Posted by
Duck Archer on Sunday, September 07, 2008 6:18:30 PM
Barack Obama, candidate for USA President, has decided to face a grave danger. Maybe he’s not fully aware of the danger and its implications. Maybe he is. Probably, the USA is not fully aware of the implications. The discussion hasn't started!
1. Significance.
Are the implications significant to the country? Maybe. Maybe not. We don't yet know.
We do know that Americans should make an informed choice. Democracy depends upon sharing and discussing information, to make informed choices; otherwise we give up democracy (or, specifically, ‘representative republic’) and receive dictatorship. Informed choices are the only way to determine if an issue, once raised, has significance. In a democracy, ‘we the people’ are entrusted to determine if an issue has significance.
2. Facts.
Regardless of anything related to Mr Obama’s own choosing, objective reality is that he is the son of an African Muslim.
- To Christian and secular ears, that last phrase elicits “So what?”. But not to Muslim ears. Islam holds that all descendants of a Muslim are also Muslim, without choice. (This bit of Islamic doctrine helps explain why countries, once Islam arrives, have almost never changed to any other religion, and never without significant bloodshed.)
- To all public appearances, Mr Obama has chosen a brand of Christianity. In Islamic eyes, that choice to be Christian makes Mr Obama, and his girls, Islamic apostates. Muslim apostates incur an automatic death sentence, in the eyes of Islam; kind words of tolerance towards Islam (and/or towards all other religions too) will avail him nothing against this automatic sentence. Incontrovertible difficulty: Mr Obama’s choice carries with it the baggage of Islamic death sentences for him and for his daughters.
3. Implications.
a. Apostate, under death sentence, in the White House.
Mr Obama’s religious choice also gives the USA certain inseparable uncertainties. Every president faces certain assassination risks, with resulting Secret Service costs, and personal movement restrictions. We contain & guard our presidents and, to lesser extents, their family members and friends. USA citizens accept the cost, and presidents accept the restrictions on their freedoms of movement, since the president fills a singular elected office that is critical to the continuing functioning of the U.S. government. But …
- What is the cost, Secret Service and the rest, of protecting a president and his family from Islamic apostasy’s automatic death sentences?
- What would be the cost of Islamic terrorists successfully assassinating somebody close to a President Obama?
- What would be the international and propaganda cost of radical Islamic terrorists successfully carrying out the death sentence on a USA president and/or family member(s)?
b. Secrets.
There is another option. A President Obama could chose (or could have already chosen) to be a secret Muslim. This could save his life, and the lives of his girls. But this option would still spell certain grave difficulties for the USA. The difficulties would be real, whether the difficulties resulted in actual problems or not, with an Obama presidency during a war against Islamic terrorists.
- Having non-public associations or actions, that one wishes to remain secret, usually will prevent a military individual or civil servant from obtaining (or keeping) a security clearance. Extortion has been proven a powerful tool against citizens entrusted with national security. Thus the White House should also have no secrets that ‘bad guys’ can leverage for extortion.
- The War Of The Reconquest (France, Spain, & Portugal, 660s AD thru 1492 AD) holds many examples of how secret Muslims left varying levels of havoc within Iberian cities & countrysides. Most cities in central Iberia changed hands many times. Often, the secret Muslims would be simply awaiting the arrival of the next Muslim army, then become active 5th Columnists (albeit centuries before the term was coined).
Would a secret Muslim in the executive office …
- be a conflicted mind, and thus pose a low-level threat to the nation from within?
- be coerced or co-opted into actions harmful to the USA?
- be precisely what the country needs, to show a ‘secular Moslem’ is possible?
4. Conclusion:
Again, this post only raises a question. The question's worth noting, and discussing, and resolving
- It’s proven that Mr Obama, and his girls, are apostate Muslims, whether they (or we) would wish it to be, or not.
- What is NOT clearly proven is whether the automatic Islamic death sentences are a burden unwise for the USA to accept in the Oval Office. Maybe it’s unwise. Maybe it’s actually wise. And, maybe it just doesn’t matter. But if it does matter, we’d better go into it with full awareness …
- The ‘death sentences’ point is worth a little discussion, since ‘we the people’ have to know what we’re getting with our vote, or else democracy turns into dictatorship…
- Duck Archer