Posted on 09/21/2008 6:05:34 AM PDT by Zakeet
Here’s 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 isn’t 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 aren’t sure about his religion because they’ve heard “different things” about it.
When I’ve traveled around the country, particularly to my childhood home in rural Oregon, I’ve been struck by the number of people who ask something like: That Obama — is he really a Christian? Isn’t he a Muslim or something? Didn’t 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 Revelation’s “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 Satan’s 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 ...
Journalists need to do more than call the play-by-play this election cycle. We also need to blow the whistle on egregious fouls calculated to undermine the political process (like trying to link Barry to the Rev. Wright) and magnify the ugliest prejudices that our nation has done so much to overcome (like the religious bigotry of voting against someone why you think might be on Satan's side).
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
He may not be strictly a Muslim, but he's definitely not a Christian either.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Funny! No one suggests that Biden is a Muslim.
ML/NJ
That would be me. Not that it matters. There are a thousand other reasons I won't vote for him.
But it’s perfectly acceptable to portray Sarah Palin as a moose-hunting, book-burning, Nazi-sympathizing “other”.
By election day it will probably be in the 50% range. The reason is that the cover up is falling apart. obozos life is coming to light, from the statements by his brother and sister acknowledging that obozo was raised as a muslim to the pictures of him in his muzzi costume, to his self stated siding with islam in a confrontation between islam and the west-he's toast!
Simply the reason that the electorate's belief that obozo is a muslim is increasing is that the evidence that proves that he is a muslim is also increasing.
This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever read... Kristof is a hack...
Well, the author never came right out and denied that Barak Husein Obama is the Anti-Christ.
They admitted that fact? HOLY COW!
Kristof flashback:
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/opinion/06kristof.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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.”
“Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that Muhammad is his prophet... “
The Muslim call to prayer is “one of the most beautiful sounds”, according to Barack.
Start with the Muslim world... ask any of them if 0bama is a muslim and the vast majority of them will tell you that he is muslim because he was born of a muslim father.
His “outward” actions reveal that he does NOT hold to the teachings of Christ. He supports the killing of unborn children. He was a member of an organization that claimed to be a “Christian Church.” However, it was discovered that this so called Christian Church was a pro-black racist organization that had little to do with the teachings of the historical Jesus of the bible. The Jesus of the bible did not regard the color of a persons skin as a qualification to entering the Kingdom of God.
Exactly. He’s a man without any strong religious beliefs. No moral standing, unless you count global warming as a religion.
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