Posted on 09/10/2010 4:36:59 PM PDT by pissant
President Obama on Friday stressed that the United States is not at war with Islam, blasting a Florida pastor who's threatening to burn copies of the Koran for potentially endangering American forces serving in Muslim lands.
"You don't play games" with the lives of U.S. troops, an animated Mr. Obama said.
In his first formal press conference since May, the president also fiercely defended a New York imam's decision to build a mosque and Islamic community center two blocks from ground zero in New York City, where nine years ago Saturday nearly 3,000 people were killed when planes hijacked by Islamist extremists crashed into World Trade Center.
"We've got millions of Muslim-Americans, our fellow citizens, in this country. They're going to school with our kids. They're our neighbors. They're our friends. They're our co-workers. And, you know, when we start acting as if their religion is somehow offensive, what are we saying to them?" Mr. Obama told reporters in the East Room.
While Mr. Obama had previously defended the right of the Muslim group in New York City to build its mosque, he was asked Friday about the wisdom of the move, given widespread criticism that the location could upset those who lost loved ones in the September 11 attacks.
Going further than he had previously, Mr. Obama replied that one of "the inalienable rights" granted to all Americans was the right to practice their religion freely.
"And what that means is that, if you could build a church on a site, if you could build a synagogue on a site, if you could build a Hindu temple on a site — then you should be able to build a mosque on the site," he said.
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Dear Lord, this guy is a jackass.
“President Obama on Friday stressed that the United States is not at war with Islam”
But islam IS at war with the US and will do anything to ensure our destruction.
Where to start with this blithering idiot?
Damn, this boy must be illiterate.
Keep digging, Barry.
Imamobama
someone get a paer bag for this a$$wipe posing as PRESIDENT OF THE USA to breathe into
all this PRESIDENTIAL ATTENTION over the publicity stunt of a single kook?
Hey Barry, who is this “WE” you are flapping your jaws about?
We are at WAR with them and they started it!
Perhaps a sermon on the topic, “GAWD DAMN ISLAM, GAWD DAMN ISLAM, IT’S IN THE BIIIIIBLLLLLLLE!!!!!” would have been more appropriate and satisfactory to the President’s Will on allowable speech and worship.
Something conciliatory and uplifting. Something which offered hope.
Now I seriously think that this minister should go ahead and burn it. I didn’t think so before because I thought, like Ann Coulter, that it was unkind. But if he doesn’t now, it looks like he has knuckled under to our Muslim president and our Muslim overlords.
“”if you could build a church on a site, if you could build a synagogue on a site, if you could build a Hindu temple on a site “”
I wasn’t aware that any Christian, Jew or Hindu murdered our people on 9/11/01...
STFU, imamobama.
Only he is allowed to play games with the lives of U.S. troops.
Blast from the Past:
Christians in Gaza Fear for Their Lives as Muslims Burn Bibles and Destroy Crosses
Published June 18, 2007 by:
Kimberly West
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/285123/christians_in_gaza_fear_for_their_lives.html?cat=9
What does Obama call dithering for months on whether to send the requested troops to Afghanistan last year?
-PJ
This slime ball POS likes to use the rights from the US Constituion when it suits his needs! I pray this man is made to duck walk out of the White House and his wife with him.
ANd the dirty commie is playing games by pretending he’s eligible to hold the presidency.
Oh thats just freedom of expression.
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