Backlash over President Obama’s National Prayer Breakfast Speech

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Political pundits are taking President Obama to task over his remarks that Americans and Christians shouldn’t get on their “high horse” accompanied by references to the Crusades and American slavery during the National Prayer Breakfast. Here are some of the remarks:

Charles Krauthammer: “I mean, for him to say that all of us have sinned, all religions have transgressed — it was adolescent stuff. Everyone knows that. What’s important is what’s happening now. Christianity no longer goes on Crusades. It gave up the Inquisition a while ago. the Book of Joshua is knee deep in blood. That story is over too…. And for the president to be lecturing us and to say we shouldn’t get on our high horse and to not remember our own path is ridiculous”

Laura Ingraham: “Are the Spanish rulers still burning heretics? Are they still executing them? No. Civilization has advanced…. And sorry, this Islamic jihadist movement is regressing. So the president can just say that, but instead, he has to lecture us. It’s something in his DNA; he always has to lecture America about our evil past.

Mark Levin: “[Obama] is stuck in his own ideology. He’s stubborn and ignorant at the same time. There are black Christians, and black Muslims in Africa who are being slaughtered, they don’t want to hear about the Jim Crow laws. There are Christians, there are other Muslims being slaughtered in the Middle East, they don’t need a lecture from Obama about Christianity. The fact of the matter is Obama is not doing anything effective or substantive to stop genocide in our time.”

On the other side of the coin, Rev. Al Sharpton took Fox News to task for slanted and inadequate coverage of the President’s speech, showing the clip where Obama calls ISIL “a brutal, vicious death cult that, in the name of religion, carries out unspeakable acts of barbarism.”

While Obama made it a point to say that ISIL is betraying Islam and no God condones terror, he did not make any similar points about the Crusades or slavery.