Posted on 06/28/2008 12:53:37 PM PDT by Jeff Head
Obama's own website says the following:
"Barack Obama Is Not and Has Never Been a Muslim," followed by: "Obama never prayed in a mosque. He has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim."
I have a few questions for Obama's campaign and anyone inerested in researching Obama's background...which when considering him for the President of the United States, we as voters in this Republic have a de facto responsibility to do when any questions arise.
From that article:
“I was a little Jakarta street kid,” he said in a wide-ranging interview in his office (excerpts are on my blog, www.nytimes.com/ontheground). He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them.
Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”
Allah is Most Great. Allah is Most Great.
Allah is Most Great. Allah is Most Great.
I bear witness that there is none worthy of being worshipped except Allah.
I bear witness that there is none worthy of being worshipped except Allah.
I bear witness that Muhammad is the Apostle of Allah.
I bear witness that Muhammad is the Apostle of Allah.
Come to prayer. Come to prayer.
Come to Success. Come to Success.
Allah is Most Great. Allah is Most Great.
There is none worthy of being worshipped except Allah.
From that article:
Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng explained to Jodi Kantor of the New York Times: "My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim." An Indonesian publication, the Banjarmasin Post reports a former classmate, Rony Amir, recalling that "All the relatives of Barry's father were very devout Muslims."
Barack Obama's Catholic school in Jakarta.
The Catholic school: Nedra Pickler of the Associated Press reports that "documents showed he enrolled as a Muslim" while at a Catholic school during first through third grades. Kim Barker of the Chicago Tribune confirms that Obama was "listed as a Muslim on the registration form for the Catholic school." A blogger who goes by "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" found that "Barack Hussein Obama was registered under the name ‘Barry Soetoro' serial number 203 and entered the Franciscan Asisi Primary School on 1 January 1968 and sat in class 1B. … Barry's religion was listed as Islam."
The public school: Paul Watson of the Los Angeles Times learned from Indonesians familiar with Obama when he lived in Jakarta that he "was registered by his family as a Muslim at both schools he attended."
Now, whether or not Obama considers himself Muslim now, whether or not he is willing to admit to his past and upbringing, these questions and his efforts to hide or color the truth of his background are relavent to his aspirations to be President.
If he will not even be truthful about his own upbringing, his own roots...how can we expect him to be truthful about his own stances on critical issues of the day and his ideology as regards the United States?
The answer is plain...we can't.
His own shifting stances on the issues, his own willful associations for decades with virulent anti-Americans and then his attempts to hide from those associations all atest to this.
Footnote: All of this may help to explain the initial picture in this article of Obama that his half brother proudly displays of Obama at the age of 24, wearing traditional Muslim garb.
FYI
/johnny
Well he is the scariest front leader we have had on the democrat side of a presidential election that I can remember. I was born in 1951
...not to mention that he is an abject marxist and militant anti-American.
Yes he is that.
What’s makes me mad is how Democrats get a pass on this sort of thing, like Chappaquidick, Sen. Byrd’s KKK background and Congressman William Jefferson’s corruption charges. The difference is when it’s a Democrat the MSM doesn’t beat it to death until they have to resign. If John McCain’s fifth cousin, twice removed, had, in 1937, walked into a KKK meeting, mistakenly thinking it was the Knights of Columbus hall, the media would pound on it until it became a constitutional crisis. That’s why we’re going to get an America/Jew-hating, weak, inexperienced racist for our next president.
You keep repeating me... ;)
/johnny
Why was he registered as 'Barry Soetoro'? Why is the last name different? What is the relation of name 'Soetoro' to Obama?
Soetoro was his stepfathers name. His mother married hime after Obama, Sr. dumped her.
Who’s he running against? You never see much about his competition.
As I understand it, Obama Sr divorced his mother when he was 2 and she remarried another Muslim named Soetoro.
WOW.
me thinks they doth protest to much..........
Next thing you know they will have him bleached and tell us he never was a black person...........
What are they afraid of?
Half this bone head’s family are Muzzys including his brother. I have read eye witness testimonies that he used to pray devoutly in a Mosque. For him to say that he was never a Muzzy is patently ridiculous. He is both a liar and a former if not current Muzzy.
Soetoro was his step father’s last name I believe. The one his mother married after she and Obama’s Dad divorced.
We are both repeating the truth.
They arer afraid of the truth and what the majority of Americans will think of it.
Months ago I thought I heard from some MSM outlet that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Trinity Baptist Church, Chicago, had not only baptised Omabas' two daughers, but had earlier baptised him. That story went away, really soon.
Meaning, to my rational understanding, that Obama had been something else before he became a Christian. And given his so-far substantiated biography, the before was definitely Muslim. So we wonder why he would want to kick women wearing Islamic headscarves off his public stage.
But here's a fun point: If Obama is a convert to Christianty from Islam, where is the Fatwa? To complicate the problem is the doctrine of takiyyah, which in Islam "sanctifies" a "holy lie." (I.e., a lie that furthers the progress of Islamic hegemony.)
If Obama actually resonates to this principle, then he is definitely unfit to occupy the Office of the President of the United States of America.
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