Obama: Do not distort religion to justify wars and violence

President Obama denounced those around the world who distort religion to justify wars and violence as he addressed faith and political leaders at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday. The Dalai Lama was one of the participants, Sarah Pulliam Bailey reports in the Washington Post. “We see faith driving us to do right,” Obama said. “We also see faith being twisted and distorted, used as a wedge, or worse, sometimes as a weapon.”
Obama noted the recent atrocities by the Islamic State group, the January shooting at the offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris, fighting in the Central African Republic and other recent events in which religion served as a motivating factor.
He did not exempt the United States, noting that Christianity had at one time been used to justify slavery and laws discriminating against blacks. “So this is not unique to one group or one religion,” he said. “There is a tendency in us, a sinful tendency that can pervert and distort our faith.”

If only they can read this and contemplate.

He's got it alright.

He did not exempt the United States, noting that Christianity had at one time been used to justify slavery and laws discriminating against blacks. “So this is not unique to one group or one religion,” he said. “There is a tendency in us, a sinful tendency that can pervert and distort our faith.”

This applies to the extreme and radicalised Muslims. If only they can read this and contemplate. They give the whole Muslim population a bad name and now we are living in a world of Anti-Muslimism and Anti-Islamism.

But who in the government or state is anti-muhammadanist or anti-muhammadanism?

Sure people within the British nation state are, but the government and state institutions aren't.



I would like to see a return of the penal laws against Muhammadanism.

When you use the word muhammadanosm you sound like you're from
victorian times. Nobody uses that lexicon in modern times.

I am a reactionary. What do you expect me to do?

Islam also means among other things submission to Sharia law. I refuse to use the word because of it. I use Muhammadanism.

Islam doesn't mean submission to sharia law.

http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/02/08/obama_do_not_distort_religion_to_justify_wars_and_violence/1122241



President Obama has the right of it. People have always used faith to further their own agenda, which has often been violent. The Islamic State are only the most recent example of this. Yet, President Obama does not provide us with any solutions on how to tackle this kind of religiously motivated violence. I'd like to see him offer an alternative.