Not a Christian, but Plays One on TV

As President Obama embarks on his second international apology tour, this time to the Muslim world, we are again seeing a different Obama than we saw during his campaign.

President Obama is no longer running away from his Muslim roots as he had during his campaign.

In fact, on the eve of his speech in Cairo President Obama is now comfortable trumpeting his Muslim roots, his father’s Muslim roots and his grandmother’s Muslim roots to the world.

The Obama campaign was sensitive to Candidate Obama’s Muslim roots, petrified of the potential political fallout of being branded a Muslim in the wake of 9/11 and widespread prejudice against Muslims among most Americans. 

The official campaign, however, was over when President Obama unnecessarily apologized to Muslims in his inauguration address and, in his first interview as president, to millions of Muslims around the world on al-Arabiya.

President Obama could be very effective informing and educating the public on the distinctions between Muslims and 20th century totalitarian Islamic fascists.  He could make it clear to the American people that American Muslims and the majority of Muslims around the world reject Islamic extremists.

Instead, President Obama knowingly continues to nurture an unfortunate prejudice for his own political expediency, while showing utter disrespect to Christianity by either hiding behind it or hiding it all together.

During the campaign President Obama did everything he could to emphasize his Christian faith, with some assitance from George Stephanopoulos, while de-emphasizing his father’s Muslim faith.  His father was “basically an agnostic, as far as I (Obama) can tell.”

In his speech at Georgetown University he requested all religious symbols and monograms representing the name ‘Jesus’ be covered.

At a press conference in April in Turkey, President Obama announced that we are not a Christian nation.

This week, in the early stages of his second apology tour, President Obama announced that the United States is one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.

By comparison Indonesia has 200 million Muslims, India 156 million, Pakistan 150 million, the United States 2.3 million.

Simply uttering President Obama’s middle name during the campaign was blasphemed.  Is it not fascinating, now, that the President is in the Middle East, no doubt to apologize to the Muslim world again, heralding to that part of the world his Muslim roots?

If the United States were truly one of the largest Muslim nations in the world, as President Obama wants us to believe, than why play a Christian on TV during the campaign to avoid the political fallout of being branded a Muslim?

Chuck

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