40 MIND-BLOWING QUOTES FROM BARACK OBAMA ABOUT ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY

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margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></strong><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">20 Quotes By Barack Obama About Islam and Mohammed</span></span></div><div class="shortcode-tabs default ui-tabs ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-corner-all" id="tabs-25" style="border-radius: 3px; border: 0px; clear: both; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="tab" id="tabs-25-tab-1" style="border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/under-god/post/obama-the-future-must-not-belong-to-those-who-slander-the-prophet-of-islam/2012/09/26/acb9ab92-0810-11e2-a10c-fa5a255a9258_blog.html"><b>#1</b></a> “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.raptureready.com/featured/duck/dd74.html"><b>#2</b></a> “The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-obama-turkish-parliament"><b>#3</b></a> “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.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09"><b>#4</b></a> “As a student of history, I also know <a href="http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/pages/radicalIDEOLOGY/the-true-face-of-islam.htm">civilization’s debt to Islam</a>.” Read more at<br />http://www.youngcons.com/40-mind-blowing-quotes-from-barack-obama-about-islam-and-christianity/#TPqqgKyUKQs0J4uy.99</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09"><b>#5</b></a> “<a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/">Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.</a>”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/114115-obama-to-host-ramadan-meal"><b>#6</b></a> “Islam has always been part of America”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09/"><b>#7</b></a> “<a href="http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=13808">we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities</a>”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/08/68497520/1#.UkYaZhAQOnM"><b>#8</b></a> “These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/barackobam410719.html"><b>#9</b></a> “America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09"><b>#10</b></a> “I made clear that America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09"><b>#11</b></a> “Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09"><b>#12</b></a> “So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09"><b>#13</b></a> “In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2010/07/obamas-nasa-muslim-outreach-echoes-his-nutty-cairo-speech/"><b>#14</b></a> “Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/114115-obama-to-host-ramadan-meal"><b>#15</b></a> “Ramadan is a celebration of <a href="http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=15101">a faith known for great diversity and racial equality</a>”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09"><b>#16</b></a> “The Holy Koran tells us, ‘O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.’”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/08/11/statement-president-occasion-ramadan"><b>#17</b></a> “I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://freepatriot.org/2013/09/12/obama-america-founded-muslims-unlocked-secrets-universe/"><b>#18</b></a> “We’ve seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants – farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09/"><b>#19</b></a> “That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam <a href="http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=14878">must be based on what Islam is</a>, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight a<b>gainst negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09/"><b>#20</b></a> “I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">20 Quotes By Barack Obama About Christianity and the Bible</span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/04/obamas_christian_nation_1.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#1"><b>#1</b></a></span> “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIVd7YT0oWA" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#2">#2</a></strong> <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.”</strong></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/watch-obama-mock-bible-in-2006/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#3">#3</a></strong> “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?”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://blogs.christianpost.com/christianlife/nero-and-criminalising-of-christianity-7746/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#4">#4</a> </strong>“Even those who claim the Bible’s inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages – the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ’s divinity – are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/us/politics/2006obamaspeech.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#5">#5</a></strong> “The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment to ban it. Religious leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they should recognize this wisdom in their politics.”<br /><img alt="obama-farrakhan" height="AUTO" src="https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/obama-farrakhan2.jpg" width="280" /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Over the past 5 years, Obama has never one time refuted any claims or comments made about him being the liberal savior.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://christianity.about.com/od/religionpolitics/p/obamafaithss.htm" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#6">#6</a></strong> From Obama’s book, <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Audacity of Hope</em>: “I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex—nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://cathleenfalsani.com/obama-on-faith-the-exclusive-interview/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#7">#7</a></strong> <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Obama’s response when asked what his definition of sin is: “Being out of alignment with my values.”</strong></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://cathleenfalsani.com/obama-on-faith-the-exclusive-interview/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#8">#8</a></strong> “If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn’t have to keep coming to church, would they.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://cathleenfalsani.com/obama-on-faith-the-exclusive-interview/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#9">#9</a></strong> “This is something that I’m sure I’d have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level <a href="http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/pages/freeGIFT.htm" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Eternal Life Through the Blood Of JESUS CHRIST Is A Free Gift">there is a call to evangelize and prostelytize</a>. There’s the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people haven’t embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior <a href="http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/pages/doctrine/the-awful-reality-of-hell.htm" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="The Awful Reality Of Hell - You Don't Have To Go There">that they’re going to hell</a>.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.worldviewweekend.com/worldview-times/article.php?articleid=3729" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#7">#10</a></strong> <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell.  I can’t imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity.  That’s just not part of my religious makeup.”</strong></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://cathleenfalsani.com/obama-on-faith-the-exclusive-interview/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#11">#11</a></strong> “I don’t presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/07/11/finding-his-faith.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#12">#12</a></strong> “I’ve said this before, and I know this raises questions in the minds of some evangelicals. I do not believe that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I know … I do not believe she went to hell.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Barack_Obama_Principles_+_Values.htm" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#8">#13</a></strong> <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“<a href="http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=13850" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Obama Brags That Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Will Never Stop In America">Those opposed to abortion</a> cannot simply invoke God’s will–they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.”</strong></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/aprilweb-only/116-51.0.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#14">#14</a></strong> On <a href="http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=14211" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Obama To Force All Churches To Perform Gay Marriages?">his support for civil unions for gay couples</a>: “If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=4652934&page=1" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#15">#15</a></strong> “You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/21/to-some-obama-is-the-wrong-kind-of-christian/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#16">#16</a></strong> <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology”</strong></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/21/to-some-obama-is-the-wrong-kind-of-christian/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#17">#17</a></strong> “On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://blogs.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2010/09/28/president-obama-says-we-achieve-salvation-through-the-grace-of.aspx" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#18">#18</a></strong> “We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#19">#19</a></strong> “All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of the three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isra_and_Mi'raj" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="The Story of Isra">as in the story of Isra</a>— (applause) — as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, peace be upon them, joined in prayer.  (Applause.)”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/22/obamas-2004-interview-about-his-faith/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#20">#20</a></strong> <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.”</strong></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; 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40 MIND-BLOWING QUOTES FROM BARACK OBAMA ABOUT ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY

Joshua Riddle This is a great list  highlighting how radical President Obama is when it comes to Islam and Christianity. 20 Quotes By Barack...

40 MIND-BLOWING QUOTES FROM BARACK OBAMA ABOUT ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY

Joshua Riddle This is a great list  highlighting how radical President Obama is when it comes to Islam and Christianity. 20 Quotes By Barack...

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40 mind-blowing quotes from Barack Obama about Islam and Christianity

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: justify;">40 mind-blowing quotes from Barack Obama about Islam and Christianity</span><br /><br /><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: -5px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="abh_box abh_box_custom abh_box_drop-down" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1025px;"><div class="abh_tab_content" style="background-attachment: initial; 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background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px -29px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; display: inline-block; float: right; font-size: 14px; height: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; width: 35px;"></span></h3></div></section></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=15200" style="border: 0px; color: #e60000; font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is a great list</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> highlighting how radical President Obama is when it comes to Islam and Christianity.</span></div><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">20 Quotes By Barack Obama About Islam and Mohammed</span><br /><br /><section class="entry"><div class="shortcode-tabs default ui-tabs ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-corner-all" id="tabs-25" style="border-radius: 3px; border: 0px; clear: both; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="tab" id="tabs-25-tab-1" style="border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/under-god/post/obama-the-future-must-not-belong-to-those-who-slander-the-prophet-of-islam/2012/09/26/acb9ab92-0810-11e2-a10c-fa5a255a9258_blog.html"><b>#1</b></a> “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.raptureready.com/featured/duck/dd74.html"><b>#2</b></a> “The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-obama-turkish-parliament"><b>#3</b></a> “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.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09"><b>#4</b></a> “As a student of history, I also know <a href="http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/pages/radicalIDEOLOGY/the-true-face-of-islam.htm">civilization’s debt to Islam</a>.” Read more at<br />http://www.youngcons.com/40-mind-blowing-quotes-from-barack-obama-about-islam-and-christianity/#TPqqgKyUKQs0J4uy.99</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09"><b>#5</b></a> “<a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/">Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.</a>”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/114115-obama-to-host-ramadan-meal"><b>#6</b></a> “Islam has always been part of America”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09/"><b>#7</b></a> “<a href="http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=13808">we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities</a>”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/08/68497520/1#.UkYaZhAQOnM"><b>#8</b></a> “These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/barackobam410719.html"><b>#9</b></a> “America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09"><b>#10</b></a> “I made clear that America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09"><b>#11</b></a> “Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09"><b>#12</b></a> “So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09"><b>#13</b></a> “In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2010/07/obamas-nasa-muslim-outreach-echoes-his-nutty-cairo-speech/"><b>#14</b></a> “Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/114115-obama-to-host-ramadan-meal"><b>#15</b></a> “Ramadan is a celebration of <a href="http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=15101">a faith known for great diversity and racial equality</a>”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09"><b>#16</b></a> “The Holy Koran tells us, ‘O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.’”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/08/11/statement-president-occasion-ramadan"><b>#17</b></a> “I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://freepatriot.org/2013/09/12/obama-america-founded-muslims-unlocked-secrets-universe/"><b>#18</b></a> “We’ve seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants – farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09/"><b>#19</b></a> “That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam <a href="http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=14878">must be based on what Islam is</a>, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight a<b>gainst negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09/"><b>#20</b></a> “I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">20 Quotes By Barack Obama About Christianity and the Bible</span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/04/obamas_christian_nation_1.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#1"><b>#1</b></a></span> “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIVd7YT0oWA" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#2">#2</a></strong> <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.”</strong></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/watch-obama-mock-bible-in-2006/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#3">#3</a></strong> “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?”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://blogs.christianpost.com/christianlife/nero-and-criminalising-of-christianity-7746/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#4">#4</a> </strong>“Even those who claim the Bible’s inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages – the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ’s divinity – are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/us/politics/2006obamaspeech.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#5">#5</a></strong> “The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment to ban it. Religious leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they should recognize this wisdom in their politics.”<br /><br /><img alt="obama-farrakhan" height="AUTO" src="http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/obama-farrakhan2.jpg" width="280" /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />Over the past 5 years, Obama has never one time refuted any claims or comments made about him being the liberal savior.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://christianity.about.com/od/religionpolitics/p/obamafaithss.htm" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#6">#6</a></strong> From Obama’s book, <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Audacity of Hope</em>: “I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex—nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://cathleenfalsani.com/obama-on-faith-the-exclusive-interview/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#7">#7</a></strong> <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Obama’s response when asked what his definition of sin is: “Being out of alignment with my values.”</strong></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://cathleenfalsani.com/obama-on-faith-the-exclusive-interview/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#8">#8</a></strong> “If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn’t have to keep coming to church, would they.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://cathleenfalsani.com/obama-on-faith-the-exclusive-interview/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#9">#9</a></strong> “This is something that I’m sure I’d have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level <a href="http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/pages/freeGIFT.htm" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Eternal Life Through the Blood Of JESUS CHRIST Is A Free Gift">there is a call to evangelize and prostelytize</a>. There’s the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people haven’t embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior <a href="http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/pages/doctrine/the-awful-reality-of-hell.htm" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="The Awful Reality Of Hell - You Don't Have To Go There">that they’re going to hell</a>.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.worldviewweekend.com/worldview-times/article.php?articleid=3729" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#7">#10</a></strong> <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell.  I can’t imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity.  That’s just not part of my religious makeup.”</strong></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://cathleenfalsani.com/obama-on-faith-the-exclusive-interview/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#11">#11</a></strong> “I don’t presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/07/11/finding-his-faith.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#12">#12</a></strong> “I’ve said this before, and I know this raises questions in the minds of some evangelicals. I do not believe that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I know … I do not believe she went to hell.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Barack_Obama_Principles_+_Values.htm" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#8">#13</a></strong> <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“<a href="http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=13850" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Obama Brags That Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Will Never Stop In America">Those opposed to abortion</a> cannot simply invoke God’s will–they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.”</strong></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/aprilweb-only/116-51.0.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#14">#14</a></strong> On <a href="http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=14211" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Obama To Force All Churches To Perform Gay Marriages?">his support for civil unions for gay couples</a>: “If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=4652934&page=1" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#15">#15</a></strong> “You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/21/to-some-obama-is-the-wrong-kind-of-christian/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#16">#16</a></strong> <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology”</strong></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/21/to-some-obama-is-the-wrong-kind-of-christian/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#17">#17</a></strong> “On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://blogs.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2010/09/28/president-obama-says-we-achieve-salvation-through-the-grace-of.aspx" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#18">#18</a></strong> “We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#19">#19</a></strong> “All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of the three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isra_and_Mi'raj" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="The Story of Isra">as in the story of Isra</a>— (applause) — as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, peace be upon them, joined in prayer.  (Applause.)”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/22/obamas-2004-interview-about-his-faith/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e60000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#20">#20</a></strong> <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.”</strong></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: -18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><a href="http://www.youngcons.com/40-mind-blowing-quotes-from-barack-obama-about-islam-and-christianity/#Ab4vUVGyubhDVXiT.99">Read more</a>  </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div></div></div></section></div>

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Biggest Apology To Islam?

<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg66EDdJUobxsHh4MDxx__CthAu8Z7tJrNX2npMxpYdN2PLMjvz6eXa2RV_D66_DnkeNKIBcIw_iYLCE-ROXLaABAg2EJR5HNQmsMxMk-PK9HMEoHyAJJitcHGPYRkFZmhVsfYaSzVA9Z_C/s1600/benedict+shalat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="575" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg66EDdJUobxsHh4MDxx__CthAu8Z7tJrNX2npMxpYdN2PLMjvz6eXa2RV_D66_DnkeNKIBcIw_iYLCE-ROXLaABAg2EJR5HNQmsMxMk-PK9HMEoHyAJJitcHGPYRkFZmhVsfYaSzVA9Z_C/s280/benedict+shalat.jpg" width="280" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Pope Benedict XVI prayed alongside an Islamic cleric in Turkey's most famous mosque Thursday in a dramatic gesture to Muslims after outrage from the pontiffs remarks linking violence and the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad" says Associated press.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This mosque was Blue Mosque of Istanbul and today was the hell on Earth. Because of Pope's security, almost all main roads in the historical peninsula are closed by the police and almost 15 million Istanbulians paralyzed. Personally, I walked for 45 minutes to reach the shuttle to my work. It was interesting around with lots of different reactions to the visit: For the city, it was an extraordinary day, like a fest or a war. In the street tram -which we must have stopped 5 stations before the last one- everybody was talking with each other. The people who didn't meet before chatting; a woman with a headscarve said "Well, we should give a lesson to this insolent pope with kindness and sympathy, not with violence. So that he would feel pity. There is no need for such security means." Others, including women without headscarves approved with quite nods. After I hopped off to the station which is the closest one to my destination, streets were full of people and there are no cars around. Some 50 people who were going to a football match are stopped by the police who didn't let them to use the ordinary road. They adapted the newest soccer chant to the current situation in a melodic style and they sang, "Eat my d.ck, Pope!" Then there is a handwritten sign near the bus stop, which says "No buses today. Why? Because of the Pope!!" In Beyazit Square, there was a crowd who was protesting Pope's visit, while the pontiff was visiting Hagia Sofia.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">An unfortunate remark from the highest official of Catholicism and all these reactions from Muslims... No apology from the Pope -mostly because of the nature of his office.- "John Paul II was not like that," said one of my colleagues. Well, here it comes: After all, Benedict XVI made a big surprise and a prayed like he's a Muslim in Sultanahmet Mosque!!! The highest religious official of Istanbul province, Muftu, has called everyone to pray and the Pope faced the Kibla, performing the exact stance of a Muslim believer who is praying and his eyes closed, lips moved and here it comes.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before the prayer, the Pope said in Italian, "Let us pray for brotherhood and for all humanity." And after the prayer, he told to Muftu, "Thank you for this moment of pray." That "thank you" is much bigger than any apology. Benedict XVI didn't officially apologise for his negative remarks about Prophet Mohammed -because he basically couldn't- but this gesture is even bigger than some sapless words. I'm curious about what these people, my coreligionists, who cursed and swore to the Pope think about. After Pope's remarks, I was somehow disturbed too, but this gesture meant a lot to me. I hope that none of my people would say, "Well, he seemed praying, but he was cursing to us from inside. He was not sincere" I hope that each sane person can understand what a powerful symbol it was and forget about any conspiracy theories. Now I also can say it without hesitation: "Thank you, your holiness."</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[<a href="http://istanbulian.blogspot.com/">The Instanbulian</a>, November 2006]</span></div>

Biggest Apology To Islam?

"Pope Benedict XVI prayed alongside an Islamic cleric in Turkey's most famous mosque Thursday in a dramatic gesture to Muslims afte...

Biggest Apology To Islam?

"Pope Benedict XVI prayed alongside an Islamic cleric in Turkey's most famous mosque Thursday in a dramatic gesture to Muslims afte...

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Moon Splitted, Is There Any Proof?

<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Did The Prophet Muhammad split the moon as a miracle?</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: justify;">In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate,</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: italic;">'The Hour has approached, and the moon split. But whenever they see a sign, they turn away and say, ‘This is evident magic.'</span> (54:1-2)</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCw4E52lbHISrXKyvo86uJMCbmFu7Iq4UwTfOjVsPj-oGuJ1ZDsN1IC8vIhGH0zBiL0vN5rxgAcuTFopgrdWNfTQCoFFKeCH7ifbq2qHKcO1bDGitlPeiVVVQ5lXngPyyvGwTau5yTHyBx/s1600/cf11d32c51495e97dd0655b3ba8c4c1f.jpg" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="402" height="355" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCw4E52lbHISrXKyvo86uJMCbmFu7Iq4UwTfOjVsPj-oGuJ1ZDsN1IC8vIhGH0zBiL0vN5rxgAcuTFopgrdWNfTQCoFFKeCH7ifbq2qHKcO1bDGitlPeiVVVQ5lXngPyyvGwTau5yTHyBx/s280/cf11d32c51495e97dd0655b3ba8c4c1f.jpg" width="280" /></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The miracle of the splitting of the moon was demonstrated before a certain gathering who persisted in denial of Muhammad's Prophethood. As was related by ‘Adbullah ibn Mas‘ud, while they were in Mina' one night, the Prophet split the moon into two by a gesture of his index finger. The halves of the moon appeared one behind the mountain and the other in front of it. Then, the Prophet turned to us and said: ‘Be witnesses!' <span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 85%;">[1]</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Qur'an refers to this miracle in the following verses:</span><br /><b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>The Hour has approached, and the moon split. But whenever they see a sign, they turn away and say, ‘This is evident magic'.</i></b> (al-Qamar, 54.1-2)</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Materialist philosophers and their unreasoning imitators, who want to cast a shadow with their vicious delusions over such a bright miracle of the Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings, as the splitting of the moon, say: ‘If the splitting of the moon had taken place, it would have been known to the whole world and related in all subsequent books of human history'.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Answer</b>: The splitting of the moon was demonstrated before a certain gathering who contradicted the Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings, in his cause as an evidence of his Prophethood. It happened momentarily at a time of night when people were all asleep. Also, there were obstacles which prevented the others from seeing it, such as mist, clouds and time-differences between different parts of the world. Besides, at that time science and civilization were not yet well advanced and not widespread, and, therefore, the observation of the sky was very limited. Last but not least, there was nothing to necessitate that it should have been seen all over the world. It is because of these reasons that the splitting of the moon was not witnessed in the whole world and related in the history books of other nations.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In order to remove such clouds of delusions concerning the miracle of the splitting of the moon, heed the following Five Points:</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: bold;">First point</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The extreme stubborness of the unbelievers in the Hijaz at that time is well-known and is recorded in history. When the Qur'an, however, announced this incident to the whole world through its verse, The moon split, not any of those unbelievers, who denied the Qur'an, dared to contradict it in this announcement. If this incident had not occurred before their eyes, they would certainly have taken this verse as a pretext to attack the Prophet more formidably in his cause. However, neither the biographies of the Prophet, nor the books of history report anything to suggest that they denied the occurrence of this incident. What was reported concerning their reaction is as the verse records: They say, ‘This is evident magic'. The unbelievers declared the event to be magic, and they added further that if the caravans in other places had seen it, it truly happened, otherwise the Prophet bewitched them. When, however, the caravans coming the following morning from the Yemen and other places announced that they had witnessed the event, the unbelievers showed their usual reaction, saying,–God forbid!–‘The magic of Abu Talib's orphan has affected even the heavens!'</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: bold;">Second point</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The majority of the foremost scholars of meticulous research such as Sa'd al-Din al-Taftazani concluded that like the flowing of water from the fingers of the Prophet, upon him be peace, and his satisfying the thirst of a whole army with that water, and the grieving of the dry wooden pole–against which the Prophet used to lean while delivering sermons–because of its separation from him, and its being heard by a whole congregation, the splitting of the moon, too, is mutawatir, that is, it has been transmitted by one truthful group at each period to another, forming such a vast community that their agreement on a lie is inconceivable. It is as certain as a famous comet–named Haley–having appeared a thousand years ago, or as the existence of an island which we have not seen but exists. Therefore, it is unreasonable to foster baseless doubts about such certain, witnessed matters. In fact, it is sufficient for their acceptability that they are not impossible. As for the splitting of the moon, it is quite as possible as a mountain's being split by a volcanic eruption.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: bold;">Third point</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Prophets work miracles to prove their claim of Prophethood and to convince deniers, not to compel belief. Therefore, every miracle had to be, and was, manifested to convince those who heard the claim of Prophethood. So, if they had been demonstrated in a way that could be seen by the whole world or would compel everyone to believe, this would have been contrary both to the wisdom of the All-Wise and the Divine purpose for creating man with free will, and sending religion, which entails that the ground be prepared for the mind's acceptance without the power of choice being annulled. If, then, the All-Wise Creator had, because materialist philosophers fancy it so, left the moon split for one or two hours in order that it would be seen by the whole world and recorded in all books of human history, then it would have been no more than other astronomical events, without having been special to the Messengership of Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings, and an evidence of his Prophethood. Or, it would have been such an obvious miracle that everyone would have felt compelled to believe for there would have been left for the will no way but to accept belief in him. This, in turn, would have resulted in that someone with a coal-like spirit like Abu Jahl would have remained at the same level as someone with a diamond-like spirit like Abu Bakr the Truthful, which means that the purpose of the creation of man with a special function and responsibility and the purpose of sending revelation would have been negated. That is why the miracle of the splitting of the moon was not shown to the whole world to be recorded in all books of human history.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: bold;">Fourth point</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some unreasoning opponents argue that if that incident had taken place, in would have been mentioned in the histories of such nations as the Chinese, the Japanese and Americans. How could they have witnessed it, given that, when this event happened, in addition to other obstacles, it was barely sunset in such European countries as Spain, France and England, which were then enveloped in mists of ignorance, daytime in America and morning in China and Japan. A thousand curses on such toadies and sycophants of Europe!</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(In some books there is an additional record that the moon fell to earth after it split into two parts. This was rejected by veracious scholars on account of its being added by a hypocrite who intended to reduce to nothing the value of this evident miracle.)</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: bold;"> Fifth point</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The splitting of the moon is not an ordinary incident which happened either due to particular causes or randoming so that it should be criticized from the viewpoint of the law of cause and effect. Rather, the All-Wise Creator of the sun and the moon made it happen as an extraordinary event in order to confirm the Prophethood of His Messenger and to support him in his claim. Therefore, it was shown as a convincing proof to certain people specified by Divine Wisdom because, as stated above, the nature of Divine guidance and human responsibility, and the purpose for raising a Messenger required it to be so. If it had not been concealed from the eyes of those who were not intended to see it and who had not yet heard the Prophethood of Muhammad due to some obstacles such as fog, clouds and time-differences, and if had occurred according to the law of cause and effect, then it would have been an ordinary astrological event, not a miracle peculiar to and connected with the Messengership of Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In conclusion, these arguments must be enough for any mind to be convinced of the possibility that the splitting of the moon occurred; now out of many evidences of its occurrence, we shall mention only six which have the strength of a six-fold consensus:</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">• The Companions of the Prophet, who were all men of justice and truthfulness, concurred upon its occurrence.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">• All of the exacting interpreters of the Qur'an have agreed that the verse, The moon split indicates to the splitting of the moon with a gesture of Muhammad's fingers, upon him be peace and blessings.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">• All the truthful Traditionists narrated this incident through various authentic channels of transmission.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">• All the men of truth and sainthood, men of inspiration and spiritual discovery have borne testimony to the occurrence of this incident.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">• All the foremost theologians whose way differ greatly from each other and all the learned scholars have nevertheless agreed in their confirmation of this event.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">• The Community of Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings, who, as established by an authentic Prophetic tradition, never agree on an error, have accepted on its occurrence.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">These six evidences are as clear as the sun to prove the splitting of the moon.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Conclusion:</span> What we have put forward hitherto on this matter has been to establish the splitting of the moon by way of refuting the objections to the possibility of it. In a few concluding sentences we will now speak in the name of the truth and for the sake of belief. Now it is the turn of the truth to speak:</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Seal of the Prophets, upon him be peace and blessings, who is the luminous moon of the heaven of Messengership, proved his sainthood through his Ascension, which is the greatest miracle of his sainthood achieved through the quality of his worship–so elevated as to make him the beloved of God. In other words, by making Muhammad, an earthly being, travel through the heavens, God showed to the dwellers of the heavens and of the highest realms his superiority to them and his being His beloved. Similarly, through the splitting of the moon, which is set in the sky and bound to the earth, upon the gesture of the same earthly being, another great miracle was demonstrated for the inhabitants of the earth as an evidence of the Messengership of that earthly being. Thus, the Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings, flew to the summit of perfections on the two brilliant wings of Messengership and sainthood–like the two bright halves of the moon split into two; he ascended so near as to the distance of two bowstrings–that is, to the highest rank, the nearest station to God–and so became the cause of pride of both the beings of the heavens and the inhabitants of the earth.</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Upon him and upon his family be blessings and peace such as to fill the earth and heavens.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Glory be unto You! We have no knowledge save that which You have taught us; indeed, Your are the All-Knowing, All-Wise.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[<a href="http://en.allexperts.com/sitesearch.htm?terms=abualwaleed&cnl=Islam-947&sdn=www">Abualwaleed</a> - Answers by <a href="http://www.allexperts.com/">AllExpert</a>]</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 85%;"><br />[1]</span> Bukhari, Manaqib, 27; Muslim, Kitab Sifat al-Munafiqin wa ahkamihim, 44.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>

Moon Splitted, Is There Any Proof?

Did The Prophet Muhammad split the moon as a miracle? In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate, 'The Hour has approached, and...

Moon Splitted, Is There Any Proof?

Did The Prophet Muhammad split the moon as a miracle? In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate, 'The Hour has approached, and...

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