Question O' The Day

If I am to believe the left and the liberal media and Egypt is now such a bastion of liberty and freedom and America is still a horrible capitalist mecca then why wouldn't Ms. Lara Logan go to the nearest Egyptian hospital after being attacked? Why is it that she "...returned to the United States on the first flight the next morning."

I Know I Should Be Talking About the Big B.O. Speech, But I Have a Question o' The Day

"Aren't you glad Clinton sent America into war in Bosnia against the Christians?" ~Atlas Shrugs

"Islamists are on the rise....Years later, the religious fundamentalists have declared the attacks by Christian Serbs and Croats a "crusade" by infidels -- and painted themselves as the steadfast protectors of Muslim Bosnians. "~Spiegel Online

Question o' the Day

How is it that most people who HATE capitalism and the free market, have no problem accepting Darwin's theory of evolution?

Answers from the Left Liberal Elite are welcome! :)

Question O' The Day

“...what is virtue if not the free choice of what is good?”~Alexis de Tocqueville

Auto Industry Question O' The Day

"I want to see some Harvard educated “automotive expert” show the chart depicting the total check paid to Government by manufacturers not in the Big Three. Then I would like to compare that to the total of all the checks paid by the Big Three to Government (Federal, State, Local) since 1945…"~ My Dad

Question o' the Day

"Why is it that we go to jail if our taxes aren't paid, but Congress can ruin the U.S. economy and keep their jobs?"~Quote & picture from Zazzle

Question o' the Day

Are you voting Commi this year?

Picture: New Zealand History Online

Do we know enough? Good question

This video poses one question and this column asks some more and ends with the understatement of the decade.

Barack Obama through Muslim Eyes

by Daniel Pipes
FrontPageMagazine.com
August 25, 2008


How do Muslims see Barack Hussein Obama? They have three choices: either as he presents himself – someone who has "never been a Muslim" and has "always been a Christian"; or as a fellow Muslim; or as an apostate from Islam.

Reports suggests that while Americans generally view the Democratic candidate having had no religion before converting at Reverend Jeremiah Wrights's hands at age 27, Muslims the world over rarely see him as Christian but usually as either Muslim or ex-Muslim. Lee Smith of the Hudson Institute explains why: "Barack Obama's father was Muslim and therefore, according to Islamic law, so is the candidate. In spite of the Quranic verses explaining that there is no compulsion in religion, a Muslim child takes the religion of his or her father. … for Muslims around the world, non-American Muslims at any rate, they can only ever see Barack Hussein Obama as a Muslim." In addition, his school record from Indonesia lists him as a
Muslim.

Thus, an Egyptian newspaper, Al-Masri al-Youm, refers to his "Muslim origins." Libyan ruler Mu‘ammar al-Qaddafi referred to Obama as "a Muslim" and a person with an "African and Islamic identity." One Al-Jazeera analysis calls him a "non-Christian man," a second refers to his "Muslim Kenyan" father, and a third, by Naseem Jamali, notes that "Obama may not want to be counted as a Muslim but Muslims are eager to count him as one of their own."

A conversation in Beirut, quoted in the Christian Science Monitor, captures the puzzlement. "He has to be good for Arabs because he is a Muslim," observed a grocer. "He's not a Muslim, he's a Christian," replied a customer. Retorted the grocer: "He can't be a Christian. His middle name is Hussein." Arabic discussions of Obama sometimes mention his middle name as a code, with no further comment needed.

"The symbolism of a major American presidential candidate with the middle name of Hussein, who went to elementary school in Indonesia," reports Tamara Cofman Wittes of the Brookings Institution from a U.S.-Muslim conference in Qatar, "that certainly speaks to Muslims abroad." Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times found that Egyptians "don't really understand Obama's family tree, but what they do know is that if America — despite being attacked by Muslim militants on 9/11 — were to elect as its president some guy with the middle name ‘Hussein,' it would mark a sea change in America-Muslim world relations."

Some American Muslim leaders also perceive Obama as Muslim. The president of the Islamic Society of North America, Sayyid M. Syeed, told Muslims at a conference in Houston that whether Obama wins or loses, his candidacy will reinforce that Muslim children can "become the presidents of this country." The Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan called Obama "the hope of the entire world" and compared him to his religion's founder, Fard Muhammad.

But this excitement also has a dark side – suspicions that Obama is a traitor to his birth religion, an apostate (murtadd) from Islam. Al-Qaeda has prominently featured Obama's stating "I am not a Muslim" and one analyst, Shireen K. Burki of the University of Mary Washington, sees Obama as "bin Laden's dream candidate." Should he become U.S. commander in chief, she believes, Al-Qaeda would likely "exploit his background to argue that an apostate is leading the global war on terror … to galvanize sympathizers into action."

Mainstream Muslims tend to tiptoe around this topic. An Egyptian supporter of Obama, Yasser Khalil, reports that many Muslims react "with bewilderment and curiosity" when Obama is described as a Muslim apostate; Josie Delap and Robert Lane Greene of the Economist even claim that the Obama-as-apostate theme "has been notably absent" among Arabic-language columnists and editorialists.

That latter claim is inaccurate, for the topic is indeed discussed. At least one Arabic-language newspaper published Burki's article. Kuwait's Al-Watan referred to Obama as "a born Muslim, an apostate, a convert to Christianity." Writing in the Arab Times, Syrian liberal Nidal Na‘isa repeatedly called Obama an "apostate Muslim."

In sum, Muslims puzzle over Obama's present religious status. They resist his
self-identification as a Christian while they assume a baby born to a Muslim
father and named "Hussein" began life a Muslim. Should Obama become president,
differences in Muslim and American views of religious affiliation will create
problems.

Could McCain pick my man Boehner as his VP???

I'm just asking the question!!!!

I mean according to this ABC News article it seems within the realm of possibility. Boehner is a pro-life Catholic. He's young. He'd hand McCain Ohio, which will most definititly be a ground zero state in November. He's fiscally conservative. He has refused all earmarks, so there's no chance of him going the way of someone like Bob Ney. Boehner has part of the city of Dayton in his district. I'm just saying......