re: #99 gehazi

In fairness, the question is not “does Obama want to enact sharia law,” but do you think “Barack Obama sympathizes with the goals of Islamic fundamentalists who want to impose Islamic law around the world.”

Those aren’t quite the same thing. Especially given his personality, I can see someone saying that he sympathizes with that desire even though he doesn’t seek it for the US.

Only if that someone is the type who sees different groups of people as being more important than ideals. Imposing religious law, ours or theirs, here or there, is something that I’m quite certain Obama has no sympathy with whatsoever. If one thinks “well, he gets along with those people so he is probably sympathetic to a small minority of them establishing totalitarian theology over the rest,” then one has already made a hatful of bigoted assumptions about both him and them.