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Obama pledges new start with Muslims
reuters ^ | January 20, 2009 | Sue Pleming

Posted on 01/20/2009 7:36:57 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama promised to improve U.S. ties with the Muslim world in his inauguration address on Tuesday, after tensions that followed the September 11 attacks and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect," said Obama, who became the first black president of the United States.

Obama, a practicing Christian, spent several years of his childhood in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim nation. His American mother, Ann Dunham, married Muslim Indonesian Lolo Soetoro after the end of her marriage to Obama's Kenyan father.

"To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist," Obama said.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhoforeignpolicy; bhoinauguration; bhomiddleeast; bhonwo; husseinobama; muslimvote; speech
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1 posted on 01/20/2009 7:36:57 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Maybe Osama-Obama would like to say a few words about how he plans on brining the caliphate to America?

The error of Obama begins.


2 posted on 01/20/2009 7:38:28 PM PST by Tarpon (America's first principles, freedom, liberty, market economy and self-reliance will never fail.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Within two years the drug addled cocaine sniffer will be the biggest joke in the world.


3 posted on 01/20/2009 7:39:56 PM PST by avacado
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist,” Obama said.”

This is all pie in the sky fun and games until he draws back a bloody stump.


4 posted on 01/20/2009 7:40:35 PM PST by headstamp 2 (Been here before)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
His American mother, Ann Dunham, married Muslim Indonesian Lolo Soetoro after the end of her marriage to Obama's Muslim Kenyan father.

Fixed.

5 posted on 01/20/2009 7:43:12 PM PST by null and void (KENYAN GO HOME!)
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To: Tarpon

The total sellout begins. The Mooselimbs have a bud in the White House.


6 posted on 01/20/2009 7:43:14 PM PST by shankbear (Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Rahm Emmanuel community outreach program.


7 posted on 01/20/2009 7:43:41 PM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: Tarpon

hee-hee, good luck with that.

Back to enflamed, anti-American hatred in Iran!
-MM
Guess that whole moving-forward-with-the-Arab-world thing President Obama talked about today hasn’t reached the streets of Tehran yet:

Pro-Gazan Iranian demonstrators carrying a British flag, burn a photo of US President-elect Barack Obama, during an anti-Israeli, anti-US and anti-British protest in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009.


8 posted on 01/20/2009 7:44:52 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (Welcome to Obama's America... Be afraid, be very afraid)
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To: Tarpon

Mutual respect from people who have vowed to murder you? Is he just stupid?


9 posted on 01/20/2009 7:44:57 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. Margret Thatcher)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I still find it hard to believe that “Obambi” is too stupid to realize that Islam is the enemy of the United States! This is going to be a very painful lesson to learn and I am afraid that a lot of people well be hurt or killed because of his ignorance and cowardice!
10 posted on 01/20/2009 7:45:50 PM PST by WellyP
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Mutual respect from people who have vowed to murder you? Is he just stupid?
* * * * * * * * *

He’s a closet muslim and racist, and he’s a libtard- of course he’s stupid!


11 posted on 01/20/2009 7:47:02 PM PST by Canedawg ("When white will embrace what is right."..this is the hope and change "they" want.)
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To: headstamp 2
based on mutual interest and mutual respect...

911 didn't teach the Kenyan/Hawaiian/Manchurian Candidate much about respect did it?

12 posted on 01/20/2009 7:47:17 PM PST by BigFinn ( TIOBOW=This Is Only The Beginning Of Weird.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

FU Obama.

Bush liberated more Muslims than any US President in history you moron.


13 posted on 01/20/2009 7:48:15 PM PST by DB
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To: Tarpon
Did anyone else find that offensive? That the most rabid abortionist in the history of mankind labled a Christian?

Thou Shalt Kill Thy Babies, must have been that missing 11th Commandment everyone keeps talking about. Maybe I'll pick up another Bible... perahps instead of the KJV, I'll get the NKOV (new king obama version).

Of course he demonstrated his Chrsitianity by having gay Heretic Gene Robinson give a "prayer" at the inauguration.

And then lets not forget the shout out to his habibs (ha-beebs).

So I propose this.... if we are going to give "mutual respect" to our mooslimb friends, does this mean we get to behead them in the streets and force them to endure the most depraved acts of torture?.... you know to make things mutual. /rant

14 posted on 01/20/2009 7:51:51 PM PST by Operation_Shock_N_Awe (Isaiah 6:8)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect,” said Obama, who became the first black president of the United States.

Americans have no mutual interest with the muslim world.
The muslim world seeks the destruction of America and western civilization. We are their enemies and they are ours..... If President Obama or his handlers fail to understand this they will place American lives in jeopardy.


15 posted on 01/20/2009 7:52:27 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Coming to You From the Front Lines of Occupied America)
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To: Free ThinkerNY; nutmeg; MeekOneGOP; knews_hound
"An Obama presidency will stoke ethnic and religious chauvinism in Indonesia and Indonesia's Islamic fundamentalists will use an Obama presidency to radicalize a new contingent of militants from the ranks of Islam's moderates. Individuals who are mesmerized by the phantasmagorical image of one of their own now inhabiting the White House and who will see it as a sign of America's impending submission and our nation's acquiescence to the superiority of Islam."

Tee-shirts emblazoned with messianic images of Barack Hussein Obama are already starting to replace the Osama Bin Laden tee-shirts that have been so popular in Indonesia. In Indonesia Barack Obama is fast becoming the "Che Guevara" of Indonesia's young wannabe Islamists.

I've been promising updates for a long time and I know I owe my fellow FReepers - to be honest I'm still a bit pissed off that parts of my blog were copied for Corsi's New York Times best seller - he never sought by permission to copy my work and translations (translations that took me time to do and then have some jackass just steal from you)

The craziest thing is that the idiot copyrighted my own work in his book Obama Nation

I suppose because Im overseas that Corsi and his publishers think they can do what they want with impunity - if any FReepers seriously know of a lawyer to assist me - please advise -

I want to keep writing I really do - I just wish that I could do so and not have my original work stolen - what is the point of the Creative Commons license on my blog anyway?

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

16 posted on 01/20/2009 7:53:47 PM PST by expatguy (Support "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" - DONATE)
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To: headstamp 2

Fricking moron. American leftists always start of with the premise of hate America first and it always gets us in trouble.


17 posted on 01/20/2009 7:55:07 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How long will it e before Obomation moves his prayer rug into the Oval Office?


18 posted on 01/20/2009 7:58:44 PM PST by dalereed (/)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

New Start?

HOW ABOUT THEY EFFING START BY NOT FLYING EFFING PLANES INTO OUR BUILDINGS?


19 posted on 01/20/2009 8:00:39 PM PST by rlmorel ("A barrel of monkeys is not fun. In fact, a barrel of monkeys can be quite terrifying!")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Obama’s inexperience is talking. He thinks the US has never talked with those idiots. He thinks we’ve made enemies out of them somehow and it is all our fault. This is going to be good watching him stagger home with his tail between his legs.

Oh, and Muslims do not care for Muslims renouncing Islam and taking up Christianity. It is a fatal affair to Muslims.


20 posted on 01/20/2009 8:05:35 PM PST by CodeToad
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