Christians thrown overboard left to drown by Obama

[OldRegular]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...rsecution-migrant-ship-italy-column/26083829/

Kirsten Powers: Christians thrown overboard left to drown by Obama

Kirsten Powers 7:55 a.m. EDT April 21, 2015

Obama only mentions Christians to lecture them, rather than defend them from persecution.

What do you call it when 12 men are drowned at sea for praying to Jesus?

Answer: Religious persecution.

Yet, when a throng of Muslims threw a dozen Christians overboard a migrant ship traveling from Libya to Italy, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi missed the opportunity to label it as such. Standing next to President Obama at their joint news conference Friday, Renzi dismissed it as a one-off event and said, "The problem is not a problem of (a) clash of religions."

While the prime minister plunged his head into the sand, Italian authorities arrested and charged the Muslim migrants with "multiple aggravated murder motivated by religious hate," according to the BBC.

As Renzi was questioned about the incident, Obama was mute on the killings. He failed to interject any sense of outrage or even tepid concern for the targeting of Christians for their faith. If a Christian mob on a ship bound for Italy threw 12 Muslims to their death for praying to Allah, does anyone think the president would have been so disinterested? When three North Carolina Muslims were gunned down by a virulent atheist, Obama rightly spoke out against the horrifying killings. But he just can't seem to find any passion for the mass persecution of Middle Eastern Christians or the eradication of Christianity from its birthplace.

Religious persecution of Christians is rampant worldwide, as Pew has noted, but nowhere is it more prevalent than in the Middle East and Northern Africa, where followers of Jesus are the targets of religious cleansing. Pope Francis has repeatedly decried the persecution and begged the world for help, but it has had little impact. Western leaders — including Obama — will be remembered for their near silence as this human rights tragedy unfolded. The president's mumblings about the atrocities visited upon Christians (usually extracted after public outcry over his silence) are few and far between. And it will be hard to forget his lecturing of Christians at the National Prayer Breakfast about the centuries-old Crusades while Middle Eastern Christians were at that moment being harassed, driven from their homes, tortured and murdered for their faith.

A week and a half after Obama's National Prayer Breakfast speech, 21 Coptic Christians were beheaded for being "people of the cross." Seven of the victims were former students of my friend and hero "Mama" Maggie Gobran, known as the "Mother Theresa of Cairo" for her work with the poorest of the poor. She told me these dear men grew up in rural Upper Egypt and had gone to Libya seeking work to support their families. They died with dignity as they called out to their God, while the cowardly murderers masked their faces.

 

[OldRegular]

If Obama is not a Muslim he sure acts like one!

 

[annsni]

There is no question in my mind that if this were Muslims thrown overboard, we'd hear all about it from the White House.

 

[OldRegular]

There is no question in my mind that if this were Muslims thrown overboard, we'd hear all about it from the White House.

You are correct!

 

[just-want-peace]

I personally think that if it were ANYONE other than Christians or conservatives, he would be screaming to high heaven!!

 

[Zaac]

There is no question in my mind that if this were Muslims thrown overboard, we'd hear all about it from the White House.

Where are ya Don? Does our generalization principle apply here too?

 

[church mouse guy]

Obama is an anti-Christ beyond doubt; the question remains if he is the anti-Christ.

 

[poncho]

If he were the anti Christ he'd be winning the neocon's wars.

He isn't.

 

[church mouse guy]

No, the anti-Christ brings 3 1/2 years of peace and safety. Obama represents liberal appeasement trying to bring peace.

 

[Jedi Knight]

Was not Obama pointing out Christians are the problem from the Crusades to a prayer breakfast? ISIS must thrive off this jackass!

 

[matt wade]

Was not Obama pointing out Christians are the problem from the Crusades to a prayer breakfast? ISIS must thrive off this jackass!

Oh yes, ISIS must simply love him. Here's what he said about ISIS at the same prayer breakfast.

"We see ISIL, a brutal, vicious death cult that, in the name of religion, carries out unspeakable acts of barbarism -- terrorizing religious minorities like the Yezidis, subjecting women to rape as a weapon of war, and claiming the mantle of religious authority for such actions. "

 

[Use of Time]

Oh yes, ISIS must simply love him. Here's what he said about ISIS at the same prayer breakfast.

"We see ISIL, a brutal, vicious death cult that, in the name of religion, carries out unspeakable acts of barbarism -- terrorizing religious minorities like the Yezidis, subjecting women to rape as a weapon of war, and claiming the mantle of religious authority for such actions. "

My favorite is when you point out that we have been actively targeting and killing ISIS for almost a year now the response is, "it's just a cover.":laugh:

 

[Jedi Knight]

Oh yes, ISIS must simply love him. Here's what he said about ISIS at the same prayer breakfast.

Wag the dog! http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2...litant_islam_at_the_national_prayer_breakfast

 

[Jedi Knight]

My favorite is when you

You're no daisy. You're no daisy at all!

 

[OldRegular]

Oh yes, ISIS must simply love him. Here's what he said about ISIS at the same prayer breakfast.

"We see ISIL, a brutal, vicious death cult that, in the name of religion, carries out unspeakable acts of barbarism -- terrorizing religious minorities like the Yezidis, subjecting women to rape as a weapon of war, and claiming the mantle of religious authority for such actions. "

Yet he cannot bring himself to call them Islamic terrorists!

 

[Use of Time]

Yet he cannot bring himself to call them Islamic terrorists!

Which we've been over countless times. When operating in an Islamic centric culture militarily when you rely on interpreters and informants to provide with translation and intelligence services it's probably best that our nations President isn't labeling the religion they hold dear a bunch of as being a religion of terrorists. Surely you can see how that is counterproductive. Pros and cons OR.

 

[Use of Time]

You're no daisy. You're no daisy at all!

Thanks for the kinds words.

 

[Jedi Knight]

Yet he cannot bring himself to call them Islamic terrorists!

Do you suppose a liberal mind may snap under such pressure to think that one through?

 

[Use of Time]

Do you suppose a liberal mind may snap under such pressure to think that one through?

I feel like if you had to operate in one of these countries you would see the delicate nature it takes to meet the mission. It's easy and responsibility free to sit here in the states and hurl blanket condemnation to an entire culture on an internet message board but over there one needs to be a little more diplomatic when you have to call that place home for a year. It's just not as black and white as you are trying to make it. I'm not trying to be condescending but even Sapper Woody has spoken to this.

 

[matt wade]

Yet he cannot bring himself to call them Islamic terrorists!

Would you also be comfortable with Obama categorizing all Baptists based on the actions of Westboro Baptist?