Another day of kissing up to the Muslim world. President Obama, on his second apology tour since his coronation, wowed his liberal base and much of the Islamic world as he lavished praised on Muslims and quoted the “holy” Koran. He conveniently overlooked those passages in the Hadith regarding the killing of infidels, Jews and Christians, and characterized the Islamic faith as one of tolerance. What a crock! So tolerant that Christians are fleeing for their lives because of the persecution.
But, I think the most outrageous statement was when he drew a moral equivalence between the extermination of six million Jews in the Holocaust to Palestinians in refugee camps. Somehow, dead Jews and living Palestinians are not a fair comparison.
Read from Israel Matzav:
Obama's moral equivalence of the day
“Then we have President Obama's moral equivalence of the day (text also here (Hat Tip:
Memeorandum)):
‘Around the world, the Jewish people were persecuted for centuries, and anti-Semitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented Holocaust. Tomorrow, I will visit Buchenwald, which was part of a network of camps where Jews were enslaved, tortured, shot and gassed to death by the Third Reich. Six million Jews were killed - more than the entire Jewish population of Israel today. Denying that fact is baseless, ignorant, and hateful. Threatening Israel with destruction - or repeating vile stereotypes about Jews - is deeply wrong, and only serves to evoke in the minds of Israelis this most painful of memories while preventing the peace that the people of this region deserve.
On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslims and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of a homeland. For more than 60 years they have endured the pain of dislocation. Many wait in refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza, and neighboring lands for a life of peace and security that they have never been able to lead. They endure the daily humiliations - large and small - that come with occupation. So let there be no doubt: the situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable. America will not turn our backs on the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity, and a state of their own.’
Denying the Holocaust is equivalent to denying that the 'Palestinians' have been held in 'refugee camps' by their own people for the last 60 years? Six million systematically murdered Jews is equivalent to people waiting in 'refugee camps' for 60 years because their own people deny them citizenship and land ownership in their own countries? Concentration camps and 'refugee camps' are equivalent? Really?
The picture above is the entrance to Auschwitz. The picture below was taken inside Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh's house in a 'refugee camp' in Gaza during the Hamas-Fatah civil wars a couple of years ago. Does anyone really believe the two are equivalent?
By the way, if one accepts Obama's formulation, one could legitimately ask the question the 'Palestinians' ask: The Europeans murdered Jews 60 years ago. Why should the Jewish state come from 'Palestinian' lands and not from European lands? But Obama's formulation is wrong. Jews are in Israel because this is our historic homeland and has been for more than 3000 years. Our rights to this land have nothing to do with the Holocaust and everything to do with our Jewish heritage and the fact that God gave this land to the Jewish people 3000 years ago (Christians share the same Bible that we do - at least for the first half and know this is true). This is not a 'Palestinian' land.
Does anyone doubt that Obama is going to apologize in Dresden tomorrow and draw a moral equivalence between the Holocaust and the allied bombing that brought about Germany's surrender at the end of World War II?”
Read from Atlas Shrugs:
Obama to Ummah: "America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam" Usama: Called for "Long War Against Infidels"
“’Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.’
And it only got worse. It was terrible. My heart is heavy for my country and the free world.
The media can spin their subjugation and adulation a million different ways, but America did not vote for a ‘Muslim presidency,’ which is what this is. Obama deceitfully hid his Muslim background and schooling and his agenda. Little did America know that Obama's objective would be a conversion of this nation to ‘the largest Muslim country in the world‘. From the moment he spoke as President, in the inaugural address, Islam was falsely given a preeminent place in the creation of America. In this speech, he quoted from the Koran three times. Why doesn't anybody comment on this? Why doesn't anyone ever comment on what he projected vs. what he is? Why won't all those talking heads state the obvious?
The ‘Asia Times’ said Obama made a mistake by speaking in Cairo. ‘Why should the president of the United States address the “Muslim world“?,’ it asked. ‘What would happen if the leader of a big country addressed the “Christian world“? Half the world would giggle and the other half would sulk.’
‘To speak to the “Muslim world” is to speak not to a fact, but rather to an aspiration,’ the paper stated, ‘and that is the aspiration that Islam shall be a global state religion as its founders intended. To address this aspiration is to breathe life into it. For an American president to validate such an aspiration is madness.’
He quoted extensively from the Koran.
In his typically anti-Semitic fashion, Obama came down very hard on the Jews in his speech today to the Muslim world.
MK Aryeh Eldad in Israel said, ‘Obama makes a shocking parallel between the destruction of European Jewry and the suffering that the Arabs of Israel brought upon themselves when they declared war on Israel.’
‘If Obama does not understand the difference between them, perhaps he will understand it better when he visits the concentration camp in the comings days. And if he doesn’t understand it even there, then Islam will once again teach it to him, just as it taught his predecessor on 9/11.’
The moral equivalence did not end there. Obama equated ‘the two peoples‘:
‘America will not turn our backs on the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity, and a state of their own.
For decades, there has been a stalemate: two peoples with legitimate aspirations, each with a painful history that makes compromise elusive. It is easy to point fingers – for Palestinians to point to the displacement brought by Israel’s founding, and for Israelis to point to the constant hostility and attacks throughout its history from within its borders as well as beyond. But if we see this conflict only from one side or the other, then we will be blind to the truth: the only resolution is for the aspirations of both sides to be met through two states, where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security.’
There has not been a day, not one day, since the birth of modern Israel when she was not under attack by the Arabs. Not one. There are 25 Arab/Islamic countries, one tiny Jewish state. There is already a ‘two state solution’ in place. Jordan is Palestine. Muslims in Gaza were given whole industries, factories (a way to make a living) and billions and billions in aid, to what end? Jewish genocide.
‘Israel must also live up to its obligations to ensure that Palestinians can live, and work, and develop their society.’
Who is stopping them? They live to hate the Jews, and yet Obama insists the Jews be responsible for their executioners - this is rich.
I say, NO MORE LAND FOR ISLAM. NO MORE ISLAMIC COLONIALISM!
Obama's speech was a lesson in taqiya (lies to advance Islam). He called Islam a force of religious tolerance and racial equality ..... in the face of all the barbarism. He stated that ‘Muslims have enriched the U.S. and have won Nobel prizes.’ They have, in fact, received less than a handful of the international Nobel prizes. It is an interesting point to make, considering the glaring omission of the Jews contribution to humanity. Here are the facts:
The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000, or 20% of the world population.
They received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature
1988 - Najib Mahfooz.
Peace:
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1994 - Yaser Arafat
Physics:
1999 - Ahmed Zewail
Medicine:
1960 - Peter Brian Medawar [UPDATE:Atheist/agnostic, not Muslim, and only half Arab]
1998 - Ferid Mourad
The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000, or about 0.002% of the world population.
They received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature
1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976 - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1991 - Nadine Gordimer
2001 - Imre Kertesz
2005 - Harold Pinter
World Peace
1911 - Alfred Fried
1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 - Rene Cassin
1973 - Henry Kissinger
1978 - Menachem Begin
1986 - Elie Wiesel
1994 - Shimon Peres
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin
1995 - Joseph Rotblat
Chemistry
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1972 - William Howard Stein
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Herbert Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1989 - Sidney Altman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
1998 - Walter Kohn
2004 - Avram Hershko, Aaron Ciechanover and Irwin Rose
2006 - Roger Kornberg
Economics
1970 - Paul Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Arrow
1973 - Wassily Leontief
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
1976 - Milton Friedman
1978 - Herbert A. Simon
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - Robert M. Solow
1990 - Harry Markowitz
1990 - Merton Miller
1992 - Gary Becker
1993 - Robert Fogel
1994 - John Harsanyi
1997 - Myron Scholes
2001 - Joseph Stiglitz
2001 - George A. Akerlof
2002 - Daniel Kahneman
2005 - Robert Aumann
2007 - Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin & Roger Myerson
2008 - Paul Krugman
Medicine
1908 - Elie Metchnikoff & Paul Ehrlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 - Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936 - Otto Loewi
1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
1944 - Joseph Erlanger
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
1947 - Gerty Cori*
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs & Fritz Lipmann
1958 - Joshua Lederberg
1959 - Arthur Kornberg
1964 - Konrad Bloch
1965 - Francois Jacob & Andre Lwoff
1967 - George Wald
1968 - Marshall Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970 - Julius Axelrod & Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 - David Baltimore & Howard Temin
1976 - Baruch Blumberg
1977 - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow & Andrew V. Schally
1978 - Daniel Nathans
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Michael Stuart Brown & Joseph Goldstein
1986 - Stanley Cohen & Rita Levi-Montalcini
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1994 - Alfred Gilman & Martin Rodbell
1997- Stanley B. Prusiner
1998 - Robert Furchgott
2000 - Paul Greengard & Eric Kandel
2002 - H. Robert Horvitz & Sydney Brenner
Physics
1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck & Gustav Hertz
1943 - Otto Stern
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1945 - Wolfgang Pauli
1952 - Felix Bloch
1954 - Max Born#
1958 - Igor Tamm & Il'ja Mikhailovich Frank
1959 - Emilio Segrè
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1963 - Eugene Wigner
1965 - Richard Feynman & Julian Schwinger
1967 - Hans Bethe
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
1972 - Leon Cooper
1973 - Brian David Josephson
1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1978 - Arno Penzias & Pyotr Kapitsa
1979 - Stephen Weinberg & Sheldon Glashow
1988 - Leon Lederman & Melvin Schwartz & Jack Steinberger
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1992- Georges Charpak
1995 - Martin Perl & Fredrick Reines
1996 - Douglas D. Osheroff & David M. Lee
1997 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
2000 - Zhores I. Alferov
2003 - Vitaly Ginzburg & Alexei A. Abrikosov
2004 - H. David Politzer & David Gross
2005 - Roy Glauber
Please read it all.
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It's a real shame that you all are so bent on criticizing Obama for anything and everything. he did NOT "equate" the Holocaust and the situation of the Palestinians.
And you show a fearful ignorance of history if you seriously believe this drivel:
"Jews are in Israel because this is our historic homeland and has been for more than 3000 years. Our rights to this land have nothing to do with the Holocaust and everything to do with our Jewish heritage and the fact that God gave this land to the Jewish people 3000 years ago..."
The country wasn't known as Israel for hundreds, indeed thousands, of years. It was Palestine up until the end of WWII. And when Jewish refugees from the Holocaust needed a place to live -- and all European countries AND America basically turned their backs on them -- the Brits (with our concurrence) got the brilliant idea of kicking the Palestinians out of Palestine, renaming it "Israel" and shuttling the Jewish refugees there. And for the last 60 years, the Palestinians who wish to return to their native land have been denied.
It's a huge problem, having two wildly divergent peoples both believing that the same hunk of land belongs to them. There are no simple solutions. There are no clear-cut choices. And to pretend otherwise -- in EITHER parties' favor -- is to bury one's head in the Middle Eastern sand.
I'm not suggesting that the Jewish people don't have a very valid claim to the land we call Israel. But to glibly dismiss Palestinian concerns by saying there are 25 other Arab/Muslim countries they can go to is absurd. Palestinians don't consider themselves to be Syrians or Egyptians or Iraqis or Iranians; they think of themselves as Palestinians from Palestine -- their homeland that was taken from them by the Brits and given to the Jews.
If you cannot grasp this problem, try this analogy:
What if American Indians somehow were able to regain possession of the United States based on their historical and religious claims. How would we feel if the Native Americans tod us "Hey, get over it! There are plenty of English-speaking countries you guys can move to: England, Scotland (sort of), Ireland (sort of), Wales, Australia, New Zealand -- Canada even, eh?"
And, with all due respect:
"In this speech, he quoted from the Koran three times. Why doesn't anybody comment on this?"
Just what the heck is so horribly wrong with an American president quoting from the Quran in a speech given in Cairo? Are you joking? Are you really that religiously prejudiced? Does one sprout two horns and a tail when quoting from the Quran? This would have to take two major strides upwards to be even classified as "petty."
Diogenes: Obama quoted from Koran with three selective quotes, what he failed to say was that the meaning of verse 5:32 is not clear until it is quoted together with verse 5:33 which follows it:
005.032
YUSUFALI: On that account: We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land - it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our messengers with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses in the land
005.033
YUSUFALI: The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter;
He knew this because of his muslim education but choose to deceive the Americans and the world with this meaningless quote (verse 5:32), but I’m guessing that the muslims knew the actual meaning, that was the reason for their loud applause.
It's not Obama that was deceiving anybody with this quote, Anon. You are or, at least, you're trying. You're completing ignoring the context of what Obama was saying in his speech. The killers he was talking about were Al Qaeda; he ws saying that AL QAEDA has killed people of many faiths, including Islam:
"And that's why we're partnering with a coalition of 46 countries. And despite the costs involved, America's commitment will not weaken. Indeed, none of us should tolerate these extremists. They have killed in many countries. They have killed people of different faiths -- but more than any other, they have killed Muslims. Their actions are irreconcilable with the rights of human beings, the progress of nations, and with Islam. The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent is as -- it is as if he has killed all mankind. And the Holy Koran also says whoever saves a person, it is as if he has saved all mankind. The enduring faith of over a billion people is so much bigger than the narrow hatred of a few. Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism -- it is an important part of promoting peace."
How twisted can you get, Anon? How many lies will you use to further your ill-conceived ends, Anon? Do you really believe that your God wants you to mislead and deceive people in this manner?
"Does anyone doubt that Obama is going to apologize in Dresden tomorrow and draw a moral equivalence between the Holocaust and the allied bombing that brought about Germany's surrender at the end of World War II?"
Didn't happen, did it?
What you claimed to have been said in Cairo wasn't said, and now what you've predicted woud happen in Germany never materialized.
"God has convicted [what a Freudian slip!] me that I am in the wrong when I harshly attack President Obama personally. He is our president, and because of his position, I am to show him respect. I can still speak out against policies I disagree with, but in a more respectful manner."
Well, another one bites the dust... less than a week.
I published a post from Israel Matzav. That was his quote, not mine. And it was not an attack on Obama personally, but a prediction of what he might say based on past behavior.
Diogenes: The good thing about obama presidency is the fact that now everyone throughout America and the world links communism and marxism to the democrat party, even communist and dictators around the world have said as much.
Venezuela Chavez says Comrade Obama more left-wing then he is
Pravda Article
American capitalism gone with a whimper
Where Pravda Calls Obama a Marxist
With obama’s continued embrace of radical Islamist and muslims, this will give the Republicans the edge in the midterm and presidential elections.
Should Iran attack Israel after obama has indorsed Irans nuclear program, he will lose the Jewish vote!
Should America be hit with a terrorist attack after obama has reversed all the programs and policies that kept America safe for 7 years the democrats are though, end of story!
The Republicans have more then enough material already for campaign ads for both elections.
And don't give me that polling crap; the media's that run the polls have liberal leanings! There over sampling of democrats is deceptive to the American public!
Wake up KID!
Way to change the topic, Anon. You get all your comments about the Cairo speech shot down, so you switch gears to talk about Hugo Chavez? The poitical equivalent of "Oh, umm, yeah? Well.... your mother wears army boots!" How pathetic.
The only polling that counts occurs in November. The people spoke in November 2006 and again in 2008. And we THOROUGHLY rejected what you were selling. Wish all you want that it wil be different in 2010 or 2012... because wishing is all you have left.
BTW, Ms. Moore, that's a neat little trick you're pulling. YOU will be more respectful of the President, but the stuff you POST won't necessariy be more respectful, since you have no control over what other people say. Is that it? Of course, you DO have control over what you post and what you don't, and you DO have the ability to edit stuff that you would deem "disrespectful", no? And it wasn't an attack on Obama, but merely a "prediction"? What constitutes a personal attack in your world, Ms. Moore? Making fun of the President's ears? Saying his kids are ugly? (Oh, wait, no, that would be OK; that would be a personal attack on the President's kids, not the President himself.)
So much for accountability. Gad that wasn't one of your enten obligations.
Yes, Diogenes, I am accountable for what I post. But, I'm sorry, I don't consider that comment a "personal attack" against Obama, but instead against his foreign policy.
The writer was only anticipating what Obama would SAY based on the fact that he has a history of apologizing for America. He did so just yesterday while speaking in Egypt.
I have refrained from calling him by his middle name and other nicknames that I have for him because that was disrespectful. Holding him accountable for his lack of judgment on foreign policy is not disrespectable.
In what way did he "apologize" in his Cairo speech? Nobody else seems to be using that term, even though lots of people (like you) obviously want to perpetuate that myth. The only statement that came close was when Obama finally acknowledged, more than 50 years after the fact, that the C.I.A. helped engineer the coup that overthrew Mossaddeq and installed the Shah in Iran.
What did you hear? Did you even listen? Or read the transcript? Or did you rely on some other blogger telling you what they thought was said.
Actually, I listened to the first 50 minutes.
Obama apologized for America "dictating to other nations" in our efforts to promote democracy, when he is dictating to Israel. He called the war in Iraq "a war of choice", completely ignoring 17 UN resolutions against Iraq and the intelligence reports from numerous sources at home and abroad that warned that Saddam had WMD. He apologized for America's attitude toward the Muslim world. I believe they have committed unprovoked terrorist acts against us since 1979.
Bush bent over backward to convey to the Muslim world that we were not at war with Islam, but only the extremists.
Oh, please. If you still believe the fable that this was a war of necessity then you've been the one drinking Kool-Aid for too long. Even Cheney himself admitted, for the first time this week, that there was no connection between Iraq and 9-11. Saddam in all likelihood had no WMDs; there's not any evidence that he had anything more than traces of past production since the moment we invaded Iraq. And even if he had WMDs, pardon me, but so what? Does the U.S. invade every country in the world that has WMDs? Heck no! Bush CHOSE to invade Iraq because he thought it would be a walkover, and because he was convinced that only wartime Presidents are ever ranked among this nation's greatest Presidents.
And when the original pretense for the invasion (WMDs) didn't pan out, Bush switched gears and announced we were "exporting democracy." Obama has stated -- and a lot of us agree -- that we shouldn't impose democracy on some other country. We have no right whatsoever to impose our views of government on a foreign nation, no matter how much we believe in our system of government. How idiotic is it for us to say "We believe everybody should have a voice in how their government runs, and we're willing to kill as many of you as we need to until you guys wise up and agree with us."
As for Obama "dictating" to Israel, not a chance. He may be speaking very strictly with them, telling them what he believes they need to do. But Israel is a sovereign nation, too, and we cannot "dictate" what they do. We can tell them what we believe they should do, and we can tell them what the consequences may be if they don't act accordingly, but we don't "dictate" to Israel. We're not about to invade Israel and COMPEL them to do what we think is right. And that's exactly what Bush CHOSE to do in Iraq.
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