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To: Rome2000

Yes, your answer is on the blog:
An American Expat in Southeast Asis
http://laotze.blogspot.com/ This man went to the Indonesian school where Obama attended, and took MUSLIM CLASSES AS REQUIRED in Indonesia...all faiths were taking their classes at that time. He also went to Mosque where Obama attended with his stepfather....read all BARACK OBAMA POSTS THERE...his name was not Barack Obama at time, it has been changed. The liberal media did a small piece of deception on it.


52 posted on 04/13/2008 1:22:16 PM PDT by Kackikat ((No strong national security, and the rest of issues are mute points; chaos ensues.))
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To: Kackikat; Rome2000

Obama’s Muslim past is untested ground for White House race
Buffalo News, The (NY) - March 18, 2007
Author: Paul Watson - LOS ANGELES TIMES

EXCERPT

His former Catholic and Muslim teachers, along with two people who were identified by Obama’s grade-school teacher as childhood friends, say Obama was registered by his family as a Muslim at both schools he attended. That registration meant that during the third and fourth grades, Obama learned about Islam for two hours each week in religion class.

The childhood friends say Obama sometimes went to Friday prayers at the local mosque. “We prayed but not really seriously, just following actions done by older people in the mosque,” Zulfin Adi said. “But as kids, we loved to meet our friends and went to the mosque together and played.

The campaign’s national press secretary, Bill Burton, said Wednesday that the friends were recalling events “that are 40 years old and subject to four decades of other information.” Obama’s younger sister, Maya Soetoro, said in a statement issued by the campaign that the family attended the mosque only “for big communal events,” not every Friday.

The report that Obama had attended a radical madrasa here, appearing initially on a conservative-oriented online magazine and then on a Fox News program, attributed the news to opposition researchers for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. Both campaigns denied the story and accused conservative media outlets of trying to use the rumor to smear two Democratic hopefuls simultaneously.

In his autobiography, “Dreams from My Father,” Obama briefly mentions Quranic study and describes his public school, which accepted students of all religions, as “a Muslim school.”

“In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies,” Obama wrote. “My mother wasn’t overly concerned. ‘Be respectful,’ she’d say. In the Catholic school, when it came time to pray, I would close my eyes, then peek around the room. Nothing happened. No angels descended. Just a parched old nun and 30 brown children, muttering words.”

Obama was born in Honolulu. When he was 2, his father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., a Kenyan, and his Kansas-born mother, Ann Dunham, separated and later divorced. Dunham later married Lolo Soetoro, who was a Muslim. In 1967, the family moved to Jakarta, where Obama lived from ages 6 to 10. People there knew him as Barry Soetoro .

http://www.indonesia-ottawa.org/information/details.php?type=news_copy&id=3834


57 posted on 04/13/2008 1:59:08 PM PDT by maggief
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