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.

[muawiyah]

The way you get an "Arab" name is you are born and someone gives you such a name.

Or, you can go on the net and use a pen-name.

The United States is the world's greatest repository of people whose ethnicity differs from their names. For example Todd Palin, Sarahcuda's "first dude", is of mixed ancestry ~ part Eskimo, part Finn, part some other things ~ maybe 30 or 40 other things, really, and that "Todd" part of his name does not turn him into a member of Phi Psi!

[PhilDragoo]

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8npeYfKI_ns

did you catch this?

[Fred Nerks]

...Or, you can go on the net and use a pen-name.

you mean as you did: muawiyah

Muawiya ibn Abu Sufyan (died 680) was the founder of the Umayyad dynasty of caliphs. His clan, which had resisted Mohammed and his message longest and most vehemently, eventually won political control over the Islamic community. As son of Abu Sufyan, one of the leaders of the Meccan opposition to Mohammed, Muawiya did not adopt Islam until the conquest of Mecca in 630. Muawiya at this time was made secretary to the Prophet...

[forkinsocket]

He pronounces his name & writes it ("ck") as if it means barak, not buraq. He says that his name means blessing in Arabic & Swahili. That matches with barak & not buraq. Barak is a common name & buraq is very rare. Only heard of it used in Turkey in so far. So unless someone produces some official document with his name written in the Arabic alphabet as بوراق , there is no reason for me to assume that his name is buraq.

[Fred Nerks]

In the book written by Alan Moorehead 'The White Nile' the word baraka is used to denote an individual with a certain quality of being able to persuade and manipulate in his favour.

Thus someone with 'baraka' is blessed...but the poor fools who follow him are cursed. The expression is used in the book to describe the 'mahdi' :

When Mahommed Ahmed, a Dongolese, proclaimed himself the long-looked-for Mahdi (guide) of Islam, he found most of his original followers among the grossly superstitious villagers of Kordofan, to whom he preached universal equality and a community of goods...

SOURCE

[AppyPappy]

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

That’s a lie. You need to educate yourself. Ignorance is not a virtue

[muawiyah]

His father also looks remarkably like other black Africans in that part of the world. Arabs do not look like any black Africans anywhere ~ they look like Arabs and white guys! In fact, True Arabs have narrow but otherwise ENORMOUS noses ~ but otherwise clearly identical to the same equipment carried by Armenians. They are called "Armenoid" features. Caucasion Caucasions (e.g. Armenians or other people closely related to Armenians) can, with little effort, pass for Arabic if need be, and sometimes vice versa.

Many Caucasions, and all Armenians, speak Indo-European languages in fact.

[Fred Nerks]

The Original Black African Arabs of Arabia Part 4.

Today, one hears the delibrate or ignorant misuse and abuse of the word Arab for political purposes unconnected with the real history of the people and culture. Arab now represents a diversity of which the pale-skin type lays claim to predominance. Yet, it can not be forgotten that the original authentic Arabs were Black men and women from Africa. The children of Kush and Nimrod; the Ethiopians who emigrated to the lands of Yemen and Hadramut and Mesopotamia.

Even in these days of rank misinformation, the black skin Arabs still maintain a numerical edge over the Arabized pale skin types of today (mixed blood descendants of the Kurds, the Persians and the Turks with African Arabs). When the African Arabs (most of who claim a legitimate link to Black Yemen) are factored in with the remnants of the Black skinned Arabs of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman, Yemen, and Kuwait, the Black Arabs of today still predominate in number and in importance, in the Arab world. That predominance is not accidental. It is a historical thread which remains valid even in these inauspicious post-modern times. Yes, but times come and times go, and yet the Black Arabs will remain.

[Fred Nerks]

The Original Black African Arabs of Arabia Part 4.

Today, one hears the delibrate or ignorant misuse and abuse of the word Arab for political purposes unconnected with the real history of the people and culture. Arab now represents a diversity of which the pale-skin type lays claim to predominance. Yet, it can not be forgotten that the original authentic Arabs were Black men and women from Africa. The children of Kush and Nimrod; the Ethiopians who emigrated to the lands of Yemen and Hadramut and Mesopotamia.

Even in these days of rank misinformation, the black skin Arabs still maintain a numerical edge over the Arabized pale skin types of today (mixed blood descendants of the Kurds, the Persians and the Turks with African Arabs). When the African Arabs (most of who claim a legitimate link to Black Yemen) are factored in with the remnants of the Black skinned Arabs of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman, Yemen, and Kuwait, the Black Arabs of today still predominate in number and in importance, in the Arab world. That predominance is not accidental. It is a historical thread which remains valid even in these inauspicious post-modern times. Yes, but times come and times go, and yet the Black Arabs will remain.

[Fred Nerks]

sorry - duplicate post.

[muawiyah]

Still doesn't 'splain where the Armenoid ears and noses came from ~ none of that sort of thing is popular in Subsaharan Africa.

The fact is plenty of white folks are black. Don't mean nothin'.

[forkinsocket]

That’s Afrocentric Nation of Islam type stuff. They claim everyone was originally black & stole the heritage of blacks. Jews, Arabs, Whites, Chinese, etc.

Original Arabs are from the peninsula. Now many other people adopted Arabic as their language & are also Arabs: Syrians, Palestinians, Egyptians, sometimes Nubians & Berbers depending on how they feel like answering. Black Arabs are scattered across the Middle East, descendents of slaves &/or migrants. Sudanese black Arabs are Arabs from the peninsula mixed with Africans & Nubians.

Black Palestinians: http://members.tripod.com/yajaffar/african.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XbxeEgCNtY

Black Iraqis:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A6645-2004Jan10&notFound=true
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4271003

& of course, in North Africa & Oman/Yemen (mixed with Somali especially). In Israel the Yemeni Jews are stereotyped as having frizzy hair - obviously because of their mixture with Somali just like all the other Yemenis.

You can see some black features in “real Arabs” sometimes too. My boyfriend (from the Gulf) sometimes looks vaguely black even though he has no known black ancestry.