Posted on 10/11/2012 7:44:43 AM PDT by Perseverando
Exclusive: Joseph Farah points out media's typical absence on sensational story
Let’s face it. What we don’t know about Barack Obama could fill volumes.
Yet, here he is after spending four years in the White House and facing re-election – still an enigma.
It’s not just Obama’s tendency toward secrecy and control of information that is at fault. It’s also a deep, deep institutional problem within the media – both the big corporate press and the so-called alternative press. There are certain stories they just won’t cover. There are certain avenues they will just not explore. There are certain subjects just too sensitive to pursue.
This week, we found another one that strikes right at the core of Obama’s very identity – and the many contradictory stories he has told about his life.
That is the amazing and sensational tale of Obama’s ring.
Inscription on Obama's ring
It’s a ring he wears on the finger generally reserved for wedding bands. It looks like a wedding band. But he has worn it at least since his days at Occidental College, through his years at Columbia and Harvard, where it became something of a joke and puzzlement among his classmates. It’s the same ring Michelle Robinson put on his finger at the couple’s wedding ceremony in 1992. He continues to wear it today.
Now, a detailed WND study of images of the ring by Arabic-language and Islamic experts reveals it is adorned with the first part of the Islamic declaration of faith, the Shahada: “There is no god except Allah.”
The Shahada is the first of the Five Pillars of Islam, expressing the two fundamental beliefs that make a person a Muslim: There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is Allah’s prophet.
Sincere recitation of the Shahada is the sole
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Not even close but thanks for playing.
I guess you’re just not very observant.
Or perhaps I don’t let other people do my thinking for me.
Let me send one more example, and if you're not convinced, you're just not convinced.
Here's an inscription for “Allah” in a Syriac script:
Nope. Not the same.
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