Religious tolerance is a good idea, but religious freedom requires participation from two groups. Furthermore, I am all for showing respect to moderate Muslims and as soon as I find one I will show respect! I just read Obama’s speech in Cairo, Egypt. I have to confess that I cannot listen to him speak because his cadence is too contrived for me—even more than Bill Clinton’s.
The difference between Clinton and Obama is I was never convinced that Clinton believed what he was saying—I think Obama really believes what he is saying. Of course, with Obama it is usually what he is not saying that is more important than what he is saying. It is easy for him to believe what he says, because in spite of all the words there is seldom anything of substance in his statements.
This is not a consequence of his race, or even of his political beliefs—I believe it is what is at the core of the man—nothing that is not for Obama. This is a man who has finally kept a campaign promise—he took his wife to New York for a date because he promised her when all this was over he would do it. I, for one, am left to wonder why he did not do this in between the time he won the election and the time he took office. That way it would not have cost us at least $24,000 dollars.
I would like to take my wife on a date night like that—maybe I can be king next! If not, then I have a piece of advice for the current ruler—park the damn plane. It is to be used for company business. Date nights are on your own!
Continuing on his roll, Obama kept another campaign promise this week—as to negotiations with Iran he has announced that “we are willing to move forward without preconditions on the basis of mutual respect.” Remember in the campaign when Obama promised to meet with all the world’s tin pan dictators without preconditions. Oh, but then there was the debate when he said that was not what he said. Well, at least now that he has anointed himself king we can know what he really meant.
What he really meant was WITHOUT PRECONDITION. After all, why should we squander all the “mutual respect” Americans have for Iran and the crazies at the helm.
While in Cairo, our leader decided to promote the Islamic faith that has made America so great. After all, Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of the Koran. Muslims built our tallest building, long before they brought them to the ground violently.
I was happy to learn from Cairo that Islam is responsible for the Enlightenment and the Renaissance. They probably started that when they were trying to overthrow the Christian Europe of the Middle Ages and establish more enlightened Muslim reigns like the one in Modern Saudi Arabia.
This regime is so progressive and religiously tolerant that they will not allow churches to be built in their country. They will not allow Bibles to be brought into their country. They will not allow women of western culture to express their culture of not covering up their faces in submission to the man’s world.
Before we begin to blames anyone let’s remember, it is the “colonial” aspirations of some nations that is the real root of the problem. America, after all, is known for its taking over of other lands. I am reminded of the words of an Obama advisor who told the Europeans at the UN in the build up to the Iraq war that America is not a colonial power. The only land we have ever asked for is enough land to bury the dead who have fought for freedom in foreign lands.
Of course, that type of colonialism is probably offensive to everybody.
I have a message for Mr. Obama—it is not religious freedom when only one side grants it. Western countries are not allowing their courts to sentence people to death and carry out the sentence merely because those people have a contrary religious belief. That is only happening in Muslim countries, under Muslim law.
It is nice to declare, in your meaningless dribble, that “throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.”
I am sorry, “Say what?” Religious tolerance and racial equality? Wake up, oh dear king! There is no religious tolerance to be found in Islam. There is no racial, or sexual, equality. There is oppression and intolerance.
It is not enough that we say they are tolerant, they have to be tolerant. They have to quit beheading Christians for being Christians. They have to speak out against such injustice. They have to quit killing their daughters for sexual impurity while rewarding their sons for the sexual abuse.
Until then there is no religious freedom—not because the west will not grant it. We continue to grant it to our own harm.
No, there is not religious freedom because Islam cannot grant it. It seems that it might be against their theories of ruling the world with one religion and one religion only.
And I do not even have to get to their treatment of the Jews to verify the truth of my statements. It is not enough to say something; history alone shows us what the truth is. One man, with an unknown agenda, does not write history. He might play a role, but so far the role is not in keeping with truth or reality.