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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