Haha, CG. Plu-leze. Nothing in the UU doctrine suggests anybody should be treated as the enemy, an outsider, the infidel.
I bet ya’ll dress as bunnies for Halloween. :)

He made a huge misstep here. Renouncing the heinous act of beheading a person just going through their day at work should have been PARAMOUNT. A thank you really is, not to beat around the bush, despicable. Why was it done at all? Was it such a necessity to stroke the ego of the imam and his cadre of followers? This president has his priorities so skewed even the mad hatter couldn't make sense of them.

The mosque was precisely where this nutcase got his teachings. I'm more than happy to defend people who denounce such practices, but in absence of these declarations - which should have been immediate - I'm not going to take their side.

I agree that any action taken by the President is powerful, but shouldn't that action have been taken to confirm the abhorrence of this act - not as a consolation to the source of the ideology?

It absolutely is. It says that there is no moral system better than any other. It gives the same credence to capitalism as it does to communism - democracy to monarchy or theocracy. Pluralism places no emphasis on looking to improve society because it places the need for multiple lines of thought as a higher prerogative. It is Affirmative Action in politics.

" In Oklahoma, there is an entire community frustrated and completely outraged over what appears to be a senseless murder which might have been spurred on by whatever is going on behind closed doors at this mosque."
When I put myself in their shoes, I imagine someone from my UU congregation committing some ghastly murder and the entire town thinking maybe we condone murder. It would be especially bad if we were a group whose kids extremists target. What a powerful thing for the POTUS to send his support to our congregation. It sends a message to kids caught between two cultures about what America is about. That makes it that much harder for extremists to sell their group identity politics narrative.

ETA: I meant General McCrystal, not Petraeus above

But CG, it is very scary. Think about it. What’s different from this situation then Fergusen? In Oklahoma, there is an entire community frustrated and completely outraged over what appears to be a senseless murder which might have been spurred on by whatever is going on behind closed doors at this mosque.There certainly enough evidence of prior incidents and concerns to indicate a need to investigate. Where is the President’s reasoned empathy for the non-muslim community? Why isn’t he appreciating the pain many are feeling over the loss of this grandmother? What a gruesome way to go. Where is the Justice Department’s scrutiny, or at the very least, couldn't the IRS could take a look at the mosque's tax-exempt status? What he did with this thank-you note is throw salt in the wounds of non-muslims who currently and passionately feel victimized by his lack of empathy, and..oh..a beheading on american shores in broad daylight in the name of Allah. Who cares if he was mental. We need acknowledgement from leaders that they understand our fears.
And think about this: look at how fast General Petraeus and Julia Pierson were out of a job when the President was personally affronted, but he has done nothing to protect the American people who have had their cage rattled by Loius Lerner over the IRS scandal, Eric Holder over... (gosh so many: which one shall I use?) um... a death of a border agent because of Fast and Furious, Kathleen Seblius over the Health Care website fiasco. (did we ever get a dollar figure for that mess?) or even Hilary Clinton for failing to protect Ambassador Stevens, the first ambassador to be killed since Carter’s presidency?
This President scares me. President Carter was bad, but I never questioned his loyalty. You need open your eyes. There is something seriously wrong with how President Obama manages our affairs.

Bingo. Anti-colonial-crappola sounds good in theory, but in practice it looks just like the cluster-*** we got right now.

Thanks for explaining that so clearly. I just followed the link as you suggested. It was much clearer. It seems like this article re-wrote it trying to make it sounds scary.

Pluralism is not moral relativism.

unison upward thrusts!

We will probably never know.

Even from a sitting/spinning position. ;-p

In politics the candidate wants us to judge them by what they say. This results in telling the Latinos what they want to hear, same for the women, gays, youth, poor, etc. It results in the many flip flops we have all seen.

In life, I judge people by what they do, not what they say. We know Obama is anti
American, he has been raised in that fashion his entire life. In my judgment he is one of them. He wants the middle east to be completely fractured, allowing it to reform in new alliances with boundaries not akin to the ones established by Empirical Britain for her colonies.

This results in telegraphing strategies so they can get out of the way, half hearted aerial sorties that show we have air power but don't use it well and it's in effective against the ISIS soldier. His gifted vice President busies himself pissing off neighboring nations that should have a dog in this fight.

In my opinion you would have to be very charitable to consider this all accidental...coincidence. It's on purpose, creating a power vacuum by "leading from behind" We call that following in Ohio!

Touche'! With a rapier sharp wit! ...

Here here!

LOL

That he is a faux Christian can no longer be denied. He was raised a Muslim and indeed is a Muslim. The fact that he went to that phoney-baloney, anti-American church for 20 years doesn't mitigate a thing. To make things worse, he is a militant Muslim.The enemy is not at the gates, it's within the gates, running the show. This could not be more of a horrors story than if it was written by Bram Stoker.

The isdamnic sure looked like one of his sons though....

This is exactly what my Iraqi friend, who is a Christian by the way, said to me. She said NEVER EVER allow yourself to be taken in by the platitudes offered to non believers, (infidels). They are just a ruse. The real agenda is conversion or death. THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND. These are her words, not some spin put out by the msm.

This is wonderful. The association of 'the mosque' with the hometown atrocity of 'the beheading' is the sort of news that can disenchant the public from their affection for Obama. Already his popularity has dropped significantly - this should see it fall another point or so.

Jan

Indeed. An example of the kind of behavior Uncommonsense has been warning us of.

Both hands extended back from between the legs.

Twice?