“I was a little Jakarta street kid,” he (B. Hussein Obama) said in a wide-ranging interview in his office. He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them. B. Hussein Obama was studying the Koran as an Indonesian Muslim rather than the Bible as an Indonesian Christian. Kristoff quotes B. Hussein Obama from an interview but now he denies it. Something is rotten in this narrative.