Not, I suspect, as Obama's State Department is apparently defining it:
We welcome the opportunity to speak here today, as the problem of intolerance and discrimination against Muslims is an issue across the OSCE region. The United States strongly supports combating all forms of discrimination and intolerance against Muslims and is taking efforts to build mutual respect between people of all faiths. The U.S. government works continuously to ensure that person of all faiths, including Muslims, can freely enjoy the fundamental freedom of religion. We raise these concerns with our Allies, partners, and others - both within the OSCE and without. The U.S. Government's Annual Report on International Religious Freedom addresses these concerns in detail within the OSCE region and around the world.
In the OSCE region, for example, the free practice of Islam is severely constrained in different ways - from overt prejudices to non-support for structures that allow religious observance. In some participating States, Muslim communities have great difficulty operating mosques not controlled or sanctioned by the state, sometimes resulting in problematic penalties for this activity. In some states, in fact, one can't even build a mosque. In some states, registration systems often disproportionately burden small Muslim religious communities, and some countries' legal systems ban personal religious expression--restrictions which inevitably limit freedoms we all hold dear.
But I am not here today to name and shame. Rather, I would like to talk about how the United States has changed its entire framework for engagement with Muslim communities, and for the need to move beyond mere tolerance to partnerships based on mutual respect.
That, and more, coming from Hannah Rosenthal, Obama's... you ready for this... Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. Yea... really.
With props to Soccer Dad who's referencing what Ms. Rosenthal might instead be monitoring and combatting.
Comments (16)
You dont speak for everyone... (Below threshold)1. Posted by 914 | July 5, 2010 7:31 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
You dont speak for everyone Obama, you ass kissing fool.
1. Posted by 914 | July 5, 2010 7:31 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on July 5, 2010 19:31
2. Posted by jim m | July 5, 2010 7:46 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
" I would like to talk about how the United States has changed its entire framework for engagement with Muslim communities, and for the need to move beyond mere tolerance to partnerships based on mutual respect."
Yes we are bending over backwards to protect muslims from exposure to other religious views in Michigan and we are allowing muslims to build a mosque nearly on top of ground zero which they will without any doubt dedicate as a memorial to the slaughter of 3000 of our loved ones.
In two and a half more years this asshole will have us all in chains.
2. Posted by jim m | July 5, 2010 7:46 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on July 5, 2010 19:46
3. Posted by 914 | July 5, 2010 7:49 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Whats next? Turning the oval office into a mosque? Nothing surprise's with ole' jug ear's anymore.
Submission accomplished
3. Posted by 914 | July 5, 2010 7:49 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on July 5, 2010 19:49
4. Posted by GarandFan | July 5, 2010 9:13 PM | Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
I'm surprised she didn't ask if anyone wanted a BJ.
4. Posted by GarandFan | July 5, 2010 9:13 PM |
Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Posted on July 5, 2010 21:13
5. Posted by jim m | July 5, 2010 9:39 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
GarandFan,
She would have except she was talking to Europeans and not muslims.
5. Posted by jim m | July 5, 2010 9:39 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on July 5, 2010 21:39
6. Posted by Caesar Augustus | July 5, 2010 9:49 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Did you really expect something different from the administration of a Jew-hating Muslim?
6. Posted by Caesar Augustus | July 5, 2010 9:49 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on July 5, 2010 21:49
7. Posted by jim m | July 5, 2010 10:00 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
i wouldn't go so far as to say that obama was a muslim. But then my primary reason for doing so is that I do not believe that he would admit to the existence of any being greater than himself.
7. Posted by jim m | July 5, 2010 10:00 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on July 5, 2010 22:00
8. Posted by 914 | July 5, 2010 10:07 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
O.B.A.M.A
Thats how I define it.
8. Posted by 914 | July 5, 2010 10:07 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on July 5, 2010 22:07
9. Posted by kathie | July 5, 2010 10:11 PM | Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
I think we should follow the tolerance level that Muslims give Christians and Jews in lands that they occupy. If we follow their example we can't go wrong!
9. Posted by kathie | July 5, 2010 10:11 PM |
Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Posted on July 5, 2010 22:11
10. Posted by Gmac | July 5, 2010 10:14 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
"The United States strongly supports combating all forms of discrimination and intolerance against Muslims" all the while turning a blind eye to the inherent religious intolerance of Islam to all other religions.
What fools are in the State Dept that would even begin to propose such asshatery?
Oh yea, the same as the one's in the Justice Dept that dismissed the voting rights case in Philadelphia.
10. Posted by Gmac | July 5, 2010 10:14 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on July 5, 2010 22:14
11. Posted by 914 | July 5, 2010 10:37 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"Fulfilling the President's vision requires a long-term effort, and there remains much to be done. While our framework may have changed, the urgency of anti-Muslim discrimination and greater engagement with Muslims everywhere has not."
Long term vision is out come November. Lame duck vision therafter.
11. Posted by 914 | July 5, 2010 10:37 PM |
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Posted on July 5, 2010 22:37
12. Posted by retired military | July 6, 2010 12:53 AM | Score: 0 (4 votes cast)
Rev Lee Ward Wright would define it as hating black people. Hey he defines just about everything else as hating black people so why not Antisemitism.
12. Posted by retired military | July 6, 2010 12:53 AM |
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Posted on July 6, 2010 00:53
13. Posted by Jim Addison | July 6, 2010 2:03 AM | Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Throughout history, just sucking up to the violent barbarians at the gate has always proved sufficient, buying just enough time for magic unicorns to come to the rescue.
Or maybe not, but that seems to be the controlling philosophy behind Comrade Obama's policies.
13. Posted by Jim Addison | July 6, 2010 2:03 AM |
Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Posted on July 6, 2010 02:03
14. Posted by Don L | July 6, 2010 5:00 AM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Never before in the history of mankind will so many people regret their self-centered votes to have been the disaster of their lives.
14. Posted by Don L | July 6, 2010 5:00 AM |
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Posted on July 6, 2010 05:00
15. Posted by poptoy | July 6, 2010 5:36 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Kathie #9 above hit the nail on the head. Perfect Kathie and I love it.
15. Posted by poptoy | July 6, 2010 5:36 AM |
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Posted on July 6, 2010 05:36
16. Posted by Kid Kyoto | July 6, 2010 5:43 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It was deliberate, the Jewish envoy spoke on anti-Islam and the Muslim one spoke on anti-Semitism.
http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/site/entry/trading_places
16. Posted by Kid Kyoto | July 6, 2010 5:43 PM |
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Posted on July 6, 2010 17:43