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Beckwith Responds To The Washington Post
The Obama File -- Latest News ^ | 6/28/2008 | Beckwith

Posted on 06/28/2008 9:35:21 AM PDT by Beckwith

Beckwith responds to The Washington Post.

The first thing I have to say about "An Attack That Came Out of the Ether," published by The Washington Post on June 28th, is that at NO time was I ever contacted by this woman, Danielle Allen.  I spoke to two male Post reporters, who spoke to me over the phone for a period of months.  The first contact was in the fall of 2007.  They told me they were trying to track down the source of emails they considered negative to the Obamamessiah.

Allen obsesses about the "Muslim" Obama stories, but steers clear of Obama's relationships with communists, Marxists, socialists, terrorists and convicted swindlers.  The trick she attempts to use is to knock down one or two or three items and the other four thousand don't count.

The following notice appears on my website's "About" page: "I don't write this stuff -- I cherry-pick it and publish it here -- every attempt is made to provide attribution and/or links to the original source -- if you don't like the writer's viewpoint -- send them an email -- not me.  If the reader finds content that is incorrect, I will correct or delete it upon the submission of two links to an independent source with more accurate information."

And I mean just that and I do just that.  I want The Obama File to be able to withstand the type of attack that Allen attempts in this article.

When Allen quotes me: "If 20 percent of what's on my Web site is true, this guy is a clear and present danger," she left out the whole quote.  I told her reporters that I believed that The Obama File content was better than 95% accurate, but that If 20 percent of what's on my Web site is true, this guy is a clear and present danger.  I still believe that.

Allen writes, "There was 'Beckwith,' whom she pegged as a veteran from Boston, old enough to vote for John F. Kennedy, in uniform by 1964, and host of a Web site that devotes considerable space to an 'Obama file' that says the senator is 'by birth, blood and training, a Muslim.'"

That statement is true.  Just ask Obama's sister Maya.  In an interview with the New York Times, published on April 30th, 2007, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama’s younger half sister, told the Times, "My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim."

I assume Maya thinks of her brother, Obama, as a member of her family?

Even if Maya didn't make such a statement.  Islam is patrilinear.  The son of a Muslim is a Muslim (birth, blood) and Obama did study Islam, the Quran and the Hadith at the Besuki Primary School in Jakarta, Indonesia for two years (training).   Further, he attended mengaji classes where he studied the Quran in its native Arabic.

In his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," Obama mentions studying the Quran and describes the public school as "a Muslim school."  He wrote, "In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell mother I made faces during Koranic studies."

According to Tine Hahiyary, one of Obama's teachers and the principal from 1971 through 1989, Barry actively took part in the Islamic religious lessons during his time at the school.  His teacher was named Maimunah and she lived in the Puncak area, the Cianjur Regency.

"I remembered that he had studied "mengaji" (recitation of the Quran)" Tine said.

These facts can account for the startling statement Obama made on February 27th, 2007, when he said the Muslim call to prayer was "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth."

In an interview with Nicholas Kristof, published in The New York Times, Obama recited the Muslim call to prayer, the Adhan, "with a first-class [Arabic] accent."

The opening lines of the Adhan (Azaan) is the Shahada:

Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that Muhammad is his prophet...

According to Islamic scholars, reciting the Shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith, makes one a Muslim. This simple yet profound statement expresses a Muslim's complete acceptance of, and total commitment to, the message of Islam.

Obama knows this from his Quranic studies -- and he knows the New York Times will publish this fact and it will be seen throughout the Islamic world.

Regardless of Obama's religion, what message is he sending the world's 1.2 billion Muslims?

I suppose it's easy for Obama to remember the Shahada for the 35 years since he left Indonesia -- and in 'first-class' Arabic -- especially since he believes the Muslim call to prayer is "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth." -- no matter what religion he belongs to, or not, those Muslim prayers run through his head, and often -- what does that really make him?

And although I do have a Boston accent, of which I'm proud (you can hear it on the webcast at the link on the main page), Allen gets in a little ethnic stereotyping by calling my accent a "... thick Boston brogue" -- Bostonians don't have brogues -- my antecedents from Ireland do -- it's a good thing I don't have a chip on my shoulder and charge "racism" at such obvious stereotyping -- like some folks might do.

And there is no "unnamed 'colleague' in Europe" -- that's probably my friend and fellow FReeper, ExpatGuy, who operates the "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" blog (a truly great resource).  But, what the heck, Europe, Southeast Asia, they're all foreign places.

Allen is also incorrect when she writes, "His initial goal was to take swats at the liberal left.  'Then this new guy comes along called Obama,' he said." -- All one has to do is to read the "About" page on my website to get it right -- "The Obama File is a spinoff of www.FreedomsEnemies.com where it started out as a single page.  Freedom's Enemies documents the relationship between the political left and Islamofascism.  Along comes Obama -- with a foot in each camp -- and The Obama File just evolved.

The reason I spun off The Obama File is that I did not want the Freedoms Enemies website a pejorative to the information I was compiling on Obama.

This sentence is also false -- "Beckwith said he built a Web site that features hundreds of pages of material intended to undermine Obama." -- There are 18 pages on my website.  Because I take pains to document and provide attribution for everything, those 18 pages link to thousands of source articles, primarily from mainstream media sources (including The Washington Post), and my intention is not to "undermine" poor Barry -- it is to "oppose the most liberal (read "left-wing") member of the U. S. Senate sitting in the Oval Office" -- just like it says on my "About" page.

I suppose it could have been more of a hatchet job, but what amazes me is Allen's obsession with the Muslim thing -- that rumor is a year old and has been fed more by Obama and his family more than anyone else.

Why hasn't Allen attempted to knock down Obama's relationship with communists, Marxists, socialists, terrorists, convicted swindlers, and, dare I say it, DHIMMICRATS!

Could it be that those long-term relationships are just too easy to document?



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To: Tainan

FAIL!

from :
http://islam.about.com/od/shahaadah/Declaration_of_Faith_Shahaadah.htm

Embracing Islam is as simple as making the formal “declaration of faith” (shahaadah), because believing this fundamental testimony is what makes one a Muslim.

Take it up with them.


181 posted on 06/29/2008 5:54:26 PM PDT by Covenantor
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To: Covenantor
No, it is not that simple. For just the reason I explained. The simple declaration of the Shahada is but a part of the process required to be recognized as a Muslim.
Please read my statement completely.
182 posted on 06/29/2008 6:13:13 PM PDT by Tainan (Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
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To: Beckwith
http://larrysinclair0926.wordpress.com

obambination will be getting a subpoena.

183 posted on 06/29/2008 6:14:03 PM PDT by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: FocusNexus

McCain needs to use that pic.


184 posted on 06/29/2008 6:18:07 PM PDT by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: Beckwith; informavoracious; larose; RJR_fan; Prospero; Conservative Vermont Vet; ...
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Freep-mail me to get on or off my pro-life and Catholic List:

Add me / Remove me

Please ping me to note-worthy Pro-Life or Catholic threads, or other threads of interest.

185 posted on 06/29/2008 6:24:33 PM PDT by narses (...the spirit of Trent is abroad once more.)
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To: Beckwith; informavoracious; larose; RJR_fan; Prospero; Conservative Vermont Vet; ...
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Freep-mail me to get on or off my pro-life and Catholic List:

Add me / Remove me

Please ping me to note-worthy Pro-Life or Catholic threads, or other threads of interest.

186 posted on 06/29/2008 6:24:36 PM PDT by narses (...the spirit of Trent is abroad once more.)
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To: Tainan

Doesn’t much matter what you argue, the fact is that Mad Mo’s march of conquest converted infidels in whole sale lots at the threat of the sword, much as still occurs in sub-saharan Africa.

Or are you of the belief that the benevolent and just Mad Mo, said something on the order of, “Okay, all those that want to convert, line up on the left to register for Islam 101 classes. We’ll test you on our return to Damascus.”

“Okay all those that don’t, KYAG and prepare to die!”

And that remains at the core of fundamental (read orthodox) Islam, despite the efforts by disinformation efforts by those that wish to portray it as the religion of peace so as to lull the gullible in the west.

Read the Koran, the only book that’s necessary. (according to their lights)

goodnight.


187 posted on 06/29/2008 6:27:34 PM PDT by Covenantor
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To: Bahbah; All; 1035rep; 1curiousmind; 4woodenboats; 2ndDivisionVet; 5Madman2; 68skylark; AdmSmith; ...

Great Point to Ponder

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2008/06/sunday-point-to-ponder.html


188 posted on 06/29/2008 6:28:47 PM PDT by FARS
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To: FARS; devolve

[Great Point to Ponder]

Those are interesting points to ponder!


189 posted on 06/29/2008 6:35:48 PM PDT by potlatch (MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
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To: potlatch

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Bump -


190 posted on 06/29/2008 6:47:44 PM PDT by devolve (- Fill your hand - Or run and still expire exhausted and crying -)
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To: Beckwith

Thanks for your good work and this excellent reply to the ideologues at the Washington Post. Too bad they have little apparent interest in objective truth. They are in the tank for Obama.


191 posted on 06/29/2008 7:06:43 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: TomasUSMC

I’m glad you’re tracking that. It made me sick to do it, between them and M&N.


192 posted on 06/29/2008 7:07:16 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: Beckwith

From Larry and the left

Obama Thugs, In League with Google, Bully Bloggers »
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/06/29/psst-obama-comrades-over-here/


193 posted on 06/29/2008 7:08:32 PM PDT by AliVeritas (If you don't love this country, tear up your passport, leave and live under a dictator.)
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To: Covenantor
Beg pardon...I'm not trying to argue anything. Just posting the fact that there is more to being recognized as a Muslim than merely doing the Shahada. It a simple fact.

As to your other assumptions...you have no idea how far off base you are. Have a good night, its morning for me.
194 posted on 06/29/2008 7:31:13 PM PDT by Tainan (Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
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To: FARS

Very good points.


195 posted on 06/29/2008 8:47:59 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck)
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To: Beckwith
And although I do have a Boston accent, of which I'm proud (you can hear it on the webcast at the link on the main page), Allen gets in a little ethnic stereotyping by calling my accent a "... thick Boston brogue" -- Bostonians don't have brogues -- my antecedents from Ireland do -- it's a good thing I don't have a chip on my shoulder and charge "racism" at such obvious stereotyping -- like some folks might do.

For liberals it's only "racism" if one of their pet groups is being offended... I enjoyed your defense, Beckwith.

196 posted on 06/29/2008 8:52:59 PM PDT by GOPJ (Hypocrisy doesnÂ’t apply to liberals - according to the MSM - FreeperProud2BeRight)
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To: Chickenhawk Warmonger

Good find.


197 posted on 06/29/2008 9:18:32 PM PDT by Uncle Ivan (Thompson Conservative)
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To: FARS

Thanks for the ping!


198 posted on 06/29/2008 9:37:51 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: mkjessup

LOL, Jerry Clower references will always make my day. However, what would Marcel Ledbetter say about this? :)


199 posted on 06/29/2008 10:21:07 PM PDT by GOP_Raider (DU: Standing athwart history yelling "$#@$# you mother$#@$#er!")
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To: Beckwith
I would like to know how long you have been a friend of the Obama's and when you started working on his political campaign?

Danielle Allen interview with Tavis Smiley November 2, 2004.

At 2:40 of this interview, she drops Obama's name for no reason I can understand. Unless...

200 posted on 06/29/2008 10:33:39 PM PDT by Stentor (Obama supporters. Letting the little void do the thinking for the big void.)
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