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President Barack Obama believes his office should generate, what he considers, positive messages to the international community.

For example, one reason his Justice Department will try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Islamic terrorists in New York City is to show the international community that the US believes in providing even the most vicious individuals a fair trial, even if they did kill 3,000 people.

However, Attorney General Eric Holder’s move to transfer jurisdiction from the military to the civil criminal justice system sends another message: military courts are good enough for America’s protectors, but they’re not good enough for mass-murdering terrorists.

President Obama has always shown a soft spot in his heart for the Islamic religion. During his presidential campaign, then-Senator Barack Obama told a Christian Broadcasting Network correspondent something that should have alerted every one of the tens of millions of Christians in the United States.

Obama told CBN’s David Brody: “I think that the [political] right might worry a bit more about the dangers of sectarianism. Whatever we once were, we’re no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”

If that tidbit of information wasn’t enough to question Obama’s vision for America, he previously said in a 2007 speech that “whatever we once were, we’re no longer a Christian nation.”

It’s safe to assume that Obama included Jews out of a desire to drive a wedge between them and conservative Christians. However, only a fool would buy his rhetoric since the President has shown he’s no friend to Israel, while conservative Christians have supported the Jewish state — in both word and deed — against its enemies.

Then he uttered his zinger: “Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us apart. It got hijacked. Part of it’s because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, who’ve been all too eager to exploit what divides us.”

While Obama professes to be a Christian, Americans learned his pastor and religious mentor was an America-bashing racist who found a “trusted friend” in the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan, a man known for his unbridled bigotry against Jews and white Christians. Of course, being the political animal he is, Obama eventually distanced himself from his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

According to a news story in World Net Daily, Obama’s comment about the “Christian Right” was mild compared to statements made by his national campaign co-manager, Merrill A. McPeak.

McPeak seemed to compare evangelical Christians to the terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah. He told the newspaper The Oregonian that Hamas and Hezbollah were similar to Oregonian Christians whom he labeled radicals.

Once safely entrenched in the Oval Office, President Obama decided to show his true stance on Christianity. He did away with the annual National Day of Prayer on which the White House traditionally hosted a service in its East Room. When a reporter asked Obama’s press secretary Robert Gibbs about Obama’s decision, Gibbs replied, “Prayer is something that the president does everyday.”  Then Gibbs promised that Obama would sign a proclamation to recognize the day, as many administrations in the past have done.

While President George W. Bush marked the National Day of Prayer with a service at the White House for each of the eight years he served, this year, President Obama decided against holding a public ceremony.

However, in the midst of a war against radical Islam and his push to takeover health care, President Obama found time to hold a White House dinner honoring the Muslim holiday of Ramadan Kareem. And the guest list did not only include Muslims. Many Washington elites attended the ceremony including some Republicans such as Senator Richard Lugar.

But there’s more. They held a national prayer gathering of Muslims on September 25 in front of the US Capitol Building. According to one source, there were at least 50,000 attendees from Mosques all across America. They said that they wanted Americans to see how they pray.

The planners of the event even set up a web site: http://islamoncapitolhill.com

It’s a shame that the Obama White House ignored the National Day of Prayer and instead issued a paper proclamation, meanwhile he had a White House Celebration for a Muslim holiday. Most Americans have no problem with the Muslim holiday but they do have a problem when it is celebrated in lieu of the National Day of Prayer. With Obama ramming Ramadan down the throats of Americans, it’s hoped Americans will finally realize that their leaders use faith as a political prop.

2 Comments for this post

Jason said:
1:55 16.11.2009

Maybe I missed something but from this article alone, it sounds like Obama is trying to enforce the separation of church and state as well as reiterate the first amendment – Freedom of Religion. Aren’t his comments to David Brody simply saying that we achieved the founding fathers vision of being able to choose how, who, and/or what we worship without concern of government interference? Doesn’t the National Day of Prayer completely and totally ignore the separation of church and state as well as Freedom of Religion?

As for his support of Islam, why is this wrong? My guess is simply because it isn’t your religion. Maybe Obama has deeper intentions. Maybe his plan is that if America stops and recognizes the Muslim faith and becomes more understanding of their beliefs, the radicals would see that America is more open minded than they previously thought and that America is not the evil demon of the west. Maybe through a show of understanding, our enemies can see that we are not as bad as their leaders have stated. Maybe peaceful words and understanding can make the difference. I mean it’s pretty obvious that fighting and war doesn’t work and it only increases the resentment toward America and further escalates the issues as a whole. Don’t you think it’s time to take another approach since we have proven that murder doesn’t work?

With all due respect and with no ill intent, I have to say that articles like this only further fuel the terrorists’ fire. Disrespecting their religion dishonors them, their teachers, and their ancestors. How do you feel when somebody completely disrespects your religion? For example, how did you feel when abortions became legal? Maybe you didn’t go out and blow up abortion clinics, but some “radical” christians did. Don’t you think this might be how the “radical” Muslims feel when America lashes out at them?
(On a side note, only a fool would believe that there is no such thing as radical Christians)

It all comes down to understanding and willingness to work together. I know, I know, the first response is that the radical Muslims don’t consider understanding nor are they willing to work together, but in reality, as a whole, does America have this understanding and wilingness? I don’t believe we do and this is pretty well demonstrated in the above article, but even more so through our previous president’s actions. His hard work did nothing more than make the situation worse.

6:21 20.11.2009

When is religion or faith ever used by a politician as anything other than a “political prop”? Politicians will continue to exploit religion and faith as long as there are voters to win over who will buy into their religiosity (real or false).

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