Middle East policy, particularly towards Israel, if it wanted to maintain influence in the region.
"If the U.S. wants to continue playing a leadership role in the Middle East and keep its strategic alliances intact - especially its 'special relationship' with Saudi Arabia - it will have to drastically revise its policies vis-a-vis Israel and Palestine," former Saudi ambassador Prince Turki al-Faisal said at the time.
Turki referred to the Middle East policy of former U.S. President George Bush as "sickening," and accused America of "contributing to the slaughter of innocents" by supporting Israel.
Bush expressed strong support for the creation of a PA state, but supported the 2003 Road Map initiative over the Saudi Plan. The Road Map plan calls for the Israel-PA negotiations process to take place in stages, with Israel dismantling Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria only after the PA begins to fight terrorism.
The Saudi Plan calls on Israel to cede Gaza and all land east of the 1949 armistice line, including much of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, to the Palestinian Authority. Israel would also be required to cede the strategic Golan Heights region to Syria.
In addition, the plan requires Israel to release all terrorists currently in its prisons, and to offer citizenship to millions of foreign Arabs who say they are descended from Arabs who fled pre-state Israel during the War of Independence.
In exchange, Arab states would normalize their ties with the Jewish State.
In Israel, the plan has met with little support. Enacting the plan would force roughly 600,000 Israelis from their homes. In addition, senior defense officials have warned that the plan would compromise Israel's security. ...
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THE POLITICO [Allbritton Communications Co] - By Ben Smith - April 8, 2009
The White House is denying that the president bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at a G-20 meeting in London, a scene that drew criticism on the right and praise from some Arab outlets.
"It wasn't a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he's taller than King Abdullah," said an Obama aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The Washington Times called the alleged bow a "shocking display of fealty to a foreign potentate" and said it violated centuries of American tradition of not deferring to royalty. The Weekly Standard, meanwhile, noted that American protocol apparently rules out bowing, or at least it reportedly did on the occasion of a Clinton "near-bow" to the emperor of Japan.
Interestingly, a columnist in the Saudi-backed Arabic paper Asharq Alawsat also took the gesture as a bow and appreciated the move.
"Obama wished to demonstrate his respect and appreciation of the personality of King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz, who has made one of the most important calls in the modern era, namely the call for inter-faith and inter-cultural dialogue to defuse the hatred, conflict and wars," wrote the columnist, Muhammah Diyab.
The video shows Obama dipping toward the king as G-20 leaders greet one another at the ExCel Centre in London.
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This Time No Bow
Obama Treated Like Royalty in Saudi Visit
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NEW YORK POST [News Corporation/Murdoch] - By GEOFF EARLE, Post Correspondent and Post Wire Services - June 4, 2009
WASHINGTON -- President Obama got an oil-royal welcome yesterday as he arrived in Saudi Arabia to begin a new relationship with the Muslim world. The first US president with Islamic roots was met with a grand arrival ceremony, an elaborate coffee service and a kiss from King Abdullah.
The pomp began with a kiss -- two kisses, actually, as the two leaders pecked cheeks in the traditional greeting on the tarmac at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. As he exited Air Force One onto a long red carpet, Obama received a 21-gun salute and was greeted by the Saudi National Guard, along with 150 members of the military and ministers wearing red-checked head coverings.
Obama, wearing a dark suit, also gave Abdullah, bedecked in a flowing white robe, a light hug but no bow -- after drawing conservative criticism for dipping his head to the oil-rich royal in London this spring. They also shook hands.
The two jointly reviewed the troops and stood under a large gazebo shielding them from the desert sun. Obama and Abdullah heard performances of the national anthems of both countries played by a brass band. ...
The birthplace of Islam, Saudi Arabia is still considered guardian of the faith as home to the holy cities of Medina and Mecca. The Sunni Arab powerhouse also sits on the world's largest oil reserves, buys billions in US military equipment, and has cooperated extensively with the United States on anti-terrorist operations. ...
"I thought it was very important to come to the place where Islam began and to seek His Majesty's counsel and to discuss with him many of the issues that we confront here in the Middle East," said Obama.
He said he was struck by Abdullah's "wisdom and his graciousness."
Abdullah expressed his "best wishes to the friendly American people who are represented by a distinguished man who deserves to be in this position."
Obama, whose father was a Kenyan Muslim, offered a word in Arabic. He told the king "shukran," or "thank you."
The lavish diplomatic flourishes spoke to the importance of the relationship to both countries.
The Saudis "need the US for protection, for security -- therefore, for them to be close to the United States is absolutely what they need," said Marius Deeb, a professor of Islamic studies at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.
He said the Saudis believe that Obama is a "special president who wants to change a lot of things in terms of relations with other countries in the world. I think they welcome that."
Obama's arrival in the desert kingdom coincided with the release of a new audiotape by Osama bin Laden. The Saudi-born terror lord blamed the US for the recent retreat by Taliban thugs in Pakistan and spewed, "Let the American people be ready to reap what the White House leaders have sown."
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Obama declares US not at war with Islam
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ASSOCIATED PRESS - By Tom Raum - April 6, 2009
ANKARA, Turkey - Barack Obama, making his first visit to a Muslim nation as president, declared Monday the United States "is not and will never be at war with Islam."
Calling for a greater partnership with the Islamic world in an address to the Turkish parliament, Obama called the country an important U.S. ally in many areas, including the fight against terrorism. He devoted much of his speech to urging a greater bond between Americans and Muslims, portraying terrorist groups such as al Qaida as extremists who did not represent the vast majority of Muslims.
"Let me say this as clearly as I can," Obama said. "The United States is not and never will be at war with Islam. In fact, our partnership with the Muslim world is critical ... in rolling back a fringe ideology that people of all faiths reject."
The U.S. president is trying to mend fences with a Muslim world that felt it had been blamed by America for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Al Jazeera and Al Arabiyia, two of the biggest Arabic satellite channels, carried Obama's speech live.
Obama said the partnership between the U.S. and the Muslim world is critical in rolling back what he called a fringe ideology that people of all faiths reject.
"America's relationship with the Muslim world cannot and will not be based on opposition to al Qaida," he said. "We seek broad engagement based upon mutual interests and mutual respect."
"We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over so many centuries to shape the world for the better, including my own country," Obama said.
Obama also said, to a round of applause, that the United States supports Turkey becoming a member of the European Union.
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More Messianic Madness
Marking 144th Anniversary of Lincoln Assassination by Celebrating 'Messianic' Obama
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NEWSBUSTERS.org [Media Research Center] - By Ken Shepherd - April 15, 2009
One hundred forty-four years after his assassination, Chicago Tribune religion blogger Manya Brachear hacked out an 11-paragraph post on how "Lincoln's death had sacred significance," according to some historians and Lincoln biographers.
"Harold Holzer, co-chair of the U.S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, said the Good Friday assassination earned Lincoln a permanent place in American mythology," Brachear noted in her April 14 post, before quoting Holzer's argument at length.
But no Lincoln story in the mainstream media is complete without an Obama tie-in, and Brachear made sure to deliver, again quoting Holzer:
Holzer said he has witnessed a similar passion about the man in the White House today.
"We have a president now who sort of seems to have a messianic quality to him in life," Holzer said. "There is a fervor about [Barack] Obama in life that there was about Lincoln in death. It's extraordinary to watch it unfold in good health and safety."
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National Day of Prayer
Obama's prayer snub brings reproach
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES [News World Communications/Moon-Unification Church] - By Julia Duin - May 8, 2009
Several members of Congress and one of America's most prominent religious leaders criticized President Obama on Capitol Hill on Thursday for a seeming brush-off during National Day of Prayer observances and for not referring to America as a "Judeo-Christian" nation in remarks last month in Turkey.
"We are disappointed at the lack of emphasis on prayer at the National Day of Prayer," James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, told reporters at the Cannon House Office Building after a three-hour prayer observance.
"There are tens of millions of people praying across this country - 40,000 prayer events taking place today - and yet for the first time since 1993, the White House did not even send a representative of the Cabinet to the National Day of Prayer.
"Bill Clinton did during his eight years," Mr. Dobson continued. "It goes clear on back to Ronald Reagan making the first Thursday of May the National Day of Prayer ... and in recent years, certainly there has been a White House presence but there's not today."
The White House press office issued a photo of the president signing a proclamation observing the event in the Oval Office, flanked by Josh Dubois, head of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
In part, the proclamation said the president calls on "Americans to pray in thanksgiving for our freedoms and blessings and to ask for God's continued guidance, grace and protection for this land that we love."
It also took note of the "service and sacrifice" of those in the armed forces and referred to the economic downturn by calling on Americans "to feed the hungry and comfort the afflicted; to make peace where there is strife and to lift up those who have fallen on hard times."
Those who observe the day of prayer, it added, should "remember the one law that binds all great religions together: the Golden Rule, and its call to love one another, to understand one another, and to treat with dignity and respect those with whom we share a brief moment on this Earth." ...
Members of Congress also criticized remarks by Mr. Obama last month that "we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation, or a Jewish nation, or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values." ...
During the Bush years, there was a formal early morning prayer ceremony in the East Room to which Mr. Dobson and his wife, Shirley, who is chairwoman of the National Day of Prayer task force, had front-row seats.
"When the professional baseball team wins the World Series or when the Super Bowl is played or when college teams win the national championship, they are invited to the White House to celebrate," Mr. Dobson said. "That's important, apparently, but celebrating prayer ... is ignored."
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Obama Uses Sermon on the Mount to Elevate Speeches
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The president has used the mountainside sermon several times in recent years to explain policy.
RELIGION NEWS SERVICE [Advance/Newhouse] - By Daniel Burke - April 24, 2009
Ed Note: To say that a
passage in Romans is obscure compared to the Sermon on the Mount is like saying
Chicago is an obscure city compared to New York. Barack Obama is either
completely Biblically illiterate, a liar or an idiot.
BE/\LERT!
WASHINGTON - In a 2006 speech here, then-Sen. Barack Obama said Jesus' Sermon on the Mount was so "radical" the Defense Department wouldn't survive its application. Earlier this month, the new president suggested the economy couldn't get along without it.
In the middle of a nuts-and-bolts speech at Georgetown University on economic policy, Obama overtly cited the sermon's parable of two men, one of whom builds his house on rock, the other on sand. "We cannot rebuild this economy on the same pile of sand," the president said. "We must build our house upon a rock."
The reference to Jesus' most famous - and notoriously challenging - sermon quickly drew attention from the media, some of whom labeled the speech "Obama's Economic Sermon on the Mount."
Obama has referred to Jesus' mountainside sermon several times in recent years, sometimes using the same two-houses parable to make a point about sound government policy, at other times using the sermon's wider message of tolerance and love to defend his progressive interpretation of Christianity.
For instance, on the campaign trail last March, and in his book "The Audacity of Hope," Obama has cited the sermon to explain his support for same-sex civil unions.
"If people find that controversial, then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount, which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans," Obama said at a campaign event in Ohio when a local pastor asked him how he plans to win evangelical votes when he disagrees with many of them about same-sex unions.
In his letter to the Romans, St. Paul condemns homosexual acts as unnatural and "unseemly." ...
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Obama's Christian "Point Man"
'The Perfect Hybrid'
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At 26, Joshua DuBois has already been a pastor and a congressional fellow, and is now the President's faith-based point man.
CHRISTIANITY TODAY [CTI Publications] - By Sarah Pulliam - May 13, 2009
Ed. Note: Reading between
the lines I can immediately tell that Joshua DuBois is influenced by the
Emergent Church with books such as Blue Like Jazz and attending a church
aligned with the Emergent Mosaic Alliance.BE/\LERT!
At 26, Joshua Dubois has already rubbed shoulders with more religious leaders than most religious leaders will in their lifetime.
And he's starting to do a lot more of the same as President Obama's director of the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
He'll be rubbing shoulders with the President, too. In fact, nearly everyone who knows DuBois believes he holds a special bond with the new President, an asset previous directors of the office say will be vital in order for his priorities to gain any attention.
During the campaign, DuBois put together a daily devotional for Obama, using passages of Scripture and other religious books. Now he's helping him choose a church home in Washington, D.C. ...
DuBois speaks openly about faith without going into many details. He's quick to clarify that, because of his new role, he wants to welcome all faiths. When asked whether he describes himself as an evangelical, he didn't directly respond. "In my role with the federal government," he explained, "I try to be clear that I'm not ashamed of my faith, but I try not to get into too many labels."
Similarly, those who know him say that DuBois avoids the traditional religious dividing lines in his work as he meets with conservative organizations like the Family Research Council and liberal groups like Faith in Public Life. "He's not interested in the old ways in which we've sliced and diced communities," said Melissa Rogers, director of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity Center for Religion and Public Affairs and a member of the office's advisory council.
DuBois has also built relationships with people not known for political advocacy, such as Blue Like Jazz author Donald Miller and Relevant magazine founder Cameron Strang.
"If you want to appeal to conservative evangelicals, you don't necessarily go to an organization," said Joel Hunter, senior pastor of Northland Church in Longwood, Florida. "You think in terms of individuals instead of institutional leadership. That's part of the makeup of the coming generation of evangelicals."
During the campaign, DuBois met repeatedly with Hunter and other religious leaders from all over the country. He met with Granberg-Michaelson at Wrigley Field in Chicago.
"We talked about how I worked with a Christian senator, Mark Hatfield, how a church relates to the issues of political power, and how those in politics relate to those in the Christian community," Granberg-Michaelson said. "We just had an awful lot in common and a lot to talk about. In the 2004 election, the job of Democratic religious outreach often seemed like being a tourism director for Gary, Indiana." ...
DuBois grew up in Nashville, where his stepfather is a minister in an African Methodist Episcopal church. ...
But even though DuBois grew up in a Christian home, he said it wasn't until attending Boston University that he began to have a personal relationship with Jesus. "Maybe there are some preachers' kids who had a similar experience, maybe because I was so close to the church in some ways, I was further away from it. Maybe I thought I knew everything," he said. "It really took me leaving home to realize that something was missing in my life."
Eugene Schneeberg, DuBois' college friend and prayer partner to this day, invited him to Calvary Praise and Worship Center, a small African American Pentecostal congregation in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Just two years later, DuBois became the church's associate pastor.
Like the President, DuBois is still looking for a permanent church home in Washington. He has been attending National Community Church, whose congregation of mostly 20-somethings meet in several movie theaters in the District. The church, pastored by Mark Batterson, is aligned with the Assemblies of God, the Willow Creek Association, and the Mosaic Alliance-which may be ideal for someone who is constantly trying to reach out to many denominations. ...
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Jesus Missing From Obama's Georgetown Speech
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White House asked university to cover symbol
NBC NEWS [NBC-Universal/GE] - By Jim Iovino - April 16, 2009
Amidst all of the American flags and presidential seals, there was something missing when President Barack Obama gave an economic speech at Georgetown University this week -- Jesus.
The White House asked Georgetown to cover a monogram symbolizing Jesus' name in Gaston Hall, which Obama used for his speech, according to CNSNews.com.
The gold "IHS" monogram inscribed on a pediment in the hall was covered over by a piece of black-painted plywood, and remained covered over the next day, CNSNews.com reported.
The Washington Times' Belief Blog asked the university about the presidential request:
Julie Bataille from the university's press office e-mailed me that the White House had asked that all university signage and symbols behind the stage in Gaston Hall be covered.
"The White House wanted a simple backdrop of flags and pipe and drape for the speech, consistent with what they've done for other policy speeches," she wrote. "Frankly, the pipe and drape wasn't high enough by itself to fully cover the IHS and cross above the GU seal and it seemed most respectful to have them covered so as not to be seen out of context."
While the "IHS" directly behind where Obama spoke was covered over, CNSNews.com said the monogram was still visible in 26 other places in the hall during his speech. Those areas just weren't as prominent.
The Belief Blog talked with the Rev. Thomas Reese, a senior fellow at the Woodstock Institute at Georgetown University, who said he didn't think "this is motivated by theology, but by communications strategy."
The blog also talked with Catholic University spokesman Victor Nakas, who felt a bit more strongly on the subject:
"I can't imagine, as the bishops' university and the national university of the Catholic Church, that we would ever cover up our religious art or signage for any reason," Mr. Nakas wrote. "Our Catholic faith is integral to our identity as an institution of higher education."
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| Obama's Request to Cover Christian Symbol Reveals Country's Move toward Socialism, Secularism, Congressman Says |
CYBERCAST NEWS SERVICE (CNSN.com) [Media Research Center] - By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer - April 28, 2009
Rep. John Fleming (R-La.) said he was "disturbed" by President Barack Obama's request to have the symbolic name for Jesus Christ - IHS - covered from a pediment that was visible behind him when he spoke at Georgetown University's Gaston Hall on April 14.
"I join many Christians in expressing my outrage at this request," Fleming said after requesting one minute to speak on the House floor. ...
As first reported by CNSNews.com, the pediment attached to the wall that was to be the backdrop for Obama's speech at the Catholic university featured the IHS symbol for Jesus Christ. The Obama administration asked school officials to cover the symbol, which was done by placing a piece of plywood painted black over it. ...
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OBAMA WHITE HOUSE PROCLAIMS JUNE HOMOSEXUAL, LESBIAN, AND SEX CHANGE PRIDE MONTH
Please join with us in praying God's swift and mighty judgment on the Obama administration - Moriel
Obama declares June 'LGBT Pride Month' |
ONE NEWS NOW [American Family News Network] - By Jody Brown and Allie Martin - June 2, 2009
In a presidential proclamation on the White House website, Barack Obama has lauded what he calls "the determination and dedication" of the LGBT movement by proclaiming June as "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month."
"The LGBT rights movement has achieved great progress," Obama states in the official proclamation, "but there is more to be done. LGBT youth should feel safe to learn without the fear of harassment, and LGBT families and seniors should be allowed to live their lives with dignity and respect."
The proclamation, released on Monday, credits the LGBT movement with being a factor in more Americans who ascribe to those groups "living their lives openly today than ever before."
The president also takes pride in being the first U.S. chief executive to appoint "openly LGBT" candidates to Senate-confirmed positions in the first 100 days of an administration.
He uses the proclamation to emphasize LGBT-related initiatives that he intends to pursue in the future -- both domestically and internationally.
"I have joined efforts at the United Nations to decriminalize homosexual around the world," he states. "Here at home, I continue to support measures to bring the full spectrum of equal rights to LGBT Americans."
Among those measures he lists "hate crimes" laws, civil unions, discrimination in the workplace, adoption rights, and ending the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy "in a way that strengthens our Armed Forces and our national security."
Presidential pandering
Pro-family activist says Peter LaBarbera it is sad, but not surprising, that President Obama has chosen to issue a proclamation celebrating homosexuality. The president of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality says Obama is pandering to homosexual political activists.
"Homosexuality is nothing to be proud of -- bottom line," says LaBarbera. "The fact is people have left the lifestyle, people have overcome homosexuality [with God's help] -- I think that's something to be proud of...."
LaBarbera warns of the repercussions of the president's pursuit of expanded rights for those who are confused about their sexual orientation.
"This proclamation talks about the entire radical homosexual agenda that Obama supports -- including homosexualizing the U.S. military [and] federal so-called 'rights' based on homosexuality, which will impinge on the religious freedoms and freedom of conscience of other Americans."
Christians, he believes, must reach out to homosexuals with the message of the gospel.
Read the official White House proclamation
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Evangelicals frustrated by Obama's 'Gay Pride' decree
Southern BAPTIST PRESS News - June 2, 2009
Clinton's proclamations differed from Obama's in calling June "Gay and Lesbian Pride Month", leaving out "bisexual" and "transgender."
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'Gay' activist to promote 'safe' schools
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Obama administration appoints radical homosexual to Department of Education
WORLDNETDAILY - June 5, 2009
Kevin Jennings, a homosexual activist who worked to create "safe spaces" for gay students at schools, has been appointed by the Obama administration to be assistant deputy secretary of the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools inside the Department of Education.
Jennings is also the founder of the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a "leading advocacy organization to promote a homosexual agenda in schools," said Peter Sprigg, senior fellow for policy studies at the Family Research Council.
"Their definition of safe schools are schools in which homosexuality is not only tolerated but is actively affirmed," added Sprigg.
He spoke with Greg Corombos of Radio America/WND. The audio of the exchange is here
Jennings coordinated school-centered campaigns, such as the annual "National Day of Silence," which Sprigg describes as part of a "safe schools" strategy that "takes a number of forms" to advance the normalization of homosexuality to children. ...
Jennings, who wrote the foreword for a book called "Queering Elementary Education: Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling" once gave a speech in which he told the "religious right" to "drop dead."
Jennings is "controversial even for a 'gay' activist," said Sprigg.
"I just think his stands are beyond the pale."
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| Obama more than tolerant of homosexual lifestyle |
ONE NEWS NOW [American Family News Network] - By Allie Martin - June 5, 2009
A leader in the Southern Baptist Convention says President Barack Obama's recent proclamation designating a homosexual "pride" month goes beyond mere tolerance.
Earlier this week, the White House released a proclamation recognizing June as "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month." The proclamation was signed by President Obama and mentioned the record number of homosexuals he has nominated and chosen for positions in his administration. It also called for equal justice under the law for homosexuals and transgendered Americans. (See earlier story)
Dr. Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, says the proclamation advocates more than mere tolerance.
"The United States federal government, now by executive order, signed by the President of the United States, is declaring national pride in these lifestyles," he contends. "This is not mere toleration; it's not calling for legalization, an end to criminal sanctions. It's not calling even for something like civil unions...it's calling for pride."
Scripture, Mohler points out, does not allow Christians to be proud of sin.
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| Barack Obama is a narcissist |
GLOBAL POLITICIAN - By Sam Vaknin, Ph.D
Dr. Vaknin has written extensively about narcissism.
Dr. Vaknin states "I must confess I was impressed by Sen.Barack Obama from the first time I saw him. At first I was excited to see a black candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident - a wholesome presidential package. I was put off soon, not just because of his shallowness but also because there was an air of haughtiness in his demeanor that was unsettling. His posture and his body language were louder than his empty words. Obama's speeches are unlike any political speech we have heard in American history. Never a politician in this land had such quasi "religious" impact on so many people. The fact that Obama is a total incognito with zero accomplishment, makes this inexplicable infatuation alarming. Obama is not an ordinary man. He is not a genius. In fact he is quite ignorant on most important subjects."
Barack Obama is a narcissist.
Dr. Sam Vaknin, the author of the Malignant Self Love believes "Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist.." Vaknin is a world authority on narcissism. He understands narcissism and describes the inner mind of a narcissist like no other person. When he talks about narcissism everyone listens. Vaknin says that Obama's language, posture and demeanor, and the testimonies of his closest, dearest and nearest suggest that the Senator is either a narcissist or he may have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). Narcissists project a grandiose but false image of themselves. Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of People's Temple, the man who led over 900 of his followers to cheerfully commit mass suicide and even murder their own children was also a narcissist. David Koresh, Charles Manson, Joseph Koni, Shoko Asahara, Stalin, Saddam, Mao,Kim Jong Ill and Adolph Hitler are a few examples of narcissists of our time. All these men had a tremendous influence over their fanciers. They created a personality cult around themselves and with their blazing speeches elevated their admirers, filled their hearts with enthusiasm and instilled in their minds a new zest for life. They gave them hope! They promised them the moon, but alas, invariably they brought them to their doom. When you are a victim of a cult of personality, you don't know it until it is too late. One determining factor in the development of NPD is childhood abuse.
"Obama's early life was decidedly chaotic and replete with traumatic and mentally bruising dislocations," says Vaknin. "Mixed-race marriages were even less common then. His parents went through a divorce when he was an infant (two years old). Obama saw his father only once again, before he died in a car accident. Then his mother re-married and Obama had to relocate to Indonesia, a foreign land with a radically foreign culture, to be raised by a step-father. At the age of ten, he was whisked off to live with his maternal (white)grandparents. He saw his mother only intermittently in the following few years and then she vanished from his life in 1979. She died of cancer in 1995".
One must never underestimate the manipulative genius of pathological narcissists. They project such an imposing personality that it overwhelms those around them. Charmed by the charisma of the narcissist, people become like clay in his hands. They cheerfully do his bidding and delight to be at his service. The narcissist shapes the world around himself and reduces others in his own inverted image. He creates a cult of personality. His admirers become his co-dependents Narcissists have no interest in things that do not help them to reach their personal objective. They are focused on one thing alone and that is power. All other issues are meaningless to them and they do not want to waste their precious time on trivialities. Anything that does not help them is beneath them and do not deserve their attention. ...
The University of Chicago Law School provided him a lot longer than expected and at the end it evolved into, guess what? His own autobiography! Instead of writing a scholarly paper focusing on race relations, for which he had been paid, Obama could not resist writing about his most sublime self. He entitled the book Dreams from My Father.
Not surprisingly, Adolph Hitler also wrote his own autobiography when he was still nobody. So did Stalin. For a narcissist no subject is as important as his own self. Why would he waste his precious time and genius writing about insignificant things when he can write about such an august being as himself? Narcissists are often callous and even ruthless. As the norm, they lack conscience. This is evident from Obama's lack of interest in his own brother who lives on only one dollar per month. ...
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Do You Recognize Barack Obama in These Texts? - First Series
GLOBAL POLITICIAN - By Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. - March 2, 2009
This is the first in a series of articles examining Obama's psychological makeup in minute detail.
By now, the world had two years of exposure to Barack Obama. We all have followed his exploits and antics; have watched him on television; have heard his speeches; have witnessed his scripted and spontaneous interactions with family, subordinates, co-workers, and friends.
You should read this text with a few grains of salt. Scroll to the bottom to review the disclaimers.
I also recommend that you get acquainted my previous article: "Barack Obama: A Narcissist, or Merely Narcissistic?"
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