KHH1

By Susan Crabtree | February 5, 2015 | 10:46 am

President Obama highlighted Thursday recent examples where faith has inspired great works of selflessness, but also warned in his remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast of the dangers of groups twisting their faith to justify heinous terrorist acts.

Over the last six months, the world has watched as people of faith have put their own lives in jeopardy by attending to victims of Ebola in Western Africa, Obama said.

He specifically singled out the Dalai Lama, who was on hand for the breakfast, calling him a "powerful example of what it means to practice compassion."

Obama also had high praise for Dr. Kent Brantley, a doctor with the Christian aid agency Samaritan’s Purse, who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia last summer and was later cured of the v***s under special treatment at Emory University.

Bentley had spoken at the Prayer Breakfast just a few minutes before, and Obama thanked him for his “incredible work” and cited his work as an example of “faith inspiring people to lift up one another, care for the poor and help the afflicted.”

Obama then abruptly piv**ed to condemn those who “twist and distort” their faith to use it as a “wedge” and a “weapon.”

“We’ve seen violence and terror perpetuated” by those who distort their faith, he said Thursday morning to a group of 3,500 gathered in the Washington Hilton’s ballroom for the morning event.

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, he said, is a “vicious death cult that in the name of religion carries out unspeakable acts of barbarism.”

In seeking to reconcile these two realities, Obama urged humility for all people of faith, recalling that in the past people “have committed terrible misdeeds in the name of Christ,” including justifying s***ery and Jim Crow laws.

“There is a tendency in us — a sinful tendency — that can pervert and distort our faith,” he said.

He urged every member of faith to speak up against those who would misuse their religions to justify murder and terror.

“No God condones terror, no grievance justifies the taking of innocent lives,” he said. “So as people of faith we are summoned to push back at people who will misuse our religion.”

The president met with American Muslim leaders Wednesday afternoon and discussed issues of anti-Muslim violence and discrimination, the Affordable Care Act and the upcoming White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, according to a White House read-out of the meeting.

“The president reiterated his administration's commitment to safeguarding civil rights through h**e crimes prosecutions and civil enforcement actions,” the White House said, noting that Obama also discussed the need to continue countering the Islamic State and “other groups that commit horrific acts of violence, purportedly in the name of Islam.”

The White House did not provide a list of those attending the meeting or the groups they represented.

WhatIt'sWorth Loc: Methane Sea, Jupiter

Amazing.

A DAY after we learn of ISIS burning the Jordanian pilot alive -- Ayatollah Obama is ALREADY COMPARING THIS BURNING TO

PEOPLE THAT WERE BURNED BY CHRISTIANS

The gall of this goon in the White House

This c****e Islamic-terrorist-sympathizer doesn't get it that The Inquisition was centuries ago - but the burning-in-a-cage of the Jordanian pilot was HERE IN THE PRESENT

Obama makes me feel like vomiting

KHH1

Oh so that makes it okay if it was a while back? I see you all think that way about s***ery also.

pafret Loc: Northeast

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pafret Loc: Northeast

Sorry; hit send too soon

Spoken like a true Moslem. It is not enough to condemn terrorist religious fanatics, he also has to take a shot at Christianity. Nowhere have I read that Jesus Christ was used as a justification for s***ery or Jim Crow laws. In point of fact, s***es were encouraged to become Christians.

As far as his "No God" comment, the koran is alleged to be the word of the Moslem god and it advocates murder of everyone who will not submit to Islamic s***ery, including infant children of infidels.

Ve'hoe

He thought of everything didnt he,,,,, except how he was going to "lead" the way!!!!

What a coward you elected!!!! Twice,,, you've been grubered!!

Wanblee,,,,,, is where you need to come...

buffalo Loc: Texas

What Obammy is doing is called "moral relativism".

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Ten centuries is a while back, for sure. The ratification of the 13th Amendment was, what, 150 whiles back?

Amazing how a man can be so filled with rage over things he can never change while at the same time ignore the present.

This hatred of white America seems so deeply embedded and all-consuming that apparently it is not simply a race issue anymore. You do not seek resolution or closure, rather you think that white America owes you, and all b****s, a debt in perpetuity, a debt for which you will forever refuse payment. No matter the recompense offered you, you will not accept, you will not abide an apology, nor will you forgive. Yours is the black heart of vengeance, your mission in life is a vendetta without end.

KHH1, the irony is that your hatred has become your master, you are a s***e who has built your own cage.

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

I'm glad he specifically slammed Christians.

We can't make the Muslims mad at us, you know.

Ve'hoe

Including his (obamas) h**e speech against christians, and of course his mistaken faactual data on the reasons the Crusades started,,, and it wasnt the christians who started it..

But , then,,, it never is.

khhzero is a s***e to his own dumbness.... and is voiciferously opposed to improvement, education, or learning.

Ve'hoe

I thought is was just "lying and bulls**t" again...

KHH1

He's doing a GREAT JOB..it is you sore losers sitting outside of the fence that have issues with being irrelevant.....plain and simple

WhatIt'sWorth Loc: Methane Sea, Jupiter

"He's doing a GREAT JOB"

GUFFAW !!!!!!!!!

BwahahahahaHAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH !!!

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Exactly.

KHH1

**Those of us who v**ed for him to win TWICE feel that way and that is all that matters to us...not what some confederate yokels think**