The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America by Pamela Geller; Robert Spencer; John Bolton

Author:Pamela Geller; Robert Spencer; John Bolton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: Psychology, Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism, Political Science, Political Ideologies, Political culture - United States, Government, Executive Branch, Executive power - United States, Obama, Current Events, Political culture, International Relations, Presidents - United States, United States, Control (Psychology) - Political aspects - United States, Conservatism, Executive power, Barack, Conservatism & Liberalism, Presidents & Heads of State, Presidents, Government - U.S. Government, General, Congresses, Control (Psychology), Biography & Autobiography, Politics, Government - Executive Branch, U.S. - Contemporary Politics
ISBN: 9781439189306
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2010-09-15T09:01:28.188000+00:00

EIGHT

AN ISLAMO-CHRISTIAN NATION

IN BARACK OBAMA’S INAUGURAL ADDRESS HE SAID: “WE ARE A NATION OF CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS, JEWS AND HINDUS, AND NONBElievers.”1

The displacement of the Jews from the second position after Christians in Obama’s listing had to be intentional. Then, just six days later, Obama restored the Jews to the second position, but after the Muslims: when the post-American president gave his first televised interview as president to Dubai’s Al-Arabiya News Channel, he made a point of calling America “a country of Muslims, Jews, Christians, non-believers.”2 In that order.

The casual abandonment of the longtime workaday phrase “a Judeo-Christian nation” was portentous. In one broad stroke Obama sought to diminish, if not completely obliterate, the enormous part the Jews played in the American success story. Obama has never spoken about the inestimable contribution the Jews made to the birth of America or to its subsequent unparalleled historical achievements. Obama never spoke of, say, Haym Solomon, the Jewish patriot and member of the Sons of Liberty who was captured and tortured by the British in the early days of the American Revolution. Solomon loaned as much as $800,000 to the revolutionary cause; in today’s dollars, that’s about $40 billion. Solomon himself died in poverty after giving everything he had for the cause of American freedom.

Why the reclassification of Jews and Christians? And why would Obama make this his first order of business as soon as he took office? That it was his top priority was made painfully clear when he gave his first interview as president to the Arab world on Al-Arabiya. It would become increasingly clear in the ensuing weeks and months that Barack Hussein Obama was attempting to shift the American paradigm. What was once a given was to be taken. The Judeo-Christian tradition, the essential DNA of American principles, thought, and governance was to be replaced with a false narrative and a dangerous idea—an “Islamo-Christian” ethic.

Were Christians who might be indifferent to such an idea aware of the status of Christians in Islamic countries? Were Christians aware that there was no pluralism in Islamic nations? Traditional Islamic law called for Jews and Christians in Islamic lands to live in a state of chastened subservience to Muslims, denied basic rights in an attempt to ensure that they always remembered their renegade status as those who had rejected the truth of Islam. The hallmark of this mistreatment was a special tax, jizya, mandated in the Qur’an (9:29). The Muslims could revoke this contract of “protection” (dhimma) at any time if the protected people (dhimmis) got out of line. While the institutionalized discrimination and harassment of this state of dhimmitude is not fully enforced in most Muslim countries today, it remains a part of Islamic law—and a cultural hangover that results in numerous forms of discrimination for non-Muslims in Islamic countries today.

AMERICA’S ISLAMIC HISTORY

These were facts of Islamic history. Obama, bent on fashioning some new accord with the Islamic world, ignored them—but he did not ignore history altogether. In the infancy of his presidency, he seemed to be intent upon rewriting American history.

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