[goldfinch]

IIRC, Obama is 46 years old, so he was born in 1961. The years mentioned in the article are 1967-1971. So Obama was 6-10 years old at the time. I don’t know how it worked in your family, but when I was that age, my parents decided where I went to church and where I went to school. Since Obama’s father was Muslim, it seems totally logical that he attended Muslim religious services and Muslim religious training at school. I do not think attacking him because of a decision his parents made is going to be successful.

Sure, Muslim fanatics are going to want to kill him because he is now a practicing Christian. Like they don’t want to kill George Bush?

[fallingwater]

This post wasn’t meant to be takes as an attack.

[Sudetenland]

Man Pipes is really having to stretch the definition of Muslim to justify his claims.

Obama was an irregularly practicing Muslim who rarely or occasionally prayed with his step-father in a mosque. This precisely substantiates my statement that he "for some years had a reasonably Muslim upbringing under the auspices of his Indonesian step-father."

His step father was hardly a "practicing Muslim." If anything, he sounds like one of our "Easter Christians;" one who regularly attends church once or twice a year. I've known a lot of Catholics and Protestants who would call themselves Catholics or Christians, but rarely darken the door of a church.

Pipes is making a mountain out of a mole hill just to make himself sound infallible. Technically Obama was a Muslim, but hardly a Muslim in lifestyle.

I'm not worried about Obama's religion, that's his business and not mine. What concerns me is his dedication to foolish Liberal ideas;socialism and pacifism are a much greater threat to our nation than whether or not Obama was a Muslim at the age of 8.

Pipes needs to get a life and stop tilting at windmills in a vain attempt at self-justification.

[devere]

“Sure, Muslim fanatics are going to want to kill him because he is now a practicing Christian. Like they don’t want to kill George Bush?”

Muslim fanatics want to kill all of us.

[endthematrix]

I agree with ya. Obama smoking a joint, hardly resonates. He at least admitted inhaling! And the fact that he can’t admit anything solid to his (or lack of) faith, to me is more disturbing.

[arroyo run]

great post, seriously.

[expatguy]

"I don’t know how it worked in your family, but when I was that age, my parents decided where I went to church and where I went to school. Since Obama’s father was Muslim, it seems totally logical that he attended Muslim religious services and Muslim religious training at school. I do not think attacking him because of a decision his parents made is going to be successful."

Attacking Obama? Oh please...

I think many are simply missing the point. I agree with what you have to say, what disturbs many is not that he was once a practicing Muslim, but that he has gone out of his way (often aided by the MSM) to either deny it or simply hide the fact.

I once posted here at FR that what disturbed me about Clinton wasn't so much the fact that he had sex with once of his staff, but of the fact that he lied about it and then tried to cover it up.

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Obama and The Truth