(Quote)"Like the Jewish legal tradition, Islamic law is a conversation represented in dynamic and diverse schools of thought. Edward N. Luttwak speaks of an essentialized Islamic law that does not exist.
Nevertheless, there is no dispute among Muslims that Islam is not an ethnic affiliation, nor is it passed through the gene pool. A Muslim parent is morally responsible for raising his or her child within Islam; children, for their part, have no legal culpability. There is no legal obligation by a child to affiliate with the Muslim community.
Islam does not consider Barack Obama ever to have been part of the Muslim community. Apostasy has no relevance here.
Ingrid Mattson (Canadian) Hartford, May 12, 2008
The writer is president of the Islamic Society of North America, the largest umbrella Muslim group in the country."
Mattson has a "Chicago" background.(End of Quote)
A Conversation with Canadian, Ingrid Mattson. Dr. Ingrid Mattson, Ph.D. is a Canadian born Muslim revert Hartford CT professor and activist.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/opinion/lweb14muslim.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Source of post above NYTimes..(link failed... I failed!)