Who is (Arabic) Barack Hussein Obama And Why Won't the Press Ask?

New Media Journal ^ | September 10, 2008 | JB Williams

[PlainOleAmerican]

A bright young student recently asked me this question in defense of her Messiah, Barack Hussein Obama...“Mr. Williams, my family name is Irish. Does that make me a terrorist member of the IRA?”

After pointing out that she had made no effort to hide her ancestry, I answered, “No, but it does make you Irish.”

(snip)

The Real Point

What do all of these facts mean in the real world where such an individual is seeking the most powerful political office in the world?

Based upon the belief that 90 percent of the world’s billion-plus Muslim population is peaceful, does it matter whether or not Barack Obama is Muslim? That depends upon whether he is one of the 90 percent or one of the 10 percent.

(snip)

If he is an Arab and a Muslim, does that automatically mean that he is a terrorist or even a terrorist sympathizer? No, it doesn’t...

But combined, what all of it does mean is this, - there are some very reasonable questions that should be asked and answered before the American people actually consider such an individual for the job of Commander-in-Chief, especially while the nation is at war with radical elements of the Arab-Muslim world.

It means that if the press avoids asking those questions, they are derelict in their primary purpose of keeping the public informed. Their only task during an election cycle is to help the American people know as much as possible about those who seek to run their nation. If they won’t ask the questions, then they aren’t doing their job.

[forkinsocket]

No, the horse is buraq. Different word.

[Clemenza]

Your "facts" are half-baked rumors and internet troll-bait.

I am done with this thread. I believe that as silly as these rumors are, they will be more than helpful for McCain.

[Mrs. Don-o]

First, clarify: are you asserting that Obama is Arab, or Muslim? If the former, from which of his parents would Obama have drived Arab ethnic descent? Obama Sr. was Luo. Stanley Ann Dunham was of English/Welsh ancestry.

Where would Obama have spoken the Arabic language? Though he may have learned to read the Koran in Arabic (maybe), in Indonesia they would have spoken Bahasa/Malay or Javanese.

If, on the other hand, you're speaking of religious affiliation, he recited the Shahada as a child, and was classified as Muslim in Indonesia because the head-of-household (Soetoro) was Muslim. Some would consider that as defining membership in the Muslim millah (as a sociological community), but not necessarily the Muslim ummah (as a faith commitment).

Which is it?

[Mrs. Don-o]

First, clarify: are you asserting that Obama is Arab, or Muslim? If the former, from which of his parents would Obama have drived Arab ethnic descent? Obama Sr. was Luo. Stanley Ann Dunham was of English/Welsh ancestry.

Where would Obama have spoken the Arabic language? Though he may have learned to read the Koran in Arabic (maybe), in Indonesia they would have spoken Bahasa/Malay or Javanese.

If, on the other hand, you're speaking of religious affiliation, he recited the Shahada as a child, and was classified as Muslim in Indonesia because the head-of-household (Soetoro) was Muslim. Some would consider that as defining membership in the Muslim millah (as a sociological community), but not necessarily the Muslim ummah (as a faith commitment).

Which is it?

[AppyPappy]

He’s African, not Arabic

[Clemenza]

Not only that, he is not even an “Afro-Arab.” Obama Sr. was a Luo, who were not known to intermix with the Arabs. Methinks the poster of this dribble, while a nice person, has religion and ethnicity confused.

[forkinsocket]

Barack is Swahili too. They have a lot of loan words from Arabic & this is one of them. Even the word Swahili is derived from an Arabic word.

[Cats Pajamas]

LOL maybe I’m just one of mean-spirited Arabaphobes. Is that the right word?

[RinaseaofDs]

Thanks for your post. I was ignorant of this. There was a similar incident that stopped the conquest of Europe by Muslims in 712 - The Battle of Tours and Poiters.

[Fred Nerks]

Barack Obama is absolutely, positively non Arab by ethnicity or language...

you would benefit from a little research on the history of the Omani arabs in Kenya. Arab-muslim (rulers and slave traders) intermarried with the indigenous peoples, and as the female line doesn't count in islam, there are no lack of blacks in Kenya who claim arab descent - just as there are black arab muslims living in Oman itself. Most are descendants of black slaves but they identify themselves as arabs through the male line, none-the-less.

It's difficult for me to understand why you included the matter of laguage in your comment. obama learned the koran by rote whilst in school in Indonesia. The koran is written in an archaic arabic that even arabic speaking peoples do not fully understand.

[Mrs. Don-o]

That's fine. That makes Obama an Arab as much as my son Ben is a Cherokee: that'd be 9/16 German, 6/16 British Isles, 1/16 Cherokee (since on his dad's side, his granddaddy's grandmama was a Cherokee.)

Please explain why this is relevant. (I'm not discounting the possibility that some tenuous Arab connection may be a matter of great significance to the Luo.)

[HighlyOpinionated]

BTTT

[Fred Nerks]

(I'm not discounting the possibility that some tenuous Arab connection may be a matter of great significance to the Luo.)

To obama's male ancestry the arab connection would be extremely important. It 'proves' superiority over the indigenous peoples.

That's fine. That makes Obama an Arab as much as my son Ben is a Cherokee: that'd be 9/16 German, 6/16 British Isles, 1/16 Cherokee (since on his dad's side, his granddaddy's grandmama was a Cherokee.)

I think you've fallen into the trap carefully set up by the obama camp...the question of race and its political-correctness connotations. The obama myth needs him to be accepted as an African-American - which he is not! Your own sensitivities regarding ethnicity are thereby being exploited.

Please explain why this is relevant.

It is relevant because we are entitled to know WHO AND WHAT the candidate IS. His entire background should be totally open and visible for all to see.

Who is باراك حسين اوباما ? And Why Won’t the Press Ask?

Other “Coincidences” of Interest

Obama’s Arab name and Muslim heritage by itself, only raises the need for further query. It leads us to no automatic conclusions.

Instead, it leads only to a list of reasonable questions that anyone seeking the power of the Oval Office must be willing to answer. Any candidate, except Obama, with the same background should and would be asked the exact same questions. But, it’s apparently an act of racism to ask America’s first “black” candidate the most glaringly obvious questions.

▪ How did you get an Arab name and why don’t you want to talk about it?

▪ How did someone from such meager beginnings afford Occidental, Columbia and Harvard without ever holding down a paying job?

▪ Who is Dr. Khalid al-Mansour (aka Donald Warden)? When did you meet him and how has he played a role in your life?

▪ Were you ever part of the Black Panther or Saul Alinsky “community organizing” effort?

▪ When and where did you first become close friends with convicted Weatherman terrorist William Ayers, who obviously helped you launch your political career in his Chicago home?

▪ Who is Saul Alinsky and what did he teach you about “community organizing?”

▪ Who are the seventy five billionaire “bundlers” and who gave them the millions to finance your bid for the White House?

▪ Who is Mohammed Hasan Chandoo and why did you spend three weeks with him in Pakistan in the early 80’s, under your Indonesian name and passport?

▪ Why did Percy Sutton write a letter to help you get into Harvard? If it wasn’t Dr. Khalid al-Mansour who asked him to write the letter, who was it?

These are just a few of the questions candidate Obama should be happy to lay to rest with open and direct answers. Though nobody in the lamestream press is asking yet, a few in the New Media are asking the right questions....

[Gemsbok]

Got my marker ready to FReep this punk!

[Dajjal]

obumpa

[expatpat]

You are forgetting the multiple results when translating from the Arabic script to English.

[Fred Nerks]

This Iranian site contains a photograph of a mural which appears to depict Mohammed (sixth picture down) on a contemporary building in Iran. The mural shows Buraq (the animal that carried Mohammed on his Night Voyage, described as being white and having the face of a woman and the tail of a peacock, which this creature is and does) carrying a figure who could therefore only be Mohammed. A word-for-word transliteration of the Farsi caption to that picture is (according to this automated translation site), "The Messenger mounted mainland shiny door village (yzdlaan) (kvyry) village blinds to ascension wine river," which obviously doesn't translate well but which does make mention of "The Messenger," a traditional epithet for Mohammed (as the messenger of Allah). Note: this image is hosted on the Web site of the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri, which is sponsoring a contest of cartoons about the Holocaust as an outraged reponse to the publication of the Mohammed cartoons in the West. Yet the newspaper itself is currently displaying this depiction of Mohammed. (This image also on the newspaper's site appears to be a contemporary image of Mohammed as well.)

MOHAMMAD IMAGE ARCHIVE.

[PlainOleAmerican]

What am I asserting?

As the author states pretty clearly, this is not about skin color, nationality or religion.

It is about two very important questions...

1) Who is this guy, really?

2) Who is his puppet master?

The empty suit is quite obviously a puppet hiding from his past. People who hide usually have something to hide... In this case, it is the puppet master who is being hidden.

His name is Khalid al-Mansour (aka Donald Warden).

Learn who and what this man is and you will know who and what Obama is.

Once Americans figure it all out, he won’t be welcome in the WH or the Senate.

[PlainOleAmerican]

His father comes from an Arab line of Arab slave traders...

He gave his son his Arab name. If you think that makes him “African,” so be it.

I wish folks would do real resarch instead of Googling and reading Obama propaganda all over the web.

He is NOT “black.” If he is exactly what he says he is, he still isn’t black.

But none of this is the point, it is only pieces of a much larger puzzle.

Before it’s over, everyone will know who and what he is. But he has spent years hiding it and THAT is the issue.

[PlainOleAmerican]

Martian too...