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Obama’s elementary errors on Islam
NY POST ^ | February 20, 2015 | By Amir Taheri

Posted on 02/20/2015 6:13:14 AM PST by COUNTrecount

‘This is not true Islam,” President Obama has again insisted of the Islamic State and other terror groups. That he doesn’t realize this is not for him to say is only one of his elementary errors here.

The three-day White House conference on “violent extremism” exposed anew Obama’s inability or unwillingness to understand the challenge of Islamist terrorism, let alone to lead the fight against it.

The conference was billed as a global event bringing together people of different views from more than 60 countries. In practice, however, it acted more as an echo chamber for Obama’s politically correct approach.

“Violent extremism” is misleading, to say the least. (Is there extremism without violence?) The generic term obscures the fact that we face a specific form of terrorism rooted, nurtured and waged in the name of Islam.

Obama did defend his evasion: “Al Qaeda and ISIL [a k a ISIS] and groups like it . . . try to portray themselves as religious leaders, holy warriors in defense of Islam,” he said. “We must never accept the premise that they put forward, because it is a lie.” Operatives of al Qaeda and ISIS “are not religious leaders — they’re terrorists,” he said.

In fact, these terrorists now call their outfit the Islamic State, or IS, under a caliph. And no higher authority has the legitimacy and power to challenge their claim.

Islam has no mechanism for excommunication. Individuals can leave the ummah and be regarded as apostates (murtad). But no one who swears he is a Muslim can be excluded.

Even very bad Muslims are still Muslims as long as they haven’t thrice publicly rejected the two testimonies. (clip)Thus, neither Obama nor anyone else is qualified to decide who is a Muslim — or what is “true Islam.”

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KEYWORDS: isis; islam; islamicstate; islamicterrorism; obama; taqiyya
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1 posted on 02/20/2015 6:13:14 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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2 posted on 02/20/2015 6:13:49 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: COUNTrecount

Somebody should stand up and tell Obama:

“There is no golf in Islam. There are no NCAA brackets. Defend your way of life!”

/S


3 posted on 02/20/2015 6:15:40 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Travis McGee

That whole damn “summit” was a waste of time and money.

IMO, it was just plain “window dressing” like some stupid photo opp.


4 posted on 02/20/2015 6:15:56 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: COUNTrecount

O-bummer IS AN ELEMENTARY ERROR in it’s own right!!!


5 posted on 02/20/2015 6:16:20 AM PST by Paul46360 (..)
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To: COUNTrecount

Take the jihad out of Islam and then there is no Islam. Take Islam out of the world and there is no jihad. Same with sharia. Now the necessary path is clear.


6 posted on 02/20/2015 6:23:25 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Travis McGee

Love is blind. O’Bummer is in love with Islam.

Just as the democraps who are in love with O’Bummer can see nothing wrong with him!!!


7 posted on 02/20/2015 6:25:00 AM PST by tired&retired
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To: COUNTrecount

Not errors, propaganda.


8 posted on 02/20/2015 6:25:36 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: COUNTrecount

http://debka.com/article/24414/A-fake-Iranian-%E2%80%9Cdefector%E2%80%9D-assassinated-Argentine-prosecutor-Alberto-Nisman

Iran busy assassinating people in Argentina.


9 posted on 02/20/2015 6:32:11 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: DaveA37

It was as wasteful in time and money as a push poll is wasteful.

It was and is being used to try to steer public opinion away from what it would be based on facts to what the originators, the white hut desire instead. On our dime.


10 posted on 02/20/2015 6:32:33 AM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: COUNTrecount

I’m waiting for ø’s defense as to how he loves this country.


11 posted on 02/20/2015 6:33:44 AM PST by onedoug
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To: COUNTrecount

It’s taqiyya.


12 posted on 02/20/2015 6:35:34 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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“Al Qaeda and ISIL [a k a ISIS] and groups like it . . . try to portray themselves as religious leaders, holy warriors in defense of Islam,” he said. “We must never accept the premise that they put forward, because it is a lie.” People like barry soetero and valerie jarrett portray themselves as AMERICANS... Too bad enough Americans FELL FOR THIS LIE. Not to mention the rest of the Democrat and most of the Republican partys - masquerading as REPRESENTATIVES of the people of the United States... What a bunch of crap.
13 posted on 02/20/2015 6:36:03 AM PST by joethedrummer
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To: COUNTrecount

Obama is a liar........


14 posted on 02/20/2015 6:55:27 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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Obama’s elementary errors on Islam
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Not elementary errors. LIES.


15 posted on 02/20/2015 6:56:19 AM PST by lakecumberlandvet (APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS.)
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To: COUNTrecount

If Southern Baptist radicals were doing beheadings, non radical Southern Baptists would root out those churches and
eliminate them, even by force if necessary.

Radical Islam is the problem of Islamics. Why are Islamic countries looking to us to eliminate an Islamic problem instead of them doing it themselves? They know who the
savage Imam leaders, aiders, and abetters are. They know who are funding the “radicals.”
They know where the money and the leaders are. Yet they do nothing.

Could it be that there is no difference in “moderate” and “radical” Islam? They are both educated from birth in the Koran and memorize it. That includes the 109 commandments to
Kill, make war on, conquer, enslave, and convert the unbeliever, and cant bring themselves to oppose that idea?


16 posted on 02/20/2015 6:56:56 AM PST by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: DaveA37

“IMO, it was just plain “window dressing” like some stupid photo opp.”

Maybe that was part of it but I think he used it as a venue to back radical islam and give them legitimacy once again in front of the whole world. Not to mention poking Christianity in the eye again. Just my 2 cent.


17 posted on 02/20/2015 6:59:12 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: COUNTrecount

Somebody ought to ask B0stevedunhambarrysoebarkahbarryhusseinsoetoro “What makes you such an expert on Islam?”
Have your follow-up questions ready.


18 posted on 02/20/2015 7:06:19 AM PST by Zuse (I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
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To: COUNTrecount
I have one "There is an elephant in the room"-type of question regarding Obie's statement about what self-designated Islamic organization is, or is not, Islamic: Who in the Realm of Hades made Barack Obama an imam? As far as I know, the only kind of person who is in a position to post a fatwa touching on Islamic matters is someone who is BOTH a Muslim AND a RELIGIOUS leader, that is, an imam. So, in his pathetic efforts to distance Islam from ISIS/ISIL, Obie has been allowing his Muslim "slip" to show. However, just like his all-too-obvious and all-too-documented detestation of the very idea of the United States of America, very few are anymore likely to call old Sotero out on him being a cultural Muslim then they ever were inclined to name him as a mere American-by-(threadbarely)legal-technicality.
19 posted on 02/20/2015 7:14:30 AM PST by Trentamj
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To: Travis McGee

When will the French, German, Belgians, Jordanians, Egyptians, and ? make anti-terror raids on our “No Go Zones”, the White House, AG Office, Homeland Security, State and our MSM home offices to clean out the Pro Islamic Thugs in our “No Go Zones“!?

The leaders in these countries recognize ISIS as a threat to their nations. Lies and nuances by our Sunni POTUS and his Muslim Brotherhood thugs in DC, will not be tolerated by these foreign leaders.

20 posted on 02/20/2015 7:21:21 AM PST by Grampa Dave (When will Sisi, Bibi, King Abdullah & ?, take out Isis in our White House, AG Dept, CIA, & State?)
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