“Obama honored the sacrifices that Muslim Americans have made for the country”

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Obama hosted a huge black-tie affair last night (his third) for Iftar. Imagine this, fresh on the heels of the jihadi attack last Friday, resulting in the biggest single largest loss of life for America since the 911 war began. So many Americans ambushed and killed at the hands of the devout in the war against jihad.  Ghoulish.

This from the Puff Ho, who is absolutely glowing.

Obama's Ramadan Dinner Speech Pays Tribute to Muslim Americans Huffington Post

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Obama delivers remarks at the 2010 White House iftar dinner
 
President Obama honored the sacrifices that Muslim Americans have made for the country on Wednesday night at the White House's annual Ramadan dinner. With only a month to go before the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Obama emphasized the role that Muslim Americans played in the wake of the attacks, and their contributions to the war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
"Muslim Americans were [the] first responders … the EMTs … the nurse who tended to so Iftar 2011 many victims, the naval officer at the Pentagon who rushed into the flames and pulled the injured to safety," the president told approximately 100 guests before the meal.
 
Obama paid tribute to the "brave service of our men and women in uniform, including thousands of Muslim Americans … [and] some [who] have made the ultimate sacrifice."
 
Obama recalled Army Specialist Kareem Khan, who was killed in Iraq, and thanked Khan's mother for attending the dinner. "We must be the America they lived for, and the America they died for," he said.
The dinner is known as an "iftar," and it breaks the daylong fast Muslims observe from sunrise to sunset during the holy month of Ramadan. The tradition of hosting an iftar at the White House was begun by President Bill Clinton, and continued by George W. Bush. This will be Obama's third as president.
 
In the audience were the two members of Congress who practice Islam, Reps. Andre Carson (D-Ind.) and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), as well as Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.). Also attending were government officials, Muslim community leaders and other leaders of faith groups.
 
In addition to those names released by the White House, below, members of the press observed White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, State Department Special Envoy to Muslim Communities Farah Pandith, the Special Assistant to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Huma Abedin, Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan, White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett and Obama Special Assistant for Multilateral Affairs Samantha Power.



 
Guests at Wednesday's iftar, as released by the White House:
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS The Honorable Andre Carson, United States Representative The Honorable John Conyers, United States Representative The Honorable Keith Ellison, United States Representative The Honorable Donald Payne, United States Representative
DIPLOMATIC CORPS
Her Excellency Amina Salum Ali, Ambassador, African Union Mission
His Excellency Abdallah Baali, Ambassador, People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria
His Excellency Yashar Aliyev, Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Her Excellency Huda Ezra Nonoo, Ambassador of Bahrain
His Excellency Akramul Qader, Ambassador of the People's Republic of Bangladesh
His Excellency Bienvenu Joseph Charles Foe-Atangana, Ambassador of Cameroon
His Excellency Adam Bechir Mahamoud, Ambassador of the Republic of Chad
His Excellency Roble Olhaye, Ambassador of the Republic of Djibouti
His Excellency Sameh Hassan Shoukry, Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt
His Excellency Mory Karamoko Kaba, Ambassador of Guinea
His Excellency Bayney Ram Karran, Ambassador of Guyana
His Excellency Dino Patti Djalal, Ambassador of Indonesia
His Excellency Samir Shakir Mahmood Sumaida’ie, Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq
His Excellency Micahel Scott Oren, Ambassador of Israel
His Excellency Aziz Mekour, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco
Her Excellency Aminata Maiga Djibrilla, Ambassador of Niger
Her Excellency Hunaina Sultan Ahmed Al Mughairy, Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman
His Excellency Husain Haqqani, Ambassador of Pakistan
His Excellency Mr. Maen Areikat, Ambassador, PLO Mission
His Excellency Ali Bin Fahad Faleh Al-Hajri, Ambassador of the State of Qatar
His Excellency Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak, Ambassador of the Russian Federation
His Excellency Adel A.M. Al-Jubeir, Ambassador of Saudi Arabia
Her Excellency Fatou Danielle Diagne, Ambassador of Senegal
His Excellency Bockari Kortu Stevens, Ambassador of Sierra Leone
His Excellency Subhas Chandra Mungra, Ambassador of the Republic of Suriname
His Excellency Mwanaidi Sinare Maajar, Ambassador of Tanzania
His Excellency Edawe Limbiye Kadangha Bariki, Ambassador, Togo
His Excellency Namik Tan, Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey
His Excellency Yousif Mana Saeed Alotaiba, Ambassador, United Arab Emirates
His Excellency Ilhomjon Tuychievich Nematov, Ambassador of the Republic of Uzbekistan
His Excellency Abdulwahab A. Al Hajjri, Ambassador of the Republic Yemen
His Excellency Ufuk Gokcen, Ambassador and Permanent Observer, Organization of the Islamic Conference
The Honorable Damir Dzanko, Chargé d'Affaires at Interim of Bosnia
The Honorable Sufyan Salman Qudah, Chargé d'Affaires at Interim of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
The Honorable Jetish Jashari, Chargé d'Affaires at Embassy of Republic of Kosovo
The Honorable Tarek Ben Youssef, Chargé d'Affaires at Interim of Tunisia
COMMUNITY MEMBERS
Mr. Hamza Abdullah, Arizona Cardinals
Mr. Husain Abdullah, Minnesota Vikings
Ms. Dina Amer
Mrs. Durriya Badani, Brookings Institute
Ms. Faiza Arain, Los Angeles Police Department
Dr. Mahmoud Eboo, Aga Khan
Mr. Mohamed Ali Malouche, Tunisian American Young Professionals
Mr. Akram Syed, National Association of Indian Muslims
Mrs. Mansura Shajahan
Mr. Yusuf Shajahan
Dr. Manzoor Tariq, Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America

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gfmucci
gfmucci
12 years ago

If we understood the Musloid/Islamic intent and threat accurately 12 years ago, and identified and deported Muslims to their homeland, their “sacrifices” would have been made there, there would have been NO 9/11 here, and there would be no Iraq, Afghanistan, or Libya wars.
Only in our dreams, but pleasant dreams they are.

john
john
12 years ago

Hope they were served pork penis.

Anne
Anne
12 years ago

Why, I wonder, would Michael Oren be there?
I’m searching to find out what other “faith” groups were represented…

dsinc
dsinc
12 years ago

Yes, and he really must have felt out of place. Like in a cage full of hungry lions.

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12 years ago

Now somebody tell me What sacrifices did Muslims make for the US?

bari
bari
12 years ago

with the israeli appeasement policy i’m not at all surprised to see Michael Oren at this ridiculous celebration. rather than pork penis they were probably served bull’s balls, a middle eastern traditional meal, in lieu of having any of their own.

Dee
Dee
12 years ago

I do believe that OBAMA NEEDS TO LEARN ABOUT THE AMERICAN HISTORY BEFORE SAYING THINGS LIKE “sacrifices that Muslim Americans have made for the country” AND JUST WHAT SACRIFICES HAVE THEY MADE FOR I DONT RECALL ANY……………..

Morris
Morris
12 years ago

From AFP 2003 (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102×188735):
George W. Bush hosted a Ramadan dinner with US Islamic leaders, as the White House was besieged with demands to fire an army general whom made comments some say makes the US-led war on terror out to be a war on Islam.
Bush invited Muslim leaders to an Iftar, the evening feast that breaks the dawn-to-dusk fast Muslims observe during the month of Ramadan. He organized the first White House Iftar after bin Laden and al-Qaeda launched the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
“America is a land of many faiths and we honor, and welcome and value the Muslim faith,” Bush said in opening remarks before the meal.

lil
lil
12 years ago

It seems to me that the main sacrifices are being made by our men and women in the military who are fighting these mooselems.I am not proud of the man who is pretending to be President today in 2011.

Mitch
Mitch
12 years ago

I think Hufpo had a typo in that article…
It read “Obama emphasized the role that Muslim Americans played in the wake of the attacks…” but should have read “Obama emphasized the role that Muslim Americans played in the wave of attacks…”
If only that would happen…

sheik yer'mami
sheik yer'mami
12 years ago

Who can possibly put up with this?
The O’Putz is adding insult to injury every day. Who will rid us of this creature?
The white house needs to be fumigated or totally rebuild.

Jerry
Jerry
12 years ago

Remember, before Obama we had Bush calling Islam a religion of peace. And he wasn’t even a Muslim while Obama is.

When*Pigs8Fly
When*Pigs8Fly
12 years ago

What”sacrifices” have American muslims, (note not muslim-Americans because they are always muslim first) made for America? And the few that did perform some service, were probably forced to by some set of circumstances . There are no incredible sacrifices by muslims for America so the liar-in-chief can shove that one where the sun don’t shine. Ask yourself, why is he so busy pandering to, promoting and trying to sell islam to the masses? What’s in it for him?. Islam is the ideology of an army of invaders bent on conquest and world domination. Those are the facts . Try wrapping THAT up in a pretty package and selling it to the naive Mr. “President”..

madmath1
madmath1
12 years ago

Given that all the betrayals and fragging (the killing of a fellow soldier) have all been by Muslims in their “protest” against the unholy war against Islam, how are Muslim’s sacrificing. Since Islam have been our enemies from day one, in fact the first war the new republic fought (after defeating Briton in the Revolutionary War) were Muslims that were robbing, pillaging and murdering our merchant fleets. Where has even ONE Muslim in history ever made a sacrifice for this country. This man is so delusional it’s maddening to watch. How anyone can’t see he’s a Muslim or Muslim sympathizer is beyond me since he admits as such in his two books, if any of his supporters ever bother to read (I’m assuming they can read which I suspect is a bit of a stretch) is beyond me.

harrisonbergeron
harrisonbergeron
12 years ago

He is a shadow man, a shadow puppet, a man w/out a country…

Todd Ryan
Todd Ryan
12 years ago

And the heroic Muslim scum that served with us to kill us…..Oblamo you are a joke and have set back race relations 50 years…what a Moron.

Rob Mariner
Rob Mariner
12 years ago

Please let us take a moment to honor those peace-loving muslims who guided aircraft into the World Trade Center towers one and two and into the Pentagon. They gave their lives that Americans might come to know Islam. And to think that we responded by attacking their peaceful nations. Why, we even created TSA to ensure that children and little old ladies wouldn’t board airplanes with evil intent against our muslim friends, who TSA agents wave through to avoid the appearance of racial profiling…

John Adams
John Adams
12 years ago

What’s wrong with the USA or, for that matter, the whole of America, North and South, adopting Islam as a religion?
America, North and South, was CHRISTIANIZED by Europeans through BRUTE force. Why is everyone getting so hung up over the so-called “Islamization” of the USA if, in the first place, it is really taking place? There is no brute force being used by any one to make people of other faiths in the USA adopt Islam unlike the forced Christinization of the original native people of America, both North and South.
It appears that the shrill and hysterical cries about the alleged Islamization of the USA are motivated by racism, religious bigotry, and hatred.

Xavier823
Xavier823
12 years ago

Learn your history man, Christianity was never forced on anyone in America North South or Central.The Europeans who came here were Christians naturally they brought their religion. Over 90% of the founding fathers were practicing Christians. Like or not this country was set up as a Christian country. Go to the original sources and do the research! It is Islam which was founded on bigotry and racist principles.Islam has never in its entire history been able to get along with any other religion. As I write this write now a Christian or a Jew is being persecuted by Islam. The fact of the matter is Islam is not really a religion but rather a warrior political system with a religious component. Again do the research using the original sources and learn the truth.

Nat's daughter
Nat's daughter
12 years ago

Damn, I was glad to be reading the comments section and to see that the troll coward apologists must have taken a kool aid break. Then I got to John Adams and realized break time was over.

Kufar Dawg
Kufar Dawg
12 years ago

@ “John Adams”
It appears that the shrill and hysterical cries about the alleged Islamization of the USA are motivated by racism, religious bigotry, and hatred.
***********************
Why shouldn’t anyone not a Muslime ape hate Pisslam Ahmed? After all, it’s YOUR faith that calls for the genocide of Jews on a worldwide basis. It’s your faith that calls for the subjugation of everyone not a muslime ape. It’s your religion that’s full of antisemitic and anti-Christian bigotry. It’s YOUR religion that is systematically persecuting everyone not a muslime ape in ALL of your islamonazi pigsties. FOAD.

Paula
Paula
12 years ago

Reading this brings to mind the case of a Muslim FBI agent who, after 9/11, was assigned the task of wearing a secret recording device and going to a mosque to record what was being discussed and preached. He refused, saying that a Muslim cannot secretly record
other Muslims. The Koran states that Muslims must not side with infidels against their fellow muslims. And this agent was U.S. born and had passed the FBI’s security clearance.

AuntieMadder
AuntieMadder
12 years ago

He’s a disgusting POS.
As for his Ramadan dinner and his insistence that Islam is the “religion of peace,” GW Bush knew better. As a proud and honored member of the United Methodist Church, however, he’s adopted UMC’s position on Islam as his own.
http://www.umc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&b=4951419&ct=6869435&notoc=1
Here are the search results for keyword “Islam” at the UMC site. Sickening, all of it.
http://www.umc.org/site/c.lwL4KnN1LtH/b.5687105/k.77B9/Search_Results_UMCorg.htm?query=islam&more=umc_sites

Matt
Matt
12 years ago

What have these unwashed, illiterate goatherders ever done for this country….Good Old Hillary Clinton in attendance as was the peter tweeters wife (disgraced pervert, former Congressman,Anthony Weiner). Obammy now going on vacation to Martha’s vineyard, to socialize with the coastal white elites because he’s so tired of golfing and playing basketball while the country burns. Reminds me of Nero….What a POS.

BillWhit
BillWhit
12 years ago

What friggen contributions? Death and Destruction, that is all they have brought to America.

Andrew
Andrew
12 years ago

this, whatever it’s called, is a disgrace. o is a guy who ignored memorial day, the unknown soldier tribute, says nothing good about Amaerica, bows to foreign muslim tyrants, invites 1 israli, who is then surrounded, by people, who would kill him in a heartbeat. o and his cadre of 1960’s radical socialist/communist/muslim anti- capitalism, anti-individualism, anti-business, anti-freedom should never been allowed to be put in a positions of power in our country. i have been outraged for quite a few years !

Auntie Gin
Auntie Gin
12 years ago

Obammy must have gotten the warm fuzzies surrounded by his “brethren in love”. All that bowing and scraping must have been sooo inspiring to him. He probably had to go out and smoke a cigarette and enjoy the afterglow.

nancy mills
nancy mills
12 years ago

I just accidentally came by this website. I am shocked to read the kind of garbage that is going on here. If we consider Christianity a peaceful religion then why do we unnecessarily go around needling others, that is a sure way of staying on the path of war?
How does that make us a more enlightened society. Unless this website only caters to hicks and bigots, interested in spewing hate and engaging in spreading discord, then forgive my naiveté.

karl anglin
karl anglin
12 years ago

This is the same President who could not
even show up at Arlington National Cemetary
on Memorial Day 2010 to honor ALL of America’s
fallen soldiers?

Kufar Dawg
Kufar Dawg
12 years ago

@Dr. Nancy’s two cents mills
Maybe you should try moving to an Islamic state and find out how Christians, Jews,
Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs are treated THERE sweetheart. BTW, women aren’t treated much better.

demsci
demsci
12 years ago

@Dr. Nancy’s two cents Mills.
I strongly wish to emphasize to you a few, conclusions after fact-finding missions.
Please inform yourself of the message of Islam and of it’s most influential theologians and leaders. And consequently of millions of it’s worldwide followers. Please do not think regionally or nationally here, but globally. As many Muslims think globally, IF they think politically. And so they are not as loyal as you may be to the nation they live in.
From a good heart you want to protect Muslims, I know, but the hate you perceive here is a result from criticism, exposure of ill deeds by Muslims-inspired-by-Islam (which is discriminatory to women, in it’s texts, in the words of it’s leaders/ theologians and in practice in Muslim majority countries. The perceived hate here is also protest against that and holding Muslims accountable.
And there are victims of Muslims-inspired-by-Islam, worldwide. It get’s reported here and people feel for the victims. and want to prevent future victims. And they almost desperately want to hold accountable both Muslims and the anti-Democratic ideology of Islam that is causing on aggregate HARM to ex-Muslims, the whole democratic system, many victims of Muslims-inspired-by-Islam, worldwide, especially women (like you) and religious non-Muslim-minorities.
If you did not know about these victims, and the danger to potential victims, like perhaps even your relatives, if they are women, then inform yourself. It won’t do to just protest against us, but not the ones we protest against. Who do incur much more hatred than we do.
I beg you, please inform yourself about Islam’s doctrine, it’s influence on Muslims and their bad deeds against women and non-Muslims. You can’t be a fair person if you just protest against the protesters!

Nat's daughter
Nat's daughter
12 years ago

Nancy Mills, get a clue! “Hicks and bigots, interested in spewing hate and engaging in spreading discord”. How’s that coexist bumper sticker working out??? Have the millions upon millions of muslims throughout America and the world stopped their hate and discord? Perhaps you can organize a movement to send those bumper stickers to muslims worldwide so they can learn to coexist with civilized society.I’m sure that’ll do the trick. But then again, I’m just a hick and bigot and not nearly as enlightened as you. To all the clueless Nancy’s: some day your kids will thank Pamela and all us “hicks and bigots” for protecting freedom and for having to share our great Nation with the likes of their idiot parents. Gotta go to the outhouse now and then catch me some squirrel or possum for dinner. Have a nice day.

beaboutit
beaboutit
12 years ago

Wake up!!!!!! America Time to Vote him Out!!!….:”Bless our Soldiers”, and all Americans who stand for truth and Honor for his fellow man.. Prayer is part of the American Way and Life was so much better when we still had sense and we can have it again.. Obama is changing Laws some that we won’t even know until we get him out of the White House..Stand up for Liberty and Justice Not Sharia Not Corruption..Get informed and Vote him OUT!!!!!!!!Let’s not wait until the Country is burning to take that stand and put him back in his box where he came from. Power in Prayer and we have taken 10 steps back…At least Bush spoke English this fool speak foreign.

u cn say that again
u cn say that again
12 years ago

“Now somebody tell me What sacrifices did Muslims make for the US?”
rewriting history while it happens….

AuntieMadder
AuntieMadder
12 years ago

Nancy Mills weighing beheadings by Muslims to the “needling” of Christians and determining that “needling” is worse, as well as Mills’ assumption that only Christians object to Islamic conversion at the tip of the sword, is yet another bit of proof that liberalism is, indeed, a mental illness.

dan
dan
12 years ago

I thought he was a Christian? Thats a Rama dama ding dong on me!
Does that mean he lied about being Christian? His US citizenship?
Is he lying now, or was he lying then?

WAKE UP
WAKE UP
12 years ago

How many more signals do we need from this Islamist in the White House?

Kathleen Degelder
Kathleen Degelder
12 years ago

So no mention of the Bombai bombings? What the East Indians are less important?

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