Posted on 12/19/2006 5:21:02 AM PST by radar101
Many months ago, readers began asking me whether Barack Obama is Muslim. Since he identifies as a Christian, I said, "no," and responded that he was not raised by his Kenyan father.
But, then, I decided to look further into Obama's background. His full name--as by now you have probably heard--is Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. Hussein is a Muslim name, which comes from the name of Ali's son--Hussein Ibn Ali. And Obama is named after his late Kenyan father, the late Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., apparently a Muslim.
And while Obama may not identify as a Muslim, that's not how the Arab and Muslim Streets see it. In Arab culture and under Islamic law, if your father is a Muslim, so are you. And once a Muslim, always a Muslim. You cannot go back. In Islamic eyes, Obama is certainly a Muslim. He may think he's a Christian, but they do not.
Then, there are the other items in his background. As best-selling author Scott Turow wrote in Salon, Obama went to a Muslim school for two years in Indonesia. His mother, Anna, married an Indonesian man (likely another Muslim, as Indonesia is Muslim-dominated and has the largest Islamic population in the world).
And Obama has a "born-again" affinity for the nation of his Muslim father, Kenya, and his Kenyan sister. (Although Kenya is largely Christian, it has a fast-growing Muslim population that has engaged in a good deal of religious violence and riots against Christians. And Kenyan courts will apply Sharia law, when the participants are Muslim.) Wrote Turow:
Obama's father died in a traffic accident in Nairobi in 1982, but while Obama was working in Chicago, he met his Kenyan sister, Auma, a linguist educated in Germany who was visiting the United States. When she returned to Kenya in 1986 to teach for a year at the University of Nairobi, Obama finally made the trip to his father's homeland he had long promised himself. There, he managed to fully embrace a heritage and a family he'd never fully known and come to terms with his father, whom he'd long regarded as an august foreign prince, but now realized was a human being burdened by his own illusions and vulnerabilities. So, even if he identifies strongly as a Christian, and even if he despised the behavior of his father (as Obama said on Oprah); is a man who Muslims think is a Muslim, who feels some sort of psychological need to prove himself to his absent Muslim father, and who is now moving in the direction of his father's heritage, a man we want as President when we are fighting the war of our lives against Islam? Where will his loyalties be?
Is that even the man we'd want to be a heartbeat away from the President, if Hillary Clinton offers him the Vice Presidential candidacy on her ticket (which he certainly wouldn't turn down)?
NO WAY, JOSE . . . Or, is that, HUSSEIN?
Upon graduating in 1983, Obama worked for one year at Business International Corporation
before moving to Chicago and taking a job with a non-profit organization
helping local churches organize job training programs for residents of poor neighborhoods.[10]
On returning to Chicago, Obama supported a voter registration drive, then worked for the civil rights law firm Miner, Barnhill & Galland, and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1993 until his federal election.[11]
It is supposed from the words of Nathanael in Joh 1:46 that the city of Nazareth was held in great disrepute, either because, it is said, the people of Galilee were a rude and less cultivated class, and were largely influenced by the Gentiles who mingled with them, or because of their lower type of moral and religious character. But there seems to be no sufficient reason for these suppositions. The Jews believed that, according to Mic 5:2, the birth of the Messiah would take place at Bethlehem, and nowhere else. Nathanael held the same opinion as his countrymen, and believed that the great "good" which they were all expecting could not come from Nazareth.
I thought the subject was names. Why wold you want to change the subject?
There will never be an American president whose name rhymes with Iraq & Osama.
Not so. Barak Obama has been a Senior Lecturer in Law at the (private) University of Chicago School of Law since 1993. As such, and as a former President of the Harvard Law Review, he would be expected to publish legal writings (that is what all the other faculty at Chicago do). He has had no peer reviewed publications., but rather published some an autobiography and a book with his musings. Publications, Presentations and Works in Progress.
From reading his own quotes regarding his religious beliefs, Obama is a secular humanist in a Christian disguise.
He was born in Hawaii, which makes him a US Citizen by birth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
How about he wants to take the oath on the Koran.
Mr. Obama...If as you've said you despise your namesake father's (Muslim-oriented) behavior(s), and you wish to assuage voter distrust, will you publicly denounce Islam as a false religion and/or officially change your middle name to a non-Muslim name. Such a move would actively demonstrate in action your new Christian faith, and not just mere words.
That minister sounds like he could be a member of the United Church of Future Dhimmis. Perhaps he should pack his bags and go to Europe in preparation for his subservient lifestyle.
If I ever go to church again, I will NOT tolerate a minister who does not affirm God.
Safe to say, in the opinion of some muslims, the penalty is death.
Yes.
I don't think the guy is even a citizen.
There's nothing at all about him that's in any remote sense "American" other than the accident of his birth.
Why is he even in the country? What has he and his family (but most importantly, him!) had to do with the United States?
Almost nothing. So why is he here? Why are we even talking about this foreign alien ruling us?
That's Ellison. Obamah isn't a Muslim.
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