<p>A visit to the City of Arab, Alabama was inspired by a comedian doing a show which was broadcast on Sirius Radio&#8217;s Blue Collar Comedy, which really isn&#8217;t that serious. Unfortunately, the name of the comedian was missed but he said his wife came from Arab, Alabama which got its name from a fellow who was paid to paint the town&#8217;s water tower and the name of the town had been Arad. When it was pointed out that the name was misspelled on the water tower, and the painter had already left town, they decided it was cheaper to change the name of the town.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Arab-Police.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-7526" src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Arab-Police.jpg" alt="Arab Police" width="332" height="395" /></a>Given all the controversy over Barack Obama comparing the genocide of ISIS to the crusaders 1,000 years ago, spotting the crusader on the Arab Police logo shows that there is life indeed outside of the Beltway.</p>
<p>Be sure to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Arab-Police-Department/145959912853?fref=ts" target="_blank">LIKE the Arab Police </a>on Facebook!</p>
<h3>Obama: Christians Did Bad Things &#8216;in the Name of Christ&#8217;</h3>
<p><em><strong>from Newsmax.com</strong> </em></p>
<p>President Barack Obama stirred outrage with his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday, comparing the atrocities committed by ISIS to those of Christians &#8220;in the name of Christ.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Unless we get on our high horse and think that this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;So it is not unique to one group or one religion,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;There is a tendency in us, a simple tendency that can pervert and distort our faith.&#8221;</p>
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<p>The comments drew swift reaction.</p>
<p>Appearing on &#8220;The Steve Malzberg Show&#8221; on <a href="http://www.newsmaxtv.com/" target="_self"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;">Newsmax TV</span></span></strong></a>, conservative commentator <a id="1423371766108" href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/boehner-netanyahu-congress-address/2015/02/05/id/622965/" target="_self"><strong id="1423371766109"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;">Pat Buchanan fumed</span></span></strong></a> at Obama comparing the extreme barbarity of ISIS to the Crusades.<br />
&#8220;He&#8217;s trying to give them all equivalence to what happened in the 11th century to what&#8217;s happening today? It&#8217;s astonishing,&#8221; Buchanan said.</p>
<p>&#8220;The whole idea of the Inquisition in Spain – I mean these things are hundreds of years ago. That was a 30-year war long, long ago.</p>
<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t think of any atrocities that have really been committed in the name of Christ … There&#8217;s no justification anywhere in all the books of the New Testament for any kind of violence on the scale of what we just saw with that Jordanian pilot.&#8221;</p>
<p>Buchanan said Obama has a &#8220;real problem with the cold hard truth and reality of our times&#8221; regarding terrorism.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is an element in the Islamic community worldwide, which has awakened and is embarked on a global crusade of its own to conquer western countries,&#8221; Buchanan said.</p>
<p>&#8220;But first [they want to conquer] Arab and Muslim countries and to impose upon them a Sharia law to expel the Christians, Jews, and the nonbelievers if they&#8217;re Shiite and not part of what they consider the mainstream.</p>
<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re using all manner of violence in order to achieve this, from Boko Haram to ISIS to Ansar al-Sharia and to al-Qaida. Can the president not see the reality of his own time that he&#8217;s got to retreat centuries to find what he thinks might be a moral equivalence?&#8221;</p>
<p>Buchanan also objected to Obama&#8217;s reference to racial segregation laws during the Jim Crow era during the same speech.</p>
<p>&#8220;To call it Jim Crow, which was a form of segregation of racists; to say that was rooted in Christianity, it seems to be an absurdity and injustice,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p><a href="http://allenbwest.com/2015/02/outrageous-obama-basically-equates-isis-christianity-prayer-breakfast-speech-video/" target="_self"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;">Former U.S. Rep. Allen West said</span></span></strong></a>: &#8220;President Obama is the gift that keeps on giving,&#8217; &#8220;The Islamapologist-in-Chief attempted to find moral equivalency between the brutality of ISIS and Christianity.&#8221;</p>
<p>And in <a id="1423371766111" href="http://www.catholicleague.org/obama-insults-christians/" target="_self"><strong id="1423371766111"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;">a statement on his website</span></span></strong></a>, Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, said &#8220;the president should apologize for his insulting comparison.&#8221;<br />
Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, a Republican, said Obama&#8217;s remarks were &#8220;the most offensive I’ve ever heard a President make in my lifetime.&#8221;</p>
<p>Gilmore said it illustrated that &#8220;Obama does not believe in America or the values we all share. There is no moral equivalency for the horrific behavior of terrorists whose atrocities are shocking and reprehensible&#8221;</p>
<p>Reaction also poured in on Twitter.<br />
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