You guys need to read this. Written by Femi
Fani-Kayode, a two time former Minister and
Special Adviser under the Olusegun Obasanjo
government
Why is it that each time Barack Obama is
about to submit himself for a Presidential
election and seek a mandate from his
people there is a raging, monumental,
earth-shattering and record-breaking
freak of a storm which kills numerous
people in America? It happened a few
days before his Presidential election in
2008 and it is has just happened again a
few days before his Presidential election in
2012. Again why is it that on the first day of
the convention of the opposition
Republican party, both in 2008 and again
this year, yet another violent and
dangerous killer storm hit the towns in
which the two conventions were held
causing them both to be partially
disrupted? What is Obama’s relationship
with the elemental forces? What is his
relationship with God or some lesser
deity? What is his source of power and
what is his spiritual foundation?
The American Presidential elections will take
place in a few days time and frankly some
questions still need to be answered. I wish that
Governor Mitt Romney had put one of those
questions particularly to President Barack
Hussein Obama during their last Presidential
debate which was on foreign policy. Permit me
to put that question here and it is as follows.
Why did the President bow so low before Saudi
Arabia’s King Abdullah four years ago during
his first state visit to the Arab Gulf state and why
did he feel the need to almost touch his toes
with his forehead when he did so. It is a matter
of historical record that no American President
in the last 200 years has ever bowed so low
before any foreign leader, Prime Minister, Head
of State, President or monarch. It appears to
me to be rather strange that Obama, on his first
trip to the Middle East as President of the most
powerful country on the planet, should literally
prostrate before an Arab King whose country
has an abominable record on human rights,
civil liberties, the rights of women and religious
minorities and where the system of
government is a totalitarian and absolute
monarchy. Luckily a picture was taken of that
celebrated event and that picture really does
tell us something about the American
President’s mindset. Yet it does not stop there.
On that same trip four years ago, after leaving
Saudi Arabia, Obama toured the greater part of
the Middle East and Egypt and in speech after
speech he apologised to the Arabs for
American policy in the Middle East over the
previous 50 years. He did this despite the fact
that in most of those countries christians,shia
muslims and ethnic minorities have no rights at
all and even though they have been killed,
persecuted and supressed for many decades.
Again he did this even though none of those
countries were democracies and even though
all of them, except for two, have refused to
acknowledge the right of the Jewish State of
Israel to even exist.This left a bad taste in the
mouth of many at the time and the question
that came to my mind was whether the
”Hussein” was coming out of the ”Barak
Hussein Obama” more than the ”Barak” itself
was. Yet whatever anyone may feel about the
issue of his touching his toes with his head and
his bowing before the Saudi king, as far as I am
concerned, President Obama is not what he
appears to be. There is far more to him than
meets the eye. A couple more questions will
suffice to illustrate this point.
Why is it that each time Barak Obama is about
to submit himself for a Presidential election and
seek a mandate from his people there is a
raging, monuemental, earth-shattering and
record-breaking freak of a storm which kills
numerous people in America? It happened a
few days before his Presidential election in 2008
and it is has just happened again a few days
before his Presidential election in 2012. Again
why is it that on the first day of the convention
of the opposition Republican party, both in
2008 and again this year, yet another violent
and dangerous killer storm hit the towns in
which the two conventions were held causing
them both to be partially disrupted? What is
Obama’s relationship with the elemental
forces? What is his relationship with God or
some lesser deity? What is his source of power
and what is his spiritual foundation? There is
no doubt that he is a powerful orator and that
he delivers brilliant speeches that mesmerises
his audience. Yet so did Adolf Hitler and we all
know what he was. I ask these questions
because President Obama has supported every
anti-christian and anti-faith policy that the
American permissive state has thrown up and
endorsed in recent years. The violation and
literal denunciation of these religious core
values, in my view, betrays the unfolding of an
illicit,dark, sinister and subterranean anti-Christ
agenda which must be rejected by all true men
and women of faith. They must be renounced
by every christian, every jew and every muslim
and indeed all those that truly espouse the
noble values and virtues of any of the three
Abrahamic faiths. They must be rejected by all
those that believe in the supremacy and
efficacy of a monotheic God whose core values
and holistic principles and standards are
worthy of emulation and of being respected
and cherished. There are many examples of
these gross violations of our core religious
values but permit me to share just four of them
with you here. Firstly, President Obama has
endorsed a woman’s right to have an abortion
and he has publically denounced ”the right to
life” of unborn babies. Secondly, he has
endorsed same-sex marriages. Thirdly, he has
consistently supported homosexuality and the
rights of homosexuals and lesbians. And
fourthly, and perhaps the most disturbing of
all, he has endorsed the right of same-sex
couples to adopt and raise children. Quite
apart from these four Obama has also
endorsed all manner of social perversions and
deviant behaviour in the name of humanism,
”new age” liberalism and the permissive
American state. No true believer or person of
faith can possibly accept such practices,
endorse such values and still stand right before
God.
To put the cake on the icing let me make one
more point. Rev. Jene Robinson, a vocal and
practising homosexual, whose ordination as a
Bishop split the Anglican Church in America
into two, was specially selected by Obama to
deliver the invocation of the name of God and
prayers at the beginning of the inaugral
weekend of his inauguration ceremony as
President in 2008. What message was Obama
trying to send to America and to the world by
insisting on this?
Outside of the area of social and religious
values President Obama has also failed in the
area of foreign and domestic policy. A few
examples will suffice. The unprecedented
number of drone attacks in Pakistan and
Afghanistan which has led to record highs in
the number of deaths of innocent muslim
civilians, women and children in both
countries. The alienation of Pakistan and
Afghanistan as key allies in the war against
terror. The destabilization of north Africa and
the opening of the door for Islamist insurgents
in the north African Arab Sahel states and the
west African sub-region. The display of
weakness and procrastination before Iran and
its covert agenda to build a nuclear bomb. The
display of double standards in the State of
Bahrain and the over-pampering of the Arab
Gulf states. The sheer mess that has been
created in Syria and the indecision and
procrastination of the Obama administration
who have abandoned the opposition forces in
that country even as thousands of innocent
people are being slaughtered by Assad’s brutal
regime.The insincerity of purpose and sheer
coldness being displayed towards Israel and
the indifference to her dangerous and
existential plight. The disdain and contempt
shown to all people of faith, the evangelical
movement, the christian far-right and the vision
of the old Pilgrim Fathers that founded the
great country that is known as the United States
of America.
The removal of the words “God” and “Israel”
from the Democratic Party Convention. The
disastrous handling of the American economy
that has acquired a five trillion dollar deficit in
the last four years. The rise of Islamic
fundamentalism in Mali and Nigeria due to a
shortsighted and reckless policy in Libya. The
taking of power by the fundamentalist Muslim
Brotherhood in Egypt and the rise in power of
Al Shabbab in Somalia and East Africa. The
inexplicable refusal to declare Boko Haram (the
Islamist terror group that is bombing and killing
thousands in northern Nigeria) as a terrorist
organisation.The gradual turning of America
into a quasi- welfarist state where ”big
government” reigns and in which the
traditional engine room of growth that is
known as the American middle class is being
systematically weakened and destroyed. The
desecration of the traditional family unit and
good old fashioned christian values by the
adoption of strange and liberal “new age”
practices, values and philosophies. The inability
to protect the lives of American diplomats living
abroad and the lack of firm reprisals after the
killing of the American Ambassador and other
Americans by terrorists in Libya. The massive
foreign debt that America has acquired in the
last four years. The huge quantum of cash that
America is is now owing China and so on and
so forth.
These are just some of Obama’s disastarous
legacies and sadly the mistakes he has made in
his foreign policy in north Africa particularly
impacts on us directly in Nigeria and in Weet
Africa. Let me give you just one example of that.
Had it not been for the fall-out of the mess in
Libya and the brutal way in which Muammar
Ghadaffi, the Libyan leader, was murdered in
cold blood one year ago, his Taureg friends
and allies in north Africa would not have been
inspired and driven to take over northern Mali
and create a Taliban-style islamic
fundamentalist state there and northern
Nigeria would not have been flooded with
jihadist footsoldiers and all manner of
sophisticated arms and bombing devices for
usage by Boko Haram.
With Obama all we see and hear are beautiful
and inspirational speeches, a good deal of
doublespeak, a failed economic policy and a
weak, dangerous and thoroughly uninspiring
foreign policy. Worst still all we see in Obama’s
African policy is unpredictability, chaos, the
appeasement of terrorists and utter confusion.
Given this I cannot come to any other
conclusion than the fact that President Barrack
Hussein Obama cannot be trusted with
America or indeed the world for the next four
years. In my view he is a very mysterious,
strange and complex man and sadly he has
proved to be a thoroughly disappointing
President. Consequently my prayer is that
Governor Mitt Romney defeats him in the
Presidential election which will hold Tuesday
6th November. If he does not I fear that the
much predicted “beginning of the end” of
America as a world economic power may have
just begun. With China on the rise, Russia
waxing strong, Brazil, India and Japan flexing
their muscles and the European Union finally
beginning to take shape and find her feet, in
the next twenty years the world will be a very
different place and America may no longer be
“prima inter pares” (the first amongst equals).
Only Romney can stop that downward trend. I
am aware of the fact that, given Obama’s
ancestry, this may not be a popular position to
take amongst those of us that are people of
colour and that are Africans but nevertheless it
is still my position. I may be wrong but at least I
have provided some food for thought. God
bless America.
Femi Fani-Kayode served as a two time Minister
and Special Adviser under the Olusegun
Obasanjo government
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