FASTING FOOD AT THE WHITE HOUSE
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Originally, I thought that President Obama’s refusal to invite Prime Minister Netanyahu to a White House dinner was merely because of our president’s animus toward Israel in general and Netanyahu in particular. It turns out, however, that Obama was saving dinner delicacies for a gala meal to honor Prime Minister Modi of India. At the White House dinner, P.M. Modi only had warm water. As a religious Hindu, he was observing Navrati, a Hindu festival, and was fasting.
The White House had been informed that Modi was fasting, but they assumed that meant that he was eating fast food dishes. I’m guessing that Modi’s uneaten food will be saved for Netanyahu, whom the White House will invite for a barbecue on Yom Kippur.
President Obama might not have known about Navrati. But perhaps he considered Modi to not be a real Hindu. Our President has proven to be somewhat of an expert on theology. At the UN, he explained that ISIS was not truly Muslim and he reiterated his assertion that no religion tolerates the killing of innocents. I’m guessing that part of our President’s expertise must have come from attending twenty years of sermons by the Reverend Wright who perhaps had suggested that the Crusades and Inquisition were part of a Jewish conspiracy.
On the other hand, perhaps it is not really a matter of theology. After all, the State Department has adopted the new dictum that if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and even flies like a duck, then it is probably a kangaroo. They are constantly providing us with new names for Al Quaida terrorists . In part this is in order to disguise the fact that the requiem for Al Quaida pronounced by President Obama was a bit premature.
Also this is because our administration is so enamored with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, that it would much prefer that the perpetrators of these atrocities turned out to be 7th Day Adventists.
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