Comments on: Obama Speech: 5 Pillars to Economic Recovery

By: J Boogie [TLL]

J Boogie [TLL] — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:28:47 +0000

Yep, “Five Pillars” is the ONLY connection. But I think that they are taking this speech, along with a prior one on education where Obama discussed “Five Pillars” of rebuilding education, and sprinkling the bowing incident in Turkey, and coming up with “Islam Threatens America”.

It is pretty ridiculous that they would get so worked up. And if you take a look at my tweets, certain places are really REALLY getting riled up. It's actually quite sad seeing how some of the right views certain things.

By: J Boogie [TLL]

J Boogie [TLL] — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:28:47 +0000

By: f.d.

f.d. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:02:50 +0000

So the only connection between his recovery plan and Islam is the use of the words “Five Pillars?” Seriously? Evangelicals have hit the bottom of the well.

By: Huma

Huma — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:10:23 +0000

Great post, I agree. I saw the "Five Pillars" part of your headline and IMMEDIATELY thought of the 5 Pillars of Islam, but again, I'm Muslim, and I was taught about those at a very young age. :) And they're handy: they're the five main beliefs: belief in 1 God, praying 5 times a day, giving alms to the poor, fasting during the month of Ramadan, and completing Hajj if you have the means. One for each finger on your hand, the basic tenants of the faith, the fool proof guide on how to be a Muslim, bam.

Yes, it's Islamic in theme, but there's hardly anything threatening about those five pillars. If it was, say, the 5 Religions Muslims Must Wage War Again (I'm being facetious; nothing of the sort exists at all!), then I could understand the outcry and outrage. :-P

But this? Not so much.

Again, great post. I think I'll type up something about this for my blog and, of course, link back to you.