lol. Holy??? Well, if they'd watched and learned anything from The Incredibles, they'd not be wearing capes these days. It does look like they understand the concept of the trojan horse quite well, though.
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lol. Holy??? Well, if they'd watched and learned anything from The Incredibles, they'd not be wearing capes these days. It does look like they understand the concept of the trojan horse quite well, though.
By NWV News writer Jim Kouri
Posted 1:00 AM Eastern
November 4, 2010
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At least 62 Iraqi Christians were killed and over 60 wounded on Sunday in a terrorist inspired bloodbath at Baghdad's Our Lady of Deliverance Catholic Church. U.S. special forces troops, together with Iraqi security forces, launched a deadly attempt to free the Christian being held hostage by the terrorist captors.
The Al Qaeda-linked "Islamic State of Iraq" claimed responsibility and threatened to "exterminate Iraqi Christians." This shadowy jihad terror network justified the savagery on religious grounds, claiming that the church was an "obscene nest of the polytheists [infidels]" and a "base for their struggle against the religion of Islam."
Since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime, more than half the country's Christian population has been forced by targeted violence to seek refuge abroad or to live away from their homes as internally displaced people.
According to the Hammurabi Human Rights Organization, over 700 Christians, including bishops and priests, have been killed and 61 churches have been bombed.
Last year, this writer reported that after weeks of violence against Iraqi Christians, many churches closed their doors on Christmas and hosted only a few guests for late-afternoon Christmas Eve masses.
According to the Pentagon, the majority of attacks against Christians have occurred in Mosul, including three car bombings that have occurred in the past two weeks. In late 2008, hundreds of Christians fled the city after attacks.
Either intentionally or unintentionally, United States news media outlets are ignoring the violence perpetrated by Muslims against Christians in Iraq.
While some believe this stems from the fact that reporters have moved on to stories other than US operations in Iraq, others believe this lack of coverage has more to do with the anti-Christian bias that exists within the media. The current Muslim-on-Christian violence does not fit the media template — Christian bigotry against Islam.
Provincial police representatives in Iraq's Kirkuk province met on May 4 with Christian leaders in Kirkuk city to address concerns about increased violence against Kirkuk's Christian minority, according to Justin Naylor of the American Forces Press Office.
Only about 3 percent of Iraq's total population — about 800,000 Iraqis — are Christian.
"Anyone that targets you, targets us also," said Major General Assam Turhan, the Kirkuk city deputy police chief, a Kurdish Muslim.
Two attacks on April 26 left three Christian residents of Kirkuk dead and two others injured, the third series of attacks targeting Christians in the city in recent months.
"Our history has always coincided with yours," Turhan said at the meeting.
Following the attack, Iraqi police began visiting Christians in their homes to reassure them of police presence and to create lines of communication that the Christians could use in case of emergencies.
Unlike in the aftermath of attacks in the past, Christians did not flee the city this time, Turhan said. For some, he added, the attacks only redoubled their determination to stay and prove that they will not be frightened away.
"We feel safe here, and we are planning on staying," one Christian told Turhan.
A Christian representative at the meeting commended the police's efforts to protect them. "We have received great support from the [police], and they responded to the attacks well," he said.
Christian neighborhoods and churches are receiving special attention and extra security to prevent further bloodshed, police officials said.
Following the attacks, police operations surged and three suspects believed to be involved in the murders were arrested.
OBAMA IGNORES PLIGHT OF CHRISTIANS
Seven years after the commencement of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Catholic Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk reports: "He who is not a Muslim in Iraq is a second-class citizen. Often it is necessary to convert or emigrate, otherwise one risks being killed."
"This anti-Christian violence," Dr. John Eibner, CEO of Christian Solidarity International reminded Obama, "is sustained by a widespread culture of Muslim supremacism that extends far beyond those who pull the triggers and detonate the bombs."
Eibner also asked President Obama to act in harmony with House Resolution 944 by instructing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to present Congress with a "comprehensive strategy to encourage the protection of the rights of members of vulnerable religious and ethnic minority communities in Iraq."
Just over two years ago, during the 2008 Presidential campaign, then Sen. Obama wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on account of the "heavy price" paid by Iraq's Christians and other religious minorities, requesting answers to a set of questions, among them.
"What specific steps has the State Department taken to urge the Iraqi government to provide protection to Iraq's Christian and other non-Muslim religious minorities? Has the Iraqi government been responsive to requests for such protection? What is the U.S. government's assessment of the Iraqi government's efforts to protect religious minority communities?" (Sen. Obama to Secretary Rice, September 26, 2008.)
Eibner concluded by requesting the U.S. President to spare no effort to ensure that American and Iraqi security forces provide the same level of security to Iraq's endangered Christian community as has been long provided for America's Muslim population.
"Anything even remotely considered a slight by the U.S. against Muslims is quickly addressed by the Obama administration. Is it asking too much for that response to violence perpetrated against Christians?" asked former police detective and Marine Mike Snopes.
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Obama Praises "Toleration" as Indonesian Churches Burn
Written by James Heiser Thursday, 11 November 2010 08:37 3
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President Obama’s return to Indonesia, the nation where he spent four years of his childhood, has brought further confusion regarding the response of his administration to the ideology of Islam. Obama’s tortuous equivocations in Mumbai, India, as he responded to a simple question — “What is your opinion of Jihad?” — raised again the specter of Islam that has haunted his administration. Among other points, as noted by CBS News, the visit to Jakarta emphasized the ambiguity of the childhood faith of Barry Sotero (the President’s childhood name): When he arrived in Indonesia at age 6, he first enrolled in the St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School. The headmaster at the school showed CBS News the documents — that "Muslim" was filled in under "religion" in his enrollment papers. School officials say it was standard practice to give the religion of a student's father, and young Barry's stepfather was a Muslim.
But it has led some to suggest, erroneously, that the president is a Muslim, even though he's been a practicing Christian for decades.
However, the comments of President Obama concerning Islam, the dominant religion in Indonesia, are of far greater significance than any speculations regarding his childhood beliefs. Astoundingly, Obama compared Indonesia (a nation that has only recently begun to emerge from being an unabashed dictatorship) to the United States, declaring that the two nations share a spirit of toleration. As Scott Wilson wrote for the Washington Post:
He also praised Indonesia — the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation — for a "spirit of tolerance that is written into your constitution, symbolized in your mosques and churches and temples, and embodied in your people," a quality worthy for all the world to emulate.
Obama received a warm welcome from the crowd of about 6,500 at the University of Indonesia, particularly when he spoke in Indonesian, as when he recalled buying satay and bakso from street vendors or referenced the national motto, "Bhinneka Tunggal Ika," or "Unity in Diversity."
"We are two nations which have traveled different paths. Yet our nations show that hundreds of millions who hold different beliefs can be united in freedom under one flag," Obama said.
For those Christians whose experience of Indonesian "toleration" is not limited to childhood memories, Obama’s words are likely to elicit sorrow and pain. According to the Jakarta Christian Communication Forum (FKKJ), religious violence has been on the increase since Indonesian independence, and Christians have been the target of much of that violence. According to an October 26 report at Persecution.org:
The latest violent incident occurred in Sukoharjo, Central Java, on Oct. 13, when 12 people on motorcycles set fire to a Protestant church, said Theophilus Bella of the Jakarta Christian Communication Forum (FKKJ), which documents sectarian violence in Indonesia. A day before, an attempt to set fire to St. Joseph Catholic church in Klaten, Central Java, was foiled and caused only minor damage, he said in a report made available to The Jakarta Post. On Oct. 17, radical Muslims threatened to attack a Catholic church in Karanganyar, Central Java.
Last month, an unidentified group attacked a Catholic church in Pasir regency, East Kalimantan, it said.
Most of the incidents over the last several years took place in Greater Jakarta and West Java, including attacks and forcible church closures that occurred with little or no intervention from the government, the report said....
The FKKJ said religious violence in Indonesia has escalated since the country gained independence in 1945.
Between 1945 and 1967, two churches were set on fire. Between 1967 and 1969, after former president Soeharto took power, 10 attacks were recorded.
Church attacks soared to 460 between 1969 and 1998, after Soeharto’s government issued a joint ministerial decree on establishing places of worship, which was seen as favoring the nation’s Muslim majority.
After the start of the reform era in 1998, the number of cases skyrocketed to 700, bringing the total number of church attacks between 1945 and 2010 to 1,200.
“It’s not wrong to say that Indonesia is the world champion of church burnings,” Theophilus said.
Catholic priest Benny Susetyo, executive secretary of the Indonesian Bishops’ Council, said that the attacks were due to weak law enforcement.
“Terror has increased due to negligence on the part of law enforcement officials,” he said. Benny added that violence against the churches had continued since perpetrators could act with impunity.
It is hard to imagine that President Obama would be praising the tolerance of a Christian nation if it had witnessed the burning of 700 mosques since 1998. However, Obama would search the nations of the West in vain to find one in which violent religious bigotry is tolerated the way it is alleged to have been in Indonesia. When a mosque was burned in Serbia in 2004, eight men were arrested, tried for, and found guilty of, the crime. When a fire damaged equipment at the construction site of an Islamic center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee this year, officials offered a $20,000 reward for information regarding the perpetrators, and the FBI considered investigating the incident as a hate crime.
The United States and Indonesia are certainly traveling different paths, and contrary to Obama’s "spin," the history of the two nations regarding the relationship between Christians and Muslims and the experience of "religious tolerance" is vastly different. On the eve of Veterans Day, the President's comparison is an offense to the memory of those men and women who have given their lives in defense of a Constitution that enshrines freedom of religion among our most sacred enumerated rights.
Sealing records clearly indicates hiding something, many things.
Something else came to mind. BO hasn't gone to Church since being in the WH, has he? But he has, if not mistaken, engaged in prayer with muslims.
Obama's actions speak so much louder than his words:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2o2fKbLJc8
He is.
Still, curiously if you google "Kennedy Dimona" there is compelling information to support the allegation by Quedafi duck.
Obama Offers Muslims Best Wishes on Ramadan
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US President Barack Obama extended his best wishes Monday to Muslims beginning the holy fasting month of Ramadan, using the occasion to urge people to help victims of drought and famine in Africa.
His Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also extended good wishes to the world's 1.6 billion Muslims, while blasting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime for orchestrating a deadly assault against protesters at the start of the holy month.
Ramadan is "a time of deep reflection and sacrifice. As in other faiths, fasting is used to increase spirituality, discipline, and consciousness of God's mercy," Obama said in a statement.
I found this Media Matters video fuming over FOX and Friends pointing out Obama's greater enthusiasm over Islam compared to his Christian religion.
Actions speaks louder than words...I agree with FOX. :D
Obama and Clinton Wish Muslim People Around the World
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
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WASHINGTON – The US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton have expressed their warmth wishes to all the Muslim people all over the world as Ramadan month started on Monday. One of the important months ‘Ramadan’ in Muslim calendar started on Monday, all the days in the month the world Muslims will be on fasting with one time meal and help the poor by a portion of their revenue in the particular year, this humanitarian act has been traditionally followed in the months from the originations of the Muslim Religion in the world.
On the occasion of the Ramadan month start the world leaders have expressed their wishes to all Muslim people around the world.
US President Barack Obama in his message said, “As Ramadan month begins I and Michelle would like to express our best wishes to all Muslim people in United States and around the world. It is one of the festive months, mostly expected for month by all the Muslim people everywhere. Family members, community and friends irrespective of religions are collectively gathering together to take part in iftar and prayers. In this happy occasion we wish all the Muslim people around the world have a blessed Ramadan month.”
In her statement by Hilary Clinton, “On behalf of our nation I wish all the Muslim people all over the world a happy and a blessed Ramadan”.
“This month is marked with a lot self reflection, self renaissance, new sharing and renewal by all Muslim brothers and sisters around the world. American Muslim have paid valuable contributions to the development of our nation and millions of its kind to the world and this month commemorated with lot of selfless acts and voluntarisms”
/gag
Gallup: Muslim Americans Give Obama 80 Percent Approval, Highest of Major Religions
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
By Terence P. Jeffrey
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Zaytuna College co-founder Dr. Hatem Bazian, foreground, and co-rounder and chairman of the board Shaykh Hamza Yusuf pray at Zaytuna College in Berkeley, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
(CNSNews.com) -- Eighty percent of Muslim Americans approve of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president, according to a newly released survey conducted by the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center, a partnership between Gallup and the Crown Prince Court of Abu Dhabi.
According to the survey, 65 percent of Jewish Americans approve of the job Obama is doing; 60 percent of atheists, agnostics, and those of no religion approve; 50 percent of Catholics approve; 37 percent of Protestants approve and 25 percent of Mormons approve.
Although published this month, the survey of Muslim Americans was actually completed on April 9. (In Gallup’s overall polling in the week that ended April 10, Obama’s approval was at 45 percent, slightly higher than the 42 percent it hit last week.)
Obama’s approval among Muslim Americans has declined since 2009 but still remains far higher than the approval President George W. Bush’s won among Muslim Americans in 2008. In that year, only 7 percent of Muslim Americans said they approved of the job Bush was doing.
In 2009, 84 percent of Muslim Americans said they approved of the job Obama was doing. That dropped to 78 percent in 2010 and then rose to 80 percent this year.
The Abu Dhabi Gallup Center says it interviewed 3,883 self-identified Muslim Americans between Jan. 1, 2008 and April 9, 2011 to get its polling trends in that community. The interviews were part of Gallup’s ongoing polling of at least 1,000 American adults 350 days per year.