-Egypt rules that its citizens cannot be married to Israelis

From JewishJournal:

After the verdict was read in the Cairo courtroom, Nabih al-Wahsh, an Egyptian attorney, jumped for joy and received an avalanche of telephone calls from friends congratulating him on his latest legal victory. Al-Wahsh has managed to extract a ruling from Egypt’s Administrative Court — which rules in disputes between citizens and the state — that would force the Egyptian government to strip Egyptians married to Israelis of their Egyptian citizenship. The May 19 ruling was met with the cheers of millions in this populous Arab country. “This is an historic ruling,” al-Wahsh said to reporters after the ruling. “Egyptians married to Israelis are dangerous to Egypt’s national security, acting in ways that contradict the constitution of their country and Islamic laws,” he said.
This is the same country that President Obama called "the heart of the Arab world"

The problem with the Muslim world is that we as westerners or as Israelis must tolerate them, but they have to tolerate no one. It's no surprise you won't be hearing about this in the mainstream media. It would be quite embarrassing for President Obama.

"Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." -- Barack Obama, Cairo, June 4, 2009

--David Frum on CNN regarding Obama's Cairo speech

There was an interesting segment on CNN on the topic of Obama's Cairo speech. A very balanced discussion, but Frum makes a great point that no one is saying. Check it out.



Obama's speech isn't what everyone thought it was. Islam is the religion we are supposed to tolerate and understand?



Ask these two homosexual Iranians if there was tolerance and understanding for them. These were two gay men who were executed in Iran. For being gay.

-Obama's Egypt Apology Speech

Below are some excerpts from Obama's much anticipated speech to the middle east in Cairo, Egypt.


I am also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: assalaamu alaykum.

According to Islamic law, a Muslim may only extend this greeting -- Peace be upon you -- to a fellow Muslim. To a non-Muslim he is to say, "Peace be upon those who are rightly guided," i.e., Peace be upon the Muslims. (Source: JihadWatch)

So America will defend itself respectful of the sovereignty of nations and the rule of law. And we will do so in partnership with Muslim communities which are also threatened. The sooner the extremists are isolated and unwelcome in Muslim communities, the sooner we will all be safer.

Why would this ever happen? It didn't happen in the decades preceding September 11th, so why should it happen now?

So let there be no doubt: the situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable. America will not turn our backs on the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity, and a state of their own.

But Israel should have to tolerate getting blown up by rockets on a daily basis?

I know there has been controversy about the promotion of democracy in recent years, and much of this controversy is connected to the war in Iraq. So let me be clear: no system of government can or should be imposed upon one nation by any other.

OK, what about Sharia law? Why the complete absence of the topic in this pivotal speech?

Likewise, it is important for Western countries to avoid impeding Muslim citizens from practicing religion as they see fit – for instance, by dictating what clothes a Muslim woman should wear. We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretense of liberalism.

What about the women who have been threatened and killed for not wearing what was dictated to them by Islam?

Palestinians must abandon violence. Resistance through violence and killing is wrong and does not succeed. For centuries, black people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation. But it was not violence that won full and equal rights. It was a peaceful and determined insistence upon the ideals at the center of America's founding. This same story can be told by people from South Africa to South Asia; from Eastern Europe to Indonesia. It's a story with a simple truth: that violence is a dead end. It is a sign of neither courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus. That is not how moral authority is claimed; that is how it is surrendered.

As Robert Spencer says, "His comparison of the Palestinians with black Americans is unconscionable. For this comparison to hold true, black Americans must have been launching daily rocket attacks against white civilians, and blowing themselves up at those segregated lunch counters during crowded lunch hours. Remember that?"

-Obama's Muslim Apology Tour Begins

Today Obama commented on the French television network Canal Plus:

"... I think that the United States and the West generally, we have to educate ourselves more effectively on Islam. And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. And so there's got to be a better dialogue and a better understanding between the two peoples."

First off, Obama is right about one thing: The United States and the West needs to educate itself about Islam. If we they do, they will learn the TRUTH about the religion and what its teachings entail, and we will protect our country and its people from its radical reality.

Obama says we are one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. During his campaign, Barack said that "America is not a Christian nation." But now he feels it is appropriate to refer to the United States as one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. The other side of the coin is that the statement is just inaccurate. Per Wikipedia, the United States is only .8% Muslim, which ranks at 119th of all nations in the world. The United State is home to almost 2,500,000 Muslims, which ranks at 52nd in the world. Barack statement is simply factually inaccurate. How about the president does a little research about the religion of the region he is visiting to try and apologize and appease?

All of this comes after his anger at being referred to by his initials, BHO, (Barack's middle name is Hussein), and after his campaign's extremely successful cover-up of his Muslim father and his Muslim children in Indonesia. Now he is so proud of the suppossed Muslim culture that permeates our country?

No benefit or success will come of this, just further angering many Muslims in the Middle East.