IS OBAMA A MUSLIM?

A new Pew poll indicates that 18% of Americans think that Obama is a Muslim.  This is a seven point increase  in a little more than a year ago (March 2009).  34% think Obama is a Christian while 43% don't know one way or the other. LINK

The Washington Post thinks that the18% have come to the wrong conclusion.  They base this premise on Obama's faith advisor, Joshua DuBois, statement that

"the president's Christian faith plays an "important part" in his daily life."LINK 

Both the Post and the 18% cannot be right: one of them must be wrong.  Is it possible to resolve this dilemma?  Let us suppose that Obama is a Muslim.  Islam prohibits lying except in three instances.

"The sons of Adam are accountable for all lies with these exceptions: During war because war is deception, to reconcile among two quarreling men, and for a man to appease his wife."
The Arabic word, "Takeyya", means "to prevent," or guard against. The principle of Al Takeyya conveys the understanding that Muslims are permitted to lie as a preventive measure against anticipated harm to one's self or fellow Muslims.

Under the concept of Takeyya and short of killing another human being, if under the threat of force, it is legitimate for Muslims to act contrary to their faith. The following actions are acceptable:

• Drink wine, abandon prayers, and skip fasting during Ramadan.
• Renounce belief in Allah.
• Kneel in homage to a deity other than Allah.
• Utter insincere oaths.

Unfortunately, when dealing with Muslims, one must keep in mind that Muslims can communicate something with apparent sincerity, when in reality they may have just the opposite agenda in their hearts. Bluntly stated, Islam permits Muslims to lie anytime that they perceive that their own well-being, or that of Islam, is threatened. LINK

As Dr. Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission observed:

In a 2007 New York Times interview, entitled Obama, A man of the World, Obama fondly recalled the Islamic evening call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.” According to the article, “Obama went on to recite its opening lines with a perfect Arabic accent: “Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme! I witness that there is no god but Allah! I witness that there is no god but Allah! I witness that Muhammad is his prophet!”

“A devoted follower of Jesus Christ would never say ‘Allah is supreme and there is no god but Allah,’” argues Dr. Cass. “Sitting in a pew from time to time doesn’t make someone a Christian. If anything, Obama is rooted in Islamic tradition.” LINK

If Obama is a Muslim (and he obviously does all of the bulleted items listed above) then he must be doing something to protect or advance the Islamic cause.

On the other hand he may be a Christian.  If he is, why doesn't he act in a Christian manner?  Christians accept the Bible as the word of God and Jesus as the savior.  Rev. Don Hamer of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission explains how Obama does not exhibit Christian behavior.  He has compiled seven videos  showing Obama's  violations of Christian tenets. LINK  One of these videos is presented below.


Maybe Obama is not a Muslim or a Christian, maybe he's just an atheist.  I don't have any preference either way.  He can be what he wants to be but I don't understand his sympathy or partiality to Islam.  My guess would be is that Obama is a Muslim.  What his intentions are for America remains to be seen.  On the surface his objectives for our country do not appear to be good.

IS FACTCHECK.ORG BIASED TOWARD THE DEMOCRATS?

There are numerous references on the internet that suggest they are. For example, on the issue of health care, they refute the rumor that ObamCare “"Exempts" House and Senate members”. LINK Their rebuttal is that “No. Their coverage may not be as good as before, in fact." The Washington Times LINK gives a different opinion:

“The new health care law exempts the president from having to participate in it. Leadership and committee staffers in the House and Senate who wrote the bill are exempted as well. A weasel-worded definition of "staff" includes only the members' personal staff in the new system; the committee staff that drafted the legislation opted themselves out. Because they were more familiar with the contents of the law than anyone in the country, it says a lot that they carved out their own special loophole. Anyway, the law is intended to affect "ordinary Americans," according to Vice President Joe Biden (who - being a heartbeat away from the presidency - also is not covered), not Washington insiders.”

Aside from from looking at the discrepancies in FactCheck's reported facts, it is worthwhile to examine the history of the organization. Brooks Jackson, left CNN LINK and joined the Annenberg Public Policy Center in 2003 and launched FactCheck.org in December of that year. Link Funding was received from the "Annenberg family foundation and one other Annenberg foundation". The Annenberg Foundation also funded the The Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). LINK

Bill Ayers, an associate of President Obama, was part of a terrorist group that bombed the Pentagon and other governmental buildings. His only regret was that maybe he did not do enough. He never went to prison because of a technical loophole regarding improper surveillance of his activities. Eventually, he became an education professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He not only founded the terrorist Weather Underground organization but the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) was his brainchild. LINK.

CAC adopted the Ayers philosophy and stressed student radical political activism over achievement testing. In his books he recommended that teachers should be teaching opposition to American racism and oppression. Ayers obviously thought that societal changes could best be accomplished through the control of education. At least he did not tell the teachers to go out and bomb someone. Possibly with the years passing by he mellowed somewhat. But that doesn't mean he gave up his violent radical ideas. It probably means that he knows if he carries out another act of extreme violence he will go to prison. I'm sure the police officials involved will not make the same surveillance mistake twice. He was quoted as saying "I'm a radical, Leftist, small "c" communist." His educational philosophies were adopted by CAC. "The CAC's operations were closed in 2001, and subsumed into those of the Annenberg Institute for Social Reform". LINK As the Wall Street Journal put it: LINK

"CAC translated Mr. Ayers's radicalism into practice. Instead of funding schools directly, it required schools to affiliate with "external partners," which actually got the money. Proposals from groups focused on math/science achievement were turned down. Instead CAC disbursed money through various far-left community organizers, such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (or Acorn)".

Small wonder that Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wanted to include millions of dollars in the stimulus bill for ACORN. It is supposed to be a non-profit organization but as is well known, they totally support the Democratic Party. Their members will even go so far as to generate fictitious votes for the Democrats if required. They are under investigation in this regard. LINK

What did FactCheck say about Bill Ayers during the McCain Obama campaign? LINK

"Even the description of Ayers as a "terrorist" is a matter of interpretation. Setting off bombs can fairly be described as terrorism even when they are intended to cause only property damage, which is what Ayers has admitted doing in his youth. But for nearly three decades since, Ayers has lived the relatively quiet life of an educator. It would be correct to call him a "former terrorist," and an "unapologetic" one at that. But if McCain means the word "terrorist" to invoke images of 9/11, he's being misleading; Ayers is no Osama bin Laden now, and never was."

It sounds to me as if FactCheck is softpedalling the representation of Bill Ayers. Intentions do not trump actions. Does this suggest bias? It may be that Brooks Jackson's time at CNN introduced some liberal bias into his thinking about facts. Is FactCheck biased in their reporting of the facts? I leave it to the reader to decide.

OBAMA�S NATIONAL SECURITY FORCE

In communist Poland, the state had an organization called �Zmotoryzowane Odwody Milicji Obywatelskiej (ZOMO. ZOMO translates to the Motorized Reserves of the Citizens Militia. They were a paramilitary riot police force and were used to quell unrest within the country. The government did not trust the armed forces to crush the Solidarity movement within the country and relied on the ZOMO�s to accomplish the task. As history shows, they failed and the Communist government was overthrown in December, 1989.

Who were the ZOMOs? Time magazine summarized the organization rather succinctly:
ZOMO members are often country dwellers, generally poor and with only six to eight years of education. Some are convicted felons. Says a Polish exile: "If someone has a criminal background, the authorities might say, 'Okay, we'll forget that little blemish if you give us a year in the ZOMO.
The selection process is said to favor brawny youths who in some fashion feel alienated from society. ZOMO members are generally kept apart from the people they are being trained to subdue. They live in their own barracks outside major Polish cities and enjoy special privileges, including generous salaries and ready access to consumer goods.� Link

Kind of sounds like the definition of a Black Panther.


The picture on the left (A. Luczak, Wesolych Swiat zyczy Komuna, Aug. 7, 2005, and Central Eastern Eurpean Online Library.) is a humorous lampoon of a ZOMO that was distributed in Poland during the time of martial law. The printing on the photo says �The communists wish you a merry Christmas�. A group of amateur photographers in Poznan made the picture into a postcard. It was then copied and distributed throughout the country. Their secret service acquired the photograph and launched an investigation to determine its origin. Several people were arrested and charged with crimes against the State. The charges were eventually dropped, as it could not be proved that any of the arrested was guilty of the crime. The photo is reminiscent of the Black Panthers intimidating voters in the U.S.

So what does this have to do with Obama�s national security force? The ZOMO�s were a civilian paramilitary force. Obama is proposing (July 2, 2008) that "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded (emphasis mine)." He will have a difficult time finding the funding for such a large project if he intends to make the civilian forces as large as the military. We already fund part of his somewhat subdued paramilitary groups such as Acorn and SEIU but he still needs more money to carry out his plan. How does he anticipate getting such money without going to Congress and asking for it? The answer of course is to do it covertly.

The health care bill HR 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act became law on March 23, 2010. Its sponsor was the ethically challenged Democrat, Charley Rangel. Paraphrasing Pelosi, this is the law that we�ll find out what�s in it once we pass it. Nobody in Congress seemed to read it. The following section was included in the health care bill.

SEC. 5210. ESTABLISHING A READY RESERVE CORPS.
Section 203 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 204) is amended to read as follows:
SEC. 203. COMMISSIONED CORPS AND READY RESERVE CORPS.
(a) Establishment-
(1) IN GENERAL- There shall be in the Service a commissioned Regular Corps and a Ready Reserve Corps for service in time of national emergency.
(2) REQUIREMENT- All commissioned officers shall be citizens of the United States and shall be appointed without regard to the civil-service laws and compensated without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended.

Article (2) is interesting. What this means is that Obama can pay his corps whatever he wishes. He does not need to comply with civil-service pay scales. That�s what the communist Polish government did to attract ZOMO members.

(3) APPOINTMENT- Commissioned officers of the Ready Reserve Corps shall be appointed by the President and commissioned officers of the Regular Corps shall be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.

The President appoints the officers to the Ready Reserve Corps, whereas the Regular Corps is appointed with the advice and consent of the Senate. This gives the President the power to appoint a Reserve Corp member to any rank he wishes.

(4) ACTIVE DUTY- Commissioned officers of the Ready Reserve Corps shall at all times be subject to call to active duty by the Surgeon General, including active duty for the purpose of training.
(5) WARRANT OFFICERS- Warrant officers may be appointed to the Service for the purpose of providing support to the health and delivery systems maintained by the Service and any warrant officer appointed to the Service shall be considered for purposes of this Act and title 37, United States Code, to be a commissioned officer within the Commissioned Corps of the Service.
(b) Assimilating Reserve Corp Officers Into the Regular Corps
Effective on the date of enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, all individuals classified as officers in the Reserve Corps under this section (as such section existed on the day before the date of enactment of such Act) and serving on active duty shall be deemed to be commissioned officers of the Regular Corps.

This section gives rise to the possibility that any Presidential appointee to the Reserve can be made to be of higher rank than a Senate appointee to the Regular Corp � effectively controlling any Senate appointee and abrogating Sec.203(a)(3).

(c) Purpose and Use of Ready Reserve
(1) PURPOSE- The purpose of the Ready Reserve Corps is to fulfill the need to have additional Commissioned Corps personnel available on short notice (similar to the uniformed service's reserve program) to assist regular Commissioned Corps personnel to meet both routine public health and emergency response missions.

There is no definition of what is an emergency response mission. I guess this means that the President (possibly through his Surgeon General) defines an emergency. This is potentially dangerous.

(2) USES- The Ready Reserve Corps shall
(A) participate in routine training to meet the general and specific needs of the Commissioned Corps;
(B) be available and ready for involuntary calls to active duty during national emergencies and public health crises, similar to the uniformed service reserve personnel;

This clause is particularly dangerous as there seems to be a distinction between �national emergencies� and �public health crises� � particularly when the Bill compares the Ready Reserve to the �uniformed service reserve personnel� (Military?). Does this mean that an emergency is something other than a health emergency?

(C) be available for backfilling critical positions left vacant during deployment of active duty Commissioned Corps members, as well as for deployment to respond to public health emergencies, both foreign and domestic; and

It appears that we taxpayers will be paying for �health emergencies� in countries other than in the United States.

(D) be available for service assignment in isolated, hardship, and medically underserved communities (as defined in section 799B) to improve access to health services.
(d) Funding- For the purpose of carrying out the duties and responsibilities of the Commissioned Corps under this section, there are authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014 for recruitment and training and $12,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014 for the Ready Reserve Corps.

Health Care bill HR 3590 not only gives us socialized medicine but also funds and creates Obama�s private army secretly.

On the surface this bill appears to pertain only to the Public Health Services Commissioned Corps but as Judge Napolitano explained (see video below)

It appears that there is more to this health bill than meets the eye.

The Conservative Examiner states "Before the ObamaCare bill was signed into law, many, including this writer, downplayed the significance of this portion of the legislation, believing that it only pertains to recruiting and deploying an adequate number of physicians during a healthcare emergency.

With Judge Napolitano's analysis of the provision, now that the bill is the law of the land, new concerns about the 'private army' appear to be justified." Link



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THE ETHICAL HOUSE ETHICS COMMITTEE

Charlie Rangel heads the Ways Committee and writes the tax laws. One would think that he would know the tax law and would pay his taxes. Instead, he chose to hide income. He was up before the ethics committee and faced thirteen charges of unethical behavior. Two of these counts are felonies and are punishable by jail terms. Rangel maintained his innocence and decided to take the matter to trial – although that is still uncertain. The House Ethics Committee recommended a reprimand instead of a trial. Link

The Ethics committee is composed of the following members:
DEMOCRATS - Barbara Boxer, Chairwoman, Mark Pryor and Sherrod Brown
REPUBLICANS - John Isakson, Vice Chairman, Pat Roberts and Jim Risch.

One has to wonder, how ethical are the members of the Ethics Committee? If you or I purposely evaded our taxes, I’m sure a jail term would be in order. I understand that Rangel is presumed to be innocent and a trial would clear that matter up. But if he accepts the reprimand, what happens next? Is he then free and clear and only has to pay the taxes that he mistakenly forgot? It’s hard to imagine that a man who writes the tax laws would not be aware of his own obligations. Is the Ethics Committee really ethical or are they simply trying to protect their own members. On other hand, are they trying to set a precedent for the next upcoming investigation of another Democrat – Maxine Waters?

Representative Waters “came under scrutiny after former Treasury Department officials said she helped arrange a meeting between regulators and executives at Boston-based OneUnited Bank without mentioning her husband's financial ties to the institution.” Link)

She is confident that she has done no wrong and will fight the charges. Like Rangel, she is innocent until proven guilty. I suspect that no trials will be forthcoming for either of them and like Rangel, she too will be offered a reprimand. Whether they take them or not, remains to be seen.

If this leads you to believe that I don’t trust most of the current members of Congress, you’re right.