Malik Obama says Israel shouldn't worry about Barack's Muslim "connection"

Israel insider ^ | June 20, 2008

[AmericanMade1776]

This article updates and corrects the one previously published on June 13, 2008 with newly uncovered evidence of the audio recording at the center of the controversy.

Apparently the Jerusalem's Post's sloppy paraphrase of a radio interview with Barack Obama's half-brother created the false impression that he had explicitly confirmed the "Muslim background" of the likely Democratic Presidential nominee. The newly uncovered recording presents more ambiguous evidence.

The Jerusalem Post reported on June 12 that "Barack Obama's half brother Malik said Thursday that if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background.

[AmericanMade1776]

Dang paraphrasing...

[freespirited]

It a very minor detail. Long before that report, we had this:

Confirmed: Barack Obama Practiced Islam by Daniel Pipes

[Jeff Head]

What Malik says and how he attempots to parse it is irrelevent.

Obama's website says the following:

"Barack Obama Is Not and Has Never Been a Muslim," followed by: "Obama never prayed in a mosque. He has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim."

I have a few questions for Obama's campaign and anyone inerested in researching Obama's background...which when considering him for the President of the United States, we as voters in this Republic have a de facto responsibility to do when any questions arise.

1. Did or did not Obama recite the Islamic call to prayer from memory in an interview? Did he or did he not, in that interview refer to it as one of the most beautiful sounds at sunset? - [Reference Obama:Man of the World, March 6, 2007, Nicholas D. Kristoff, NY Times Select]

   From that article:

   “I was a little Jakarta street kid,” he said in a wide-ranging interview in his office (excerpts are on my blog, www.nytimes.com/ontheground). 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.
   
   Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

2. Do or do not many Islamics consider the recital of that prayer as a defacto part of fundamental Islamic/Muslim religious membership? [Reference The Adhan (Ilsamic call to prayer)].

   Allah is Most Great. Allah is Most Great.
   Allah is Most Great. Allah is Most Great.
   I bear witness that there is none worthy of being worshipped except Allah.
   I bear witness that there is none worthy of being worshipped except Allah.
   I bear witness that Muhammad is the Apostle of Allah.
   I bear witness that Muhammad is the Apostle of Allah.
   Come to prayer. Come to prayer.
   Come to Success. Come to Success.
   Allah is Most Great. Allah is Most Great.
   There is none worthy of being worshipped except Allah.
   

3. Did or did not Obama attend, as a youth, Muslim schools and was he or was he not considered a member of the religion of his step father in Indonesia? [See notes and reference to number 1 above. Obama admits it himself.]

4. Was or was not Obama registered in his elementary school classes as a "Muslim" requiring that he study Islamic principles and the Loran each day? [Reference < ahref="http://www.danielpipes.org/article/5544">Barack Obnama's Muslim childhood.]

   From that article:

   Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng explained to Jodi Kantor of the New York Times: "My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim." An Indonesian publication, the Banjarmasin Post reports a former classmate, Rony Amir, recalling that "All the relatives of Barry's father were very devout Muslims."
   
   Barack Obama's Catholic school in Jakarta.
   
   The Catholic school: Nedra Pickler of the Associated Press reports that "documents showed he enrolled as a Muslim" while at a Catholic school during first through third grades. Kim Barker of the Chicago Tribune confirms that Obama was "listed as a Muslim on the registration form for the Catholic school." A blogger who goes by "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" found that "Barack Hussein Obama was registered under the name ‘Barry Soetoro' serial number 203 and entered the Franciscan Asisi Primary School on 1 January 1968 and sat in class 1B. … Barry's religion was listed as Islam."
   
   The public school: Paul Watson of the Los Angeles Times learned from Indonesians familiar with Obama when he lived in Jakarta that he "was registered by his family as a Muslim at both schools he attended."

Clearly, the record is at significant odds with Obama's campaign, and his own statements. Why?

Now, whether or not Obama considers himself Muslim now, whether or not he is willing to admit to his past and upbringing, these questions and his efforts to hide or color the truth of his background are relavent to his aspirations to be President.

If he will not even be truthful about his own upbringing, his own roots...how can we expect him to be truthful about his own stances on critical issues of the day and his ideology as regards the United States?

The answer is plain...we can't. His own shifting stances on the issues, his own willful associations for decades with virulent anti-Americans and then his attempts to hide from those associations all atest to this.

WHO IS THIS MAN?

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

[AmericanMade1776]

24 year old Obama with is brother Malik Obama in 1985

[Prole]

If Malik Obama keeps talking, he is going to end up like Don Young and Larry Bland.

I do like how Obama's family acknowledges Baraka's "Muslim connection."

Not even CNN can stop that from being known!

Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

[AmericanMade1776]

Shhhhhh.. No one must know that Obama has a Muslim Connection... mums the word!

[bert]

He must have just seen a ghost....he looks pale for a black man

[Ben Reyes]

Barack, my man!

Allahu Akbar.

Say it, say it loud, don’t be ashamed of your Muslim connection.

[musicman]

[AmericanMade1776]

Gaddafi “Obama is a Muslim” ...Gaddafi smears Obama.. here is the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSemkPChvHo

[freeangel]

Yep, don’t look at the man behind the curtain.

[AmericanMade1776]

Barack Hussein Obama’s Shocking connection.

found on You Tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsNd4JyYZnY&feature=related

[lilylangtree]

Osama Hussein is islamic. Given that the horrific 911 was perpetrated upon the unsupecting Americans, are our memories so short that in 8 short years post-911 the voters would elect an islamic as prez? Unfortunately, I’m going to have to say, “Yes!”

[AmericanMade1776]

I think Obama trying to put out the little grassfires in the Global internet community about his Muslim past is kind of silly, when the whole Global Internet Forest is on fire with his Muslim past and connections.

[weegee]

But he’s got a sexy ad campaign by a Warhol of our times (Shepherd Fairey, pop artist behind the OBEY Giant THIS IS YOUR GOD street warfare poster/sticker campaign of the past decade).

McCain? McBoringoldwhitedude. He’s not going to get you laid by college chicks (who until last month were holding out for momma Hillary).

[weegee]

And for those who didn’t see it, that was SARCASM (with some facts sprinkled in).

[The Duke]

Malik Obama says Israel shouldn't worry...

Especially the Palestinians in Israel.

[PGR88]

PREDICTION: If Obama becomes POTUS, this Malik guy is going to become Obama’s Billy Carter, times 10.

[hope]

"Malik Obama says Israel shouldn't worry about Barack's Muslim "connection"

You mean like a fox in the hen house?

[Wiseghy]

I’m starting to like Israel Insider.

Amazing that we see nothing, absolutely nothing about this in any US news outlet.