While valid in an acedemic sense, it doesn't mean much in a practical sense.
What people are really concerned about is does he follow the muslim faith now. Do his religious beliefs effect his current decisions.
The religious beliefs of his father may determine his religion as far as some followers of Islam are concerned, but it doesn't necessarily have much bearing on his own beliefs decades later.
Accurate, but misleading doesn't sit well with me.
Disgusting
By willswordsofwisdom
Obama at Islamic Prayer Meeting Just Before Christmas
The president is telling any who will listen that America is not a Christian Nation.
He didn’t attend the Christian Day of Prayer and has
only been to a Christian church one time since he was elected.
However, right before Christmas he had time for a Muslim Prayer Service.
In the above photo he is getting ready to pray to Allah...-- snip --
This entry was posted on January 3, 2010 at 1:39 am
...What people are really concerned about is does he follow the muslim faith now.Good questions!Do his religious beliefs effect his current decisions.
Let's ask some people who might know: his allegedly "fellow" Muslims -- from THIS thread:
My Muslim President Obama: Why members of the Islamic faith see him as one of the flock.
Forbes ^ | February 25, 2009 | Asma Gull Hasan
Posted on Saturday, August 21, 2010 11:30:22 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
I know President Obama is not Muslim, but I am tempted nevertheless to think that he is, as are most Muslims I know.
In a very unscientific oral poll, ranging from family members to Muslim acquaintances, many of us feel, just as African-Americans did for the non-black but culturally leaning African-American President Bill Clinton, that we have our first American Muslim president in Barack Hussein Obama.
I know it's odd to say this. At first, I thought I was the only Muslim engaging in this folly, and I am reluctant to express it lest right-wing zealots try to use "Muslim" as a smear and cite my theory as proof of an Islamic traitor in the White House or some such nonsense.
But, since Election Day, I have been part of more and more conversations with Muslims in which it was either offhandedly agreed that Obama is Muslim or enthusiastically blurted out. In commenting on our new president, "I have to support my fellow Muslim brother," would slip out of my mouth before I had a chance to think twice.
"Well, I know he's not really Muslim," I would quickly add. But if the person I was talking to was Muslim, they would say, "yes he is."
They would cite his open nature and habit of reaching out to critics, reminiscent of the Prophet Muhammad's own approach, and also Obama's middle name, Hussein. Most of the Muslims I know (me included) can't seem to accept that Obama is not Muslim.
Of the few Muslims I polled who said that Obama is not Muslim, even they conceded that he had ties to Islam. These realists said that, although not an avowed and practicing Muslim, Obama's exposure to Islam at a young age (both through his father and his stint in Indonesia)
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