Michelle Obama who last week stated she was proud of America for the first time in her adult life – despite all the great achievements of individual American’s and the country as a whole – has previously written about her feelings of inferiority.
Politico.com obtained Obama’s college thesis where she wrote that the path she chose by attending Princeton would likely lead to her “further integration and/or assimilation into a white cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant.” Read her full thesis here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
If Michelle Obama is on the periphery of society – middle class upbringing, skipped second grade, exclusive high school, Princeton undergraduate, Harvard law school, assistant to the Mayor of Chicago, and vice president of community and external affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals where she earned $316,962 a year - then the rest of us must be in a completely separate universe.
Her sentiment, though, of being on the periphery, a “visitor” on campus, is eerily similar to an Islamic hadith that teaches that Muslims live as “strangers” among the non-believers. In Ibrahim Dremali’s movie/lecture “Strangers”, the impassioned terror-linked shayk (here and here) tells listeners they must live as strangers, in America and among non-believers.
This is not to suggest Michelle Obama is a Muslim. It does however, suggest her sentiment is much more in line with, and sympathetic to, Muslims. In her thesis, Obama hoped educated blacks would not sell out to white America but she laments the research did not prove that (in other words, they integrated more). Similarly, Dremali preaches that Muslims in America should feel like strangers, implying that not feeling like a stranger would be indicative of assimilation – selling out to the non-believers.
So, if blacks are visitors among the white American social infrastructure as Mrs. Obama feels, and Muslims are strangers among the Christian/Jew non-believers as the hadith teach – what can we expect from the Obama’s in the White House? What will that Islamic Summit that Barack Hussein Obama has planned result in? How many concessions will be granted to dismantle the American social structure that allowed Mrs. Obama to earn a cool $300K on the periphery of American society?
(Side note: “Strangers” is so well produced and Dremali, with all his terrorist connections, an extremely charismatic speaker. Not only his words but also his delivery, the production quality, music, and dramatization should all be noted by those in counter-terrorism studies with a focus on propaganda and marketing – not to mention citizens of Des Moines, Iowa were Dremali is now an Imam).
Update: Princeton releases thesis after bloggers scrutinize – no word on the grade she received
Update 2: Does this CAIR rep ring a familiar “on the periphery” tune?
Tags: dremali, Iowa, islam, Michelle Obama, periphery, Princeton, racism, thesis
February 27, 2008 at 6:10 AM
Excellent commentary and info. Thanks!
March 2, 2008 at 12:30 AM
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February 15, 2009 at 2:08 AM
First, I would like to know where did you find the Hadith you have quoted. Please, be very specific with the references. Secondly, be sure to understand the context of the Hadith before go around and start telling people about Islam when you don’t know yourself what is Islam. Yoiu have to be very neutral when you interpret the Hadith. Its like Bible when if you would want to understand it, you have to understand the context as well.
And if you would like to know what Islam teaches about living among strangers than we Muslims when we meet some one the first thing we say is greetings, “As Salam Alekum Wa’ Rehmatullah”: meaning, May peace and mercy on you. this is how we live and the respect we show to people we know as well as strangers. And I can quote you many Hadiths that shows how prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, did not lived among his Jewish and Christian neighbors like strangers. He would go and make sure they are not sick and did not go to sleep hungry. My dear Sir, you just need to read and look at the right places and be neutral to understand Islam.
Finally, one great thing about United States is that “Hate do not fly here”. Take your attitude soemwhere else.
February 15, 2009 at 10:31 AM
the great thing about America is that many of us Americans refuse to submit to allah and islam – so while you can leave a comment here and lazily demand that we submit to islam and interpret in a certain way, we can just as easily say – no, in lieu of saying fuck you…
read the piece, watch the video, everything you need is right there – interpret it however you want but don’t come here expecting us to submit to your interpretation – we don’t obey sharia law, never have, never will…if you are upset because we ‘hate’ Islamic terrorism and violent jihad perpetrated in the name of Islam, then that is consistent with the Islamist attitude & it is you who should consider leaving the United States
we know he married a jew, killed her father, her husband, and her brother – i guess that eliminates the “stranger” description doesn’t it
February 19, 2009 at 11:53 AM
the one who seeks to understand will not pre judge others nor will he provoke them. Lament and manifest before you insult each.
February 19, 2009 at 1:55 PM
jim,
after thousands of years of jihad, a quran unchanged and unchallenged, there is no pre-judgement needed – it is all post-factual at this point