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Obama's entire February 5, 2015, prayer breakfast speech
was vile. This isn't about "right wing tea bagger wingnuts" selecting
isolated and insignificant quotes to misrepresent Obama.
Obama begins with several paragraphs of jokes. There are
eleven indications that the audience laughed. He also praises the Dalai Lama.
Obama's "Christians get off your high horse"
speech was delivered within two days of ISIS releasing a video of a Jordanian
pilot, Moaz al-Kassasbeh, being burned alive in real time.
Obama's "Christians get off your high horse"
speech was delivered within a month of the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
Obama does not see the Charlie Hebdo shooting or the
torture snuff video as problems. The bulk of his speech is devoted to
problematic Christians and Westerners who are arrogant, who are on high horses,
who need to be taken down a peg.
I am not a world leader. I was so troubled by the torture
video of the burning pilot that I could not make a high profile speech two days
later that opened with one joke after another.
The main thrust of Obama's speech -- make no mistake and
don't let the spinners lie to you -- is to indicate that the major problem in
the world today is Christian and Western arrogance. This Christian and Western
arrogance, this Christian riding of "high horses," must be tempered
by "humility," a word Obama uses seven times.
Obama uses the word "Islam" twice, and both
times it is to defend Islam from any criticism. He quotes a warm and cuddly
hadith, "None of you truly believes until he loves for his brother what he
loves for himself.”
Obama does not cite the Koran verse that ISIS, which is
lead by a man with a PhD in Islamic studies, used to justify the burning of
Jordanian pilot Moas al-Kassasbeh. "Indeed, those who disbelieve in Our
verses - We will drive them into a Fire. Every time their skins are roasted
through We will replace them with other skins so they may taste the punishment.
Indeed, Allah is ever Exalted in Might and Wise." Koran 4:56.
It is not the example of prophet Mohammed, the perfect
human worthy of emulation, that ISIS cites. Mohammed tortured a Jew, Kenana ibn
al-Rabi, to death using fire.
It is not the example of prophet Mohammed planning to
burn the houses of those who refuse to attend to the call to prayer. It is not
the example of the "sword of Allah," Khalid ibn al Walid, who
decapitated a man, burned his head, and cooked his dinner, which he
subsequently ate, on the flames of his victim's burning, decapitated head.
ISIS knows all these verses, hadith, and examples. Obama
may know them, too, but he hid them from the American people in his prayer
breakfast speech. Obama disguised these truths with a warm and cuddly hadith.
Obama misrepresented people who are threatening to kill
Americans, and have killed several, and are currently recruited American Muslim
youth. Obama's obfuscation will not lead to America's safety or preparation.
This is vile. We NEED to retain our capacity for outrage
and judgment and indeed we need to retain our capacity for fear.
I have never recommended war or even bombing. I recommend
peaceful means to defeat jihad. Energy independence and a war of the big truths
told publicly and unashamedly.
Obama is actively resisting those big truths in the full
text of his prayer breakast speech, not just in the money quote that is making
headlines.
Obama's prayer breakfast speech, by ignoring atrocities,
by counseling against outrage, by renaming the problem as Western and Christian
arrogance and outrage that needs to be tamped down with "humility,"
actively works against the interests and safety, not only of Americans, but of
Kurds, Shiites, Yazidis, and now a Sunni Muslim Jordanian pilot, all victimized
in the name of an ideology Obama forbids us from learning about or critiquing.
Read the full transcript of Obama's morally bankrupt and
actually dangerous speech here:
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