[originalbuckeye]

My suspicion is that his religion was listed as Muslim on his birth certificate. I was born in the 50’s and my birth certificate says Christian on it. He has already lied that he was never a Muslim so he can't produce an original as it would expose him as a liar.

[ClearCase_guy]

My suspicion is that his religion was listed as Muslim on his birth certificate.

Now THAT is a very interesting comment. Back in those days, people called a spade a spade and that sort of information was commonly included in public documents. A modern, computer-generated birth certificate may be perfectly legitimate, but the format of the output would likely NOT include such information. We now live in a PC world.

If that's the case, I can certainly see why Obama would rather release this version of his certificate rather than something closer to the original.

[peeps36]

I heard that he has mohammud somewhere in his name but I'm not sure about that. There has to be something damaging about his birth certificate for him to want to keep it hidden. Doesn't a presidential candidate have to show his birth certificate and social security card?

[muawiyah]

Where did he "lie"? Sure enough Sharia law as applied in Indonesia might require that he be identified as "Moslem" (since both his father and stepfather were, technically, Moslems, albeit not good ones, the stepfather actually having the reputation of being an Atheist) but he left that place before the age of reasoning.

He would not yet have been eligible for a Bar Mitzvah in fact, nor baptism in an Antipedobaptist church, or even service as a monk in Thailand.

I'd suggest that if you can't yet be a Jew, or a Christian or a Buddhist, you're most likely not ready to make an informed decision to be a Moslem.