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A True Moderate Muslim And Why Obama Sides Against Him

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On July 7, 2010, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, publisher of the anti-Islamist newspaper the Weekly Blitz, strode into court in Bangladesh. He was there to argue his case; this was his 150th appearance in court. He is charged with blasphemy, treason, and sedition for attempting to fly from the Zia International Airport in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, to Tel Aviv, Israel, to attend a peace conference in 2003. Choudhury is a self-proclaimed Muslim Zionist and is ardently pro-American. He is a true Muslim moderate. For his courage, he has been beaten by a Muslim mob, including Bangladeshi police officers, robbed, imprisoned and prosecuted.

The government threw Choudhury into jail for 17 months, deprived him of medical treatment, and tortured him. Only after the United States House of Representatives passed a near-unanimous resolution calling on Bangladesh to drop all charges against Choudhury did the government release Choudhury -- without dropping the charges.

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Dr. Richard Benkin, an American Jewish international rights activist who helped secure the House resolution, approached countless congressmen and senators about Choudhury's plight. He encountered only one representative who was utterly apathetic about the situation. "Who was the one lawmaker that took a pass on saving the life of an imprisoned U.S. ally and opponent of Islamic extremism?" Benkin later wrote. "That's right, my own Illinois Senator Barack Hussein Obama."

There's a reason President Obama is uninterested in the Choudhury case: Choudhury represents the true face of moderate Islam. He doesn't shilly-shally on terrorism -- he condemns it. He doesn't waver on Sharia law -- he opposes it. He doesn't support the jihad against Israel -- he stands with Israel. That isn't the kind of Muslim Barack Obama likes. He's more fond of the two-faced Muslims who pretend to oppose terror while secretly aiding and abetting it. He likes Muslims who seek Israel's destruction while babbling about apartheid. Choudhury is an unpleasant inconvenience for Obama: He tells the truth about the nature of political Islam and offers a realistic way forward. Obama prefers to live in Cloud Cuckoo Land where radicals are moderates and moderates are outcasts.

I had the opportunity to speak with Choudhury this week from his offices in Bangladesh. "Only a small segment of the Muslim population is inclined to political Islam," he reassured me. "Unfortunately," he continued, "they are those in power and policymaking positions." What's worse, he said, "those supporters or preachers of political Islam are extremely loud. They have the media and they use them as tools in brainwashing people."

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pcr Wrote: 7/7/2010 4:58:07 AM
the itenerant camel driver, mohammed, had begun by trying to convert the jews of mecca to Christianity, and when that failed, he went to medina and persuaded a mob there to follow him to mecca, a city that had grown rich from religious pilgrimages and had long been the object of envy by the inhabitants of medina, and to conquer the city, which he did in AD640, and immediately massacred the entire jewish community in that city. thus, "islam", begun with a bloodbath. thereupon, mohammed ordered his followers to go to all nations, converting their people to islam by means of "fire and sword", to spare those who accepted islam, and slaughter mercilessly all those who did not - and to exterminate all jews wherever found. from the 7th century AD, till quite late in the 19th century, sailing the mediterrenean ran the very real risk of being attacked and hijacked by moslem arab pirates, and ending up - if young and healthy - on the slave markets of tangiers or constantinople in turkey. older folks were simply murdered. moslem arabs destroyed the vibrant Christian communities in egypt, and all of north africa, they invaded spain and even southern france; as late as the 1820's they had laid seige to vienna, no less. no country, no peoples anywhere has ever converted to islam of its own free choice. it was always through coercion and terror, at the point of a sword.islam is not really a religion at all, but a political movement, bent on the conquest and enslavement of entire nations, its vile legal code, the sharia, is nothing less than a thoroughly evil and primitive manifesto for pedophilia, for the debasement and enslavement of women, and the dehumanizing of even its adherents, and for the slaughter - which it openly advocates - of all non believers. there can be, there never shall be, peace so long as such evil exists on the face of our planet.
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Jim in Virginia Wrote: 7/7/2010 5:44:50 AM
Barry Hussein also - while a state rep and state sen. from Illinois - strongly opposed the Born Alive Protection Act, Illinois version. That's when they induce labor, and "let" the baby die a "natural death." Which meant, according to sworn testimony about the mis-named "Christ Hostpital," leaving the baby to die alone in a cold, dark, dirty washroom.

Babes cried, Barry smirked.

He's an extremist on everything. Where's the press now, who called for Repubblies to become "moderate?" Barry the extremist - now a Mooslum extremist, out of the closet.
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