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Barack Obama
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NameBarack Obama
Personal Details
Birth Place
  • Hawaii
  • Honolulu
ReligionChristianity
Works
  • Dreams from My Father
  • The Audacity of Hope

Barack Hussein Obama II (English: Barack Hussein Obama II), a member of the Democratic Party of the United States, was the junior senator from the state of Illinois and served as the President of the United States from January 2009 for two four-year terms as the 44th President of the United States.

Since 2007, by launching an election campaign for the presidency, he introduced himself as the Democratic Party candidate and as a national political figure in America. Since his candidacy for the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Obama advocated for ending the Iraq War.


Personal life

Barack Hussein Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in the state of Hawaii. He is the son of a black Kenyan immigrant and a white woman from Wichita, Kansas. Barack Obama's paternal grandfather, during the Kenyan independence struggle against Britain, was among several thousand Kenyans sent to detention camps of the British colonial administration. Although both his father and stepfather were Muslim; he was raised as a Christian and at the age of 4, while living in Indonesia, instead of attending a "Muslim religious school", he attended Catholic or Secular schools. Obama and his wife Michelle are currently members of the United Church.


Education

Obama's father and mother met each other at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Ann Dunham, Obama's mother, despite numerous difficulties, managed to receive a PhD in anthropology from the same university. Obama first received a Bachelor of Arts in political science with a concentration in international relations from Columbia University in 1983. In 1988, after several years of work in Chicago, he entered Harvard Law School with a scholarship. At Harvard, Obama's progress accelerated so much that in his second year of study, he was elected president of the famous journal, the Harvard Law Review. He was the first black president of this law journal. During his presidency, he brought balance to this organization, which had been fractured by opposing factions of conservative and Liberal students. Obama soon received his Juris Doctor from Harvard University with the degree of "honors" (Latin: magna cum laude). After graduating, he returned to Chicago and began his work as a civil rights lawyer. Barack Obama was employed teaching constitutional law (English: constitutional law) courses at the University of Chicago from 1992 to 2004.

Actions in the Islamic World

Barack Obama entered the White House following the Democratic Party's victory in early 2009. He declared that the focus of his foreign policy would be moving beyond the Bush era wars in the Middle East region, promising that global policy would not resort to force and military intervention unless the national security of the America was clearly and tangibly in danger and under immediate and imminent threat.

The wars of George Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan cost American citizens 4 to 6 trillion dollars. Therefore, Obama promised not to impose costs on the crisis-ridden American economy. However, despite promises and pledges, the Pentagon imposed seven oppressive aggressive wars on Muslim nations during Obama's presidency.

  • Syria: Washington has played a fundamental role in shaping the Syria crisis, and has played a role overtly and covertly in the complexity of Syria's political-security problems. Obama had a key and strategic presence in organizing the front against Damascus from the early stages of the country's crisis from March 2011. America has interfered in expanding the scope of the Syria crisis and prolonging it using various political and security tricks and tactics, and in the matter of chemical attacks against the suburbs of Damascus, America officially threatened military intervention, but the diplomatic efforts of Iran, China, and Russia and internal opposition within America prevented Obama's military attack.

Direct US military intervention began with the expansionism of ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The first US air operation against ISIS military positions in Syria began on August 8, 2014. In the initial operations, Americans used drone aircraft. On September 24, 2014, five Arab countries participated in the coalition operation against ISIS in Syria. Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE participated in the operation of bombing ISIS positions in four stages. US and allied military intervention in Syria until August 2015 was conducted from Jordanian soil and bases stationed in the Mediterranean, but after the Ankara-Washington agreement on the use of Incirlik Air Base, US air attacks against ISIS positions in Syria were carried out using Turkish facilities on August 15, 2015. The American share in military attacks against ISIS in Syria is approximately 93%.

  • Iraq: Analysts believed that the Obama administration era would mark the beginning of the final withdrawal of the aggressive US army from Iraqi soil. The Pentagon, after three years of official US army withdrawal from Iraq, dispatched 3,350 troops to that country under the pretext of the danger and threat of ISIS to the security of Baghdad.

Currently, the volume of US army presence in Iraq has reached 6,300 personnel under the pretext of increasing ISIS threat. For everyone, especially the Iraqi nation, the lack of seriousness and inefficiency of American military personnel in repelling ISIS and Takfiri threats has become evident.

  • Somalia: This African land and the Horn of Africa region has been a victim of the export of Wahhabism terrorism and the sowing of Salafism and the Al Saud flow. This land was the first workshop for the growth of jihadist Salafism, and the Al-Shabaab flow grew and propagated with Saudi thought, money, and investment in Somalia and the Horn of Africa region. Americans have had an active presence in this region since the nineties of the past century, and the oppressed nation of this country has tasted US military attacks and aggressions. Following terrorist attacks by the Somali Young Mujahideen movement against Kenya and the Somali government, the US army carried out consecutive attacks against the positions of this Salafi and Takfiri group on July 14, 2015.
  • Pakistan: The CIA has managed military operations against the Pakistani Taliban and other Takfiri and Salafi groups, and since 2012 Americans have taken military action against the positions of these groups using drones. The Pentagon has so far carried out over 350 military attacks on Pakistani soil, during which two thousand people of Pakistan were killed.

Compared to the Bush era, the number of Obama's operations has been seven times the Bush aggression, and its casualties during the Bush era were only 410 people. America has mostly concentrated its military attacks in the North "Waziristan" region under the pretext of fighting terrorism.

  • Yemen: Americans have had various interventions in Yemen under the pretext of fighting terrorism since 2002 and have so far carried out 64 air attacks using "drones" in this Islamic land. Following these attacks, approximately 393 people of Yemen were killed.

The Pentagon carried out 13 drone air attacks and three special forces air attacks in Yemen in 2014. America has also played a key and fundamental role in the aggressive attacks of the Saudi army and its allies on Yemen and turned a blind eye to all crimes of Al Saud in Yemen in various dimensions.

  • Libya: The Obama administration, using its leverage cards, forced the Security Council to issue resolution "1973" on March 17, 2011, based on which NATO and its Arab allies, under the pretext of defending the Libyan nation against the tyranny and oppression of Colonel Gaddafi and with the aim of restraining revolutionaries, occupied Libya. Libya has not found peace since liberation from the dictatorship of Gaddafi until now, and day by day the land of Omar Mukhtar has turned into ruins and its oil has been plundered.

America and the West play a key role in prolonging the crisis and the massacre of the Muslims of Libya, and a vast portion of the suffering and misery of this nation stems from US and NATO intervention.

  • Afghanistan: This land of Muslims and neighbors has long tasted the aggression of Western armies. The devastation of imposed wars by the US army in Afghanistan began on October 7, 2001, and the legacy of George Bush's aggression towards the Afghan nation was passed to Obama, and the end of 2014 was supposed to be the last day of the aggressive army's presence on this land, but with the signing of security agreements between Kabul-Washington in September 2014, the duration of aggression was extended, and it was decided that with the start of 2015, US military personnel in Afghanistan would be reduced to 9,800 and by the end of the current calendar year this presence would be halved.

Security and military agreements between America and Afghanistan have further linked the Afghan Ministries of Defense and Interior to America and made Washington's military and security presence in this land continuous.

The US presence in the region has brought no benefit to the Muslim nations of the region except aggression, destruction, increasing defense and security costs of regional countries, and intensifying dependencies, and this is while Barack Obama, early in his tenure as US President, criticizing Bush's war legacy in his first trip to Cairo and Istanbul, spoke of the need for change in US policies towards Muslims and promised a change in relations between America and Muslim nations.

Popularity

Barack Obama first attracted significant national and international attention by delivering the keynote address at the Democratic Party convention in 2004. In this speech, titled The Audacity of Hope, he spoke about the ideals of the America based on his own life and personal history: "My father was able to find the opportunity to study in a magical place called 'America' through hard work and perseverance. A country that was the cradle of freedom and opportunity for many of those who had come to this country before."

Barack Obama became a media favorite and a notable figure in Washington following his landslide victory in 2004, which occurred a few months after this speech, having also published two best-selling books:

  • The first, Dreams from My Father, was written nine years before entering the Senate and consists of his memoirs.
  • The second, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, expresses his thoughts regarding the history and current state of the United States. Obama enjoys the support of Oprah Winfrey, one of America's popular television stars. This star not only asked him to run for election but also actively campaigned for him.


Political Life

Obama entered the Senate on January 4, 2005. Despite being a newcomer to Washington, he hired a group of expert advisors that new senators usually do not pay attention to. He chose Pete Rouse, a veteran of national politics, as his chief of staff. By sidelining Hillary Clinton, his only serious rival in the Democratic National Convention, he was introduced as the party's candidate.

He also appointed economist Karen Kornbluh as his policy deputy. He also chose former Clinton administration officials, Anthony Lake and Susan Rice, as his foreign policy advisors. Obama is the fifth African American to enter the Senate and also the third African American to be elected as a senator by a high vote. He is the only senator who is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. CQ, a bipartisan weekly magazine, introduced him as the most loyal Democrat based on all Senate votes and resolutions between 2005 and 2007. He was also selected as the most liberal senator in 2007 based on a survey conducted by National Journal magazine.


Presidency

Barack Obama, the President-elect of the United States, officially began his work as President on January 20, 2009. Currently, in the Obama cabinet, Joseph Biden has been selected as Vice President-elect, Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff of the White House, and Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State.


Nobel Peace Prize Winner

In 2009, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize of the year to Barack Obama for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples". Before Obama, two other American presidents had received this award during their presidency, but Obama is the first American president to receive it in the first year of his presidency.


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