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Clinton Vows to Reach Out to Islamic World [done terrible things in the name of Christianity....]
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Posted on 02/17/2009 9:05:10 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Clinton Vows to Reach Out to Islamic World

By Glenn Kessler Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, February 17, 2009; 10:02 AM

TOKYO, Feb. 17 -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday the Obama administration will make "a concerted effort" to restore the image of the United States in the Islamic world and will seek to "enlist the help of Muslims around the world against the extremists."

Clinton, who on Wednesday will travel to Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, told students at Tokyo University that "this is one of the central security challenges we face -- as to how to better communicate in a way that gets through the rhetoric and through the demagogy and is heard by people who can make judgments about what we stand for and who we truly are."

Clinton's remarks came in response to a question about the "prejudice" in the United States against Muslims because of terrorism, a term she rejected forcefully, pointing to the history of Christians. "I am a Christian," she said. "Through the centuries we have had many people who have done terrible things in the name of Christianity. They have perverted the religion."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho44; bhomiddleeast; bhostatedept; hillary; hillaryandgod; husseinobama; religiousleft; soshillary
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Whew...........
1 posted on 02/17/2009 9:05:10 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

So, does this mean the world can put up their hands for part of this free money we are about to give away


2 posted on 02/17/2009 9:06:50 AM PST by shadeaud (Time to smell the roses and not the stench coming from D .C.)
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To: Sub-Driver
"Through the centuries we have had many people who have done terrible things in the name of Christianity. They have perverted the religion."

Like her husband carrying around a big prop bible and then getting a blow job on Easter Sunday from a teenaged college intern?

3 posted on 02/17/2009 9:07:17 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Song of the day Friday the 13th, February 2009. - The Kinks' Sold Me Out. The American Dream is over)
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To: Sub-Driver
"prejudice" in the United States against Muslims because of terrorism, a term she rejected forcefully, pointing to the history of Christians. "I am a Christian," she said.

Bleh!

4 posted on 02/17/2009 9:07:50 AM PST by SolidWood (Palin: "In Alaska we eat therefore we hunt.")
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To: Sub-Driver

Go ahead. Reach out! When you pull back a bloody stub don’t come crying to us.


5 posted on 02/17/2009 9:07:58 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Have You Punched A Democrat Today? - Do it for the children.)
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To: Sub-Driver

“I am a Christian,” she said. “Through the centuries we have had many people who have done terrible things in the name of Christianity. They have perverted the religion.”

Visions of Bill and Hill carrying the massive family Bible to Foundry Methodist every Sunday (during election cycles) come to mind


6 posted on 02/17/2009 9:08:38 AM PST by silverleaf ("Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury" - Screwtape)
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To: a fool in paradise

great minds sink to the same depths...


7 posted on 02/17/2009 9:09:08 AM PST by silverleaf ("Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury" - Screwtape)
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To: Sub-Driver

OMG !


8 posted on 02/17/2009 9:09:21 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Sub-Driver
the Obama administration will make "a concerted effort" to restore the image of the United States in the Islamic world

Define: concerted effort

9 posted on 02/17/2009 9:10:14 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Sub-Driver
"Through the centuries we have had many people who have done terrible things in the name of Christianity. They have perverted the religion."

I hope there's an audio of this somewhere? Did she happen to mention the terrible things done in the name of Islam, and how terrorists perverted that "religion?" Because that's the usual bs line, and this new comment is a quantum jump in the pc rhetoric. We don't usually hear such blatant crap from establishment types like Clinton.

10 posted on 02/17/2009 9:10:24 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (American Revolution II -- overdue.)
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To: Sub-Driver

WHY, oh, why can’t we get rid of the Clintons!!!??


11 posted on 02/17/2009 9:10:27 AM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: Puppage

One of the biggest sinners becomes the biggest apologist.


12 posted on 02/17/2009 9:11:12 AM PST by nufsed
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To: Puppage

give the palestinians a us based homeland


13 posted on 02/17/2009 9:12:34 AM PST by Billg64 (LOL ROFL Senator Mccain for what????)
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give the palestinians a us based homeland

I think it's called Detroit.

14 posted on 02/17/2009 9:13:24 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Sub-Driver

Did this woman convert to Islam?


15 posted on 02/17/2009 9:14:07 AM PST by 353FMG (Trust in Glock.)
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But he said Clinton did not make clear statements in response to the family members' request to put North Korea back on the terror list.

Rotsa ruck.

16 posted on 02/17/2009 9:14:09 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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Sure. Apologizing for being Christian Crusaders is going to go over big with the Muslims, as Drudge's photo of Indonesian Muslim women suggests:

The usual response when you apologize to Muslims for defending yourself is that they spit in your face, as here.

17 posted on 02/17/2009 9:16:40 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Sub-Driver

Dear Muslims,
We’re so sorry we liberated you in Kuwait and Iraq. We know you miss Saddam. The US wasn’t around during the Crusades, but we’re sorry for that too.

Love,
Hilary


18 posted on 02/17/2009 9:18:18 AM PST by Redgirl (You get your torch and I'll get my pitchfork.)
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"I am a Christian," she said. "Through the centuries we have had many people who have done terrible things in the name of Christianity. They have perverted the religion."

How many people in poverty have been fed and clothed because of the work of Christians?

How many children in poverty have been educated because of the work of Christians?

How many slaves were freed because of the works of Christians?

How many orphans found homes because of the works of Christians?

I'm really tired of this constant mea culpa about Christianity. This world is a far better place because of Christians.

19 posted on 02/17/2009 9:19:40 AM PST by keepitreal (Obama brings change: an international crisis (terrorism) within 6 months)
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To: Cicero

Where can I get one of those signs? Hitlery isn’t welcome here either!


20 posted on 02/17/2009 9:20:11 AM PST by meyer (The left is flooding the ship - let's quit bailing water. We are all John Galt.)
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