Posted on 03/28/2008 6:35:07 PM PDT by melt
One in 10 voters believes Barack Obama is Muslim, a mistaken impression that lingers across party lines, a poll showed.
Fourteen percent of Republicans, 10 percent of Democrats and 8 percent of independents mistakenly think he is Muslim, according to a survey by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. Just over half of each group correctly identified him as Christian, while about a third said they don't know his religion.
The false rumor that the Democratic presidential candidate and Illinois senator is Muslim has been fanned on the Internet and conservative talk radio.
It has persisted despite the recent controversy over divisive remarks by his longtime pastor at the Trinity United Church of Christ, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Those saying they have heard a lot about Wright's comments are about as likely as others to say they think Obama is Muslim, the poll showed.
Conservatives, less educated voters and white evangelical Protestants are likelier to believe Obama is Muslim, as are people from the South, the Midwest and rural areas, the poll showed. Nearly a quarter of white Democrats with unfavorable views of Obama say he is Muslim though overall, blacks are about as likely as whites to hold the misconception.
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Well, there's one way to dispel this "false rumor":--- Why not just invite Barack Hussein Obama over for a neighborly pork barbecue...?
One in ten people believe the tooth fairy is boinking Santa in Shangri-la. Sounds like voters understand his faith.
Just what the hell is mistaken about it?
When and where was OHB baptized? When did he renounce Islam as a false religion written by a false prophet?
In other words, Typical White Peopletm...
I’d like to know what percentage of muslims believe he is.
I suspect many who answered "Muslim" in this poll are fully aware that Obama claims to be a Christian...
This confirms my theory that at least 90% of the public, especially voters, are asleep.
What’s to “believe”? He absolutely IS a muslim. By which I mean that since he was initially a muslim, other muslims today consider him one, and as Obomba has joined a Church, is even worse than an infidel, as an apostate.
If you believe this poll, 6 1/2 years after 9/11, 90% of the nation is in such denial-— that it’s willing to elect a President who was brought up Muslim & whose middle name is Hussein.
Hope ya got your flame-proof suit on ....
Cue “don’t you know he ain’t mooselimb!!!!” in 4, 3, 2, 1 ...
A suicidal nation!
does BHO keep Muslim dietary law?
So says the nonpartison Pew Research Center and the nonpartison MSM.
Who the heck approved that headline?
If it’s a false rumor then O will have no trouble saying, “I do not believe that Mohammed was the messenger of God. I do not believe the Qu’ran is the word of God.”
Until he authoritatively and publicly rejects Islam, his Christianity may be regarded as no more than a classical al-Taqiyyah fig-leaf.
Take a tape recorder with the islamonazi call to prayer and let loose at an obama meeting to see the result......mecca this way....>
Pam Gellar keeps asking that question and gets no answer. Only ad hominem attacks.
I don’t believe he’s a Muslim, and I dislike it when people focus on that as a reason for disliking him.
There are hundreds of valid, solid, documented reasons to distrust him on very real, very important policy issues, one of which is his determined stance on softening our stance against militant Islamic regimes and organizations. But that latter is only because he’s a flaming liberal, socialist moron who thinks that appearing reasonable is sufficient for inducing rational behavior in those who absolutely hate us and who promote hatred against us as a method of controlling their own countries, people, or organizations. He comes from the same school of international policy thought that the Clintons come from, that is grounded in the idea that a single global superpower in the form of the United States, is the greatest danger to world peace and stability, and that we must balance world power, even if it means having the U.S. artificially enable its enemies while simultaneously crippling ourselves in order to level the playing field.
Kinda makes me think of a football game where the better team not only gives the other team the home field advantage, but also let’s the other time have a few additional players on the field, and to top it all of, the better team then blindfolds their quarterback... Just to make things even.
1 in 10 Believe Obama is Muslim, and 9 in 10 are wrong.
You tell me that's not an ol'gal who's ready for a burqa!
Let’s see, Obama’s dad is a muslim, so are most all of his relatives, they all pray with him at the Grand Mosque of Gede (Kenya) where non-muslims are forbidden to enter....but Obama’s not a muslim. Uh-huh. Got it.
Make that a double burka, in case one should fall off.
The pimps in the media just won’t let this drop. How in hell do they know whether Obama is a Muslim or not? Did the word come down to them from the Prophet Muhammed, so they know without doubt that it is true?
WOW Melt OHB looks like he is ready to serve up some WHOPPERS at the Golden Scemitars!!!!
Can anyone think of any new locations that may be wanting to open????
I would like to hear Obama give us the definition of a “typical black person” since he knows what a “typical white person” is thinking (his grandmother) and it made him “cringe”-he is a lying, socialist/commie and used the Rev. Wright (a black militant preacher) and his church to give him street creds with the black community (since he is a mulatto, 1/2 white, not a true black)-—without someone boosting his resume to the Black voters in Illinois he would never have gotten elected to a political dogcatcher job.
No!!!!!
It blows my mind that people on this thread keep pumping out their crazy ideas about the Obamination.
Sorry but the guy is a socialist who espouses the black liberation theology that is vaguely Christian in name only and he only joined up after working for the radical Saul Alinsky because he kept getting asked which church he was a member of so he found one to be more effective in the community.
But please don’t let those facts keep anyone from propagating ignorance.
Really, the guy is not a muslim marxist. He’s a secularist pushing socialism.
I would like to hear Obama give us the definition of a “typical black person” since he knows what a “typical white person” is thinking (his grandmother) and it made him “cringe”-he is a lying, socialist/commie and used the Rev. Wright (a black militant preacher) and his church to give him street creds with the black community (since he is a mulatto, 1/2 white, not a true black)-—without someone boosting his resume to the Black voters in Illinois he would never have gotten elected to a political dogcatcher job IMHO.
Hillary does have a Muslim appendage.
Hussein is a sceptic, perhaps agnostic.
The question is ...... Christian Scepticor Muslim Sceptic
Hillary does have a Muslim appendage.
Lessee now, he apparently follows, but denies it, the Black Liberation Theology (commie-inspired) lessons his “uncle” Rev. White rants about. White is the Muslim-loving pastor who also hates Jews and gave Luis Farrakhan, the Black Muslim leader in the US, his church’s highest honor. That same Rev. White and Farrakhan traveled far to visit and comisserate with that pillar of the Muslim faith and wisdom (sarcasm here), Moammar Kaddafi in Libya. The Muzzie dress fits all too well but it does not help Obama Hussein look Christian somehow. If it walks like a duck.... etc.
It’s hard not to wonder if Obama really is a closet Muslim.

Or your damned if you hang around doodoo
this just confirms to why voters need to be asked 5 questions about what candidates stand for before they are allowed to vote
of course the dems would not go with this as manmy dems have no idea what they are voting for
this just confirms to why voters need to be asked 5 questions about what candidates stand for before they are allowed to vote
of course the dems would not go with this as manmy dems have no idea what they are voting for
That will be coming, very good point. He made the room, now let him select the corner.
He must be Muslim, because a REAL Christian would never stay in a church where the pastor spews how much he hates America and white people, unless you are a Muslim and have the same sentiment.
When Nicolas Kristof of the NYT interviewed Obama in 2006, Obama was able to recite the Muslim Call to Prayer word for word in an Arabic accent.
Hmmm
just imagine if a white man had said typical black people or blacks are greedy for money not including the rest of what he his wife and his rev have said
So why hasn’t the media said he is what he is a racist, just why????????
No he goes on shows like the view and ellen d and on the view three women are giving him a free pass on him being a racist instead saying he is sexy
unbelievable
there are some right idiots around and they always seem to come from the left
he’s sexy er no he’s a racist and a bigot who hates you because you are either white, Italian, jewish etc
what now don’t you get?
Time to wake up and open your eyes dumbo
exactly WHO says that, ‘Obama is not Muslim’?
what does Obama say?
One in 10; huh? O.K., as close as the last two elections have been, if 10% of the Dems do not vote for him either by staying home or voting for McCain, that, by itself, could throw the election to McCain.
AM I RIGHT OR WRONG? Somebody help da boy out here.
Michelle Obama would NEVER wear a BBQ apron that read: “The Other White Meat”.
FYI.......Saul Alinsky died in 1972....BOH was born in 1961.
Bwahaha...he cannot even bring himself to deal with the TUCC and Rev Archie Bunker Wright, no way he ever says that the Quoran is not the word of God and Mohammed was not his prophet...
Thanks for your tip. He was working for the Saul Alinsky people in Chicago.
As such, one can call him a disciple of the ‘Rules for Radicals’ author/deity.
It is very hard to tell no dems, 1 in 10 may believe him to be a Muslim, that does not mean that some percentage will not vote for him based on that.
Add in the youth vote, and unknown Republican and Conservative intensity, and no one can say for certain one way or another.
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