SubscribeKenyan Muslims Angry Over Obama Photo
From the inimitable New York Post:
TRIBES RAGE AT HILL
By GEOFF EARLE Post Correspondent
February 29, 2008 — WASHINGTON - Angry tribal elders in Kenya are calling on Hillary Rodham Clinton to “clear her name” over any involvement in publication of photos of Barack Obama wearing a turban and African garb on a trip to his ancestral homeland.
The leaders are planning a protest in their community today, and are turning up the heat on the US government over the incident.
The photos appeared nationwide after they were published earlier this week on the Drudge Report Web site with a report that they had been circulated by Clinton staffers.
Obama aides blasted the Clinton campaign for “shameful, offensive fear-mongering.”
The pictures show Obama wearing traditional Somalian garb on a 2006 visit to the Wajir region of Kenya, where his late father was born.
“The US government must apologize to us as a clan and the old man,” Mohamed Ibrahim told Reuters, referring to a highly respected tribal elder who is also shown in the photos.
“We have been offended, and we cannot afford to just watch and stay silent.”
He also said it was essential that Clinton “clear her name.”
The Drudge Report said the photos had been forwarded by a Clinton staffer with an e-mail that said, “Wouldn’t we be seeing this on the cover of every magazine if it were HRC [Hillary Rodham Clinton]?” …
The photo showed Obama wearing a turban and being outfitted in other traditional clothing alongside Sheik Mohamed Hassan.
“He [Hassan] was the right person to perform any such activity like dressing a visitor like Obama with traditional Somali clothes,” Mukhtar Sheik Nur, another leader, told Reuters.
The elders said if they did not get an apology, they would demand the expulsion of US troops based near the town of Garissa in their region…
This is hilarious, but also sobering.
Anyone who has been following this site knows exactly where Mr. Obama’s ‘Muslim garb’ photo came from and how it came into the public discourse.
And yet we have seen the torrent of misinformation, disinformation and preposterous propagandizing about the photo and why it was posted.
It should be a very troubling lesson for all of us about our watchdog media.
By the way, ask yourself what all of the gentlemen mentioned in the story — Mohamed Ibrahim, Sheik Mohamed Hassan, Mukhtar Sheik Nur — have in common?
Why, yes, they are all Muslims. (Which indeed is also true of the “Somalian garb” of any “Somali elders,” since Somalia is 100% Muslim.)
So why are these Muslim worthies so highly offended at this outfit being (accurately) described as ‘Muslim garb’? Are they Islamophobes?
Also note that the New York Post is using another photo from the historic August 2006 event from another source (EPA) besides the Associated Press.
So it wasn’t just the AP who were covering up for ‘he who cannot be named.’
What else is being hidden from us by our media guardians?
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February 29th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
“And yet we see the torrent of misinformation, disinformation and preposterous propagandizing about the photo and why it was posted.”
Yep, that pretty much describes the MSM these days!
It’s just a photo, big deal. (So much for freedom of speech, or freedom of photo.)
SG, does this mean that you have to apologize to Africa? :-)
February 29th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
“SG, does this mean that you have to apologize to Africa?”
It sure looks that way.
I will put them on my list.
February 29th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Are they outraged enough to go on a rampage and burn Christian women and children in a church?
February 29th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
SG . love the pic above , thanks ! BHO .looks like some twisted party crasher at a bridal shower .
Always the bridesmaid , never the bride . Not much of an apology I hope , change is in the air and yet another mob is ” offended ” . Damn the luck , we can’t do anything right .
February 29th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
“SG, does this mean that you have to apologize to Africa?”
SG, Apparently there’s no need for an apology, just send livestock. LOL
Did you see the article at gateway pundit……..
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot......html#links
February 29th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
….”does this mean that you have to apologize to Africa?….”
Now if we could just get sombody to apologize FOR Africa……
February 29th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Haw ! I should apologize for wasting my tax dollars trying to improve the place . I am now an ” offended mob ” .
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Who (*(*&&^% cares? Aren’t they ALWAYS pissed? What are they going to do, attack my Saturn with some sticks and throw goat crap at it? If our government, after giving billions to these (&%^(^heads, cowtows to them, I will throw up for an entire week. Hey, I am *^%$*% pissed at them, I do not like them, and I want an appology from the head goat bleeder. Seriously, who in the F cares, take a bath and wash your goat smelling asses.
March 4th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
AFRICA, The World’s Public Housing project for muslims…
March 11th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Obama said he can bring the country together. How can he do that if he is ashamed of his Muslim family heritage? Every time this issue comes up including on Feb, 26 debate, he tries to avoid the issue by saying “let step aside this issue”. There are more than 2 billion Muslim populations around the globe who are proud of their culturally diverse and rich religion.
I think the media including the Associated Press investigated the issue are holding key information from the public because of fear of attack by Obama supporters or for some other reasons. The media community members are dying every day in hostile places for the love of their journalism profession; however, here in big cities in the U.S. some members of the media community are acting as Hippocrates.
I am from East Africa. I know about the Kenyan tribes. The picture we saw about Obama with a traditional dress in Kenya is reported as a Kenyan-Somali traditional dress. The truth is in that particular tribe, there are Muslims and Christians; however, the traditional dress is the Muslims only traditional dress. The Christian tribe members wear regular dresses just like everybody else.
We also know that Obama’s father and step father were Muslims. Contrary to the Associated Press vague report, the school he attended in Indonesia is an Islamic Seminary or Madrassa (means religious school in Arabic). It is the same kind of schools that exist in Pakistan tribal areas. There is no reason for a Christian family to send their kids to such school unless they want them to study Islamic religion.
Obama is not only distancing himself from his Muslim family heritage, he is distancing himself from his own African American Community as well.
First, he skipped the Annual State of the Black Union Symposium in New Orleans last weekend while Hillary Clinton attended. His campaign said Hillary needs the event more than Obama because she is behind on the delegate count. What a joke! If I remember correctly, the African American Community always accuses the republican presidential candidates for ignoring the NAACP and other community invitations to address their gatherings.
Secondly, every time there is a need to campaign in urban areas, for African American community, the campaign sends Michelle, Obama’s wife. We have seen this pattern in South Carolina, Delaware, and Milwaukee, WI. Etc.,
It seems Obama is taking the African American vote for granted.
I do not think Barrack Obama is ready to lead and defend this country.
March 11th, 2008 at 10:42 am
I have done a tremendous amount of research on this man, and one of the most amazing things I found was his remarks in his books, “Dreams Of My Father”, and “The Audacity of Hope” which I checked out from the library.
His admiration for Islam and the disdain for the white race was disturbing. It is all there and it can’t be taken out of context. Yet, nobody has/will call him on it.
This stranger came out of nowhere with his flowery speeches that his handlers have given him, promising America great things- without specifying how -and droves hang on every word, believe every word and follow without question. If anyone dares to question, they are shouted down with ‘Racist’! Bigot’!
This is very very frightening.
It’s time to get the message out to a naive public who are jumping on the “black JFK”, “camelot”,”change”, “take back America” bandwagon, without questioning who this man is, questioning his past, his present associates and backers and his agenda.
The remarks from his books are very, very disturbing. Again, the remarks are there- and they are NOT taken out of context.
Example:
Quote from Barack Obama’s book, Dreams Of My Father:
“The person who made me proudest of all, though, was [half brother] Roy .. He converted to Islam.”
From ‘Dreams of my Father’, “In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school”
“I studied the Koran..”
From ‘Audacity of Hope: “Lolo (Obama’s step father) followed a brand of Islam ….”I looked to Lolo for guidance”.
From ‘The Audacity Of Hope, “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
From The Audacity Of Hope, “We are no longer just a Christian nation,” “We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”
From Dreams of My Father, ” I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER’S RACE”.
From ‘Dreams of my Father’, “The emotion between the races could never be pure….. the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.”
From ‘Dreams of My Father’,
“I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites”
From Dreams Of My Father, “never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself..”.
From Dreams Of My Father:
“That hate hadn’t gone away,” he wrote, blaming “white people — some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives.”
From Dreams Of My Father;
“There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs,” he wrote. “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on,to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names”
From Dreams Of My Father, “I had grown accustomed, everywhere, to suspicions between the races.”
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Just how clear does Obama have to make his disdain for the white race and his admiration for Islam?? Imagine if Hillary or Romney had said:
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” I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST THE BLACK RACE”.
“The emotion between the races could never be pure….. the BLACK race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.”
“never emulate BLACK men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the WHITE MAN,- SON OF AMERICA,-that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself..”.
IF A WHITE CANDIDATE HAD THOSE REMARKS OUT IN PRINT, THEY WOULD BE CRUCIFIED.
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I went to YouTube to look up his speeches to La Raza (Mexican militant support group for illegal aliens) and heard for myself his pandering of the illegals. Go to YouTube and listen to his speeches. Type in Barack Obama, La Raza, illegal aliens and hear him yourself)
Statistics on illegal aliens:
The Heritage Foundation ^ | 10/25/06 | Robert Rector
The National Academy of Sciences has estimated that each immigrant without a high school degree will cost U.S. taxpayers, on average, $89,000 over the course of his or her lifetime.[3] This is a net cost above the value of any taxes the immi*grant will pay and does not include the cost of educating the immigrant’s children, which U.S. taxpayers would also heavily subsidize. In this way, the roughly six million legal immigrants without a high school diploma will impose a net cost of around a half-trillion dollars on U.S. taxpayers over their lifetimes
Crime Statisitcs
95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
83% of warrants for murder in Phoenix are for illegal aliens.
86% of warrants for murder in Albuquerque are for illegal aliens.
75% of those on the most wanted list in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Albuquerque are illegal aliens.
24.9% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
40.1% of all inmates in Arizona detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
48.2% of all inmates in New Mexico detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
29% (630,000) convicted illegal alien felons fill our state and federal prisons at a cost of $1.6 billion annually.
53% plus of all investigated burglaries reported in California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Texas are perpetrated by illegal aliens.
50% plus of all gang members in Los Angeles are illegal aliens from south of the border.
71% plus of all apprehended cars stolen in 2005 in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California were stolen by Illegal aliens or “transport coyotes”.
47% of cited/stopped drivers in California have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 47%, 92% are illegal aliens.
63% of cited/stopped drivers in Arizona have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 63%, 97% are illegal aliens.
66% of cited/stopped drivers in New Mexico have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 66%, 98% are illegal.
Birth Statistics
380,000 plus “anchor babies” were born in the U.S. in 2005 to illegal alien parents, making 380,000 babies automatically U.S.citizens.
97.2% of all costs incurred from those births were paid by the American taxpayers.
66% plus of all births in California are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
Last Updated ( Friday, 20 July 2007 )
Considering the horrific illegal alien problem in this country- that costs us BILLIONS and brings in more violent crime, for Obama to be pandering to the illegal aliens is SHAMEFUL!
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Obama’s speech to La Raza:
(La Raza (The Race), Largest Hispanic organization in the U.S.
Lobbies for racial preferences, bilingual education, stricter hate crimes laws, mass immigration, and amnesty for illegal aliens )
Obama said the recent Senate immigration debate “was both ugly and racist in a way we haven’t see since the struggle for civil rights.”
Obama told La Raza that the mass protests lately of for immigration rights of Mexicans is equal in greatness to the civil rights protest of the past!
Omama supports La Raza’s, the “DREAM Act,” which would mandate states to offer in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens — thus providing them with benefits not available to U.S. citizens from other states, as well as amnesty and other atrocities. Obama urged Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign the Dream Act, a bill that would make illegal immigrant students who graduate from high school eligible for college aid. (Schwarzenegger vetoed a similar measure last year.)
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http://www.washingtontimes.com.....30063/1001
http://www.freerepublic.com/fo.....0205/posts
http://www.miamiherald.com/cam.....01957.html
CHECK THIS OUT:
http://immigrationcounters.com/
http://www.texasborderregulators.org/
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Then there is his stance on partial birth abortion. Any Christian in good conscience could not vote for Obama! This issue alone should cancel him out. Shameful!
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCom.....0109b.html
He is so pro-abortion that he refused as an Illinois state senator to support legislation to protect babies who survived late-term abortions. In a cold blooded speech, he refused to concede that these babies were “persons’- even though they were fully outside their mother’s wombs with their hearts beating and their lungs heaving. On the Illinois Senate floor, Obama was the only senator to speak against the baby-protecting bills. He voted “present” on each, effectively the same as a “no.”
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.In the event anyone is not familiar with partial birth abortion; the baby is positioned into the breech position, he is pulled out by his legs half way and a hole in punched into his skull. His brains are sucked out by an instrument while his heart beats and his lungs heave. Obama has voted numerous times against a bill to ban this heinous practice.
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/p....._Place.htm
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24354.
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Obama’s ties to ’slumlord’ Tony Rezko
http://www.suntimes.com/news/m.....23.article
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Obama’s ties to Palestinians and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan:
http://www.onenewsnow.com/
2007/03/obamas_pastor_admits_concerns.php
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Here we have a man who was BORN INTO ISLAM, expresses his admiration for Islam and vows to stand with the Muslims in his books, a man whose biggest backers are American Muslim activists! Investigate just who this man is, who his backers are.
Are you aware that one of his biggest backers, Tony Rekzo is being brought to trial Feb 25 on federal corruption charges- and that Obama is
linked?
http://www.suntimes.com/news/p.....eb.article
Are you aware Raila Odinga, a Muslim radical involved in the disputed Kenya election is Obama’s cousin and that he has kept in close contact with him and supported him? Are you aware that in August 2006, Mr. Obama visited Kenya and spoke in support of Mr. Odinga’s candidacy at rallies in Nairobi?
Mr. Odinga has an electoral pact with the National Muslim Leaders’ Forum — a hardline Islamist organization that represents Kenya’s Muslim minority. According to this document, dated August 29, 2007, Mr. Odinga promised the Muslim leaders that, if elected, he would establish Sharia courts, not only in the northern and coastal regions where Kenyan Muslims are concentrated, but throughout the country.
He also promised to impose Muslim dress codes on women, ban alcohol and pork, indoctrinate children, ban Christian preaching.
Odinga is reported to be behind such atrocities as the burning of a Christian church with 50 people inside.
Does this not raise some red flags? Islamic leaders have warned us point blank that they will infiltrate America, infiltrate the government- and destroy us using our own laws and our democracy to destroy us! Come on, people. Wake up, for God’s sake!!
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Obama’s voting record. Sen. Barack Obama has missed the most votes of any Democratic presidential hopeful in the Senate over the last two months, including a vote on an Iran resolution he has blasted Sen. Hillary Clinton for supporting.
The Illinois Democrat has missed nearly 80 percent of all votes since September.
Obama routinely avoids voting on any issue that is not helpful to Muslim goals.
For example, Obama missed a vote on a resolution that declared the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, an elite part of the Iranian military, a terrorist organization.
http://projects.washingtonpost.....167/votes/
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Obama is currently displayed as banner boy on the Project Islamic Hope site. Some of the founders of this organization have been indicted for terrorist support.
http://islamichope.org/
That’s just a few of the things I’ve learned about this man! Very very frightening!!
I have been attacked for “swift-boarding”, racism, bigotry and lying. This is untrue. I am just an American teacher who loves American and our American way of life.
I hold nothing against a man for the color of his skin. I have stood up for the black race and defended whenever I saw an injustice. I have worked for civil rights for blacks and all minorities.
This has nothing to do with racism, but everything to do with a man born into Islam and who defends it still. A man whose biggest backers are American Muslim activists.
When the facts are out there for investigation, there are no “lies” here.
All I ask is for the public to investigate for themselves. Don’t take my word for it. But I WILL NOT stand by while this mans seeks to ride himself all the way into the White House on the insane PC and White Guilt in this country!!
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March 11th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
omgiamgoingnuts
Thanks for posting your research here. I’m going to print it out tomorrow and give it to a young lady that’s driving her parents crazy for buying into this guy. IMO Hillary isn’t the only monster in the race as Hussein seems to be the epitome of the enemy within.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
omgiamgoingnuts;
Thats a whole lotta research, And thanks for sharing it.
Also welcome to the site!
March 11th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
I love the post from omgiamgoingnuts. Barry is a disaster. However. What are the odds someone else in the world uses this user name? A Hillary supporter maybe?
http://www.democraticundergrou.....;7141#7305
Still. Juicy fodder for BHO opponents.
March 11th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
MotherF****r
I saw omgiamgoingnuts post go up this afternoon. It was commenting on an article that was older and so wouldn’t last long in the Buzz section and therefore be visible. I made this mistake myself in the past and so thought I would do him or her a favor by commenting on the post later when S&L was busier. This would bring the post back to the visible Buzz section so others could see. Don’t tell me me I was duped by some lowlife Hillary drone.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:04 am
“I love the post from omgiamgoingnuts. Barry is a disaster. However. What are the odds someone else in the world uses this user name? A Hillary supporter maybe?”
Well, we welcome verifiable information from anyone and everyone, of course.