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Barack Obama’s Uncle Sayid: “WE ARE ALL MUSLIM” (Caught on Video)

(Walid Shoebat) — We obtained several videos from Middle Eastern sources. In one, President Obama’s uncle Sayid,about whom we’ve reported about in the past, about his dealings in Saudi Arabia being in bed with Wahhabist madrassas. Here he was assuring the Middle East in this rare interview that the whole Obama family are “all Muslim”, everyone.

We assembled the following clip (unedited versions are linked to below) never before reported in Western circles until now, of course, no one in the U.S. media wants to even address the sensitive issue of President Obama’s Islamist connections, it becomes a taboo:

Aside from the President’s terrorism-connected brother Malik Obama, how many Americans know Malik acts somewhat like an ambassador himself while using President Obama’s name every time he visits a foreign country. In Egypt, President Obama’s popularity is nil among secular Muslims who openly believe that President Obama is an Islamist while in the West, even supposedly well-intended organizations that expose the Muslim Brotherhood agenda often twist themselves into pretzels to avoid the plain truth, that the Obamas (as they themselves declare) are indeed all Muslim and support Islamist interests. Consider the ‘reasoned’ Global Muslim Brotherhood Watch (GMBW) website. This site reported on Malik Obama’s connections to the IDO and concluded that nothing could be proven that links him to the Sudan branch of IDO (GMBW isn’t swayed by photos on Malik’s website, nor do interviews Malik granted [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7])

[H/T Walid Shoebat]

Saudi Man Sentenced to Death for Blogging

Raif Badawi as you recall back in July of this year, was arrested and sentenced to 600 lashes. However the apostasy charge had to be handled by the higher courts and they have found him guilty and sentenced him to death.

Raif Badawi

(via Answering Muslims) — Raif Badawi is a Saudi blogger, who created the website “Free Saudi Liberals” to encourage open discussion in the Arab world. He was arrested and charged with insulting Islam and apostasy.

In July, Raif was sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes for creating a website deemed offensive to Islam. The apostasy charge, however, had to be handled by a higher court. CNN is reporting that Raif was found guilty by the higher court and has been sentenced to death.

Once again, we see the consequences of pretending that Islam doesn’t teach what it obviously teaches. When Rifqa Bary was on trial, politicians, the media, and Muslim organizations assured us that Islam doesn’t promote the death penalty for apostasy (in spite of Muhammad’s clear commands to kill anyone who leaves Islam). How many bloggers must die before we face the truth?

(CNN) — Raif Badawi, a blogger in Saudi Arabia who has been imprisoned for violating the nation’s anti-cybercrime law, has been given the death penalty for apostasy by a higher court, his wife told CNN on Wednesday.

Badawi founded the Free Saudi Liberals website and was originally given a seven-year sentence in July. A Jeddah criminal court found Badawi, who has been in prison since June 2012, guilty of insulting Islam through his website and in television comments.

A district court found him guilty of apostasy, his wife said.

“It is an emotion I cannot describe. I never imagined this would happen,” she said. “I thought maybe they would reduce the sentence but this is unimaginable. The whole thing is about a website.” (Source)

***UPDATE***

CNN posted a correction to their story this morning. Badawi’s wife clarified that he has been recommended for trial for apostasy, which carries the death penalty.

(CNN) — A judge in Saudi Arabia has recommended that imprisoned blogger Raif Badawi go before a high court on a charge of apostasy, which would carry the death penalty upon conviction, according to Badawi’s wife.

Ensaf Haidar initially told CNN on Wednesday that her husband had been sentenced to death. She later clarified to CNN that a judge has recommended he be tried for denouncing Islam, or apostasy. Apostasy carries the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, according to Amnesty International.

For a discussion of apostasy in Islam, see this video:

[H/T Answering Muslims]

Dangerous Times: A Looming Strategic Disaster in the Middle East

[H/T American Thinker] — If you think ObamaCare is bad, just wait till you hear the new “peace” agreement that is due to be imposed on the Middle East over the coming weeks. Even if it works, a giant if, it will make the world much more dangerous:

U.S. and Iran

1. Iran will have nuclear weapons, or it will be balanced right on the edge — within one month or less to make nukes.

2. Saudi Arabia and Egypt will go nuclear, to balance Iran.

3. America’s role as a guarantor of peace will be blown, crushed by Obama’s betrayal of Israel and the Arabs. America’s nuclear umbrella, which has kept world from major war since 1949, was always based on trust. Once you blow that trust, the umbrella disappears.

4. The coming victory of Bashar Assad in Syria, supported by Hizb’allah and Iran, will forge the much-feared Shii’ite Crescent that surrounds Israel and directly threatens Arab nations like Egypt, Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula (Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states).

5. Russia will replace America as a more trustworthy major power in the region, including the Eastern Mediterranean.

This is not a framework for peace. It is an unstable Rube Goldberg contraption that could lead to total war in a matter of weeks. It will never have the long-term stability of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty of the last forty years. On top of all those balancing acts, Israel will be driven back to borders that are much more vulnerable to Muslim terrorism. World conquest is a basic premise of Islam, and it includes Europe, Russia, and America.

The emerging agreement, which will be greeted by the Euro-American socialist media as peace on earth, will be much more like Munich, 1938 — a temporary truce on the way to much more dangerous times.

Here is a reasonable guess about the Obama-Putin proposal that is now being circulated around the major participants:

1. The U.S. and Russia will agree to cut back drastically on nuclear weapons. That has been the major aim of the Russians, because they can defend against a small nuclear attack, but more attacking nukes and missiles will overwhelm any existing defense. This has its own pros and cons, depending on Russian intentions. It is a major draw for Putin, because it reinstates Russia as a superpower on an equal basis with the United States.

2. American power will be deliberately set back around the world, which is Obama’s announced policy. The U.S. will no longer be the guarantor of peace, because (a) Obama has decided to cut down our armed forces to divert money to the new massive welfare state, and (b) nobody trusts us to provide a nuclear umbrella any more.

Within that U.S.-Russian umbrella agreement, the Obama fantasy will be that:

1. The Iranian nuclear danger will be reduced by a treaty, to be monitored by a great power inspection regime, aided by the UN. Because Russia will be one of the guarantor powers, and because Russia fears and hates the prospect of a radical Muslim nuclear power near its borders, it will want to restrain Iranian weapons development. However, Iran will be able to get real nukes in a month. Other WMD programs (like dirty bombs) are not controlled, especially from rogue forces like the 60,000 Al Qaida gangsters in Syria.

Obama and the Europeans will celebrate this as a great victory. But it will be a huge gamble with the security of the world. In the foreseeable future Iran will have ICBM’s that can reach our shores.

Hamas and Hizb’allah terrorism will be increased rather than stopped, because that is the routine of every Muslim power in history. For example, Pakistan and India are nominally not at war, but Pakistan has never stopped terrorist attacks on India. That is the standard strategy for Muslim powers, and having nuclear weapons will make terrorism even more attractive.

2. The Europeans will lose the American nuclear umbrella, and will appeal to Russia for nuclear protection. They must also modernize the nuclear capacity of France and Britain, because this will not be a one- or two-superpower world, but an ongoing arms race between multiple powers, all possessing weapons of mass destruction. The UN will pretend to conduct inspections, just as it did in Iraq and Iran, a laughable failure.

In other words, this will be a fantasy peace, just as ObamaCare is a fantasy healthcare program. Obama craves the appearance of success, but in truth he never bothers to find out if his fantasies actually work. He is hooked on personal celebrity.

Obama is likely to run for UN SecGen after 2016, a major reason for this dreadfully unstable, phony solution to nuclear and missile proliferation. Obama’s personal ambition is a big ingredient in anything he does. The Russians have figured that out, and saw it as an opportunity to reverse their decline as a superpower. Domestically we no longer have a functioning opposition, so that there is no critical thinking about absurd policies any more. That is whyObamaCare is likely to fail over and over again. A number of O’Care “architects” have come forward in the last week to confess that yes, of course they were lying to Americans about their future healthcare. But they were lying for a good cause, naturally. In fact, they were making wild guesses and now have Americans in a trap. They won’t allow us to escape their fantasy trap no matter how bad it gets.

The same mad illogic governs this Middle East “peace” process. It’s just as phony and destructive as Obama’s medical takeover. The top goal is more power for the socialists. Healthcare and peace are strictly secondary.

UPDATE: IRAN, WORLD POWERS AGREE ON NUCLEAR DEAL

Tehran would reportedly be allow ‘limited’ uranium enrichment.  Iran and six major powers agreed early Sunday on an historic deal that freezes key parts of Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for temporary relief on some economic sanctions, diplomats confirmed.  The deal was reached after four days of bargaining and an 11th-hour intervention by U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry and other foreign ministers from Europe, Russia and China. the sources said.  This now puts the world’s safety officially at risk.

Is Barack Obama Losing Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal?

[H/T Walid Shoebat]: If Barack Obama is losing Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, he may have another significant problem to deal with. Alwaleed is the second largest shareholder of Newscorp., Fox News Channel’s parent company. During an exchange with Bloomberg’s Erik Schatzker, Alwaleed was quite openly critical of Obama, saying he is “not succeeding”. While this conversation focused on U.S. domestic policies, Alwaleed’s criticism very well may have something to do with foreign policy (more on that after the video).

Alwaleed bin TalalWhile he is a very astute businessman, Alwaleed is also a member of the Saudi Royal family. That family is more than just a little perturbed with the Obama administration. In particular, the Saudis have decided to side with Egypt’s al-Sisi while Obama has thrown his lot behind the Muslim Brotherhood in that country. On its face, that sounds crazy and illogical. The fact is that the Saudis enjoy using the Brotherhood to spread Islam as long as the Brotherhood can be kept at arms length. The Mursi regime in Egypt was getting a bit too close for comfort.Obama seems to side with the Brotherhood almost unilaterally. The one time he pulled back – in Syria – is when the Saudis wanted him to press forward.

These and other foreign policy decisions made by the Obama administration have likely contributed to Alwaleed’s forthrightness.

In 2008, thanks to what many believe was an unintentionally revealing interview, Percy Sutton seemed to out Alwaleed as being a significant financier of Obama’s success at Harvard. In that interview, Sutton identified Khalid al-Mansour as the middleman between a wealthy Saudi and Obama’s collegiate success. One of the men whom al-Mansour is very close to is Prince Alwaleed. If the claims made by Sutton are true, Alwaleed definitely has an even more personal reason to be angry with Mr. Obama.

Here is that interview:

Islam: Editor Jailed for 7 Years and Sentenced to 600 LASHES After Starting ‘Free Saudi Liberals’ Website

Saudi Editor Jailed An editor that originated and operated a website that ‘violated’ Islamic values gets 7 years and 600 lashes.  This is certainly not the only case of exploiting a religion for political gains, as Islam does, and it won’t be the last.

Daily Mail reports: The editor of a Saudi Arabian social website has been sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes for founding an Internet forum that violates Islamic values and propagates liberal thought, Saudi media reported on Tuesday.

Raif Badawi, who started the ‘Free Saudi Liberals’ website to discuss the role of religion in Saudi Arabia, has been held since June 2012 on charges of cyber crime and disobeying his father – a crime in the conservative kingdom and top U.S. ally.

Al-Watan newspaper said the judge had also ordered the closure of the website.

France was concerned by the sentence and remained committed to ‘freedom of opinion and of expression’, the foreign ministry said in a statement. Officials from the Saudi National Society for Human Rights could not be reached for comment.

Badawi’s website included articles that were critical of senior religious figures such as the Grand Mufti, according to Human Rights Watch.

The watchdog said in December that Badawi faced a possible death sentence after a judge cited him for apostasy, but Al-Watan said the judge dropped the apostasy charges.

Apostasy, the act of changing religious affiliation, carries an automatic death sentence in Saudi Arabia, along with other crimes including blasphemy.

Badawi’s wife denied her husband had expressed repentance before the judge on Monday at a court in the Red Sea city of Jeddah. ‘The judge asked Raif “Are you a Muslim?” and he said “Yes, and I don’t accept anyone to cast doubt on (my belief)”,’ she wrote on Twitter.

The world’s top oil exporter follows the strict Wahhabi school of Islam and applies Islamic law, or sharia.

Judges base their decisions on their own interpretation of religious law rather than on a written legal code or on precedent.

King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia’s ruler, has pushed for reforms to the legal system, including improved training for judges and the introduction of precedent to standardise verdicts and make courts more transparent.

However, Saudi lawyers say that conservatives in the Justice Ministry and the judiciary have resisted implementing many of the changes announced in 2007.