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Note on Wynton Marsalis: Flamenco, Food, Fado and Friends FACEBOOK page

Rully Dasaad

Many Thanks to you Wynton to all yours sweet attention and kind support to my daughter Rose Dasaad,Susanna Tadjab and Remon..My great respect to you as a Jazz Fan whos listening to you since you were still in Art Blakey's Jazz Messenger Band...I hope someday you will appear in Java Jazz in jakarta - Indonesia someday..May God Bless you always....Take care Rully Dasaad
July 15, 2009 at 7:51pm

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When a whispering campaign began in Washington that Obama had attended a radical Islamic school, it galvanised his former classmates from the nearby Besuki Primary School. Rully Dasaad, a photographer, formed an Obama fan club and almost all his 24 classmates joined, dismissing suggestions Obama was educated as a Muslim.

"The claims it was a madrassa [Islamic school] were unfair," he said. "In our time we had Christians, Hindus, Muslims and Buddhists all mixed in one class. Every morning we would recite the state ideology of Pancasila [promoting unity in diversity]."

Coming from one of Indonesia's wealthiest families and with an American aunt, Dasaad spoke good English and took "chubby Barry" under his wing. They joined the Scouts together and every lunchtime would play tak gebok, an Indonesian version of dodgeball.

He remembers buying Obama a notebook and pencils for his 10th birthday, as he loved to draw. "He liked to draw superheroes; it was always Batman or Superman."

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