Obama Issued This Statement to Muslims in America… This Is Insane
Barack Obama simply can’t help himself.
He can’t resist saying things that are both absurd and infuriating to Americans.
The president did so yet again speaking about the end of the Islamic festival of Ramadan earlier this year.
Recognizing Eid-al-Fitr, the celebration of the end of Ramadan, Obama said “Eid also reminds us of the many achievements and contributions of Muslim Americans to building the very fabric of our nation and strengthening the core of our democracy. That is why we stand with people of all faiths, here at home and around the world, to protect and advance their rights to prosper, and we welcome their commitment to giving back to their communities.” (H/T TPNN)
That move was so stunning, let’s go to the instant replay.
I count at least four enormous stretches, intentional misrepresentations, or stunning demonstrations of ignorance in that quote.
First, it’s not at all clear to most Americans, myself included, what the “many achievements and contributions…Muslims Americans [made] to building the very fabric of our nation.”
While Muslims have made many contributions to science and culture, the vast majority of those came before the first pilgrim set foot in the New World.
Second, it’s difficult to argue that devout Muslims strengthen the core of American democracy.
Certainly there are many secular Muslims who do. But the devout–those who would hold Eid and Ramadan sacred–must definitionally stand against the idea government deriving it’s power from the consent of the governed.
Third, while America may stand with people of all faiths to protect and advance those people’s rights, not all faiths stand for the same.
Fundamentalist Islam doesn’t stand for freedom or the rights of women to prosper. It stands for brutal religious law, slavery, and pedofilia.
Finally, we find it very difficult to locate a fundamentalist Islamic state committed to giving back to its communities.
Those states seem very content to hoard riches and power for their religious and political elite…at best.
At worst, as in the case of Hamas, they use their wealth and power to acquire weapons that they then use their weak and poor to shield with their own lives.
Well, maybe that ties for worst with those states that practice female gential mutiliation. How’s that for giving back to the community?
Obama’s entire twisted statement is yet another indication of his complete unwillingness to treat fundamental Islam as what it is–a danger both to those who practice it and those who don’t.
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