Monday, January 7, 2008

Confirmed: Barack Obama Practiced Islam

This is a very interesting situation. While most Americans won't care if Obama was born and raised as a Muslim, the 1.b billion Muslims may have something to say about it. Especially as he now claims to be a Christian. Notice in the picture, Barack is the only one not saluting the flag. Is that because Muslims cannot swear allegiance to anything but Islam?
FROM FRONTPAGEMAG.COM:

Confirmed: Barack Obama Practiced Islam
By Daniel Pipes
FrontPageMagazine.com | 1/7/2008
In a recent analysis, “Was Barack Obama a Muslim?” I surveyed available evidence and found it suggests “Obama was born a Muslim to a non-practicing Muslim father and for some years had a reasonably Muslim upbringing under the auspices of his Indonesian step-father.” In response, David Brock’s organization, Media Matters for America (MMfA), which calls itself a “progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media,” has criticized one of my sources of information.
MMfA contends in “Daniel Pipes relied on disputed LA Times article to revive Obama-Muslim falsehood,” that “key aspects” of a March 16, 2007, Los Angeles Times article I quoted were later challenged by another newspaper account, “History of schooling distorted,” by KimBarker in the Chicago Tribune on March 25.
Falsehood? That's a strong word.
To assess MMfA’s claim, let’s review its preferred article and examine what Barker has to say on four topics related to Obama’s Indonesian years, 1967-71:
His attendance at a Catholic school;
His attendance at a public school;
His step-father, Lolo Soetoro; and
His friend, Zulfan Adi.
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