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Obama's Religion Still at Issue for Many Americans: A Fifth Say He's Muslim
Politics Daily ^ | August 19, 2010

Posted on 08/19/2010 11:04:49 AM PDT by Pinkbell

It just won't go away. The Pew Research Center reports that a growing number of Americans -- nearly one in five -- think President Obama is a Muslim, despite evidence to the contrary.

At 18 percent, the number is up from 11 percent in March 2009, soon after he took office. The nationwide telephone survey reached more than 3,000 on landlines and cell phones in late July and early August -- before the president's comments last weekend in support of the right of Muslims to build a mosque in Lower Manhattan near the site of the 9/11 attacks.

"The view that Obama is a Muslim is more widespread among his political opponents than among his backers," Pew said. "Roughly a third of conservative Republicans (34 percent) say Obama is a Muslin, as do 30 percent of those who disapprove of Obama's job performance. but even among his supporters and allies, less than half now say Obama is a Christian."

Obama is a Protestant, although he has not affiliated with a church since moving to Washington. His father was Muslim and the family lived for a period during his childhood in Indonesia, a huge Muslim country. In Chicago before his election as president, Obama was a member of a United Church of Christ congregation (famously led by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright).

Lingering questions and rumors about the president's religious faith and citizenship, often spread on the Internet, are an annoying distraction for the White House. Obama's faith adviser, Joshua DuBois, told the Washington Post that "while the president has been diligent and personally committed to his own Christian faith, there's certainly folks who are intent on spreading falsehoods about the president and his values and beliefs."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoislamism; christian; democrats; dhimmicrats; islam; muslim; obama; religion; theprophetobama
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Honestly, I don't think he's a Muslim. I don't think he's a Christian either. He's like many other liberal atheists who dislike Christianity but support Muslims. There are some on another board I post on from time to time, and they all can't stand Christianity, but they jump up to defend Muslims. Because Muslims don't like Christians, liberals consider them an ally. However, Muslims are using the liberals. Once they gain enough power, they'll despose of them.
1 posted on 08/19/2010 11:04:53 AM PDT by Pinkbell
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Honestly, I don't think he's a Muslim. I don't think he's a Christian either.

I agree with you. He worships himself.

2 posted on 08/19/2010 11:06:00 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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To: Pinkbell

4/5 are blind, deaf and dumb.


3 posted on 08/19/2010 11:08:03 AM PDT by grobdriver (Proud Member, Party Of No! No Socialism - No Fascism - Nobama - No Way!)
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To: Pinkbell

Under Sharia law he’s either a Muslim or an apostate deserving of death.


4 posted on 08/19/2010 11:08:03 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Pinkbell
Obama is a Muslim, despite evidence to the contrary.

What evidence?

5 posted on 08/19/2010 11:11:01 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Cincinatus

It really is very hard to tell who is a Muslim insofar as one of the aspects of their ideology is to lie to non-Muslims as a method of achieving their ends. The combination of the earlier interview where “My muslim faith” rolls so easily off Obama’s tongue and he only corrects himself when reminded by the reporter and his unwavering support of building a mosque on the graves of 3000 Americans makes one wonder though.

It may well be that he’s a Muslim who is merely using the American left to destroy America (if this is his goal, then he certainly won’t be concerned with reelection).


6 posted on 08/19/2010 11:12:15 AM PDT by Yet_Again
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To: Pinkbell
Obama was a member of a United Church of Christ congregation

As were, and are, many other Muslims.

7 posted on 08/19/2010 11:12:38 AM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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To: Pinkbell

Drudge had this flashback:

President Apostate?

May 12, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/opinion/12luttwak.html?_r=2&pagewanted=print

“Senator Obama is half African by birth and Africans can understandably identify with him. In Islam, however, there is no such thing as a half-Muslim. Like all monotheistic religions, Islam is an exclusive faith.

As the son of the Muslim father, Senator Obama was born a Muslim under Muslim law as it is universally understood. It makes no difference that, as Senator Obama has written, his father said he renounced his religion. Likewise, under Muslim law based on the Koran his mother’s Christian background is irrelevant. “


8 posted on 08/19/2010 11:13:57 AM PDT by SmartInsight (Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ~ G. J. Nathan)
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Obama is worse than a Muslim. He is a liberal fascist.Few can evenbegin to face this fact, that America elected a fascist whose political ideology is similar to the jumped up dictators of Europes recent history. Yet all the fascist markers out of history are present in Obamas case.

About 80% of Americans are UNIFIED against this mosque.

DEHUMANIZING TRADITIONAL AMERICA, THE OBAMA GOAL

That makes no difference to the national socialist elite in power, they want to cow America with their Utopia. The former needless genocidal 9/11 sacrifice of 3800 innocent lives is trumped by “ minority rights.” This is just the beginning if Obama and his national socialist junta is allowed to stay in power. People in general should make no mistake about it.

The dehumanization of the 9/11 victims is the goal Obama has.Once this is accomplished, the sky is the limit for this sort of thing.He means to define who is humanand who is not. And then we are to watch silently as Obama’s plan to isolate and disempower middle America socially , politically and economically accelerates. Dehumanization of sectors of society is a major fascist technique. So far he has dehumanized many, including the Fort Hood shooting victims, as the sanctity of Muslims is preserved in our military over the necessity for American justice and the future protection of our military personell.

On a parallel matter, Obama is redistricting America as we speak, using the 2010 census. The defining parameters will be to cloister racial and ethnic minorites into their own Congressional constituncies. Subsequently the plan is to pit that block of racial and ethnic minority voters against the rest of America. The “ minority rights” aspect of this mosque argument will then be applied to budgeting. Special federal programs to provide “historical justice “ for the so called ‘exploited” will be put in place. Using fannie / freddie for affirmative action lending nearly destroyed our nation and the world economy, and now Obama wants to remake Fannie /Freddie? You can imagine the image in which he will remake these bogus institutions, even Barney Frank is bailing.

There is a very large comprehensive plan, and the mosque right now is the icon on a much larger political battle front. America is kept ignorant of this larger battle. The Obama Utopia is a cultural mosaic, not a melting pot, and he is quietly going about this redefinition of America which will now be rammed down our throats , using his executive powers, the Supreme Court, and a cowed Congress.

Obama will not unite America, he intends to divide it and conquer it, and will use force to do so if he thinks it necessary.Thats why he manifests a burgeoning Secret Service personal security plan which now freezes our municipalities as he travels about our nation.Its a message, part of his campaign to cow America into submission.

This mosque must not be built, if it is, it will likely be destroyed. As Rush Limbaugh says, can one imagine building a Shinto Temple adjacent to the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, 10 years after it happened there?

You can see the reasoning here about the overall Obama approach which he has very carefully revealed to America in fits and starts, so few will connect the dots. This is his so called transparency:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html


9 posted on 08/19/2010 11:24:37 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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Hey, give me a fifth and I’ll say he’s a Muslim too.

Problem is, Muzzies worship a prophet - and not a very good one at that.

The Loon-O-dent worships the nearest mirror.


10 posted on 08/19/2010 11:24:44 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Pinkbell

It just won't go away. The Pew Research Center reports that a growing number of Americans -- nearly one in five -- think President Obama is a Muslim, despite evidence to the contrary.


Barack Obama and the Muslim call to prayer



11 posted on 08/19/2010 11:38:30 AM PDT by EdReform (Stop Obamacare - Join the Obamacare Class Action Suit: www.obamacareclassaction.com)
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" think President Obama is a Muslim, despite evidence to the contrary."

Evidence to the contrary? Where might that evidence be?

12 posted on 08/19/2010 11:52:17 AM PDT by avacado
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Obama is a Muslim, despite evidence to the contrary.

What evidence?

1. Marxism is a materialist philosophy of political economics. As such, it is inherently atheistic. It is also explicitly atheistic.

2. Obama has not been observed practicing Muslim religious ritual. He hasn't publicly recited shahadah, the confession of faith. He hasn't practiced salah, the daily prayers. He does not give zakat to Islamic charities. He doesn't fast during Ramadan. The White House kitchen is not halal. He sips beer. He's never been to Mecca for hajj.

3. He attended an ostensibly Christian church for decades. Though unorthodox, Obama's church is certainly not Islamic.

Sure, Obama was arguably born a Muslim. Barack Abu-Barack was nominally a Muslim. But Barack Al-Akbar does not publicly profess Islam. Since adults get to choose their own religion in America, the assertion that Barack Al-Akbar is a Muslim is pretty flimsy.

13 posted on 08/19/2010 11:55:45 AM PDT by Skepolitic
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3. He attended an ostensibly Christian church for decades. Though unorthodox, Obama's church is certainly not Islamic.

The close association of Rev. Wright's church with the Nation of Islam is well know. You are quite shaky on this point.

14 posted on 08/19/2010 11:57:54 AM PDT by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality Now: Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: Pinkbell
I don't think Obama's a Muslim aether.

Like all Marxists he's an Atheist (he just plays at being a Christian).
His 'god' is the gubmint, any gubmint, especially one that controls the people. Like his buddy Hugo. (If Chavez ever learns to Golf, we'll never see Obama again)

That being said, I DO think he's 'Muslim Friendly'. And that's due to his childhood influence in Indonesia. And more 'friendly' to Islam than to Christianity or any other religion.

After all, he did blow off the Dalai Lama, didn't he. And who wouldn't want to meet with the Dalai Lama?(1) Only a Chi-Com or other dyed-in-the-wool Marxist.

(1) no Bill Murray jokes, okay

15 posted on 08/19/2010 11:59:33 AM PDT by Condor51 (SAT CONG!)
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barack HUSSEIN obama

spends an awful lot of time at muslim events

day of prayer can cause a huge nutroll for obama to schedule, but an evening ramadan dinner is easy to make as a venue to announce his support of a mosque at ground zero

I smell that coffee brewing. Must be wake-up time, America.


16 posted on 08/19/2010 12:05:41 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: Pinkbell

Posted on Saturday, June 12, 2010 1:01:16 AM by NoLibZone

This was a statement by Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit on Nile-TV. It was made on the «Round table show».

This is the statement recorded:

Adul Gheit said he had a one-on-one meeting with Obama, where the US President told him that He was still a Muslim, the son of a Muslim father, the step son of Muslim stepfather, that his half brothers in Kenya are Muslims, and that he was sympatetic towards the Muslim agenda.

Adul Gheit claimed Obama told the Arabs to show patience. Obama promised that once he overcame some domestic issues, like the Health care reform, he would show the Muslim World how to deal with Israel.


17 posted on 08/19/2010 12:10:14 PM PDT by bt579 (Is government doing us more harm than good? Pruning the power begins with the Presidency)
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Its not what you say, but how you say it. His speech at the Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan is still reverberating one week later.

In that speech, he appears to take personal offense at any slight toward Islam. Very personal. A Very personal, angry, petulant tone. The setting is also very important. 99.9999 percent of Christians dont even know what Iftar is, or what Ramadan is, and he is celebrating it in the white House, surrounded by Muslims. Since that speech, I have talked to most of my relatives, and all in my family agree he is Muslim. No one questions his Muslim faith in my family. He is a Mohammedan. They see him as a liar.

18 posted on 08/19/2010 12:29:23 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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He’s also rather shakey on point #4.
“Sure, Obama was arguably born a Muslim. Barack Abu-Barack was nominally a Muslim. But Barack Al-Akbar does not publicly profess Islam.

Since adults get to choose their own religion in America”

Taqqiya & born a muslim, always a muslim. Muslims have been killed all over the world trying that.


19 posted on 08/19/2010 1:35:52 PM PDT by rickb308 (Muslims need to check with Native Americans & ask how that whole cowboys & indians thing worked out.)
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Apostates are killed. No question about that.


20 posted on 08/19/2010 1:46:13 PM PDT by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality Now: Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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