Atlas Shrugs Oct 11, 2012
_Obama's ring: 'There is no god but Allah' _
(http://p.feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=68933054&f=26412&u=13042656&c=4244488)
I'd like to see one member of the press corps ask Obama about this. It
certainly jives with Obama's islamophilia and his pro-sharia foreign policies,
and with his extensive Muslim background, as detailed in my book, _The
Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America_
(http://p.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4244488/http://www.amazon.com/dp/1439189
307?tag=atlasshrugs-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=
1439189307&adid=1C6TN7J5GTC47KSBTNMZ&) .
The implications of Obama's ring aside, the level of his dishonesy is
breathtaking. Jerome Corsi over at WND has this blockbuster story.
_Obama's ring: 'There is no god but Allah' _
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god-but-allah/)
He's worn it on his wedding-ring finger since before he met Michelle
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gether.jpg)
Barack Obama's gold band
NEW YORK : “ As a student at Harvard Law School, then-bachelor Barack
Obama's practice of wearing a gold band on his wedding-ring finger puzzled his
colleagues.
Now, newly published photographs of Obama from the 1980s show that the ring
Obama wore on his wedding-ring finger as an unmarried student is the same
ring Michelle Robinson put on his finger at the couple's wedding ceremony
in 1992.
Moreover, according to Arabic-language and Islamic experts, the ring Obama
has been wearing for more than 30 years is adorned with the first part of
the Islamic declaration of faith, the Shahada: "There is no God except
Allah."
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Inscription on Obama's ring
_The Shahada is the first of the Five Pillars of Islam_
(http://p.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4244488/http://www.religionfacts.com/islam/pract
ices/shahada-faith.htm) , expressing the two fundamental beliefs that make
a person a Muslim: There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is Allah's
prophet.
Sincere recitation of the Shahada is the sole requirement for becoming a
Muslim, as it expresses a person's rejection of all other gods
Egyptian-born Islamic scholar Mark A. Gabriel, Ph.D., examined photographs
of Obama's ring at WND's request and concluded that the first half of the
Shahada is inscribed on it.
There can be no doubt that someone wearing the inscription "There is no god
except Allahâ" has a very close connection to Islamic beliefs, the Islamic
religion and Islamic society to which this statement is so strongly
attached," Gabriel told WND.
"_Dreams from My Real Father" _
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producer Joel Gilbert, an Arabic speaker and an expert on the Middle East,
was the first to conclude that Obama's ring, reportedly from Indonesia,
bore an Islamic inscription.
_Photographs published last week by the New Yorker_
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k/2012/10/barack-obama-at-occidental-college-photographs.html#slide_ss_0=1)
from Obama's time at Occidental College, taken by fellows students,
indicate that the ring Obama wore three decades ago is the one he is wearing
in
the White House.
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Barack Obama
As _WND reported in July_
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,
previously published photos have shown Obama wearing a gold band on his
wedding-ring finger continuously from 1981 at Occidental, through graduation
at
Columbia in 1983, in a visit to Africa in 1988 and during his time at
Harvard from 1988 to 1991. But none, until now, have displayed the ring with
enough detail to identify it as the one he currently is wearing.
_WND reported_
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a
satirical edition of the Harvard Law Review published by students in 1990
contains a mock Dewers Scotch profile advertisement poking fun at Obama. Among
a
list of Obama's Latest Accomplishments is: "Deflecting Persistent
Questioning About Ring On Left Hand."
The comment suggests the ring was a subject of student curiosity at the
time and that Obama was not forthcoming with an explanation.
He still has not explained why he wore the band on his wedding-ring finger
before he married Michelle.
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pg) Declaration
Gabriel, born to Muslim parents in Upper Egypt, grew up immersed in Islamic
culture. He memorized the Quran at age of 12 and graduated in 1990 with a
Masters degree from the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the
preeminent Sunni Muslim institution of learning.
He explained that on Obama’s ring, the declaration “There is no god
except Allah†(La Ilaha Illallah) is inscribed in two sections, one above
the other.
On the upper section, "There is no god" is written in Arabic letters, from
right to left: Lam, Alif, Alif, Lam, Ha.
On the lower section is "except god," written in Arabic letters from
right to left: Alif, Lam, Alif, Alif, Lam, Lam, Ha.
In the lower section, the word "Allahâ" is written partially on top of the
word "except," noted Gabriel, the author of "Islam and Terrorism" and
"Journey Inside the Mind of an Islamic Terrorist."
It is common in Islamic art and Arabic calligraphy, especially when
expressing Quranic messages on jewelry, to artfully place letters on top of
each
other to fit them into the allotted space.
The exhibit below shows how the Arabic inscription fits over the two parts
of the Obama ring.
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“There is no God except Allah†overlaid on Obama ring
"First-rate accent"
In an interview during the 2008 presidential campaign, New York Times
columnist Nicholas Kristof questioned Obama about his Islamic education in
Indonesia, where he lived from 1967 to 1971.
After acknowledging that he once got in trouble for making faces during
Quran study classes in his elementary school, Obama recited for Kristoff the
opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, the Adhan.
The prayer incorporates the Shahada, the expression of Islamic faith, with
each line repeated twice:
Allah is supreme! Allah is supreme!
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that Muhammad is his prophet
Kristof noted Obama recited the prayer in Arabic "with a first-rate
accent."
In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it'll give Alabama
voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as "one of the
prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset," Kristoff wrote.
Gabriel told WND that a person wearing a ring with "There is no God except
Allah" demonstrates the significance of Islam in his life.
"Christians never use the statement," he pointed out. "By wearing the
Shahada on jewelry, a person communicates that Allah is in control of all
circumstances. Allah controls you; Allah is the one and only one."
Obama, who attended Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ
in Chicago for two decades, has repeatedly insisted he is a Christian.
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