Posted on 07/02/2008 7:39:59 AM PDT by T Ruth
The Obama campaign faces a burgeoning problem: the tendency of certain highly-placed Muslims overseas to declare that he is of their faith. The latest to do so is Libya's Qadhafi, in remarks made marking the anniversary of the U.S. air raid on Libya. MEMRI provides this transcript (hat tip: Big Dog)
There are elections in America now. Along came a black citizen of Kenyan African origins, a Muslim, who had studied in an Islamic school in Indonesia. His name is Obama. All the people in the Arab and Islamic world and in Africa applauded this man. They welcomed him and prayed for him and for his success, and they may have even been involved in legitimate contribution campaigns to enable him to win the American presidency.We still hope that this black man will take pride in his African and Islamic identity, and in his faith, and that [he will know] that he has rights in America, and that he will change America from evil to good, and that America will establish relations that will serve it well with other peoples, especially the Arabs.
Americans believe that Barack Obama has every right to become a Christian as an adult and proclaim his faith in Jesus Christ. Americans understand that true religious identity depends on the faith one accepts. But we deceive ourselves if we believe the rest of the world thinks this way.
The Muslim world sees it differently. A baby born to a Muslim father is a Muslim. One who leaves Islam for another faith is an apostate. It's scriptural.
Facts are stubborn things.
The fact that many in the Muslim world would see a hypothetical President Obama as one of them, or possibly as an apostate, has to affect his ability to be effective. Maybe it would be an advantage, but who knows? It is hard for Westerner to imagine all the complexities this situation would create if Barack Obama occupies the Oval office.
This subject is a legitimate topic of discussion for the presidential campaign. How does the biographical fact of a Muslim father (and step-father) influence the candidate's ability to be effective as president? I would like to hear many Muslim voices on this question, as well as Senator Obama's views on the varying concept of religion, and what he might say to a Muslin religious authroity, if he ever discusses the question of his faith. Perhaps that might happen when he has his promised meeting with Muslim states at the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
The campaign has so far been rather effective at suppressing discussion of any of the complexities of Barack Obama's connection to the faith of his father. To even broach the subject is to be branded a smear artist, to have "emails" invoked as cyber boogeymen, and to be an "Islamophobe."
Obama has been celebrated as a man who repair America's image overseas. But images are tricky things, and managing them overseas may be impossible.
There are those here ... like me ... that he is a Muslim too.
that think that he is a Muslim too ... coffee coffee
Wonder how many members of Wright’s church have Muslim backgrounds. A list of members might help.
Wow, now thats a shock.
No way is our intrepid MSM going to look into anything in Wrights’ “church”.
ABC,NBC,CBS,PBS,CNN,NPR are all actively campaigning for Barry.
Frankly, given McCain’s terrible campaign thus far, I don’t see how Obama can lose.
If Muslims are so fab why are they so insistent he's not one? If Muslims were what they say they are, his perceived Muslimness should generate a big 'so what'.
Right?
Wonder how his “my personal relationship with the Savior, Jesus Christ” would play in the Middle East?
Once you accept Allah... you’re with him for life.
He is a Mulsim.
Obama loses everytime he opens his mouth. He is not a debater. He is a dictator...
Even if he isn’t a Mooselimb now, I’ll bet that one once bit his sister
In other news, the Washington Compost staff finally sees Moammar as a bad guy.
Would it really change any die hard, vast conspiratorial, hard left wing sycophantic, “liberal” opinions or slavish adherence to the perfidious, insidious misplaced cant of the so called “Democrats”? You know, the dimmer than dim and dhim o craps?
I apologize for being overly prolix, pretentious and doctrinaire, I just can't help it when it comes to the leftie Dhims and suicidal Obammyphiles.
Been trying to educate people I know for months:
it is NOT the right in America saying Obama is Muslim, it is the MUSLIMS OVERSEAS saying he is Muslim......
I think his goal is to appear to whatever anyone wants him to be - as long as it will get him elected.
See my tag line.
Now there is a truth you won’t often see in the American press.
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., the charismatic, messianic Magic Negro, was son of a dhimmi mother and a (non-practicing) Muslim father. By birth, he is Muslim. His dhimmi mother then arranged his life so he would be raised by another Muslim, this one practicing the faith, to the extent young Barack was sent to a madrassah in Indonesia, where he became fond of the sound of the bells calling the people to prayer.
The Jesuit motto “Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man,” probably holds even more true for the Islamic faith. They are so much more dogmatic than even the Jesuits.
Paging Dr. Danielle Allen to the religion-neutral courtesy phone...
Well, aside from his followers and the MSM, he is seen as a Muslim here also. We are not allow to say his complete name. But we know what it is.
Quote from Barack Obama’s book, Dreams Of My Father:
“THE PERSON WHO MADE ME PROUDEST OF ALL, though, WAS HALF BROTHER (roy).. HE CONVERTED TO ISLAM.”
From ‘Dreams of my Father’, “In Indonesia, I SPENT TWO YEARS IN A MUSLIM SCHOOL, ..I STUDIED THE KORAN”.
From ‘Audacity of Hope: “LOLO (Obama’s step father) FOLLOWED..ISLAM....” “I LOOKED TO LOLO FOR GUIDANCE.
From ‘The Audacity Of Hope, “I WILL STAND WITH THE MUSLIMS should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
From The Audacity Of Hope, “WE ARE NO LONGER A CHRISTIAN NATION”. We are also a Jewish nation, a MUSLIM NATION, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”
http://www.examiner.com/a-534540~Can_a_past_of_Islam_change_the_path_to__president_.html
http://www.examiner.com/a-536474~_Trapped_between_two_worlds_.html Islam ....”I looked to Lolo for guidance”.
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