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PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS
Why did Barack Hussein Obama make the
famous ‘One-Finger ISIS’ salute at the African Leaders’ Summit in Washington
D.C.?
A photo taken at last August’s
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.
American Thinker The Associated Press took this
astonishing photo 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.
ISIS jihadist with ISIS flag and one-finger ISIS salute
The extended finger is symbolic of the one-God concept of
Muhammad and is understood by all believers to be a symbolicshahada, 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
exclusive transtribal supertribe of believers that Muhammad started 1,400 years
ago.
With his forefinger in the air, Obama affirmed his
membership in this tribe.
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.
The reaction of Togo president Faure
Gnassingbe, at the top row second to the left, is less approving. Through
his face you can read the mind of this Sorbonne- and George Washington
University educated leader. His mind is screaming, “You gotta be kidding!”
Faure
Gnassingbe
Gnassingbe’s
country is squeezed between Benin and the Ivory Coast and is not far from
Nigeria and its Boko Haram plague — perhaps a two-hour flight in a slow Cessna
from Togo’s capital to the Nigerian capital, less than an hour in something
faster.
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.
ISIS
jihadist posing with severed heads in Syria
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 transtribal supertribe of
Muhammad who reside among them. And so his look of disdain. “You gotta be
kidding.”
Maybe it was Obama’s idea of a joke, but
that is unlikely. The finger in the air was a position statement brazenly
stated. His entire administration has been a promotion of Islam at home
and abroad, and just cataloging the evidence would fill a book. 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. Overthrowing the Syrian
government was also part the program, not yet achieved but still possible.
The methodology of each was a tactic
from old-school radicalism: 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 thread of all of these efforts was
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. 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.
The glory of Islam 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.
That was always the goal of their role model. 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
transtribal supertribe 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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