In his Stephanopolus interview he said McCain "hasn't mentioned my Muslim faith." MY Muslim faith. Was it a lack of TOTUS or the slip of a tongue that was skillful at splitting hairs?
Posted on 02/27/2012 1:28:03 PM PST by bayouranger
According to Sharia law, if one's father is Muslim, one automatically becomes Muslim. "Most of the Muslims I know (me included) can't seem to accept that Obama is not a Muslim."
Many in the media are indignant with Reverend Franklin Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Invited on "Morning Joe" last Tuesday to discuss Christian persecution, Graham was asked whether he thought President Barack Obama was Christian or not. Although Graham concluded that Obama "has said he is a Christian, so I just have to assume that he is," he appeared skeptical, suggesting Obama's policies disagreed with Christian principles, thus earning the full ire of much of the fourth estate.
Graham, however, was absolutely right to say that, "under Islamic law, the Muslim world sees Barack Obama as a Muslim, as a son of Islam": according to Sharia law [Islamic religious law, which regulates all parts of a Muslim's life], if one's father is Muslim, one automatically becomes Muslim. The reason behind last week's church attack in Egypt, when thousands of Muslims tried to torch a church and kill its pastor, is that a Christian girl fled from her father after he converted to Islam: she did not want to be Muslim, and was rumored to be hiding in the church. This is not the first time in recent months that churches have been attacked on similar rumors.
In short, Sharia law's position is that anyone born to a Muslim father is a Muslim—with the death penalty should they seek to apostatize: the 34-year-old Iranian pastor sentenced to death simply for converting to Christianity is just the most visible example.
Because of this automatic passage of religion from father to son, and because Obama attended a madrassa (Muslim religious school during his youth in Indonesia), many Muslims are convinced that Obama is a "secret" Muslim. In a Forbes article, "My Muslim President Obama: Why members of the faith see him as one of the flock ," writer Asma Gull Hasan elaborates:
[S]ince 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." …. 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…. The rationalistic, Western side of me knows that Obama has denied being Muslim, that his father was non-practicing, that he doesn't attend a mosque. Many Muslims simply say back, "my father's not a strict Muslim either, and I haven't been to a mosque in years." Obama even told The New York Times he could recite the adhan, the Islamic call to prayer, which the vast majority of Muslims, I would guess, do not know well enough to recite.
Read the entire article, which is more eye-opening than the author probably intended.
Another reason many Muslims believe Obama is a Muslim (and a reason Ms. Hasan's article understandably omits) is that, under the Islamic doctrine of taqiyya [dissimulation], Muslims are permitted—in certain contexts, and even encouraged—to deny being Muslim, if so doing secures them or Islam an advantage. Accordingly, Islamic history is full of stories of Muslims denying and publicly cursing Islam, and even pretending to be Christian, whenever there was a strategic advantage.
In other words, if an American president were a secret Muslim, and if he were lying about it, and even if he were secretly working to subvert the U.S. to Islam's advantage —not only would taqiyya, or dissimulation, be justified by Islam's doctrines of loyalty and deception, but it would have ample precedents, stretching back to the dawn of Islam. Muhammad, for example, commanded a convert from an adversarial tribe to conceal his new Muslim identity and go back to his tribe—which he cajoled with "You are my stock and my family, the dearest of men to me"—only to betray them to Islam's invading armies.
Graham further upset certain sensitivities by saying, "All I know is under Obama, President Obama, the Muslims of the world, he seems to be more concerned about them than the Christians that are being murdered in the Muslim countries," adding that "Islam has gotten a free pass under Obama."
Yet who can deny this? Whether by expunging any reference to Islam in U.S. security documents, or enabling Muslim persecution of Christians, or ordering NASA to make Muslims "feel good" about themselves, or bowing to the anti-Christian Saudi king—the President has made his partiality for Islam very clear: under Obama, Islam is undoubtedly getting a "free pass."
What Graham's critics seem not to understand is when it comes to Obama's religious identity, Graham probably has in mind Jesus' dictum: "By their fruits shall ye know them"—that is, pro-Islamic actions speak louder than Christian words.
There has never been any doubt in my mind that he is a Muslim.
He is doing a damned fine job of ruining our country.
This needs to go viral. If Americans knew that Muslims think he’s Muslim, then that would be the end of him as president. Who better to know?
I agree.
Sadly, to state a very old quote............”Th masses are asses.”
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While this may not be what you had in mind, Obama is the son of an alien, and our Constitution requires that our presidents be born, on our soil, to parents who are citizens. The Constitution imposes no constraints on eligibility to the presidency based upon religioius beliefs. Here is the positive law, precedent, defining the background necessary to be eligible to the presidency. The only citizens defined in our Constitution before the 14th Amendment were natural born citizens. The reason our framers put the definition into the Constitution was that they didn't want squabbling among states about who were eligible to be president, and each state had its own definition of who were citizens, and would agree among themselves, in Congress, upon “an uniform rule of naturalization” - Article 1 section 8.
“The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.”
During the 60s lots of blacks decided, for varying reasons, to become Muslim. Mohammed Ali, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Yusef Latif, and many others, including Khalid al-Mansour, formerly Don Warden, a Black Panther founder, who became an attorney for Alwaleed bin-Talal, and who funded Barry Soetoro’s education, beginning around the time Barry became Barack Obama. Remember, it was Al-Mansour, who approached Malcolm X's former attorney, Percy Sutton, for help in securing Barry's admission to Harvard. Percy explained that money was not a problem since Alwaleed is one of the world's wealthiest men, and al-Mansour’s employer. Bin-Talaal, probably not coincidentally, is the largest investor in News Corp, which owns the Wall Street Journal and Fox News, after Rupert Murdoch. Bin-Talaal is also one of Harvard's largest benefactors, with the largest department of Harvard Divinity School, the Alwaleed bin-Talaal Center of Islamic Studies, which extends to Georgetown, Cambridge, and American Universty campuses in Lebanon and Cairo. He also donated at least twenty million dollars to Harvard not long after Barack graduated, the only Editor of the Harvard Law Review never to have contributed a single article. Bin-Talaal is also a major stockholder of Cisco, Apple, Google, and probably many other corporations. Recall that Rudy Giuliani refused bin-Talaal’s ten million dollar apology after 9/11.
What sage advised "Follow the money?"
good one -ping
And Hillary stepping right in to lead the party and America out of the dark times.
Sooo, does everyone know what ALL the Clinton operatives responsible for Clintoncide are doing about now??
His worshippers don’t care if he is a muslim. And even after reading this they’ll either say “I don’t care” or “I don’t believe it”.
This is typical of liberals. When Clinton was running in 1992 a woman in Little Rock was told that Clinton admitted to the Jennifer Flowers affair and she said “I still don’t believe it.’
My Muslim roommates from back in the 1970’s would state this as obvious to any Muslim.
You have hit the nail on the head. The elephant in the room.
Thanks bitt.
In his Stephanopolus interview he said McCain "hasn't mentioned my Muslim faith." MY Muslim faith. Was it a lack of TOTUS or the slip of a tongue that was skillful at splitting hairs?
Why you would allow koranimals around your parts is inexplicable. Unless yousest meaneth hereabouts.
Well, this is really effed up, the idjit can't even get cheaper gas prices from the Muslims for all of his grovelling.
Time for a change! Time to take the idjit out!
Ta-daaaaa!
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Thank you for the correction.
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