Posted on 01/24/2007 6:15:49 PM PST by jdm
AMERICAN presidential contender Barack Obama has dismissed an allegation by a conservative website that he was educated at a radical Islamic primary school in Indonesia.
The contention that Senator Obama was educated at a radical Muslim school surfaced on Insight magazine's website, the day after he announced his 2008 presidential race.
Conservative internet blogs and the Fox News Channel picked up the story and spread the charges just as his candidacy was getting off the ground.
The Democrat candidate, a member of the United Church of Christ, today called the reports "scurrilous".
"I think they recognise that the notion that me going to school in Indonesia for two years at a public school there at the age of 7 and 8 is probably not going to be endangering in some way the people of America," the senator said on NBC television's Today show.
Associated Press today reported that SDN Menteng 1 school, located in Jakarta, was a public and secular institution open to students of all faiths since before Senator Obama attended in the late 1960s.
Senator Obama moved to Indonsia at age six, attending schools in the country until age 10, when he returned to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents.
The school's vice principal Akmad Solichin told AP that Insight's allegations were "completely baseless", while a spokesman for Indonesia's Ministry of Religious Affairs said claims that Senator Obama studied at an Islamic school were groundless.
"SDN Menteng 1 is a public primary school that is open to people of all faiths," said the spokesman.
"Moreover, he (Obama) studied earlier at Fransiskus Assisi, which is clearly a Catholic school."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Yep, conservatives' fault!!!
I can't believe we are going to have over a year of this madness. I swear the election season will run non-stop soon.
He's a lib. He's very dangerous.
Tracking Down Obama in Indonesia
The blogger 'An American Expat in Southeast Asia" who lives near Barack's childhood residences in Jakarta tracks down leads and does some correspondence gumshoe journalism to find more info on Barack's early years.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1772690/posts
I thought Hillary started all this?
She did, but facts don't matter to the Lying Leftist Drive By Media.
Soon? I think we have arrived.
However, thanks to the miracles of Cable TV and DVR you don't have to actually watch all this damnfoolishness.
A very Clintonian "non-denial denial". He is learning at the master's knee. ;)
Election advertising delights the senses, like a fine root canal.
The United Church of Christ. Well, that says a lot.
That's what I thought. Thanks.
Thanks .. Bookmarked
Good to see ya .. missed ya
"I'm no danger, says Obama"
Oh, then it's OK. I was worried there for a minute or so.
I'm sure he wouldn't lie. Muslims never lie. Do they?
I'm here everyday just lurking. This election and the Dems took alot out of me. I'm just reading FR, not watching the news and hoping this is all a bad nightmare, but it's not. sigh
Barack Hussein Obama was registered under the name "Barry Soetoro"
School documents listed Barry Soetoro as an Indonesian citizen born in Honolulu, Hawaii on 4 August 1961. Barry's religion was listed as Islam.
School documents further record Barry's father as "L Soetoro Ma" who worked as an official of the Director General's office in the TNI
Barry was previously quite religious in Islam. His birth father, Barack Hussein Obama was a Muslim economist from Kenya.
http://laotze.blogspot.com/2007/01/tracking-down-obama-in-indonesia-part-3.html
The full article even adds a quote from Howard Wolfson, Hillary's chief press aide, explaining how she and Obama are both victims in this -- victims of the right wing media.
Said the rather large Horse to the city of Troy.
The audacity of apostasy: Barack Obama’s Muslim links (by Dr. Jack Wheeler)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1773193/posts
I see that somehow this news story has morphed to the pint that this has become the doings of conservatives...
I love how a madrassa is now just a "public school."
It already does. It appears to me that until now, the losers (and maybe the winners too) have ginned up their bid for the coming election in 2 yrs. by placing attack articles in the papers and on TV newscasts trashing the candidates, hoping to grind them down to size by the next election. I'm not saying that the Republicans are responsible for this info about Obama attending a Madrassa, but that's the kind of stuff that has appeared ever since the Clintons got into national politics. If it's not the Clintons who are responsible for this, (my guess,) then the Republicans have learned how to play the game. (Unlikely.)
To the POINT!!!! haha
Lie to the infadel, the koran says its ok... ok...
I hear ya ..
Thank you...the blogs were most interesting...please ping me on any other information you get.
"I'm no danger" is going to be a great campaign slogan.
P.S. Missed ya too
I just bookmarked the blog. We just had a damn election. Can't they give us a 6 month break?
"Moreover, he (Obama) studied earlier at Fransiskus Assisi, which is clearly a Catholic school."
He forgot to check the official script, obviously; the Obama version has him attending the 'public' muslim school where his religion was listed as 'islam' BEFORE attending the catholic school.
That's the trouble with lies...people who remember you pop up at the most inconvenient times...
http://laotze.blogspot.com/2007/01/tracking-down-obama-in-indonesia-barack.html
Part 1 with links to 2, 3 &4.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1771320/posts?page=21#21
To: edpc
Like I said before, I think the Hillary camp is hoping to get a strong reaction from conservatives about this so she can come out shortly as the ROP candidate and blast anti-Islamists as bigots.
We wouldn't vote for him anyway. Insight is a subsidiary (?) of The Washington Times so for them to go there with this new discovery of theirs is suspicious.
21 posted on 01/21/2007 5:05:31 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
Interesting. Thanks!
Amazing that this type of 'debunking' focus wasn't around (except for FreeRepublic) when the Texas Air National Guard lie was being cooked up about the President. But that was him, not Obama. Sickening, isn't it?
Wake up Sheeple, stop believing everything lamestream media is feeding you.
Nope, his mooslimb school wasn't radical, it taught that infidels and Jews were wonderful and equal people and were to be loved.
Does 'wet behind the ears'
pretty much sum up Barak Obama?
I can't believe Hilliary got in early because of him.
Hahahaha ... very, very funny.
It's intersting that he appears to be taking exception to Fox News for bringing it up more than once. I suspect that Obama Hussein is very thin skinned. THAT has sunk a lot of politicians.
Would be great if he came out and said:
Yes, I’m Muslim
Yes, I’m Christian
Even:
I’m ambivalent as far a religion is concerned.
Or even:
I’m not a religious person.
I’m an atheist.
Something …
Would put the whole religion thing in perspective and get it out of the way. However, as a member of Demo party, he will ignore this question and forge ahead and we will be none the wiser.
And yes I read the article … just because you belong to “such and such” a church doesn’t prove your religious convictions.
What does this matter … with the name Obama, he needs to fess’ up to his true religious convictions, otherwise this will haunt him for the entire campaign.
Sorry, just can't take the risk at the moment. Next!
The audacity of apostasy: Barack Obama’s Muslim links (by Dr. Jack Wheeler)
excerpt:
Should Obama deny he ever was a Moslem, it will compound the problem in the eyes of Moslems. He was born of a Moslem father, raised by a Moslem stepfather, and received his first education at a Moslem school. That he subsequently went to a Catholic school in Jakarta before living with his mother’s parents back in Honolulu makes no difference. In the eyes of Moslems, he originally was a Moslem. How can he not be in those eyes, with a Koranic first name and his middle name that of the grandson of Mohammed? For him to become a Christian means he is, for them, a murtadd, an apostate...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1773193/posts
Obama knows it was Hillarycamp.. he just doesn't have the balls to take the beast on.
Certainly not! Even as Pinocchio's nose grew when he was telling a lie, Radar Obama's ears (already the size of RADAR dishes), grow when he lies. Long as they're not getting any bigger, we can trust Radar to be telling the truth. They're not getting any bigger... are they? Are they?
Wet behind THOSE ears? That 'd take a lot of water! No wonder the Dead Sea is drying up!
Let's see.... they want me to vote for Obama while we are looking for Osama.
Right.......
If the GOP manages to lose to this guy and/or Billary the party is dead.
I think you may be right. I don't know if I can take it either.
No..they can't give us a break...they are too eager to coronate either OBAMA or HILLARY as the next RULER of America.
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