Since then, Obama has been promoting a new constitution for his father's homeland, one in which abortion and Sharia law are both promoted. Wow! Obama can kill two birds with one stone and support two of his favorite causes: seeing how many unborn babies can be killed and furthering the cause of Islam.
Read from Atlas Shrugs:
Obama Pushed/Bankrolled/Implements Sharia Law in New Constitution in Kenya, Non-Muslim Country
"Obama Congratulates Kenya for Passing Constitution He Bankrolled, Implements Sharia in Non-Muslim Country
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Obama’s support for Odinga is consistent with his other associations: Odinga is a socialist who is enough of a hardcore true believer to have named his son Fidel. Odinga’s history suggests that he is more of a Marxist than a social democrat: his father, longtime Kenyan opposition leader Oginga Odinga, was a communist. The East German government gave Raila Odinga a scholarship to Technical University Magdeburg, from which he graduated in 1970. Odinga also had troubling ties to Islamic hardliners, although the exact nature of those ties was hotly disputed. Odinga reportedly made a fortune in the oil industry by making a deal with the Al-Bakri Group of Saudi Arabia; Abdulkader al-Bakri, the CEO of the Al Bakri Group, has been identified as a sponsor of Al-Qaeda. Odinga also cultivated ties with Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi.
Odinga campaigned against the Kibaki government’s cooperation with the U.S. war on terror, making an issue out of the extradition of a group of accused al-Qaeda operatives, some of whom the Odinga camp maintained were innocent. 'Our government will not be held at ransom to extradite Muslims to foreign lands,' thundered Odinga at a campaign rally. And with Muslim Kenyans, the message resonated: 'Islamic outrage,' observed Joshua Hammer of the New York Times, 'had placed the incumbent, Kibaki, on the defensive and provided Raila Odinga with a tool to rally the support of Kenya’s Muslims.'
Nor was that all. Just a month before the December 27 election, controversy broke out over a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that Odinga had purportedly signed on August 29, 2007 with Sheikh Abdullahi Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum (NAMLEF), an umbrella organization comprised of the nation’s principal Islamic groups. I posted the MoU here on January 4, 2008 here:
The Memorandum had Odinga promising 'within six months' to 'rewrite the Constitution of Kenya to recognize Sharia as the only true law sanctioned by the Holy Quran for Muslim declared regions.' Odinga, according to the Memorandum, would recognize 'Islam as the only true religion' and give Islamic leaders an 'oversight role to monitor activities of ALL other religions.' Christian preaching, alcohol and pork would be banned. Darara Gubo, the regional manager for Africa of International Christian Concern, denounced the agreement for undermining 'the secular nature of Kenya and open[ing] a Pandora’s box of chaos and conflict similar to what happened in Nigeria and Sudan.' Gubo added: 'This is not a stand-alone incident; rather, it is part of strategy to Islamize Eastern Africa and the Horn of Africa, through the introduction of Sharia law.' Odinga denounced the leaked Memorandum as a forgery, and the next day released what he said was the genuine Memorandum of Understanding that he really had signed with Abdi – a substantially more innocuous document that Odinga termed 'very innocent.' Abdi sought to reassure the public: 'The objective was to safeguard the interests of a section of the Kenyan community (Muslims) that has undergone atrocities over the last 44 years. Fears that Muslims want to introduce Sharia law and make Islam the supreme religion in this country are false and only meant to generate hostility between us and our Christian and Hindu brothers. Islam does not suppress other religions.'
Not everyone was mollified, however. The human rights group International Christian Concern, which monitors persecution of Christians worldwide, concluded that the pro-Sharia version of the Memorandum was in fact not a forgery at all, but an authentic secret agreement made between Abdi and Odinga. The Evangelical Alliance of Kenya said that in both versions of the Memorandum Odinga 'comes across as a presumptive Muslim president bent on forcing Islamic law, religion and culture down the throats of the Kenyan people in total disregard of the Constitutionally guaranteed rights of freedom of worship and equal protection of the law.'
Whatever the truth of the matter, Kenyan Christians remained concerned that with Odinga would come Sharia, with its institutionalized discrimination against non-Muslims – but ultimately there proved to be no way to tell whether or not their fears were justified. For despite Barack Obama’s help, Odinga lost the Kenyan presidential election – and then the violence began.
Amid widespread charges that Kibaki had stolen the election, Odinga supporters staged bloody reprisals, killing 700 and displacing 250,000 within a month after the election. By the middle of February 2008, just over six weeks after the election, the death toll had risen to 1,500, with 500,000 homeless. 200 people were burned alive when Odinga supporters torched a church in which they had taken refuge.
A Human Rights Watch report stated that 'several leaders involved in anti-Kikuyu violence' had said that 'they were merely doing by force what they had been denied a chance to do through the ballot box.' A Kenyan tribal elder said that the Odinga camp planned the unrest beforehand: '[The elders] said that if there is any sign that Kibaki is winning, then the war should break [sic]. They were coaching the young people how to go on the war [sic].' Stanley Kamau, who campaigned for Kibaki, declared: 'It was definitely as if it had all been planned. Before the elections they (the Luos) said: "It is our turn". They told us no matter what, they were going to take power.'
Barack Obama was so concerned about the violence in Kenya that he took time out of his hectic schedule during the New Hampshire primary to call…Raila Odinga. Twice. Time reported in January 2008 that 'in the days since his Iowa victory, Obama has had near daily conversations with the U.S. ambassador in Nairobi, Michael Ranneberger, or with Kenya’s opposition leader, Raila Odinga. Obama was trying to reach Kibaki as well.' Kibaki doesn’t seem to have taken Obama’s calls, but in an attempt to quell the rioting and murder, Kibaki named Odinga prime minister – in which role Odinga realized a longstanding dream of his friend, supporter, and possible relative Barack Obama: in February 2009, he met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
And now here we are a year and half into Obama's disastrous presidency, and we bear witness to the poisonous fruit of this.
Obama Congratulates Kenya for Passing Constitution He Bankrolled, Implements Sharia in Non-Muslim Country
WASHINGTON, DC, August 6, 2010- 'On Thursday, President Obama praised Kenya for approving a controversial new constitution that liberalizes abortion laws and that partially implements Muslim Sharia law within Kenya’s borders.
“This was a significant step forward for Kenya’s democracy,” President Obama stated, “and the peaceful nature of the election was a testament to the character of the Kenyan people.”
The new constitution was approved by about 70% of voters. It permits abortion for the sake of the “health” of the mother – a term that opponents of unborn rights admit can be “broadly interpreted when need be” to help bring about abortion on demand.
It also carves out legal space for Muslim khadi courts, which handle family issues in accord with Sharia law. Only about 12% of Kenya is Muslim.
President Obama stated that his administration had been “pleased to support Kenya’s democratic development and the Kenyan people, including through the visit of Vice President Biden earlier this year.”
The Obama administration has spent about $23 million supporting the new constitution, a move that some congressmen have contested violates the Siljander amendment, a statute that prohibits the federal government from lobbying for or against abortion with foreign aid funds.'"
6 comments:
How DARE those Kenyans passing a constitution in their own country thathasn't been approved by the American Religious Rightwingnuts!
Oh, Diogenes, you are absolutely right. Kenyans have every right to choose their own constitution.
But, the Obama factor in this is of significance, especially his ties to Odinga and promoting Sharia law.
Right wingers are either ignorant or just peddling falsehoods. There is no sharia in Kenya. What they have is Kadhi courts which are optional and have existed since 1963.
Most Kenyans have no problem with Kadhi courts as they are only used by muslims who want to settle issues using islamic law. That is freedom of religion.
DiogenASS: it's not about Kenyans passing their own constitution thumbsucker, it's about the $23 million in American tax dollars going to support their new constitution and a radical Islamic ideology.
If the thumbsucking leftwingloons in America want to support radical Islamic causes, it should come out of their pockets alone.
The 224,437,959 people in America that identify themselves as Christians shouldn't have to give one dime to support any radical Muslims that have been killing and persecuting Christians throughout the Muslim world for years.
As far the other leftwing thumbsucker coltran, where is the freedom of religion in Muslim countries?
if you're even caught with a Christian bible in most Muslim countries, the punishment is death.
so take your freedom of religion argument coltran over to comedy central where I'm sure you'll get a few laughs!
AnonyMouse, I thought what little brain matter you had must have dried up and blown away. Glad to see you're still able to offer up nonsensical comments.
You need to take a civics lesson, old boy. You obviously don't understand how a representative democracy/republic works, nor how taxes work. We don't all, individually, have the right to sit down and say "I like this idea, so you can use my taxes for this, but I sure as hell don't approve of that, so none of my tax dollars can go there."
Even a 12 yr old wouldn't make such an elementary mistake like that.
And, Ms. MoreLies, the alleged ties between Obama and Odinga were mostly refuted quite some time ago:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/kenya.asp
Take a civics class,AnonyMouse; you certainly need it.
In a representative democracy/republic, voters elect representatives to make decisions on our behalf. And we pay taxes. We don't -- and shouldn't -- have the right to say "I want my taxes to go towards this, but I don't want any of my tax dollars to go to that." So you don't get to pick and choose what your government does and doesn't do.
If you don't like the decisions being made by your government, get off your ass and convince others to help you elect representatives that more closely align with your views. That's what I did in 2008; what's your excuse?
If you keep crapping on societies that don't perfectly align with your personal sensibilities, you're likely to find that, if you give them a chance, they'll likely return the favor.
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