Obama Speaks About Ramadan

September 28, 2009 by Mike Hernandez  
Filed under Islam, Videos by Chronicle Watch

but the question is, Are You Listening?

by Mr. H

As we go back and re-examine the speech Obama delivered to the Islamic community, around the world, from the White House, about Ramadan we will have to listen closely to see what we can learn.

This time, instead of writing, the team here at The Chronicle Watch decided to put words into video in order to help better express the concerns that were raised during Obama’s speech.

While there are many issues found in Obamas speech, we are going to address only a handful at this time.

  1. His Faith.
  2. Communities
  3. Organization of the Islamic Center

Let’s listen

source Obama speaks, but are you listening?

Faith

As discussed earlier in an article titled, Mr. Obama is a Christian, we need to continue to ask a simple question.

Why would a self professed Christian recite the Shahada, the Muslims call to faith in perfect Arabic, when the recital makes one a Muslim according to Islamic teachings?

Communities

As we listen to the words of Mr. Obama we hear him bring up the word community time and time again, and now, all of a sudden, we see that the State Department, for the first time ever, appointed a Special Representative to Muslim Communities within the United States.

The question is, is this really the first time that Mr. Obama tried to have Islam breach the White House?

The answer is NO.

In 2008 Mr. Obama appointed a man by the name of Mazen Asbahi as his emissary to the Muslim Communities in the United States. The issue is that this man, Mazen Asbahi, has ties to the Islamic Society of North America which was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case; the Holy Land Foundation is allegedly a front group for the terror organization Hamas.

After this was found out about, Mr. Asbahi, the new community leader resigned in order to, “avoid distracting from Barack Obama’s message of change.” [ 1 ]

Organization of the Islamic Conference ( OIC)

Continuing on with the speech he delivered, we heard Mr. Obama express how, “we are moving forward to partner with the OIC”.

The question is, who is the OIC?

The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is the second largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations which has membership of 57 states spread over four continents. The Organization is the collective voice of the Muslim world and ensuring to safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony among various people of the world. [ 2 ]

It seems that from what is expressed on the OIC website, that they are the second largest organization in the world after the United Nations, and that they are the collective voice of the Muslim world.

The next question we have is, what voice are they interested in expressing?

In 2007, OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, widely considered to be a “moderate” Muslim professor from Turkey, used the UN’s “International Day of Tolerance” to assert that freedom of speech was unacceptable if it was used to criticize Islam. [ 3 ]

Then in 2008 this sentiment was expressed yet again.

“In 2008, the Organization of the Islamic Conference laid out a 10-year plan for suppression of free speech and for the introduction of laws that would prevent criticisms of religions and the reading of Islam…” [ 4 ]

According to the words expressed on the OIC website they claim to be the collective voice of the Muslim world; a voice according to the Cairo Declaration where rights and freedoms are stipulated under strict Islamic law.

The OIC calls itself the collective voice of the world-wide Muslim “ummah,” or nation. It has its own declaration of human rights, called the Cairo Declaration.

The document states “All rights and freedoms stipulated in this Declaration are subject to the Islamic Shari’ah,” which is strict Islamic law. [ 5 ]

Another alarming issue is what they, the OIC, consider terrorism.  A act so terrorizing that it is a threat to world peace.

Marshall Sana, an Islamic expert at Barnabas Fund, said the OIC “actually wields an enormous amount of influence.”

“That’s been evident the last few years with perhaps its number one agenda item, which is combating ‘Islamophobia‘ as they call it, or the defamation of religion,” he added.

The OIC calls Islamophobia the worst form of terrorism” and a threat to world peace. [ 6 ]

Final Thoughts

As we see alignments like never before being made by this administration the question remains, “how can an American President knowing the views and ties within these organization wish to partner with them”?

Why would a president of any nation align themselves with countries that have never been considered friends of the nation in which they rule?

Maybe the answer is that this President is really after a CHANGE; a change that comes under the guise of Islamic law.

Source

  1. CHAREN: A friendship of concern, by Mona Charen
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/
  2. Organization of the Islamic Conference
    http://www.oic-oci.org/
  3. discoverthenetworks.org
    discoverthenetworks.org
  4. Is ‘Islamophobia’ a Worldwide Free Speech Threat?, Dale Hurd
    http://www.cbn.com/
  5. Ibid
  6. Ibid

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