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→"But to be credible, those who condemn that slander must also ...}: Andy, you are a lawyer, you are well versed in rhetoric.
If you have to delete the "however" part of a quote, the point you want to make by the quotation is weak. I won't engage in an edit-war, but readers of this trustworthy encyclopedia should be aware of your attempts on misquoting. --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 19:35, 27 June 2019 (EDT)
If you have to delete the "however" part of a quote, the point you want to make by the quotation is weak. I won't engage in an edit-war, but readers of this trustworthy encyclopedia should be aware of your attempts on misquoting. --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 19:35, 27 June 2019 (EDT)
:The second sentence is nothing more than claptrap. Obama's reference to "Holocaust deniers," for example, has no relevancy to the sentence being quoted. Can explain the point you think he is trying to make, and why you think it is relevant?--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 20:32, 27 June 2019 (EDT)
:The second sentence is nothing more than claptrap. Obama's reference to "Holocaust deniers," for example, has no relevancy to the sentence being quoted. Can explain the point you think he is trying to make, and why you think it is relevant?--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 20:32, 27 June 2019 (EDT)
The full quote is:{{cquote|The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. But to be credible, those who condemn that slander must also condemn the hate we see in the images of Jesus Christ that are desecrated, or churches that are destroyed, or the Holocaust that is denied. }}
Andy, you are a lawyer, you are well versed in rhetoric. You fully understand what you are doing. But I'll try to explain it for your readers.
Take the sentence {{cquote|The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.}} On its own, it can be interpreted in various ways: a narrow one "you should not slander the prophet as you should not slander anyone" and a broad way "the prophet is the only one which should not be slandered". Given the context of the article "Obama is a muslim and he wants to strengthen Islam", quoting the sentence alone implies the broad way.
But actually (whether sincerely or not), Obama wanted the sentence to be understood in the narrow way, as he implies that the prophet, Jesus Christ, and the Jewish Religion should not be slandered.
Andy, you know this, there should be no need for me to make this point explicitly. --[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 20:22, 28 June 2019 (EDT)