The two videos below have something in common.

The first is a slickly produced Dutch public service announcement (i.e. propaganda message) designed to undermine the “profiling” of Moroccans among the Dutch public.

The second contains excerpts from this morning’s remarks by President Barack Hussein Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C.

What they have in common is the use of false equivalences when dealing with the issue of Islamic violence. It is a very common practice among our political and media elites to find parallels between Muslim terrorism and Christian behavior, or Jewish behavior, or Hindu behavior. As if, from a nice safe atheist point of view, all religions are roughly the same, so there’s nothing we can really do about religiously inspired violence, except maybe outlaw the practice of all religions. (Which some of them probably want to do.)

The Dutch video, which has been subtitled in English, uses false equivalences such as hair color to induce guilt and self-doubt in its audience about their shameful propensity to notice the overwhelming representation of Moroccans among those who commit criminal acts in the Netherlands. What makes this production even more ghastly is the fact that it uses the indoctrination of very young children — who are barely old enough to talk, never mind understand the bogus moral imperatives that are being thrust upon them — to make its point:

Now we turn to the President of the United States, who led the nation in prayer this morning from the Washington Hilton. His speech also abounds in false equivalences — and much more.

All the examples of religiously-motivated from current affairs violence cited by Mr. Obama involve the behavior of Muslims. No other religion is mentioned as committing violent acts today. When he segues into the (wait for it) Crusades and the Inquisition, there’s no indication that he is reaching eight and five centuries into the past, respectively, to pick out examples of violence committed in the name of Christianity. Nor is there any acknowledgement that the Crusades were defensive wars intended to recover Christian lands that had been forcibly converted to Islam centuries before during violent Muslim invasions.

Next, when Mr. Obama cites slavery and Jim Crow as Christian institutions, he is on even shakier ground. As a cursory study of the history of the mid-19th century will reveal, the most fervent Christians were also the most dedicated Abolitionists. The same was true a hundred years later during the campaign for civil rights for blacks: devout (white) Christians were among the leaders of the movement. Yes, there were occasional arguments that attempted a religious justification for the subordination of blacks, but they were made by (dare I say it?) a tiny minority of Christians.

Let’s take a look at excerpts from what Mr. Obama had to say this morning. Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for annotating and uploading this video:

The last segment of he above video catches President Obama out in what is either a statement of appalling ignorance, or an outright lie. Mr. Obama asserts: “No God condones terror.” Yet there is one god who most emphatically does condone terror. In fact, he requires it of his devotees.

Consider Koran 8:60 (Yusuf Ali translation):

Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power including steeds of war to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies of Allah and your enemies and others besides whom ye may not know but whom Allah doth know. Whatever ye shall spend in the cause of Allah shall be repaid unto you and ye shall not be treated unjustly.

Liar or ignoramus? You decide.

However, if you vote for ignoramus, remember that young Barry Soetoro attended Koran school in Indonesia, where memorizing the Koran (including 8:60) was the number one priority. Maybe little Barry played hooky those days. Or slept through the lessons.

If you watch the full video, you’ll notice several peculiar long pauses in the president’s speech. Despite the obvious presence of the teleprompters in front of him, it’s as if he occasionally forgot his part, and was listening to the transmitters in his molars tell him what to do.

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For those who prefer the MSM take on Mr. Obama’s remarks, this AP article is representative.

The White House has posted a helpful transcript of Mr. Obama’s words. Below is the relevant section from which Vlad excerpted (6:42 to 11:49 in the original video; the parts we included are bolded):