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Is Barack Obama a Muslim wolf in Christian wool?
Israel Insider ^ | March 27, 2008 | Reuven Koret

Posted on 05/15/2008 10:52:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The glib handling of criticism of his relationship with the anti-American ("God Damn America!") and anti-Israel ("a dirty word for Negroes") Reverend James Wright may have bought him a little time. But the legacy of dissimulation about his long-concealed identity is about to come crashing down around the ears of Barack Hussein Obama, courtesy of the assembled testimony of his family, friends, classmates and teachers.

Obama's official campaign site has a page titled "Obama has never been a Muslim, and is a committed Christian." The page states, "Obama never prayed in a mosque. He has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ."

Yet the accumulated research from primary sources who knew Obama from his childhood indicate that he was a devout Muslim, the son of a devout Muslim, the step-son of a devout Muslim and the grandson and namesake ("Hussein") of a devout Muslim. He was registered in school as a Muslim and demonstrated his ability to chant praise to Allah in impressive Arab-accented tones even as an adult. Just as he has not disavowed his "uncle" Jeremiah, neither has he disavowed his Muslim faith that he was born into, raised with, celebrated and never abandoned. He just covered it over with a thin veneer of his own self-styled "Christianity."

Although as an adult he would register as a Christian, and occasionally attend a Christian Church (but apparently not often enough to listen to the preaching of his pastor, or so he would claim) this was a necessary step for a man who from earliest boyhood has nurtured the precocious ambition to be President of the United States.

He was entered into the Roman Catholic, Franciscus Assisi Primary School, in Jakarta, Indonesia, on January 1, 1968, registered under the name Barry Soetoro, an Indonesian citizen whose religion was listed as Islam. Catholic schools accept non-Catholics worldwide. Non-Catholic students are typically excused from Catholic religious instruction and ceremony, but are expected to study their own faith.

In kindergarten, Senator Obama wrote an essay titled 'I Want to Become President.'"Iis Darmawan, 63, Senator Obama's kindergarten teacher, remembers him as an exceptionally tall and curly haired child who quickly picked up the local language and had sharp math skills. He wrote an essay titled, 'I Want To Become President,' the teacher said." [AP, 1/25/07]

Three years later, in 1971, Obama enrolled in the Besuki Primary School, a government school, as Barry Soetoro, Muslim. In third grade, Senator Obama wrote an essay titled 'I Want To Be a President.' His third grade teacher: Fermina Katarina Sinaga "asked her class to write an essay titled 'My dream: What I want to be in the future.' Senator Obama wrote 'I want to be a President,' she said." [The Los Angeles Times, 3/15/07]

All Indonesian students are required to study religion at school and a young Barry Soetoro, being a Muslim, would have been required to study Islam daily in school.

He would have been taught to read and write Arabic, to recite his prayers properly, to read and recite from the Quran and to study the laws of Islam.

In his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," Obama mentions studying the Koran and describes the public school as "a Muslim school."

"In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell mother I made faces during Koranic studies."

According to Tine Hahiyary, one of Obama's teachers and the principal from 1971 through 1989, Barry actively took part in the Islamic religious lessons during his time at the school. "I remembered that he had studied "mengaji" (recitation of the Quran)" Tine said.

The author of the Laotze blog writes from Jakarta: "The actual usage of the word 'mengaji' in Indonesian and Malaysian societies means the study of learning to recite the Quran in the Arabic language rather than the native tongue. "Mengagi" is a word and a term that is accorded the highest value and status in the mindset of fundamentalist societies here in Southeast Asia. To put it quite simply, 'mengaji classes' are not something that a non practicing or so-called moderate Muslim family would ever send their child to. To put this in a Christian context, this is something above and beyond simply enrolling your child in Sunday school classes."

"The fact that Obama had attended mengaji classes is well known in Indonesia and has left many there wondering just when Obama is going to come out of the closet."

"As I've stated before, the evidence seems to quite clearly show that both Ann Dunham and her husband Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo were in fact devout Muslims themselves and they raised their son as such."

The Obama Campaign told the LA Times he wasn't a "practicing Muslim." (3/14/2007). But his official website says: "Obama Has Never Been A Muslim, And Is a Committed Christian" (11/12/2007)

That's not what his friends and classmates have said. Classmate Rony Amiris describes young Barry as enjoying playing football and marbles and of being a very devout Muslim. Amir said, "Barry was previously quite religious in Islam. We previously often asked him to the prayer room close to the house. If he was wearing a sarong, he looked funny," said Rony.

Amiris, now the manager of Bank Mandiri, Jakarta, recently said, "Barry was previously quite religious in Islam. His birth father, Barack Hussein Obama was a Muslim economist from Kenya. Before marrying Ann Dunham, Hussein Obama was married to a woman from Kenya who had seven children. All the relatives of Barry's father were very devout Muslims"

Emirsyah Satar, CEO of Garuda Indonesia, was quoted as saying, "He (Obama) was often in the prayer room wearing a 'sarong', at that time."

"He was quite religious in Islam but only after marrying Michelle, he changed his religion." So Obama, according to his classmates and friends was a Muslim until the confluence of love and ambition caused him to adopt the cloak of Christianity: to marry Michelle and to run for President of the United States.

In "Dreams," Obama sheds light on his formative years and the political views of his mother, an anthropologist and Islamophile who hated America and subsequently "went native." (It was her mother -- Barry's "other" grandmother who cared for him in his druggie teenage years -- that he would describe as a "typical white person" who was, he said scoldingly, fearful of black men and prone to making stereotypical racial remarks.)

Obama Senior also had three sons by another woman who are all Muslim. Although Obama claims Senior was an atheist, Senior was buried as a Muslim.

Barack Obama's brother Roy opted for Islam over Christianity, as the Senator recounted in his book when describing his 1992 wedding. "The person who made me proudest of all," Obama wrote, "was Roy. Actually, now we call him Abongo, his Luo name, for two years ago he decided to reassert his African heritage. He converted to Islam, and has sworn off pork and tobacco and alcohol."Abongo "argues that the black man must "liberate himself from the poisoning influences of European culture." He urged his younger brother to embrace his African heritage.

In Kenya while he was a Senator, Obama stumped for his cousin, opposition leader Raila Odinga, the son of Senior's sister, a direct first cousin and nephew of Obama's father. On August 29, 2007, Raila Odinga and Shiekh Abdullah Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum of Kenya signed a Memorandum of Understanding in which it pledges the support of Kenyan Moslems for Raila's election. In return, as President of Kenya, Raila agrees ... within 6 months re-write the Constitution of Kenya to recognize Shariah as the only true law sanctioned by the Holy Quran for Muslim declared regions [and] within one year to facilitate the establishment of a Shariah court in every Kenyan divisional headquarters -- everywhere in Kenya, not just in "Muslim declared regions" -- and to popularize Islam, the only true religion ... by ordering every primary school in Kenya in the regions to conduct daily Madrassa classes.

In an interview with the New York Times, published on April 30th, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama's younger half sister, told the Times, "My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim."

Obama describes his new found "Christian" faith as: (1) Suspicious of dogma (2) Without any monopoly on the truth (3) Nontransferable to others (4) Infused with a big healthy dose of doubt, and (5) Indulgent of and compatible with all other religions.

On February 27th, speaking to Kristof of The New York Times, Barack Hussein Obama said the Muslim call to prayer is "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset."

In an interview with Nicholas Kristof, published in The New York Times, Obama recited the Muslim call to prayer, the Adhan, "with a first-class [Arabic] accent." The opening lines of the Adhan (Azaan) is the Shahada:

"Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme! I witness that there is no god but Allah I witness that there is no god but Allah I witness that Muhammad is his prophet...."

According to Islamic scholars, reciting the Shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith, makes one a Muslim. This simple yet profound statement expresses a Muslim's complete acceptance of, and total commitment to, the message of Islam. Obama chanted it with pride and finesse.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia blog, written by an American who has lived in Indonesia for 20 years and has met with both the Taliban and al-Qaeda, contains the following:

"Barack Hussein Obama might have convinced some Americans that he is no longer a Muslim, but so far he has not convinced many in the world's most populous Muslim country who still see him as a Muslim and a crusader for Islam and world peace."

"Barack Hussein Obama's race, his staunch opposition to the war in Iraq, his sympathy to Islam and Muslims worldwide and his Muslim heritage receive the Indonesian media coverage. There is no mention of his apostasy."

"A good example of how some of the Indonesian media is reporting on Obama's religion can be found in the following."

"What I found interesting in the article was the use of the word 'mengaku' when refering to Obama's conversion from Islam to Christianity. The word 'mengaku' in Indonesian means "claimed" and as such leaves the insinuation to the native Indonesian reader being that Obama might actually still be a Muslim.

But this is how Indonesians see Obama, they don't see him as an apostate at all, they see him as a crusader for the cause of Islam."

Obama wants it both ways, has always wanted it both ways. Black and white, Indonesian and American, Muslim and Christian. He loves playing one off the other, using one to hide the other even as the traces of the truth may be assembled to reveal the whole cloth of deception and self-promotion he has been weaving so skillfully since his childhood. No wonder he is a man of change. He IS a changeling, a veritable chameleon, adapting and amending his life story to fit the circumstances.

The charm may have worked once. It still works on some. It won't work forever in the age of the Internet. The fog of ambiguity and dissimulation is dissipated by the harsh, unforgiving and scrutiny of the blogosphere and its unlimited access to historical facts and time-stamped testimony.

Many have been puzzled why Obama could claim not to be familiar with Wright's rants. It turns out the Trinity Church, like many African-American churches, happily accepts believing Muslims within its congregation. And evidently many Muslims have no problems surrounding themselves with an anti-American, anti-Israel preacher who week in and week out wins the amens of his adoring congregation.

On Feb 15/08, Usama K. Dakdok, President of The Straight Way of Grace Ministry called Obama's Church and reported the following conversation: " I then asked the person who answered what I needed to do to join. She told me that I needed to attend two Sunday School classes in a row and then I would walk the aisle. I replied, "That sounds easy. One last question please. If I am Muslim and I believe in the Prophet Mohammed, peace be unto him and I also believe in Jesus, peace be unto him, do I have to give up my Islamic faith to be a member in your church? She answered: "No, we have many Muslim members in our church."

Indeed.

Credit for these reports and revelations -- assembling the statements of those who love and admire Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama -- belong primarily to the writers, researchers, and journalists cited in and contributing to the above references. Special hat tip to Ted Belman of Israpundit for putting most of the pieces together. One can be sure that more, much more, is on the way, before the first black muslim president enters the White House. Or not.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; blueturban; election; elections; islam; obama; obamatruthfile
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To: Loud Mime

No, Marxism (communism). Please refer to my earlier post again.


21 posted on 05/15/2008 11:51:47 PM PDT by Eye On The Left
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To: TigersEye

Read this when you get a chance.


22 posted on 05/15/2008 11:52:14 PM PDT by pandoraou812 (Doesn't play well with others or share .....Keep it Sweet!! Not me!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

WOW!


23 posted on 05/16/2008 12:03:33 AM PDT by True Republican Patriot (God Bless America and The Republicans)
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To: Eye On The Left
Why is it that those that push the hardest for classism and class warfare are usually themselves very wealthy?

Seems strange yet, I can almost grasp some sense that classism benefits them (the wealthy) in some way...

24 posted on 05/16/2008 12:05:04 AM PDT by the anti-liberal (Write in: Fred Thompson)
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To: Prole

“Hey Hillary, thats some wicked bean burritos you had for lunch!! You better sit downwind of me over here.”


25 posted on 05/16/2008 12:16:47 AM PDT by prophetic (God, let Obama speak utter foolishness and confound the wisdom of his counselors)
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To: JasonC

so who is this Gina Torres chick??


26 posted on 05/16/2008 12:18:05 AM PDT by prophetic (God, let Obama speak utter foolishness and confound the wisdom of his counselors)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Is Barack Obama a Muslim wolf in Christian wool?

B Hussein, From Audacity of Hope: “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”


 

27 posted on 05/16/2008 12:22:28 AM PDT by 1035rep
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To: the anti-liberal
Why is it that those that push the hardest for classism and class warfare are usually themselves very wealthy?

Excellent point. It's usually because they THINK they're superior to everyone else and so deserve to live better and be worshipped by the inferior masses who need to rely on them for instruction and guidance. They figure in a communist state, they will be among the party elite.

28 posted on 05/16/2008 1:17:01 AM PDT by Eye On The Left
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes.


29 posted on 05/16/2008 2:58:34 AM PDT by whatshotandwhatsnot
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To: holdonnow; Fudd Fan; MarkLevinFan

Ping


30 posted on 05/16/2008 3:06:10 AM PDT by Beloved Levinite ("HOBo's already done more damage to race relations than Sharpton-Jacko combined.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It won’t take Hillary to do this! Investigative pro-Israeli writer Debbie Schlussel has written about these facts:

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2006/12/barack_hussein.html


31 posted on 05/16/2008 3:14:39 AM PDT by levotb
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Any day now we are going to read this on the front page of the NYT and the WaPo. Aren’t we?


32 posted on 05/16/2008 3:24:48 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Is Barack Obama a Muslim wolf in Christian wool?"

Yes.

It was not a slip when he said 57 States.

33 posted on 05/16/2008 3:38:17 AM PDT by NoLibZone (The Huge Demonstrations by Illegals in 2006 prove they have more of the Spirit of 76 then we do)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When has lying about anything been a ‘sin’ in democratic circles? The more one lies about things, the more respect one is given.


34 posted on 05/16/2008 3:49:42 AM PDT by Shery (in APO Land)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
...registered under the name Barry Soetoro, an Indonesian citizen whose religion was listed as Islam.

He has AKAs and possibly claimed other citizenship? Questionable family and political ties overseas? And he is running for CIC? If this were some average Joe, he would have a hell of a time getting a US Government Top Secret clearance. Then again, these days if he said he is muslim, no problem.

35 posted on 05/16/2008 4:24:57 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Eye On The Left
I understood your post.

My point is that he is a Marxist politically, but his theological presentation (for now) is a veneer of Christian over a substantial body of Islamic vengeful anger. That's why I used the religious term instead of your political term.

36 posted on 05/16/2008 5:20:04 AM PDT by Loud Mime (Liberalism is a Socialist Disease)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"The person who made me proudest of all," Obama wrote, "was Roy [Obama's brother]. Actually, now we call him Abongo, his Luo name, for two years ago he decided to reassert his African heritage. He converted to Islam, and has sworn off pork and tobacco and alcohol."Abongo "argues that the black man must "liberate himself from the poisoning influences of European culture."

Well, that's certainly interesting. Also, I like the detail about Muslims attending Obama's "church" in Chicago. Of course, Wright himself was a Black Muslim until he found that running a radical black nationalist "church" paid better.

37 posted on 05/16/2008 5:49:45 AM PDT by livius
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To: the anti-liberal

Yes, I believe his father was a Kenyan of mostly Arab background.


38 posted on 05/16/2008 5:54:48 AM PDT by livius
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To: livius
Yes, I believe his father was a Kenyan of mostly Arab background.

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Barak Obama Sr. was an African, not an Arab.

He was also a muslim ans a communist active in 1960s Kenyan politics. It was his pro-USSR, marxist activity that got him banned from Kenyatta's government and led to his being in Hawaii in the first place.

39 posted on 05/16/2008 6:02:43 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: modest proposal
The anti-christ is going to have to be a hell of a lot more slick than Barry “Vacuous Pop culture icon” Obama

Hussein is an anti-Christ, probably not THE anti-Christ.
40 posted on 05/16/2008 6:04:10 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220
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