Posted on 12/19/2006 5:21:02 AM PST by radar101
Many months ago, readers began asking me whether Barack Obama is Muslim. Since he identifies as a Christian, I said, "no," and responded that he was not raised by his Kenyan father.
But, then, I decided to look further into Obama's background. His full name--as by now you have probably heard--is Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. Hussein is a Muslim name, which comes from the name of Ali's son--Hussein Ibn Ali. And Obama is named after his late Kenyan father, the late Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., apparently a Muslim.
And while Obama may not identify as a Muslim, that's not how the Arab and Muslim Streets see it. In Arab culture and under Islamic law, if your father is a Muslim, so are you. And once a Muslim, always a Muslim. You cannot go back. In Islamic eyes, Obama is certainly a Muslim. He may think he's a Christian, but they do not.
Then, there are the other items in his background. As best-selling author Scott Turow wrote in Salon, Obama went to a Muslim school for two years in Indonesia. His mother, Anna, married an Indonesian man (likely another Muslim, as Indonesia is Muslim-dominated and has the largest Islamic population in the world).
And Obama has a "born-again" affinity for the nation of his Muslim father, Kenya, and his Kenyan sister. (Although Kenya is largely Christian, it has a fast-growing Muslim population that has engaged in a good deal of religious violence and riots against Christians. And Kenyan courts will apply Sharia law, when the participants are Muslim.) Wrote Turow:
Obama's father died in a traffic accident in Nairobi in 1982, but while Obama was working in Chicago, he met his Kenyan sister, Auma, a linguist educated in Germany who was visiting the United States. When she returned to Kenya in 1986 to teach for a year at the University of Nairobi, Obama finally made the trip to his father's homeland he had long promised himself. There, he managed to fully embrace a heritage and a family he'd never fully known and come to terms with his father, whom he'd long regarded as an august foreign prince, but now realized was a human being burdened by his own illusions and vulnerabilities. So, even if he identifies strongly as a Christian, and even if he despised the behavior of his father (as Obama said on Oprah); is a man who Muslims think is a Muslim, who feels some sort of psychological need to prove himself to his absent Muslim father, and who is now moving in the direction of his father's heritage, a man we want as President when we are fighting the war of our lives against Islam? Where will his loyalties be?
Is that even the man we'd want to be a heartbeat away from the President, if Hillary Clinton offers him the Vice Presidential candidacy on her ticket (which he certainly wouldn't turn down)?
NO WAY, JOSE . . . Or, is that, HUSSEIN?
I get the feeling they are propping up Obama so that when Hillary decides to run against him, the media can compare and contrast them.
It will be the ultimate PC smackdown and the media will make us all believe that the Republicans are racists.
Obama looks like Alfred Neumann.
Yeah but he's not running in Louisiana.
Better an apostate mohammedan, than an active believing mohammedan.
The rest of his CV is a collection of good reasons to vote for somebody else.
Anybody else.
Micke Mouse, for example ...
“It's a maaaaaadhouse... !”
No offense, Debbie, but since when did we give a flying **** what the "muslim street" thought?
There are plenty of easily substantiatied, factual reasons to oppose Obama. This one makes us sound paranoid, desperate, and pathetic.
EXACTLY.
Obama is a politician with a heritage rooted in Islam, the religion of the fanatical enemy of the western world that seeks to destroy my country and your country, the United States of America. More importantly, he seeks the role of President and Commander in Chief of the United States. Do you think he is above using the church and a fawning media to obtain his goals? Is that a risk you are willing to take?
Not me...
Houston, we have a problem.
And the story goes on about the UCC
DALLAS, Oct. 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Cathedral of Hope, known as the "world's largest gay church," has been accepted into the United Church of Christ (UCC). In a vote taken Saturday, Oct. 28, by the denomination's North Texas Association, the church was overwhelmingly accepted as a member church. A special service of installation, at which the church will officially become a member of the denomination, is being planned.
http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2006/10/29/worlds-largest-gay-church-joins-united-church-of-christ/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fnews%2F2006%2F10%2F29%2F101-10292006.html&frame=true
BTTT
I will never forget!
I don't have a problem and I'm not voting for some bozo named Barack Husseim Obama.
Ummm, officially, that would be DEATH. islam is a once-in-never-out religion.
Oh PERFECT. We can elect the enemy directly to office of President of the United States. The he can fully attack the nation from within and install the first Muzzie religious sect administration in our history! Oh, golly gee. How wonderful. I KNEW there was more to this guy.
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