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September 8, 2008
'How the Islamic world views Obama'
Topics: Political News and commentariesThe blogosphere lit up yesterday about Obama's interview with George Stephanopolous when he "appeared to refer" to his Muslim faith (Stephanopolous, actually corrected Obama, telling Obama he meant "Christian") . As it turns out, when reviewed in context, he was referring to people who say he's Muslim. However, the brouhaha over the mere thought of Obama being a Muslim points out all the more that it is clear that Americans are not willing to accept having a Muslim in the White House. On the other hand, Muslims are ecstatic over the possibility of having Obama in the White House - as exemplified by what Menashe Amir, the Iranian-born head of Radio Israel's Persian language service, has said: "One of the Iranian religious leaders said if Obama will enter the White House, then Islam will conquer the heart of the American nation."
So even though Obama isn't a Muslim, and we know this "because he says so," Muslims believe otherwise. And as Hugh Fitzgerald's piece today at Jihad Watch points out, herein lies a significant problem. If Muslim regimes and rulers and peoples believe that Obama is a "secret sympathizer" (naturally not making a move toward an open return, or reversion, to Islam out of political calculations that they, the taqiyya-masters, find perfectly understandable, even laudable), they may well be emboldened to act as they might otherwise not act. Here's an excerpt of what Fitzgerald has to say about such a scenario:
Menashe Amir, the Iranian-born head of Radio Israel's Persian language service, has said: "One of the Iranian religious leaders said if Obama will enter the White House, then Islam will conquer the heart of the American nation."Of course Barack Obama is not a Muslim. But if Muslim peoples and states are heartened by the belief that his "Muslim connection" makes him a secret sympathizer, and if he acts in such a way as to allow Muslims, with their conspiracy-theory view of things (conspiracies against them, but also secret conspiracies by "hidden" Muslims), to continue to believe that he is, then it is not enough for him merely to deny being a Muslim. For that is not the main point, or should not be, in what is worrisome about that "Muslim connection" insufficiently rejected. Obama has not provided any demonstration of that rejection -- a meeting with Ayaan Hirsi Ali might help. Nor has he shown any understanding of Islam that takes us beyond the sentimental pieties of Bush, Rice, and others in the current, miscomprehending and therefore confused and endlessly surprised administration. See, for example, the dawning realization that Pakistan is not that "staunch" ally that Bush kept thinking it surely must be, and never was -- and because of Islam, never can be.
And if Muslim regimes and rulers and peoples believe that Obama is a "secret sympathizer" (naturally not making a move toward an open return, or reversion, to Islam out of political calculations that they, the taqiyya-masters, find perfectly understandable, even laudable), they may well be emboldened to act as they might otherwise not act. See Iran, see its possible imperviousness to pressure from an American government headed, as many may think, by a "secret Muslim sympathizer." See Slow Jihadists and Fast Jihadists alike.
For that matter, think of European political figures. How easy will it be for them to meet with an American President named Barack Obama and confide in him, behind closed doors, that the situation in their lands has become very dangerous, and will become more so, because of the enlarged presence of aggressive Muslims? How easy will it be for them to explain that the Western countries, working in tandem, must not only end Muslim immigration, but also end Saudi and other outside funding of mosques, madrasas, propaganda, campaigns of Da'wa, and finally, create an atmosphere that is not one of continued accommodation but of resolute refusal to make their countries any more Islam-friendly than they already have made them -- to their own great sorrow, based on a dawning realization of what has passed, and is passing, and is to come?Continue reading: How the Islamic world views Obama
Just to make my view on Obama's faith clear, I do not believe that he is a practicing Muslim, albeit he has indeed attended a mosque, studied Islam, can recite parts of the Koran in Arabic to the point of being able to recite "with a first-class [Arabic] accent," the opening lines of the Muslim call to prayer. However, in spite of his insistence that he is a Christian, he is anything but a Christian - Black liberation theology, which is what is preached by Jeremiah Wright and whose church he attended, is a false theology that uses James Cone's interpretation of Christian teachings that blames many of the world's problems on white racists. It is a Marxist version of Black nationalism. As for what Obama actually believes, it is my opinion that Obama is a man of little character and very poor judgment that will say anything that he believes will enhance his potential to accomplish his agenda. He is a student of Saul Alinsky, and there is nothing he wouldn't say, with little concern for truth, to further his own radical, socialist, agenda.
Posted by Abdul at September 8, 2008 12:05 PM
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