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Obama Leaves Church
According to the New York Times: “Senator Barack Obama has resigned his membership in Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ, which he attended for nearly two decades, following months of controversy about pastors and their political views.”
I wonder if this is political move… hmmn… Sounds like a political move to me. I doubt he would do this if he wasn’t running for president.
Here’s the additional spin:
Mr. Obama said that his resignation was not a matter of political convenience, but rather that he had reached the point where neither he nor Trinity’s pastors and congregants could worship in peace. He noted that reporters now pored over sermons and that some had called sick members at home to ask about the church.
Regardless, removing himself from the Church should give him a bit of a boost I think.
Finally, Gov’t will start avoiding linking terrorism with Islam
Perhaps this initiative is just simply too late.
Here is the word-for-word release by CAIR:
U.S. officials are being advised in internal government documents to avoid referring publicly to al-Qaida and other terrorist groups as Islamic or Muslim, and not to use terms like jihad or mujahedin, which “unintentionally legitimize” terrorism.
“There’s a growing consensus (in the administration) that we need to move away from that language,” said a former senior administration official who was involved until recently in policy debates on the issue. . .
Urging officials not to use the word Islam in conjunction with terrorism, the guide notes that, “Although the al-Qaida network exploits religious sentiments and tries to use religion to justify its actions, we should treat it as an illegitimate political organization, both terrorist and criminal.”
Instead of calling terror groups Muslim or Islamic, the guide suggests using words like totalitarian, terrorist or violent extremist — “widely understood terms that define our enemies appropriately and simultaneously deny them any level of legitimacy.”
Any thoughts? We’ve all had this discussion about word associations for years now. It seems as though the government and their advisers should have caught on a long time ago. Too much damage has already been done.
Christian Rage and Muslim Moderation
Despite recent provocations against Islam in the West, many Muslims seem weary of the same old tit for tat.
Mar 27, 2008 | Updated: 11:35 a.m. ET Mar 27, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI, an exiled Egyptian journalist, a bleach-blond Dutch parliamentarian and Danish cartoonists all have something in common with a Teddy bear named Mohammed. They have been at the center of that seething storm called Muslim rage in the last few months, and, with the exception of Mohammed T. Bear, they appear to be testing that anger to see if it will erupt … yet again
Perpetuating the hoax of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
THis book is begining of the conspiracy theory literature. It was shown to be a hoax about a hundred years ago, yet it still is used as a propaganda tool to hurt Jews, Freemasons and liberal thinkers in general.
It was used to fuel the pogroms of Tsarist Russia, the rise of antiSemetism and anti Enlightment of Europe and then the Holocaust. Now it is used to keep any peace happening between Israelis and Palistinians. It must be the nature of man to make an opponent into something more than he is.
The Protocols of the (Learned) Elders of Zion (in Russian: “Протоколы Сионских мудрецов” or “Сионские Протоколы”) is a text purporting to describe a plan to achieve global domination by the Jewish people. Following its first public publication in 1903 in the Russian Empire, numerous independent investigations have repeatedly exposed the writing as a hoax; notably, a series of articles printed in The Times of London in 1921 revealed that much of the material was directly plagiarized from earlier works of political satire unrelated to Jews. Nevertheless, some people continue to view it as factual, especially in parts of the world where anti-Semitism, anti-Judaism, or anti-Zionism are widespread.[2] It is frequently quoted and reprinted by anti-Semites, and is sometimes used as evidence of Jewish conspiracy, especially in the Middle East. [3]
I know that those who love such conspiracy theories will dismiss as part of the conspiracy all attempts to show the hoax. And that is another injustice done to them as it fuels their hate against fellow man.
Turan