Posted on 01/09/2008 7:56:30 PM PST by fallingwater
In a recent analysis, "Was Barack Obama a Muslim?" I surveyed available evidence and found it suggests "Obama was born a Muslim to a non-practicing Muslim father and for some years had a reasonably Muslim upbringing under the auspices of his Indonesian step-father." In response, David Brock's organization, Media Matters for America (MMfA), which calls itself a "progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media," has criticized one of my sources of information.
(Excerpt) Read more at danielpipes.org ...
This post wasn’t meant to be takes as an attack.
What’s the status of his step-father? Is he dead?
posted here, I missed it.
Died in 1987.
Even Wikipedia admits he was a Muslim student.
Obama was an irregularly practicing Muslim who rarely or occasionally prayed with his step-father in a mosque. This precisely substantiates my statement that he "for some years had a reasonably Muslim upbringing under the auspices of his Indonesian step-father."His step father was hardly a "practicing Muslim." If anything, he sounds like one of our "Easter Christians;" one who regularly attends church once or twice a year. I've known a lot of Catholics and Protestants who would call themselves Catholics or Christians, but rarely darken the door of a church.
“Sure, Muslim fanatics are going to want to kill him because he is now a practicing Christian. Like they dont want to kill George Bush?”
Muslim fanatics want to kill all of us.
Read this summary and see what you think:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1949514/replies?c=15
Lolo Soetoro, who died in 1987, was "much more of a free spirit than a devout Muslim" and "hardly the image of a pious Muslim."--Daniel Pipes article
bttt
Why should they issue a fatwa on their Trojan Horse?
Okay, I'll take your word that the only reason you posted it was your compassionate altruistic concern for the safety of this upstart Democratic candidate for President of the U.S.A.
Then please answer me this:
Please name the credible Islamic sources -- clergy, political, social -- who have said that Obama is an apostate Muslim and must be killed specifically for that reason.Killing him because he's running for President doesn't count, for the reason stated by goldfinch in post #18. We may assume that they want to kill him because he's an American, per devere in post #27.
Muslims get outraged at the drop of a hat, right? They go out and rampage and burn cars and murder each other and anybody else in range because of the slightest offense. They are notoriously lousy at keeping their emotions under wraps and their mouths shut.
So you would think, given that they'd have to be living under a rock to NOT know that Obama is running for President in the U.S.A., that a bunch of them would have said either:
1. "Finally, one of us will be President of the US"Right?or
2. "An apostate. He must die for his offense to Islam."
So, where's the outrage? or conversely, the approval?
The credible, Muslim outrage, or approval, that is? (Don't brush this off with "there are no credible Muslims". You know what I mean -- spokesmen from their organizations, for instance.)
I find Obama's political and social views as an adult much more troubling than where he sporadically went to church as a little kid.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1949514/replies?c=15
http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm
Bump.
must also be why Couric volunteered...
I’m just sayin’
“I find Obama’s political and social views as an adult much more troubling than where he sporadically went to church as a little kid.”
SO DO I, SO DO I:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1949514/replies?c=15
http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm
http://www.themidnightsun.org/?p=1613
http://www.nowpublic.com/politics/kenyas-odinga-declares-obama-his-cousin-peacetalks-called
http://eakenya.org/newsevents/article.htm?id=8
Man, I was wondering when someone would point out that he was an apostate!
Living in Illinois, we know his kind. He left no Islamic Republic, just a socialist wasteland.
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