Obama's Ramadan Blessing

Written By: Joseph Farah  |  Posted: Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

There's a whole lot of pretending going on in our world today. We have a federal judge ruling that the 5, 000-year-old institution of marriage was "biased" and immoral from the start because of the way it discriminated unfairly against homosexuals. We have a Justice Department that dismissed an open-and-shut case of vigilante-style voter intimidation because the perpetrators were black and the victims were white. And we have a man in the White House who extols Islam for "advancing justice, progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings." That's what I call pretending.

In blessing the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, Barack Obama added that Islam "is a faith known for great diversity and racial equality" and that it "has always been part of America." I have more than a passing knowledge of Islam that includes firsthand experience and a significant amount of study over the last 30 years. But somehow I must have missed the advancements of justice, progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. Honestly, I can think of none.

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