Saturday, June 6, 2009

America is NOT a muslim country

It has been a very long time since I've had time to post on this blog. I've been so busy with school, my girlfriend, and ROTC, but what I read coming from the lips of my president made me want to puke.

Barack Obama said that the United States could be considered one of the largest muslim countries in the world. If that's true, then Russia and China are also two of the largest muslim countries in the world.

Is this man insane? Did we actually elect a lunatic to the presidency?

Muslims around the world hate us, not because we haven't been quite friendly to them through many presidential administrations. We have shed American blood on their behalf many, many times. They hate us for a sole reason: our country's support for Israel.

Mr. Obama needs a lesson in history: Jews inhabited the Kingdom of Judea for thousands of years. They were expelled from their own country by the Romans who renamed Judea as Syria Palestina - hence the name Palestine. Palestine was named after a small tribe of the region we've all heard of in the Bible: the Phillistines.

Rule of the area switched from Rome to Persia and back to Rome after a series of wars. People of many ethnic groups and religions populated the area until the muslims invaded and captured Jerusalem in A.D. 637.

Now, I believe there's not a country on the planet where multiple peoples can lay claim to land. Most of these claims rely either on being the first inhabitants, the longest inhabitants, the first to develop permanent settlements, or by right of conquest or purchase from conquerors. American Indians may have had a legitimate grievance or they may not - I am not a judge of history. Jews and the so-called "Palestinians" may have legitimate claims to the land we now call Israel.

But there is absolutely no doubt that islam conquered the land of Israel with murder and brutality as they did most of northern Africa, parts of Europe, and much of Asia.

If I were to claim that America was a "Christian nation", secular humanists like Barack Obama would be up in arms shouting "Separation of Church and State!" Yet he has the audacity to refer to "muslim countries" in general and the United States in particular as a "muslim country?"

Many of the muslims in America are considered apostate. They do not practice the religion, they have renounced it, or they are from some artificial sect such as The Nation of Islam. Real muslims depise the likes of Louis Farrakhan and Malcolm X. They are considered upstarts and infidels who radical muslims would not hesitate to murder.

My family fled the violence of the middle east. My father and I converted to Catholicism and renounced the evil religion of islam. How dare my president declare that the very oppression and hatred we left is a part of the American identity. I don't mean to say that muslims are unwelcome in America or that muslim Americans are akin to islamic radicals. Their faith must bind them first to God and his holy principles and then to our great nation. The two values are not in conflict. But much of islam seems to find conflict just about everywhere is goes.

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