Rebutting Obama’s Anti-Christian, Pro-Islam Baloney
I certainly wasted no time in challenging the latest bit of nonsense to come forth from the American President’s mouth. His deplorable remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington were among the worst things ever that he said – and he has said an awful lot of bad things. See my response here: https://billmuehlenberg.com/2015/02/06/obama-dhimmi-in-chief/
It is gratifying to note that I was not alone in outrage and indignation over the diabolical lies Obama was peddling. I note that plenty of others have also come out swinging, and there is now so much good stuff out there that it is worth quoting a bunch of these folks.
Indeed, people of all stripes were rightly incensed by his moronic remarks, whether Jews, Christians or secularists. Let me begin with Michelle Malkin who got right to the point in a tweet: “ISIS chops off heads, incinerates hostages, kills gays, enslaves girls. Obama: Blame the Crusades.”
Franklin Graham said this:
Today at the National Prayer Breakfast, the president implied that what ISIS is doing is equivalent to what happened over 1,000 years ago during the Crusades and the Inquisition. Mr. President, many people in history have used the name of Jesus Christ to accomplish evil things for their own desires. But Jesus taught peace, love and forgiveness. He came to give His life for the sins of mankind, not to take life. Muhammad on the contrary was a warrior and killed many innocent people. True followers of Christ emulate Christ – true followers of Muhammad emulate Muhammad.
Ralph Peters offers a good historical overview of the situation:
In his ignorant and bigoted remarks to religious leaders this week, President Obama parroted jihadi propaganda. Bored (when not annoyed) by facts, the president referred to the Crusades and the Inquisition as evidence of the horrors religion can wreak. That kind of talk emboldens the Islamist line that Christian bad behavior justifies the Middle East’s bad behavior even today.
The president knows as little about history as he does about warfare, and even less about religion. But he’s not alone. With the Left’s successful destruction of history instruction in our schools and universities, even “well-educated” creatures of Washington accept the Arab fantasy that the cultural incompetence, practical indolence, and spiritual decay of the entire Middle East stems from Richard Coeur de Lion’s twelfth-century swordplay.
Stop it! All of you! And try reading a book or two on the subject. Meanwhile, here’s a starter course in the vast tragedy jihad has posed for every civilization it’s touched for the past 14 centuries — while the Crusades mythologized by Islam’s apologists were a two-century blip whose only practical legacies are a few ruined castles.
He gives us a good amount of detail on all this, and then concludes:
In a lifetime of travels, I have stood in two literally haunted spots: the compact gas chambers of Auschwitz and the vastness of Hagia Sophia. Even the huge Islamic medallions scarring the latter – a church more important to my faith than St. Peter’s in Rome – cannot put down the ghosts of 14 centuries of slaughtered, enslaved, raped, and oppressed Christians who endured Islam’s endless jihad. And our president blames the Crusades.
And Jonah Goldberg said this:
Obama’s right. Terrible things have been done in the name of Christianity. I have yet to meet a Christian who denies this. But, as odd as it may sound for a guy named Goldberg to point it out, the Inquisition and the Crusades aren’t the indictments Obama thinks they are. For starters, the Crusades — despite their terrible organized cruelties — were a defensive war.
He too looks at the Crusades in more detail, and then concludes:
When Obama alludes to the evils of medieval Christianity, he fails to acknowledge the key word: “medieval.” What made medieval Christianity backward wasn’t Christianity but medievalism. It is perverse that Obama feels compelled to lecture the West about not getting too judgmental on our “high horse” over radical Islam’s medieval barbarism in 2015 because of Christianity’s medieval barbarism in 1215. It’s also insipidly hypocritical. President Obama can’t bring himself to call the Islamic State “Islamic,” but he’s happy to offer a sermon about Christianity’s alleged crimes at the beginning of the last millennium.
We are all descended from cavemen who broke the skulls of their enemies with rocks for fun or profit. But that hardly mitigates the crimes of a man who does the same thing today. I see no problem judging the behavior of the Islamic State and its apologists from the vantage point of the West’s high horse, because we’ve earned the right to sit in that saddle.
Rush Limbaugh also weighed into all this, pointing out some obvious differences between Islam and almost every other religion:
This speech at the prayer breakfast comparing what’s going on today with the Crusades? It’s absurd. It’s obscene. What the president was doing is he says (summarized), “You’ve all used religion to justify murder! There’s nothing different here. You Christians have done it. You Jewish people have done it. You Hindus have done it. You’ve all done it. So don’t harp on the Islamists today. They’re no different than you’ve been.” Well, that’s why I have these questions. Who uses religion to justify the subjugation of women? It’s not Judaism, it’s not Christianity, it’s not Hinduism, it’s not Buddhism.
Who uses religion to justify the stoning of women? Doesn’t happen in Christianity. Doesn’t happen in Judaism. Doesn’t happen in Catholicism. Does not happen in Buddhism. That I’m aware of. I don’t even think it happens in Scientology! Who uses religion to justify lashes as a form of punishment or beheading? That’s not part of Christianity. That’s not part of Judaism. I don’t think it’s part of Scientology.
Who uses religion to justify killing homosexuals? It isn’t Christianity. Although some would try to tell you different, it isn’t, and it isn’t Judaism, and I don’t think Scientology does yet. Do they? No. And who uses religion to justify the mass extinction of Jews? It isn’t Christianity that did it.
Finally, Ben Shapiro reminds us that Obama has been a long standing critic of Christianity while being a long-standing proponent of Islam:
He said in The Audacity of Hope that he would define Biblical values however he chose, stating that he is not willing “to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount.” Both are, in fact, parts of the Bible. Citing the Sermon on the Mount to justify civil unions for homosexuals, as Obama has done, is not in fact Biblical.
But more importantly, Obama’s scorn for the old-fashioned Bible is obvious. That became more obvious in 2008, when Obama told some of his buddies in San Francisco that unemployed idiots “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
The Obama administration has routinely attacked religious organizations and people who violate Obama’s personal political predilections. They’ve attacked all trappings of Christianity as well. Whether they’re using Obamacare to force religious individuals to pay for others’ contraception or toning down the National Day of Prayer instead of holding a public ceremony, whether they’re covering a monogram of Jesus at Georgetown University during a presidential speech or objecting to adding FDR’s D-Day prayer to the WWII memorial, the Obama administration clearly isn’t fond of Christianity.
This contrasts strongly with President Obama’s romantic vision of Islam. He famously called the Muslim call to prayer “the sweetest sound I know.” He said in his first presidential interview, with Al-Arabiya, that his job was “to communicate to the American people that the Muslim world is filled with extraordinary people who simply want to live their lives and see their children live better lives.” Weeks later, he said in Turkey, “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world — including in my own country.” A few months later, in a speech in Cairo to which he invited the Muslim Brotherhood, Obama said:
I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed. That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
He added that Islam has a “proud tradition of tolerance,” explained, “Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace,” and said, “America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.” He said in his Ramadan message in 2009 that Islam has played a key “role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings.”
ISIS, Obama has said over and over again, is not Islamic. His administration maintains that America is not at war with radical Islam….
All these articles are worth reading in full. It is simply incredible that America right now has a POTUS who is either wilfully ignorant, utterly deceived, or something far worse, when it comes to these matters. To have this man actually running the United States is frightening in the extreme.
In conclusion, you all should watch this 5-minute video contrasting jihad with the Crusades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_To-cV94Bo
http://www.tpnn.com/2015/02/06/boom-rev-franklin-graham-delivers-a-powerful-rebuke-to-obamas-hateful-comments-against-christianity/
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/398126/jihadis-14-crusaders-2-ralph-peters?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=dRG724&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook#%21dRG724
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/398030/horse-pucky-obama-jonah-goldberg?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=dQUej2&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook#%21dQUej2
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/02/06/brave_truth_teller_calls_out_the_president_on_his_prayer_breakfast_speech
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/02/06/obama-rips-bible-praises-koran/
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Thanks Bill. Very important to confront this sort of quasi-intellectual, pretentious revisionism of history.
Very important. Thanks for talking the time.
Thanks Trevor.
Critical to any apologetic which involves contrasting Islam with Christianity is the contrast between the “what did jesus do?” as opposed to “what did Mohammed do?” questions. Th answers to these questions will reveal the truth.
Jesus commanded us to “love our enemies” and he never lifted a weapon in attack or defence. Mohammed exhorted his followers to “smite the necks” of unbelievers and either personally killed or ordered the slaughter of many.
QED.
Correct, Philip.
Also ask yourself, “What is the attitude of each faith to those outside?”
Christianity: “We recognise that we were once like you, but we changed. You could change too, and instead of being an enemy, you could become a friend.”
Islam: “You are an infidel (unbeliever). You have three choices:
a) become a muslim ie. submit (meaning of “islam” is “submission”) to Allah, and especially to Mohamed his prophet
b) die
or
c) at our discretion, be a perpetual second-class citizen in an islamic country, and pay the tax that goes with that degrading position.”
“…..This contrasts strongly with President Obama’s romantic vision of Islam…”.
Allah is not a God, but rather the figment of the sociopathic mind of an ancient warlord, thus Islam is not a religion but rather a political, economic, legal and (im)moral philosophy.
Now that we have that out of the way…
Iman Barry Commander in Chief of ISIL, in smearing Christianity is doing nothing more than defending political Islam, and he is both irresponsible and immature. Barry is doing nothing more than what Moe Hamhead did to Arabs – misleading them away from the teachings of Christ.
He is sniding the Prince of Peace – whose followers delivered to us all the benefit of Western Civislisation, where Christianity was the main driver of that benevolence. While the Arabs got Moe’s Manifesto – their current woe.
Currently the preachers of killing, the Imans, are those in TOTAL control of Islam, as they alone create fear by teaching that it is ok to kill for Allah. Less than 5% of young muslims will either kill or physicly punish a member of their family for disobeying Sharia law, or tell someone who will. And it is that fear alone of having a Fatwa placed upon them that the so-called moderates don’t speak out. Speaking out on anything anywhere delivers you a fatwa.Sharia law in it’s simplist form is the ‘fear of violence’ metted out on muslims – by muslims.
It is an intergenerational cycle.Killing those who preach killing is about the only option left – if Gitmo is anything to go by – as we can’t house 100,000,000 prisoners – for life! Obama is just trying to bide time till he leaves office as he knows the killing of his evil brothers will have to be done – and soon. He just isn’t man enough. The Pope on the other hand has said, that at times real evil just has to be stopped. And so it will be.
God Bless Bill.
Obama is rapidly shaping up as the anti Christ!
It’s well known in the alternative media that President Obama is actually a devout Muslim, even though he says he’s a Christian he’s not. Plus his half brothers are leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Africa. It’s incredibly frightening. Jerome Corsi, from World Net Daily, talks a lot about this and has been exposing this for many years.
Keep up the great work Bill, God Bless you.
*Obama a Muslim should not be in charge of what is supposed to be the most powerful Christian country on earth. Consider this why is America under Obama spending nearly three quarters of a $,trillion on new weapons and upgrades. We have to be wary into whose hands these weapons ultimately fall especially when now he is doing everything he can to stay out of the fight. Consider also the lack of concern for the slaughter then consider also his continuing support for the massacre of babies pre-born or otherwise. The fate of millions lies in the hands of this one man. To presume he is anything other than an instrument of the devil is to be beguiled and fallen away. The tongue of the serpent will stroke you gently with soothing lies as the claws drag you in.