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Barack Hussein Obama flashes the Muslim shahada to delegates of the US-African Leaders Conference in
Washington DC in August 2014.
ISIS fighter displays the gang sign. To Muslims, the extended forefinger is symbolic of the fundamental belief
of Islam: There is but one God and Muhammad is his messenger.
The Daily Mail editors did not understand what they were looking at. They captioned it finger
wagging by Obama. But the 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 Obamas 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 Obamas 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!
Gnassingbes 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 Togos capital to the Nigerian
capital, less than an hour in something faster. At the time of the Washington conference, Boko Harams
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 transtribal supertribe of Muhammad who reside among
them. And so his look of disdain. You gotta be kidding.
against what he created. What is Obama up to with this? In everything he does, mischief is the purpose.
What mischief does he intend now?
There is nothing in Obamas 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.
And it is evidence that you have been had America. God, have you ever been had.
F. W. Burleigh is author of It's All About Muhammad, a Biography of the World's Most Notorious Prophet.
The author blogs at www.itsallaboutmuhammad.com
Is President Obama a Muslim? A lot has been written about this, but if photographs speak louder than
words, then a photo taken at last Augusts U.S.-African Leaders Summit in Washington D.C. might
shed considerable light.
It shows Barack Hussein Obama flashing the one-finger affirmation of Islamic faith to dozens of African
delegates.
Barack Hussein Obama flashes the Muslim shahada to delegates of the US-African Leaders Conference in
Washington DC in August 2014.
ISIS fighter displays the gang sign. To Muslims, the extended forefinger is symbolic of the fundamental belief
of Islam: There is but one God and Muhammad is his messenger.
The Daily Mail editors did not understand what they were looking at. They captioned it finger
wagging by Obama. But the 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 Obamas 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 Obamas 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!
Gnassingbes 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 Togos capital to the Nigerian
capital, less than an hour in something faster. At the time of the Washington conference, Boko Harams
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 transtribal supertribe of Muhammad who reside among
them. And so his look of disdain. You gotta be kidding.
against what he created. What is Obama up to with this? In everything he does, mischief is the purpose.
What mischief does he intend now?
There is nothing in Obamas 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.
And it is evidence that you have been had America. God, have you ever been had.
F. W. Burleigh is author of It's All About Muhammad, a Biography of the World's Most Notorious Prophet.
The author blogs at www.itsallaboutmuhammad.com
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