Islam and Obama

Obviously "Doc" is a little girl. 'LOL"??
I am certain she would enjoy living in a Islamic society.

I am terribly saddened to see this reaction from Muslim people. I have often counted Muslims as my allies in the struggle against abortion in the United States. I have often thought of them as comrades in the struggle against immorality in general. To see this support for abortion, for the most consistently, brutally pro-abortion candidate ever in the history of the so-called left, is almost devasting. One must be desparate indeed to ignore the teachings of one's faith--for who could possibly argue that Islam supports anything like the democratic party platform on these social issues!--to vote for some one who repeatedly repudiates membership in that faith! Well, I guess I will have to get used to the idea that yes, the majority of the Muslim population is as dumb as the majority of the rest. I am disappointed, though. I had really hoped for better.

As an African Muslim, I'd like to congratulate America and Americans for voting for Obama. Finally, we do not have to look at America as an avowed enemy of any country questioning its hegemony. You have taken a step in the right direction and God willing this will be the beginning of dialogue and discussion among nations, not brute force, intolerance and misguided wars. Peace to my American brothers and sisters!

Now the work to restore the country and get rid of the corruption.One last gasp of corruption Paulson won't release names of company who got billions of U S tax dollars.Congress trusted The fed leader. Special investagation should be done,taxs dollar are at issue and nobody gets tax money without oversight.

For those who still believe Obama is a Muslim, wake up please! He is not Muslim.

However, he attended a church for 20 years that teaches Black Liberation Theology.....and if you do your research, you will be wishing he was a Muslim instead....lol

"The Borgen Project has some good info on the cost of addressing global poverty.
$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
$540 billion: Annual U.S. Defense Budget."

I am not concerned we lost an election. I am concerned that we gave away the American freedoms our families fought and died for through the years. God bless America, she was so very wonderful to us, now we are without a country, her people gave her away.

they voted for one of their own, a muslim extremist doctrine follower as one would expect. Now they can sit back and they will be handed the country by their new leader. When the " well armed, and trained civilian security force" has free reign at controlling the population. Can't happen?? That what they said in Germany.
"If We Don't Learn Our History, We're Doomed to Repeat It "

Considering that the right wing groups of America look down on anyone of the Islam faith and try to brand them all as "Anti America" or "Terrorist", I'm not surprised that many of them would want to see change in teh Whitehouse.

I never thought much of or sympathized deeply with Islam, in the past. As religions go, its certainly not the worst the world has ever seen... even the MOST hostile critic of Islam couldn't reasonably compare it to Meso-American pre-Columbian religious culture and practice, and there was a time when Islam carried the banner of scientific enlightenment and social justice in the world... but I detest coercive dogma...teachings that give people of any religion license to impose their beliefs on others, or to employ threats or violence to compel or to forbid specific religious conduct by others. I don't like it when Christians, or anyone else does this, either, but Islam, and Sharia, seem especially given to this sort of thing...laws against proselytizing or converting, for example, sometimes punished by very harsh measures, even execution.

Then came 9/11, "Homeland Security", Afghanistan, Bush's invasion of Iraq, and the storm of ethnic slurs and plain slander directed against Arabs in particular, and Muslims in general. It seems one thing to disapprove of a religion because of disagreement with its philosophy, and quite another thing to treat people with contempt, not based upon anything they have done, individually or collectively, but only because they subscribe to that religion. Very quickly, after 9/11, I found myself becoming angry about the false claims and the purely racist invective directed at Arabs and Muslims...and often misdirected, in particular and spectacular ignorance, at people (like practising Sikhs) who weren't even Arab OR Muslim.

At this point, I can understand why American Muslims changed their political allegiance from the Republican Party to the Democrats in this last election (I did, too, probably for some of the same reasons), and also why many (wisely) chose to keep their feelings to themselves. I am grateful for the election of Barrack Obama, and very hopeful that his election is both a step for America climbing out of the pit of racism, and a sign of the progress we have already made. This may be an opportunity for the US to build a bridge to SOMEWHERE, like across the chasm of suspicion and fear the Bush government excavated to divide us from Muslims around the world... a little understanding and effort at conciliation will cost everyone far less, in blood and treasure, than what we've been doing.