[Cicero]

Thanks for the link.

Interesting question, to say the least.

I have been trying to figure out ever since he came on the scene whether Obama favors the Shiites or the Sunnis, or for that matter, which kind of Muslim he is. Apparently the versions of Islam he would have been exposed to in Kenya and in Indonesia are not exactly straight Sunni or Shiite. But as near as I can tell, he seems to favor Iran and the Shiites, perhaps because he suffers from the delusion that he is the Mahdi, i.e., the Muslim messiah. He bowed to the Saudi King, who is the Keeper of the Sacred Places, but I get the impression that he seems to lean more toward the Iranians.

[LucyT]

Article and comments through # 18 ; don't miss # 4 , # 18 .

Thanks, Cicero.

[Danae]

I have no. I am just past the point of believing it is all just coinkiedinks.

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1924116,00.html

after you read the above article, you will then need to decide from whom he inherited his sect of the cult. If the kenyan was his father, his membership came from the Peninsula with the slavers. That’s sunni.

If his father was a controversial African-American radical who converted to sunni islam in April, 1964, he also inherited his membership to that same sect.

And as neither potenial MALE ancestors (I use the word potential because we do not know his parentage) were anywhere in the vicinity of the region now known as Iraq when the split between these two sects of the cult of mohammadanism took place, shiite would appear to be most unlikely.