Posted on 11/07/2010 2:39:07 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
AS a schoolboy in Jakarta, Barack Obama attended Muslim prayer sessions with his classmates against the wishes of his mother.
The US President's former grade three teacher said that Mr Obama - who was known as "Barry" when he attended the Menteng One school in Jakarta - studied the Koran and went to classes on Islam, despite the objections of Anne Dunham, a Roman Catholic.
The teacher's recollections will add to speculation about Mr Obama's links to Islam during his much-anticipated visit to Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, as part of his ten-day tour of Asia.
His middle name, Hussein, and the fact that his stepfather was a Muslim, have combined to perpetuate rumours about Mr Obama's religious leanings. The number of Americans who think that he is a Muslim has grown since his inauguration to one in five.
Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar. End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar. Mr Obama moved to Indonesia with his mother and Indonesian stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, when he was 6, and lived there for four years. In his memoirs he recalled his time in the country as the "bounty of a young man's life" and there is affection and pride among Indonesians for the boy who ended up as President of the United States.
The teacher, Effendi, who taught at Menteng One for 29 years, remembers Mr Obama as a "fat, curly-haired, curious boy".
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I thought this was common knowledge.
Of course he joined in the Moselm prayers.
He calls it the HOLY Quron.
I pretty much take it for granted that 0bama was Muslim for a good part of his life. I’ve heard that he was a professed Muslim until he married Michelle & presumably then joined the Wright cult.
His mother was not a Roman Catholic, according to any
prevailing knowledge or research. The writer needs
is obviously very uninformed.
Ooops ..
The writer IS obviously very uninformed.
Hello my middle name is Hussein, my father and stepfather are Muslims.
One in five of you think I am Muslim? derp derp!
He doesn’t care anymore than he cared about the people’s voice against healthcare. He’s a muslim and he laughs at the idiots who believe otherwise.
I just wish one person would ask him “Mr. President. Please answer “yes” or “no”. Are you a muslim?” I don’t want to hear him lie and say “I’m a Christian”. I want him to deny islam.
Very much so.
It is ESSENTIAL to remember to NEVER nominate a very needy person as President. A swift perusal of his past would have told anyone this would be a very dangerous man.
"...in an interview with Nicholas Kristof published in the New York Times.Obama and Islam: The Third Rail in American Politics"Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer," this is a quote from Nicholas Kristof, "reciting them with a first-rate [Arabic] accent."
Now, the first lines of this call to prayer, the Adhan, when translated (and this is in the New York Times. It's a Nicholas Kristof piece) is:
"Allah is supreme,
Allah is supreme,
Allah is supreme,
Allah is supreme.
I witness that there is no god but Allah."That's the Muslim call to prayer, and Obama told Nicholas Kristof... He recited it and said that it was "one of the prettiest sounds on earth."
I've read some quotes from one of Barack Obama's books and it just feels false. It feels as though it's someone writing things with a specific audience in mind, as though he's trying to make himself seem a certain way and not quite pulling it off. Things just don't seem to ring true. Doesn't he realize that virtually every American black whose family goes back at least a hundred years is of mixed race? He was abandoned by his Kenyan father when he was two and his parents divorced. His atheist mother then got involved with another Muslim guy, this time from Indonesia and moved him off down there until she left him when Barack was about 9 or 10. Then he returned to Hawaii where he lived through high school. Keep in mind that Hawaii is a land of many races and mixed races. But he says stuff like this:"In his first memoir, “Dreams from My Father,” Obama observed that when people discover his mixed-race heritage, they make assumptions about “the mixed blood, the divided soul, the ghostly image of the tragic mulatto trapped between two worlds.”Come ON. No one except deluded liberals talking about their idea of what they think are racist conservatives talks about "mixed blood" "divided soul" "tragic mulatto trapped between two worlds." He certainly didn't experience anything like this in Hawaii. It is just SO ludicrous.
"Indeed, Obama acknowledges feeling tormented for much of his life by “the constant, crippling fear that I didn't belong somehow, that unless I dodged and hid and pretended to be something I wasn't, I would forever remain an outsider, with the rest of the world, black and white, always standing in judgment.”
And then this:"“I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites,” he wrote."I just don't believe there is any way that a 12 or 13 year old, especially in Hawaii is going to be thinking this way unless he's mentally disturbed.
Or this, in a newspaper article about him:"During college, Obama disapproved of what he called other “half-breeds” who gravitated toward whites instead of blacks. And yet after college, he once fell in love with a white woman, only to push her away when he concluded he would have to assimilate into her world, not the other way around. He later married a black woman."But his world WAS the white/Indonesian/Hawaiian world. What is he talking about?
And farther on in the article:Thus, in his second memoir, “The Audacity of Hope,” which was published last year, Obama adopted a more conciliatory, even upbeat tone when discussing race. Noting his multiracial family, he wrote in the new book: “I’ve never had the option of restricting my loyalties on the basis of race, or measuring my worth on the basis of tribe.”This appears to contradict certain passages in his first memoir, including a description of black student life at Occidental College in Los Angeles.“There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs,” he wrote. “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.”Obama said he and other blacks were careful not to second-guess their own racial identity in front of whites.
He added: “To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”“To admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred,” he wrote.Even his talk about "tribes" seems to be aping a liberal's idea of what racist white people would characterize as a "tribe". He talks about people who "caused so much of the damage in the first place". Well, those would have been Muslim slavers buying slaves from blacks in Africa and, more recently in his own past, his atheist mother and his own disappeared father.
And note this:He added: “To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”Avoid being mistaken for a sell-out? How much more of a sell-out could he be than to choose the kind of people he did. This guy is nothing but a male Hillary.
Oh, really? Why did she attend a Unitarian Universalist church with her parents then?
His middle name, Hussein, and the fact that his stepfather was a Muslim, ...
His first name 'Barack' and his last name '0bama' are also Arabic Muslim names. His biological father was also a Muslim.
Betcha that Moochelle does not go there with him..she will trollop off to some other costly holiday spot...Can’t wait to see the fashion trends she will wow em all with/S
Excellent analysis of his completely phony “biographies.”
I'm not going to go off on a third grade boy for joining the Muslim prayers of his peers.
My youngest daughter was about that age when I caught her praying at a Shinto shine in Japan. It was a perfectly natural thing to do when we were making a touristy visit and she saw the other Japanese doing it.
At an appropriate private time not long afterward, I explained to her that, as Christians, we prayed in the name of Jesus Christ. I neither scolded nor punished her. She understood and it did not happen again.
Pfff! Yeah, right!
Anne Dunham was a Catholic? I thought she said she was an atheist. Or is this like in France, where a person will tell you with a straight face that they are an “Atheist Roman Catholic?”
His mother was Roman Catholic? I thought I read that her family were Unitarians. Off to see what I can find on this.
Do you think anyone ever told 0baMao that he shouldn’t pray Muslim prayers?
I can’t find anything that says she was Roman Catholic.
In a 2007 speech, Obama contrasted the beliefs of his mother to those of her parents, and commented on her spirituality and skepticism: “My mother, whose parents were nonpracticing Baptists and Methodists, was one of the most spiritual souls I ever knew. But she had a healthy skepticism of religion as an institution.”
Barack Obama has said of Ann Dunham, “My mother was a Christian from Kansas.”[1][1] Earlier he had said, “I was not raised in a religious household... My mother’s own experiences... only reinforced this inherited skepticism. Her memories of the Christians who populated her youth were not fond ones... And yet for all her professed secularism, my mother was in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I’ve ever known.”[1] And his half-sister, Maya said, when asked if their mother was an atheist, “I wouldn’t have called her an atheist,” she said. “She was an agnostic. She basically gave us all the good books—the Bible, the Hindu Upanishads and the Buddhist scripture, the Tao Te Ching—and wanted us to recognize that everyone has something beautiful to contribute.”[1] And, from another source, “She touted herself as an atheist, and it was something she’d read about and could argue,” said Maxine Box, who was Dunham’s best friend.”[1] One of her freinds said of her “She always felt that marriage as an institution was not particularly essential or importan
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