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I don't know if he is a believing Muslim at this point in time. What we know is that he was loosely raised a Muslim by his father and stepfather, attended school in a Muslim land as a Muslim, went to mosque on Fridays for 5 years, learned some Arabic in order to speak the important prayers, left Indonesia, came to the US, stopped being religious, got into drugs, in college roomed with Muslims and felt more comfortable with them, visited Pakistan and renewed ties with mosques, and early adulthood decided that membership in a church would help him.

He knew that being a Muslim (which he was culturally, although perhaps not a true believer) would prevent him from having a political career, so he did not join the black Muslims or the Arab Muslim mosques. He found the next best thing: a church that claimed to be Christian, but that said that Christ was a man of color, a prophet who the white people of Rome persecuted. A church that had close ties with the Nation of Islam. A church that did not contradict the Islamic view of Christ as a prophet, as it did not emphasize his divinity, but only the racial message of oppression. A great place for a Muslim sympathizer to hide out.

When we are in a difficult battle with Muslim extremists for the direction of the world, and when any moment they may strike us and force us to react with speed, clarity and detached aggression, to have a Muslim sympathizer in the office of President is utterly insane. It is as though we elected a Japanese-American as President in 1944. And not just any Japanese-American, but one who expressed solidarity with the Japanese cause and who suggested that we needed to change our system so we could get along with them and the Nazis better.

Those people knew better. They elected people that worked their asses off to build a bomb to blow them to hell and save American lives (and the world). Obama would never, ever do what we need to do to win this war if it became more difficult. He wouldn't even stick it out in Afghanistan; you watch, he'll pull out of there soon enough even though he has claimed that war is where we should be. He'd come up with an excuse.