Remember when Yasser Arafat died of Aids because he loved the young Jihadis who worked for him? Muslim propagandists were quick to deny the cause of death, even though they all wore gloves in close proximity to the slimy terrorist. Islam, you see, does not allow homosexuality, they said. Under Shariah, sodomy is punishable by instant death. Or is it? Apparently it depends on who is being sodomized and why.

A highly influential Shi’a religious leader, with whom Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regularly consults, apparently told followers last month that coercion by means of rape, torture and drugs is acceptable against all opponents of the Islamic regime.

Asked if a confession obtained “by applying psychological, emotional and physical pressure” was “valid and considered credible according to Islam,” Mesbah-Yazdi replied: “Getting a confession from any person who is against the Velayat-e Faqih (“Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists”, or the regime of Iran’s mullahs) is permissible under any condition.” The ayatollah gave the identical answer when asked about confessions obtained through drugging the prisoner with opiates or addictive substances.

“Can an interrogator rape the prisoner in order to obtain a confession?” was the follow-up question posed to the Islamic cleric. Read more >

From left to right, Michelle Obama, then Illinois state senator Barack Obama, Columbia University Prof. Edward Said and Mariam Said at a May 1998 Arab community event in Chicago. Edward Said gave the keynote speech.

Barack Hussein Obama’s father was a Muslim polygamist. Therefore, by Muslim law, he is Muslim. Joining a Black hate group disguised as The Trinity Church of Chicago does not make him Christian. Should the fact that Obama was born a Muslim make a difference to Jews? Yes, if he has internalized the Koran’s teachings and the Muslim street’s views of Jews.

No one can get into the man’s head, but last week in Cairo he proclaimed an affinity for Islam. He exuded pride in his Muslim upbringing in Indonesia, where he absorbed local Islamic culture, just like a boy growing up in Texas would have soaked up football lore. Obama formed his early concepts of truth, justice, and fairness in an environment that considers Jews as “sons of pigs and monkeys.” How likely is he to empathize with Jews? How likely is he to be proud of America? Ronald Reagan’s message was all about American exceptionalism. Obama’s core belief is that America is the exploiter of nations, the scourge of humanity. How such a man was elected President of the United States is beyond comprehension. Essentially, his message in Cairo was that Islam is superior to America.

Jewish leaders find the mere raising of these questions offensive.

During the 2008 elections, an Internet email campaign, informing recipients that the Candidate could be a stealth Islamist, targeted the Jewish and Evangelical communities known for their love of Israel. Leaders of the Jewish community, fearful of being branded racist, rushed to chastise those who “use hateful falsehoods” and distortions. Now that Obama has come out of the closet, proudly proclaiming his middle name, will they apologize?

His association with Edward Said alone should have been sufficient proof of Barack Hussein Obama’s loyalties to his father’s roots. His entire life, his friends, his words, all scream “I don’t like Israel, I don’t like Jews, I am a Muslim!”

Obama is not good for the Jews!

From left to right, Michelle Obama, then Illinois state senator Barack Obama, Columbia University Professor Edward Said and Mariam Said at a May 1998 Arab community event in Chicago at which Edward Said gave the keynote speech. (Image from archives of Ali Abunimah)

Ali Abunimah is unhappy with Barack Hussein Obama’s sudden love affair with Israel. Relax, Ali! Obama has inherited his father’s ideology, a mashup of Islamism and Communism, first pioneered by Arab leaders like Muammar al-Gaddafi. The picture of Obama enjoying an evening with Edward Said, the most effective academic Jew-hater of the past half century (yes, even viler than Noam Chomsky), should scare every American with even a modicum of empathy with the Jewish people. Obama is clearly dangerous.
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Every page of Barack Hussein Obama’s life contains links to militant Muslims, hard core communists, virulent Antisemites, terrorist enablers and good old fashioned crooks. Liberals may argue that each of these relationships does not reflect Obama’s “real thinking”, but only the incurably insane would hold that as a package they do not mirror his ideology and illuminate his character.

Not counting the communist professors he sought out in college and his Stalinist wife, the people Obama admires and hopes to emulate are his father (posthumously), his pastor, and his friend, the terrorist.

OBAMA HID HIS FATHER’S COMMUNIST ANTI-WESTERN CONVICTIONS

There’s a big mystery at the heart of Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. What was Barack Obama doing seeking out Marxist professors in college? Why did Obama choose a Communist Party USA member as his socio- political counselor in high school? Why was he spending his time studying neocolonialism and the writings of Frantz Fanon, the pro-violence author of “the Communist Manifesto of neocolonialsm”, in college? Why did he take time out from his studies at Columbia to attend socialist conferences at Cooper Union?

And there is more mystery in the book. Why does Obama consider working in a consulting house for international business like being “a spy behind enemy lines?” Why does he repeatedly find it so hard to explain his political views to others? Why was he driven to become a left-aligned political organizer? It’s a question Obama again and again can’t seem to answer to the satisfaction of the interlocutors in his own memoir.

If there is a mystery at the heart of Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father, one thing is not left a mystery, the fact that Barack Obama organized his life on the ideals given to him by his Kenyan father. Obama tells us, “All of my life, I carried a single image of my father, one that I .. tried to take as my own.” (p. 220) And what was that image? It was “the father of my dreams, the man in my mother’s stories, full of high-blown ideals ..” (p. 278) What is more, Obama tells us that, “It was into my father’s image .. that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself.” And also that, “I did feel that there was something to prove .. to my father” in his efforts at political organizing. (p. 230)

So we know that his father’s ideals were a driving force in his life, but the one thing that Obama does not give us are the contents of those ideals. The closest he comes is when he tells us that his father lost his position in the government when he came into conflict with Jomo Kenyatte, the President of Kenya sometime in the mid 1960s; when he tells us that his father was imprisoned for his political views by the government just prior to the end of colonial rule; and when he tells us that the attributes of W. E. B. DuBois, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Nelson Mandela were the ones he associated with his father and also the ones that he sought to instill in himself. (p. 220) This last group is a hodge podge, perhaps concealing as much as it reveals, in that it contains a socialist black nationalist, a Muslim black nationalist, a civil rights leader, and (at the time indicated in the memoir) an imprisoned armed revolutionary.
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