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jar
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Message 76 of 218 (795442)
12-13-2016 9:36 AM
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12-13-2016 9:31 AM


PaulK writes:
So where is it sanctioned that one can ignore all the Pillars of Islam for decades to obtain power, and what has Obama actually done with that power that would make it worthwhile ?
Actually he has done a lot.
If Obama really is a Muslim then we can say for a fact that under a Muslim Presidency in the US the economy improved, unemployment was reduced, health care was expanded, civil liberty increased, religious freedoms expanded, and threats to the nation reduced.
Sounds like a pretty good record.

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Message 77 of 218 (795443)
12-13-2016 9:40 AM


Denying the facts means imputing false personal motivations to knowers of the facts
This is getting off topic already, but I hope it's just a temporary digression and we can get back to the question of Obama's birth. But really, that's probably already been discussed enough anyway.
Decided to post this relatively short video (7 minutes) because I'm being accused of the same things Bill Warner is discussing in it, and because my answer is the same: my focus is not on individual Muslims except as it comes up in context and I have to give a hypothetical answer -- but the answer is based on what I know about Islam, its doctrines and history. Individual Muslims can have any degree of understanding of their religion and any degree of commitment to particular doctrines, and even different ideas about what the doctrines mean -- which isn't going to stop other Muslims of a stricter interpretation from forcing them to accept their own interpretations if they differ, and do it by violence, which is why there are so many Muslim refugees out there.
Bill Warner talks about Islam, not against Muslims. He's far more knowledgeable about all this than I am, having studied it all very closely for years. Muslims do what they do because of their understanding of Islam. It's Islam the ideology I'm always talking about, and so is Bill Warner. This has nothing to do with any personal attitude at all, it's totally the result of having learned facts about Islam, it's the result of knowledge. Which apparently many here lack, or feel compelled to deny. You could learn something from the following video, but more likely many here will just do what you always do, call the man the usual names and refuse to learn anything about Islam.
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Message 78 of 218 (795444)
12-13-2016 9:48 AM
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12-13-2016 9:40 AM


Re: Denying the facts means imputing false personal motivations to knowers of the facts
So why - other than the fact you like what he says - should we trust Bill Warner ? It is not as if you don't have a record for choosing highly prejudiced and unreliable sources.
Don't you have any other sources we can check ? Preferably Muslim sources.

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Message 79 of 218 (795445)
12-13-2016 9:51 AM
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12-13-2016 9:36 AM


Ah well, delusion reigns on all those points. Trump supporters voted for him because the opposite is the truth.

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Message 80 of 218 (795446)
12-13-2016 9:53 AM
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12-13-2016 9:48 AM


Re: Denying the facts means imputing false personal motivations to knowers of the facts
Bill Warner is an expert. There are other videos of him, more lengthy though, in which he says a lot more, that we in the West really need to know. Try "Political Islam Explained." But you seem to be among those who are committed to not-knowing anything about it and letting the truth destroy our countries because of such willful ignorance.
You won't get the truth from Muslim sources but you can find lots of them out there, since you obviously would rather believe what they say than what Bill Warner knows. You can of course ignore the fact that Islam teaches that they can lie to "infidels," and believe it all anyway.
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jar
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Message 81 of 218 (795447)
12-13-2016 10:00 AM
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12-13-2016 9:51 AM


Faith writes:
Ah well, delusion reigns on all those points. Trump supporters voted for him because the opposite is the truth.
I agree that delusion reigns but reality actually supports all of those positions. The economy is better than it was before Obama, unemployment is down from the levels before Obama, religious freedoms and civil rights have increased under Obama and terrorist threats to the US have also decreased.
So to tie it in to the topic, the fact is that where Obama was born is irrelevant just as whether or not he is a Muslim is irrelevant and the reality is that he was born in the US and is not a Muslim just as the economy is better than it was before Obama, unemployment is down from the levels before Obama, religious freedoms and civil rights have increased under Obama, availability of health care expanded under Obama and terrorist threats to the US have also decreased.

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Message 82 of 218 (795448)
12-13-2016 10:04 AM
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12-13-2016 10:00 AM


I don't suppose it would occur to you that the economy can be manipulated politically, eh? And that the big banks that are capable of doing this are committed to globalism, which puts them behind Obama? Naa, that wouldn't occur to you.

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Message 83 of 218 (795449)
12-13-2016 10:04 AM
Reply to: Message 74 by Faith
12-13-2016 9:08 AM


Not all Muslims know all of the agenda of Islam, they just obey it.
Statements like this are why folks accuse you of being prejudiced and xenophobic. Why you feel that statements like this are more acceptable than just calling folks niggers is beyond me.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
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Seems to me if its clear that certain things that require ancient dates couldn't possibly be true, we are on our way to throwing out all those ancient dates on the basis of the actual evidence. -- Faith

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Dr Adequate
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Message 84 of 218 (795450)
12-13-2016 10:09 AM
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12-13-2016 10:04 AM


I don't suppose it would occur to you that the economy can be manipulated politically, eh?
So your point is ... that sure, maybe the economy got better under Obama ... but that's only because Obama and his allies made it get better?
The fiends! The cunning, cunning fiends!

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Message 85 of 218 (795451)
12-13-2016 10:13 AM
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12-13-2016 10:04 AM


Good grief. No member of ANY religion knows everything about it, and probably the majority know the minimum. I lament all the time how true this is of Christians too.
I never anticipate how the simplest honest thing I say can be turned into a personal attack on me. I guess I just can't think the way you all do. I'm saying simple honest things. I get back the most amazing twisted misreadings.
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Message 86 of 218 (795452)
12-13-2016 10:18 AM
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12-13-2016 10:09 AM


There are people who understand this a lot better and could explain it to you but they aren't here. Unfortunately I just get the most superficial understanding out of what they say. Sorry about that. But there's lots of talk out there about the manipulation of interest rates to create an illusion favorable to Obama, expecting to see another manipulation to try to discredit Trump. We are in an era when there is the ability and the motivation to manipulate mass movements by such means. Obama did nothing for the economy. Businesses were driven away because they couldn't thrive under him. Unemployment has been huge under Obama, the man in the street can tell you that no matter what the manipulated statistics tell you. That's why the man in the street voted for Trump. But again, I admit to having little understand of economics. Instead of grasping that I know enough to say this much, of course, you'll take my admission as an excuse to dismiss it all. Oh well.

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Message 87 of 218 (795453)
12-13-2016 10:24 AM
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12-13-2016 10:04 AM


Faith writes:
I don't suppose it would occur to you that the economy can be manipulated politically, eh? And that the big banks that are capable of doing this are committed to globalism, which puts them behind Obama? Naa, that wouldn't occur to you.
Too funny Faith.
Even if that were true it does not alter the facts that the economy is better than it was before Obama, unemployment is down from the levels before Obama, religious freedoms and civil rights have increased under Obama, availability of health care expanded under Obama and terrorist threats to the US have also decreased.
The facts are that where Obama was born is irrelevant when it comes to him becoming President just as whether or not he is a Muslim is irrelevant to him becoming a Muslim President and if in fact he was a Muslim the the facts are still that the economy is better than it was before Obama, unemployment is down from the levels before Obama, religious freedoms and civil rights have increased under Obama, availability of health care expanded under Obama and terrorist threats to the US have also decreased.
Edited by jar, : stupid fingers; type what I mean not what I type

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Dr Adequate
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Message 88 of 218 (795455)
12-13-2016 10:39 AM
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12-13-2016 10:18 AM


Unfortunately I just get the most superficial understanding ...
But that's never dissuaded you from holding forth with absolute iron-clad certainty on any other subject, and by god, it's not going to stop you doing so about this one.
But there's lots of talk out there about the manipulation of interest rates to create an illusion favorable to Obama, expecting to see another manipulation to try to discredit Trump.
I'm not hearing a lot of talk about that. Perhaps your method of gauging what people are talking about is oversampling paranoid lunatics?
Businesses were driven away because they couldn't thrive under him.
U.S. corporations earn record high profits, pay record low taxes.
Unemployment has been huge under Obama, the man in the street can tell you that no matter what the manipulated statistics tell you.
Ooh, a conspiracy theory! Tell me more!
That's why the man in the street voted for Trump.
The man in the street voted for Clinton, remember?
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Message 89 of 218 (795456)
12-13-2016 10:51 AM
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12-13-2016 9:53 AM


Re: Denying the facts means imputing false personal motivations to knowers of the facts
So you can't give us any reason to think that Bill Warner knows what he is talking about, and Muslim sources don't confirm your claims.
All we have is your usual assertion that your views are the "truth" and no real support for them. To that I say that you do not get to dictate what is and is not truth. We can see that you are prejudiced and irrational and frequently wrong. If you will not or cannot support your assertions - especially when it looks as if you are repeating assertions that have already been refuted in past discussion - then you cannot expect to be believed.

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Message 90 of 218 (795457)
12-13-2016 10:58 AM
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12-12-2016 5:35 PM


Re: The Ultimate Irony
Faith writes:
As I recall I read a defense of Cruz as eligible despite his Canadian citizenship so I stopped worrying about it. Yes I might not have been as ready if someone says the same about Obama because I know Obama to be a Marxist out to undermine America, whereas I know Cruz has America's interests at heart. Again, nothing to do with race, everything to do with ideology.
The law applies to everyone, not just those whose ideology you agree with.

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