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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConservative author says photo shows Obama ‘flashing one-finger affirmation of Islamic faith’
Prsident Barack Obama has moved beyond the terrorist fist jab with another hand gesture that conservatives believe proves he is, in fact, a Muslim.
Writing for The American Thinker website, the blogger and Islamophobic author F.W. Burleigh closely examines a photograph of Obama taken in August during a meeting with African dignitaries.
It shows Barack Hussein Obama flashing the one-finger affirmation of Islamic faith to dozens of African delegates, claims Burleigh, author of Its All About Muhammad, a Biography of the Worlds Most Notorious Prophet.
The Associated Press photo shows the smiling president holding up his right index finger in an apparent interaction with someone as he walks in a line past dignitaries already assembled for a group photo.
Video (below) from the event shows Obama made the gesture after one of the dignitaries commented to him as he passes, and the president and three men he behind him are all laughing or smiling.
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Conservative author says photo shows Obama ‘flashing one-finger affirmation of Islamic faith’ (Original Post)
DonViejo
Feb 2015
OP
Now if he just extends his thumb and holds his hand in front of his forehead...
pinboy3niner
Feb 2015
#10
This photo should be posted every place this ludricious article is circulated. Especially
freshwest
Feb 2015
#14
Do you remember when a fly buzzed around him? Proof that Obama is the "Lord of the Flies": Satan!
DetlefK
Feb 2015
#4
I thought that was the uber-xian "one way" finger thingie? Here is the graphic...
uppityperson
Feb 2015
#13
1971, I held up a finger to a friend "wait a moment" and he broke up laughing as it was the
uppityperson
Feb 2015
#17
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)1. Here's Ted Cruz doing it for real, not wagging his finger:
I'd also be interested to know if this is an affirmation of monotheistic faith used by both muslim and christian fundies..?
Rex
(65,616 posts)3. Can we make that go viral?
Obviously Ted Cruz supports terrorists. Pass it on.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)6. 'May I have a moment to pick my nose?' nt
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)10. Now if he just extends his thumb and holds his hand in front of his forehead...
...that would be perfect.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)14. This photo should be posted every place this ludricious article is circulated. Especially
Since with Cruz, it's the real thing. He's been brought up to believe from his church that he's ANOINTED to rule the USA.
tridim
(45,358 posts)2. In other words, they have absolutely NOTHING on Obama..
and it's freaking them out since he's almost gone.
Rex
(65,616 posts)5. They never can get anything to stick so it drives them crazy.
Obama will exit office with a sterling record and zero scandals. I LOVE how it drives the GOP crazy.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)4. Do you remember when a fly buzzed around him? Proof that Obama is the "Lord of the Flies": Satan!
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)7. Googling "one-finger affirmation" leads only to this article
and places like Free Republic agreeing with it:
The din needs to become a roar. More people in this country and around the world need to realize that they are dealing with a Muslim in Obama. He is practicing the tenet of taqqiyah against America by trying to act Christian while barely concealing his true nature.
Obama is like the character Edgar the Bug played by Vincent dOnofrio in the movie Men In Black. He swoops down on America, snatches up popularity by inject himself into the skin of community organizing and academe. He prances around the country spouting his cockroach beliefs while appearing human and affable. Every time he talks, a little bit of the skin stretches, sometimes it cracks and the Islamist cockroach in him bleeds out a little.
Americans need to stomp this bug. The leaders of Canada and Rome see the Islamist threat for what it is, but the worlds leading superpower is blind to the threat because the Commander in Chief is nothing more than a cockroach directly the light away from the kitchen floor where his brethren are scurrying into position to take over the whole damn house.
15 posted on 2/18/2015, 8:46:29 AM by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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Obama is like the character Edgar the Bug played by Vincent dOnofrio in the movie Men In Black. He swoops down on America, snatches up popularity by inject himself into the skin of community organizing and academe. He prances around the country spouting his cockroach beliefs while appearing human and affable. Every time he talks, a little bit of the skin stretches, sometimes it cracks and the Islamist cockroach in him bleeds out a little.
Americans need to stomp this bug. The leaders of Canada and Rome see the Islamist threat for what it is, but the worlds leading superpower is blind to the threat because the Commander in Chief is nothing more than a cockroach directly the light away from the kitchen floor where his brethren are scurrying into position to take over the whole damn house.
15 posted on 2/18/2015, 8:46:29 AM by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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Another tell. How much more do people need?
24 posted on 2/18/2015, 10:52:18 AM by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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24 posted on 2/18/2015, 10:52:18 AM by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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For followers of ISIS, a single raised index finger has become a sign of their cause, and it is increasingly common in photographs of militants. Some have even gone so far as to call the symbol the jihadi equivalent of a gang sign.
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141956/nathaniel-zelinsky/isis-sends-a-message
25 posted on 2/18/2015, 12:39:07 PM by Para-Ord.45 (Americans, happy in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own dictators.)
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http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141956/nathaniel-zelinsky/isis-sends-a-message
25 posted on 2/18/2015, 12:39:07 PM by Para-Ord.45 (Americans, happy in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own dictators.)
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TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)8. I got a finger for this genius.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)9. Hey GOP... here's your one finger affirmation
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)11. Poor Obama...no matter what he does or does not do..they will hate on him.
I admit to being quite shocked at the racism and invective shown since he was elected.
It is the singlet deepest concern I have about this country.
spanone
(135,843 posts)12. conservative author is a racist s.o.b.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)13. I thought that was the uber-xian "one way" finger thingie? Here is the graphic...
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)15. I knew it! Good catch!
I first the one finger thing on Facebook about two years ago, used by muslim fundies.
I then saw Ted Cruz do it and figured it must be a "One God" thing used by both brands of fundies.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)17. 1971, I held up a finger to a friend "wait a moment" and he broke up laughing as it was the
Jesus, One Way symbol even back then.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)16. Let's flash our middle finger at Burleigh!
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)18. This jenius probably thinks Beyonce's in the Illuminati
tanyev
(42,564 posts)19. So that's what Gov. Brewer was doing.