Posted on 02/11/2007 3:56:48 PM PST by FairOpinion
Associated Press has revealed that Senator Barack Hussein Obama, Democratic candidate for President of the United States, attend a Catholic school in Indonesia registered as a Muslim, further clouding the issue of where Obama was schooled in Indonesia and when. Obama, by his own admission in books that he has written, has said that he attended a Catholic school and a Muslim school while living in Indonesia with his atheist mother and Muslim stepfather. But now that Fox News reported that Obama may have been indoctrinated in Islamic teachings while attending the Muslim school in Indonesia , he and his handlers have gone spinning the story to the news media, and their stories do not match up.
Obama is claiming that the allegations by Fox are “scurrilous” and that he believes people “recognize 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.” Associated Press is reporting that the Muslim school Obama attended is a public school, open to people of all faiths—this according to the spokesman for Indonesia’s Ministry of Religious affairs who goes only by the name of “Sutopo.” Records show that Obama attended a Catholic school first and then the Muslim school. When he was ten years old, he moved to Hawaii and attended a private secular school.
There are many holes in Obama’s story. First, if he attended the Muslim school when he was seven and eight, which school did he attend when he was nine and ten, if he first attended the Catholic school? There appears to be a gap in his education or a miscommunication about what school he attended and when he attended it. Associated Press reports that Obama’s mother relocated to Indonesia from 1967-71 after marrying Obama’s Muslim step-father—who Obama claims was no longer Muslim, but an atheist. The Catholic school, Fransiskus Assisis, where Obama first attended school, enrollment documents, however, show Obama enrolled as a Muslim, the religion of his stepfather.
Obama’s spokesman Robert Gibbs says he isn’t sure why the Catholic school document had Obama listed as a Muslim. Gibbs told AP, “Senator Obama has never been a Muslim.” While the spokesman is denying that Obama was never a Muslim, Obama, himself, has not publicly said he was never and is not now a Muslim.
What can Americans expect of a Muslim-educated Obama? AP writes of its interviews at the Muslim school in Indonesia, “Those tied to the school say they are proud to have had a student like Obama, and hope that, if he is elected president, his ties to Indonesia will broaden his world perspective and his views on religion.” Indonesia is home to some of the most radical Islamic schools in the world. And Obama’s identity is yet to be revealed as the confusing doubletalk hides the real Barack Hussein Obama, Democratic candidate for President of the United States .
Very interesing anybody who went to cathoic school especially in Big city would tell you cathoic schools keep good records
It would be fun to listen to Obama and Hillary compare their military records.
Well, there's an obvious explanation for that, Mr. Gibbs. Think REAL hard and it might come to you.
Poor Abe. When he was alive he had to put up with all sorts of criticism. Now that he is dead, all the (big-time) jerks of the world pretend to wear his mantle.
He plays basketball?
I was thinking...Romney probably would have been more acceptable to more people before this recent push to legalize polygamy.
There is no specific citation to a story. AP is an unlikely source for information not helpful for Obama. I don't believe a word of any of this until I see a link to the unattributed AP story.
He was never baptized so all this school stuff is irrelevant.
"until such time that they [Muslims] can convert everyone else at the tip of a sword if necessary."
I'm 58 years old. Why do I have this feeling that my eventual death will not be due to natural causes?
Meanwhile, I'm cleaning my M1A 7.62mm and lubing bullets with bacon drippings.
"We're all gonna die, die standing up!" [Red Dawn, 1984])
LOL...that is what the man says.
clinton sure had a lot of ties to Indonesia.
Ouch, Muslim's for POTUS.
I suppose he'll be eating watermelon and fried chicken by the time the election really heats up, then.
Don't feel too bad for him-he's going to be hillary's veep.
What a mess we have in store for us.
ROTFLMAO
Assuming for a moment he was given the name Hussein at birth, what does this step-father bear the brunt of the Islamic association?
If Barak only inserted the middle name Hussein upon the step-father's entry into Barak's sphere of influence, what made him at that time of life, want to insert that middle name? Why, when he later supposedly converted to Christianity, did he not remove the middle name (if it was only belatedly inserted anyway).
To whom has Barak been giving honor by keeping that middle name? Has he been so culturally tone-deaf that he doesn't know lots of Islamic Fundamentalists consider it their duty to carry out capital punishment for those who turn their back on Islam by later converting to another religion.
He could have removed the likelihood of being beheaded just by dropping the name, which he supposedly only picked up later in life anyway.
HF
Ping to Monk. Where's your "Madrassan Candidate" poster?
That sounds like a description of the 9/11 bombers
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