Throughout his time in office, Obama has actively worked to attract more Muslims to join the Military and Pentagon – the former officially having 4500 Muslims, the Pentagon stated back in 2014. The number of Muslims in the Pentagon hasn’t been released.
“Our nation and our entire military family remain stronger because of the service and sacrifice of people of all faiths, including the thousands of patriotic Muslim Americans who have served and still serve in this long period of war,” Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work stated earlier last year.
But getting more Muslims to join isn’t the only objective, hiring them into upper level positions that were cleared out as part of Obama’s ‘litmus test’ has also been on the agenda.
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Obama has done nothing for this country but destroy it from within he’s recruiting in his own little army inside the United States
I did answer!! Just because you dont like facts doesn’t mean there aren’t answers. Where are your answers mike?
The U.S. is the only developed country posting growth! How is it destroyed?
Jackson is correct. Obama is, and always has been, an American citizen. Haters have been spouting nonsense since the beginning of his first campaign, but believe me, if he weren’t an American citizen, he would have never been sworn into office. We have endless amounts of resources to explore such details. The fact anyone is still arguing that point just shows how ignorant they are. The end.
Where do you get the idea he is Muslim?
Let’s fire him……
He would have never before president of he was not actually am american citizen. That is something that has to be verified by officials before it can be made public. If you really think his birth certificate is f**e then take it out on your Republican representatives, because who have the authority to make such a bills claim and yet they sure seem silent since he made it public, don’t they?
No, Russ. It wasn’t. This country was founded on the idea that every religious affiliation deserves equal representation. We left
Europe under the control of the Catholic Church, and developed the freedom to allow eachother the benefit to exercise our own personal beliefs. I take it you’ve never actually read the Constitution or Bill of Rights? Never taken the time to look into the personal religious beliefs of any of our founding fathers?
The Christian Right regularly claims that America is a “Christian Nation” and was founded on Christian principles. If this is the case, then those principles should be identifiable in America’s founding legal document, the Constitution. If the Constitution explicitly reflects Christian principles and doctrines, then the Christian Right is correct that America was founded on Christianity; otherwise, their claims are wishful thinking at best. So where are God and religion in the Constitution?
Article VI says: “No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.” In practice this prohibition was often violated, and even today there are unenforceable prohibitions in state constitutions against atheists holding public office. If America is a Christian Nation, why weren’t public offices limited to Christians, or even particular types of Christians? Why weren’t public offices limited solely to monotheists or to theists?
The first amendment of the Bill of Rights: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The first amendment to the Constitution protects the free exercise of religion. It does not protect just the free exercise of Christianity nor does it suggest that Christianity and Christians should be have special protections and privileges. The authors used the term “religion,” meaning that all religions have exactly the same status before the law and the government. If they had thought that Christianity were special, they’d have said so; instead, they treated it like every other religion.
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God, the Constitution, and the Christian Right:
The Christian Right regularly claims that America is a “Christian Nation” and was founded on Christian principles. If this is the case, then those principles should be identifiable in America’s founding legal document, the Constitution. If the Constitution explicitly reflects Christian principles and doctrines, then the Christian Right is correct that America was founded on Christianity; otherwise, their claims are wishful thinking at best. So where are God and religion in the Constitution?
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No Religious Tests:
Article VI says: “No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.” In practice this prohibition was often violated, and even today there are unenforceable prohibitions in state constitutions against atheists holding public office. If America is a Christian Nation, why weren’t public offices limited to Christians, or even particular types of Christians? Why weren’t public offices limited solely to monotheists or to theists?
Sundays Excepted Clause:
Some take hope from Article 1, Section 7, Clause 2 which gives the president an extra day to deal with a bill from Congress if the 10th day falls on Sunday – known as the “Sundays Excepted Clause.” Is this an establishment of the Christian sabbath and thus of Christianity? No, it was a recognition of the fact that many Christians wouldn’t work on this day and that an extra day may be needed. It must be noted that at this time, the government continued to deliver mail on Sundays.
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In the Year of Our Lord?:
At the end of the Constitution, the date is prefaced with “in the year of our Lord.” Is this an expression of the fundamental role played by Jesus and Christianity in the Constitution? No, this was just the standard dating convention. It’s no more significant than using BC and AD when writing dates now. At most, it’s an example of the cultural importance of Christianity at the time; it’s not a sign of the political or philosophical importance of Christianity to the Constitution. Read More…
Oaths and Affirmations:
The Constitution requires elected official take oaths or affirmations before serving; was this understood as an example of the importance of swearing an oath to God? No – if it was meant to get people to swear an oath to God because only theists could be trusted, the Constitution would have said so (and would not have banned religious tests for public office). Oaths can be taken on more than the Bible and God; the choice of using an affirmation signals that religious oaths were not privileged.
First Amendment: Free Exercise:
The first amendment to the Constitution protects the free exercise of religion. It does not protect just the free exercise of Christianity nor does it suggest that Christianity and Christians should be have special protections and privileges. The authors used the term “religion,” meaning that all religions have exactly the same status before the law and the government. If they had thought that Christianity were special, they’d have said so; instead, they treated it like every other religion.
First Amendment: No Establishment:
The first amendment to the Constitution also prohibits the government from “establishing” any religion. The meaning of “establishment” is hotly debated and some insist that it merely means that the government can’t create a national religion. This reading is too narrow and would make the clause all but meaningless. To have relevance, it must mean that the government can’t favor, endorse, promote, or support any religions just as it can’t hinder any: it must remain as neutral as possible.
Notice it makes no acceptation for Christianity.
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“If I could conceive that the general government might ever be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded, that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.”
~Founding Father George Washington, letter to the United Baptist Chamber of Virginia, May 1789