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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Where are they polling their participant pool from? The DNC voter polls in San Francisco, NYC, and LA?
If they polled people in flyover country, they would get a more accurate reading of 70% who believe that Barack Hussein Obama is a muslim.
They are reporting on a recent poll. The word 'incorrectly' has no business being in a headline for a story reporting on the results of a nationwide poll.
What proof do they have that he is NOT a Muslim? With his own words Obama has identified himself as Muslim.
Plus it is a leftist madelene albright run company doing the polling... of adults.
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abc actually had (INCORRECT ANSWER) by muslim and (CORRECT ANSWER) by Christian... in all caps with the parens.
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Black Liberation Theology for Latter Day Redistributionists.
I see atheists as self worshippers.. i.e. no god then you have just made yourself God.. (in the place of)..
“you will be as gods, knowing [defining for yourself] good and evil”
lol... hilarious!
The only evidence we have that obama is a Christian is his WORD.
Knowing he is a pathological liar, well, that sort of makes it hard to take his word.
right..
I believe Obama is a covert Muslim, who clearly fails the NBC requirement of our Constitution to hold office as President.
However, let’s be clear: One’s own faith is NOT necessarily defined by what one’s parents believed (or did not believe).
- Myself, a former atheist, now born-again Christian.
Well Obama goes running around the world proclaiming himself Muslim. Gee, it is no wonder people believe that he is.
"In the report, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit was quoted as saying during an appearance on Nile TV that "the American president told me in confidence that he is a Muslim."
The White House remained silent on the comment, declining to respond to a WND request for comment. "
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