While researching my previous blog, One Finger Salute, I came across a different kind of one finger salute that President Obummer surreptitiously gave to the assembled African Muslim leaders at a U.S.-African Leaders conference last August in Washington, D.C. This stylized hand-sign, used by Muslims around the world, is called the shahada and is a show of solidarity and an affirmation of Allah being the one true God ... see: The American Thinker Revelation for a more complete description of how this sign is made and what it means to other Muslims.
If one questions how Obummer would know this symbolism, don't forget that he admittedly spent almost four formative years in Muslim Indonesia with his mother and step-father ... wherein he attended a madrassa school being taught the way of Islam.
6 comments:
OMG!! Trump uses that gesture all the time. And there are even dozens of emoticons and giant foam stadium hands with that gesture! Even SpongeBob SquarePants does it.
What did that kissing and handholding by W with King Saud mean? That is more intimate than a pointied index finger IMHO.
Of course, what Obummer was signaling to this collection of African Muslim leaders was, "We're (the U.S.) number one!"
About the same as Obummer's bowing to him ...
No way. I will bow to you sir but i will not kiss you or hold your hand...
Possibly because Saud was a Sunni and Obummer is a Shia?
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