Speaking today at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, President Obama declared freedom of faith the “central goal of American foreign policy,” singling out several nations he believed were insufficient in that regard.
Obama insisted that nations which don’t allow freedom of religion are fueling instability and that therefore imposing religious plurality abroad is a “national security matter” as well as a “key objective.”
Obama took this as a chance to rail at North Korea for holding a Christian missionary, as well as Iran for jailing a US pastor. Obama insisted he had been “elevating our engagement with faith leaders” across the world and demanded China “do more” to allow freedom of religion within their nation.
Despite making this an issue with which to bludgeon rivals, the Obama Administration has openly backed factions hostile to religious freedom when it suits them, including a Bahraini government which openly discriminates against its Shi’ite majority, and Syrian rebel factions that have chased religious minorities out of most of the northwest of that nation.
What a joke. The NYPD spies on mosques, and the guards at Gitmo flush Qurans.
Since the beginning the mankind had its religious freedom until the matter was politicalized by those who started abusing religious, profiting from it and finally using it to divid mankind. The religious freedom in Syria is one of the matter where USG foreign policy doesn’t fit the saying, freedom exist in Syria, it did exist in Iraq before Bush regime divided the nation, and exist in Iran, the only place that it doesn’t is in countries that are ruled by tyrants as Saudi Arabia, now, if Obama is trying to side line the facts about Syrian war or addressing the issue toward Saudi tyrannic regime hoping for a free religious Saudi Arabia with churches and Shiite mosques or others freely going on their daily religious business, his only giving you another of his empty promises as “hope”. You could hope for it but that’s where it ends.
In the other hand, his saying is yet another double language and manipulative among many other issues, while supporting religious terrorism, creating new kind Sunnis in Jordan for Syria where all religious are free to practice their faith, while supporting tyrant regimes where shiite’s are brutally mishandled, prisoned for years, wher there is no human rights exist in either of Saudi Arabia or Qatar, shows that USG is nothing but one of those regimes who uses and abuses religious to benefit from, to further divide nations, and domestically politicalizing the issue profiting from it.
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Hence why Obama in 2013 shipped almost a billion dollars of illegal cluster bombs and 60 billion in other lethal weaponry to Saudi Arabia, the biggest weapons shipment in US history.
Also why Obama has twice supported Al Qaeda and other Islamic fundamentalists, in Libya and now against Secular Syria.
Our Father, Who art in Washington and maybe Riyadh.
Ditz, I hope you only comment on this sort of crap for the humor value.
What a hyprocrite. He singles out China, but what about that sad, sorry, pathetic, country called Saudi Arabia. How much religious freedom is in Saudi Arabia, Mr. President.
Shouldn't the central goal of American foreign policy be the security of America's borders and people rather then interfering in the religious activities of countries abroad? In any case what about Saudi Arabia, rated by Freedom House as the least free country in the world? Try being a practising non-muslim there and see what happens to you.
Criticizing Obama because of the cases of Syrian rebels or Bahrain or Saudi Arabia shows a lack of sophistication. Those cases are quite different and more complicated than the cases of Iran, North Korea and China, states that are against a religion, or all religion, for religion's sake.