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Revered Jeremiah Wright, "former Muslim" (?!)
THe New Republic ^ | March 07 | Ryan Lizza

Posted on 04/07/2008 2:29:18 PM PDT by Timeout

Today I came across this year-old, largely biographical article about Barack Obama. It reads as though Lizza relied on Obama for large chunks of the piece, with other material coming from his books and interviews with those who knew him.

About 2/3's down the page, I came across this astonishing nugget:

After many lectures like this, Obama decided to take a second look at Wright's church. Older pastors warned him that Trinity was for "Buppies"--black urban professionals--and didn't have enough street cred. But Wright was a former Muslim and black nationalist who had studied at Howard and Chicago, and Trinity's guiding principles--what the church calls the "Black Value System"--included a "Disavowal of the Pursuit of Middleclassness.'"
Wright is a "former Muslim"?!

I've never seen this anywhere else. Where did Lizza get it....from Obama? From Wright (whom he apparently interviewed)?

Have any of you ever heard that before?


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To: Walvoord
I suppose it is as easy to pretend you are not a Muslim as it is to pretend you are a Christian. Would depend on what your mission is and best way to succeed in that mission.

Does this make sense? LOL

21 posted on 04/07/2008 3:09:36 PM PDT by BARLF
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To: PetroniusMaximus
These people must be Muslims operating under a false “Christian” conversion in order to come into power under the radar.

According to what I have read, it is acceptable and even honorable in that religion to lie in order to achieve the ultimate goal.

22 posted on 04/07/2008 3:13:31 PM PDT by I'm ALL Right! (Dear RNC: Not one Conservative Candidate? Not one "RED" penny)
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To: I'm ALL Right!

Where there’s smoke...


23 posted on 04/07/2008 3:16:15 PM PDT by I'm ALL Right!
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To: Tailgunner Joe
The Sunnis don't consider the Shi'ites to be real Muslims. The Wahabbis don't consider the Sunnis to be real Muslims. Pretty much every sect of Islam considers every other sect to not be "real Muslims". That's why they fight with each other endlessly.
24 posted on 04/07/2008 3:16:23 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: PetroniusMaximus

You got it right. It is permissible for muslims to lie in order to further their cause.


25 posted on 04/07/2008 3:16:35 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Never forget Matt Maupin)
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To: Timeout
Great find.

BUMP

26 posted on 04/07/2008 3:17:48 PM PDT by grandpa jones (Responding To The Epic Threat)
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To: I'm ALL Right!
According to what I have read, it is acceptable and even honorable in that religion to lie in order to achieve the ultimate goal.

Al taqiyah -- the principle that it is Ok to lie if it gives advantage to a Muslim over a non-Muslim.

27 posted on 04/07/2008 3:20:09 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin
True. Sunnis and Shiites would both consider “black muslims” to be damned heretics suitable for beheading, although they might qualify as “people of the book.” Funny nobody asks Farrakhan if he is Sunni or Shiite. He's neither. He's not a muslim at all. “Black Muslims” believe that the idea of a “mystery god” in heaven is a lie invented by white people, and that the only real god is black people.
28 posted on 04/07/2008 3:22:31 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Timeout
# Dr. Wright is a student of the history of religions. His master’s degree from the University of Chicago is in that discipline and his area of concentration as an historian of religions was Islam in West Africa. While a student at the University of Chicago (U of C) he studied with the esteemed Islamic professor, Dr. Fazlur Rahman.

# Dr. Wright’s Master’s thesis at the Divinity School of the U of C was the Tijaniyya among the Bambara, the Fulbe and the Tuckolour. The Tijaniyya was a 19th Century Sufi movement (a sect of Sufism) which swept into West Africa during the period of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade.

link
29 posted on 04/07/2008 3:23:36 PM PDT by SeafoodGumbo
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To: Timeout

islamist is as islamist does, Black Jesus here notwithstanding.


30 posted on 04/07/2008 3:34:31 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Timeout
I would say his “preachings” are probably not much different than you would find in a Madrassa in Pakistan.
31 posted on 04/07/2008 3:36:48 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Timeout
>>>Wright is a "former Muslim"?!<<<

I read someplace that Rev. Wright majored in "Muslim Studies" at Howard.

I'll see if I can find it in my extensive O'bama file.

32 posted on 04/07/2008 4:20:17 PM PDT by HardStarboard (Take No Prisoners - We're Out Of Qurans)
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Blind Faith:
The statements of Jeremiah Wright aren’t controversial and incendiary;
they’re wicked
Slate | March 24, 2008 | Christopher Hitchens
Posted on 04/07/2008 2:31:19 PM PDT by george76
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998121/posts

BARACK OBAMA HID HIS FATHER’S SOCIALIST
AND ANTI-WESTERN CONVICTIONS FROM HIS READERS
presto pundit | April 7, 2008 | Greg Ransom
Posted on 04/07/2008 2:14:40 PM PDT by Mount Athos
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998112/posts


33 posted on 04/07/2008 4:21:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_____________________Profile updated Saturday, March 29, 2008)
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To: Timeout

If this nation elects this freak, we’ll probably have Osama bin Laden sleeping over in the Lincoln Bedroom.


34 posted on 04/07/2008 4:29:11 PM PDT by boycott
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To: Timeout
The only REAL “former” Mussies are dead ones
35 posted on 04/07/2008 4:29:42 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" LINCOLN)
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To: Timeout
Found it.....

When he took over Trinity United Church of Christ in 1972, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. was a maverick pastor with a wardrobe of dashikis and a militant message.

He graduated from Howard University and earned bachelor's and master's degrees in English with a focus on African spirituals. At the University of Chicago Divinity School, he earned another masters degree in the history of religions with a focus on Islam.

http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm

Go down to second picture: Obama's Religion click on it and go down to entry under year 1990 - left hand column. You'll find it there.

This file is a very extensive compilation of Obama's history and background. I can't vouch for its accuracy - but there is a wealth of material that should raise questions and controversy in it.

36 posted on 04/07/2008 4:36:07 PM PDT by HardStarboard (Take No Prisoners - We're Out Of Qurans)
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To: HardStarboard

Thanks. Not exactly what I’d consider a unbiased source. I tried to find a legitimate biography of Wright that mentioned his education, but I didn’t find anything.


37 posted on 04/07/2008 5:50:34 PM PDT by Timeout
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To: PetroniusMaximus
"These people must be Muslims operating under a false “Christian” conversion in order to come into power under the radar."

Anybody know of historical cases of muslims utilizing takeya claiming to be Christian (temporarily) in order to advance the umma?

38 posted on 04/07/2008 6:00:30 PM PDT by cookcounty (Obama reach across the aisle? He's so far to the left, he'll need a roadmap to FIND the aisle.)
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To: pissant
Probably a disciple of Calypso Louie

Wright has said he has know him for 30 years and back when he was known as Louis X, the calypso singer.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MX1y6Q9PYcg

39 posted on 04/07/2008 6:53:29 PM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: Timeout

Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright: Former Muslim
April 7, 2008

http://infidelsarecool.com/2008/04/07/jeremiah-wright-former-muslim/

“A reader from Free Republic has dug up an old article last year (March 07) From TNR about Obama. It was written by Ryan Lizza, Senior editor at The New Republic. It’s a biographical piece, but in the article, it explicitly states that Jeremiah Wright is a former Muslim.”


40 posted on 04/08/2008 12:26:53 AM PDT by FocusNexus ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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