Posted on 11/10/2010 1:35:44 AM PST by onyx
JAKARTA, Indonesia — In the Muslim nation that was his boyhood home, President Barack Obama acknowledged today that U.S. relations are still frayed with the Islamic world despite his best efforts at repair. He urged all sides to look beyond "suspicion and mistrust" to forge common ground against terrorism.
Forcefully returning to a theme he sounded last year in visits to Turkey and Egypt, Obama said: "I have made it clear that America is not and never will be at war with Islam. . . . Those who want to build must not cede ground to terrorists who seek to destroy."
Beaming with pride, Obama delivered perhaps the most intensely personal speech of his presidency, speaking phrases in Indonesian to a cheering crowd of young people.
"Let me begin with a simple statement: Indonesia is part of me," he said in Indonesian during a morning speech at the University of Indonesia.
He praised the world's most populous Muslim nation for standing its ground against "violent extremism" and said: "All of us must defeat al-Qaeda and its affiliates, who have no claim to be leaders of any religion. . . .This is not a task for America alone."
~SNIP~
"Relations between the United States and Muslim nations have been frayed over many years. As president, I have made it a priority to begin to repair these relations," Obama said.
(Excerpt) Read more at denverpost.com ...
Yuk upon him.
How dare him....
“”I have made it clear that America is not and never will be at war with Islam”
You’ve got two years left, then it’s on like donkey kong.
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I don't think he was kidding.
He’s Moselm.
Too bad idiot obama voting Americans weren’t treated to *this* speech.
God save us from this evil monster.
I agree.
It’s late here.
I have to try to sleep!!
~vomit~
Reuters Pictures 5 hours ago U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk together during a tour of the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta November 10, 2010.
Reuters Pictures 5 hours ago U.S. President Barack Obama (R) and first lady Michelle Obama are led on a tour by Grand Imam Ali Mustafa Yaqub at the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta November 10, 2010.
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I am sick of muslim pandering.
Why do I never hear of Christian outreach, or Jewish outreach, or Buddhist, Catholic, or Mormon?
Why is everything always about the muslims? I don’t give a damn about their religion. What I care about is that these people have proven themselves, a thousand times over, to be dangerous, murderous, barbarians. It wouldn’t matter to me if they were Amish.
Screw the muslims, and screw all the obsessive ‘outreach’ crap.
They need to ‘outreach’ to us by stop murdering people all over the world.
They need us more than we need them.
Obama clearly belongs in muslim country. He has made perfectly clear that is where his loyalty is.
Please! No Buddhist outreach from this Pres_ent. He put the Dalai Lama out with the trash. I’d hate to see what he would do to a rank and file Buddhist like me. We’re not allowed to convert you know. It’s dhimmi slave or head chop for us.
In noting the color of the fringe thinking that those teal high heels were the shoes worn with this outfit (when she had shoes on). she probaby had high heels as the pants are dragging badly for flats
REligion of Peace? Try telling that to the people, non-muslim who live with them.
This is not a religion, anymore than Nazism or Communism is.
It comes down to this. What side are you on? Islam is the enemy. Plain pure and simple...
I don’t want to see anyone hurt as happened on 9/11 but it clearly is going to take another attack by them against us, to wake us up....
Not only am I,like you sick and tired of the pandering, I am sick and tired of the bending over backwards to appease these bast*rds....
It will happen, sooner than later. WE will be attacked. It will be huge....and the guy in the WH has no clue what to do. He has no clue...
If there are any patriotic democrat leaders left in The United States they need to see down with 0bama put the cards on the table and say it is time for you to go now.
No waiting until after the 2012 elections, now !
The smug arrogance is consistent.
Why Do People Say Muslim Now Instead of Moslem?
By Yii-Ann Christine Chen
Ms. Chen is a student at the University of Washington and an intern at HNN.
Is it Muslim or Moslem?
When Baby Boomers were children it was Moslem. The American Heritage Dictionary (1992) noted, “Moslem is the form predominantly preferred in journalism and popular usage. Muslim is preferred by scholars and by English-speaking adherents of Islam.” No more. Now, almost everybody uses Muslim.
According to the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, “Moslem and Muslim are basically two different spellings for the same word.” But the seemingly arbitrary choice of spellings is a sensitive subject for many followers of Islam. Whereas for most English speakers, the two words are synonymous in meaning, the Arabic roots of the two words are very different. A Muslim in Arabic means “one who gives himself to God,” and is by definition, someone who adheres to Islam. By contrast, a Moslem in Arabic means “one who is evil and unjust” when the word is pronounced, as it is in English, Mozlem with a z.
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Journalists switched to Muslim from Moslem in recent years under pressure from Islamic groups. But the use of the word Moslem has not entirely ceased. Established institutions which used the older form of the name have been reluctant to change. The American Moslem Foundation is still the American Moslem Foundation (much as the NAACP is still the NAACP—the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). The journal The Moslem World—published by the Hartford Seminary in Connecticut—is still The Moslem World.
http://hnn.us/articles/524.html
Call them what they are - MOSLEMS!
He is a freaking Milk Shake, Muslim, Black Liberation, Socialist.
He just loves groups that hate America. He is like Johnny Ringo, he has a hole inside him that can't hate America enough, he blames the US for his lack of relationship with his father. Britain for locking him up. ( Churchill's bust out of the White House, one of the first thing he did as President. The man has no backbone just come clean.
Wrong pant length to wear to mosque photo op when one has to remove their shoes, IMHO. MO doesn’t seemed too pleased, does she.
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http://www.daylife.com/photo/03n8aJ7fPO8G0?q=michelle+obama
BO appears in awe ...
http://www.daylife.com/photo/06ntbok6kq1OT?q=michelle+obama
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