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WaPo: A Trump questioner called Obama a Muslim. Many (maybe even most) Trump backers agree.
Washington Post ^ | September 18, 2015 | Aaron Blake

Posted on 09/18/2015 5:53:50 AM PDT by Zakeet

At a Donald Trump event Thursday night in New Hampshire, a man asking a question prefaced it by saying that President Obama is a Muslim.

Trump is now drawing some heat for:

  1. Not in any way disagreeing with that premise.
  2. Kind-of maybe also agreeing with the guy's conspiracy theory that there are extremist training camps in the United States that need to be rooted out.

Trump did seem somewhat dismissive of the man's question, but in an interview with The Post afterward, Trump's campaign manager declined to say whether Trump believes Obama is a Muslim. This despite the president talking for years about his Christian faith.

Well, if Trump doesn't disagree that Obama is a Muslim, he's got plenty of company within his own base. According to a poll released just this week, as many as 54 percent of Trump supporters hold this incorrect belief.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; atheist; communist; islam; liberationtheology; muslim; obama; trump; unholyalliance
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As they say down on the farm ... if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ...

1 posted on 09/18/2015 5:53:50 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

Is the sun hot?


2 posted on 09/18/2015 5:55:09 AM PDT by petercooper (And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus... Rollin' down Highway 41.)
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To: Zakeet

Polls show most Americans believe this anyway. Glad to see the MSM having kittens over it. He’s done more for muzzies than Christians.


3 posted on 09/18/2015 5:55:28 AM PDT by proust
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To: Zakeet
the president talking for years about his Christian faith.

Yeah, except for when he referred to his "muslim faith" during that notorious interview with Georgie-boy Stephanopoulos.

4 posted on 09/18/2015 5:57:16 AM PDT by Salvey
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To: Zakeet

Only 43%? Seems kinda low?

Pray America is waking


5 posted on 09/18/2015 5:58:13 AM PDT by bray (If Obama had a son he would be a cop killer.)
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To: proust

In fact, more people believe he is a muslim now than they did when he took office, the percentage has gotten higher the longer he has been in office. Trump doesn’t have to say he believes it, but he should comment that the polls show that people are increasingly skeptical about Obama’s claim that he is a Christian.


6 posted on 09/18/2015 5:58:55 AM PDT by Hillary'sMoralVoid
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To: Zakeet

Does the MSM think that it would be something BAD if the president were a member of their favorite faith? I thought the MSM would be happy if their favorite President was a member of their favorite religion.

Geez, they act like there something wrong with Islam.

Bigots!


7 posted on 09/18/2015 5:59:02 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Tagline pending.)
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To: Zakeet

The media expects Trump to act like George Stephanopoulos — when faced with a man who talks about Barack Obama’s Muslim faith, you ought to jump in and say, “Mr. President, you mean your Christian faith.”


8 posted on 09/18/2015 5:59:07 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I've switched. Trump is my #1. He understands how to get things done. Cruz can be VP.)
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To: Zakeet
"The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer” –

Barack Hussein Obama, Cairo speech 2008

And he can recite it in perfect Arabic.

9 posted on 09/18/2015 6:01:01 AM PDT by TheCipher (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain)
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To: Zakeet

What’s wrong with being a muslim? We have been told ad nauseum since 2001 that islam is great, the religion of peace, etc.


10 posted on 09/18/2015 6:01:19 AM PDT by AC86UT89
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To: proust

He’s done NOTHING for Christians...NOTHING!!


11 posted on 09/18/2015 6:01:29 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Zakeet
Some people are confused about Obama being a Muslim:

He told an Islamic dinner - "I am one of you."

He was on ABC News and referenced - "My Muslim faith."

He gave $100 million in U.S. taxpayer funds to re-build foreign mosques.

He wrote that in the event of a conflict -"I will stand with the Muslims."

He assured the Egyptian Foreign Minister that - "I am a Muslim."

He bowed in submission before the Saudi King.

He sat for 20 years in a Liberation Theology Church condemning Christianity and professing Marxism.

He exempted Muslims from penalties under Obamacare that the rest of us have to pay.

He purposefully omitted - "endowed by our Creator" - from his recitation of The Declaration Of Independence.

He mocked the Bible and Jesus Christ's Sermon On The Mount while repeatedly referring to the 'HOLY' Quran.

He traveled the Islamic world denigrating the United States Of America.

He instantly threw the support of his administration behind the building of the Ground Zero Victory mosque overlooking the hallowed crater of the World Trade Center.

He refused to attend the National Prayer Breakfast, but hastened to host an Islamic prayer breakfast at the WH.

He ordered both Georgetown Univ. and Notre Dame to shroud all vestiges of Jesus Christ BEFORE he would agree to go there to speak, but in contrast, he have NEVER requested that the mosques he visited adjust their decor.

He appointed anti-Christian fanatics to his Czar Corps.

He appointed rabid Islamists to Homeland Security.

He said that NASA's "foremost mission" was an outreach to Muslim communities.

As an Illinois Senator he was the ONLY individual who would speak in favor of infanticide.

He is the first President not to give a Christmas Greeting from the WH, and went so far as to hang photos of Chairman Mao on the WH tree.

He curtailed the military tribunals of all Islamic terrorists.

He refused to condemn the Ft. Hood killer as an Islamic terrorist.

He refused to speak-out concerning the horrific executions of women throughout the Muslim culture, but yet, has submitted Arizona to the UN for investigation of hypothetical human-rights abuses.

When queried in India he refused to acknowledge the true extent of radical global Jihadists, and instead profusely praised Islam in a country that is 82% Hindu and the victim of numerous Islamic terrorists assaults.

He funneled $900 Million in U.S. taxpayer dollars to Hamas.

He ordered the USPS to honor the MUSLIM holiday with a new commemorative stamp.

He directed our UK Embassy to conduct outreach to help "empower" the British Muslim community.

He embraced the fanatical Muslim Brotherhood in his quest to overthrow the Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, who had worked with Israel to fight terror for decades..

He provided funding for mandatory Arabic language, Quaran, and culture studies in schools across our country.

He follows the Muslim custom of not wearing any form of jewelry during Ramadan. Again this year, he wore no wedding ring and no watch during Ramadan.

He departs for Hawaii over the Christmas season so as to avoid past criticism for NOT participating in seasonal WH religious events.

He was quick to support the Muslim Brotherhood to depose Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, formerly America's strongest ally in North Africa; but, remained muted in your non-response to the Brotherhood slaughter of Egyptian Christians by the Muslim Brotherhood’s leader, Mohammed Morsi.

He quickly invited and then hosted with a hero’s welcome for terrorist Mohammed Morsi in the White House, after he overthrew Mubarek! The Muslim Brotherhood terror group is the parent of terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah.

He appointed and is never far from his chief adviser, Valerie Jarrett, who co-organized the Muslim Sisterhood, an off-shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Obama's actions tell the truth about him.

12 posted on 09/18/2015 6:01:42 AM PDT by Slyfox (Will no one rid us of this meddlesome president?)
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To: Zakeet
Many who would not have agreed now will agree simply because of the hysterical reaction.

That picture of Hussein bowing to the King flashed the president's Islamic identity into my mind and nothing that has passed since then has disturbed that insight one bit. I spent much of my youth in Istanbul and have paid attention to Turks and Moslems for half a century+ since. On seeing the picture it immediately occurred to me that a Moslem would bow to the King who is the Protector of the Holy Places, if he bowed to no one else, and no non Mohammedan American would bow to any head of state, ergo, thus, and QED.

13 posted on 09/18/2015 6:02:12 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: Zakeet
re>theory that there are extremist training camps in the United States

Truth is now extremism!

14 posted on 09/18/2015 6:02:27 AM PDT by IC Ken
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To: Zakeet

Yeah, he is a Muslim. Check out this post from another thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3338166/posts?page=65#65


15 posted on 09/18/2015 6:03:17 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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Gist of the editorial: Trump could surely do a much better job of handling the situation, but if he disagreed with the man publicly — which he has yet to do — he might be alienating a majority of his supporters. ... Or in other words, the Trumpster knows better but is afraid to cross you right wing nuts!

16 posted on 09/18/2015 6:04:25 AM PDT by Zakeet (Make Chelsea Clinton the new ambassador to Lybia. What difference does it make?)
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To: Zakeet
, as many as 54 percent of Trump supporters hold this incorrect belief.

The belief is certainly (politically) incorrect but it is true.

17 posted on 09/18/2015 6:05:03 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: Zakeet

Let’s see..

-his father was a muslim
-his grand father was a muslim
-his step father was a muslim
-he went to muslim schools
-he’s always droning on about how islam is the “religion of peace”, etc
-he’s always telling us about how beautiful the call to prayer is
-he seems to love muslim countries like Iran at the expense of long-time non-muslim allies like Israel
-he hates Israel

ok, maybe he’s a muslim, maybe he’s not, but “at this point what difference does it make?”


18 posted on 09/18/2015 6:05:22 AM PDT by AC86UT89
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To: Zakeet

“WaPo: A Trump questioner called Obama a Muslim. Many (maybe even most) Trump backers agree.”

So?

Lots of Democrats think Bush did 9-11. Can guarantee you that Bernie Sanders supporters support the killing of innocent cops.

But someone thinks Obama is a Muslim??? OMG!!!!!! Stop the presses!!!


19 posted on 09/18/2015 6:05:27 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Salvey

And, the obvious support he gives for all things Muslim over anything Christian.


20 posted on 09/18/2015 6:06:39 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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