Obama In French Interview: “United States is One of the Largest Muslim Countries”
This is a french interview. If you can speak French you can watch it.
I think the MSM will show it soon in the US Channel.
You’ll find the videos through the Figaro link.
For a U.S. translation (but from the White House itself) go to this link.
The Panderer in Chief is at it again and this time pandering yet again to the Muslim world while in France. Obama made sure he didn’t say in Turkey that the United States is not a Christian nation built upon Judea-Christian tenants because it might offend the Muslims, but of course he could care less about America when overseas and actually exclaim that it’s ok to say the United States is one of the largest Muslim countries!?
Here is the breakdown of religions in the United States by percentage:
Christian: (78.4%)
Protestant (51.3%)
Roman Catholic (23.9%)
LDS (1.7%)
Jehovah’s Witness (0.7%)
Orthodox (0.6%)
other Christian (0.3%)
no religion (16.1%)
Jewish (1.7%)
Buddhist (0.7%)
Muslim (0.6%)
Hindu (0.4%)
other (1.2%)
In 2007 wikipedia ranked the US 39th in the world for Muslim population – is this wishful thinking on Obama’s part? Let’s see the numbers of some of the most heavily populated Muslim countries:
Saudi Arabia: 27,601,038
Yemen: 23,013,376
Iran: 70,472,846
Egypt: 76M
This portion of the interview takes place at the 3:35 minute mark +/-
Here is the French:
“D’ailleurs, si l’on compte le nombre d’Américains musulmans, on voit que les Etats-Unis sont l’un des plus grands pays musulmans de la planète», …
Avant d’ajouter : «Ce que j’essaye de faire, c’est de créer un meilleur dialogue pour que le monde musulman puisse mieux comprendre comment les Etats-Unis, mais plus généralement le monde occidental, conçoivent certains problèmes difficiles, tels que le terrorisme ou la démocratie».
“the United States and the western world must learn with better understanding, Islam. Elsewhere, if the number is counted; Moslem Americans, it is seen that the United States is one of the largest Moslem countries of planet,” dares in an interview with Canal, the first granted, Obama added “What I try to make, is to create a better dialogue so that the Muslim world can better include/understand how the United States, but more generally the western world, conceives certain difficult problems, such as terrorism or democracy”.
So terrorism and democracy are comparable when it comes to how problematic they are? Democracy & Terrorism – let’s think about that one for a minute here folks!
It’s incredible to me that after doing all this research on my own (and I know others who did the same before the election) people are now surprised that they are finding out that Obama had Muslim influences on his life growing up – some of those who voted for him are only just realizing this today? He already gave a personal commitment speech to Muslims earlier and that didn’t raise ring any alarms? just unbelievable to me – I am speechless!
You are going to tell me that everyone was so drunk on the kool-aid that they forgot this slip up with Stephanopolous last year?
Obama: “Iran Has a Right to Be Nuclear”
Well, there you have it folks – it’s settled. Not only is Obama expected to give a speech where he said he will reach out to the Muslim world, Thursday, in Cairo, Egypt, but he is also stating that Iran may have a right to nuclear power.
President Barack Obama suggested that Iran may have some right to nuclear energy _ provided it proves by the end of the year that its aspirations are peaceful.
In a BBC interview broadcast Tuesday, he also restated plans to pursue direct diplomacy with Tehran to encourage it set aside any ambitions for nuclear weapons it might harbor.
Iran has insisted its nuclear program is aimed at generating electricity. But the U.S. and other Western governments accuse Tehran of seeking atomic weapons.
“What I do believe is that Iran has legitimate energy concerns, legitimate aspirations,” Obama said, adding that the international community also “has a very real interest” in preventing a nuclear arms race.
The president has indicated a willingness to seek deeper international sanctions against Tehran if it does not respond positively to U.S. attempts to open negotiations on its nuclear program. Obama has said Tehran has until the end of the year to show it wants to engage with Washington.
“Although I don’t want to put artificial time tables on that process, we do want to make sure that, by the end of this year, we’ve actually seen a serious process move forward. And I think that we can measure whether or not the Iranians are serious,” Obama said.
Iran is now a friend and ally!?, never-mind Ahmadinejad’s incendiary remarks during the UN race summit or his previous statements about the West and Israel, they do mean well and really only want nukes for energy purposes. A third world country always wants to go right to nuclear energy not start with the basics./sarc!
President pantywaist sure is giving us change – sometimes I’m not sure if he is doing this on purpose or not but it sure is starting to look suspicious. I’m sure Obama’s scary, hollow rhetoric will really make those Iranian leaders shake in their boots!
I also noted above that Obama is reaching out to the Muslim world. I have to question why his administration continues to reach out to Muslims and not the Arab world. The Arab world is much greater and encompasses the entire region, whereas Muslims do make up a majority, they are not the only citizens living there. Israeli’s are still considered Arab and there are other individuals who do not technically classify themselves as Muslim. Please pay attention to his words. Obama stated that he does not want any further settlement in Israel and Netanyahu has fervently disagreed with such remarks and requests, while Obama tries to make amends (which I think are completely unnecessary for what the Muslim world has done not only to Israel, but to us, to Europe, etc.) with those trying to destroy the West.
So long to our one and only ally in the Middle East, Israel. I’m sure Netanyahu is taking notes as well as umbrage at Obama’s words and actions. He knows that the U.S. is no longer supporting Israel the way we used to. At some point this probably has to happen, but not when you have all these rogue countries acting up, one of which is Israel’s prime enemy, who has called for the extinction of Jews on multiple occasions.
A couple of other random notes/thoughts:
Iran can have “nuclear power” (so says Obama) but the United States when it comes to energy policy, cannot…
Iran needs nuclear power when it already sits on tons of oil?
Liberals are congenitally incapable of comprehending the fact that there are some people on this Earth who are unreasonable and with whom you cannot negotiate and reasonably expect to achieve anything but your own defeat. Barack Obama is the leader of this chronically naive cadre. He is incapable of comprehending the truth about people like Kim Jong Il and Ahmadinejad.
Liberals, or at least Democrats, will hopefully, one day face the fact that not everyone on this earth is good and decent. Human nature can be very dark at times – but it is only through that darkness that anybody truly knows light. It’s important and imperative to separate the two.
Gaffetastic Biden Contradicts Boss!
He does it again; Opens mouth, inserts foot!
Biden, when speaking and taking questions at his recent Kosovo excursion, was asked about the closing of Guantanamo:
So will Obama fulfill his vow – announced amid great fanfare in an executive order on day two of his presidency – to close the facility by January 2010? “I think so,” Biden responded, according to Newsweek’s Holly Bailey.
So perhaps he will. Or perhaps not. We’ll see.
Biden continued: “But, look, what the president said is that this is going to be hard. It’s like opening Pandora’s Box. We don’t know what’s inside the box.”
He also said that “to the best of my knowledge” the number of prisoners “who are a real danger who are not able to returned or tried” has “not been established” by the Obama administration.
So he basically just confirmed his predecessor Dick Cheney’s analysis that the decision was taken “with little deliberation, and no plan”.
BWAHAHAHA! I have to wonder if he is doing this on purpose… I did happen to hear that there is quite a bit of tension between POTUS and VPOTUS.
As another example, it would seem that Biden likes Palin more than Obama or at least he is definitely smitten by her:
After noting that the Alaska National Guard gave him a copy of its patch, the Veep moved on to Gov. Sarah Palin.
“Where the hell were you when I was debating Sarah Palin?” Biden said. “I could have used this patch. When she said, ‘Can I call you Joe?’ I’d say, ‘Sure, if you wear your patch.’ By the way, she’s quite a lady — and I mean that sincerely.”
Dueling Speeches and Cheney’s Take Down
Obama = Childish, immature, inexperienced ideologue using hollow rhetoric.
Cheney = Mature, responsible, pragmatic, experienced statesman using layman’s terms for the average American public.
Cheney won hands down.
Jihad is Real and It’s Still in New York
I haven’t heard much on the recent arrest and thwarting of a terror plot in New York City aimed at decimating Jewish Synagogues and community centers, but it took place earlier this week. Nary a peep or a whimper from the anti-American mainstream media, because heaven forbid we let the American people know that there is still a major islamo-fascist threat even on our own soil.
The media elite should be ashamed of themselves, but they don’t want anyone to really find out how politically biased they are, so they would rather put people’s lives in danger than let them know the truth; that national security is not a joke and it’s quite necessary for our future survival.
Four New York men were arrested Wednesday in connection with an alleged plot to blow up area Jewish centers and military targets. The plot, however, was foiled by undercover agents.
Raids by the FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorist Task Force in the Bronx captured the suspected ringleader and three followers in what law enforcement sources are calling a homegrown terrorist plot.
Agents and police watched Wednesday night as the suspects allegedly planted what they thought were bombs outside two Jewish community centers in Riverdale, a Bronx, New York neighborhood. In one case the suspected terrorists planted a bomb inside a parked car. However, officials said the suspects were actually using fake explosives given to them in an earlier sting operation to make sure they didn’t get their hands on real bombs.
“The bombs had been made by the FBI technicians, they were totally inert, no one was ever at risk,” Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
The FBI said the Muslim suspects were angry and full of hate for America.
“Hatred of the West. The leader of the group, James Cromitie was concerned about deaths at the hands of the U.S. military in Afghanistan,” and also expressed anti-Jewish sentiment, Joseph Demarest the head of the New York FBI said.
According to the criminal complaint, Cromitie said “I hate those f-ing Jewish bastards.” He bragged that it would be a “piece of cake” to bomb a Jewish Center in Riverdale, according to the complaint.
Cromitie was the first to approach the informant, authorities said. He told the informant he has ties to the terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad. Authorities said Cromitie had 27 past arrests and had recently been working at a nation-wide discount retailer, authorities said.
Several of the suspects have previously been arrested on drug charges and may have converted to Islam in prison, authorities said.
Another shining example of the religion of peace. And what was it that Obama and his liberal buddies in congress said about moving the Gitmo Muslims into prisons? It wouldn’t cause any problems? Prisons have become a breeding ground for islamo-fascism…
MM has more info and data regarding this recent terror threat and other data regarding our prisons and Radical Islam.
After a year-long investigation launched by the Bush administration, the feds cracked down on a ring of murder-minded black Muslim jailhouse converts preparing to bomb two Bronx synagogues and “eager to bring death to Jews.” They also planned to attack a New York National Guard air base in Newburgh, New York, where the suspects lived and worshiped at a local mosque.
Not one word from the president on the jihadists’ intended victims, motives, or means.
No comfort for the reported targets in the Big Apple, still raw from the Scare Force One rattling that so vainly and recklessly simulated 9/11.
No condemnation for the accused plotters.
Why? Because doing so would force Obama to abandon his cottony “extremist ideology” euphemisms and confront the concrete truth. To borrow one of our obtuse president’s favorite clichés, “let me be perfectly clear” about the reality Obama won’t touch: America faces an ongoing Islamic jihad at home and abroad. Not merely “man-caused.” But Koran-inspired. Yet, Obama refuses to spell out the centuries-old roots of the war that he claims he’ll win faster, better, and cleaner than any of his predecessors.
This reminds me of personal stories when somebody gets injured or has an illness… He/She hates doctors and thinks that if he/she continues to avoid the problem or the inevitable, turning a blind eye to the situation, it will just go away. However, the opposite usually happens, without proper treatment the malady gets worse until sometimes it becomes too late…
