Posted on 09/21/2008 6:05:34 AM PDT by Zakeet
Heres a sad monument to the sleaziness of this presidential campaign: Almost one-third of voters know that Barack Obama is a Muslim or believe that he could be.
In short, the political campaign to transform Mr. Obama into a Muslim is succeeding. The real loser as that happens isnt just Mr. Obama, but our entire political process.
A Pew Research Center survey released a few days ago found that only half of Americans correctly know that Mr. Obama is a Christian. Meanwhile, 13 percent of registered voters say that he is a Muslim, compared with 12 percent in June and 10 percent in March.
More ominously, a rising share now 16 percent say they arent sure about his religion because theyve heard different things about it.
When Ive traveled around the country, particularly to my childhood home in rural Oregon, Ive been struck by the number of people who ask something like: That Obama is he really a Christian? Isnt he a Muslim or something? Didnt he take his oath of office on the Koran?
In conservative Christian circles and on Christian radio stations, there are even widespread theories that Mr. Obama just may be the Antichrist. Seriously.
John Green, of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, says that about 10 percent of Americans believe we may be in the Book of Revelations end times and are on the lookout for the Antichrist. A constant barrage of e-mail and broadcasts suggest that Mr. Obama just may be it.
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Mr. McCain himself is not popular with evangelicals. But they will vote for him if they think the other guy may be on Satans side.
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What is happening, I think, is this: religious prejudice is becoming a proxy for racial prejudice.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
He may be many things, but he’s not a Christian. He’s probably not an orthodox Muslim, either, but subscribes to that peculiar mix of Islam and black power ideology that floats through the African-American community. This is true even though he’s not even a legitimate part of the “African American community,” but is just hitching his star to it because it has become the favorite prop of the extreme left.
Incidentally, on the website of his “church,” it says - or did say earlier - that Muslims are welcome to attend. Some “church”! The pastor, Wright, is also a former Black Muslim who decided the pickings were better by setting himself up as an independent “church.”
It’s an interesting thing TC, “out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks” and yet we heard Obama on George Stephanopuolis’s show say “My Muslim Faith” and when George S. corrected Obama with “you mean your Christian Faith” Obama did not acknowledge the correction he simply kept on talking.
I find that odd, never really gave much credence to the “Obama is a Muslim” line of thought, outside of Patriarchal Lineage, but that gaffe did sow some additional questions in my thinking about him.
I compare that to this:
http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/08/the-pow-church-riot.html
“The prisoners had developed a tap code system for communicating through the walls. Through that tapping, “we decided we needed to be all on the same sheet of music at least one time during the week,” Swindle said.
The prisoners decided that every Sunday, after they had eaten their rice, the highest-ranking officer would cough loudly and say the letter ‘c’ for church. The prisoners would then say the Pledge of Allegiance, the Lord’s Prayer and the 23rd Psalm. The psalm was said in plural: “Yea, though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death we will fear no evil.”
From McCain and he seems much more Christian to me then Obama ever could be.
Anyone who doesn’t vote for Sarah Palin is a sexist!
See,it works both ways.
If obama is a Christian, I still won’t vote for him.
It’s his views and where he stands on issues that I am concerned about.
And I am not a racist because he is black and I am white and I don’t vote for him.
Babies are not terrorists. They never started a war...so killing them is NOT self-defense.
Additionally, Obama and his 20 year church have more in common with radical Islam than not. They hate Whites, Christians, Catholics, and Jews.
Obama supported Odinga in Kenya. Odinga lost the presidential election but Obama was instrumental in getting Odinga the Prime Minister post. Odinga signed an agreement with radical Islam before the election. When he lost the election 1000 Christians were killed and their churches were burned in the radical Islamic violence.
So, do any of you lurkers want this scene played out in the USA? If so, then that maggot Obama is your guy and the blood will be on your hands.
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If we produced photos of Obama’s backside with a giant 666 birthmark, the NY Slimes would still accuse us of bigotry.
Why do I doubt the veracity of this statement. Well, for one, it come from the Times. And why would people walk up to this author and state such a question. Is the author some kind of expert? I suppose in his own mind, he is; it certainly shines through in his condescending tone.
“He supports the killing of unborn children.”
Hell, he supports the killing of BORN children if the mother’s original intent was that child’s destruction. Obambi is evil.
Sabina Wurmbrand said the Christian prisoners in labor camp in Romania would greet each other with the opening lines of a psalm:
“Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good. His mercy endures forever.”
and the response,
“Let the redeemed of the LORD say so!”
I think a reasonable person could conclude, based on evidence including his own statements, that Barack Obama is a Moslem. I believe that his religion is Marxism, and I’d much sooner vote for a Moslem.
Maybe the NYT’s special hack, Mr. Kristof can help the Obama campaign to refute this ‘he’s a muslim’ by telling the truth and quite hiding under the Moron Media’s skirts!
It is Obama’s fault that so many do not trust him, he has lied repeatedly and has tried to hide his history at every attempt of due discovery.
He does have a Muslim name and he attends a racist church. Is there anything more we need to know about Barack Hussein Obama? Seriously! “
His father was Muslim.
He was registered for school in Indonesia as a Muslim.
He went to Pakistan on an Indonesian passport when he was 20.
He attended for 20 YEARS—1040 Sundays- a very racist and hate filled church.
He can try to put lipstick on that church, but it is still filled with hate.
I don’t care what Nobama calls himself. He isn’t anywhere near the definition of a Christian that I was ever raised with nor have encountered in my 68 years.
American voters don’t need to attend church every Sunday to know in their hearts what a true Christian is.
He can call himself anything he want.
He cannot fool the American voter that much.
Really? I had thought that taqqiyah would allow for such things under the cover of Jihad?
You are correct. He referred to his own Muslim faith - nobody had to say it for him.
How often do you accidentally refer to your ‘muslim faith’ when discussing religion with somebody (as Obama did on ABC TV)?
The old "people asked me when I really just wanted to buttress my own point of view by making those people up" schtick. Please.
If that many people (e.g. 1/3 of voters) really believed that Hussein is a Muslim, he’d be twenty points down right now. It’s the fact that too many people don’t know about his “true faith” (black liberation theology) that’s making him competitive with McCain.
So, if I say I believe that Obama was a Muslim, does that put me in the NY Times 1/3rd?
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