August 17, 2010
The Ground Zero Mosque - What Have We Not Been Told?
The Editor
In a Family Security Matters Editorial on Sunday, it was suggested that President Obama’s apparent support of the Ground Zero Mosque, followed less than 24 hours by presidential back-pedaling, was creating a crisis of leadership. The apparent pandering to a project which has never gained widespread public support was predestined to create problems. Michael Bloomberg, New York’s liberal mayor, had attempted on August 3 to invoke the Founding Fathers and to cite instances from a century before, during the time of Peter Stuyvesant, to impress upon New Yorkers that religious tolerance was the hallmark of the Big Apple. By extension, Bloomberg appeared to reason, New York's citizens should all rally to support the Ground Zero mosque and thereby defend religious liberty. A Mairist poll from August 10th had shown that Bloomberg’s former popularity had sunk dramatically since April, coinciding with his support for the mosque. A CNN poll from August 11 had shown that almost 70 percent of the American public opposed the Ground Zero Mosque.
In an act of extreme hubris, against the groundswell of political opinion, and ignoring the lessons that could have been learned from Mayor Bloomberg’s dip in popularity, the president and his speech writer pressed on regardless. The August 3 speech that had been made by Bloomberg on a windswept Government Island, surrounded by representatives of different faiths, had been seen by the administration as something of relevance to its own agenda. On Monday, August 9th, Bloomberg’s speech had been translated into Arabic, Farsi (Persian), Russian, French and Spanish and was posted onto the America.gov “Engaging the World” website.
At the White House iftar dinner of Friday 13th, Obama again invoked the Founding Fathers to suggest that they would be supportive of the construction of the Ground Zero Mosque on a matter of principle. Two days before, to celebrate Ramadan, Obama had claimed that “Islam has always been in America.” There is no historical evidence for such an assertion, unless Obama was passing a sop to Muslim revisionists, who claim that Abul-Hassan Al-Masudi (c. 895 – 957 AD) had written of Muslims going to a faraway land in “The Book of Golden Meadows.” Archeologists have never found any evidence of pre-Columbian Islamic influence. To suggest that “Islam has always been in America,” is a pandering not to genuine history but to a Muslim political agenda.
On August 10th, State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley had told journalists that Imam Rauf, the imam behind the proposed Ground Zero Mosque, was on a trip to the Middle East as a sponsored emissary of America to “discuss Muslim life in America and religious tolerance.” Crowley was asked about the Ground Zero Mosque and if the administration supported it. He replied:
“Well, it’s not normal that the federal government would get involved in what is a – I think a zoning issue in New York City…. Well, I mean, we are obviously supportive of religious tolerance not only around the world, but in the United States, and – but this is a particular decision for the city of New York. And we do note the fact that Mayor Bloomberg made a very eloquent appeal for freedom of religion and religious tolerance recently in the city.”
When asked why the speech by Bloomberg was posted on America.gov and not on the regular State Department website, Crowley replied:
“I think Smith-Mundt probably has as much to do with that as anything.”
The Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 (US Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (Public Law 402) was introduced in 1945 and signed into law by Harry S. Truman on January 27, 1948. It was originally set up to delimit what America publishes abroad as propaganda. Nowadays, this law effectively limits what American citizens can be told about U.S. propaganda abroad, where the U.S. government “prevents its own people from knowing what is said and done in their name.”
Crowley conceded that Smith-Mundt did not prevent Mayor Bloomberg’s speech being posted on the State Department website. This is from the State Department transcript:
MR. CROWLEY: Again, we – the Obama Administration nor the United States Government have taken a position on this project. The decision is up to the people of New York. We simply posted the mayor’s comments –
QUESTION: All right.
MR. CROWLEY: -- as being – as we do frequently, helping people understand. We certainly support what the mayor was underscoring which is the history of religious diversity and religious tolerance in his city.
QUESTION: Okay, just – let me just finish.
MR. CROWLEY: Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. All right.
QUESTION: Let me just – yeah, I got one more on Smith-Mundt. Do you want to ask about Smith-Mundt?
QUESTION: No, I want to ask about the Imam Feisal.
QUESTION: Okay so – all right, well, on Smith-Mundt, right? The reason that that was passed in the 40s was to prevent the State Department or the U.S. Government in general from spreading propaganda to citizens of the United States in the United States.
MR. CROWLEY: That’s true.
QUESTION: Does the fact that you put this on the – on a website that was basically created because of Smith-Mundt and not on the regular website imply that you think that Bloomberg’s comments were propaganda?
MR. CROWLEY: No, it is to whom we were directing those comments. We were directing them to audiences overseas and we did that on one and not the other expressly because of the obligations that we have under Smith-Mundt. And this becomes a very complicated issue, because we know that on State.gov, our State Department website that is primarily geared towards audiences here in the United States, we do have people overseas who do tap into State.gov and we have American citizens who also tap into America.gov. In fact, we are constantly trying to evaluate the relevance of Smith-Mundt given the internet age and the fact that information now cannot be really – information that’s channeled overseas can have the ability to return instantly to the United States.
QUESTION: You’re convinced that you’re okay to be talking about America.gov from this podium.
MR. CROWLEY: I, from my position, can talk about both.
The issues of exactly WHAT Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf would be preaching abroad in America’s name are, and this may be hard to believe, not available for citizens to know, at least – not from government.
Crowley confirmed that Rauf would not be raising funds while in the Middle East:
“It is something that we have talked to him about and we have informed him about our prohibition against fundraising while on a speaking tour. We do not expect him to fundraise.”
There is something very odd about this issue. Imam Rauf can travel abroad to act as an agent of the State Department to issue “propaganda” but under the Smith-Mundt Act, the State Department will not make available to American citizens what is said on their behalf. Americans are not to be told what either Rauf, or CAIR representative Dawud Walid (who has been sent to Mali on outreach work, underwritten by the State Department) says, when the same American tax-payers fund such jaunts. There is something decidedly undemocratic and unwholesome to then see a president declaring at an iftar dinner that Rauf’s “rights” are fundamentally protected by the writ of the Founding Fathers.
Politically, defending in public an imam whose speeches abroad are already a “State Department secret” verges on the Kafkaesque. Such an action could be seen as inviting conspiracy theories no less cockamamie than propagandist theories of “Islam has always been in America” that Obama has publicly embraced.
When Obama stood up in the White House State Dining Room on Friday 13th and appeared to suggest that he supported the imam’s “religious rights” he made a bad political move. When on the very next day, relocated in the Gulf, he suggested that he had not meant what people thought he meant, he appeared weak. What seemed to be a crisis of leadership or even an act of political suicide has since been overshadowed by events.
The Backlash Begins Here
Obama’s speechwriters have handed a weapon to the president’s enemies. Following a longstanding tradition when leaders’ political hubris has gone so far that they think they do not have to consider those that put them into power, the political suicide could become a political assassination.
On March 15, 44 BC, Gaius Julius Caesar found that his friends in the Roman Senate had abandoned him, and he soon lay dead on the Senate House Floor. In Obama’s current drama enter, stage left, Senator Harry Reid. Before Obama has time to cry out “Et tu, Harry?” the knife glints and the damage is done.
Harry Reid, Senate majority leader, was pinned down over the weekend by his GOP opponent in Nevada, Sharron Angle. Reid has been on shaky ground and risks losing his seat to Angle in the November midterms. Angle demanded that Reid openly state if he supported the Ground Zero Mosque or not. Reid sent out a statement through his assistant Jim Manley:
“The 1st Amendment protects freedom of religion. Sen. Reid respects that, but thinks that the mosque should be built someplace else.”
The decision by Reid to oppose the mosque’s location is not dissimilar to that of New York’s governor, David Paterson. Officially, Paterson says he supports the mosque, but has offered to help to provide a new location where it could be built, away from the site of Ground Zero.
Dave Reaboi on Big Government points out that journalist Mark Halperin, writing on Time Magazine, has issued a plea to Republicans, asking them to not attack the issue of the Ground Zero Mosque. The fact that both the president and the mayor of New York, both progressives, have themselves politicized the issue of the mosque, leaves the GOP with no option but to confront it at a political level. Not that Halperin seems to understand this. Halperin advises Republicans:
“If you go full force on the offensive, every Democratic candidate in every competitive race in the country will have three choices, none of them good, when asked about the Islamic center: side with Obama and against public opinion; oppose Obama and deal with the consequences of intraparty disunity; or refuse to take a position, waffling impotently and unattractively at a crucial time.”
Halperin admits that “Sure, Obama remains a young, inexperienced Commander in Chief with few discernible foreign policy achievements.” It is possible that great propaganda triumphs have been made in Mali and the Middle East by America’s Muslim emissaries, but under the terms of Smith-Mundt, it is unlikely that one will hear of them.
Yesterday, White House press spokesperson Bill Burton announced that Obama’s mention of the mosque was not about politics, but an issue where the president wanted “to make sure people are treated equally” and “felt it was his obligation as president to address this.”
It would be rude to suggest that Burton is lying, but maybe we can look out for him soon declaring that the moon is made of green cheese, perhaps confirmed by NASA’s Muslim outreach program……
Support for the construction of the mosque at Ground Zero has come from a most unwelcome corner: the terrorist group Hamas. It should be remembered that earlier this year, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf had refused to condemn Hamas as a terrorist organization.
On Sunday, Aaron Klein was on WABC Radio with his show “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” He had with him as a guest Mahmoud al-Zahar, a co-founder of Hamas who is currently a senior leader of the terrorist group in Gaza. The full interview can be heard here. At the end of the interview, Klein asked:
“What do you think about the new initiative to build a mosque near the World Trade Center in New York, which is a major point of controversy now?”
Zahar responded:
“We have to build the mosque as you are allowed to build church and the Israelis are building there their holy places – we have to build everywhere in every area we have, Muslims, we have to pray, and this is, this mosque is the only site of prayer, especially which is for the people when they are looking to be – in a group, not an individual.”
Rush Limbaugh has waded into the arena, stating on his radio show yesterday that:
“Indeed just like Hamas, Obama believes Muslims should be allowed to build a mosque at Ground Zero but that Israelis cannot be permitted to build houses on their own land. I mean, there you go -- and the rude treatment that Bibi Netanyahu got at the White House over the building of these neighborhoods. Now, Obama's since done a walk-back on that as you get closer to the election. But still it's all about sensitivity. Some people are offended of those "settlements," saying it's not good for the peace process. Well, there are a whole lot of people sensibilities offended at the idea of a mosque at Ground Zero. I have some friends who lost a son. They are beside themselves. They just... None of it makes any sense. They don't understand why we can't even rebuild the place. They don't understand why the people that did what they did are not considered our enemy.”
Separation of Mosque and State
The president, the Mayor of New York, and the State Department may invoke the vision of the Founding Fathers to declare that they are only defending freedom of religion. However, in their haste to defend the “rights” of a man who once said that America was an “accessory” to the 9/11 attacks, they have trampled on a fundamental issue brought up by the Founding Fathers.
In a letter dated January 1, 1802, Thomas Jefferson wrote of the “wall of separation between church and state.” Jefferson was echoing the words of Isaac Backus, who in 1773 had written that:
“church and state are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other: but where they have been confounded together, no tongue nor pen can fully describe the mischiefs that have ensued.”
James Madison (1751 – 1836) who was fourth president of the United States from 1809 – 17 was one of the principle architects of the constitution. He wrote in a letter of March 2, 1819 that
“The civil Government, though bereft of everything like an associated hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability, and performs its functions with complete success, whilst the number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people, have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the State.”
The Bill of Rights, the ten-point addition to the Constitution, borrowed elements from George Mason’s 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights, including Section 16, which would become part of the First Amendment:
“That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.”
Thomas Jefferson wrote a brief “Memoir”, in which he discussed the creation of the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights.
“The bill for establishing religious freedom, the principles of which had, to a certain degree, been enacted before, I had drawn in all the latitude of reason and right. It still met with opposition; but, with some mutilations in the preamble, it was finally passed; and a singular proposition proved, that its protection of opinion was meant to be universal. Where the preamble declares that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the words 'Jesus Christ,' so that it should read, 'a departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;' the insertion was rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and Infidel of every denomination."
By publicly making statements in favor of a particular religion, talking to Muslims in Cairo and addressing people in the White House who appear to have strong links to the Muslim Brotherhood, the president has dug himself into a pit. With the anniversary of 9/11 coming around in less than a month, he will find it hard to dig himself out. His advisers should have warned him away from appearing to show such partiality towards the construction of a mosque, at a site where Islamic fanatics had murdered almost 3,000 American citizens.
The Founding Fathers knew why they had to ensure that there was not any bias towards any one specific religion. The incident of the Ground Zero mosque is only the last of a series of naïf statements designed to appease Islamic nations, when the only people that any president should put forward, above all else, are his own citizens.
Leftists and Muslim apologists may complain that those who condemn the Ground Zero Mosque are “Islamophobes”, a vague term with no real meaning. Most people with any ounce of humanity would oppose sharia law, and would be Islamophobic. Similarly, anyone who opposes Islamic terrorism could be called Islamophobic. And people who have no strong opinions but merely feel worried about the massive encroachments of Islam into the West, could also be called “Islamophobic.”
But just as the term “racist” has been used by those who have opposed the president’s actions, the term “Islamophobe” is similarly inappropriate. A poll from Rasmussen was released yesterday. This shows that 65 percent of US voters (two thirds) are “somewhat angry” about the current policies of the federal government. Of these, 40 percent are “very angry.”
The Ground Zero Mosque is only the touchstone which has drawn in the lightning. The other aspects of the political storm have been building up for some time, and these are again concerns about policies. The administration’s apparent genuflection to Islamism and Muslim nations that have no respect for democracy has been noticed by people at home, people who feel neglected and undervalued. This is not about Islamophobia, it is about listening to the people at home. That act of listening is fundamental to good democratic government.
The progressives have tried to engineer change, to force through new jurisdictions for a government where it formerly had no place, such as compulsory healthcare insurance, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the USDOJ apparently giving a free ride to Black Panthers in the name of redressing social injustice, as well prosecuting a state for trying to use state legislation to enforce federal laws while allowing sanctuary cities to openly break the law, the rights of illegals defended by Hilda L. Solis… the social engineering goes on, and on.
The Ground Zero Mosque issue is just the latest and most blatant sign of an administration that has steamrollered over the opinions and concerns of its citizens, an administration that has offered hope of a “pathway to legality” for illegal aliens who should have no legitimate right to be in America, while legal citizens have lost jobs, businesses and homes. The Ground Zero Mosque is opposed by most Americans, and a government that does not listen is a government that will eventually forfeit its mandate to stay in office.
I don't think Hussein Obama should be invoking the Constitution until he whips out his birth certificate and all those other records he has not shown the world.
posted by: Dick
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 07:49 AM
I can't even Amen this enough!!! Would that all able bodied Americans stand up and shout out their displeasure and take action against this government, which should no longer be in power...it does not represent the will of the citizens of the United States of America!!!!!!!
posted by: Mid
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 08:07 AM
Why islam wants us to be tolerant toislam why we are not demanding from islam to be toterant and for a change in quran teaching about killing of inidels.
posted by: arish sahani
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 08:19 AM
funny how conservativses want government to intervene when it benefits them.
Islam has always been apart of the US. Thomas Jefferson took his oath of oddice on the Koran.
and why do christians act like their religion has not been the cause of blood shed since the dawn of it's existence? Christians have as much blood on their hands as christians.
leadership means having to go against the ignorant mob at times. The community and worhship center should be a place where all can fellowship and play together.
posted by: Richard
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 08:38 AM
"As a Citizen, as the President of the United States, AND as a Muslim, I feel I should weigh in on all of this. I was BORN Muslim. My Father was Muslim. My Step Father was Muslim. My Mother converted to ISLAM. Let me be clear...I was raised in Muslim Kenya and Muslim Indonesia. I attended Muslim Schools. I remember they would teach us to KILL THE JEW that was hiding behind a rock. Death to America. Death to Israel. America is the BIG SATAN and Israel is the LITTLE SATAN."
"I knelt on my Prayer Rug, facing Mecca, 5 times a day, and prayed to ALLAH. I have taken NASA's Space Exploration Mission away from them, and instead, have directed them to bolster the Self Esteem of my Muslim Brothers. I am using TAXPAYER MONIES to pay for the CONSTRUCTION OF MOSQUES overseas. I have instructed my STATE DEPARTMENT to give the IMAM of this 911 Mosque, FREE TRAVEL in a U.S. Gov't. Jet, paid for by the American Taxpayers, all over the Middle East. I attended the Muslim Ramadan Dinner, but NOT the National Prayer Breakfast."
"In conclusion. You people are either too STUPID or too P.C. to confront what I'm doing, right in front of your STUPID WHITE FACES. Enjoy the new Mosque. And I'd like to thank all of the Dead Americans, that my fellow Muslims MURDERED on 911, for making this all possible. Good night, and ALLAH AKBAR."
posted by: gommygoomy
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 08:40 AM
I DESPISE this regime and this Muslim in the White House with NO birth certificate,I'm not going to even comment on this. Believe me,it won't be fit to print!
posted by: antilibs
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 08:41 AM
Richard, Where did you get the idea that Jefferson took his oath of office on a Koran?
posted by: tickertype
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 09:21 AM
Thomas Jefferson did NOT take the oath of office with his hand on a Koran. That assertion is pure rubbish.
Jefferson did attempt to negotiate a peace treaty which "would spare the United States the ravages of jihad piracy—murder, enslavement (with ransoming for redemption), and expropriation of valuable commercial assets—emanating from the Barbary states (modern Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, known collectively in Arabic as the Maghrib)."
It should be remembered that for Muslims, Islam IS the state. Sharia law IS the law. Secular law is not recognized as preeminent in the Islamic domain.
We allow Islamic opportunistic subversion of our traditions of freedom and tolerance at our, and our childrens, peril. Nowhere in any Islamic country will there be found tolerance and freedom of worship for any faith other than Islam. Muslims who wish to convert to other faiths leave the Islamic faith under threat of death as apostates.
Christianity has suffered it's own excesses, but one only need to examine the differences between modern countries founded on Western theological and philosophical principles, as opposed to those founded and governed by Islamic principles, to discern that the former lack the unfettered brutality, inhumanity, repression, and intolerance of the latter.
Let us remind ourselves that WE are the keepers of liberty and freedom. We must not allow our own tolerance and love of liberty to be used against us, as a portal, to enable those who ultimately seek our downfall to plant the seeds of tyranny, whether faith-based or secular.
posted by: Bruce
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 09:31 AM
Often I wonder if Rush Limbaugh is up to speed on the global jihad. Limbaugh carried water for former President George W. Bush, even as Bush repeatedly mislead the American people about Islam and Israel. This current nightmare in the White House is little doubt a consequence of ignorance and stupidly on the part of conservatives like Limbaugh who uncritically supported Bush even as he lied about the enemy.
Maybe that is why Limbaugh allows Mark Steyn (who IS up to speed) to sit in for him?
Yesterday, I noticed two egregious things Mr. Limbaugh said. One was the piece he read by a couple of Muslims writing in the Ottawa Citizen to the effect that, "We Muslims know the Ground Zero mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation."
Fair enough. Yet the authors noted and Limbaugh read without comment, "9 of the September hijackers were Saudis," when in fact 15 of the 19 September hijackers were Saudi nationals.
Worse, there was his repeated use of the term "settlements" to describe Israel's communities (virtual cities) in her capital city Jerusalem, a term which FSM Editor properly placed in quotes.
posted by: Steve Klein
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 10:14 AM
Steve Klein
15 of the 19 September hijackers were muslim
Israel's communities (virtual cities)
what is the point of your whole comment, you make no sense at all.
posted by: Paul
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 11:15 AM
Wonderfully informative article. Commentary from the brightest minds on both sides provide a fertile field to gain knowledge and perspective for those who will spend the effort to cultivate it.
posted by: DickB
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 11:21 AM
Paul, my point is, conservatives like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, etc., carried water for George W. Bush even as he repeatedly lied about Israel and Islam.
Is it any wonder Americans elected this dangerous Muslim-born president with deep sympathies for the global jihad?
It was Bush who implied that Israel's "settlements" were illegal. Bush declared Israel occupied Muslim land. Obama is following Bush's lead.
Bush was the first US president to make the establishment of a Muslim-terror state in Israel's strategic, historic and Biblical heartland a "formal goal of US policy," only days after the 9/11 Muslim-terror atrocities in New York and Washington. Bush boasted of this repeatedly.
Mr. Limbaugh and other conservatives stood by Bush (carried water for him) even as he called Islam a religion of peace.
What do you have difficulty understanding Paul?
posted by: Steve Klein
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 11:50 AM
Obama was raised in with a very strict Muslim upbringing. He prayed with them, learned their customs and beliefs.
If one leaves Islam to convert (say to Christianity) they have an immediate sentence of death or fatwa placed upon them.
Has anyone heard that any clerics have placed such a fatwa on Obama?
Thought not ....
He is still a Muslim canceling national prayer day, having a Ramadan dinner at the white house, claiming falsely that Muslims have been a great part of America's history and stating flatly that America is not a Christian nation.
If he is so keen on upholding the constitution on this issue, please by all means, uphold the constitution on every issue, such as proving that he is a Natural Born Citizen as required by law.
Did he have two American parents? Can he prove it?
he made McCain prove it and they went by the law as evidenced by the First Congress's own statute defining the term `natural born Citizen.
So lets be fair, equal and lets "hope" that Obama will be fair in his beliefs that everyone should be treated equal for a "change". INCLUDING HIM!
posted by: TheMunz
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 12:03 AM
Reminds me of the country song title and words in the lyrics "What Part of NO Don't You Understand" Only in this instance "What Part of Insanity Don't You Understand" I would suspect that not one person in these united states,questions the legality of the right to build,or to pursue their religious freedom. "That is NOT the question",has never been the question. If Islam/Muslims demand that we as Americans respect them ,treat them with more sensitivity, then they should ( and everyone supporting their wishes /cause should ) realize this is or should be a 2 way street. This political correct capitulation has gone on far too long. The most obviopus being that you have NOT been called out as the ENEMY. How in the name of common sense have we dug ourselves into this hole. Reminds me of the single panel cartoon of B.C. years ago. The cavemen were digging a dinasaur trap. The daily panel would show the conversation floating up from the "pit" now well over their heads. All of a sudden they realized they were themselves trapped. Potential solutions emerged over several days,all inturn shot down,until one person came up with the final solution. "We will get out the same way we got in..."Mass Stupidity". Maybe we could try this as well for we have it in abundance... Unfortunatly stupid works in only one direction.
posted by: Donald Cartmill
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 12:12 AM
Excellent Article! AMEN!
With the absolute 'insanity' that is taking place at such a 'fast pace' I for one, see something MUCH BIGGER taking place than just the building of the 'enemy' of the Free World's 'worship centre'.....Something else is going on behind the scenes here and I believe it will soon be revealed....I believe that this is a 'smoke screen' and it is so thick that it is really hard for people to see what is 'really' at work here.
I will pray for the Lost and I will pray for the safety of the U.S. Citizens...
I am 'watching' and 'waiting' for my Lord Jesus Christ...HE IS COMING VERY VERY SOON.....GET READY!
God Bless
Gramma from Canada
posted by: Gramma from Canadda
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 12:26 AM
I do not care what Obama's stand on this or any other issue is. Obama is anti-American and Anti-Christian.
I pray for November 2, 2010 when we replace this leftist congress and November, 2012 when we vote Obama out of office.
Then, hopefully, conservatives will return us to Constitutional Law and Representative Government for those of us who Pay Our Bills and The Bills that this government creates.
We have to Downsize this monstrous bureaucracy that the Social Engineers and Socialists have built, and take this country back.
posted by: greyhawk
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 06:49 PM
I can't imagine how obama tricked the Americans to get him elected as President of the most powerful nation on this planet? Is beyond me, Is there still time to impeach him? www.blip.tv/file/1382254
posted by: skai
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 08:49 PM
Show U.S. (us) the birth certificate. Love Obama yes, love his ways NO. We as Christians have been silent far too long and have allowed everything we hold sacred including our Lord and savior Jesus Christ to be threatened. Just what has to happen before we stand up and vote, speak up, make anoise and mean it? It is past time. Now is the time this fall vote them out get Godly leadership it is a step. We must keep moving. We have a muslim in the White House HELLO if that does not wake you up what will? God give us Godly homes!! God provide a Godly President!!!
We are called infidels by those that wish to build at our America's Ground Zero? I think not.
Thank God He is coming soon and this madness will stop and the King of Kings, Lord of Lords will be on His throne. You see if you have not really read the Book GOD has already won.
posted by: kathy
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 10:07 PM
A single honest recitation of the Shahadah in Arabic is all that is required for a person to become a Muslim. A conversion to Islam is meant to be a one-way process, both for the individual and their descendants.
The Associated Press overlooks the simple fact that Barack Hussein Obama took Shahada.
With his own mouth, Barack Hussein Obama has publicly confessed the Muslim confession of faith, but there is no record of Barack Hussein Obama ever having publicly confessed the Christian confession of faith.
Saying "I am a Christian" does not make you a Christian.
Barack Hussein Obama has never publicly confessed "Jesus Christ is Lord".
But he has confessed the words that Muslims recognize as the Muslim confession of faith.
Yes, the words Obama has confessed from his own mouth make him a Muslim, not a Christian.
posted by: Red
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 11:56 PM
"at a site where Islamic fanatics had murdered almost 3,000 American citizens."
This statement of yours is absolutely wrong. It was not Islamic fanatics who murdered 3000 American citizens but mainstream Muslims following the teachings of Muhammad in the Koran and Hadiths. Please read them.
posted by: Gerald
Monday, August 23, 2010 at 10:19 PM
Folks yelling "OBAMA'S A MUSLIM HIMSELF!" "HE NOT EVEN BORN HERE WHERE HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE!" proves my point that the Repubs/Tea Partiers are just smh-worthy.
It's merely a storefront that's blocks away from ground zero, you'd think we was talking about a friggin palace.
And here's further proof of such stupidity:
youtube.com/watch?v=EwaNRWMN-F4
"OMG A BLACK MAN WITH A STRANGE HAT ON! HE'S ONE OF THEM! BOOOOOOOOO!"
*sigh* you folks never cease to amaze me
posted by: Reece
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 03:34 PM
