Obama was inaugarated yesterday and became the 44th president of the United States, as well as the first Black President, and according to Conservapedia, maybe the first Muslim President, despite the fact he is not actually Muslim. ... Doesn't make a lot of sense. Oh well.
If you haven't seen his inaugaration speech, then I recommend it to you. It was a brilliant speech about what he will do as President.
If you can remember my earlier post on how everyone is expecting miracles, as they are, there is also people thinking that he alone has the hope of America, and a great deal of the world, on his soldiers. he also has a great deal of tasks and goals to complete.
But it isn't his tasks. He will help with them, but everyone needs to make a difference, because he can't change America, but all of the people in America, and maybe other people in other countries, can change America. His famous line used many times during his campaign, "Yes we can", notice the we. Not I, but we.
So now that Obama is the President, the people must not carry on with their daily tasks, but also continue to help him with all of the promises that Obama made during his campaign. Obama can't make these things happen, but he can help them happen, just as everyone in America can help them happen.
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
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"Yes we can."
Bob the Builder is now running through my head. Thanks...
As for being a Muslim: I don't know. Maybe some Muslims still recognize him as a Muslim in the very same way that the LDS (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) still recognises my father as a Mormon. My father left the Mormons a few decades ago, but the LDS Church still recognises him as a member! They always seem to know where he is! Once a Mormon, always a Mormon? Once a Muslim, always a Muslim? Obama has just lost his way? I don't know how else to explain it.
This could be what Conservapedia refers to: (from a 2007 article)
Cairo, 26 April (AKI) - The ten Egyptian Coptic Christians, who after having converted to Islam decided to return to their original faith, will remain Muslims at least on paper for the rest of their lives....
..........It is precisely for this reason that the ten Copt converts, after having rejected Islam and returned to Christianity, with a public ceremony, asked the ministry for new ID documents. But the ministry refused, on the grounds that according to Sharia law it was impossible to renounce the Islamic faith.
The law based on the Koran in fact forbids the faithful from passing from one religious creed to another and anyone who pronounces the "Shahada" or declaration of faith will be considered a Muslim forever....
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