To start he said in his Cairo speech, "Islam . . . carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe's Renaissance and Enlightenment."
Actually much of Islamic culture was from Asia and India that were absorbed by the Islamic countries when they had been conquered, several times. It was Islamic oppression that forced great inventors and thinkers into Western Europe. I've written earlier about the Enlightenment, and it wasn't an event, it was a centuries long evolution of thought. Islamic culture brought Western Civilization a few things, but not much. We are free, they are not, so we certainly didn't learn democracy from them.
He said, "Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. We see it in the history of Andalusia and Cordoba during the Inquisition." We know that Islam is intolerant, oppresses people, especially women, stones people to death, and lobs off their heads... still... if you aren't a Muslim. As for his historical statement, Andalusia and Cordoba were Christian cities during the Inquisition.
He said, "...no system of government can or should be imposed upon one nation by any other." So after WWII we shouldn't have 'imposed' democracy on Japan and Germany? Before or since what countries have suffered because of the imposition of our ideology?
Going on, "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." I know education has become nearly an afterthought, but I think there was something called the "Civil War" that was in fact so violent, about 600,000 mostly white people died to end slavery. In high school in the 60's I remember lots of riots, by definition violent.
Obama during his campaign said his great uncle was with the liberators of Auschwitz and his grandfather knew people that had entered to liberate Auschwitz and Treblinka. The problem is that the Americans weren't there. They were at Buchenwald.
Also during his campaign, when he went to Europe to proclaim himself 'citizen of the world', he said, "I know that I don't look like the Americans who've previously spoken in this great city." I think both Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice have been to Europe and have given speeches.
One last thing about oppression in the Middle East. Very little of it was by Europe like Obama and fellow revisionists would like you to believe. They were conquered a lot by Asians, Indians, and survived brutal oppression for centuries by the Muslim Ottoman Empire. Now they have their own homegrown oppressors.
You see, Obama isn't educated, he has pedigree because he's Ivy League. He isn't even smart. He's a shrewed politician, driven by Statist ideology. I don't believe a word he says, about anything.
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