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The question no one wants to answer - particularly Mr. Obama and his supporters, is, "Why do you think he has an Arabic name? Why does his father have an Arabic name? Why does every ancestor on his father's side have an Arabic name?"

The answer is obvious: They have Arabic names because his father's side of the family tree is Arabic.

A list of prominent people with 'Arab' names who are not Arab.

1. UMAR Yar'adua - President of Nigeria (Fulani).

2. ABDULLAH BADAWI - Prime Minister of Malaysia (Malay).

3. REBIYA KADEER - Chinese Muslim Activist (Uyghur).

4. A.J.P ABDULKALAM - Former President of India (Indian).

5. AHMAD Tejan Kabbah - President of Sierra Leone (Mandingo).

6. IDRIS Elba - British Movie Star (Sierra Leonian - Krio or Mandingo).

I could give you a thousand name long list. Possession of an Islamic name (what you term Arabic name) does not imply Arab ancestry.

You guys give the conservative movement a bad name. What message are you putting across to the Arab-American community? Remember John Sununu, John Abizaid and Darrell Issa are all Arab-Americans.

I've seen pictures of Obama's dad. He looks very Negroid to me (of pure Bantu stock). If you want to know what people of Arab/African ancestry look like google an image of Ali Mazrui.

Obama's grandfather was an animist who first converted to Christianity then to Islam. (this kind of thing was very common in Africa - it still is common).

All this Arab slave trader talk is complete BS, and you know it. stop it.

FYI - Arabs are not classified as an ethnic group in Kenya, the list of major ethnic groups is as follows:

Kikuyu (Agĩkũyũ) 20.78%

Luhya 14.38%

Luo 12.38%

Kalenjin 11.46%

Kamba 11.42%

Kisii 6.15%

Meru (Ameru) 5.07%

Maasai 1.76%

Turkana 1.52%

Embu 1.20%

Somali 0.99% (incl. Ajuran and Ogaden)

Taita 0.95%

Swahili 0.60%

Samburu 0.50%

The nearest ethnic group to 'Arab' is either Swahili, Somali or Omani. If Obama is Arab then Raila Odinga is Arab, but how can Obama and Raila Odinga be both Arabic and Luo?

Please ask the crazies that circulate this false information how that could be true.

You guys give the conservative movement a bad name. What message are you putting across to the Arab-American community? Remember John Sununu, John Abizaid and Darrell Issa are all Arab-Americans.

I told you before, I'm an Australian. I live in 'The Land Down Under'. We don't have Arab-Australians, Chinese-Australians, Lebanese-Australians, Vietnamese-Australians, etc etc...but we do have a lot of Australians who were migrants who took up Australian citizenship. I'm not the slightest bit concerned about the feelings of hyphenated arabs living in America.

Now, having said that, methinks you protest too much. (And too often.) This is a discussion forum and I'll provide whatever information I find relative to the topic under discussion.

And that's the first time I have seen the words 'conservative movement' in my entire life. What 'movement' do you belong to?

Arabs are not classified as an ethnic group in Kenya...

Now there you do have a point. However, if it all bothers you so much, why don't you write to the author of the article I quoted from, his e-mail is on the website.