The post-american presidency: the obama administration's war on america by Pamela Geller & Robert Spencer & John Bolton
Author:Pamela Geller & Robert Spencer & John Bolton [Pamela Geller & Robert Spencer & John Bolton]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Politique
ISBN: 9781439189306
Published: 2010-09-15T09:01:28+00:00
The Islamophilic president went so far as to issue a heartfelt special greeting and best wishes to the Muslim pilgrims in Mecca for the Haj⦠on Thanksgiving Day 2009. Obama asserted that âthe rituals of Haj and Eid al-Adha both serve as reminders of the shared Abrahamic roots of three of the worldâs major religions.â And he noted: âMuslims around the world will celebrate Eid-al-Adha and distribute food to the less fortunate to commemorate Abrahamâs willingness to sacrifice his son out of obedience to God.â
In this Obama yet again exacerbated tensions instead of calming them. The Islamic Feast of Eid al-Adha commemorates the end of the pilgrimage to Mecca, the haj, and Abrahamâs willingness to sacrifice his sonâIshmael in the Muslim version. In thinking of Abraham, most Americans think of the biblical figure. In Genesis 22:15â18, Abraham is rewarded for his faith and told he will become a blessing to the nations: âBy your descendants shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves, because you have obeyed my voice.â
But the Muslim audiences that Obama addressed in this message did not read Genesis. They read the Qurâan, in which Allah says that Abraham was an âexcellent exampleâ for the believers only when he told his pagan family that âthere has arisen, between us and you, enmity and hatred for ever, unless ye believe in Allah and Him aloneâ (60:4). The same verse says that Abraham is not an excellent example, however, when he tells his pagan father, âI will pray for forgiveness for you.â20
Thus the Qurâan, in its picture of Abrahamâthe man Obama invoked as the quintessential symbol of the common elements of the three faithsâheld up hatred as exemplary, while belittling the virtue of forgiveness. Obama thereby reinforced a worldview that took for granted the legitimacy of everlasting enmity between Muslims and non-Muslimsâand did so while attempting to build bridges between Muslims and non-Muslims.
He also retained, as his chief liaison to the Islamic world, a defender of Sharia: the draconian Islamic law that mandates stoning of adulterers, amputation of thievesâ hands, and legal discrimination against women and non-Muslims.
DEFENDING SHARIA
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