President Bush Rededicates Islamic Center of Washington The Islamic Center of D.C.

The White House ^ | June 27, 2007

[wardaddy]

nore PC Bush junk.....this guy needs to be rehabilitated

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks for your comments. I realize after reading your post that I am totally out of touch with what the Islamic community is about. I read this from the WH and couldn’t believe it.

What is the matter with this President? He sure hid it all when running in 2004 and 2000! Now it is coming out full force. I am so tired of kumbaya I could scream.

[flat]

WAIT...aint it the job of them imams to come to the WHITEHOUSE and read this speech to US?

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks! That looks like a book I need to read!

[wardaddy]

I have come to the conclusion that if 9/11 never happened Jorge would have been a one term El Presidente.

THAT BRIZICK IS THE POST OF THE DAY

..it took a few years for me to come to believe that but so true....Bush is just being what he is....an evangelical patrician elitist who sticks to a few guns but succumbs to political correctness on anything about any "minority" because to him it's good works

i know a lot of soft on hard issues Christians like him

[PhiKapMom]

I think he is past rehabilitation with this latest one after his determination to give amnesty to illegals.

[mimaw]

there are millions of descent Muslims in this world that want the same things for their families that we do. We do recognize the right to practice many religions in this country. If the President is trying to appeal to those who are moderate and do not practice terror in the name their religion what’s wrong with that? Is only Christianity and Judaism acceptable in this country? Are only people of European descent acceptable Americans? I think there are plenty of issues to be concerned about but the Presidents appeal to a groups better angels.

[PhiKapMom]

an evangelical patrician elitist who sticks to a few guns but succumbs to political correctness on anything about any "minority" because to him it's good works

That makes more sense then anything I have seen in a long time. That's what his compassionate conservatism was all about. I hate kumbaya out of someone that is supposed to be our leader. That means us non-minority types get the boot?

[wardaddy]

i mean after office....he is one pc dude about anything tuff....about group identity on race, ethnicity or religion...on those things he could be a writer for The Nation. like so many good works missionary style Christians...I'm telling ya....I know them.....anyhting goes rather be called xenophobe, racist or bigot..

they stand for nothing and live to give the "correct answer"

[Veto!]

There’s a certain perceived pr value in his showing up to dedicate a mosque, but al Jezeera will probably spin it into a negative. Couldn’t he have sent an ambassador to do the honors?

Jorge has a great future as an Imam once he’s out of office. Or maybe even before. His lame-duckness has meant one nasty shock after another to those who supported him. Clearly he doesn’t give a damn.

[mc5cents]

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Joseph Goebbels.

[pacelvi]

Here’s a free on-line version:

http://answering-islam.org/Authors/JR/Future/index.htm

Here are some teasers:

Muslims believe:

http://answering-islam.org/Authors/JR/Future/ch04_the_mahdi.htm

The Mahdi is Islam’s primary messiah figure.
He will be a descendant of Muhammad and will bear Muhammad’s name (Muhammad bin Abdullah).
He will be a very devout Muslim.
He will be an unparalleled spiritual, political and military world leader.
He will emerge after a period of great turmoil and suffering upon the earth.
He will establish justice and righteousness throughout the world and eradicate tyranny and oppression.
He will be the Caliph and Imam (vice-regent and leader) of Muslims worldwide
He will lead a world revolution and establish a new world order.
He will lead military action against all those who oppose him.
He will invade many countries.
He will make a seven year peace treaty with a Jew of priestly lineage.
He will conquer Israel for Islam and lead the “faithful Muslims” in a final slaughter/battle against Jews.
He will establish the new Islamic world headquarters from Jerusalem.
He will rule for seven years (possibly as much as eight or nine).
He will cause Islam to be the only religion practiced on the earth.
He will appear riding a white horse (possibly symbolic).
He will discover some previously undiscovered biblical manuscripts that he will use to argue with the Jews and cause some Jews to convert to Islam.
He will also re-discover the Ark of the Covenant from the Sea of Galilee, which he will bring to Jerusalem.
He will have supernatural power from Allah over the wind and the rain and crops.
He will posses and distribute enormous amounts of wealth.
He will be loved by all the people of the earth.

http://answering-islam.org/Authors/JR/Future/ch18_a_summary_of_comparisons.htm

Bible: The Antichrist is an unparalleled political, military and religious leader that will that emerge in the last-days.
Islam: The Mahdi is an unparalleled political, military and religious leader that will emerge in the last-days.

Bible: the False Prophet is a secondary prominent figure that will emerge in the last-days who will support the Antichrist.
Islam: the Muslim Jesus is a secondary prominent figure that will emerge in the last-days to support the Mahdi.

Bible: The Antichrist and the False Prophet together will have a powerful army that will do great damage to the earth in an effort to subdue every nation and dominate the World.
Islam: The Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus will have a powerful army that will attempt to control every nation of the earth and dominate the World.

Bible: The False Prophet is described essentially as a dragon in lamb’s clothing.
Islam: The Muslim Jesus literally comes bearing the name of the one that the world knows as “The Lamb of God: Jesus Christ.” Yet the Muslim Jesus comes to murder all those who do not submit to Islam.

Bible: The Antichrist and the False Prophet establish a New World Order.
Islam: The Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus establish a New World Order.

Bible: The Antichrist and the False Prophet institute new laws for the whole earth.
Islam: The Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus institute Islamic law all over the earth.

Bible: The Antichrist is said to “change the times.”
Islam: It is quite certain that if the Mahdi established Islam all over the earth, he would discontinue the use of Saturday and Sunday as the weekend or days of rest but rather Friday, the holy day of Islam. Also, he would most certainly eliminate the Gregorian calendar (A.D.), and replace it with the Islamic calendar (A. H.) as is used in every Islamic country.

Bible: The Antichrist and the False Prophet will both be powerful religious leaders who will attempt to institute a universal world religion.
Islam: The Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus will institute Islam as the only religion in the earth.

Bible: The Antichrist and the False Prophet will execute anyone who does not submit to their world religion.
Islam: Likewise, the Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus will execute anyone who does not submit to Islam.

Bible: The Antichrist and the False Prophet will specifically use beheading as the primary means of execution for non-conformists.
Islam: The Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus will use the Islamic practice of beheading for executions.

Bible: The Antichrist and the False Prophet will have a specific agenda to kill as many Jews as possible.
Islam: The Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus will kill as many Jews as is possible until only a few are left hiding behind rocks and trees.

Bible: The Antichrist and the False Prophet will attack to conquer and seize Jerusalem.
Islam: The Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus will attack to re-conquer and seize Jerusalem for Islam.

Bible: The Antichrist will set himself up in the Jewish temple as his seat of authority.
Islam: The Mahdi will establish the Islamic Caliphate from Jerusalem.

Bible: The False Prophet is said to do many miracles to deceive as many as possible into supporting the Antichrist.
Islam: The Mahdi himself is said to control the weather and the crops. His face is said to glow. We can also assume that since Jesus is viewed as having been empowered by Allah to work miracles when he was here on earth the first time, he will most likely be expected to continue to do so when he returns.

Bible: The Antichrist is described as riding on a white horse in the Book of Revelation
Islam: The Mahdi is described as riding on a white horse (ironically from the same verse).

Bible: The Antichrist is said to make a peace treaty with Israel for seven years.
Islam: The Mahdi is said to make a peace treaty through a Jew (specifically a Levite) for exactly seven years.

Bible: Jesus the Jewish Messiah will return to defend the Jews in Israel from a military attack from a vast coalition of nations led by the Antichrist and the False Prophet.
Islam: The Dajjal, the Islamic Antichrist will gain a great Jewish following and claim to be Jesus Christ and fight against the Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus.

Bible: The antichrist spirit specifically denies the most unique and central doctrines of Christianity, namely the trinity, the incarnation and the substitutionary death of Jesus on the cross.
Islam: Islam doctrinally and spiritually specifically denies the most unique and central doctrines of Christianity, namely the trinity, the incarnation and the substitutionary death of Jesus on the cross.

Bible: The primary warning of Jesus and the Apostle Paul was to warn Christians of the abundance of deceit and deception in the last-days.
Islam: Islam is perhaps the only religion in the earth that practices deceit as one of its tools to assist its own ascendancy. It actually has a specific doctrine which allows and even calls for deception to be used to achieve its desired end.

Bible: The specific nations pictured in the Bible as being part of the final empire of the Antichrist are all Islamic nations.
Islam: All Muslims are commanded to give their allegiance to The Mahdi as the final Caliph and Imam (leader) of Islam.

Bible: From the Bible and History we learn that the final Antichrist empire will be a revived version of the Empire that succeeds the Roman Empire
Islam: The Empire that succeeded the Roman/Byzantine Empire was the Islamic Ottoman Empire

Bible: When Antichrist emerges, there will already be some form of system in place that will be poised to receive him as a Savior and to give allegiance to him.
Islam: is already the second largest religion and will at present growth rates become the largest religion within a few decades. Islam is awaiting the coming of the Mahdi with a universal anticipation

http://answering-islam.org/Authors/JR/Future/ch10_the_revived_islamic_empire.htm

What is the Beast Empire as mentioned in Rev 17

(very tiny excerpt):

I made a full post about this here

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1854703/posts

In 395 A.D., The Roman Empire was divided into two portions; the eastern and the western portions. The Eastern portion became known as the Byzantine Empire. In 410 A.D. the western capital city of Rome fell to invading Germanic tribes known as the Visigoths or Barbarians. The western/European half of the Empire including its capital had fallen but the Roman Empire nevertheless continued. How so? It simply shifted its capital and its throne from Rome to Constantinople – a thousand miles east. The western European portion of the Roman Empire fell but the Eastern Byzantine portion of the Roman Empire lived on for nearly another thousand years with Constantinople as its capital. The Roman Empire didn’t actually completely fall until the eastern portion of the Empire finally fell to the Turks in 1453 A.D. Likewise it was the Islamic Caliphate of Umar Ibn al-Khattab that took Jerusalem in 637. Thus we see that it was the various manifestations of Islamic Empire culminating with the Ottoman Empire that suceeded the Roman Empire and ruled over the entire Middle East, beginning with Jerusalem for over thirteen hundred years. 12 The Turkish Empire existed right up until 1909.

Thus we see that the only empire that fulfills the patterns necessary to be considered the seventh empire is the Turkish/Ottoman Empire. This of course corresponds perfectly with Ezekiel’s list of nations with such a heavy emphasis on Turkey.

[pacelvi]

“there are millions of descent Muslims in this world that want the same things for their families that we do. “

BULL-SHIT

The only good Muslim is an Ex-Muslim.

[Atchafalaya]

I think I may hurl.

[Cecily]

Among other things, one particular thing I will be very happy never to hear again after Inauguration Day in 2009 is GWB telling all and sundry how much he APPPRECIATES! them.

He has run that word into the ground. I hope that the next president will never, ever tell me that “Islam is a religion of peace.” What nonsense.

[Excellence]

I realized not too long ago that the problem with George Bush is he actually believes his own rhetoric.

[PhiKapMom]

I have met some of those types at my door!

[PhiKapMom]

His lame-duckness has meant one nasty shock after another to those who supported him. Clearly he doesn’t give a damn.

That is how it is looking to me!

[PhiKapMom]

That was one of the first things that came to my mind — hurl!

[Spiff]

Apparently, you've forgotten that the first evening of the Republican National Convention in 2004 had the invocation given, partly in Arabic, by Imam Izak-El Mu’eed Pasha.

And that within a week after the Islamic terrorist attacks on September 11th, Bush was there in that same Islamic Center playing Dhimmi-in-Chief.

Sickening...

"The Islam that we know is a faith devoted to the worship of one God, as revealed through The Holy Qur'an. It teaches the value and the importance of charity, mercy, and peace."
- President George W. Bush's Message for Ramadan November 15, 2001