Posted on 02/09/2016 6:29:07 AM PST by RoosterRedux
If you seek to understand Barack Obama and his views, the best place to go is his speeches. But you have to read them in their entirety, not rely on hearing them or on the media's summary of them. When you do, you realize how often what Obama says is morally and intellectually confused and even untrue.
The most recent example was his speech last week at a mosque in Baltimore. In addition to reassuring Muslim Americans that they are as American as Americans of every other faith -- President Obama spoke a lot of nonsense, some of it dangerous.
President Obama: "So let's start with this fact: For more than a thousand years, people have been drawn to Islam's message of peace. And the very word itself, Islam, comes from salam -- peace."
Why did Obama say this? Even Muslim websites acknowledge that "Islam" means "submission" [to Allah], that it comes from the Arabic root "aslama" meaning submission, and that "Islam" is in the command form of that verb.
That's why "Muslim" means "One who submits," not "One who is peaceful."
Obama: "Jefferson and John Adams had their own copies of the Quran."
The reason Jefferson had a copy of the Quran was to try to understand it in light of what the Muslim ambassador from Tripoli had told him and John Adams. When asked why Tripoli pirates were attacking American ships and enslaving Americans, the Muslim ambassador explained that Muslims are commanded to do so by the Quran: "It was written in their Quran that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every mussulman [Muslim] who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to Paradise."
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
thanx for the post
“It’ not that our Liberal friends are ignorant; it’s that they know so much that isn’t so.” — Ronald Reagan
islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.
Yur welcome!
whoever wins this November, at least we won’t have blatant TREASON like Barry Hussein Muhammed.
Let’s set the record straight on what “Islam” means:
A verb in Arabic can be morphed in about fifteen different ways to change the meaning of its three letter root (s-l-m [س ل م] in this case). Of these, only ten are commonly used.
Obama was wrong when he said “Islam” came from “salaam [سلام]”. “ Salaam” is the verbal noun of its Measure 1 verb (salama [سَلَمَ]), the most basic meaning for the root, whose expanded meaning is “to be delivered to a safe area/from calamity”. This is the base meaning where all others come from.
“Islam” is not the command form of the verb”to submit (aslim [اَسْلÙمْ]”. It is the verbal noun of measure 4 (aslama [اَسلَمَ]) which means “to pay in advance for something, to hand oneself over to Allah and the Prophet [in deed]”.
Hope this helps.
Good work. Thx.
If Bernie wins, we’ll wish for 0bama again ... that’s how bad it will be under a full blown socialist regime.
I’m not familiar too much with Team Burney.
Who is the “hammer” behind him?
By that I mean folks like Axelrod and Val Jarrett that control Obama.
Team Bernie - haven’t heard that one. Behind him? Who knows, but that might be like asking who was the hammer behind Jughashvili ...
The First Year of President Bernie Sanders: What Life in America Will be Like With Him at the Helm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3394384/posts?page=10
I’ll add something else to what “salaam” means. “Salaam alykoum” is a greeting commonly used among Muslims. Though translated as “peace be upon you”, there’s a deeper meaning, as said before. Arabia of pre-Islamic times was very tribal, to the point that sometimes even sighting another person from another tribe as each party was traveling could mean a bloody altercation, even if they were strangers. To avoid this, they would pass each other and say this, meaning: “I mean no bodily harm to you, I’m just passing through”, or literally “Deliverance from potential harm is yours”.
Salaam means Deliverance from harm more than deliberate calm or tranquility, the connotation our word “peace” generally carries.
***Obama: “Jefferson and John Adams had their own copies of the Quran.” ***
For the same reason several Senators had their own copies of MEIN KAMPH by Adolf Hitler, not because they agreed, but so they could find out his REAL INTENT for Europe.
German propaganda releases in English were not trustworthy.
at least Bernie isn’t a Muslim, but the again, being a socialist with a lot of SJW’s Islam/Palestine lovers behind him, he might be a stealth-Muslim; aids/abets their agenda, and even more than Hussein.
I was obliquely referring to one of Bernie’s heroes and, if time had favored it, one of his mentors and role models: Jughashvili.
good point, tho I’d bet Bernie would say “Trotsky was a REAL socialist,” Stalin wasn’t!
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If he wins, we’ll find out - I rather Trosky than the mass murdering Jughashvilli.
Trotsky killed a lotta people too with his Red Terror.
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