Posted on 11/07/2009 9:26:21 AM PST by traumer
Barack Obama has tried to calm racial tensions in the US after the Muslim community voiced fears it would face a backlash from the Fort Hood killings.
The president's intervention follows two days after Muslim army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire on colleagues at the military base in Texas, killing 13 and wounding 30.
Hundreds attended a candlelit vigil last night at Ford Hood, the country's largest army camp, while the investigation into the incident is continuing.
Major Hasan, 39, whose spree was stopped when he was shot four times by Police Sergeant Kimberley Munley, remains in a coma.
Mr Obama used his weekly radio and internet address to praise the heroism of those who ended Hasan's rampage and to reassure the nation of the quality of their training.
He spoke of their diversity in a move to calm any anti-Muslim backlash to the killings. Major Hasan was reported to have shouted 'Allahu Akbar', Arabic for 'God is Great', as he jumped on a desk and opened fire. Barack Obama
Mr Obama said: 'They are Americans of every race, faith and station. They are Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and non-believers.
'They are descendants of immigrants and immigrants themselves. They reflect the diversity that makes this America. But what they share is a patriotism like no other.'
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Don’t forget to have them rat out the bad guys asap. Time is not on thier side.
Where’s Barry?
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True but this is Bush’s great Religion remember the speeches and the invite for 10’s of thousands of them to live here.His Misguided Welcome Wagon approach to our mortal enemies is part of the problem here,Christ he has the Country full of Mexicans And Muslims and the Doors are Wide open!!
This has absolutely nothing to do with "racial" tensions and everything to do with ideological fanaticism.
In 1944, there was absolutely nothing wrong with "Germans". One of them, by the name of Eisenhower, was our Supreme Allied Commander. There was, however, something very seriously wrong with the Nazi ideology.
Likewise, today, there is nothing wrong with modern-day "Muslims" that reject the fanaticism radical Islamists just as modern-day Catholics and Protestants in the U.S. reject the religious fanaticism that had their ancestors burning each other at the stake.
The underlying problem with far to many in the U.S. Muslim community is that they are not willing to condemn and root out the fanatics in their community and they then expect the rest of us to ignore reality in the interests of Political Correctness.
For the umpteenth time, for possible penetration of your thick skulls, and into your pea brains, presstitutes, "ISLAM" is *not* a race!! It is (purportedly, but a whole heckova lot of doubt obtains in many quarters) a religion!! Get a clue!!
the infowarrior
Considering for 50-60 years we have been cramming 50lbs of crap into a 5lb bag it is no wonder. Multiculturalism will be and is the destruction of this country. This will all only get worse.
Has he visited the Frot Hood yet?
I am calm Barry O.
They stay on their side, I stay on my side, we got no problems.
If they come on my side and disturbing me, well... another story.
So I am calm, although I am getting hungry.
I am going to see what’s in the fridge. Calmly.
No...it's a death-cult.
It should be considered a dangerous subversive organization and its presence banned in the US.
Nice!
I see you’re minimizing your carbon footprint by driving a teensy little econobox, also. Probably a hybrid, right? :-)
beautiful yard pic dear..
W's been part of the problem from the first. After 9/11, he went to a mosque, met with reps from CAIR, and told us all that "Islam means peace".
And don’t forget he told them “America is not a Christian country”, implying that it’s already Moslem
I love your thinking, but it’ll never happen. Muslims have proven beyond any doubt that their allegiance to Allah and Mohammad and the Qur’an are more important than their allegiance to this country and its laws.
Base on that, I seriously think the government should start a program where any Muslim individual or family can move, at taxpayer expense, back to the Middle East if they forfeit their citizenship and promise never to attempt to return. It would be costly, but it would be worth it.
I was not aware that muslim was a race any more than being Jewish is a race.
And By the Way, There are some 3 million Jews in this country. How come every time Barry O. talks about religions in the U.S., Jews are continually further down the list of religions or non religions you speak of?
They are the 2nd largest religion in the USA.
To that comment I would say he reached out and gave them a chance. And he did that because he’s a decent man and a statesman. Unlike the stealth muslim in the WH
Agree and not just with Muslim. Mr GW wide open borders and invasion supporter is as guilty in this crap as any of them.
Let me be sure I understand this. Here’s a member of a radical hate group whose sworn mission is life is to kill Christians and Jews and convert all countries to their violent ideology. He murders innocent Americans yelling the slogan of his radical hate group.
The authorities rush to protect other members of the radical hate group from normal people who live peaceful lives.
Mass deportation.
Exactly.
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