{"id":1143,"date":"2010-11-15T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2010-11-15T05:00:35","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T12:00:35","slug":"obamas-strange-reassurances-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/?p=1143","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s Strange Reassurances of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

“However, I think that President Obama, through some of his\u00a0own\u00a0words and actions, including his outreach efforts to the Muslim world, his seeming indifference\u00a0and\/or hostility to Israel,\u00a0his cancellation of the National Prayer Breakfast for two years in a row, and his lack of church attendance while President, has contributed to people’s misunderstandings about his religious background, both past and current.” Weekend Seven:\u00a0Obama’s Religion & Saudi Torture<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, he did it again.\u00a0 This time in the largest Muslim country in the world.\u00a0 President Obama, on his world-wind trip to Asia last week, took the opportunity to criticize Israel yet again.\u00a0 In what appears to many to be a petty and gratuitous slap at the Jewish state and only stable democracy in the Middle East (Iraq does not count as a stable democracy), President Obama responded to Israel’s announcement of further construction in Jerusalem by saying:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cThis kind of activity is never helpful when it comes to peace negotiations.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What activity is Obama referring to?\u00a0 Israel’s building of new residential homes in east Jerusalem, the capital of one of America’s closest allies and friends in the world.\u00a0 But, if Obama really believes in a special friendship between our two countries, he has a strange way of showing it.<\/p>\n

For what is supposed to be the most intelligent, most politically savvy Presidential administration that has ever served this country, the latest flap either reveals a continuing\u00a0amateurishness to Obama’s foreign policy (except for when to bow) or an intentional strategy of appeasing Muslims while attacking those dastardly “Zionists.”\u00a0 Frankly, I’m not sure which is better.<\/p>\n

Andrew C. McCarthy, in “Obama Knocks Israel in a Budding Sharia State,”<\/a>\u00a0at National Review Online, sets forth a devastating\u00a0analysis of President Obama’s apparent anti-Israel verbal smack down.\u00a0 If Obama is a friend of Israel, he sure has a funny way of showing it.<\/p>\n

For all his spin about Indonesia’s values and religious tolerance, Obama either does not know (I doubt that) or conveniently ignores (most likely) the real facts of Indonesia’s Muslim-majority views of Jews and Christians.\u00a0 According to The Voice of the Martyrs report on religious liberty in Indonesia<\/a>, Indonesia is not as tolerant of non-Muslims as the President\u00a0would have us believe.\u00a0 Israelis can’t even enter Indonesia.<\/p>\n

Perhaps President Obama is remembering\u00a0the more tolerant time of his childhood spent in Indonesia or his advisors\u00a0simply didn’t do their homework on the current religious climate in the\u00a0world’s largest\u00a0Islamic country.\u00a0 Whatever the reason, the President of the freest nation on\u00a0the face of the earth missed a golden opportunity to\u00a0defend the religious freedoms and rights of Indonesia’s minority\u00a0Christian community.<\/p>\n

But, why should that surprise anyone?\u00a0 For a\u00a0President\u00a0who criticizes\u00a0Israel at the drop of a hat, who\u00a0refuses to condemn jihad<\/a>, and who goes out of his way to defend the Ground Zero mosque, Obama certainly has a strange way of\u00a0reassuring the American public of his Christian faith.\u00a0 And, he wonders why so many people think that he is a Muslim!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“However, I think that President Obama, through some of his\u00a0own\u00a0words and actions, including his outreach efforts to the Muslim world, his seeming indifference\u00a0and\/or hostility to Israel,\u00a0his cancellation of the National Prayer Breakfast for two years in a row, and his lack of church attendance while President, has contributed to people’s misunderstandings about his religious background,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,21,22,29],"tags":[90,129,226,3379,519,3388,533,687,703,3392,826,1033],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-of-religion","category-freedoms","category-government","category-islam","tag-andrew-mccarthy","tag-barack-obama","tag-chrsitianity","tag-freedom-of-religion","tag-indonesia","tag-islam","tag-israel","tag-muslims","tag-national-review-online","tag-religion","tag-religious-liberty","tag-voice-of-the-martyrs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LP7G-ir","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}