Obama’s Peculiar Position on the Islamic State

USA-ESTONIA/In his speech addressed to the UN general assembly, Barak Hussein Obama said, “ISIL is not Islamic. No religion condones killing innocents.” He also stated, “ISIS is hiding behind a false Islam.” We know about Mr. Obama’s admiration for Islam.  The following are a few of his statements:

·         “The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.”

·         “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world — including in my own country” (i.e., USA, not Kenya).

·         “Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.”

·         “Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace.”

·         “Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.”

·         “I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House.”

In addition to the above, he has also made many unfounded statements such as, “Islam has always been a part of America’s story.” And In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.”

Does Obama really know Islam better than Muslims?

If Islam is as wonderful as Obama says, why did he leave it? He did leave Islam, didn’t he? He was raised Muslim and, therefore, it seems strange that one could have such a high admiration of a religion that one no longer believes in.

It is also quite strange that Obama does not seem to have the same admiration for the faith that he now claims to be a part of. He has said with sarcasm,

“Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy?  Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination?  Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?”

Of course the Qur’an is full of verses instructing the believers to slay the unbelievers, cut their heads from above their necks and be harsh with them. But Mr. Obama chooses to ignore all that. Instead, he emphasizes, “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.”

Obama’s opinion about Islam is also highly problematic.  ISIS is indeed very much Islamic. Al Baqdadi, the self-appointed caliph of Islamic State, was, like Obama, also born and raised as a Muslim, but unlike Obama he has a PhD in Islamic Law. And a great number of Muslims agree with his interpretation of Islam.  ISIS is now enjoying increasing shows of solidarity from the Middle East and from across the Muslim world – and also from Western countries.  Watch this politician on an interview on a Jordanian television passionately endorsing IS while shouting,

There is nothing such as ‘ISIS ideology’ – It is Islam. … if these Muslims are terrorists, I salute those terrorists. I salute the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.”

These Muslims know their religion. There is nothing that Islamic State is doing that is un-Islamic. They follow the Sunnah (examples set by their prophet) to the letter. Muhammad raided villages and towns, destroyed temples, massacred his captives, enslaved and sold their women, tortured his enemies, and as he repeatedly bragged, he cast terror in the hearts of unbelievers.

IS has also been condemned by some Muslims. Take the example of Maqdesi, a supporter of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front, who criticized the Islamic State group for its brutal methods. “Is this caliphate a sanctuary for the vulnerable and a refuge for all Muslims, or a sword hanging over those Muslims who disagree with them?” Maqdesi asked.

Maqdesi is not against violence.  He is a terrorist after all. He just thinks Muslims should kill non-Muslims and not fellow Muslims.  His interpretation is simply different.  According to IS, the Shiites are heretics and killing them is justified by the Sunnah.  Muhammad ordered to burn a mosque built in Dhu Awan, a population to the North of Medina, with the worshipers inside, because someone told him the Muslims there are heretics.  So if the Shiites are declared heretics, they should be killed.

More than 120 Muslim scholars around the world released a statement denouncing ISIS militants as un-Islamic. The statement said,

“It is forbidden in Islam to torture, to attribute evil acts to God, to force people to convert to Islam, to deny women and children of their rights.”

This sounds hollow to those familiar with the history of early Islam.  Muhammad tortured his enemies, and he did force people to convert.  Okay, maybe I take that back. He actually gave them three choices: Convert to Islam, leave the country, or die.

Muhammad also took women and children as slaves and sold them. He allowed his followers to rape women they had captured in their raids.

The scholars also criticized the declaration of caliphate by IS:

“The mere announcement is not enough to establish a caliphate…The concept of a caliphate is not legitimate unless it is established by consensus from the Islamic community.”

This is true, but when virtually all caliphs, from Umar onward, received their consensus by force and by killing their detractors, we can’t really condemn al Baqdadi for doing the same.

The fact that many Muslims oppose IS does not make IS un-Islamic.  There has never been a time in the Islamic annals that Muslims were united.  They have always disagreed with each other and, as usual, always shed each other’s blood over their disagreements.

Even though Muslims don’t agree over anything, as long as they believe in Muhammad and Allah they are Muslim. Some follow the footsteps of their prophet more closely and others a little less. But they all follow him. IS, al Qaida, Boko Haram and Shabab are a bit stricter in their adherence to the Sunnah of their prophet.  They of course disagree with each other just as many companions of Muhammad did.  One of the biggest wars in early Islam where thousands were killed was the War of Camel between Aisha, the preferred wife of Muhammad and Ali, his cousin and son-in-law.  Sunni Muslims regard both these figures as exemplary salafs.

In regards to Mr. Obama’s statement that no religion condones killing innocents, we must keep in mind that the definition of innocence in Islam is not exactly the same as non-Muslims understand it.  According to Muhammad, everyone is born Muslim. It is that later in life they reject it. Those who are not Muslim are apostate and as such not innocent.  The word kafir is erroneously translated as infidel or unbeliever.  That is not the correct translation. Kafir sounds like cover, and it has the same meaning. Kafir is one who covers the truth — an unbeliever is ignorant. A kafir is one who knows the truth and yet hides it and denies it out of malice. Those who don’t believe in Islam do so because there is sickness in their heart. They are not innocent.  So, although it is true that killing the innocent is not condoned by any religion, Islam allows it, by taking innocence out of the innocent.

Ali Sina is the author of “Understanding Muhammad and Muslims.” He has also written a complete biography of Muhammad and a script for his biopic. He is looking for backers for making the movie and a publisher for his book. He can be reached at faithfreedom.org, alisina.org or by tweeter @AliSinaOrg.

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  • Hank Rearden

    Outstanding.

    This should be nailed to the door of every Representative and Senator in Washington. It will never get to the president, so let’s forget that. It could be nailed to the door of his church, but he doesn’t go to church.

  • wileyvet

    Ex-Muslim from Iran, knows Islam inside out, yet would be considered an “Islamophobe”. Yeah, right. He used to have, perhaps he still does, a $50,000 reward for anyone who can refute his criticism of Islam. So far to my knowledge no one has ever claimed it. Several years ago, he had an online debate with two “moderate” Pakistani scholars. It was laughable and pathetic to see the theological and intellectual gymnastics they had to go through in answering him, and failed miserably. The truly sad thing is that Pakistan bans his websites. Can’t allow any skepticism to creep into Islamic society. Remember Muhammad forbade any questioning of Islam.
    Despite the death threats issued by the religion of peace, Ali Sina keeps going. Keep it up sir. I applaud your courage and tenacity. We need everything in our counter Jihad arsenal.

    • Sara

      I’m sure there’s even a bigger reward for his head, like Rushdie’s.

  • gerry d welder

    In 1952
    President Truman
    Established one day a year as a
    “National Day of Prayer.”

    ———————————————————————-
    In 1988
    President Reagan
    Designated the
    First Thursday in May of the year as
    The National Day of Prayer.

    ———————————————–
    In June 2007
    (then)
    Presidential Candidate Barack Obama
    Declared that the USA
    “Was no longer a
    Christian nation.”

    —————————————————————

    President Obama
    Canceled the
    21st annual National Day
    Of Prayer ceremony
    At the White
    House under the ruse
    Of “not wanting to offend anyone”

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    BUT… On September 25, 2009
    From 4 AM until 7 PM,
    A National Day of Prayer
    FOR THE MUSLIM RELIGION
    Was Held on Capitol Hill,
    Beside the White House.
    There were over 50,000 Muslims
    In D.C. That day.

    HE PRAYS WITH THE MUSLIMS!
    I guess it Doesn’t matter
    If “Christians”
    Are offended by this event -
    We obviously
    Don ‘t count as
    “anyone” Anymore.

    The direction this country is headed
    Should strike fear in the heart of every Christian,
    Especially knowing that the Muslim religion
    Believes that if Christians cannot be Converted,
    They should be annihilated.

    “…I am one of them.”

    youtube: Obama Admits He Is A Muslim http://youtu.be/tCAffMSWSzY

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    Time to face the unthinkable.-

    Top Ten Quran Verses for Understanding ISIS (the Islamic State)

    http://youtu.be/LXBgqa-xQwY

    “ISIS does what it does and why it will continue to do what is does until we in the West come to our senses.”

  • gerry d welder

    Is ‘immigration’ really a Trojan Horse for the open borders to get ISIS (and weapons) inside the US borders?

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    Did Obama purposely leave behind all those attack helicopters, tanks, military equipment and weapons when he pulled our troops out of Iraq?

    Still Report #281 – Is Obama a Sunni?

    http://youtu.be/JdtD7qf5btQ

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    Egyptian Magazine: Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates Obama Administration

    by John Rossomando • Jan 3, 2013

    http://www.investigativeprojec

    “An Egyptian magazine claims that six American Islamist activists who work with the Obama administration are Muslim Brotherhood operatives who enjoy strong influence over U.S. policy.”

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    Obama Releases 5 Of The Most Dangerous Taliban Commanders …

    http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?...

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    ISIS in Iraq stinks of CIA/NATO ‘dirty war’ op — RT Op-Edge – RT.com

    http://www.rt.com/op-edge/168064-isis...

    “Very revealing is the fact that almost two weeks after the dramatic fall of Mosul and the ‘capture’ by ISIS forces of the huge weapons and military vehicle resources provided by the US to the Iraqi army. Washington has done virtually nothing but make a few silly speeches about their ‘concern’ …”

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    Obama Asks For $500 Million To Equip Syrian Rebels As The ISIS …

    http://www.zerohedge.com/ news/ 2014-06-26/ obama-asks-500-million-equip-syrian-rebels-isis-juggernaut-iraq-sprea ds

    … but just for the ‘moderate’ ISIS (so called ‘rebels’)

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    Apparently, President Obama and John Brennan aren’t the only secret Muslim agents in the administration:

    http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/vic-eliason-wonders-if-chuck-hagel-secret-muslim-while-phyllis-schlafly-thinks-all-muslims-a#sthash.3uY46Zb2.dpuf

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    Americans will wake up soon, one way of another (but the sooner the better, because it’s getting very late).

    This video is 5 years old, the percentages have since increased everywhere, can you recognize the trend happening in the USA?

    WHAT ISLAM IS NOT

    http://youtu.be/VEXWjlgJ83E

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    CIA Director Alleged to have Converted to Islam said idea of Islamic Caliphate ‘Absurd’

    By Ben Barrack on August 18, 2014

    Two years prior to becoming CIA Director, during his tenure as Homeland Security Advisor in 2011, John Brennan stated emphatically that counterterrorism policies would not be based on a “feckless delusion” of an Islamic Caliphate, calling the idea “absurd”. Last year, in the weeks prior to Brennan being sworn in as CIA Director, former FBI […]

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    LYONS: The Islamic cloud over Brennan and Hagel

    National security may not be a first priority

    By Adm. James A. Lyons, February 19, 2013

    (Admiral James Aloysius “Ace” Lyons, officer of the U.S. Navy for thirty-six years, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, the largest single military command in the world.)

    Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/feb/19/the-islamic-cloud-over-brennan-and-hagel/#ixzz3B7UGvyIb

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    … get it yet?

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    Is ‘immigration’ really a Trojan Horse for the open borders to get ISIS (and weapons) inside the US borders?

    Is Obama Practicing Stealth Jihad with ISIS?

    By Ben Barrack on August 20, 2014

    (Obama says he’s ‘coordinating the middle east? I’ll bet he is, his Muslim Brotherhood advisers are probably already there along with Hagel and Brennan).

  • gerry d welder

    There is something insidious and much more dangerous happening that is far worse than merely left, liberal progressivism.

    -The Islamization of American schools, Google it (too much to list here)

    -The FBI dropping Islam from it’s list of terrorists while expanding ‘domestic’ definitions. Your probably on the list.

    -NASA tax funded Muslim outreach mandate.

    -US tax dollars rebuilding and renovating mosques AROUND THE WORLD (much of that money has been re-routed back to America? (mosque building in the USA has gone up 70% since Obama took office).

    -Effort to make criticism of Islam illegal in the USA.

    -CIA Director John Brennan alleged to have converted to Islam

    -Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel alleged to have converted to Islam.

    -7 BILLION US tax dollar project to build a NEW power grid for (Muslim) Africa while the US power grid deteriorates and is vulnerable to EMP attacks.-Funding, equipping and advanced tactical support from USA highest federal agencies for the expansion of ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood around the world and soon on our streets here in the USA.

    -6 Muslim Brotherhood ‘advisers’ in Obama Administration.

    -Release from Gitmo of 5 of the most dangerous Taliban commanders.

    -Our US military (being defunded, demoralized and weakened defunding veteran benefits and services), increasingly under foreign command, are now fighting against an enemy that is trained, funded, given tactical weapons, infrastructure and support (and probably top secret planning) from our own federal government?

    -ISIS flooding across our open borders (think they are empty handed?).

    قهر الطواغيت @Sunna_rev
    #AmessagefromISIStoUS We are in your state We are in your cities We are in your streets You are our goals anywhere

    6:47 PM – 9 Aug 2014

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    …get it yet?

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    … and the push to ban gun ownership for law abiding US citizen’s.

    Islamic terrorists and cartel illegal invaders freely crossing US open borders, criminals released ‘en mass’ from prisons, empowered and emboldened by complicit federal agencies.

  • gerry d welder

    Obama: Islam Shares “Values of Peace” With Other Religions …

    http://www.patriotupdate.com/ 2014/ 07/ obama-islam-shares-values-peace-religions/
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    http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/hildabeast.asp

    (TruthInMedia.org 8/8/1999 – Hillary at a White House function, proudly tells some Muslim groups she is gaining a greater appreciation of Islam because Chelsea was then taking a class on the “religion of peace”)

    (and Huma is her top aid) “This becomes an issue since Huma sits in the U.S. State Department with eyes and ears to classified government secrets. ”

    The Dark Muslim Brotherhood World of Huma Abedin | FrontPage …

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/ 2012/ jamie-glazov/ the-dark-muslim-brotherhood-world-of-huma-abedin-2/

  • gerry d welder

    Could ‘immigration’ be just to distract Americans from what is really going on?

    Is ‘immigration’ really a Trojan Horse for the open borders to get ISIS (and weapons) inside the US borders?

    Now 11 Jumbo jets missing?

    US military/intelligence/CIA would never let something like this take place, unless …

    Hmmmm….. could be a way to fly in nuclear weapons at key locations (a little more devastating than jet fuel?)

    Who needs bombay doors with these guys

    Maybe Obama already gave them remote flying technology so they can save their suicide attacks for other targets?

    Our soldiers going to get hammered by our own weapons as Obama funds, arms gives tactical support and trains the enemy

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    “…I am one of them.”

    youtube: Obama Admits He Is A Muslim

    http://youtu.be/tCAffMSWSzY

  • gerry d welder

    Have you noticed that the bigger and more powerful the federal government gets the worse things get?

    Hey ‘federal employees’, it’s your country too and you and your family will have to live in it after you help destroy it.

    Obama can’t do it without you.

    Google:

    Time to Decide Federal Employees: Are You a Traitor or a Patriot …

    http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/ 2014/ 05/ 10/ time-to-decide-federal-employees-are-you-a-traitor-or-a-patriot/

    May 10, 2014

    .”.. whether you deliver mail, are in the military, work at the Pentagon, the NSA, the CIA, the FBI or just work as a custodian at a Federal building. If you continue to work for the federal government, you, in effect, will be aiding and abetting the beginning of widespread persecutions …”

    “… and if you are a Federal employee, dust off your resume and preserve your humanity.”

    The American middle class is being destroyed in a sustained, systematic undermining which is necessary if a (now growing) federal totalitarian police state can exist.

    One dollar spent on a ‘FEDERAL’ level cost 10 times more than if that same job was done on a ‘STATE’ level, logic would point to keeping federal government no bigger than our constitutional mandate, notice the federal government taking states property and states rights away form states and handing control of US properties and law making over to the UN?

    Now add in the cost of the UN and the obscene waste and inefficiency of ‘world’ dollars:

    Wikipedia the UN and see how BEHEMOTHIC it now is with all it’s agencies, peace keeping forces, organizations, commissions and each comes with their own building complexes, vehicles, uniforms, equipment, support complexes, staff, salaries, travel, security, food and energy expenses, conferences AND the now tens of thousands of UN retirees (mostly foreign) and their pensions, perks and benefits.

    YOO HOO, who do you think is paying for all of that?

    WAKE UP, maybe next time you look at your pay check or worry about your own pension.

    Lagarde’s (IMF) salary is over $300,000 + per year PLUS tens of thousands in ‘stipends’. and she PAYS NO TAX.

    “most UN employees pay no tax”.

    The IMF and World Bank are UN agencies of now countless agencies, commissions and organizations, one big Trojan Horse and tool of a few dynastic families, sucking the wealth, sovereignty, freedoms and life out of the world.

  • Bamaguje

    “If Islam is as wonderful as Obama says, why did he leave it? He did leave Islam, didn’t he?” – Ali Sina.

    That’s the problem… Obama never truly left Islam.
    He only pretended to, in order to enhance his political career.
    Little he wonder he ended up in a “God damn America” church in his fake conversion to Christianity.
    If he were an overt Muslims, he would never have been elected President of USA.

    As president “I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United
    States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they
    appear. ”

    “Even though Muslims don’t agree over anything, as long as they believe in Muhammad and Allah they are Muslim” – Ali Sina.

    Muslims only differ in their agenda to subjugate we infidels… not in the ultimate objective.

  • JVictor

    It would seem to me that Obama ought to be on the top most Muslim hit lists because he has, reportedly, turned his back on Islam.

    • Rob

      Not in his actions. That is the key. He is helping jihadists.

  • marlene

    Great article – clear, detailed, comprehensive and factual. Thank you Mr. Sina.

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