By Daniel Greenfield ——Bio and Archives--November 8, 2010
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"All of us recognize that this great religion (Islam), in the hands of a few extremists, has been distorted." -- Barack Hussein Obama "Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all!" -- Ayatollah KhomeiniWhile we now know that a young Obama rebelled against his mother and attended Koran classes, he clearly didn't attend nearly enough of them. Or the Harvard genius is back to playing dumb.
"Well, the phrase jehad has a lot of meanings within Islam. It is subject to lot of different interpretations." --Barack Hussein Obama "Jihad means the conquest of all non-Muslim territories. Such a war may well be declared after the formation of an Islamic government worthy of that name, at the direction of the Imam or under his orders. It will then be the duty of every able-bodied adult male to volunteer for this war of conquest, the final aim of which is to put Qur'anic law in power from one end of the earth to the other." --Ayatollah Khomeini
"We affirm that Hindu or Muslim or Christian or Jew or any other religion; we all need to treat each other with respect and dignity" -- Barack Hussein Obama "Believers, take not Jews and Christians for your friends. They are but friends and protectors to each other." -- Koran 5:51Here Obama is arguing with the Koran. And it is impossible to win an argument about the nature of Islam with the Koran. Obama might like to pretend that the Koran is about how snowflakes, puppies and unicorns... but it's a xenophobic creed which actively promotes hate toward non-Muslims. Islam does not pretend that non-Muslims are the equal of Muslims, not legally or socially. It imprisons them in ghettos, treats their lives as worthless and enslaves them at will. The best evidence of this is the status of non-Muslims in the Muslim world. While the number of Muslims in the West continues to grow, the number of Christians and Jews in the Muslim world continues to shrink. Most Jews have fled the Muslim world. They are even fleeing Western countries with large numbers of Muslim residents. The Vatican recently held a synod to discuss the vanishing Christian communities of the Middle East. If Islam were tolerant, then it would play host to thriving Christian, Jewish, Bahai and Zoroastrian communities. Instead it has put the boot down on them. Not because a few extremists in a cave hijacked a tolerant religion, but because this is the real face of Islam. This is what Islam has always been like.
"The overwhelming majority (of Muslims) want peace, justice, fairness and tolerance." -- Barack Hussein Obama "Convert to Islam, and then you will be safe, for if you don't, you should know that I have come to you with an army of men that love death, as you love life." -- Caliph Abu Bakr, Mohammed's SuccessorWho is really distorting Islam? Is Barack Hussein Obama correct that Islam's vision is being distorted by a few men in caves somewhere, or is Obama the "distorter" of Islam? Even a brief reading of Islamic history makes the answer all too obvious. It is not Al Qaeda that is distorting Islam, but Obama. And not Obama alone. Liberal elites in the West have firmly dedicated themselves to misrepresenting and distorting Islam, in order to continue Islamic immigration into the West. To filling America, Europe, Canada, Australia and all the rest up, until every little boy is named Mohammed, and every little girl has to cover her face, or have acid thrown in it. Is the former self-proclaimed "Jakarta street kid" in the White House really ignorant about what Islam represents, or is he playing a double game. It does not take a genius to simply look at the Muslim world, and compare the average level of human rights in it, with the average level of human rights in Christian and Jewish countries, and come to some rather obvious conclusions.
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Daniel Greenfield is a New York City writer and columnist. He is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and his articles appears at its Front Page Magazine site.