Posted on 08/19/2010 3:36:35 AM PDT by tobyhill
Americans increasingly are convinced — incorrectly — that President Barack Obama is a Muslim, and a growing number are thoroughly confused about his religion.
Nearly one in five people, or 18 percent, said they think Obama is Muslim, up from the 11 percent who said so in March 2009, according to a poll released Thursday. The proportion who correctly say he is a Christian is down to just 34 percent.
The largest share of people, 43 percent, said they don't know his religion, an increase from the 34 percent who said that in early 2009.
The survey, conducted by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center and its affiliated Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, is based on interviews conducted before the controversy over whether Muslims should be permitted to construct a mosque near the World Trade Center site. Obama has said he believes Muslims have the right to build an Islamic center there, though he's also said he won't take a position on whether they should actually build it.
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Communists worship government.
I noticed they don't list the Mother as a Christian yet his Father is definitely a Muslim which would make Obama a Muslim.
Obammy is a marxist muslim and a real piece of crap.
LOL. Let’s see, his birth father was a muslim, his stepfather was a muslim, he grew up in a muslim country, went to school where his religion was listed as islam, his aunt just made a pilgrimage to meeca...
Duck Test from Wikipedia:
Indiana poet James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) may have coined the phrase when he wrote “when I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.”
The term was later popularized in the United States by Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr., United States ambassador to Guatemala during the Cold War in 1950, who used the phrase when he accused the Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán government of being Communist. Patterson explained his reasoning as follows:
Suppose you see a bird walking around in a farm yard. This bird has no label that says ‘duck’. But the bird certainly looks like a duck. Also, he goes to the pond and you notice that he swims like a duck. Then he opens his beak and quacks like a duck. Well, by this time you have probably reached the conclusion that the bird is a duck, whether he’s wearing a label or not.”
Later references to the duck test include Cardinal Richard Cushing’s, who used the phrase in 1964 in reference to Fidel Castro.
The only church I have ever heard of him attending had a preacher that takes the Lords name in vain from the pulpit and basically taught Marxism under the guise of liberation.
This fellow is a fraud through and through.
Muslim? LoL! I think he is having them on as well!
Talking points have gone out. "We'll save you President Obama! is the SRM's response.
WTF is a Kansas mother? The article and comment are about Zero and his father's religion. Is "Kansas mother" a new religion?
How can he be anything other than a muslim? He and muslim guests just celebrated Ramadan in the White House. He also says we are not a Christian nation. He supports the muslim mosque on top of the 9/11 muslim destruction of 3000+/-
Americans and the Twin Towers in NYC.
Reality is frequently denied.
Pardon the bluntness, but commie skank who had the good fortune of being born in the fine State of Kansas is more accurate.
You get it.
That’s interesting because as I was posting it, the timer showed AP posted it “less than a minute” earlier but it appears they are just changing a word or two and using it as an opinion piece.
He has also publicly advocated for the building of a victory mosque at the World Trade Center site at a Ramadan dinner. He has directed U.S. government funding to building mosques around the world, and to paying for imams to proselytize around the globe.
Before he was even elected, he recited the shahada to the New York Times.
The Kenyan Clown is a Muslim, in word and in deed.
I have no ‘proof’ that he is a moo.
I have abundant ‘proof’ he is not a Christian.
LLS
Heck my own parish priest has said privately he thinks he is one.
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