Sooner or later people are going to have to come to grips with the fact that Obama IS a Muslim in the eyes of much of the Muslim world.
He was born to a Muslim father. He went to an Islamic religious school. Of course he is Muslim — in their eyes.
Muslims do not recognize conversions. You are an Infidel, a Muslim or an apostate. There are no other choices.
I am not saying that he should be disqualified from the presidency because of that, but we can’t ignore that factor either.
I will stand up and say that that DOES disqualify him - or anyone else of Muslim heritage - from holding the office of the presidency. Islam by it's self-declared nature is anathema to everything the democratic West embraces in philosophy and policy.
And I'm also disturbed that Obama spent a good share of his formative years living OUT of the United States. This contradicts the spirit - if not the letter - of the Constitutional requirement that a president be "native born". I believe the framers intent was that a person qualified to become president be born AND raised "as an American". In those times, the fact that you were born here almost guaranteed that you were raised here, as well.
That's my opinion, and I realize others' may be different.
- John