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Enough With All Of This "Obama Is A Mooslim" Crap
Right-Wing Nut House ^ | Feb. 24, 2008 | by Rick Moran

Posted on 02/24/2008 6:42:49 PM PST by jdm

I am usually quite proud of being a conservative. I know in my heart that the only way to enjoying liberty under the law AND equality of justice is through the application of conservative principles to government and society. And I am usually proud of the rational, reasonable basis on which most conservatives see the world and evaluate people and events.

That’s why it embarrasses me to no end to see fellow conservatives who actually believe that Barack Obama is some kind of “Manchurian Candidate” sent by Muslims to undermine American society. Or that Obama is a closet Muslim just waiting to take power before unmasking himself. Or perhaps most bizarrely, since Obama was born to a Muslim father, he is a Muslim whether he wants to be or not and that Muslims elsewhere will not let him forget his heritage.

There are other permutations to this theme involving Obama’s middle name of Hussein which to some of my fellow conservatives is a dead giveaway that he is Muslim. And there are no end of theories, rumors, tall tales, and outright lies about Obama’s Muslim childhood spent at this madras or that mosque which “proves” him to be a son of Islam.

Most of this idiocy takes place in comment sections of blogs and conservative boards where new Vince Foster murder theories still generate excitement. Occasionally, one of these stories goes mainstream and for a brief period, conservative are made to look like paranoid loons who believe Barack Obama is a cross between the anti-Christ and Osama bin Laden’s long lost brother.

Well, today conservative stupidity regarding Obama and his supposed ties to Islam hit paydirt – as in generating a ten on the laugh-o-meter. Evidently, the probable next president of the United States was caught in flagrante dilecto, dressed to the nines in what appears to be some kind of native garb (probably Kenyan) and with a (gasp!) turban on his head. To some of my unschooled, ignorant conservative friends, this is further proof that if we elect Obama president, there will be a department of Sharia Affairs.

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The truth as Jim Hoft (via Sweetness and Light) shows, is a little less dramatic. The costume is that of a Kenyan tribal elder.

Now Obama already has some problematic connections to Kenya including his appearances for presidential candidate Raila Odinga, a distant cousin and someone whose recent actions in fomenting violence in Kenya following a crooked presidential election are extremely troublesome. (There have also been rumors of a deal between Odinga and the small Islamist party in Kenya that he would, if elected, establish Sharia law – a dubious proposition and almost certainly a lie that has been picked up by some conservatives in this country and passed off as the truth.)

But the idea that Obama in traditional Kenyan garb proves he’s some kind of closet Muslim or Islamic sympathizer is absurd. Kenya is 70% Christian and only 10% Muslim. To extrapolate that Obama’s dress denotes anything other than acknowledging his birthright not to mention playing the gracious guest by donning the clothing of his hosts is irrational, stupid, ignorant, and totally without foundation.

But that doesn’t stop some from allowing imagination to trump rational thought:

Over at Islamica magazine, they are acknowledging what the few of us fighting the great fight have been saying all along. Hussein Obama is Islam’s candidate. They call it a wink and a nod but shhhhhh don’t let on to the fat, lazy infidels.

Expect the fantasy mongerers in the mainstream media to continue to scrub and whitewash (no pun) Hussein Obama’s Islamic bonafides. The rabid fervor by the leftarded lemmings is Hitleresque.

A former Associate Publisher of The New York Observer should know better.

While writing this post, I received a comment on my articlefrom yesterday about Obama’s radical friends. The wildly off base nature of most of the charges made almost make me believe I’m living on a planet full of escapees from the loony bin:

Rick, check out these other Obama ‘soulmates”:

Cousin Raila Odinga, the losing Presidential Candidate in Kenya, whom Obama supposedly has almost daily conversations, has been linked to religious violence, burning of churches ( with parishioners in them), and other violence following his loss in the elections. Odinga was accused of making a secret pact with a Kenyan national muslim group to install sharia law in Kenya if he won the election. Oh by the way, check out the picture of Obama in Kenya tribal Muslim garb in 2006 at Sweetness and Light.

“Tony” Rezko, corrupt Syrian-Amerioan slumlord/ businessman and heavy political contributor to Chicago area democrats, who will be inducted this week I believe for corruption. This is the character, with a nineteen year relationship to Obama and his law firm, who put up the money for a portion of Obama’s lot so Obama could purchase his $2.1 million home. Rezko it seems also has ties to politically connected types in Syria and the former Saddam regime.

It seems that it was true that Obama was reaching out in bi-partisan way- it just was to the parties of the Islamic radicals and not to the Republicans.

This is a guy who:

• Won’t say the pledge of allegiance
• Won’t wear an American flag pin.
• Whose wife has never been proud of American before her husband’s campaign.
• Who belongs to a racist anti-white church in Chicago.
• Who was enrolled as a muslim in Indonesia's schools and studied the Koran in afterschool clubs.
• Whose middle name is named after Ali Hussein, grandson of Mohammad and the founder of Shia d’ Islam. Incidentally, “Barrack” is awfully close to the name “Buraq”, the winged steed that Mohammad rode to heaven on.

This apostate muslim is the one who is to lead us on the War on Terror?

Pray tell, how is Barrack going to make peace between the Shia, Sunni and the Sufi, much less those other people of the Book, those infidel Jews and Christians? The muslim Takfiri have only been waging war on the insufficiently pious muslims and infidel for over thirteen hundred years, or didn't Barrack learn that studying the Koran as a teenager?

We as voters really need to hear from Barrack, how studying the Koran as a teenager affected and shaped his political outlook and worldview.

I receive these kinds of comments all the time and read them constantly on other blogs. What the commenter and other conservatives don’t take into account about Obama is that he is much more of a calculating man than anyone generally gives him credit for. He attends a church in Chicago whose pastor is admiring of black racist Louis Farrakahn. But I doubt whether Obama’s Christianity goes much deeper than his devotion to Islam – which is to say his religiosity is a calculated element of his political personae. His attendance at Trinity United Church Of Christ in Chicago establishes his authenticity as an African American more than fulfilling any spiritual need the candidate may have.

And that’s why I find charges that Obama is some kind of closet Muslim so absurd. The candidate may have been trained as a grass roots organizer using the playbook written by radical Saul Alinsky. And he may have been involved in radical leftist politics early in his career. But a man who has so carefully crafted a political resume by conveniently being absent for key votes or voting “Present” on controversial bills – all the better to obscure how far left his politics go or what his true politics are – it is not beyond imagining that whatever his religious beliefs, they are calculated to effortlessly merge with the rest of this image Obama is presenting to the world. There is no room for Islam in this image nor is there anything in the public record that would indicate Obama has even given his Muslim heritage – if indeed his father was a member of the Islamic faith – a second thought as an adult.

I would say to my conservative friends who continue to insist that this is a rich vein to mine that you are so off base as to be a laughingstock. Just because my middle name is David doesn’t mean I’m a Jew despite a long, illustrious connection of that name to the history and faith of the Hebrews. Hence, this nonsense about Obama’s middle name being “proof” that he is a Muslim has got to stop. There’s no evidence that name was given to him for any other reason except the given one – it was his father’s middle name as well.

Nor does Obama dressing up in local garb make him a Kenyan elder or a shadow Muslim. The fact that he is wearing a traditional headdress is irrelevant to what he believes. When Calvin Coolidge was photographed wearing a Lakotan headdress, no one came out and said Coolidge was a devotee of The Great Spirit. Politicians wear all sorts of funny hats and clothes. It’s part of Americana. For Obama to be singled out for honoring his hosts by dressing in traditional garb is the height of stupidity and my conservative brethren should be ashamed of themselves.

I really wish this meme would stop. There is so much else to criticize Obama for that to start tilting at windmills by claiming he’s a danger to our Judeo-Christian society is a waste of time, effort, and resources. I would imagine the candidate himself rather than being hurt by these accusations probably gets a good laugh out of them, so silly they are and so revealing of the stupidity that permeates a large subset of the right.

Get a grip, friends.


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To: MattinNJ

I will repeat post my philosophy:

A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote FOR EVIL.

We continue to vote for evil, regardless of the name or party, we share guilt in the further destruction of our country.


41 posted on 02/24/2008 7:15:10 PM PST by TheBattman (LORD God, please give us a Christian Patriot with a backbone for President in 08, Amen.)
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To: AppyPappy
Ypui people will fall for anything

The inherent gullibility of the good people of Ypu really has no bearing on this discussion.

42 posted on 02/24/2008 7:15:21 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: jdm
While I do agree with the writer's point that there is more than enough to fight Obama on that we know for sure (his politics) and that we shouldn't get carried away with paranoid rhetoric... I have to say, I question the writer's knowledge and insight when he attacked the view that Foster's death involved foul play. I'm sorry, you can call me what you want, but anyone who has sincerely done the research knows that there is a TON of evidence that Foster did not commit suicide. So much evidence that it's almost freakin obvious.

And to those who think that because no one was convicted of a crime, no crime occurred.... Well, by that logic, many people in the mob are as pure as the driven snow.

43 posted on 02/24/2008 7:17:36 PM PST by incindiary (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVodI85NLMQ)
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To: TheBattman

I amire your conviction. I choose to do battle.


44 posted on 02/24/2008 7:18:12 PM PST by MattinNJ ("Conservatives" will stay home in November and hand the socialists the election. Unbelievable.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

I thought they meant this


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45 posted on 02/24/2008 7:18:14 PM PST by MacDorcha (Arm yourself!)
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To: jdm
not a nazi.
46 posted on 02/24/2008 7:18:33 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 (Everytime McCain reaches out to conservatives, conservatives get poked in the eye.)
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To: jdm
Obama may not be a Muslim, but this author is no conservative. He accuses us of being kooks merely for raising questions (not making accusations) about Vince Foster's death. Probably a lib masquerading as a conservative, most likely a Hillary supporter. That explains his mild criticism of Obama (he wants to say that Obama's not the best candidate, but he doesn't want to be mean to him for fear of making Hillary look negative) and his desperation to get people to stop asking questions about Vince Foster.

If Foster committed suicide in a park, why were carpet fibers found all over his suit? Parks have grass, not carpet. Either Mr. Foster was very fond of rolling around on the carpet for no reason, or else somebody dragged his body across a carpet.

More evidence here.

47 posted on 02/24/2008 7:19:08 PM PST by JillValentine (Being a feminist is all about being a victim. Being an armed woman is all about not being a victim.)
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To: TheBattman
I shared in the destruction of our country when I voted for Perot...it was, in fact, a vote for clinton.

To my everlasting shame, I shall never forget that; and I will never be an “innocent bystander” again. THIS TIME—with the likes of clinton/obama as the alternative—I VOTE FOR THE REPUBLICAN CHOICE.

48 posted on 02/24/2008 7:19:17 PM PST by bannie (clintons CHEAT! ALLLLLWAYS!)
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To: Lancey Howard

He’s probably a crack-smoking BI-sexual. Whether he’s really a crypto-Muslim or not (and he might be) isn’t important. What is important is that it’s ammunition that can be used against a Far Left Liberal Democrat (probably Communist) candidate.

Let’s not pull our punches against the Dims. They never do with us. Remember what they did to Nixon.


49 posted on 02/24/2008 7:19:44 PM PST by FFranco
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To: Jeff Head; All

http://michaelinmi.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/barack-obama-and-his-support-for-islamic-sharia-law-and-al-qaeda/

I was wondering what everyone thought of THIS??? (above link)


50 posted on 02/24/2008 7:20:15 PM PST by goodnesswins (Being Challenged Builds Character; Being Coddled Destroys Character)
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To: acw011; MattinNJ
I certainly am not voting for McCain, but I am interested in the lets call it “phyricc victory” over Hillary.

In terms of rhetoric, I believe that the assault on Obama will commence in full strength after the Nomination process is completed. (By the way, I think that Hillary will win that, but I am hopeful that she won’t.)

I’ll cast my votes in November but for President, it will likely be a write in.

51 posted on 02/24/2008 7:21:05 PM PST by Radix (I do not want to press one for English, and I'll never vote for McCain..)
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To: TheBattman

Just remember that you won’t be helping “blow [Obama] out of the water.”


52 posted on 02/24/2008 7:21:22 PM PST by Young Scholar
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To: MattinNJ

“McCain was my 10th choice.”

I’m with ya man. McPain wasn’t my 1st choice and about a month or so ago I was downright depressed with the way the Primary was going.

I’ve come around a bit and to be honest I expect McCain will be a fine Prez. Especially considering the alternatives.

The more I think about it, I’m convinced that he was/is our only shot this go round. We had to have someone who is percieved as a “moderate”.

I think he’s been purposefully crossing the line for exactly this reason. Maybe he thought McFeingold would fail, and new McShamnesty would go down in flames. I dunno, for most of his career he votes my way, alot more than not.

Anyway, I’m thinking a McCain Presidency is going to be alot more conservative than many think. My two pennies tonight -


53 posted on 02/24/2008 7:22:13 PM PST by acw011 (Texan livin Up North.)
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To: jdm

I have more of a problem with his membership in that racist church. That tells me he agrees with their racist policy.


54 posted on 02/24/2008 7:23:34 PM PST by NRA2BFree ("The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves!")
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To: jdm

Snopes.com seeks to disprove the “allegations” that Obama is a Muslim, but in the process, they provide some interesting information that people should read — read the fine print, as they say.

[Note that snopes.com, while it is viewed as an authentic site to prove or disprove “urban legends”, are very liberal. (They claim that the allegation against Hillary not receiving the Gold Star Mothers is not true, but when you read their own details, it shows that it is true) — this is just another example of having to read the fine print, not just their “true/false” assessment]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp

“Barack Hussein Obama (Senator Obama’s father) was born on the shores of Lake Victoria in
Alego, Kenya. He met and married an American woman, Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas,
while they were both attending the University of Hawaii. Their son, also named Barack
Hussein Obama was born on 4 August 1961 at the Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu,
Hawaii.

Although the elder Obama was raised as a Muslim, no evidence supports the claim that he
was ever a “radical Muslim,” and Senator Obama’s family histories note that his father was
an atheist or agnostic (i.e., no longer a practicing Muslim) by the time he married the
younger Obama’s mother.

Of his mother’s religious views, Senator Obama wrote:

For my mother, organized religion too often dressed up closed-mindedness in the garb
of piety, cruelty and oppression in the cloak of righteousness.
This isn’t to say that she provided me with no religious instruction. In her mind, a
working knowledge of the world’s great religions was a necessary part of any wellrounded
education. In our household the Bible, the Koran, and the Bhagavad Gita sat
on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology. On Easter or
Christmas Day my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the
Buddhist temple, the chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient
Hawaiian burial sites. But I was made to understand that such religious samplings
required no sustained commitment on my part. Religion was an expression of human
culture, she would explain, not its wellspring, just one of the many ways — and not
necessarily the best way — that man attempted to control the unknowable and
understand the deeper truths about our lives.
In sum, my mother viewed religion through the eyes of the anthropologist she would
become; it was a phenomenon to be treated with a suitable respect, but with a
suitable detachment as well.

Barack Obama’s parents divorced when he was two years old, his father moving to
Connecticut to continue his education before returning to Kenya.

When the younger Obama
was six years old, his mother married again, this time to Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian oil
manager. Barack and his mother moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, where Obama spent 4-5 years
attending both Muslim and Catholic schools before his mother sent him back to the United
States to live with his maternal grandmother. The school Barack Obama attended in
Indonesia was “Muslim” primarily in the sense that the preponderance of its student body
was Muslim (because Indonesia is a predominantly Muslim country), but both the Muslim and
Catholic schools he attended in Indonesia offered a few hours of religious instruction each
week.

....

The beginnings of Obama’s relationship with the church were
described in an April 2004 Chicago Sun-Times article:

Obama is unapologetic in saying he has a “personal relationship with Jesus Christ.” As
a sign of that relationship, he says, he walked down the aisle of Chicago’s Trinity
United Church of Christ in response to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s altar call one
Sunday morning about 16 years ago.”

NOTE: He spent “4-5 years” in Indonesia, after moving there when he was 6-7. So apparently he returned to the US when he was around 12 — having been exposed to Islam quite a bit, prior to that.

He claims he started a relationship with a church in 1985, but if you read more (right at snopes.com, at above link, you find that his interest was in activism, not church.

“So how did he become a churchgoer?
It began in 1985, when he came to Chicago as a $13,000-a-year community organizer,
working with a number of African-American churches in the Roseland, West Pullman and Altgeld Gardens neighborhoods that were trying to deal with the devastation
caused by shuttered steel plants.
“I started working with both the ministers and the lay people in these churches on
issues like creating job-training programs, or after-school programs for youth, or
making sure that city services were fairly allocated to underserved communities,” he
says. “And it was in those places where I think what had been more of an intellectual
view of religion deepened.
“I became much more familiar with the ongoing tradition of the historic black church
and its importance in the community. And the power of that culture to give people
strength in very difficult circumstances, and the power of that church to give people
courage against great odds. And it moved me deeply.”


55 posted on 02/24/2008 7:24:38 PM PST by FocusNexus ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: jdm
Hmmmmmm.......
But what if he really is a muslime down deep in his heart?
Then what?
Huh?

Just askin'......

56 posted on 02/24/2008 7:25:56 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: jdm

Sure, “Barack Hussein” are such common Christian names. (/sarc)


57 posted on 02/24/2008 7:26:14 PM PST by FocusNexus ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: jdm

Obama was raised by an atheist mother. His sister insists he’s a Christian, but she admits that he said Muslim prayers every morning and also did some Buddhist stuff.

But the proof he’s no Christian is the racist church he belongs to. Also, the “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for” chant at his rallies sends shudders up every true Christian’s spine.

It seems to me what he is, is a humanist progressive liberal. He certainly wouldn’t be voting for the most violent forms of late term abortion if he understood Jesus at all.


58 posted on 02/24/2008 7:27:48 PM PST by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: FocusNexus
“Barack Hussein Obama (Senator Obama’s father) was born on the shores of Lake Victoria in Alego, Kenya. He met and married an American woman, Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas, while they were both attending the University of Hawai.

As I understand it, the actual legality of their union is suspect. In reading a discussion of Barry's autobiography, it was stated that Barry didn't check out the factuality of a marriage because he didn't know what he'd find. (I didn't read the autobio, myself; so this may be erroneous.)

59 posted on 02/24/2008 7:29:08 PM PST by bannie (clintons CHEAT! ALLLLLWAYS!)
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To: jdm

When he goes to a prayer breakfast and has bacon and eggs I “might” consider him an American. Other than that he is a true blue communist.


60 posted on 02/24/2008 7:30:01 PM PST by US_MilitaryRules (All my bullets are dipped in PIG fat. How about yours?)
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