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?
Don't bet on it. America elected the Clinton clan. Don't put it past them to elect this criminal.
Based on the name? Then you do have a problem.
Vote Against Osama Obama! One Hussein is plenty!
I told you so...I got some flack when I said these very words on FR a while back....Once a Muslim always a Muslim..
His childhood was spent in Hawaii and Indonesia... then prep-schools... after that, it was straight to Harvard. This guy is about as 'American' as George Soros.
Ping.
Reading Debbie Schlussel is like picking your nose and eating it. What salty drivel she writes. Sometimes I wonder whether her spinal column reaches her brain.
Apologies to Arkansas. I just wanted to make sure people knew which lying bum I was talking about.
The really bad thing about Obama ... he has never held a real job, by which I mean, a job in the private sector.
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I wouldn't put money on that statement.
Whichever Church he belongs to, he claps his hands like Hillary does, while singing hymns.
I was surprised when I saw his lackadaisical clapping a few months back.
"He gives me the creeps, the way Bill Clinton does."
Ditto to both those sentiments! ~shudder~
I wouldn't vote for Obama for any reason. I was merely adding a fact that was omitted from this hit piece called a news article.
What a politician was in the past is not as good an indicator of his political views as what he is now. In my state the majority of Republican used to be Democrats. These same used to be Democrats make our state one of the most conservative in the nation. In Obama's case the fact that he belongs to the very liberal United Church of God is a better indicator of who he is now.
I also believe that attacking a politician because of his religion will give Conservatives a black eye in the end. We protest and cry foul when liberals do this, yet we turn around and do the same thing because he is not of a religion similar to ours. That is called hypocrisy.
Why are we doing Hillary's work for her. She just sits back and enjoys our efforts to deride Obama for his religious background and she doesn't even have to get her hands dirty. We are doing Hillary's bidding and she is laughing all the way to the primaries.
If we go with that as a campaign issue, we DESERVE to lose.
Has he ever done an honest days work in his life? What qualifies him to run the largest enterprise in the world? We need an executive, not a demigogue.
That was exactly my point but I wasn't going to post the fact that it is ultra liberal at the risk of offending someone.
I Osama Obama isn't a natural-born American then he can't run for President. Where was he born? Kenya.
Dude sounds like the Manchurian Candidate.
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