Obama: religious schools block lasting peace in Northern Ireland

[Desperado]

US President Barack Obama has argued that Muslim schools are an impediment to the establishment of a lasting peace in Afghanistan.

Speaking to a crowd in Kabul, during a trip to Afghanistan for a summit meeting, Obama said that “segregated schools” block the path to full reconciliation. “If towns remain divided, if Muslims have their schools and buildings and Non-Muslims have theirs, if we can't see ourselves in one another, if fear or resentment are allowed to harden, that encourages division, it discourages co-operation," he said.

Actually that is not what happened. Mostly because Obama does not have the balls to stand up to the Islamic hardliners. What did happen is Obama goes to Northern Ireland and tells them they should close the Catholic Schools
The President tells Ireland they should close Catholic Schools because they divide the country.
This President is so two faced it is not funny.

Obama: religious schools block lasting peace in Northern Ireland : News Headlines - Catholic Culture

US President Barack Obama has argued that parochial schools are an impediment to the establishment of a lasting peace in Northern Ireland.

Speaking to a crowd in Belfast, during a trip to Northern Ireland for a G8 summit meeting, Obama said that “segregated schools” block the path to full reconciliation. “If towns remain divided, if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we can't see ourselves in one another, if fear or resentment are allowed to harden, that encourages division, it discourages co-operation," he said.

 

[krych3k]

Good catch, thanks for sharing. Obama really does believe in top down direction to "force" society into a leftist vision of utopia. It also demonstrates an inability to get past his false sense of moral/cultural/religious/ethnic/social relativism. He really believes that all parties to a conflict are equally culpable for current problems, i.e. the Taliban and more "ordinary" residents of Afghanistan, or Israel and the "Palestinians".

 

[Cenere]

Why would Obama discourage the spread of his own religion? I agree though, it seems pointless to tell one country and not the other. It would be nice to see some peace in Ireland, but then again it would be nice to see some peace all over the world. If you want to be a martyr you should be careful how you pick.

 

[noose4]

Afghanistan is not known for their schools and segregation is a bad thing.

 

[Stephanie]

this man is awful...he again runs around to other countries and run us down

 

[skye]

Every time this O Hussein monster opens his mouth he scares me!

 

[SteadyMercury]

Obviously Ireland has had issue with a divide between Catholics and Protestants, he's saying that segregating kids in school along these religious lines is part of the problem.

It is a reasonable point.

 

[Stephanie]

we see his king like presence has fallen off..Only 6000 people wanted to hear his sermons of how he is the one of the world..

and how's that lovely PRIVATE school your children attend so they don't have to mingle with the low class people in this country?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Obviously Ireland has had issue with a divide between Catholics and Protestants, he's saying that segregating kids in school along these religious lines is part of the problem.

It is a reasonable point.

And yet no attempt to tell Muslims their religious schools which we KNOW produce terrorists should shut down. Go figure.

 

[Hyrcanus]

I guess Jewish Madrassahs in Israel are also evil?

Or are religious schools only bad when they are Muslim.

 

[Desperado]

I guess Jewish Madrassahs in Israel are also evil?

Or are religious schools only bad when they are Muslim.

No one was implying any school was bad, just pointing out Obama's double standard.

 

[krych3k]

I guess Jewish Madrassahs in Israel are also evil?

Or are religious schools only bad when they are Muslim.

No such thing as a Jewish madrassah. Why do you hate Jews so much? Are you a Muslim, a communist, a "white nationalist", or some combination of all the above?

 

[Hyrcanus]

I guess Jewish Madrassahs in Israel are also evil?

Or are religious schools only bad when they are Muslim.

No such thing as a Jewish madrassah. Why do you hate Jews so much? Are you a Muslim, a communist, a "white nationalist", or some combination of all the above?

No such thing as a Jewish Midrasha?

what do you think Jewish religious schools for women are called?

They are called "Midrashas". Learn a little.

 

[Hyrcanus]

I guess Jewish Madrassahs in Israel are also evil?

Or are religious schools only bad when they are Muslim.

No one was implying any school was bad, just pointing out Obama's double standard.

Afghanistan does not have a major conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims.

Having Muslims religious schools in no way contributes to any intra-Afghani conflict.

Its no different that Catholic schools or Jewish schools for women, which just happen to be called "Midrashas".

 

[RetiredGySgt]

I guess Jewish Madrassahs in Israel are also evil?

Or are religious schools only bad when they are Muslim.

No one was implying any school was bad, just pointing out Obama's double standard.

Afghanistan does not have a major conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims.

Having Muslims religious schools in no way contributes to any intra-Afghani conflict.

Its no different that Catholic schools or Jewish schools for women, which just happen to be called "Midrashas".

It is a proven fact that madras promote recruit and teach Jihad and terrorism.

 

[Hyrcanus]

No one was implying any school was bad, just pointing out Obama's double standard.

Afghanistan does not have a major conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims.

Having Muslims religious schools in no way contributes to any intra-Afghani conflict.

Its no different that Catholic schools or Jewish schools for women, which just happen to be called "Midrashas".

It is a proven fact that madras promote recruit and teach Jihad and terrorism.

Do you know what a Madrassah is?

Its a school. Madrassah means school. Thats it.

The Hebrew word for school is "Midrasha". The Hebrew word for House of Learning is "Bet haMidrash".

Its just a school. Some of them teach extremism. Some of them teach math and science.

Get over it.

 

[krych3k]

I guess Jewish Madrassahs in Israel are also evil?

Or are religious schools only bad when they are Muslim.

No such thing as a Jewish madrassah. Why do you hate Jews so much? Are you a Muslim, a communist, a "white nationalist", or some combination of all the above?

No such thing as a Jewish Midrasha?

what do you think Jewish religious schools for women are called?

They are called "Midrashas". Learn a little.

No they're not. A Beit Midrash is a religious school. Contemporary schools are referred to as Btei Sefer (plural, house of books). Don't use the term "Madrassah", which is associated with Islam and by extension contemporary terrorism, with Jewish schools of the secular or religious variety. You're trying to draw false parallels between Judaism and Islam where none exist.

 

[Avatar4321]

Obviously Ireland has had issue with a divide between Catholics and Protestants, he's saying that segregating kids in school along these religious lines is part of the problem.

It is a reasonable point.

So it's the religious differences dividing the people, not the separate governments?

 

[Avatar4321]

I guess Jewish Madrassahs in Israel are also evil?

Or are religious schools only bad when they are Muslim.

No one was implying any school was bad, just pointing out Obama's double standard.

Afghanistan does not have a major conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims.

Having Muslims religious schools in no way contributes to any intra-Afghani conflict.

Its no different that Catholic schools or Jewish schools for women, which just happen to be called "Midrashas".

How about Sunni and Shiite? That be more analogous.

 

[LuckyDuck01!]

Religious schools do promote divisions in society, especially Islamic schools, as they preach not only the persecution of "infidels/non-believers," but also their extermination if they refuse to convert or totally abide by their religious laws.
The one significant evil in humanity is religion.