Obama's Speech under Scrutiny of Sami AlRabaa

Obama Twists Some Facts, Omits Others
June 9, 2009 - By Sami AlRabaa

Either Obama does not know what lies in the Koran and Hadith and what really goes on in Muslim countries and communities, or he simply wants to appease Muslims like most pro-Islam stooges in the West. The first thing I must point oput that the radical Islamists want to build a Muslim front against the rest of the world. And Obama's Cairo speech, focusing on a "Muslims" vs. "non-Muslims" divide of the world, will exactly serve that Islamist agenda. As concerns Islamic religion and socities, it is one of two things: either Obama did not read the Koran and Hadith and does not really know what is really going on in Muslim countries and communities, or he simply wants to appease Muslims like most pro-Islam stooges in the Western world, like Arabs say: "The hand which you cannot condemn, just kiss."

Let us see how the President of the United States twisted some of the facts, and omitted many others.

He said: America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap and share common principles, principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. He also said: Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality." (emphasis mine)

Islam is "justice, tolerance, and dignity of all human beings?" "Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds, religious tolerance and racial equality”? This is absolutely laughable.Here is the proof, from the Koran and Hadith, that this is absolutely not true: Kill the Christians and Jews…. (Sura 2, verse 191) - Do no take the Jews and the Christians for friends…… (Sura 5, verse 51) - Men are superior to women because Allah has made them so…. (Sura 4, verse 34) - Beat them (women)… (Sura 4, verse 34). The Koran is replete with passages like these. For further details, read “Is Islam a Violent Faith?"

The Hadith says: Women are deficient in intelligence (Hadith 301) - Women are crooks and useless creature. (Hadith 3466) - If women, Jews, dogs, and donkeys pass by a praying Muslims, they annul his prayers. (Hadith 493, 704) - Non-Muslims must subjugate to Shari’a (Hadith 413). The list of atrocious Hadith like these is long. For more, check out "Women in Hadith". In practice, if you wear a cross or carry the Bible in Saudi Arabia, you risk being jailed, tortured, whipped, and afterwards deported. Prominent Islamist chaplains like the Egyptians Al Qaradhawi, Ali Gom’a, (grand mufti of Egypt) and the Saudi Al Lehedan (head of Fatwa Council in Saudi Arabia) urge Muslims to kill foreign soldiers in Arab and Muslim lands, including Israel. Al Qaradhawi said after the invasion of Iraq, "If we don’t do that, then we are all a bunch of donkeys."

These chaplains and imams across the Muslim world approve of suicide and car bombers in Israel, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Al Lehedan said, “Our prophet, peace be upon him, urged us to kill the infidels. They are the enemy of Allah. The holy Koran also urges us to kill the enemies of Islam.”One of the biggest lies which Obama presented in his speech in Cairo was his saying, It was Islam at places like Al-Azhar that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe's renaissance and enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities. It was Al-Azhar which forced Nasser Hamed Abu Zeid to divorce his wife for interpreting Islam in a modern manner. It was Al Tantawi, the grand imam of Al-Azhar who issued a fatwa prohibiting Muslims from donating any parts of their body to Copts, non-Muslims.

Obama also said, “No single speech can eradicate years of mistrust (between America and Muslims).” Who is actually mistrusting whom, and who is not trustworthy? Would you trust someone who denies your existence and is determined to subjugate you? Is it Muslims or the rest of the world? Who is preaching and practicing religious despotism? It is orthodox Muslims who mistrust the West and reject its value system. Then Obama turned to talk about the “civilization’s debt to Islam.” This is also not true. Arab Scholars like Ibn Rushd and Ibn Khaldun were prosecuted in the so-called “golden ages” of the Muslim empire for discussing rationalism and secularism, opposed and rejected by Islam. Ibn Sina’s scholarly medical works were due to his study of Greek and Roman scientific books and not due to Islam. Islam’s legacy is replete with oppression, violence, and discrimination.

Obama reproduced in his speech what Islamic establishments across the Muslim world have always preached: Islam is misunderstood in the West. It is blemished with stereotypes. He also said, “partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn't. And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”So, murdering non-Muslims and discriminating against women in the Koran, Hadith, and in practice are all stereotypes?

Obama also wants “to protect the right of (Muslim) women and girls to wear the hijab, and to punish those who would deny it.” I think Obama missed adding that Muslims must also have the right to introduce and practice Sharia. It is their right under religious freedom.Obama must be credited for condemning radical Muslims like al Qaeda, but at the same time he failed to mention that these thugs have simply acted according to the “commandments” of the Koran and Hadith.Obama stressed in his speech that “Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism; it is an important part of promoting peace.” Over and over again, this is not true. Repeating a lie will never change it into truth. The Koran and Hadith include lots of passages that incite followers to violence.

Obama also said, “military power alone is not going solve the problems in Afghanistan and Pakistan.” This is true so long the West does not tackle the root causes of Islamic terrorism that is fed in madrassas across the Muslim world, funded by the Saudis and petrodollars of other Arab Gulf countries.Then Obama turned to Guantanamo to justify its closure and said, “I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.” That is fine. But how about torture in Arab prisons which is a daily exercise, especially in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan? If Obama were honest, he should have raised this issue in his speech. But he did not dare do so. That would antagonize and hurt his friends, Abdullah and Mubarak. Instead, Obama commended King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, one of the worst dictators on earth, and on top of that he sought his advice. Advice on what? Advice from a despot? How to appease radical Muslims? Furthermore, Obama was full of praise to King Abdullah. He said, "I consider the king's friendship a great blessing, and I am very appreciative that he would bestow this honor on me during this visit." Obama also thanked Abdullah for his "extraordinary generosity and hospitality." Also, Obama praised the "efforts" of King Abdullah in relation to "interfaith dialogue". While this King bans followers of other religions to practice their own faiths and build their own temples in Saudi Arabia, and teaches hatred against other faiths in his schools, he calls for interfaith dialogue. This is sheer hypocrisy which Obama, of course, digested greedily.

For Obama, democracy is a controversial issue. He said in his speech in Cairo, “I know there has been controversy about the promotion of democracy in recent years.” Instead of demanding straightforward democracy for Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and the other Arab countries, Obama said, it was a controversial issue, and ignored the fact that decent Muslims and Arabs are yearning to have their societies. All in all, Obama twisted facts and avoided naming the root causes of bloodshed and misery in the Middle East and in the Muslim world at large. Instead, he tried to appease radical Muslims and Muslim regimes.

Thank you Mr. President for emboldening such people.

Source: http://www.islam-watch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=32:obama-twists-facts-omits-others&catid=12:sami

Wilders is right: "The truth of the matter is 'Fitna' is simply reflecting how radical Muslims think and act, inspired and encouraged by the Koran."

By Dr. Sami Alrabaa

Prosecuting Geert Wilders, member of the Dutch Parliament, is a welcome opportunity to expose fascist Islam and radical Muslims. Wilders and his lawyers do not need to go far away to fetch crystal clear evidence that Islam, i.e. the Koran and Hadeeth incite to violence and hatred, and radical Muslims are behind numerous crimes against humanity.

A summary of quotations from the Koran which clearly incite to hatred and violence can be found in the following link:

There is an abundance of fatwas (religious edicts) by Muslim authorities inciting to genocide and suicide attacks against Christians and Jews. All these fatwas are based on the Koran and Hadeeth.

Ali Gom’a, the grand mufti of Egypt, the highest Muslim religious authority in the world, supports murdering non-Muslims. In the daily Al Ahram (April 7, 2008), he says, “Muslims must kill non-believers wherever they are unless they convert to Islam.” He also compares non-Muslims to apes and pigs, not only the Jews. Read more ...

Source: Canada Free Press
H/T: Jihad Watch

Which Speech is Free Speech?
	I am a Muslim
	Inoffensive speech
	Speech offensive for reasons other than listed below
	Defaming one's family & all of the above
	Defaming religion, mocking prophets & all of the above
	Inciting violence & all of the above
	Conspiring to commit violence & all of the above
	I am not a Muslim
	Inoffensive speech
	Speech offensive for reasons other than listed below
	Defaming one's family & all of the above
	Defaming religion, mocking prophets & all of the above
	Inciting violence & all of the above
	Conspiring to commit violence & all of the above

Did Israeli Aggression or Arab Demagogy Provoke Gaza Attacks?

By Dr. Sami Alrabaa

Once again some of us Arabs are, as usual, in a big mess. The Islamist extremist group Hamas, which came to power in 2006 through an un-Islamic political process – namely a democratic election – has since hijacked Gaza, established its rocket factories in residential areas such as bunkers under mosques, schools and hospitals. Over the past three years, the Hamas Jihadis and their affiliates have frequently targeted their Kassam rockets at residential areas in Israel. Even during the ceasefire brokered by Egypt in 2008, Hamas shot their rockets at Israel. On top of all this, Hamas, like the PLO before the Oslo Accords, rejects the existence of Israel, a UN member state. Its ultimate aim is liberating all Palestine (which includes Israel) by wiping out the Jewish state from the world map, possibly by genocidal massacre or deportation of all Jewish people.

The “struggle” of Hamas is backed by Islamists across the globe, by state-controlled media of the Arab world, and by one-eyed anti-war campaigners in the West. Ban Ki-Moon, the Secretary-General of the UN, has condemned the latest Israeli military operations in Gaza as “disproportionate.”

All these organizations and groups have voraciously consumed the Hamas propaganda: they allege that the Israeli blockade has caused abject misery in Gaza, people there are starving. Some compare Gaza to a huge prison, and to the Holocaust. But who is to blame for this calamity?

Israeli politicians have repeatedly stated that once Hamas stops its terrorist activities and launching of missiles, the blockade would be lifted. The Israeli cabinet even approved of aid convoys into Gaza despite Hamas' continued shooting of rockets. The Hamas leadership ignored such conciliatory Israeli gestures and continued the rocket-attacks on residential areas in Israel.

We Arabs are very good at twisting facts and exaggerating them when it suits us. Mustafa Barghouthi, a Fatah activist, told CNN (December 28, 2008) that “It was Israel which broke the ceasefire with Hamas.” Buthaina Sha’ban, a Syrian cabinet Minister, called the recent Israeli attacks on Hamas' military targets “the most atrocious Holocaust in the history of mankind” [London-based Saudi daily Al Shraq Al Awsat, December 29, 2008].

We Arabs also prefer to be mystical, wishful rather than realistic. Waleed Al Tabtaba’i, an Islamist member of the Kuwaiti parliament, hoped that Allah would come to rescue the Gazans as he did with his prophet Muhammad in all his raids against the infidels [Al Watan, December 29, 2008].

Yusuf Al Qaradhawi, the renowned radical Islamic cleric, told the Al Jazeera TV that “We Muslims, we are a bunch of donkeys if we do not stand up and fight the Israelis and their supporters wherever they are.”

Hamas and its affiliates are feeding on wishful thinking. They believe that an escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will bring them closer to their aim: Arabs and Muslims would take to the street and urge their governments to take action against Israel. Islamists in Iran and Indonesia have registered themselves to fight Jihad against the Jews, the “apes" or "monkeys,” as Allah calls them.

We Arabs have learned nothing from the two major disastrous wars against Israel. Some of us still believe that the Israelis understand only the language of defiance and violence. Violence, however, is the only “argument” we Arabs possess. Rational, realistic thinking has never been a part of our discourse and action.

This especially applies to Islamists, they rejoice at the ongoing maiming and killing in Gaza, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq. None of those Hamas-sympathizers has ever condemned the atrocities inflicted upon innocent people, arbitrarily killed in these countries by suicide bombers in the name of Islam.

In Arabic we say, Ja’ja’a bila taheen” (It is all noise without flour). We Arabs are most boisterous, shrill people, but less effective or inclined to seeking pragmatic, workable solutions.

According to a clandestine survey by Bielefeld University conducted in Syria and Egypt (2006), over 70% of the population in these countries wants peace with Israel. They are “sick and tired,” as many put it, of the belligerent discourse of the Islamists and the biased and inflammatory propaganda of their national media. They, of course, don't dare say that openly.

Khaled, who wants to be identified by his first name only, told me, “Our leaders and their affiliates suffer from some kind of personality disorder. They keep us busy with Israel to distract us from their failure to establish democracy and remove poverty. They also support radical organizations like Hamas and Hizballah as tools to keep that distraction alive.”

Fatima said, “Israel left South Lebanon and Gaza. Yet, for Hizballah and Hamas this is not enough. What do these people want? They are making the life of their people and ours miserable. We feel hijacked by these murderers. We want peace.”

Hamas and its affiliates are among the bloodiest in the history of mankind. They do not value human life. They deliberately provoked the Israeli offensive and were aware that that would cause death to hundreds of civilians living in areas where Hamas had stored its rockets. Hamas leadership has been banking on images of death and destruction as a means to rally support in Arab, Muslim, and Western streets.

According to a recent opinion poll, conducted by Emnid Institute in Germany, more than 80% of the German population blames Hamas for the high toll of deaths among civilians in Gaza. One interviewee put it this way: “Hamas is acting like armed criminals who have barricaded themselves among innocent civilians and arbitrarily fire at people around them. As the criminals adamantly refused to stop shooting, the police had no other choice but to storm the area to catch the criminals, or kill them. Unfortunately, several innocent people were killed. You can not blame the death of innocent people on the police. It is the criminals who are to blame for all this.” Israel must carry on its offensive until the Hamas leaders surrender. There is no peace without sacrifice. All Israelis and decent Arabs would be grateful to the Israeli army if it rids us from those thugs. We want to live in peace.
In view of the fact that Kuwait and Lebanon allow relatively higher freedom of speech, columnists like Ahemd Al Sarraf, Ali Al Baghli, Hasssan El Essa, Fouad Al Hashem, and Khaleel Haidar in these countries have blasted Hamas and the Islamists for the calamity in Gaza.

The Arab world has never experienced any semblance of political freedom and stability. Since independence over the last half of the 20th century, the Arabs have been ruled by despots, either military or hereditary. Demonstrations are basically forbidden; calls for political reforms are ruthlessly squashed. But when people demonstrate against a foreign power – Israel or the U.S., for instance – they are then most welcome.

The Syrian regime even allowed a hand-picked group of people to protest against the Egyptian embassy for not opening the border with Gaza. The Egyptian government also allowed demonstrations against the Israeli strikes against Hamas, while the authoritarian regime of Husni Mubarak deals with demonstrators for political reforms ruthlessly; see it here.

The Arab regimes have always projected the “Palestinian cause” – the “Wound of all Arabs” or the “Nakba” (calamity) as some Arabs prefer to call it – as a pretext to keep the people distracted from calls for political and economic reforms at home. The occupation of Iraq and the rise of Islamism have provided Arab regimes with new opportunities to defer socio-political reforms.

Besides, Arab regimes – such as the Egyptian, Syrian and Saudi governments – have appeased Islamists by antagonizing the same enemy, namely Israel and the U.S., at least in the media. The radicals have stopped their arbitrary attacks in these countries; instead, they cross borders to wage Jihad against the foreign infidel enemy: in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Some dictators have never left a worthy legacy. Many of them have also left destruction, misery and deaths of numberless innocent people: think of Hitler, Stalin, Idi Amin, Pol Pot; the list is long. The Arab dictators are in a sense in good company.

All that being said, the road to democracy, freedom and liberty in the Arab world will be a long one. The Arabs will still have to wait decades before they can enjoy these basic rights of man.

In the meantime, the name of the game in the Arab world will remain demagogy, irrationalism, political schizophrenia, defiance and violence.

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Dr. Sami Alrabaa, an ex-Muslim, is a professor of Sociology and an Arab-Muslim culture specialist. Before moving to Germany he taught at Kuwait University, King Saud University, and Michigan State University.

Source: Family Security Matters