Barack Obama may not approve of Israel, but he has fond memories of hearing the muezzin’s call to prayer — which he has recited in Arabic, as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.” As for Islam itself, he gave an address in Cairo where he said that “I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt’s advancement. Together, you represent the harmony between tradition and progress.” He had nothing but praise for Islam: “I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive” — he meant ”mutually 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… As the Holy Koran tells us, ‘Be conscious of God and speak always the truth.'”
And he delivered himself of still more of this treacly nonsense:
As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. It was Islam – at places like al-Azhar University – 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 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. And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.
I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America’s story. The first nation to recognise my country was Morocco. In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President John Adams wrote: “The United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.” And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. They have fought in our wars, served in government, stood for civil rights, started businesses, taught at our universities, excelled in our sports arenas, won Nobel prizes, built our tallest building [and destroyed our tallest buildings], and lit the Olympic torch. And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our founding fathers – Thomas Jefferson – kept in his personal library.
Jefferson’s ownership of a Qur’an meant only that he was curious about Islam, not that he approved of it. There is no evidence that he ever read it.
Does Obama really believe any of this stuff about the wonderfulness of Islam? Yes, I’m afraid so. He doesn’t know much about history, and “don’t know much about geography,” either. Doesn’t he know that the Treaty of Tripoli, which ended attacks on American shipping by the Barbary Pirates, came about because American warships fought the Muslim corsairs in the Mediterranean?
But he’s learned that he can get away with that ignorance. No one calls him out. He slides through life, being given awards and respect that he does not deserve. He was a scofflaw, who had a pile of fifteen parking tickets from Somerville that he failed to pay until seventeen years later, two weeks before he announced his bid for the presidency. He was made president of the Harvard Law Review, despite never having written a single law review article, but only a short unsigned student case comment (volume 103, page 823) analyzing the Illinois Supreme Court case Stallman v. Youngquist.
Obama was given a Nobel Peace Prize for nothing he had done, but only in the hope that in the future he might do something to deserve it. And we are all still waiting for him to do something — anything — that might retroactively justify that prize. He now bestrides the world like a colossus, furrows his brow to indicate thoughtfulness, delivers his platitudes and plongitudes, picks up yet another honorary degree, and then goes his merry way as the Great Man whose proof of greatness no one can quite pinpoint.
I doubt that Obama, the sudden scholar of Islam, has read the Qur’an, especially such hair-raising passages as 3:110 (Muslims are the “best of peoples”), 5:51 (“Do not take Christians and Jews as friends, for they are friends only with each other”), 8:12 (where Allah says “’I am with you, so strengthen those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, so strike upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip”), 8:60 (“And prepare against them [the unbelievers] whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know, whom Allah knows”); 9:29 (“Fight those who do not believe in Allah, or the Last Day”), 47:4 (“So when you meet the disbelievers, strike necks until you have thoroughly subdued them, then bind them firmly”), and 98:6 (Non-believers are “the most vile of created beings”).
But he doesn’t have to read the Qur’an to understand Islam. He has heard the azan at sunset in Indonesia, the “sweetest sound in the world.” He knows the splendors of Islam, and the vast contributions of Muslim thinkers, scientists, and artists, as he recounted them so fawningly in his speech at Al-Azhar University.
I am equally convinced that he has never read the hadith in the most authoritative recensions of Bukhari and Muslim. He doesn’t know, for example, that Muhammad has said “I have been victorious through terror” and “war is deception.” He does not know that Muhammad claimed that “Islam is to dominate and not to be dominated.” He doesn’t know that Muhammad married little Aisha when she was six, and had sexual intercourse with her when she was nine and he was 54. Nor does he know that, despite this pedophilia, Muslims regard Muhammad as the “Model of Conduct” (uswa hasana) and the Perfect Man (al-insan al-kamil).
He is Barack Obama, and doesn’t need to know any of this. And only a racist or an Islamophobe would dare to point that out.
somehistory says
bo….forced the Egyptian government to allow members of the terror organization, the mb, to sit in the front row when he gave his lying speech.
…bo is a son of demons., which is why he promotes islime with so many lies, they could fill a book.
That’s as strong as I can write. bo is a slime’s slime.
Bexarkat says
Facts, truths, and details are illusory to Mr. 44. Four and four make eight. We also know what double-eight really means (88=HH).
Wellington says
Long ago, many decades now, I realized that for those on the Left facts are optional. This can be not such a big deal with a mere university professor but it becomes a very big deal when it includes an American President.
What a disgrace of a human being Obama is, both as a man and as a President. Worst of all, still not enough people, in America or worldwide, have figured this out.
Westman says
Not everyone can get a Nobel Peace Prize for just being elected, go on to divide the nation, disrespect his grandmother as a racist, buy an exclusive seaside property with the sweat of some good lectern yarns. And, as usual, women carried the burden of his childhood.
Boy makes good in spite of his white upbringing and owes it all to Islam. There should be a movie, where is it?
Wellington says
+1
somehistory says
what actor would want to go so low as to play him?
Daddyo says
De Niro.
Siddhi Nasranni says
Your quote, ” Not everyone can get a Nobel Peace Prize for just being elected,”
I think that the main reason that he was the first Black President of the USA.
somehistory says
Half black. But he played up that part, even though it came from Kenya and islime…..his place of birth.
Raja says
Somehistory, interestingly he is barely half-white because when people of two heritage mate the offspring is invariably on one side and in this case the scum/manipulator is too much of a madrasa product which he blurts out time and again. A fraud on American people, still a spokesperson for Satan’s ways.
Now Israel, a great nation needs to be alert because she has enemies everywhere and the world is against any kind of justice. There is a popular phrase: when Muslims attack it is holy war and when on the losing side it is GENOCIDE. Palestine had its own apartheid with I guess 0 Jews now since it is devastated *building destroyed for terror” it is genocide.
Taffy says
Would you trust anything factual from someone who said on his campaign trail that he will be visiting 57 states and he has just one more to go? Obama, born in The [British] Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, is still a non-citizen who somehow illegally became a US president. And no one would hear the multiple lawsuits brought to call him out on his alleged citizenship, even with the provably forged birth certificate that was uploaded to the Whitehouse website during his presidency. None of the cases were decided on the merits, but rather on standing grounds and other claims by the courts shirking their jurisdiction to hear the case. One court even went so far as to illegally sanction the attorney that brought the case $20,000 ($10,000 was the maximum under the law at that time) and illegally sought to have it paid to Fort Benning when the law is clear that all sanction money becomes an addition to the US Treasury, and Congress, (not a federal judge) is the only entity that can constitutionally allocate the funds.
somehistory says
He actually said he *had visited all 57 states.* I think,…always have thought….he was thinking of the 57 muzzie ruined nations and mixed that with States. He’s an idiot, imo.
And when he was going to be giving a campaign speech, while a state senator in IL, was introduced as “the young man from Kenya, the young senator from IL”….may be close to what the woman said who introduced him, or it may be exact. But it was clear that he was not born in the U.S.
James Lincoln says
In the run-up to the 2008 US Presidential Election, most people had no idea how bad this man really was.
Total bait and switch.
Rob Porter says
Great stuff, Hugh Fitzgerald, you are not shy about ‘telling it like it is’. I quickly decided that I could not stand a first-rate liar like Obama with his empty (like himself) “Yes we can” campaign slogan and endlessly fabricated Islamic history.
I truly marvel at the lies and pure drivel that constantly spew from the lips of America’s Muslim president, Barack Obama. For starters Islam does NOT believe in “principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.” It believes in servitude, third class status and ‘jizya’ (poll tax) for infidels, even death for “unbelievers” (Qur’an ch 47 vs 4 for example). Islam teaches lies and deceit – ‘taqiyya’ – not truthfulness. 160 verses in the Qur’an instruct violence, including death, against ‘unbelievers’ in Islam. So much for Islam’s”tolerance”!
The “light of learning” began in Greece. like Socrates and Plato hundreds of years before Islam and Muslims existed, so only someone really ignorant of history swallows Obama’s pathetic twaddle. He truly does rely on ignorance when spouting his made-up nonsense.. “Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment” did not come from Islam, it came from within Europe, so dream on Barack with your endlessly-created Islamic fantasies. The Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Istanbul, once Constantinople, was designed and built by Christians, completed in 537AD, hundreds of years before a mosque anything near its equivalent was built – and this leaned heavily on Hagia Sophia architecture! This was the Blue Mosque, complete is 1617AD, thus more than a thousand years after Hagia Sophia. The compass was created by Chinese, not Muslims., but never mind, the supremacist, master race-minded delusionist Muslims believe they invented anything worth inventing. The Wright brothers did not invent flying, some Muslim goof-ball who jumped out of a window and fell to the esath below did!
Barack Obama was no ‘student of history’ a reality of which I, in a letter, long ago informed him after he had produced some Grimm’s Fairy Tales equivalent that he presented as history. “Look it up” he on one occasion urged an audience in a mosque. I did – and it turned out an Obama fairy tale – which I wasn’t shy about telling this shameful president. .
Cynthia says
He was a student in obfuscating history. His mission was to dumb down Americans through lies, half truths, and deceit – all Islamic traits.
He obviously was successful at sending us down the change route minus the hope.
kathleen quinlan says
BTW his chosen slogan Yes we can was a Communist slogan in this country in the 1930s to rally the population sympathetic to Marxism.
ME Infidel says
The M&M (Muslim & Marxist) former globalist installed puppet president is such an insufferable fraud!
Ralph says
Yes, ME Infidel, Obama is a total creation of the Left. No substance, no provenance and total obfuscation of his school records. A Marxist Muslim, determined to destroy the USA under the guise of “fundamentally transforming America”. May he have a short, unhappy future with Mikey and leave the world better for his passing.
40 rounds says
Always beware of smooth talkers, they fool the fools easily but some people, who should know better, get suckered in as well.
Westman says
Fooled me as well. I had no idea that Obama would divorce all the companions of MLK when listening to his keynote address at the 2004 DNC convention. Obama had a dream too, it just didn’t include anyone else.
saturnine says
“platitudes and plongitudes” Lol! No one, not even Allah, can bring forth prose like Hugh.
David M says
Barack is and always has been a Muslim. He just didn’t have the guts to admit it when he was President.
Nanko says
Of course he knows the facts.
He’s Barack Obama.
Voltaic says
plongitude: neologism coined by Hugh Fitzgerald, 20 October 2026;
formed by analogy with ‘platitude’;
no examples were given.
But since this usage was used in the context of a negative report about Obama who is famous for his rhetorical platitudes and since a plongitude must surely be orthogonal to a platitude then, as an example, plongitudes for this context could be interpreted as the time measures of an Obama rhetorical pause (visualised as I I I…)
Plausible?
Yes. Say 1 plongitude = 1 second.
So, it’s…
1 plongitude.
2 plongitude.
3 plongitude.
4 plongitude.
5 plongitude……
…And we can all breathe again.
RightStuff1944 says
Barack Obama is nothing but a boil on this country’s hiner. It is time that people pull away from anything he is associated with. Start with Netflix!
Phil Copson says
“Don’t know much about geography –
Don’t care much for Christianity.
But I do know that I fool you –
And I do know that if I ruled you –
What a wonderful caliphate it would be!”
(Hugh was referencing Sam Cooke’s 1960 hit “Wonderful World” there)
Walter Sieruk says
As for Barack Obama, that “he doesn’t need to know the facts.” It’s that Obama isn’t interested in the facts, he has his own type of red/green agenda that he feel is right, therefore he chooses intentional ignorance about the facts of reality.
One example of this is that Obama refuses to recognize that the “West Bank” is actually the land of Judea and Samaria. by archeological and historic rights are the lands of Judea and Samaria. Likewise, Golan Heights are part of the land of Israel by historic rights ‘ This is also confirmed in the Bible.
In fact,, God had given all that land to the Jewish people. This may be found in the Bible, as seen in, for example, Genesis 28:13-15. 35:10-12. Deuteronomy 32:48,49. Psalm 105:7-11.
In other words the Jews have tall this land by Divine Right. Moreover, the Jewish people should have this land by historic rights as shown in First Kings 4:20,21, 24,25. 8:55, 56.
For the Bible informs its reader “For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself, Israel for His special treasure.” Psalm 135:4. [N.K.J.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
Obama doesn’t want to know that fact that the word “Palestine” is a fabricated term that was a made up for the land by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as an insult to the Jews because the Jews and the Philistines, many times, fought each other. For a long time after that “renaming ‘of that land, Both Arabs and Jews living in that land were both referred to as “Palestinians.” Then in 1964, many Arabs started to refer only to themselves as ‘The Palestinians” hoping that would give them some kind of valid claim to that land in the eyes of the different nations of the world. In addition, Yasser Arafat in 1969 further spread the myth of a specific ethnic group or race of people called “the Palestinians”
peter11 says
He was the most divisive president America had in its entire history and he played race Card from the bottom of the deck