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Obama compares slavery to Holocaust. Says Jews don't trust him because of Hussein.
Numerous sources ^ | 07/13/2010 | Polarik

Posted on 07/13/2010 12:38:38 PM PDT by Polarik

President Obama compares slavery to Holocaust and says Israelis are skeptical of his Mideast policies "because my middle name is Hussein."

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Playing the race card – unfairly raising the issue of race to delegitimize an opponent – is one of the most distasteful aspects of American politics. President Obama's "my middle name is Hussein" remark is an attempt to export this unattractive practice and use it against the Israeli public, which, according to all polls, overwhelmingly regard him as pro-Palestinian rather than pro-Israel.

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President Obama compared the history of slavery to that of the Holocaust, according to the CNN Web site.

Obama called his visit to Cape Coast Castle, a slavery dungeon, “reminiscent of the trip I took to Buchenwald,” a German Nazi death camp. Israelis have good reason to be skeptical of Mr. Obama's policies, and it has nothing to do with his middle name.

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You recall that Obama compared the Holocaust to the formation of Israel and the phony "Nakbah" that the Arabs brought upon themselves.

Coming on the heels of Farrakan's Hitler impersonation, this is very disturbing, to say the least.

As someone who demonstrated how this "Saying his middle name is a Smear" campaign was a Grand Canyon-sized crock of bovine excrement launched by Obama, himself, and his lovable band of Fascists.

Obama has proven that he is not just ineligible to be President - he is ineligible to be human.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel
KEYWORDS: antisemitic; israel; obama; racist; yo0stfu
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Would Obama/Holder call attacks on Jews as hate crimes, or community service?
1 posted on 07/13/2010 12:38:41 PM PDT by Polarik
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To: null and void; Beckwith; stockpirate; PhilDragoo; Candor7; MeekOneGOP; Myrddin; ...

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2 posted on 07/13/2010 12:40:18 PM PDT by Polarik
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To: Polarik

If true, how come he has not stopped existing slavery in Africa and China?


3 posted on 07/13/2010 12:41:14 PM PDT by edcoil (OK, so what's the speed of dark?)
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To: Polarik

Both slavery and the Holocaust showed men at their worst, but I don’t think they are comparable.


4 posted on 07/13/2010 12:42:02 PM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: Polarik

They would call it “community service. Life is tough you know.


5 posted on 07/13/2010 12:42:02 PM PDT by RC2
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To: Polarik

Jews don’t trust him because of Hussein.

Jews don’t trust him because he is a muslim.


6 posted on 07/13/2010 12:42:14 PM PDT by chainsaw ( 'You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes full power to taxi to the terminal)
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To: Polarik
When will these African nations ever apologize or pay "reparations" for slavery? Better yet, when will they end the practice?

Slavery in modern Africa

Slavery in Africa continues today. Slavery existed in Africa before the arrival of Europeans - as did a slave trade that exported millions of sub-Saharan Africans to North Africa, the Middle East, and the Persian Gulf.[1] However, slavery and bondage are still African realities. Hundreds of thousands of Africans still suffer in silence in slave-like situations of forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation from which they cannot free themselves.

Modern-day enslavers also exploit lack of political will at the highest levels of some African governments to effectively tackle trafficking and its root causes. Weak interagency co-ordination and low funding levels for ministries tasked with prosecuting traffickers, preventing trafficking and protecting victims also enable traffickers to continue their operations. The transnational criminal nature of trafficking also overwhelms many countries’ law enforcement agencies, which are not equipped to fight organised criminal gangs that operate across national boundaries with impunity.

Slavery by African country

Chad
IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Networks) of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports children being sold to Arab herdsmen in Chad. As part of a new identity imposed on them the herdsman "...change their name, forbid them to speak in their native dialect, ban them from conversing with people from their own ethnic group and make them adopt Islam as their religion."[2]

Mali
The Malian government denies that slavery exists, however, the slavery in Timbuktu is obvious. Slavery still continues with some Tuaregs holding Bella people.[3]

Mauritania
A system exists now by which Arab Muslims -- the bidanes -- own black slaves, the haratines.[4] An estimated 90,000 black Mauritanians remain essentially enslaved to Arab/Berber owners.[5] The ruling bidanes (the name means literally white-skinned people) are descendants of the Sanhaja Berbers and Beni Hassan Arab tribes who emigrated to northwest Africa and present-day Western Sahara and Mauritania during the Middle Ages.[6] According to some estimates, up to 600,000 black Mauritanians, or 20% of the population, are still enslaved, many of them used as bonded labour.[7] Slavery in Mauritania was finally criminalized in August 2007.[8] Malouma Messoud, a former Muslim slave has explained her enslavement to a religious leader:

"We didn't learn this history in school; we simply grew up within this social hierarchy and lived it. Slaves believe that if they do not obey their masters, they will not go to paradise. They are raised in a social and religious system that everyday reinforces this idea.[9]"

In Mauritania, despite slave ownership having been banned by law in 1981, hereditary slavery continues.[10] Moreover, according to Amnesty International:

"Not only has the government denied the existence of slavery and failed to respond to cases brought to its attention, it has hampered the activities of organisations which are working on the issue, including by refusing to grant them official recognition".[11]

Imam El Hassan Ould Benyamin of Tayarat in 1997 expressed his views about earlier proclamations ending slavery in his country as follows:

"[it] is contrary to the teachings of the fundamental text of Islamic law, the Quran ... [and] amounts to the expropriation from muslims of their goods; goods that were acquired legally. The state, if it is Islamic, does not have the right to seize my house, my wife or my slave."[12]

Niger
In Niger, where the practice of slavery was outlawed in 2003, a study found that almost 8% of the population are still slaves.[13] Slavery dates back for centuries in Niger and was finally criminalised in 2003, after five years of lobbying by Anti-Slavery International and Nigerian human-rights group, Timidria.[14] More than 870,000 people still live in conditions of forced labour, according to Timidria, a local human rights group.[15][16]

Descent-based slavery, where generations of the same family are born into bondage, is traditionally practised by at least four of Niger’s eight ethnic groups. The slave masters are mostly from the nomadic tribes — the Tuareg, Fulani, Toubou and Arabs.[17] It is especially rife among the warlike Tuareg, in the wild deserts of north and west Niger, who roam near the borders with Mali and Algeria.[18] In the region of Say on the right bank of the river Niger, it is estimated that three-quarters of the population around 1904-1905 was composed of slaves.[19]

Historically, the Tuareg swelled the ranks of their slaves during war raids into other peoples’ lands. War was then the main source of supply of slaves, although many were bought at slave markets, run mostly by indigenous peoples.[20][21]

Sudan
Francis Bok, former Sudanese slave. At the age of seven, he was captured during a raid in Southern Sudan, and enslaved for ten years.(Courtesy Unitarian Universalist Association/Jeanette Leardi)

There has been a recrudescence of jihad slavery since 1983 in the Sudan.[23][24]

Slavery in the Sudan predates Islam, but continued under Islamic rulers and has never completely died out in Sudan. In the Sudan, Christian and animist captives in the civil war are often enslaved, and female prisoners are often used sexually, with their Muslim captors claiming that Islamic law grants them permission.[25] According to CBS news, slaves have been sold for $50 apiece. [1] In 2001 CNN reported the Bush administration was under pressure from Congress, including conservative Christians concerned about religious oppression and slavery, to address issues involved in the Sudanese conflict.[26] CNN has also quoted the U.S. State Department's allegations: "The [Sudanese] government's support of slavery and its continued military action which has resulted in numerous deaths are due in part to the victims' religious beliefs." [2]

Jok Madut Jok, professor of History at Loyola Marymount University, states that the abduction of women and children of the south by north is slavery by any definition. The government of Sudan insists that the whole matter is no more than the traditional tribal feuding over resources.[27]

It is estimated that as many as 200,000 people had been taken into slavery during the Second Sudanese Civil War. The slaves are mostly Dinka people.[28][29]

Child slave trade
The trading of children has been reported in modern Nigeria and Benin.[30] The children are kidnapped or purchased for $20 - $70 each by slavers in poorer states, such as Benin and Togo, and sold into slavery in sex dens or as unpaid domestic servants for $350.00 each in wealthier oil-rich states, such as Nigeria and Gabon.[31] [32]

Ghana, Togo, Benin
In parts of Ghana, a family may be punished for an offense by having to turn over a virgin female to serve as a sex slave within the offended family.[33] In this instance, the woman does not gain the title of "wife". In parts of Ghana, Togo, and Benin, shrine slavery persists, despite being illegal in Ghana since 1998. In this system of slavery, sometimes called trokosi (in Ghana) or voodoosi in Togo and Benin, or ritual servitude, young virgin girls are given as slaves in traditional shrines and are used sexually by the priests in addition to providing free labor for the shrine.[34]

Ethiopia
Mahider Bitew, Children's Rights and Protection expert at the Ministry of Women's Affairs, says that some isolated studies conducted in Dire Dawa, Shashemene, Awassa and three other towns of the country indicate that the problem of child trafficking is very serious. According to a 2003 study about one thousand children were trafficked via Dire Dawa to countries of the Middle East. The majority of those children were girls, most of whom were forced to be sex workers after leaving the country. The International Labor Organization (ILO) has identified prostitution as the Worst Form of Child Labor.[35]

In Ethiopia, children are trafficked into prostitution, to provide cheap or unpaid labor and to work as domestic servants or beggars. The ages of these children are usually between 10 and 18 and their trafficking is from the country to urban centers and from cities to the country. Boys are often expected to work in activities such as herding cattle in rural areas and in the weaving industry in Addis Ababa, and other major towns. Girls are expected to take responsibilities for domestic chores, childcare and looking after the sick and to work as prostitutes.[35]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_modern_Africa

7 posted on 07/13/2010 12:45:25 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Polarik

What the hell am I supposed to know about slavery?? The half White Kenyan and mostly White Holder can go pound sand!


8 posted on 07/13/2010 12:46:50 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: Polarik

Yet a large number of Jews not only voted for him in 2008, but will again in 2012...


9 posted on 07/13/2010 12:47:03 PM PDT by TheBattman (They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature...)
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To: Polarik

We already know he hates Jews.


10 posted on 07/13/2010 12:47:59 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (liberalism: severe deterioration of the thinking apparattus)
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To: Polarik

You don’t like me cuz I’m black. [not]

You don’t like me cuz I’m muslim. [not]

You don’t like my wife cuz she’s a powerful woman. [not]

You don’t like me cuz I’m Robin Hood. [not]

Whahhhhh freakin’ whahhhhwhaahhhhwhaaaaahhhhh.

I don’t like you cuz you lie, cheat & steal. And you hate freedom for ‘the masses’....interferes with your big plans for us.


11 posted on 07/13/2010 12:50:07 PM PDT by dasboot (Down: up. Up: down.)
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To: Polarik

Major differences between the holocaust and slavery that the media often ignores:

1) Black tribes sold other black tribes into slavery—very few Jews were turning over other Jews to the Nazi’s

2) Free blacks in the US owned black slaves


12 posted on 07/13/2010 12:50:22 PM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: Polarik

An obvious idiotPOTUS stuck on stupid......


13 posted on 07/13/2010 12:50:31 PM PDT by cranked
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To: DonaldC

not unless you compare it to some of the red sea slavery expeditions....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zM_MzkLKPY


14 posted on 07/13/2010 12:50:37 PM PDT by himno hero
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To: Polarik
So basically, the headline is

"Obama says Jews are mindless bigots, not intelligent enough to understand the issues"
15 posted on 07/13/2010 12:52:19 PM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: Polarik
Zero is full of garbage, as usual.

The holocaust was a deliberate attempt by National Socialists to eliminate certain racial groups from the face of the earth. The Nazis did not want, ultimately, to exploit the various races of untermenschen the Nazis wanted to KILL every single person in the various races of untermenschen.

Slavery was and is a system whereby humans are treated as livestock. In its long and sordid history, slavery has not always had the strong racial overtones it had in the United States.

16 posted on 07/13/2010 12:53:29 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Polarik

The full quote:

“Ironically, I’ve got a Chief of Staff named Rahm Israel Emanuel. My top political adviser is somebody who is a descendant of Holocaust survivors,”

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This is not ironic at all. It’s tokenism. Which is typical for elitist liberals.


17 posted on 07/13/2010 12:53:41 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (PALIN/MCCAIN IN 2012 - barf alert? sarc tag? -- can't decide)
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Both slavery and the Holocaust showed men at their worst...

Both were also justified by dehumanizing the victims, just as abortion is justified by dehumanizing the baby. Yet, Obama is all for abortion and Planned Parenthood despite its rascist eugenics history. His outrage and moral comparisons show no truth.

18 posted on 07/13/2010 12:54:28 PM PDT by Armando Guerra
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To: chainsaw

They sure liked him in Nov 2008 and as far as I can see, most still love him. I see a little softening also among union Catholics. Probably some softening with hispanics but support among most Africa Americans is still strong.


19 posted on 07/13/2010 12:55:03 PM PDT by Frantzie (Democrats = Party of I*lam)
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To: Polarik

There is NO comparison. Comparatively speaking, they are not even on the same playing field.

Its easy to see where his brains are.....


20 posted on 07/13/2010 12:56:21 PM PDT by himno hero
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