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Barack Obama joined Muslim prayers at school, teacher says
The Times ^ | November 08, 2010 | Anne Barrowclough

Posted on 11/07/2010 2:39:07 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper

AS a schoolboy in Jakarta, Barack Obama attended Muslim prayer sessions with his classmates against the wishes of his mother.

The US President's former grade three teacher said that Mr Obama - who was known as "Barry" when he attended the Menteng One school in Jakarta - studied the Koran and went to classes on Islam, despite the objections of Anne Dunham, a Roman Catholic.

The teacher's recollections will add to speculation about Mr Obama's links to Islam during his much-anticipated visit to Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, as part of his ten-day tour of Asia.

His middle name, Hussein, and the fact that his stepfather was a Muslim, have combined to perpetuate rumours about Mr Obama's religious leanings. The number of Americans who think that he is a Muslim has grown since his inauguration to one in five.

Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar. End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar. Mr Obama moved to Indonesia with his mother and Indonesian stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, when he was 6, and lived there for four years. In his memoirs he recalled his time in the country as the "bounty of a young man's life" and there is affection and pride among Indonesians for the boy who ended up as President of the United States.

The teacher, Effendi, who taught at Menteng One for 29 years, remembers Mr Obama as a "fat, curly-haired, curious boy".

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KEYWORDS: fatboy; husseinobama; indonesia; islam; jakarta; koran; muslim; muslimstudents; obama; obamaboyhood; obamaindiatrip; obamajihad; obamamuslim; obamuslim
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1 posted on 11/07/2010 2:39:10 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

This going get good how about that Mr President


2 posted on 11/07/2010 2:40:56 PM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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To: Berlin_Freeper
The teacher, Effendi, who taught at Menteng One for 29 years, remembers Mr Obama as a "fat, curly-haired, curious boy".

Please keep him and do us all a favor.

3 posted on 11/07/2010 2:41:11 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

IIRC Stanley Dunham, his mother was an atheist/Marxist. So too were her parents.


4 posted on 11/07/2010 2:42:13 PM PST by sodpoodle (Despair; man's surrender. Laughter; God 's redemption.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
studied the Koran and went to classes on Islam, despite the objections of Anne Dunham, a Roman Catholic.

OF COURSE HE DID. If she objected, it wasn't because she was a Roman Catholic, it was because she was an atheist.

5 posted on 11/07/2010 2:42:28 PM PST by FTJM
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Aren't all boys curious? DUH! If they aren't, they aren't breathing.

will add to speculation about Mr Obama's links to Islam

No more is needed - it's not rocket science.
6 posted on 11/07/2010 2:43:56 PM PST by presently no screen name ("Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down.." Mark 7:13)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Anne Dunham, a Roman Catholic.

First time I've ever read that his mother was a Catholic.

At any rate

Obama is merely behaving like HIS president did.

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Left, Obama's childhood president, el-Haj Mohammed Suharto (aka, Soeharto)
Right, Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro

We NEVER should have elected a president who spent four of his formative school years in a country run by a dictator.

Obama obviously picked up some bad ideas and thinks presidents have the right to run the lives of their citizens.

7 posted on 11/07/2010 2:43:59 PM PST by syriacus (Bubbles against religious expression are OK around abortion clinics, but not OK around Ground Zero.)
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To: FTJM

Is anyone still seriously saying that this man is NOT a practicing Muslim???


8 posted on 11/07/2010 2:44:13 PM PST by Jerrybob
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Roman Catholic? First I ever heard that. Grandma was a left-wing Unitarian. Ann was a Communist with a habit of marrying Muslims.

And if you go to a Muslim country and marry a Muslim, then you are expected to be a Muslim yourself, at least superficially.


9 posted on 11/07/2010 2:46:08 PM PST by Cicero
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Momma might have been born a Catholic....but she had not one but 2 Muslim husbands and was supposedly an atheist which I don't think anyone has proven beyond a doubt.

In the real world of that day, she renounced both her religion and her citizenship via her marriages.

P.S. That makes Barak a non-citizen under the "Natural Born Citizen" clause of the Constitution. It's purpose was obviously "Undivided Loyalty" to the USA. Obama is not a "loyal" American and wasn't raised as one.

10 posted on 11/07/2010 2:46:30 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Obama always appears at his best when he is off of American land it appears.
11 posted on 11/07/2010 2:47:25 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
The image of a UNITED STATES PRESIDENT down on all fours like an animal bowing his head towards Mecca and his up in the air arse towards America.........................!!!!!
12 posted on 11/07/2010 2:47:38 PM PST by Happy Rain ("So this is how a black man leads America.")
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Anyone who comes up with “Do unto others as they would do unto you” has definitely received islamic teachings.


13 posted on 11/07/2010 2:47:53 PM PST by Hoodat ( .For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.d)
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To: syriacus

Stanley Anne Durham was NOT a Catholic!!! Her parents were COMMUNISTS and went to a “RED” Church!


14 posted on 11/07/2010 2:49:28 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Jerrybob
Is anyone still seriously saying that this man is NOT a practicing Muslim???

I am and flame me if you want.

This man Obama isn't practicing, he is professing!

15 posted on 11/07/2010 2:50:03 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

His mother was an atheist.


16 posted on 11/07/2010 2:50:22 PM PST by submarinerswife (Stay focused and determined. Our destination is NOVEMBER!!)
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To: Jerrybob

I don’t think this cretin has the moral fortitude to ‘practice’ any religion. However that doesn’t touch his ideology, and I think Islam IS a part of his.

Either way, he is a target of Muslims because he publicly renounced it even though he was created one by virtue of his birth. The same muslim father from British Kenya who’s DNA makes him an usurper in the White House.

Only an idiot would go to the most heavily populated muslim country under those circumstances. But then we are talking about Barry who makes a pet rock look brilliant.


17 posted on 11/07/2010 2:51:04 PM PST by Danae (Anail nathrach, orth' bhais's bethad, do chel denmha)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

.....As a schoolboy in Jakarta, Barack Obama attended Muslim prayer sessions with his classmates....

That’s old news.

.......[obama] studied the Koran and went to classes on Islam, despite the objections of Anne Dunham, a Roman Catholic.

That’s new news (that his mother was Roman Catholic, and objected to obama’s muslim practice)!!!!

obama was and is a muslim! He does everything possible to sell America out to islam and sharia. This trip (which is also overly luxurious at a time when many Americans are hurting and the Federal budget is extremely bloated) is part and parcel of that sell-out!!!!


18 posted on 11/07/2010 2:55:36 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: SandRat
The teacher, Effendi, who taught at Menteng One for 29 years, remembers Mr Obama as a "fat, curly-haired, curious boy".

Synonyms for "curious":

curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular strange (vs. familiar), unusual
19 posted on 11/07/2010 2:56:06 PM PST by aruanan
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To: Berlin_Freeper

He is kind of a shmuck for NOT going to his old school. He probably would except that he doesn’t want stories like THIS one to get out, about how crazy he was about the Koran. The thing is, a fatherless boy finally gets a father, so of course he is going to want to do what new Daddy does. That doesn’t bother me in the least.

The behavior of an 8-year-old boy is not threatening. This was his world back then.


20 posted on 11/07/2010 2:57:33 PM PST by Yaelle
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