Line 4. Religion - Islam
Posted on 09/10/2008 3:12:59 PM PDT by mojito
As a boy in Indonesia, Barack Obama crisscrossed the religious divide. At the local primary school, he prayed in thanks to a Catholic saint. In the neighborhood mosque, he bowed to Allah....
Obama’s four years as a child in Indonesia underscore how dramatically his background differs from that of past presidential hopefuls....
Obama’s campaign aides have emphasized his strong Christian beliefs and downplayed any Islamic connection. The candidate was raised “in a secular household in Indonesia by his stepfather and mother,” his chief spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said in a statement in January after false reports began circulating that Obama had attended a radical madrasa, or Koranic school...
“To be clear, Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ in Chicago,” Gibbs’ Jan. 24 statement said. In a statement to The Times on Wednesday, the campaign offered slightly different wording, saying: “Obama has never been a practicing Muslim.” The statement added that as a child, Obama had spent time in the neighborhood’s Islamic center.
His former Roman Catholic and Muslim teachers, along with two people who were identified by Obama’s grade-school teacher as childhood friends, say Obama was registered by his family as a Muslim at both of the schools he attended.
That registration meant that during the third and fourth grades, Obama learned about Islam for two hours each week in religion class.
The childhood friends say Obama sometimes went to Friday prayers at the local mosque.
(Excerpt) Read more at articles.latimes.com ...
Articles like this are forbidden now, as the press corps works to suppress any news that might dampen enthusiasm for the One.
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Black or white?
Catholic or Muslim?
Imbecile or moron?
he probably worships hanuman, the hindu monkey god. it's been reported that obwana carries a little icon of hanuman around in his pocket.
regardless of what his religion is, this chump is not even close to being qualified to be commander in chief
"In foreign policy as well, Mr. Obama would bring to the White House an important experience that most other candidates lack: he has actually lived abroad. He spent four years as a child in Indonesia and attended schools in the Indonesian language, which he still speaks.
"I was a little Jakarta street kid,” he said in a wide-ranging interview in his office (excerpts are on my blog, www.nytimes.com/ontheground). He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them.
Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset."
Moreover, Mr. Obama’s own grandfather in Kenya was a Muslim. Mr. Obama never met his grandfather and says he isn’t sure if his grandfather’s two wives were simultaneous or consecutive, or even if he was Sunni or Shiite. (O.K., maybe Mr. Obama should just give up on Alabama.)
Yeah, the two legged kind in black suits with official badges and dark sunglasses.
ping
0bama
“From age two to ten, the family lived in Djakarta, Indonesia. His experiences there and the reality that he was never exposed to the Christian faith, plus his father and step-father’s religion are why people ask today: Is Barack Obama Muslim? No, since people get to choose religion for themselves. However, he is the product of an atheist mother and Muslim fathers, and was raised in a strict Muslim country.”
BUMP for later.
Good article
obumpa
btt
Obama is, by Islamic law, a Muslim because of
his father.
Having “strong Christian beliefs” and remaining in Wright's “church” for 20 years is simply a contradiction.
When it comes to political opportunism, Obama seems to manifest little Christian love.
You forgot reformer or political hack
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