Middle East Expert Rebuts Obama on Muslim Past

NewsMax ^ | October 9, 2008 | David A. Patten

[Pinkbell]

Sen. Barack Obama “is lying” when he insists that he has never prayed in a mosque and was never a Muslim, a prominent Middle East expert and journalist says.

Daniel Pipes, founder of the Middle East Forum think tank, says he fully accepts that Obama is a Christian now. But there is strong evidence that Obama received a Muslim upbringing during his years in Indonesia, Pipes said.

“It’s fine with me that he was a Muslim and a convert to Christianity,” Pipes told Newsmax. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal “is a convert from Hinduism. I have no problem with his conversion. What I have a problem with is that he’s lying” when he says he was never a Muslim.

Newsmax asked whether Pipes is alleging outright that Obama has lied about having a Muslim upbringing.

Pipes’ response: “The evidence suggests to me that he is lying, yes.”

Pipes told Newsmax, “It would start with the fact that his father was a Muslim — granted, not a practicing Muslim, but in the Muslim world, if your father is a Muslim, you’re a Muslim. His father named him Hussein, which is a name only given to Muslim babies. He went with his stepfather to a mosque. They celebrated certain Muslim holidays at the mosque together. He had knowledge of the Koran. He had knowledge of Muslim prayers. You put all this together, he was a Muslim.”

Pipes contends that a Nov. 12 post on Obama’s Web site headlined, "Barack Obama Is Not and Has Never Been a Muslim," stated: "Obama never prayed in a mosque. He has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian."

[frogjerk]

says he fully accepts that Obama is a Christian now

that is debatable.

[Tallguy]

says he fully accepts that Obama is a Christian now.

that is debatable.

Pipes was being charitable. Obama is as 'Christian' as a socialist/communist can be -- which ain't sayin' much...

[border bud]

Would the church he attended really be called a “Christian” church? The rhetoric spouted by the pastor doesn’t sound like Christian-speak to me.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Also Obama is named after Muhammed’s horse, Barack.

Wonder if that’s a sign?

[frogjerk]

My question is whether or not Obama has been baptized into the faith using the Trinitarian Formula.

[ZULU]

If Obama WAS a Muslim and IS now a Christian, as an “apostate” he would be anathama to all Orthodox Muslims and even subject to the Death Sentence under Sharia Law.

Yet the Muzzies praise this guy like the Second Coming.
My conclusion? I think he is a Muslim and only gives Christianity lip play for the benefit of the unwashed electoral masses.

[Red Dog #1]

“he fully accepts that Obama is a Christian now.”

I can fully accept that's he's an opportunist that frequented a radical church and “rediscovered” a Muslim name be accepted in Chicago politics.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Sen. Barack Obama “is lying” when he insists that he has never prayed in a mosque and was never a Muslim, a prominent Middle East expert and journalist says...I really thought the 'rats would have to go far to scarf up a more mendacious representative than Bill Clinton, but they seem to have met the challenge with Obama - when Clinton lied, at least what he said was usually plausible - we had to wait for the stained blue dress to know for sure that his claim that he did not have sexual relations with that woman was hogwash - but Obama's lies are so blatant on the face of it that anyone with a bit of commmon sense knows right away that his claim that he might not even know William Ayers if he ran into him or his claim that he sat in Rev. Wright's church for twenty years without knowing what the man believed are, to quote my wife "a crock". Democrats betry their genuine contempt for the American public if they really believe the people are so stupid they don't see through Barry O............

[Emperor Palpatine]

I believe the proper term for that is al-taqi'yah.