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May 7, 2008

Did Obama Lie About His Muslim Childhood?

"My father was from Kenya," he said, "and a lot of people in his village were Muslim. He didn't practice Islam. Truth is he wasn't very religious. He met my mother. My mother was a Christian from Kansas, and they married and then divorced. I was raised by my mother. So, I've always been a Christian. The only connection I've had to Islam is that my grandfather on my father's side came from that country. But I've never practiced Islam." - (Obama explaining his connection to Islam, as reported by MSNBC)

Apparently questions earlier in the campaign about Obama being raised Muslim as a child hasn't yet been fully addressed. Despite Obama's claims that he has always been a Christian and was never raised as a Muslim, Daniel Pipes has collected a very substantial amount of evidence that Barack Hussein Obama has been much less than truthful on this issue (HT - Ragnar at Jawa Report):

Nedra Pickler of the Associated Press reports that "documents showed he enrolled as a Muslim" while at a Catholic school during first through third grades. Kim Barker of the Chicago Tribune confirms that Obama was "listed as a Muslim on the registration form for the Catholic school." A blogger who goes by "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" found that "Barack Hussein Obama was registered under the name 'Barry Soetoro' serial number 203 and entered the Franciscan Asisi Primary School on 1 January 1968 and sat in class 1B. ... Barry's religion was listed as Islam."

As Ragnar points out at JR, it's already been established previously that Obama attended an Islamic school as a child and attended Koranic studies classes. In fact, according to of the New York Times (via Daniel Pipes),Obama learned his lessons so well that he is still capable of reciting the opening lines of the Adhan (the Muslim call to prayer) "with a first-rate accent."

Also pointing to Obama having lied, as Pipes points out, ""In Islam, religion passes from the father to the child. Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (1936-1982) was a Muslim who named his boy Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. Only Muslim children are named "Hussein"." Sounds to me like Barack Hussein Obama indeed has a reason to be sensitive about the "Hussein" part of his name.

So why should America care about whether or not Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim? It has to do with who Barack Obama really is, what he really stands for, and what does he really represent. In other words, who and what is America getting if it elects Barack Hussein Obama president.

Ragnar puts it this way:

The idea that Barack is some sort of "Manchurian Candidate" who will sell us out to al Qaeda as some sort of grand international conspiracy is pretty silly, but that's not the true concern here. The true concern, which is bolstered by everything we've learned about him over the past twelve months, is that Barack Obama is a social and political chameleon, capable of presenting whatever identity he needs to at a given point in time. No one, save perhaps his closest confidantes, can seriously claim to know what is to be found in the heart and soul of Barack Obama. Unfortunately, far too few voters seem to really care who Obama is. He has brown skin, and he gives a good speech, and that is apparently enough.

So our take home message here is not only that strong evidence points to Obama having lied about being a Muslim in his youth, but more importantly, as Ragnar points out in his post, we're talking about a presidential candidate that is indeed a social and political chameleon, capable of presenting whatever identity he needs to at any given point in time. Almost as bad is the fact that the clues that have emerged as to who Barack Obama is and what he actually stands for is not what Americans want to see in their president.

A socialist/Marxist, Black Nationalist, racially divisive/Afro-centric (if this doesn't apply to Obama why then did he sit in Jeremiah Wright's pews for 20 years?), political chameleon that has served as a Rorschach ink blot test for Democratic primary voters (they see in him whatever they want to see) and has lied about his Muslim childhood is the last man in America that we should consider for the presidency.

Related:

Obama and Communism: Ayers, Dohrn and FARC

Marxists/Socialists/Communists for Obama (On Obama's website)

Posted by Richard at May 7, 2008 8:06 PM