In his 2009 Cairo speech, Obama praised Islam to the skies. Almost nothing of what he then said was true. Here is the key paragraph in his Cairo speech about the achievements he ascribes to Islamic civilization:
As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. 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 — (applause) — it was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed. Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation.
The only way that Muslims “paved the way for Europe’s Renaissance” was when the Seljuk, and then the Osmanli, Turks, conquered all of Anatolia over several centuries, culminating on May 29, 1453, with the Osmanli Turks’ conquest of Constantinople, which for a thousand years had been the largest and richest city in Christendom. From 1400 on, Greek scholars had been fleeing the Muslim Turk invaders, leaving Byzantium for Italy, and bringing with them not only their own considerable learning, both in their heads and in their writings, but also manuscripts from classical antiquity — the works of Greek writers, poets, and historians. These were the seeds for the humanism of the Renaissance. As for Muslims preparing the mental ground for the Enlightenment, this bit of dreamy misinformation must have been found by one of Obama’s speechwriters at a History-for-Dummies site on the Internet. The European Enlightenment, which begins with Spinoza, is grounded in skepticism and the questioning of authority. Islam, on the other hand, insists on submission to authority; skepticism is not just discouraged but even punished. The authority of the Qur’an, the sayings and deeds of Muhammad in the hadith, and the teachings of Muslim clerics, are not to be questioned.
Obama ascribes the invention of algebra to Muslim mathematicians, when it is owed, rather, to Sanskrit mathematicians; only the word “algebra” (al-jabr) comes from the Muslim Arabs. He notes “majestic arches,” but misleadingly ascribes their first use to Muslims; they are based, rather, on the Byzantine squinch that the Muslims then borrowed. He mentions the Muslims’ “soaring spires,” showing he does not know the difference between spires, that are built on top of buildings, and minarets, that are separate structures. He spoke in Cairo of the Muslim invention of the “magnetic compass,” but in fact it was invented by the Chinese in 206 B.C., nearly 900 years before Islam even existed. The “mastery of pens and printing” he ascribes to Muslims is again owed, rather, to the Chinese, who invented printing around 700 A.D., during the Tang Dynasty. The earliest ancestor of the pen probably was the brush the Chinese used for writing by the 1st millennium B.C. However, the early Egyptians employed thick reeds as pen-like implements about 300 B.C. A specific allusion to the quill pen occurs in the seventh-century writings of St. Isidore of Seville. The Chinese, early Egyptians, and Christians in the Middle Age were responsible for the development of the pen; Muslims had nothing to do with it. And the art of calligraphy itself first began not with Muslims, but in China, during the Shang dynasty (1600-1000 B.C.). As for “cherished music” in Islam, whatever can he have been thinking of? Obama clearly is unaware that all instrumental music is forbidden — haram — in Islam. There is no tradition of “mosque music” as there is of “church music” in the West. And Muslims had absolutely nothing to do with our knowledge of “How disease spreads and how i t can be cured.” Obama has apparently never heard of Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur.
Does Obama’s praise for Islam help explain his ill-concealed hostility to Israel? Or are there other reasons? For twenty years he faithfully attended the Trinity United Church of Christ, where the pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, married him and Michele, baptized Obama’s two daughters, and gave Obama the phrase he used as the title of his book The Audacity of Hope. Wright also gave sermons in which he denounced America. The government gives them [black people] the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people,” he said in a 2003 sermon. “God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”
In addition to damning America, he told his congregation on the Sunday after Sept. 11, 2001 that the United States had brought on al Qaeda’s attacks because of its own terrorism: “We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye,” Rev. Wright said in a sermon on Sept. 16, 2001.
Obama heard this man’s sermons almost every Sunday for twenty years, and never objected to what he heard. He never changed churches. And he only distanced himself from Jeremiah Wright when he was running for president, after the media unearthed such sermons, anti-white and anti-American. Wright told his black audience not to say “God bless America,” but “God damn America.” After Obama became president, Rev. Wright explained why he was not invited to the White House: “The Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office.” Wright also suggested that Obama did not send a delegation to the Durban Review Conference in Geneva on racism because of Zionist pressure saying: “[T]he Jewish vote, the A-I-P-A-C vote, that’s controlling him, that would not let him send representation to the Durban Review Conference, that’s talking this craziness on this trip, cause they’re Zionists, they would not let him talk to someone who calls a spade what it is.”
Tatanka says
Islam has never build or invented anything, it only destroys everything that’s good.They are like a plaque of grasshoppers devastating pastures and grain fields till everything green is dead and gone.
Issei says
Islam is about destruction. What did Islam build. It build slavery.
Bexarkat says
and perfected suicide/homicide vests.
Michael Copeland says
“civilization’s debt to Islam”. As Mr Fitzgerald rightly points out, there is not one.
Islam does not qualify as a civilization. Daughter-killing, stoning, amputations, slavery, wife-beating, none of these is civilised. Further, Islam has no equality before the law and no freedom of speech. No, Islam is not a civilization.
buddyboy237 says
Good article regarding the head of the snake ( Fundamental Transformation of America Obama ).
Evil resides within Islamic teachings and considered admirable among Islamic Scholars/Followers.
Obama clings to such evil inclusive of being a great deceiver by attending a false Christian Pastor hating on America as not to direct attention to his Muslim upbringing, this to serve Allah.
America since Hussein has been driven down a spiral staircase by a thousand cuts.
Exposing Hussein during Biden’s now exposure to Treason under the leadership of Hussein who knew all that was happening even now as more evidence is being revealed that focuses on Biden’s crime family.
Under the direct leadership of the Obama and co. administration Biden unobstructed carried on anti American activities covered up by Obama’s security agencies and his massive influence regarding the media, who to this day are silent regarding the Obama connection.
Both Joe and Barack want more Islam in America, this open border issue speaks to that intent.
Figures regarding the increase of the Islamic population in America seem to be missing from statistic’s during this period as not to draw attention.
This article illustrates the acts/ thoughts and words of Hussein.
somehistory says
Absolutely right.
SKA says
The Tablet has published a devastating interview with MLK historian David Garrow about the falsehoods surrounding the fictionalized history of President 44. Reveals a hollow man who cares nothing for America or anything or anyone other than himself.
Hoi Polloi says
Thanks. Reading now.
somehistory says
FrontPageMag also has some of the interview with Mr. Garrow, written by L. Billingsly
FPM’s Editor is Dr. Glazov
the book…supposedly written by bo, has a lot of plagiarized material in it..
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The long term legacy of Obama will have been making the Democrat Party a trojan horse for islamization, and turning on Jewish & Hindu constituents, who were always loyal voting blocs. Only saving grace for a while might be the split b/w muslims and the LGBTQIA2SMAP+ movement
somehistory says
Once more, it is obvious that bo is mozlum to his core when it comes to promoting islam and helping to construct an *image* to fool people and to put false pride in the minds of mozlums who have listened to him and applauded his lies about them.
In his words, he stole from the Egyptians, the Chinese, the Greeks, Christians and Jews in order to praise islam…it has nothing to which to give praise…so he stole from others.
the Bible, written long before the book of evil filth, gave instructions for health and treatment of disease.
bo smokes…which is going against the creed; if he drinks, that too. bo did weed…is that okay with his fellow mozlums?
bo got a pass for doing things not approved because he has been advancing islam from the moment he appeared as a “young senator from Kenya” on a platform for the dems.
“The thief comes to steal, kill and destroy.” That’s islam in a nutshell; just as it is for satan the devil, words spoken about that demon by Jesus Christ.
bo is also a “thief” as he stole from others when he lied about the “achievements” of his fellow mozlums and when he pushed through his so called “healthcare.”…he is totally in favor of killing of the unborn and he wants to destroy the freedoms he used to cheat his way along in this country.
There is nothing good to be written about the creep.
PMK says
Islamic culture has given us majestic arches
The Roman Colosseum was built centuries before Mohammed was even born.
Devasur says
Algebra was invented by Hindus not muslims. As muslims scholars themselves say that. This only show’s that Obama’s ignorance and stupidity. Every hindu invention is credited to savage Arabs and muslims. Which they never invented in the first place they just transmitted the knowledge that to incorrectly.
OLD GUY says
Islam is a lie. Obama is a lier.
DazzleMe says
OLD GUY, exactly right!
commonsense says
Hussein Obama’s publicly delivered apologia of 2009, blaming the USA for the widespread Muslim anti-American animus, should have constituted grounds for impeachment. It was an egregious, seditious act…an outrage. But no one in the Republican Party said or attempted to do anything. Cowards all.
Kepha says
The O is a typical product of a few generations of American miseducation and a living monument to the wonders of American public relations writing and the puffery of ideology-driven journalism. He is America’s first Third World Great Leader.
Hoi Polloi says
Well, that’s a good description of BHO. America First in the Third World.
And thank you, HF, for answering BHO’s ridiculous claims with truth.
DazzleMe says
OVomit, is a Muzlim and he was never a U.S. citizen.