Jihadwatch: Obama leaves Jews Demoted in His Speech

[Libaax-Sankataabte]

"A nation of Christians and Muslims

 

The Inaugural Speech was thankfully sober and unsoaring, but it contained one phrase that disturbs.

 

That phrase is this:

 

"The United States is a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and non-believers."

 

The traditional formulation has always paired "Christians" with "Jews" -- "Christians and Jews." Such a blatant change, then, in that traditional formulation is sure to attract notice. It invites inspection. It disturbs. The order in which these adherents of different faiths are named, and which is paired with the obviously, and rightly, dominant “Christians” (this country was both founded on Christian or, to include the Old Testament, Judeo-Christian principles, and owes its development right up to the present day to those same ideas, enshrined in our political and legal institutions which are, after all, the best thing America has to offer) both count.

 

Now it may be that the written version of his speech reveals commas unrevealed by the text when spoken: a comma after "Christians," for example, which would yield “nation of Christians, and Muslims,” and then, presumably, another after “Jews,” so that the same list, each set of believers set off by commas, would continue: “Jews, and Hindus, and unbelievers.” But on what basis did Obama make the decision to move up “Muslims” in the ranking, right after, or even possibly paired with, Christians, leaving the Jews demoted, in a sense? It cannot be on the basis of population, for there are twice as many Jews in the United States as there are Muslims (and of the approximately 3 million Muslims, 2 million are unorthodox Black Muslims). And if he did not wish, after the word “Christians,” to give any pride of place, why not mix it up still more: “Christians, and Buddhists, and Jews, and Hindus, and people of other faiths, and people of no faith at all, nonbelievers of every level of doubt”? Was this one more attempt to impress on the public the notion that we must appease Muslims, we must make of them something they are not in this country, in order to hold onto their loyalty that otherwise is in danger of being lost? What exactly is the justification for putting "Muslims" right after, or even paired with, “Christians”? "

 

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024513.php

[Blessed]

Written speech..

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and non-believers.

Bwahahaha. I hate that website but the commentary to this article on jihaadwatch is hilarious.

 

Apparently, there's an email calling Obama the anti-christ doing the rounds in cyber space, kan in la dilaan ka baqayaa.

 

 

p.s That speech is nothing but decoration.

[rudy-Diiriye]

so damn funny. all the killings of jews were done by christains from the crusaders to hitler while muslims use to defend the jews.

 

now that the table have turned upside down and the jews are killing muslims, i guess christains wanna rubbed in with the jews for some cash pay out. sad day indeed.

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Walaahi, the first time I read his speech transcript on USA Today, I felt something else but Obama's intention was not to list religions according to their order of importance, but to promote inter-faith tolerance and highlight America's multicultural background.

 

 

Christians and Muslims, good one ya Hussein Obama.