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More vile stuff from the Brussels Journal

Thursday, 14th February 2008

Clive links to a piece on what he rightly calls "some of the murkier stuff' washing around the internet" about Obama.

I hate to link to the Brussels Journal again, but I think a recent post there is a pretty typical (and typically obnoxious) example of what we are in for. The headline gives it away:

The First Muslim-Born Leader of the West

The piece begins thus:

If I had been asked two months ago “Which Western country runs the greatest risk of electing a Muslim-born leader and how soon do you think this is going to happen?” I would have bet on the Netherlands somewhere in the next decade. Today, it looks as if the first Western country with a Muslim-born leader might very well be the United States next year, when President Barack Hussein Obama enters the Oval Office.

You get the picture:

...In America, Mr. Obama’s Muslim family background (unlike Mr. Romney’s Mormonism) is a non-issue because he attends a Christian church. Nevertheless, being born from a Muslim father, raised by a Muslim stepfather, having been enrolled at school (in Indonesia) as a Muslim and having attended Friday prayers at the local mosque as a young boy, he cannot be seen by Muslims as anything but a Muslim, especially because he has never explicitly rejected the faith of his fathers nor said anything negative about it.

So he might call himself a Christian but we all know he's really, ugh, a MUSLIM.

Now if you think the piece itself is bad enough, have a read of the comments - comments which the Brussels Journal is clearly happy to have. Here's a selection:

BHO has a big-big "debt" that will come due, at just the right time, from his childhood Islam and Muslim fathers. This note will be collected, from B. Hussein make no mistake...and like Europe, many of us will accept it, happily. If anything Barack says AND does proves me wrong...I will be the first to re-cant. I don't think that Obama even knows what America, Christianity, or the West truly is. With the MOST leftist voting record in all of the Senate, how could he?
I wondered when you Americans would realise that you are about to put a Muslim into the White House , with his finger on the nuclear trigger .
Obama reminds me of an unexploded bomb: he comes across as someone who's trying to hide or suppress strong emotion. Whether or not he's strongly influenced by Islam, there's no doubt he has one thing in common with Muslims: he has a deep resentment for whites, perhaps an outright hatred. Remember that liberals fawned on Mugabe too, before what non-liberals saw from the beginning became obvious even to liberals.

UPDATE: Some of the comments and emails I have received miss the point, saying that I believe Obama's race means he should be above criticism. Not in the least: I'm a big McCain supporter and want to see Obama defeated by HRC in the primaries. But that's because of his his policies. Why is that so difficult to understand, for those who think that comments about his "big-big "debt" that will come due, at just the right time, from his childhood Islam and Muslim fathers" are acceptable?

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Tom

February 14th, 2008 4:17pm

If you think his Muslim birth is irrelevant, then I think you are ignorant of the Sharia law on apostasy.

If Obama was born a Muslim, and is now a Christian, then he is an apostate in the eyes of Islam, regardless of whether he was a Muslim through the informed choice of an adult, or just an accident of birth.

If he is an apostate, then this is a crime carrying the death penalty under Sharia.

Surely that is worthy of discussion in the run up to presidential elections?

Dhimmier&Dhimmierer

February 14th, 2008 5:21pm

If Stephen Pollard calls Brussels Journal "vile", what does he call Muslims who support the death-penalty for homosexuals? Hyperbole should be left to the hysterical left.

THX1138

February 14th, 2008 5:27pm

You don't need to go to the Brussels Journal for vile racist comments about Obama plenty of Ugly comments over the road on Ms Phillips blog Re Obama Lawrence Balan February 14th, 2008 4:02pm Very well put!! All these dems seem to forget that some of Obama's formative years have been spent in Jakarta/Indonesia where he was enrolled in a Muslim school of a radical current! Therefore, he's naturally soft on the Muslim radicalism which there’s no doubt in any thinker's mind Plus the post before mine from Tom & Dim & Dimmer Get over it every one he's going to be President.

William Myers

February 14th, 2008 7:39pm

Why does Pollard think his boy Obama is above criticism? Is it because Obama is a member of a priviliged caste (African-American)? Pollard and his ilk should get used to Obama critiques, because there are going to be a lot of them.

D J Hill

February 14th, 2008 7:53pm

Yes, yes, Mr Pollard, but what is it exactly that so outrages your refined intellectual and moral sensibilities? Is it really so strange, given some of the events and developments of the last couple of decades, that some people do not think it should go unremarked that the leader of the Western world (no need to go into what all that means, I think) might soon be a man who hails from a wholly different (and some might argue inimical) ethical/intellectual/cultural tradition. I suppose it's not the done thing, among those who think such factors don't matter, even to mention such possibility -- a bit like gauchely drawing attention to the large pachyderm standing in the corner of the room at a drinks party

George Steiner

February 15th, 2008 12:30am

Pollard and Davies are showing their culturally sensitive peticoats. I see nothing wrong with the piece by the Brussels Journal. Barak Husein Obama is his name. Born a Muslim. Black American. Pretty well on the far left of the American political spectrum. Not much of accomplishments. In case you fellows don't know there are lots of black lawyers. There are lots of Harward educated black lawyers. And ther are hundred of state senators of no great merit. Am I being too vile so far? Till now he has been flying without encountering serious anti aircraft fire. But he will.

Roy

February 15th, 2008 8:48am

If any part of the world should be getting the jitters it is Israel and the present administration in Iraq.

Sergey

February 15th, 2008 8:26pm

I have read the "piece" in BrusselsJournal and comments to it, and I wonder what exactly bad you found in them? A normal, serious discussion. No obscenities or racial slurs, no hysterics. It is your reaction to all this looks strange and, yes, hysterical in comparison.