I’ve heard him state in speeches that “Barack” is African or swalhi for “peace”, but it’s actually MUSLIM for “peace”.
“but its actually MUSLIM for peace
Muslim is a language?
"Arab" is a racial and language subgroup. Not all Muslims are Arabs, and not all Arabs are Muslims. The number of ethnic-Arab and Arabic-speaking Christians worldwide is approximately 20 million.
"Muslim" is a religious designation, not a language and not a racial or national identity. There are hundreds of millions of non-Arab Muslims, including the vast majority of the populations on Iran (Persians) and Indonesia (Javanese, Sundanese, etc.) plus many millions of Asian, European, and African Muslims.
Barack Obama is absolutely, positively non Arab by ethnicity or language. Whatever affinity he has with Islam remain to be seen.
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.