Thank you for your comments. Your assessment of me is yours and I am gratified that it is not the consensus of my peers and friends. I assure you, I was not mocking your friend. I simply acknowledged his constraint. If you read your remarks and your supporters, you will find that those remarks are disrespectful and are not written as debate or even conversational in tone, rather they are harsh and written in such a way to produce hostilities. Often your remarks are laced with condemnation of ideas or thoughts that do not mirror your own and when the conversation comes around to Obama, you are very out spoken in his defense.
Regarding your comments on 911. The Federal Bureau of Investigation connected the hijackers to al-Qaeda. Starting in 1996 Osama bin Laden, stated in public proclamations (fatwas) and in interviews with journalists his common list of grievances which he cited as the reason for his declaration of war against the United States. In 1998 Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, (a leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad), co-signed a fatwa (binding religious edict) in the name of the World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders, declaring:
The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies civilians and military
is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque (in Jerusalem) and the holy mosque (in Makka) from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim. This is in accordance with the words of Almighty Allah, 'and fight the pagans all together as they fight you all together,' and 'fight them until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah.
If the slaughter of the people in the Twin Towers and those at the Pentagon is not evil, then I certainly need to know what you could call evil. The realization that there were babies killed during this attack, young children whose life had just started cut short by crazy men who were brainwashed into thinking that they would find favor with God for murder. Not only children, but all of the other senseless deaths in the name of Allah, is simply wrong in the minds of any thinking or rational being. Even animals do not kill for pleasure, so these creatures were beneath the animal kingdom. While speaking of evil teachings and hateful expressions, I believe there are parts of your religion which teaches hate, the murder of innocents, and disrespect for women. I would never find comfort nor could I ever respect those types of teachings. It is apparent that you are a Muslim and therefore know more about your teachings than I. I will not debate you on the ideologies of your religion vice those of Christianity, Judaism, or any other religion or philosophes centered on religion.
In regards to the video that I supplied and was hotly contested by your friend, I offered no judgment other than the words were out of Obamas mouth. I am also in the process of obtaining the entire speeches where the excerpts were extracted. I am doing this due to the protest of your friend. I believe this to be fair and lacking in prejudgment and would present an unbiased way to judge Obamas comments.
I do apologize for my misspelling of the word Muslim. I am truly sorry that this offended you, but it was a simple typographical error. Have you never made a mistake in typing? If not, then you are indeed special, a party of one who is without error.
kvdon wrote:
His self control which you mock is actually noteworthy. You rightly claim to be neither thoughtful or reasonable, Bombastic and contentious would be better descriptions of your post than thoughtful and reasonable especially to what was an overly respectful post and not deserving of your diatribe.
While technically incorrect the usage of Islam to encompass the culture, yes should be Islamic culture, even among Muslims as they view Islam as covering all facets of life, not just religious beliefs or observance (yes this is like fundamentalist Christians one of its al bad points), is quite prevalent you know that but insist on splitting hairs. What distinguishes Obama from others and annoys you and others so much is that he actually recognizes the contribution of Islamic culture in its more refined forms and notes them, not as part of an axis of evil speech, but as an outreach to what is a neglected fact in the mainly white Judeo Christian community, others might see it as worthwhile as opposed to wanting to see it as evil as part of their continued vilification of Islam. When some others talk about it, and implicitly in your comments, Islam or Muslim is a code word for evil and the other, next step Obama is a Muslim an other and therefore Obama is also a terrorist.
You mention 911 in a post on Islam, like Bill O'Reilly, before corrected, do you find Islam or Muslim (not Muslin as you say in 1) above as a synonym for terrorism such that you raise this in your post? So therefore Muslim Obama is a terrorist by further extension of the lie he is a Muslim to begin with.
BTW, glasses is sometimes used as a synonym for viewpoint, so even if you don't own any glasses, rose or hate colored or otherwise per se, better check your glasses!
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