Monday, March 2, 2015
Obama Gives The Islamic State Gesture
A photo taken in August 2014 at the U.S.-African Leaders’ Summit in
Washington D.C. might shed considerable light. It shows Barack Hussein
Obama flashing the one-finger affirmation of the Islamic State to dozens of
African delegates.
This photo was taken as the African dignitaries joined Obama, who hosted the
event in a State Department auditorium for a group photograph. It was
published in an article in Britain’s Daily Mail, and it was the only use ever
of the photo.
The
one-finger display is the distinctive Muslim gang sign (most notably the sign
of ISIS): The index finger points straight up while the thumb wraps underneath
and presses against the digital phalange of the middle finger. The
remaining fingers are squeezed against the palm in order to highlight the
extended forefinger.
The
extended finger is symbolic of the one-God concept of Muhammad and is
understood by all believers to be a symbolic shahada, the Muslim affirmation of faith: There is
but one God and Muhammad is his messenger.
Thus
when believers stick their index finger in the air, they demonstrate they are
partisans of Muhammad’s God concept. And they also affirm their belief in
Muhammad’s claim he was the interface between God and man. They also
demonstrate they are part of the umma, the body of Muslim believers that Muhammad
started 1,400 years ago.
With
his forefinger in the air, Obama affirmed his membership in the umma.
African
dignitaries understood, and a range of reactions can be detected among the ones
who observed the gesture: amusement, surprise, curiosity, disapproval,
contempt.
Note
the reactions of Abdelilah Berkirane, the prime minister of Morroco pictured
just behind Obama’s left shoulder, and Ibrahim Boubacas Keita, the president of
Mali in white garb and hat. They are Muslims through and through, and they are
all smiles. They knew what Obama’s upright forefinger meant.
Gnassingbe’s
country is squeezed between Benin and the Ivory Coast and is not far from
Nigeria and its Boko Haram plague.
At
the time of the Washington conference, Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau had
just declared Borno State in northeastern Nigeria as the seat of his caliphate.
Massacres of entire villages were taking place; only a few months earlier
nearly three hundred girls were abducted from a Borno secondary school.
Togo
has seven million people, 50 percent animists, 30 percent Christian. The
remainder are Muslims, part of the umma. Gnassingbe and all other non-Muslims of Togo have reason to
worry about radicalization of some of these members of the umma of Muhammad who reside among them. And so his look of disdain. “You
gotta be kidding.”
The finger in the
air was Obama's position statement. His entire administration
has been a promotion of Islam at home and abroad. He has made this country cozy for Islam, from
ordering NASA to make Muslims feel good about themselves to calling ISIS
beheading victim Peter Kassig by the Muslim name that he had adopted in the
vain hope of saving his life.
If
only Obama’s coziness were limited to such gestures, but from the very
beginning of his administration, he labored to topple the strongman governments
that had kept a lid on Islamic extremism: Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria. Of course, overthrowing the Syrian government is still part the program, but not yet
achieved.
The
methodology of each was a tactic from old-school radicalism and Hegelian dialectic: stir up domestic
trouble that triggers a crackdown, then use the reaction to discredit the
government and as a pretext for stirring up greater cycles of trouble until the
targeted regime is replaced.
Obama
is comfortable with Islam’s extreme. He arms such people throughout the
Middle East. He has let them into our government. He supported the
Muslim Brotherhood’s Muhammad Morsi as the replacement for Hosni Mubarak, a
staunch US ally and enemy of the Muslim Brotherhood, and threatened and bullied
Egypt when a massive revolt replaced Morsi with a religious moderate.
The catalyst of all of these efforts is the reestablishment of the Islamic
caliphate, the line of successors of Muhammad that ended nearly a century ago
with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1923. This has always been a Muslim
Brotherhood objective. In their grandiose plans, the reestablished caliphate
would stretch across the Middle East with Jerusalem as its capital.
They desire the glory of Islam to be resurrected! These people aspire to world domination, and
the caliphate would serve as the base for an ever-expanding war on the world
until domination is achieved. Muhammad ordered his followers to make Islam the only religion — to create a universal umma. As with Obama, they are just following orders.
There
is nothing in Obama’s head that is American. He is an antithetical
American, a polar opposite of its values that he is routinely undermining.
He is an unabashed member of the umma that Muhammad
created 1,400 years ago; he is of the umma, not of America. His finger in the air at the African
Leaders’ Conference is unambiguous evidence.
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