Is President Obama a Muslim? He ought to be

I am proud of our
President; he is one of the most inclusive presidents we ever had. The
following speech was delivered at the United Nations, and indeed, it is the
state of the world speech.  Obama is a genuine conflict mitigater and a
goodwill nurturer.

After reading his speech “Faith and Politics” at the Illinois State Senate
in 2007, I became a big fan, as I had just created a blog on Pluralism and he
was the man for it.

Later on in my profile, I have literally put him in the list of my mentors like
Gandhi, MLK and Pope Francis.

I disagree with a few of his policies but overall he is a visionary, a
statesman and a genuine human being. He is by far the best foreign policy
president we ever had, and he is a catalyst for most of the social changes in
our society, no one has done what he has been able to do, and has brought
recovery to a devastated economy six years ago. This is one of the most
inclusive Speeches the United Nations has witnessed since its inception.

By the way my politics (I’m a Republican) has not prevented me from giving him
the credit he deserves. This speech should go down in the history as the best
example of respecting the otherness of others.

In this speech, he has criticized Russia, Iran and the radicals among Muslims
and others, but yet, he has not pushed them away, he has taken the approach
‘blame not the sinner, but the sin’ giving them the room to join in with the
civil society. He also follows the advice of Mother Teresa, ‘if you want to
make peace, go talk with the enemies.’

My biggest disappointment in him was when he surrendered to Netanyahu and
backed off from accomplishing security for Israelis and justice for the
Palestinians, I lost him then.  I wish he has the backbone to stand up and
end the six decade old conflict that is tearing the world apart.  He
should have been a bully with Netanyahu for the sake of Israel and Palestine.

I connect with him; we have the same pluralistic inclusive attitudes in
building cohesive societies.  He is not a Muslim, but he is what a Muslim
ought to be; just, fair, merciful and respectful of all of God’s creation.
 Of course Muslims leadership is not following the wisdom of Qur’an, but
this guy is, and this is the kind of Muslim the world needs. I am willing to
say, he is what a Muslim ought to be, and Pope Francis is a model of what a
Muslim should be. 

Indeed, Obama is what a Hindu ought to be, a Jew, Buddhist or other ought to
be. He is a universal being – I used the phrase Mukhlookhul Aalameen (universal
being), just as God is God of the Universe and Prophet (any prophetic
personality) is prophet for all. Of course, a good Muslim is a good Christian
is a good Jew, is a good Hindu and a good human.

This is the kind of
speech I would have written – to bring about a sense to the world.

With his approach he
will build the largest coalition the world has ever witnessed. On September 4,
I wrote, “President Obama, go ahead ‘degrade and destroy‘
ISIS at Huffington Post. Go ahead and Destroy ISIS – there are two more
articles at the post about this issue.  He is for empowerment of the
United Nations, a body of nations for the common good, unfortunately, our
previous President had destroyed it.

Obama’s full speech at: http://foundationforpluralism.blogspot.com/2014/09/president-obamas-2014-address-to-united.html