Obama described with admiration how former President George W. Bush drew a “crystal-clear” line between the attackers of Al Qaeda and the immense religion they purported to represent.
Bush helped Americans understand “we were at war with terrorists and murderers who had perverted Islam, had stolen its banner to carry out their outrageous acts,” said Obama.
“And I was so proud of the country rallying around that idea, that notion that we are not going to be divided by religion; we're not going to be divided by ethnicity ... It is absolutely important now for the overwhelming majority of the American people to hang on to that thing which is best in us, a belief in religious tolerance ... we have to make sure we don't start turning on each other.”
Nine years and counting and they still do not get it:
1) The Islamists who brought down the World Trade Centre did not "steal" Islam and did not "pervert" it. The religious prescription for waging jihad against the enemies of Allah (i.e. non-believers) is as authentic in the Islamic holy lexicon as "turning the other cheek" is in Christianity. And it is not a few of these; the estimated number of Islamists worldwide is nearly 5 times the entire population of Canada.
2) Belief in religious tolerance does not provide a moral obligation to allow religious intolerance to be suborned. Islam is not a tolerant religion. When the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defence of the United States have to appeal to an obscure nutbar in Florida to desist from his announced intention to burn Korans lest dire consequences flow around the world in Muslim countries why would the same people be castigating Americans to be tolerant.
3) Just because you may not consider yourself at war with Islam does not mean that Islam may not be at war with you.
As long as the political leaders in the western world continue to lie and obfuscate the real problem that has become more and more evident to the ordinary people that these leaders are duty bound to protect, they will continue to slide down the slope of untrustworthiness. One would think they would start changing their tunes if for no other reason than to retain political position.
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allright since i don't like mohammedans either, i am gonna cut u some slack, but there are several things in this post, that are garbage.
1. firstly jihad is not the narrow field of indoctrination, u'd like it to be. and there is a difference between a book religion(bible tora koran) and buddhists(non- believers) and that there are 200 mio mohammedanists, is afaik wild speculation.
2. islam can be quite tolerant, for reference see indonesia, turkey or malaysia. it is just not an open society. but what the heck if u went to medieval england it wouldnot be either =)the rest exactly my point!
3. well if u take mohammedanism or system relevance, fear is good for the ruling caste!
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