Posted on 01/21/2007 4:24:30 PM PST by ricks_place
Well, after all of the left-wing websites and their readers' hate-mail attacking me for pointing out Barack Obama's Muslim background, in "Barack Hussein Obama: Once a Muslim, Always a Muslim," I wonder if they will now attack their little darling, Hillary Clinton, who is now pursuing the legitimate questions I first asked on this site.
Looks like her camp agreed with my take and is going even further, according to an Insight Magazine article sent to me by my friend, Ruth King:
Hillary's Team Has Questions About Obama's Muslim Background
Are the American people ready for an elected president who was educated in a Madrassa as a young boy and has not been forthcoming about his Muslim heritage?
This is the question Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's camp is asking about Sen. Barack Obama. An investigation of Mr. Obama by political opponents within the Democratic Party has discovered that Mr. Obama was raised as a Muslim by his stepfather in Indonesia. Sources close to the background check, which has not yet been released, said Mr. Obama, 45, spent at least four years in a so-called Madrassa, or Muslim seminary, in Indonesia.
"He was a Muslim, but he concealed it," the source said. "His opponents within the Democrats hope this will become a major issue in the campaign."
When contacted by Insight, Mr. Obama's press secretary said he would consult with "his boss" and call back. He did not.
Sources said the background check, conducted by researchers connected to Senator Clinton, disclosed details of Mr. Obama's Muslim past. The sources said the Clinton camp concluded the Illinois Democrat concealed his prior Muslim faith and education.
"The background investigation will provide major ammunition to his opponents," the source said. "The idea is to show Obama as deceptive."
In two best-selling autobiographies-"The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream" and "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance"-Mr. Obama, born in Honolulu where his parents met, mentions but does not expand on his Muslim background, alluding only to his attendance at a "predominantly Muslim school."
The sources said the young Obama was given the name Hussein by his Muslim father, which the Illinois Democrat rarely uses in public.
His father was black and came from Kenya. Mr. Obama's mother, the daughter of a farmer, came from Wichita, Kansas. Mr. Obama's parents divorced when he was two years old. His father returned to Kenya.
Later, Mr. Obama's mother married an Indonesian student and the family moved to Jakarta. . . .
The sources said the background check concerned Mr. Obama's years in Jakarta. In Indonesia, the young Obama was enrolled in a Madrassa and was raised and educated as a Muslim. Although Indonesia is regarded as a moderate Muslim state, the U.S. intelligence community has determined that today most of these schools are financed by the Saudi Arabian government and they teach a Wahhabi doctrine that denies the rights of non-Muslims.
Although the background check has not confirmed that the specific Madrassa Mr. Obama attended was espousing Wahhabism, the sources said his Democratic opponents believe this to be the case—and are seeking to prove it. The sources said the opponents are searching for evidence that Mr. Obama is still a Muslim or has ties to Islam.
Mr. Obama attends services at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago's South Side. However, he is not known to be a regular parishioner.
"Obama's education began a life-long relationship with Islam as a faith and Muslims as a community," the source said. "This has been a relationship that contains numerous question marks."
The sources said Mr. Obama spent at least four years in a Muslim school in Indonesia. They said when Mr. Obama was 10, his mother and her second husband separated. She and her son returned to Hawaii.
"Then the official biography begins," the source said.
Barack Obama very conspicuously omits these important facts. He's never directly addressed them and didn't return the Insight Magazine's reporters queries about his Muslim background. Why? Why can't he acknowledge his Muslim background and disavow it? Don't watch for him ever to do that. And that's why it's suspicious.
The facts about Obama's Muslim background raise a LOT of questions. Legitimate questions about a religion dominated by extremist strains that openly call for the destruction of America and the West.
Anyone who does not want to look into the questions and, instead, attacks those who ask them, is equally suspect in their intentions and attitudes toward the continued freedom of this country.
Confusion and disbelief. NOT a good environment to develop a healthy adult -- in my opinion.
Snopes debunks the wahabbi connection
Agreed, but something interesting could happen...if Her Thighness attacks and exposes all of her opponents this way, which is likely, it only takes one of them to decide to deliver payback and insure her defeat and go far left with a third party run...Barack would be the most damaging but even Edwards could take her down.
Then, there's always Joe Lieberman.
This will be an uncoventional election, that's for sure.
It was an e-mail I received that states the information came from Google and Wikipedia.com
Thanks
Does that mean he's got your vote?
No, I such hate rumor. I want facts
"Funny, I just about got kicked off this forum for comparing Osama to a terrorist."
Funny ... I think Osama IS a terrorist.
But even if you meant Obama ... they might still be after you for seeming to agree with Hillery :-)
They try very hard, but are not convincing.
It may not be often, but when she is right, she is right.
I just read Snopes and all they are doing is using Baracks own words to debunk the claims. Which of course if Barack didn't want his real history known he would say it different than it really may have been.
Saw my first O'bama bumper sticker today. Blue oval, white writing
Let us not forget that Snopes has a leftist lean, too.
Wahabi or not this guy is dead in the water as a national candidate.
If he is wahabbi and in gov, he should probably be in jail
Which is a worse candidate for the presidency. a candidate who was educated as a muslim or a candidate who's husband was accused of forceable rape, a charge that neither the husband nor the wife have addressed?
BUMP
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