[PghBaldy]

I don’t mean to imply he is currently a Muslim, but more and more I wonder when he pulls these stunts.

[chris_bdba]

That is what I said to my Dh when this news broke. If he was trying to prove he isn’t one then everything he does seems to point to that he is one.

[shibumi]

"I don’t mean to imply he is currently a Muslim, but more and more I wonder when he pulls these stunts."

Let's see now,

Muslim father?

Muslim step-father?

Educated in a Madrassa?

Changed his name to a Muslim name as an adult?

Attended a church (for 20 years) that welcomes Muslims?

Can (and does) recite the Shahada in perfect Arabic?

Has stated that in times of political turmoil he would side with the Muslims?

Has stated that the USA is no longer a Christian nation?

Bowed in fealty to a Muslim king?

No, I don't think that you have to imply anything.

[red irish]

I too am beginnig to wonder what he really is,if anything but an enormous ego.

[puroresu]

Like most leftists of his ilk, Obama is a secularist. He regards religion in general as ignorant superstition. However, he regards Christianity with particular disdain because it has been the traditional faith of Western Civilization for two thousand years.

I don't think he worships Allah or gives a whit about Mohammed. He worships himself and his leftist worldview. But since Islam is at war with the West, he has sympathy for it as an ideological battering ram against what he regards as the world's true evil, Western Christendom. He will thus tolerate and even defer to Islam if convenient, just as militantly atheistic European leaders do. He will bow to Islamic leaders if it will "piss off the Bible thumpers" back home.

It is very important for him to deligitimize, and ultimately stigmatize, the idea that America and Christianity have some type of link. For that reason, he couldn't allow himself (the highest ranking American government official) to be seen in a Christian venue. Of course, politically expedient exceptions can be made as needed, such as making the rounds of the black church circuit when he's up for re-election in 2012, but in general he wants to obliterate the idea that America is a part of Western Christendom. He wants us to be an EU-type nation at war with its own heritage.