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The Muslim Rumor That Just Won't Die
Slate ^ | June 22, 2012 | Matt Taylor

Posted on 06/22/2012 9:51:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Ever since he began running for president in 2007, Barack Obama has been dogged by rumors that he's secretly a Muslim. Whether it's his exotic name and background, the color of his skin, or (most likely) some combination of the two, the Muslim lie just doesn't seem to go away.

Each time it has begun to fade from public discussion, the Muslim rumor has cropped up again, like it did last year when real estate tycoon Donald Trump, who was publicly weighing a presidential bid at the time, insisted he had evidence showing Obama wasn't born in the United States (and that his birth certificate might show that he's Muslim).

In response, the president eventually took the extraordinary step of releasing his long form birth ceritificate, which showed he was born in Hawaii as claimed. But a new Gallup poll finds that even now, a healthy chunk of Americans believe the rumor:

Just 34% of Americans correctly say U.S. President Barack Obama is a Christian, while 44% say they don't know Obama's religion and 11% say he is a Muslim.

Obama is a Christian and has labeled himself as such as in his writings and interviews, and while living in Chicago he attended the Trinity United Church of Christ. Since moving into the White House, Obama has attended several different Christian churches.

Americans are indeed more likely to say Obama is a Christian -- mostly a generic "Christian" or "Protestant" -- than to say he identifies with any other religion. In addition to those who name a specific religion or don't offer a guess, 8% say he does not have a religious affiliation...

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


TOPICS: General Discusssion; Islam; Mainline Protestant; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: badie; badiethatsallfolks; islam; mohamedbadie; mohammedbadie; mymuslimfaith; naturalborncitizen; obama
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“...and while living in Chicago he attended the Trinity United Church of Christ.”

So, pretty much that eliminates Christian.


21 posted on 06/22/2012 10:58:42 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Obama Admits He Is A Muslim

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCAffMSWSzY

..over 7 MILLION views....
Excerpt: Obama admits that he is a Muslim. Obama bowing before a Muslim king. Obama talking about his Muslim family. Obama quoting from the Koran. Obama defending Islam. Obama visiting a Mosque. And many more clips of Obama and his Muslim connections.
22 posted on 06/22/2012 10:59:20 PM PDT by goron (Revelation 13:18)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If he had legitimately converted from Islam to Christianity a fatwa would have been issued by an imam long ago for his head.


23 posted on 06/22/2012 11:01:33 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Where is the confusion??? How is it a rumor that will just not die???

for the unknowing, uneducated ,blind, disbelieving, totally ignorant and ...

Obama is a Muslim wanabe or Wahabe.

As time goes on the evidence of this administration and Obama’s sympathies are adding up.

If it looks like a duck quacks like a duck.

The term Al-Takeyya means:

Within Islam there are certain provisions under which lying and deceiving is not simply tolerated, but actually encouraged.

http://pc540.blogspot.com/2005/06/does-islam-teach-that-its-ok-to-lie-in.html

“Let not the believers take for friends or helpers unbelievers rather than believers; if any do that, in nothing will there be help from Allah, except by way of prevention that ye may guard yourselves from them. But Allah cautions you to remember Himself for the final goal is to Allah.” - Quran - Surah 3:28

Obama’s sympathies for Islam mounts
“One of the prettiest sounds on earth” is the Muslim call to prayer at sunset.
Barack Hussein Obama as quoted by Nicholas D. Kristof in the New York Times - March 6, 2007
http://jewagainstobama.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/obama-muslim-call-to-prayer-one-of-the-prettiest-sounds-on-earth/
http://caosblog.com/archives/7373

• The FIRST thing Obama did as a newly elected Illinois State Senator was to attempt to declare a Muslim holiday. Obama sponsored Bill SR0110 in the 90th General Assembly to declare November 1, 1997 to be Islamic Community Center Day. It did not pass.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/legisnet90/summary/900SR0110.html
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/legisnet90/srgroups/sr/900SR0110LV.html

• His biological father was a Muslim.
http://www.bing.com/reference/semhtml/?title=Barack_Obama%2C_Sr.&src=abop&qpvt=barack+obama+seniot&q=barack+obama+senior&fwd=1

• Because his biological father was a Muslim the Islam world thinks he is a Muslim.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/2010/08/obama_is_a_muslim_18_24_or.html?hpid=topnews
http://www.indonesiamatters.com/2952/barry-soetoro/

• His stepfather was a Muslim.
http://www.indonesiamatters.com/2952/barry-soetoro/

• As a child Barry was enrolled in school as a Muslim in Jakarta Indonesia. An Indonesian Madrasa.
• Barack Hussein Obama’s first and middle names are Arabic Muslim names.
Barack was the name for Mohammad’s horse. Husein, enough said.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700246419/Barack-Muhammads-horse.html
http://sanooaung.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/will-be-obama-with-us-muslims-as-the-meaning-of-his-name-in-persian-language/

• Obama recited the opening lines of the Muslim call to prayer, which includes a vow of fidelity to Islam, in flawless Arabic on a radio program. - Nikolos Kristoff, NYTs, 3-06-07 (***this one is a gottcha moment***)
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.3413/pub_detail.asp
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/11679

• On that same program he said he thinks the call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on earth.”
http://jewagainstobama.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/obama-muslim-call-to-prayer-one-of-the-prettiest-sounds-on-earth/
http://caosblog.com/archives/7373

• Obama belonged to Rev. Wright’s (a former Muslim) church for twenty years. Many congregants are Muslims.
http://infidelsarecool.com/2008/04/07/jeremiah-wright-former-muslim/
http://infidelsarecool.com/2008/03/20/rev-wright-got-his-masters-degree-in-islam-in-west-africa/
http://endtimes.yuku.com/forum/viewtopic/id/289

• Obama’s said that the U.S. is “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/9959057/Barack_Hussein_Obama_US_one_of_the_largest_Muslim_countries_in_the_world/
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/06/obama_america_one_of_the_large_1.asp

• Obama holds Muslim celebrations in the WH but canceled the National Day of Prayer.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1724544/obama_cancels_national_day_of_prayer.html?cat=9
http://www.exposeobama.com/

• President Obama’s religious adviser, Eboo Patel, once deemed the United States “the ideal place for the renewal of Islam.”

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/06/-obama-tells-egyptian-foreign-minister-i-am-a-muslim-stealth-coup-on-the-white-house.html

• Obama does not give gifts on Christmas.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/12035.html

• Obama doesn’t celebrate his birthday.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/a-tough-birthday-for-obama/

• Obama falsely attributes Muslim participation in the founding of America.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7041/pub_detail.asp

• Obama required that the cross be covered when he gave a speech at Notre Dame.
http://blog.acton.org/archives/9843-notre-dame-georgetown-and-president-obama.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/05/11/opinion/main5006203.shtml
http://dougpowers.com/2009/04/17/obamas-jesus-coverup/

• Christian symbol covered up during Obama’s Georgetown speech
http://myfaithspace.ning.com/profiles/blogs/obama-covers-christ-and-cross
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=46667

• Obama’s first major speech in office was a “Muslim outreach” speech in Cairo Egypt.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8083171.stm

• “The American President told me in confidence that he is a Muslim,” said Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Nile TV.
http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/bombshell-egyptian-foreign-minister-ahmed-aboul-gheit-says-on-egyptian-tv-%e2%80%9cthe-american-president-told-me-in-confidence-that-he-is-still-a-muslim-%e2%80%9d/
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=166905

• Obama gave strong support to the Cordoba House community center and mosque to be built at the Ground Zero site of Sep. 11, 2001 at a dinner celebrating the day’s end of the first day of Ramadan at the WH.
http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/president-obama-supports-ground-zero-mosque/19593492?ncid=webmail

• Obama tasked NASA with a mission of “Muslim outreach.”
http://technology.newsplurk.com/2010/07/nasa-and-islam.html

• Obama referred to his faith as “my Muslim faith” gaffe in an interview with George Stephanopolous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQqIpdBOg6I

• Pushes Islamic freedom of religion but not Jewish or Christian freedoms. Several weeks ago he told Israel NOT to build settlements in East Jerusalem. But OK to build that Mosque at Ground Zero.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7514285/Israel-spits-in-Obamas-eye-by-announcing-new-settlements-in-east-Jerusalem.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/24/barack-obama-israel-settlement-plan


24 posted on 06/22/2012 11:25:04 PM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Next desperate ploy by the LSM: make this about religion because the race card is maxed out. Slate is the “feeler,” and the response will be poor.

Obastard is a rat. But he’s a flailing cornered rat.

This is going to get ugly...


25 posted on 06/22/2012 11:30:25 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: Proud2BeRight
I've walked a lot of paths in my life, including some very dark ones. I'm a Christian (more accurately Catholic) again, but even in my dark times, the muslim call to prayer reverberated with transcendental malevolence.

Take from that what you will...

26 posted on 06/22/2012 11:37:38 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The "lie" persists?
This bottom feeder ignoramus seems not to have a clue about the meaning of the name Barack.
Presumably, Hussein chose that name as an adult.

How can an ignorant idiot like the clown Matt Taylor be taken seriously?
I did not waste more than 30 seconds reading his crap.

27 posted on 06/22/2012 11:59:01 PM PDT by publius911 (Formerly Publius 6961, formerly jennsdad)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Rumor?? LOL!

What's next Carney gonna guess our weight and age?

28 posted on 06/23/2012 12:22:12 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: DuncanWaring

“Muslim call to prayer being “the most beautiful sound in the world”.”

It’s almost as melodious as the sound of two chalkboards mating.


29 posted on 06/23/2012 12:37:57 AM PDT by Salamander (I wanna hurt you just to hear you screaming my name.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ll add another reason- his extraordinary outreach to muslims, including his speech in Egypt (?) and his NASA outreach to muslims. If people think he is muslim, it is his own fault!


30 posted on 06/23/2012 1:17:24 AM PDT by PghBaldy (I eagerly await the next news about the struggles of Elizabeth Sacheen Littlefeather Warren.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I believe Obama: is an atheist who joined a Christian church for political reasons; joined the UCC because it's the denomination with the vaguest beliefs; joined a church led by a buffoon who makes a mockery of Christianity because he (Obama) really thinks Christianity is inane; and is sympathetic to Muslims because Islam hates the west, as Obama himself does.
31 posted on 06/23/2012 1:48:12 AM PDT by utahagen
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
the neverending (O'Bozo media) stories...
"lies the media told me"..redux

32 posted on 06/23/2012 1:53:40 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (WA DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me Old $hit; different flie$". :^)
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To: DuncanWaring

He doesn’t talk the talk, let alone walk the walk.
He may or may not be a muslim but he is not a Christian.


33 posted on 06/23/2012 2:11:30 AM PDT by ruesrose (It's possible to be clueless without being blonde.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
...fatwa would have been issued by an imam ... for [Obama] his head...

maybe is was issued but no Islam found Obama's head worth while...nothing in it...no intelligence...no brain (normal, at least)...bobble head on "it's everybody else's fault..." No Islam would want to go to jail for that air-head...

34 posted on 06/23/2012 2:53:08 AM PDT by AmbassadorForChrist
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe because up until a few years ago the biographical information posted by his own publisher stated he was born in Kenya. It’s not a rumor.


35 posted on 06/23/2012 3:00:08 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“My Muslim faith” bump


36 posted on 06/23/2012 3:01:48 AM PDT by Dajjal ("I'm not concerned about the very poor." -- severely conservative Mitt 'Etch-A-Sketch' Rmoney)
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To: doc1019
Actually, Obama attended a mengaji in Indonesia.

Mengaji is a school for devout Muslim children in which they learn to recite the Koran in Arabic.

37 posted on 06/23/2012 3:07:29 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Islam is a gutter religion.
Would you bet your farm obammy is not a mooselimb??
Would you bet your farm this marxist punk has never been with a man?


38 posted on 06/23/2012 3:36:56 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Hey Mitt, F-you too pal)
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To: pnut22

Whether it’s his exotic name and background, the color of his skin, or (most likely) some combination of the two.
...........................................................
Might be because every decision he has made favors Muslims.
Might be because he has caused uprisings in the Middle east where Muslim s are takingover countris like Egypt, Syria, Libya.

Might be because he killed the Day of Prayer for Christians while having Mulsims in for a party at Ramadan time.

Might be because he stated if things go downhill I will stand for Muslims.


39 posted on 06/23/2012 4:03:20 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: pnut22

Might be that he told the Egyptian ambassador in January of 2010 that he was and still is a Muslim who supports the Muslim agenda and that the Muslim world needed to be patient with him while he got Obamacare passed and then he would focus on the Muslim agenda....

Could be lots of reasons.

And how can people still get away with claiming that what Obama released was his long-form birth certificate (rather than a forgery, as Sheriff Joe has determined it to be)? How can we have Alvin Onaka officially confirming (indirectly) that the birth record Hawaii has for Obama is legally non-valid, and still nobody will report this? Hawaii has finally settled the question: Obama has never had a legally valid HI BC that could be used for any of the purposes he needed it for his whole life long. Whatever BC he used that whole time, it was NOT from Hawaii.

http://www.coachisright.com/howd-you-like-a-nice-hawaiian-sucker-punch/


40 posted on 06/23/2012 4:20:48 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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