Posted on 10/09/2008 8:24:05 PM PDT by curth
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."
Today, that post bears the same headline, but does not include an assertion that Obama never prayed in a mosque and and has never
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Can't be, or surely the New York Times would have been all over it months ago.
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If Obama were really a Christian he would not ridicule the Bible and its application to present day society.
Wish someone would ask him, it is his website.
McCain certainly won’t...who will?
Just cite the inconsistent website.
You can take the boy out of the mosque but you can’t take the mosque out of the boy.
The ‘there are many ways to heaven” crack pretty much proved that.
And "heaven" is evidently on Pennsylvania Avenue for Obama, since he's willing to sell his soul to get there.
In the eyes of muslims, once you’re a muslim, you’re always a muslim. You are either lying to the infidels if you say you aren’t but really still are, or you’ve got a death sentence against you.
In the eyes of muslims, once you’re a muslim, you’re always a muslim. You are either lying to the infidels if you say you aren’t but really still are, or you’ve got a death sentence against you.
I hope somebody catches him staring at a certain direction towards Mecca several times daily, or whether he refuses to use a mensroom facing the wrong way in relation to Mecca.
There is a lot of Islamic traditions there that will trip him up publicly, he has already made a gaffe about his “Islamic beliefs” so its possible to see how he handles situations Muslims avoid, has he ever had a pet dog for starters, will he come into contact with one, will he eat pork?
Does he secretly washes his feet several times daily?
The first thing Obama did in the Illinois Senate was declare a Muslim holiday. This is odd, isn’t it, if one is a Christian?
Obama sponsored Bill SR0110 in the 90th General Assembly
to declare November 1, 1997 to be Islamic Community Center Day.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/legisnet90/summary/900SR0110.html
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/legisnet90/srgroups/sr/900SR0110LV.html
The resolution died in 1999.
Maybe Osama HUSSEIN Obama is not a “daily prayer-rug, moon-rock worshipping, jihad against the infidel” muslim, but he’s most certainly a “KENYAN-born, INDONESIAN-raised, hate-whitey, pro-louis-farrakan & nation of islam, black panther appeasing, pro-communist & American-hating, coming out of the closet” muslim and a 20-year member of Rev’rund Wright’s trinity of hate church.
You just can’t lie THAT ONE’s background away, even with 24-7 media bias spin attempts to keep covering it up.
I don’t think he does the feet washing thing. There was a report by CBS, of all things, that said his plane smells really bad.
"Why should Obama be held accountable for his religious upbringing as a child?"
If you think that is the issue, then you are mistaken. The issue is not Barack Obama's religious upbringing, but rather his deception regarding that upbringing. I'm sure you have seen the comments from other Obama supporters here who have conceded that fact and then moved on to question the relevance.
The majority of Americans, myself included find this kind of Clintonian equivocation employed by Obama to be disgraceful and unbecoming of someone who aspires to lead our nation. Quite simply it will lead to his downfall.
Obama and his supporters know in their hearts that the truth will come out - it always does - and as such they want everyone to just "move on". But we're not playing for toothpicks here Mr. Brown. This is the Presidency of the United States we're talking about. Something that we can't and won't allow Barack Obama to disgrace.
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That, in fact, was the inspiration for the anti-freedom Leftist group MoveOn.org --when some sadly misguided liberals wanted the nation to just "move on" and ignore the fact that we had a lying scum bag in the Oval Office in Bill Clinton.
Little did they realize at the time how much service they would prove to be to the Prince of Darkness in strengthening his grip on this nation.
daniel pipes has a credible background.
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