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?
What you classify as a religion is a moot point. The fact is the federal government does classify Islam as a religion and that is the framework we must work within. Attacking any American because of his religion can only do harm to those of us who proclaim to be religious.
Who is the enemy? *** ISLAM -- not radical Islam -- Islam !!!
Muslims come in as many flavors as any other religion. Yes, there are even pacifist Muslims, read up on the red shirts of Pakistan's movement for independence. This is important because pitting Muslim against Muslim is our greatest weapon against them and an understanding of who is who in the Muslim world would benefit this effort.
LOL very funny!
" There are two things that against him to be chosen as Hillary's running mate:"
You might want to add a third.
The cold fish factor.
A dummy at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum looks more alive than Hillary.
Obama is definitely energetic-he smiles, he laughs and he can speak extemporaneously in complete sentences without a lot of " ahhhhs " and " ya knows."
Unlike Hillary, Obama looks to be warm blooded.
The only candidate who might make Hillary look lifelike in comparison would be the guy from " Weekend at Bernies " and even that might be a stretch.
Osama Obama went to a catholic high school but never was baptized or confirmed or a convert to any branch or denomination of Christianity. Show us the papers Obama.
"America will never elect an uber-liberal, apostate Muslim and self-admitted drug user to the Office of the President of the United States."
Don't be so sure. He is a very tough candidate. I'd wager that were an election held today between him and Bush, Barrack Hussien Osama would win going away.
He is able to be everyman to everyone. He's a better chameleon than Hillary.
...He was affable with everyone, smiling warmly, but in exchanges that lasted more than a few seconds it was possible to see him slipping subtly into the idiom of his interlocutor—the blushing, polysyllabic grad student, the hefty black church-pillar lady, the hip-hop autoshop guy.Black activists sometimes say that African-American kids need to become “bi-dialectic”—to speak both black English and standard English—to succeed. Obama, the biracial kid from Hawaii, speaks a full range of American vernaculars.
Aside from it being insane? No.
Obama is the Anti-Christ!
Fits him to a T.
I hope you are right. However, the U.S. has become so pc, that I believe it is highly possible. The majority of Americans believe what they read and hear from the media. If the MSM wants BHO as president, they will promote him as the second coming.
Bingo
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