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Obama, the Muslim Thing, And Why It Matters
by Pamela Geller
He knows the stakes involved.
The thing is, you can't be a leader and not know what Islam means. The
average Joe pumping gas on Route 66 - okay, not on top of the issue. But
there is no way you can be running for President and not know the hell being
wreaked on the free and not-so-free world by Islamic jihad.
That said, Barack Obama went to a madrassa in Jakarta. A madrassa in a
Muslim country. Whether he was devout or secular, he knows what was taught.
He knows what is in the Koran. Even if he is ambiguous, he knows the stakes
involved. His father was a Muslim who took three wives (without divorcing).
His stepfather and close members of his family are devout Muslims. Not an
unimportant influence.
Every Muslim who left Islam is very definitive about leaving and why. They
are quite vocal - Wafa Sultan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Walid Shoebat, Elijah
Abraham, etc. If he left Islam, Obama must have very definite thoughts about
it. He has to, he practiced Islam. That is not benign; it's big. And even
if, as inferred by big media, it was not big to him, then he can still
appreciate how important it is knowing what he knows about Islam and
apostasy.
Obama would have had to make a decision to reject Islam. When did he make
that decision? How? Why the silence? Why the reluctance to talk about it?
Apostasy is punishable by death in Islam. Have there been calls for Obama's
death? If not, why not? Islam gives no free passes.
Obama's posture on this is hard to define or understand, because it is a
critical issue.
Transitional issues facing this nation and the world at large - the world at
war, creeping sharia, the perversion of the rights of free men, individuals,
women, etc., hang in the balance on the make up of the next president of the
United States. The stakes could not be higher domestically.
On foreign policy, Europe has laid down. The political elites have
capitulated to Islamists and to multiculturalists. Suicide. It seems unclear
that they could hold up their end even if America did the heavy lifting.
As far as Israel is concerned, if Obama makes it to the big house, Israel is
screwed. Finished. Obama's church and Jew-hating pastor, Rev. Jeremiah A.
Wright, Jr., makes that evident. Israel will be on its own.
Perhaps that is necessary, though, because it seems they have relinquished
their sovereignty to the US and they expect the US to guarantee their
security. Ain't never gonna' happen. No country, ever, should abdicate its
role in protecting and defending itself. Ehud Olmert is on a one-way trip to
nowhere. So maybe tough love is necessary, because this relationship is
hurting Israel.
The recent revelations of Obama's ties to Raila Odinga in Kenya are
disconcerting as well, because Odinga is behind the terrible violence in his
country. It was he who instigated bloody riots and killing after he lost the
election. Obama's bias for his fellow Luo was so blatant that a Kenyan
government spokesman denounced Obama during his visit as Raila's "stooge."
And while there are few angels in Kenya, Odinga is the source of great
unrest and turmoil; and the MOU he signed with the Muslim Council to
institute sharia is a foreshadowing of a dark fate for Kenya. (A Jacksonian
picked up on my previous post on this and wrote a lengthy, well-researched
piece on the politics and back story on Odinga.) Just how quickly will Kenya
go Islamic?
We must be allowed to ask these questions. I do not embrace change for the
sake of change - the impossible new buzzword on the campaign trail. Jimmy
Carter was the dark horse, the new unknown, and he was an unmitigated
disaster. The worst, most damaging president in US history, in my opinion.
This could be even worse. And so, I implore my fellow Americans to question,
question, question. The potential damage to this country is incalculable.
These are dangerous times, my friends; reckless and capricious intellectual
laziness will have disastrous consequences.
Pamela Geller is the former associate publisher of the New York Observer and
the founder of the "Atlas Shrugs" website.
by Pamela Geller
He knows the stakes involved.
The thing is, you can't be a leader and not know what Islam means. The
average Joe pumping gas on Route 66 - okay, not on top of the issue. But
there is no way you can be running for President and not know the hell being
wreaked on the free and not-so-free world by Islamic jihad.
That said, Barack Obama went to a madrassa in Jakarta. A madrassa in a
Muslim country. Whether he was devout or secular, he knows what was taught.
He knows what is in the Koran. Even if he is ambiguous, he knows the stakes
involved. His father was a Muslim who took three wives (without divorcing).
His stepfather and close members of his family are devout Muslims. Not an
unimportant influence.
Every Muslim who left Islam is very definitive about leaving and why. They
are quite vocal - Wafa Sultan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Walid Shoebat, Elijah
Abraham, etc. If he left Islam, Obama must have very definite thoughts about
it. He has to, he practiced Islam. That is not benign; it's big. And even
if, as inferred by big media, it was not big to him, then he can still
appreciate how important it is knowing what he knows about Islam and
apostasy.
Obama would have had to make a decision to reject Islam. When did he make
that decision? How? Why the silence? Why the reluctance to talk about it?
Apostasy is punishable by death in Islam. Have there been calls for Obama's
death? If not, why not? Islam gives no free passes.
Obama's posture on this is hard to define or understand, because it is a
critical issue.
Transitional issues facing this nation and the world at large - the world at
war, creeping sharia, the perversion of the rights of free men, individuals,
women, etc., hang in the balance on the make up of the next president of the
United States. The stakes could not be higher domestically.
On foreign policy, Europe has laid down. The political elites have
capitulated to Islamists and to multiculturalists. Suicide. It seems unclear
that they could hold up their end even if America did the heavy lifting.
As far as Israel is concerned, if Obama makes it to the big house, Israel is
screwed. Finished. Obama's church and Jew-hating pastor, Rev. Jeremiah A.
Wright, Jr., makes that evident. Israel will be on its own.
Perhaps that is necessary, though, because it seems they have relinquished
their sovereignty to the US and they expect the US to guarantee their
security. Ain't never gonna' happen. No country, ever, should abdicate its
role in protecting and defending itself. Ehud Olmert is on a one-way trip to
nowhere. So maybe tough love is necessary, because this relationship is
hurting Israel.
The recent revelations of Obama's ties to Raila Odinga in Kenya are
disconcerting as well, because Odinga is behind the terrible violence in his
country. It was he who instigated bloody riots and killing after he lost the
election. Obama's bias for his fellow Luo was so blatant that a Kenyan
government spokesman denounced Obama during his visit as Raila's "stooge."
And while there are few angels in Kenya, Odinga is the source of great
unrest and turmoil; and the MOU he signed with the Muslim Council to
institute sharia is a foreshadowing of a dark fate for Kenya. (A Jacksonian
picked up on my previous post on this and wrote a lengthy, well-researched
piece on the politics and back story on Odinga.) Just how quickly will Kenya
go Islamic?
We must be allowed to ask these questions. I do not embrace change for the
sake of change - the impossible new buzzword on the campaign trail. Jimmy
Carter was the dark horse, the new unknown, and he was an unmitigated
disaster. The worst, most damaging president in US history, in my opinion.
This could be even worse. And so, I implore my fellow Americans to question,
question, question. The potential damage to this country is incalculable.
These are dangerous times, my friends; reckless and capricious intellectual
laziness will have disastrous consequences.
Pamela Geller is the former associate publisher of the New York Observer and
the founder of the "Atlas Shrugs" website.
