Barack Obama joined Muslim prayers at school, teacher says

The Times ^ | November 08, 2010 | Anne Barrowclough

[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".

[missnry]

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

How many people know that the last time Zero went to "church" in Washington DC on September 19th there was a muslim speaker... Dr. Ziad J. Asali, a long-time activist on Middle East issues? What are the odds of Obama attending a "Christian" church only 6 times since coming into office and a Muslim speaker shows up?

[Don Corleone]

Anne Dunham, a Roman Catholic.

Not compatible with her avowed Marxism.

[TigersEye]

There you have 0bummer’s word, his sister’s word and the word of two of Stanley Ann’s friends. The only thing more definitive than that would be an authenticated recording in her own words.

[Vigilanteman]

Not likely, given that his mama was an avowed atheist and his step-daddy a Muslim.

I have yet to figure out why the atheistic left loves Islamofacists so. I think part of it is a shared hatred of Christianity and western civilization but another distinct part is simple cowardice over confrontation.

[celtic gal]

Not only that HE has no relation to the existence of the American Slaves..his ancestors were not slaves as were Michelle's. This piker is trying to lay claim to something that is not apart of his ancestry history other than being related to those who sold his black brethren into slavery in the first place.

[celtic gal]

How is it that one renounces their citizenship when they marry one who is not American? Enlighten please.

[Beckwith]

Anne Dunham, a Roman Catholic.

Nonsense!

Stanley Ann Dunham was never a Roman Catholic.

Madelyn and Stanley shed their Methodist and Baptist upbringing and began attending Sunday services at the East Shore Unitarian Church in nearby Bellevue.

"In the 1950s, this was sometimes known as 'the little Red church on the hill,'" said Peter Luton, the church's senior minister. Skepticism, the kind that Stanley embraced and passed on to his daughter, was welcomed here.

[aruanan]

Excellent analysis of his completely phony “biographies.”

Thanks. I remember the first time I saw a picture of him in the window of the U of Chicago bookstore having something to do with his run for the Illinois senate. This is the first image that popped into my mind:



But I see that others have thought the same:

[aruanan]

And if he had looked like Al Sharpton and sounded like Jesse Jackson and had the politics of Clarence Thomas, he never would have been selected by the Democrats as a candidate--well, actually, from what I hear, he never would have been selected as a candidate had he not bused in people from Illinois to Iowa and subverted other Democrat caucuses in Texas and Nevada by various and sundry means. In almost every way possible it could be said, "Illegitimacy, thy name is Barry Obama Barack Dunham Soetoro."

[livius]

Since when was Anne Dunham a Catholic? Nobody else in her family was, and she seems to have been a complete (Marxist) secularist like the rest of them.

Barry was sent to a Catholic school because it was the school for westerners and well-off kids, such as the children of diplomats. When he was enrolled there, he was enrolled as a Muslim, which meant he was not required to take the Catholic religious classes. I assume he had a “released time” equivalent and received Muslim instruction during the time that the majority of the kids were receiving Catholic religious instruction.

He was actually removed from the school by his mother and stepfather and sent to a madrassa because they felt the instruction was not Islamic enough.

[TigersEye]

LOL That was a great movie. I saw it when it first came out and thought it was a refreshingly different kind of film.

Unfortunately it's about half of our own population that is bug nuts crazy.

[STD]

HaHaHa, Sure she did! When she wasn't making porno movies.

I'm sure she really cared about what young Barry was exposed to during his formulative years.

"despite the objections of Anne Dunham, a Roman Catholic."

Unfortunately, in India you are assumed to follow the faith of our fathers. Well, by that standard the people of India and the Far East, Obama's a moslem.

[ridesthemiles]

Stanley ann’s “first Muslim husband” was still married to his wife in Kenya & had 2 kids when he came to the USA.

IF she did ‘marry’ him, it was bigamy. Not a legal marriage.

[ridesthemiles]

How is it that one renounces their citizenship when they marry one who is not American? Enlighten please.”

Indonesia does NOT recognize dual citizenship.

When Stanley Ann married Soetero, she would have had to take up Indonesian citizenship & given up her American citizenship.

[Defiant]

You could rename that movie, “The Americans Must Be Crazy”.

[Yaelle]

Seriously — he did not write those books, which is why they don’t ring true. William Ayers wrote them. This has been proven by the thought patterns in common with Ayers’s own books, and the millions of references that fit AYERS’s life and not Obama’s.

Read on.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/who_wrote_dreams_from_my_fathe_1.html

[aruanan]

Seriously — he did not write those books, which is why they don’t ring true. William Ayers wrote them. This has been proven by the thought patterns in common with Ayers’s own books, and the millions of references that fit AYERS’s life and not Obama’s.

I know. I'm happy to see that someone figured out a way to demonstrate the falseness I sensed. Of course, later, Ayers admitted that he had written the first one. The second was ghost written by someone other than Ayers.

[patriot08]

This should tell you all you need to know:

BILLIONS FOR JIHAD!

Obamas 2009 Supplemental Appropriations for Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Pandemic Flu was revised and passed by the full committee.
It gives billions http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2009/05/1...
of U.S. taxpayer dollars to countries and entities that support Sharia law and/or harbor, hide and support those who want to destroy the U.S. and our allies.
Read the summary from David Obeys office that was quietly released last week with nary a word from any media.

$3.6 billion, matching the request, to expand and improve capabilities of the Afghan security forces

$400 million, as requested, to build the counterinsurgency capabilities of the Pakistani security forces

Afghanistan:$1.52 billion,$86 million above the request

West Bank and Gaza:$665 million in bilateral economic, humanitarian, and security assistance for the West Bank and Gaza

Jordan:$250 million,$250 million above the request, including $100 million for economic and $150 million for security assistance

Egypt:$360 million,$310 million above the request, including $50 million for economic assistance,$50 million for border security, and $260 million for security assistance

Pakistan:$1.9 billion,$591 million above the request

Iraq:$968 million,$336 million above the request

Oversight:$20 million,$13 million above the request, to expand oversight capacity of the State Department, USAID, and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan to review programs in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq
Lebanon:$74 million

International Food Assistance:$500 million,$200 million above the request, for PL 480 international food assistance to alleviate suffering during the global economic crisis

Refugee Assistance:$343 million,$50 million above the request, including humanitarian assistance for Gaza. Funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency programs in the West Bank and Gaza is limited to $119 million (Note: Gaza = Hamas)

Disaster Assistance:$200 million to avert famines and provide life-saving assistance during natural disasters and for internally displaced people around the world, including Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, the Middle East and South Asia

Peacekeeping:$837 million for United Nations
peacekeeping operations, including an expanded mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a new mission in Chad and the Central African Republic

Department of Justice:$17 million, matching the request, for counter-terrorism activities and to provide training and assistance for the Iraqi criminal justice system
Obama gives your tax dollars to rebuild Muslim mosques around the world
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/... #

ACCORDING TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WILL GIVE AWAY NEARLY $6 MILLION OF AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS TO RESTORE 63 HISTORIC AND CULTURAL SITES, INCLUDING ISLAMIC MOSQUES AND MINARETS, IN 55 NATIONS. See the State Department document here.
http://exchanges.state.gov/media/pdfs/office-...

And THAT’S just the tip of the iceberg.
THIS will blow your mind!!

http://gbk.eads.usaidallnet.gov/
They should have 2010 up, but they don’t. That’s where you’ll find Obama’s largesse towards Muslim countries really go off the charts.
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http://www.foreignassistance.gov/DataView.aspx

charts:

http://gbk.eads.usaidallnet.gov/data/fast-facts.html

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The cost of U.S. military intervention in Libya has cost American taxpayers an estimated $896 million through July 31, the Pentagon said today.

The price tag includes the amounts for daily military operations, munitions used in the operation and humanitarian assistance for the Libyan people.

The U.S. has also promised $25 million in non-lethal aid to the Libyan Transitional National Council, half of which the Defense Department has already on MRE’s (military lingo for Meals, Ready to Eat).
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/08/us-military-intervention-in-libya-cost-at-least-896-million-.html

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