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If you seek to understand Barack Obama and his views, the best place to go is his speeches. But you have to read them in their entirety, not rely on hearing them or on the media\u2019s summary of them. When you do, you come to realize how often what Obama says is morally and intellectually confused and even untrue.<\/p>\n
The most recent example was his speech last week at a mosque in Baltimore. In addition to reassuring Muslim Americans that they are as American as Americans of every other faith \u2014 a point that any president, Republican or Democrat, would and should make \u2014 President Obama spoke a lot of nonsense, some of it dangerous nonsense.<\/p>\n
President Obama: \u201cSo let\u2019s start with this fact: For more than a thousand years, people have been drawn to Islam\u2019s message of peace. And the very word itself, \u2018Islam,\u2019 comes from \u2018salam\u2019 \u2014 peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
Why did Mr. Obama say this? Even Muslim websites acknowledge that \u201cIslam\u201d means \u201csubmission\u201d [to Allah], that it comes from the Arabic root \u201caslama\u201d meaning submission, and that \u201cIslam\u201d is the command form of that verb. That\u2019s why \u201cMuslim\u201d means \u201cOne who submits,\u201d not \u201cOne who is peaceful.\u201d
\nObama: \u201cJefferson and John Adams had their own copies of the Koran.\u201d The primary, if not only, reason Jefferson had a copy of the Koran was to try to understand the Koran and Islam in light of what the Muslim ambassador from Tripoli had told him and John Adams.<\/p>\n
When asked why Tripoli pirates were attacking American ships and enslaving Americans, the Muslim ambassador explained that Muslims are commanded to do so by the Koran. Jefferson wrote that the Tripoli ambassador told him that \u201cit was written in their Koran that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every mussulman [Muslim] who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to Paradise.\u201d That\u2019s why Jefferson and Adams had Korans. Given this reason, why did the president mention that Jefferson and Adams owned copies of the Koran?<\/p>\n
Obama: \u201cAnd how do we move forward together?\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0It can\u2019t be just a burden on the Muslim community \u2014 although the Muslim community has to play a role.\u201d Most Americans would say that the American-Muslim community has to play the role, not \u201ca\u201d role in preventing violent Islam from capturing the minds of American Muslims and in helping authorities identify extremist Muslims. Obama: \u201cSecond, as Americans, we have to stay true to our core values, and that includes freedom of religion for all faiths.\u201d This is so obviously true that one wonders why the president felt it necessary to mention it. Who doesn\u2019t believe that Muslim Americans should have the freedom to practice their faith?<\/p>\n
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