Posted on 06/28/2008 7:59:39 AM PDT by plangent
The e-mail landed in Danielle Allen's queue one winter morning as she was studying in her office at the Institute for Advanced Study, the renowned haven for some of the nation's most brilliant minds. The missive began: "THIS DEFINITELY WARRANTS LOOKING INTO."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
They can't recite the call to prayer in Arabic. They didn't live in Muslims countries. They don't have muslim relatives. I'm sorry, but it sounds like he has definitely been imprinted as a child. I don't know why you'd try to deny that a person who grew up in an area dominated by a particular religion would be influenced by it. It's simply a fact. I'm not Christian, but I grew up in it and I know it has influenced me.
An area of expertise: Race and Ethnicity: American citizenship
I think her time would be spent better trying to figure out why Obama's "proof of citizenship" was photoshopped.
That’s Gumby Obamby to you Sir. I reject and denounce all gumby and pokey references in my campaign from this point forward. I will start watching another Saturday Morning Cartoon after the election. And let you know which one it is at that time.
Obama also considers the sunset call to prayers brayed from the minaret to be ‘the prettiest sound.’
We’re all “influenced” by a lot of things. Those of us who grew up here have certainly been heavily influenced by the steady march towards full blown socialism that the US has been on since the 1930s. That doesn’t necessarily make us socialists, or more sympathetic to socialism than people who grew up in less socialist countries, and in some cases it has made us particularly hostile towards socialism.
This article is some shady journalism.
1. Doesn’t link to ANY source material. (While explaining why not linking to source material is a “danger to democracy”)
2. Doesn’t explain a single issue regarding the Indonesian mass media exposes on Obama’s childhood (state funded madrassa) education and Koran memorization.
3. Doesn’t explain any of Freeper expatguy’s gumshoe journalism in Obama’s childhood Jakarta neighborhood and school regarding his upbringing.
4. Doesn’t mention any of the Bahasa Indonesian to English translations of the Indonesian mass media exposes by a variety of people, including Freeper expatguy.
5. Doesn’t refute or even attempt to explain why a “guerrilla tactics” are unethical when the documentation of Obama’s Muslim childhood is coming in from dozens of verified first hand sources. She has, to put it bluntly, a xenophobic disdain for Indonesian journalists.
6. Doesn’t understand digital media longtail journalism, FreeRepublic is at the tall end of long tail journalism, this “professor” should understand this, there’s only been a few dozen books written on the subject, including Glenn Reynold’s Army of Davids bestseller.
What a mess. This woman must be a huge fan of John Adams’ Alien and Sedition Act.
For those of you who are curious, here’s the link to Danielle Allen’s political contribution record: http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.php?name=allen%2C+danielle&state=&zip=&employ=&cand=&c2008=Y&c2006=Y&c2004=Y&sort=N&capcode=8c8bp&submit=Submit
As could be expected, she’s an early (2004) and often Obama contributor, and even shoved some money to Jean Francois Kerry.
In the words of an old commerical, that ring true today... The Proof is in the Pudding Barack Hussein Obama Son of a Muslim
ALLEN, DANIELLE CHICAGO,IL 60615 INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY/PROFES 12/7/07 $1,100 Obama, Barack (D)
ALLEN, DANIELLE CHICAGO,IL 60615 INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY/PROFES 11/16/07 $500 Obama, Barack (D)
ALLEN, DANIELLE CHICAGO,IL 60615 INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY/PROFES 8/8/07 $500 Obama, Barack (D)
ALLEN, DANIELLE CHICAGO,IL 60615 INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY/PROFES 9/30/07 $250 Obama, Barack (D)
It also aggressively disregards the fundamental principle of free societies that one be able to debate one's accusers."
And just how is this different from the "anonymous expert" or "unidentified source close to the investigation" so beloved by the MSM, Prof. Allen?
In the belief and eyes of Muslims — birth to a Muslim father, makes Obama a Muslim.
Muslims throughout the world CONTINUE to think of him as a Muslim..
His relatives in Kenya have described him as a Muslim.
Only Obama declares himself a “Christian”— and we've all seen the “Christian” church he elected to join.....
Sorry "genius" — Obama is demonstrably far more Muslim than Christian.
Obama is a MARXIST...Understand it or don't.
Obama Hoisted On His Own Petard
One would like to think that Barack Obama's advisors would have the common sense to tell him to be honest and forthcoming with the American people concerning his childhood growing up in Indonesia.
And in debunking the madrassa claim allegations Obama once again lies to the American people and denies that he ever was a Muslim.
"To be clear, Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim and is a committed Christian," said Obama's communications director Robert Gibbs in a statement today...[sic]"
On 22 January 2007, Emirsyah Satar stated:
The issue is and the only question Americans need to ask themselves is this:
Excellent post @ 97. Try not to cry too hard.
Excellent post!
Let’s see how many people cry “foul”. Thanks for the info by the way.
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