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Obama condemns those who seek to 'hijack religion'

Who was, the Ku Klux Klan? Segregation laws was fighting Muslims who decided to take over someone else's stuff?

Exactly. Great point!!!!!

Recall they used to burn the cross as some sort of purification.
 
He didn't excuse ISIS, he called them barbarians and evil. He was merely pointing out that you can't judge all muslims by the actions of the few. And he was doing that because our fight against them becomes easier if the moderate muslims are on our side.

Then why can't he say their name? One must be able to defines one enemy.
 
You really don't see the problem with excusing what is going on today with ISIS, to that of events of 500 and 800 years ago? Really?

It takes a special breed of partisanship to see Obama's comments as making excuses for ISIS. Seriously.
 
Then why can't he say their name? One must be able to defines one enemy.

He says it plenty. Does he have to work it into every sentence?
 
It takes a special breed of partisanship to see Obama's comments as making excuses for ISIS. Seriously.

It takes a special breed of devotion to the America-resenting liar who is disgracing the White House to see his comments as anything but apologism for Muslim jihadists.
 
Then why can't he say their name? One must be able to defines one enemy.

I'm pretty sure he can say their name.

Are you actually trying to argue that he can't say the word "ISIS"? Or that he's unaware that they are our enemy?

Cut the talking point bull****. This matter is too important to discuss "well he's not using the right words! He should have used this word to describe them!"

You're argument is petty and not worth any ones time. We understand they are our enemy. You can criticize the obama administration for the actions they have taken, or lack there of, but to pretend that they don't even know that ISIS is our enemy is laughable. It's such a stupid talking point that if you say it you should be dismissed from the discussion from the onset.

Leave the discussion to the people that actually want to discuss what is in our best interest and what actions we should take and the consequences thereof. Not stupid stuff like "he hasn't defined them as an enemy!"
 
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It takes a special breed of devotion to the America-resenting liar who is disgracing the White House to see his comments as anything but apologism for Muslim jihadists.

Uh huh.

It's like you guys live on another planet.
 
Obama wasn't lambasting Christians

Perhaps you and I have very different understanding of what getting on ones "high horse" means, but implying that folks have got on their "high horse" about an issue is a criticism. Perhaps if you want to quibble on the semantics of whether or not it was "harsh" criticism or not, that could be argued. But to suggest he wans't criticizing christians for getting "on their high horse" over radical islam leaves me scratching my head regarding how you came to such a conclussion.

Obama's point is very clearly that the actions of ISIS do NOT represent the religion of Islam

It does not "represent" Islam, however neither is it seperate from Islam. Just as the Crusades my not have "represented" Christianity in the turn of the 20th century, it was absolutely not seperate from Christianity. It is undeniable that those acting within the Crusades (especially leadership) were, by and large, acting in the name of their Religion. Just as it is undeniable, despite the administrations attempts, to suggest that those acting within ISIS (especially their leadership) are, by and large, acting in the name of their Religion.

and no religion can claim to be free of such associations.

Which is a rather sophmoric and empty notion, a prayer breakfast strawman if you will, considering there seems to be few if any that are suggesting that any religion...especially christianity...does not have any instances where the religion has been used in the name of violence. Who are these people, suggesting Christianity has never been used for wrongful purposes before. I can't say I've ran into many such people in my life. So why make such a point, and not just make it but focus so much time on it?

Well, when you go on and make a comparison to something at turn of the previous century, and equate it as the same that is happening with a group in the modern day, without any deference to context, as a means of lecturing Christians to not get on their "high horse", then a potential ansewr becomes more clear. Was the focus on such a sophmoric and widely understood point simply there to provide cover to lambast and critize Christians upset over Radical Islam, and to attempt to paint the state of Islam in the modern day as similar to that of Christianity because Christainity had Radicals taking similar actions 700+ years ago (but ignoring that the Islamic Radicals were doing it then too, and are still doing it TODAY).

Why do I focus on the Crusades? Two reasons. The first, because that's the first instance he brought up and is the far more ridiculous one in terms of the shockingly different context between the two. Second, if you're going to grab historical analog, the Crusades are a far better one to ISIS, as both were instances of individuals using the their religious beliefs as justifications for attempts to conquer land. Such was the not the case with Jim Crow or the KKK.
 
Who was, the Ku Klux Klan? Segregation laws was fighting Muslims who decided to take over someone else's stuff?

Once again, we put a boot to the KKK (Except for the ones Democrats elected) and they are pretty much a footnote at this point.

Let me ask this, why is it necessary for people like you and Obama to bring crap like that up? Why can't he just say "these screwballs need to get their asses kicked"? Why is it so important to make the point that others have done bad things too? Why does he feel the need to appeal to the sensitivities of Muslims instead of just asking for their help to get rid of the cancer that's infected their religion?

I'll tell you why.

It's because Obama and whole swaths of liberals out there LOVE the idea or being a victim. If ISIS is a death cult then Liberals are a victim cult and the only damned reason they do anything is because they think they're helping a victim of this, that or the other. Their goal isn't to get rid of ISIS. It's to encourage the Muslim community to vote Democrat because only the Democrats "understand them" and "want to help them". It's the same damned thing you ****ers did to black Americans and are trying to do to Hispanics in this country.

You don't have the balls to stand up, draw a line in the sand and say "This side is right and that side is wrong". You don't want people to make the decision to help themselves, to better themselves, to overcome adversity through their own perseverance. You want them all to stay on their side of the line and wait for you to hand them a crust of bread. You would rather that everyone remain weak and that's because YOU are a weakling who would rather be a king among mice than a man among other men.
 
It takes a special breed of partisanship to see Obama's comments as making excuses for ISIS. Seriously.

I don't believe it's trying to make an excuse for ISIS.

I think it's trying to make an excuse and deny the connection ISIS and it's motivations has with Islam.

It's funny that so often the Crusades are used as a means of pointing to Christianity and showing how Christianity has done damage and hurt people and committed attrocities before. And yet NOW, it's attempting to be used as a means of arguing that people shouldn't view ISIS as really islamic.

Either the Crusades reflect on Christianity, because Christianity was a large factor in the justifications and motivations for the Crusades, and thus ISIS also reflects on Islam, because Islam was a large factor in the justification and motivations for ISIS's aggression OR the Crusades do NOT ISIS's actions do not reflect on Islam and neither does the Crusades reflect on Christianity.

You can't have it both ways, yet it seems for many they want to.
 
It takes a special breed of partisanship to see Obama's comments as making excuses for ISIS. Seriously.


Then again.....it could be, that the only very very special breed, are those in the minority.


Some Republicans were outraged. “The president’s comments this morning at the prayer breakfast are the most offensive I’ve ever heard a president make in my lifetime,” said former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore (R). “He has offended every believing Christian in the United States. This goes further to the point that Mr. Obama does not believe in America or the values we all share.”

Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, called Obama’s comments about Christianity “an unfortunate attempt at a wrongheaded moral comparison.”

Critics pounce after Obama talks Crusades, slavery at prayer breakfast - The Washington Post
 
Once again, we put a boot to the KKK (Except for the ones Democrats elected) and they are pretty much a footnote at this point.

Let me ask this, why is it necessary for people like you and Obama to bring crap like that up? Why can't he just say "these screwballs need to get their asses kicked"? Why is it so important to make the point that others have done bad things too? Why does he feel the need to appeal to the sensitivities of Muslims instead of just asking for their help to get rid of the cancer that's infected their religion?

I'll tell you why.

It's because Obama and whole swaths of liberals out there LOVE the idea or being a victim. If ISIS is a death cult then Liberals are a victim cult and the only damned reason they do anything is because they think they're helping a victim of this, that or the other. Their goal isn't to get rid of ISIS. It's to encourage the Muslim community to vote Democrat because only the Democrats "understand them" and "want to help them". It's the same damned thing you ****ers did to black Americans and are trying to do to Hispanics in this country.

You don't have the balls to stand up, draw a line in the sand and say "This side is right and that side is wrong". You don't want people to make the decision to help themselves, to better themselves, to overcome adversity through their own perseverance. You want them all to stay on their side of the line and wait for you to hand them a crust of bread. You would rather that everyone remain weak and that's because YOU are a weakling who would rather be a king among mice than a man among other men.

I don't think any conservative in the known universe has any business accusing any other human being of playing the victim card.
 
It takes a special breed of devotion to the America-resenting liar who is disgracing the White House to see his comments as anything but apologism for Muslim jihadists.

It's not an attempt to apologize for the jihadists. One can look at the full text of his speech and see that he is absolutely condemning them.

What it is attempting is to completely and utterly detach the actions of ISIS from Islam in any fashion, to paint it as something wholey different and unrelated, and something that should not be used to any degree as a reflection on the current situation of the religion of Islam.

Which is interest, becuase I can not recall ever once seeing him nor any liberal attempting to detach the Crusades from Christianity as something wholey different and unrelated, and something that should not be used to any degree as a reflection on the situation of the religion of Christian, past or present.
 
Obama wasn't lambasting Christians, nor was he calling them hypocrites. What Obama was saying is we should not allow certain people or groups to "[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]hijack religion for their own murderous ends". Obama's point is very clearly that the actions of ISIS do NOT represent the religion of Islam, no more than the actions of the Ku Klux Klan represent the religion of Christianity. Obama's point is that people have done evil acts in the name of religion all throughout history, and no religion can claim to be free of such associations.

Honestly, I'm not really sure what you're trying to say here, nor did I miss the fact you only talked about the Crusades and ignored his comment regarding slavery and racism, likely because it didn't really make sense in the context of what you were trying to say, which I don't feel really addressed what Obama said.
[/FONT]Who was, the Ku Klux Klan? Segregation laws was fighting Muslims who decided to take over someone else's stuff?

Greetings, Slyfox696. :2wave:

I have many direct quotes from Obama that seem to contradict what you have posted, and I can cite them if you wish. However, in the interim, I will ask you to remember the recovered Muslim Brotherhood manifestos which were admitted as evidence into Federal Court in 2007 during the Holy Land Foundation trial which explicitly states their undying obsession with the conquest of western civilization, and that they will accomplish that goal "from within."

If you wish, google Anti Jihad Report for an article titled Decades of UNINDICTED Muslim Co-Conspirators is MAJOR REASON Why America Is In Such A Mess written by Ben Barrack dated January 15, 2015.
 
Once again, we put a boot to the KKK (Except for the ones Democrats elected) and they are pretty much a footnote at this point.

Let me ask this, why is it necessary for people like you and Obama to bring crap like that up? Why can't he just say "these screwballs need to get their asses kicked"? Why is it so important to make the point that others have done bad things too? Why does he feel the need to appeal to the sensitivities of Muslims instead of just asking for their help to get rid of the cancer that's infected their religion?

I'll tell you why.

It's because Obama and whole swaths of liberals out there LOVE the idea or being a victim. If ISIS is a death cult then Liberals are a victim cult and the only damned reason they do anything is because they think they're helping a victim of this, that or the other. Their goal isn't to get rid of ISIS. It's to encourage the Muslim community to vote Democrat because only the Democrats "understand them" and "want to help them". It's the same damned thing you ****ers did to black Americans and are trying to do to Hispanics in this country.

You don't have the balls to stand up, draw a line in the sand and say "This side is right and that side is wrong". You don't want people to make the decision to help themselves, to better themselves, to overcome adversity through their own perseverance. You want them all to stay on their side of the line and wait for you to hand them a crust of bread. You would rather that everyone remain weak and that's because YOU are a weakling who would rather be a king among mice than a man among other men.


Waitaminute Luther :2wave: ......they were the JV Team first, then the cult group. Now he calls them an organization. But here is another reason why.....with BO thinking about those minorities when it comes to religion and if they are being picked on.





Farhana Khera, executive director of the civil rights group Muslim Advocates, one of 13 participants, said the session gave Obama a chance to focus on Muslim Americans the way he has done with other constituencies, such as African American and Jewish groups. “I started off by saying the biggest concern I hear from Muslim parents is their fear that their children will be ashamed to be Muslim” because of discrimination, Khera said. “We are asking him to use his bully pulpit to have a White House summit on hate crimes against religious minorities, much like the summit on bullying reset the conversation around LGBT youth.”

Obama emphasized the need to respect minorities in his speech Thursday, saying it was part of the obligation Americans face as members of a diverse and open society, “And if, in fact, we defend the legal right of a person to insult another’s religion, we’re equally obligated to use our free speech to condemn such insults — and stand shoulder to shoulder with religious communities, particularly religious minorities who are the targets of such attacks.”.....snip~

http://www.debatepolitics.com/break...ma-condemns-those-seek-hijack-religion-4.html
 
Then why can't he say their name? One must be able to defines one enemy.

Are you suggesting he can't say ISIS? Or are you meaning something else? Because he says ISIS pretty routinely I believe.
 
Then again.....it could be, that the only very very special breed, are those in the minority.


Some Republicans were outraged. “The president’s comments this morning at the prayer breakfast are the most offensive I’ve ever heard a president make in my lifetime,” said former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore (R). “He has offended every believing Christian in the United States. This goes further to the point that Mr. Obama does not believe in America or the values we all share.”

Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, called Obama’s comments about Christianity “an unfortunate attempt at a wrongheaded moral comparison.”

Critics pounce after Obama talks Crusades, slavery at prayer breakfast - The Washington Post

Oh, Republicans are mad about something Obama said? Please, tell me more.
 
I'm pretty sure he can say their name.

Are you actually trying to argue that he can't say the word "ISIS"? Or that he's unaware that they are our enemy?

Cut the talking point bull****. This matter is too important to discuss "well he's not using the right words! He should have used this word to describe them!"

You're argument is petty and not worth any ones time. We understand they are our enemy. You can criticize the obama administration for the actions they have taken, or lack there of, but to pretend that they don't even know that ISIS is our enemy is laughable. It's such a stupid talking point that if you say it you should be dismissed from the discussion from the onset.

Leave the discussion to the people that actually want to discuss what is in our best interest and what actions we should take and the consequences thereof. Not stupid stuff like "he hasn't defined them as an enemy!"



Try again.....whats their real name? So save all that BS they are using the correct terminology. He knows exactly who they are.....but that goes against what he told an entire planet.
 
It's not an attempt to apologize for the jihadists. One can look at the full text of his speech and see that he is absolutely condemning them.

What it is attempting is to completely and utterly detach the actions of ISIS from Islam in any fashion, to paint it as something wholey different and unrelated, and something that should not be used to any degree as a reflection on the current situation of the religion of Islam.

Which is interest, becuase I can not recall ever once seeing him nor any liberal attempting to detach the Crusades from Christianity as something wholey different and unrelated, and something that should not be used to any degree as a reflection on the situation of the religion of Christian, past or present.

Well stated. Exactly on point. :applaud
 
Try again.....whats their real name? So save all that BS they are using the correct terminology. He knows exactly who they are.....but that goes against what he told an entire planet.

ISIS or ISIL, depending on which term you want to use. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria/Levant. What am I missing? He says that all the time?
 
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