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.

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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OBAMA DIRECTS NASA TO REACH OUT TO MUSLIMS

Charles Bolden, NASA administrator, was charged by Obama to: "One, he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering” (http://www.sfexaminer.com/politics/NASA_s-new-mission_-Building-ties-to-Muslim-world-97817909.html#ixzz0tcyLPn8p).

Since the Democrats and Obama are wondering how to save money, I thought I would decrease their budget by a few billion dollars by listing all of the Islamic contributions to science, math and engineering. This should save NASA and Bolden the time and money needed to rediscover all of Islam’s historic contributions.


ARAB CONTRIBUTIONS TO MATHEMATICS

• Developed solutions to quadratic equations – year 850.
• Introduced the first use of tangent function. Developed tables of sines and tangents at 15 minute intervals – 940-998.
• Gave numerical solutions to certain higher order equations – around 11th century.
• Discovered a geometrical solution of solving cubic equations – 1048-1122.
• Calculated the value of pi to sixteen decimal places – 1390-1450.
• After this time, the Arab world was closed to mathematics. Historical data taken from http://www.math.tamu.edu/~dallen/history/arab/arab.html.

If you wish to read an exaggerated view of Arab mathematics see http://worldupdates.tripod.com/newupdates10/id142.htm.

The Arabs claim they invented the ZERO. The number zero was invented in India and by the Maya. In India they used an empty space and later a dot for the zero symbol. This was around the third century BC. The Maya invented the number zero for their calendars in the third century AD. The number zero (0) was first used in the seventh century AD. The Arabs introduced the zero into Europe after 800 AD. The name zero comes from the Arabic word sifr
(http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/gen99/gen99535.htm). I guess maybe they did discover the number zero since they developed a word for it “sifr”.

ARAB CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE

The Islamic Golden Age occurred between the eighth and thirteenth centuries. There were advances in alchemy, astronomy, medicine etc. Individual items are too numerous to mention in such a short article, so I’ll just give a summary of what some of the scholars of our time think of the Arabic contributions. Bertrand Russell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A History of Western Philosophy) suggests that Islamic Science was not innovative but communicated ancient knowledge to medieval Europe. Others say that Muslim scientists did help in defining experimental science and a quantitative approach to experimental study and this is probably true. Huff says that they did not bring about a modern scientific revolution (Huff, Toby E. The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West, Cambridge University Press, 1993, p87.)

The Islamic Arabs did make one notable contribution: Ibn al-Haytham was regarded as the "father of modern optics" for his influential Book of Optics written between 1011 and 1021 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Optics). The sixth ruler of the Fatmid Caliphate ordered him to control the flooding of the river Nile. He realized the impossibility of such a task and fearing for his life, he feigned madness. He spent the rest of his life under house arrest doing scientific studies.

ARAB CONTRIBUTIONS TO ENGINEERING

The Arab website (http://www.adc.org/index.php?id=247) defines the extent of their engineering contributions: “Concerning Arab contributions to engineering, one can look to the water wheel, cisterns, irrigation, water wells at fixed levels, and the water clock. In 860, the three sons of Musa ibn Shakir published the Book on Artifices, which described a hundred technical constructions.” Does anybody have use for a water clock lately?

SO WHY DID THE ISLAMIC GOLDEN AGE END IN THE 13TH CENTURY?

The Islam Awareness web page (http://www.islamawareness.net/Maths/science4.html) perhaps summarizes it best:

“1. Internal Pressures (From Inside the Empire): the End to Scientific Progress

With the end of the Abbasid Caliphate and the beginning of the Turkish Seljuk Caliphate in 1057 CE, the centralized power of the empire began to shatter. Religious differences resulted in splinter groups, charges of heresy, and assassinations. Aristotelian logic, adopted early on as a framework upon which to build science and philosophy, appeared to be undermining the beliefs of educated Muslims. Orthodox faith was in decline and skepticism on the rise.
The appeal made by theologian … al-Ghazali turned the religious tide back to orthodox (traditional) belief. In a masterful philosophical argument, most clearly stated in his book, The Destruction of Philosophy, al-Ghazali declared reason and all its works to be bankrupt. Experience and the reason that grew out of it were not to be trusted; they could say nothing meaningful about the reality of Allah. Only direct intuition of God led to worthwhile knowledge. Philosophy was a snare, leading the unwary to the pits of Hell. By the time of his death in 1111, free scientific investigation and philosophical and religious toleration were phenomena of the past. Schools limited their teaching to theology (religion and the nature of God). Scientific progress came to a halt.

2. External Pressures (From Without)

During this same period, the European Crusades (1097-1291) weakened the Islamic Empires' powers from without. Cordoba fell to Spanish Christians in 1236. When the Mongols sacked Baghdad in 1256 the Islamic Empire never recovered. Trade routes became unsafe. Urban life broke down.
Individual communities drew in upon themselves in feudal isolation. Science and philosophy survived for a while in scattered pockets, but the golden age of Islamic culture was at an end.”

SO WHAT DID THE ARABS CONTRIBUTE AFTER THE ISLAMIC GOLDEN AGE?

In 2007, Nobel Prize recipient, physicist Steven Weinberg, stated that Islamic science never achieved much of importance since the twelfth century and quoted a Nature magazine (italics are my inclusion) survey that identified just three areas of science in which Islamic countries excel: desalination, falconry and camel reproduction” (http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2008/01/islamic-science.html). Try Googling for info on important advances in science by the Muslims since the Golden Age. I could only find some scant info for the last ten years. Islam had done its job and Obama should be proud.

Who Caused the Gulf Oil Spill?

We have Obama holding his boot to the throat of BP. The Democrats want a criminal investigation to determine who was responsible for the oil spill. All of the liberals are looking for a scapegoat. Why don’t they just look in a mirror to see the person responsible? The blame can be traced directly to themselves and the environmental wackos.
Who forced the oil companies to drill so far offshore and more than a mile deep? The Democrats and their far out left are entirely to blame. If the oil companies could have been left to drill closer to shore in one hundred feet of water or so we wouldn’t have this catastrophe. Capping an oil well in one hundred feet of water is child’s play compared to doing the same in five thousand feet of water. Divers, either in full diving gear or scuba divers could have done the job in a few days or less. The environmental damage could have been confined to a few miles of beach or less. The economic impact would be hardly worth mentioning. As usual, the do-good, feel-good liberal’s grandiose plans always produce the opposite effect. Instead of maintaining pristine beaches in local areas, they manage to pollute most of them at once; so much for good intentions.
Obama, using his omniscient intellect, has a solution to the problem. He has now stopped all off-shore drilling for the next six months. He has also postponed drilling off the Alaskan shores until 2011. He has cancelled a lease for drilling off the coast of Virginia. Who says he can’t take care of problems. Just maybe there is a schizophrenic or split personality side to his behavior. While taking care of one problem, he creates another. His solution only makes us more dependent on foreign oil, particularly from the Arabs. It will probably force the loss of thousands of jobs as the oil companies shift their drilling operations to more friendly shores. On top of all this, his solution will only cause the deficit to grow by many billions more but not to worry; we can always print more money. This is another of his solutions. Create inflation and our debt obligations will be paid off in cheap money – provided that the USA doesn’t sink under the burden.
Why can’t the Democrats and their environmental wackos realize that we should drill on land and much closer to shore? Oh, I forgot we don’t need oil, the sun and the wind will take care of our energy needs. No, I didn’t forget coal and nuclear energy but the liberals sure did. I’m sure the liberals have a solution to the wind problem. They will just keep on talking and that should generate enough wind to keep the windmills going.