http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/muslimvote/ en-us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:47:43 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2390918/posts About a week ago, Pat Robertson stated that Islam is a "violent political system." (Short video on site.) He happens to be correct, but as usual one of our politicians has to come running to stand up for a religion/political system that they know little about. Virginia's 11Th District Congressman Gerry Connolly (D), has issued this statement calling for Pat Robertson to apologize for his comments about Islam. “In the week since Mr. Robertson’s statement that Islam is ‘not a religion’ but a ‘violent political system’ whose adherents should be treated like members of the communist or fascist party, I... Islam in Action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2390918/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:47:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2291152/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraqi Americans Wasan Alqaisi and Sumer Majid made a Fourth of July family picnic of kebab -- served on hamburger buns with slices of American cheese. Celebrating Independence Day in the U.S. capital, the two Muslim women were doing what generations of Americans have done before them: blending their faith and lifestyle with a U.S. national identity. Eight years after Middle East militants carried out the September 11 attacks, Muslim Americans are raising their profile, encouraged by the election of Barack Obama, a U.S. president proud of his Kenyan father's Muslim heritage. The president, who is a... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2291152/posts#comment Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:04:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271745/posts WASHINGTON - Former President Bill Clinton has told an Arab-American audience of 1,000 people that the U.S. is no longer just a black-white country, nor a country that is dominated by Christians and a powerful Jewish minority In a speech to the group on Saturday, Clinton said that given the growing numbers of Muslims, Hindus and other religious groups here, Americans should be mindful of the nation's changing demographics, which led to the election of Barack Obama as president. Clinton said by 2050 the U.S. will no longer have a majority of people with European heritage and that in an... One News Now http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271745/posts#comment Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:40:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266029/posts Muslim Americans find inspiration in Obama's speech In Los Angeles and nationwide, Muslims say they are hopeful Obama's address in Cairo will improve the image of their faith, tarnished by perceptions of extremism since Sept. 11. By Duke Helfand and P.J. Huffstutter June 5, 2009 Reporting from Los Angeles and Fort Wayne, Ind. -- In Los Angeles, Salam Al-Marayati found himself smiling as he watched President Obama enumerate Muslim contributions to civilization and to the United States. In Dearborn, Mich., home to the nation's largest Arab American community, leaders quietly cheered Obama's speech in Cairo, hoping it would usher in... LATimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266029/posts#comment Sat, 6 Jun 2009 05:30:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2242830/posts As we try to understand where the Obama administration will fall with regards to the global threat of political Islam, the first few months have provided a number of hints, not least of which was the tenor of the recent visit to Turkey. It was painfully obvious after witnessing the length to which the Obama team went to avoid any substantive discussion on political Islam and the threat it poses to human rights abroad and domestically. Domestically, in the weeks preceding his trip, Islamists inside the Beltway began to more openly play their cards to what they obviously perceive to... Pundicity/FamilySecurityMatters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2242830/posts#comment Sat, 2 May 2009 19:21:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2219482/posts One year ago I wrote about Obama’s Muslim connection. No matter how strong this connection was, the main stream media and ultimately Jewish Americans ignored it. “The person who made me proudest of all,” Obama wrote, “was Roy. Actually, now we call him Abongo, his Luo name, for two years ago he decided to reassert his African heritage. He converted to Islam, and has sworn off pork and tobacco and alcohol.” On February 27th, Barack Hussein Obama said the Muslim call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth.” Although Obama played he Christian card while campaigning, he... ISRAPUNDIT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2219482/posts#comment Wed, 1 Apr 2009 02:56:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2217403/posts CHICAGO — In a bid to get more Muslim Americans working in the Obama administration, a book with resumes of 45 of the nation's most qualified — Ivy League grads, Fortune 500 executives and public servants, all carefully vetted — has been submitted to the White House. The effort, driven by community leaders and others, including U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., was bumped up two weeks because White House officials heard about the venture, said J. Saleh Williams, program coordinator for the Congressional Muslim Staffers Association, who sifted through more than 300 names. "It was mostly under the radar," Williams... Denver Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2217403/posts#comment Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:53:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2193834/posts I know President Obama is not Muslim, but I am tempted nevertheless to think that he is, as are most Muslims I know. In a very unscientific oral poll, ranging from family members to Muslim acquaintances, many of us feel, just as African-Americans did for the non-black but culturally leaning African-American President Bill Clinton, that we have our first American Muslim president in Barack Hussein Obama. Forbes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2193834/posts#comment Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:28:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180541/posts By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in migration assistance to the Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza. The "presidential determination" which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States was signed on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4. President Obama's decision, according to the Register, was necessitated by "the urgent refugee and migration needs" of the "victims." Few on Capitol Hill took note that the order provides a free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to individuals who... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180541/posts#comment Sat, 7 Feb 2009 19:40:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2170624/posts <p>I ran into Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, one of American's Islam's foremost scholars, at the Presidential Prayer Service on Wednesday. His first words to me were, "This President is reaching out to us. It's good for the Muslim world to hear that."</p> warshington post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2170624/posts#comment Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:59:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168539/posts 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... reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168539/posts#comment Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:36:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168284/posts CNN correspondent Zain Verjee, in a report posted on CNN.com on January 17, likened the expected large crowds for the inauguration of Barack Obama to the Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca: “The coming political pilgrimage to Washington is similar to another grand event in both size and preparation -- the Hajj, the most important religious pilgrimage in the Muslim world.” Verjee has personal experience of the Hajj, as she belongs to the Ismaili branch of Shiite Islam. She filed a web log for CNN of her experience on the pilgrimage in 2005. During her report, she emphasized how... NewsBusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168284/posts#comment Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:42:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2167089/posts Our new leader President Obama apparently thinks he has thought of a new approach in regards to the Islamic threat. His plan is to give a speech of appeasement in a major Islamic country within the first 100 days of taking office. Islam in Action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2167089/posts#comment Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:16:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166581/posts From The Sunday Times January 18, 2009 Obama reaches out to Muslims Sarah Baxter in Washington BARACK OBAMA is planning to reach out to the Islamic world, seeking a rapprochement with Muslim opinion alienated by the Bush administration. He believes a personal initiative will dramatise his wish to reassure Muslims, and intends to give a speech in an Islamic capital during his first 100 days in office as a sign of his engagement. He has not said where. Egypt and Pakistan are obvious possibilities, but there has been speculation that he could choose Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation,... London Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166581/posts#comment Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:33:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148224/posts Barack Obama’s election with the middle name Hussein (invoked to rile Republican crowds during the presidential campaign) should inspire Muslims to pursue public service and other work, even if they speak with accents or their names are perceived as foreign-sounding, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison told the recent annual meeting of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Ellison, the first Muslim member of Congress, followed up on CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad’s plea for Obama to hire Muslims to federal posts by urging American Muslims to apply for some of the administration’s 8,000 job openings. minnesotaindependent.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148224/posts#comment Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:38:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2144615/posts Remember Gerry Connolly, Democrat rep for the Jihad is on the take for CAIR's. Remember it was Connolly who offered strong defense of the Islamic school in Fairfax Va, that teaches jihad, Islamic Jew hatred and aids and abets child sexual molestation) See Here. Connolly, was just elected congressman from Virginia's 11th District -- offered a strong defense of the school and accused the school's critics of slander during the meeting in which the lease was approved. At that time it was discovered that during the democratic primary Connolly was took donations from “Nehad Hammad”the Executive Director of the Council... Yidwithlid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2144615/posts#comment Sun, 7 Dec 2008 22:52:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134988/posts WASHINGTON: President-elect Barack Obama has been welcomed in the world as an ‘internationalist president’, the antithesis of George W Bush, who is often regarded as a ‘swaggering Texas cowboy’, according to Prof John Esposito. Esposito, a leading US authority on Islam, believes that Obama’s foreign policy will be expected to be all the things that many in the Muslim world saw as lacking in the Bush administration, which was viewed as neo-colonial, unilateral, arrogant, militant and interventionist. An Obama administration will be expected to be multilateral, favouring diplomacy over military threats and intervention, and avoiding what many believe was a... The Islamabad Daily Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134988/posts#comment Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:50:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134147/posts Poor Lieberman. A few months back, his aides contacted me about testifying in front of him and Congress regarding the Muslim Brotherhood. During our conference call, his aides seemed to have determined that my characterization of the Brotherhood was not very "nuanced" (evinced by the incessant question, "But some of the Brotherhood are ok, right?" to which I would always answer "No.") Anyway and as expected, that settled that, and I was never re-asked to testify. But even though they took all these "safeguards," here Lieberman is: accused by Muslims of being, in essence, an Islamophobe. "Arab Americans want Lieberman... jihadwatch.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134147/posts#comment Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:11:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132802/posts When he won, it was pure exhilaration. But now what? "Honestly, the next day there was a little bit of a deflation," Obama volunteer Zeba Khan told "Good Morning America," "like we were down a little." Khan, 28, is one of a number of Obama activists who have found themselves at a loss. Their mission accomplished, there is no longer that cause to throw their enthusiasm behind. "It became my life," said Khan, who knocked on doors in Ohio and even set up a Web site to solicit support from Muslim Americans. "It literally was." ... Some think there is... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132802/posts#comment Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:40:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130456/posts ItÂ’s Time for President Elect Obama to Speak on Behalf of American Arabs and Muslims Sheila Musaji Posted Nov 11, 2008      • Permalink      • Printer-Friendly Version ItÂ’s Time for President Elect Obama to Speak on Behalf of American Arabs and Muslims by Sheila Musaji When President Elect Obama appointed Rahm Emmanuel as his White House Chief of Staff, there was some concern in the American Arab and Muslim communities.  The concern was due to the fact that Emmanuel was seen as so hard line pro-Israel that he would not even consider the Palestinian position.  His... TAM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130456/posts#comment Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:29:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2126817/posts If you voted for Obama, it is..... Amman- The Islamic Action Front (IAF), Jordan's largest political party, on Wednesday expressed guarded optimism over the election of Barak Obama as the next US president and said they considered his win an "apology" from the American people to the peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan. "We welcome Obama's election and believe that his win represents a clear message inside as well as outside America," IAF Secretary General Zaki Bani Ershaid told Deutsche Presse-Agentur. "Obama's victory is also tantamount to an apology from the American people for the crimes committed by the outgoing Republican... Weasel Zippers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2126817/posts#comment Thu, 6 Nov 2008 09:47:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2126633/posts WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today congratulated President-elect Barack Obama on his election win and offered the Muslim community's support for ensuring that America remains both safe and free. In a statement, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said: "CAIR, America's largest Islamic civil rights and advocacy group, offers its congratulations to President-elect Barack Obama on his historic election to our nation's highest office. President-elect Obama's victory sends the unmistakable message that America is a nation that offers equal opportunity to people of all backgrounds. "While congratulating President-elect Obama on his win, we also... PR Newswire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2126633/posts#comment Thu, 6 Nov 2008 02:53:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119028/posts A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called on American Muslim voters to turn out in large numbers at the polls on November 4th as a positive response to Islamophobic bias and stereotyping in political campaigns. The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) also urged candidates, public officials and opinion leaders to emulate former Secretary of State Colin Powell in speaking out against the rising level of anti-Muslim rhetoric in our society.In a statement, CAIR said:“At a time when we need to improve our relations with and image in the Muslim world, our nation is ill-served by... Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119028/posts#comment Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:47:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2120484/posts Tepid Muslim support for Obama BY FRIDA GHITIS fjghitis@gmail.com AMMAN, Jordan -- By now you can picture the Arab world in a frenzy of excitement over the elections in the United States. I certainly expected that when I landed here. After all, one of the candidates, Barack Obama, presents a sharp departure from traditional American presidents. He has a name that you can actually write in Arabic without pondering the correct spelling. One could hardly imagine anything but breathless anticipation and a strong dose of optimism at the prospect of Obama, the candidate with Muslim roots, moving into the White... Miami Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2120484/posts#comment Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:25:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119223/posts In the mosque, Anoushka prays for peace. She thumbs her prayer beads and tells me that a Barack Obama victory would make the world a better place. She said: "He seems like a truthful person and he has good policies." She also happens to think, wrongly, that he's a Muslim. Most of the Muslims here are pro-Obama. After all New York is a state that normally supports his Democratic Party. BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119223/posts#comment Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:58:42 GMT