Or is ignorant<\/a>.\u00a0 Either way, he just threw the suffering and oppression of millions of Christians for countless centuries under the bus.\u00a0 So he went to a mosque.\u00a0 So the imam may have said things that condone certain acts of terrorism.\u00a0 So what?\u00a0 Obama is liberal and in the comp studies approach to religion, one is as good as another.<\/p>\nBut Islam does not just mean peace.\u00a0 It means submission, too.\u00a0 It\u2019s a more complex term than either\/or.\u00a0 Simply dropping one part of it doesn\u2019t help.\u00a0 It\u2019s wrong.\u00a0 Yes, it can mean peace, but it does so in the context of submission.\u00a0 If we want to work with Islam, let\u2019s work with Islam.\u00a0 Not some fabricated BS version of it that has less depth than a video game. <\/p>\n
But it\u2019s this part that is the rub: <\/p>\n
\u201cfor more than a thousand years people have been drawn to Islam\u2019s message of peace.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nA thousand years of peace?\u00a0 Tell that to Constantinople.\u00a0 That would be Istanbul today, as a result of that Islamic peace.\u00a0 Tell that to Christians who have lived under Islamic oppression for countless centuries.\u00a0 Tell that to those who have been treated like blacks were treated in the US before Civil Rights.\u00a0 Go ahead. That would be like saying \u2018Except for that, let\u2019s look at all the good that the American South brought to our history.\u2019\u00a0 Try that today and see how long you last.\u00a0Try it with Obama. \u00a0But that\u2019s exactly what Obama did, only he did it in such a way that shows who he thinks are the evil ones, and who he thinks are merely the misunderstood ones.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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