August 20, 2010
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The REALLY right answer
Is Obama a Muslim?
One Pew poll that came out before the whole mosque business showed that 18% of Americans now think President Obama is a Muslim. That was a doubling from the year before. A Time poll came out later showing that 24% of Americans now think Obama is a muslim. More Republicans think he’s a Muslim than think he’s Christian.
President Obama’s administration came out and replied with something along the lines of “he’s not a muslim, he’s a christian, he prays every day.” If we ignore the part of that statement about praying every day (which you might have conflicting opinions about), it’s clear that that was the correct response. It’s true. It’s factual. Can’t complain about telling the truth.
But I wish he’d instead given the REALLY right answer. For that, we have to go to our old friend retied general Colin Powell who got it right way back during the election campaign:
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“I’m also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, “Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.” Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no, that’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president? Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, “He’s a Muslim and he might be associated terrorists.” This is not the way we should be doing it in America.”I’ll repeat that. THIS IS NOT THE WAY WE SHOULD BE DOING IT IN AMERICA!
Muslim is the latest created “bad word”. Like communist, socialist, liberal, lefty, progressive, black, atheist, secular, environmentalist, feminist, community organizer, etc. And I really really HATE that. There is no thing I hate more in the rhetoric of the conservative radio and television personalities than their tendency to pervert language to serve their twisted purposes. It would be as if liberals were like “Oh he’s just one of those despicable soldiers. Warmongering bastards out to destroy the country!” Of course liberals don’t do that. Because it’s sick and wrong.
I’m thinking of converting to Islam just to spite them.
Comments (2)
Good post.
Someone said to me today…as a joke though. “How do we know he isn’t a Muslim?” Well, because if he was, he wouldn’t keep it a secret. I mean, for crying out loud, don’t these anti-Islam people get that it’s one: not a secret society and two: actually something they are proud to be? No, because to the ignorant, our enemies are Muslim which when you take the leap of the stupid turns into All Muslims are the enemy.
A Muslim-American journalist yesterday said that the whitehouse’s response to this is not good either. It only dignifies the ridiculous discussion instead of making it go away once and for all as it should. All the whitehouse is doing is saying “The president is a dedicated Christian…” which to some looks like “I am anything but Muslim” to all of those aforementioned proud Muslims. But, damned if he does damned if he doesn’t. UNfortunately there will never be a right answer so long as the people who criticize for all the wrong reasons react the same way to the president no matter what he does…..by going in the opposite direction about everything.