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Is Barack Obama a Muslim or even an Islamist? Or is there another
explanation for his open, heartfelt affinity for all things Muslim?
There is a veritable mountain of indirect evidence that he is indeed an
acolyte of Islam. His late father was a Muslim. At the tender age of
six, little Barack was taken by his mother to her new Indonesian
husband’s homeland where he spent four crucial, formative years in a
Muslim environment.
As President, he openly indicates his reverence for Islam - from a
carefully mimicked Arabic accent when pronouncing the word the Muslim
Scripture, the Quran, invariably preceded by the obligatory qualifier
“Holy”, and a dewy-eyed reference to “one of the most beautiful sounds
on Earth at sunset”, the muezzin’s call to prayer, to his declaration
from the U.N. General Assembly rostrum that “the future must not belong
to those who slander the Prophet of Islam”. Obama’s long-time spiritual
guide, the Reverent Jeremiah Wright, interviewed by Ed Klein for his
book, related that when Obama had joined his church, he “was steeped in
Islam, but knew nothing about Christianity.”
And what about his public tirades about America’s sins and apologies for
its “crimes?” What about his ridiculous statement that “Islam has been
woven into the fabric of our country since its founding” or that Muslims
have made a tremendous impact on American history and culture? What
about his order to reorient NASA from space research to building bridges
to the world of Islam and extolling the (imaginary) contributions of
Muslims to space exploration?
Obama’s first telephone call to a foreign leader was to the head of the
Palestinian Authority, Mahmud Abbas; his first trip abroad was to
several Muslim countries; his first public speech during that trip
delivered in Cairo was an appeal to the Muslims of the world to be
friends. When Obama broke the tradition and rules of etiquette by
slavishly bowing to Saudi King Abdullah, was he honoring a monarch or
the keeper of the greatest sacred sites of Islam?
He took an active part in overthrowing Egyptian President Mubarak, an
old, loyal friend of the United States, and eagerly supported the Muslim
Brotherhood - so much so that to this day he refuses to forgive the Army
and people of Egypt who threw Islamist President Mohamed Morsi out of
office. Likewise, he helped destroy Col. Qaddafi, an actual if not
formal ally of the United States in the fight against Islamic terrorism,
destabilizing Libya with grave consequences for the entire Middle East.
His half-hearted aerial campaign against ISIS, a reluctant response to
public pressure, is a joke, and he refuses to help Egypt and Jordan
repel the Islamist threat.
He has been trying to ingratiate himself with Iran at the expense of
America’s old Arab allies, but ignores the genocide of Christians in the
region. He doesn’t like Israel, to put it mildly, and during last year’s
Gaza War he all but openly took the side of Hamas even though it shows
up on the State Department list of terrorist organizations. He demanded
that Israel agree to a ceasefire on terms tantamount to capitulation; in
the midst of fighting he instituted a partial embargo on military
supplies to Israel and on a ludicrous pretext banned U.S. aircraft from
using the Ben Gurion Airport, in effect declaring economic war on the
Jewish state.
And to add insult to injury, he steadfastly refuses to acknowledge that
the worldwide Islamist terrorist campaign has anything to do with Islam
or even that terrorism exists. At least that’s the impression from the
administration’s official vocabulary which bans such words as
“terrorist”, “jihad” and the like. It’s always “violent extremism” or
“workplace violence” or some such ludicrous euphemism. His Middle East
policy can be summed up as antagonism toward America’s friends and
appeasement of if not collusion with her enemies.
Worse, he insists that we have no right to get high and mighty about
ISIS in view of the awful crimes committed in the name of Jesus Christ
during the Crusades and Inquisition. The implication is that the
900-year-old campaign to liberate the Holy Sepulcher from the clutches
of the Muslims is equivalent to the Jihadists enslaving and killing
women and children, beheading Western journalists and “people of the
Cross,” burning and burying prisoners alive. This is a page straight out
of the Islamist playbook. Whose side is he on anyway?
So there is no escaping a highly plausible conclusion that Obama is
indeed a Muslim, right? Not so fast. A pretty strong case could be made
that rather than an acolyte of Islam, he is in fact a far-left radical
with a destructive, anti-American agenda.
He was raised by his mother, a fanatical America-hater, and leftist
grandparents. His early mentor was Frank Marshall Davis, a card-carrying
Communist. He attended three colleges, Occidental, Columbia and Harvard,
all known hotbeds of student radicalism. He admits in his autobiography,
Dreams from My Father, that in college he sought out the company of the
most radical professors and students. Upon graduation, he went to
Chicago, Frank Marshall Davis’s old stomping grounds and home of the
country’s most powerful black political machine, where he again fell in
with the revolutionary crowd. As president, he brought with him a large
retinue of like-minded radicals, such as Eric Holder, Van Johnson, etc.
And the mainstay of his domestic policy is “social justice,” a barely
disguised revolutionary program to radically transform America, that he
openly advocated running for president.
Osama bin Laden would find nothing objectionable in the ideology of the
American far left. America is the source of all evil in the world; her
prosperity was built on the sweat of black slaves and exploitation of
the oppressed peoples of the Third World. America is the enemy of
mankind and must be destroyed and her wealth returned to the rightful
owners: African-Americans and the oppressed masses of the Third World.
Israel is America Lite and likewise must be wiped off the face of the
world. Muslims are part of the Third World and thus are always beyond
reproach. They are innocent victims of U.S. imperialism; anything they
do is justified by their suffering. Terrorism is a legitimate response
to the depredations of America – in short, she deserves her fate.
And then there is a time-honored tradition of American revolutionaries
colluding with their country’s enemies, from the North Vietnamese
communist regime to the Muslim Brotherhood that openly describes its
activities in America as “a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and
destroying the Western civilization from within… .” What’s not to like,
if you are an American revolutionary? And so Obama and his circle are
very cozy with this outfit and with its U.S. offshoot, CAIR, which the
White House views as the go-to organization on all matters Muslim. It’s
noteworthy that both the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR have been outlawed
as terrorist organizations by the United Arab Emirates.
Another case in point is Hillary Clinton’s long-time, confidential aide
Huma Abedin (Mrs. Anthony Weiner) who belongs to an activist family with
extensive Muslim Brotherhood and Wahhabist connections. By all accounts,
Huma Abedin is extremely close to Hillary and was privy to the nation’s
highest secrets when her boss was Secretary of State. Thus it is likely
that the Muslim Brotherhood was fully informed about the decision-making
process behind the U.S. Middle East policy. Yet it appears that
Secretary Clinton was not at all concerned about the penetration of the
U.S. government by the Islamists. Huma Abedin still enjoys the
prospective presidential candidate’s full confidence. On at least one
occasion Hillary Clinton, at Huma’s behest, personally intervened to
allow prominent Muslim Brotherhood leader Tariq Ramadan to enter the
United States, overturning the ban imposed by the previous
administration.
So pray tell me the difference between the Islamist enemies of the
United States and its radical foes of the home-grown variety as far as
their attitude toward America is concerned? Their ultimate goals
dovetail to such an extent that from where I sit, it’s six of one and
half a dozen of the other. Whether as a Muslim or a far-left radical,
Obama is indifferent to the national interests of the country he swore
to defend when taking an oath of office. His sympathies clearly lie with
the world of Islam and his foreign policy for all intents and purposes
boils down to the support of Islamism.
So is Barack Obama a Muslim or a Communist? What difference, at this
point, does it make?!
© V.Volsky
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