December 18, 2006, - 4:01 pm
Barack Hussein Obama: Once a Muslim, Always A Muslim
By Debbie Schlussel
**** UPDATE, 01/30/08: EXCLUSIVE – Obama’s Nation of Islam Staffers, Edward Said & “Inflexible Jews” Causing Mid-East Conflict: An Obama Insider Reveals the Real Barack
**** UPDATE, 01/25/07: Barack Hussein Obama’s alleged debunking of Islamic background raises even MORE questions. ****
**** UPDATE, 01/19/07: Looks like Hillary Clinton’s camp agrees with me and has dug up more info that confirms my suspicions about Obama and his Muslim background, including his attendance at a Wahabbi (ie., extremist Sunni) Madrassa (Islamic religious academy). Hillary’s camp says Obama is covering up his Muslim past. Why? ****
Many months ago, readers began asking me whether Barack Obama is Muslim. Since he identifies as a Christian, I said, “no,” and responded that he was not raised by his Kenyan father.
But, then, I decided to look further into Obama’s background. His full name–as by now you have probably heard–is Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. Hussein is a Muslim name, which comes from the name of Ali’s son–Hussein Ibn Ali. And Obama is named after his late Kenyan father, the late Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., apparently a Muslim.
And while Obama may not identify as a Muslim, that’s not how the Arab and Muslim Streets see it. In Arab culture and under Islamic law, if your father is a Muslim, so are you. And once a Muslim, always a Muslim. You cannot go back. In Islamic eyes, Obama is certainly a Muslim. He may think he’s a Christian, but they do not.
Then, there are the other items in his background. As best-selling author Scott Turow wrote in Salon, Obama went to a Muslim school for two years in Indonesia. His mother, Anna, married an Indonesian man (likely another Muslim, as Indonesia is Muslim-dominated and has the largest Islamic population in the world).
And Obama has a “born-again” affinity for the nation of his Muslim father, Kenya, and his Kenyan sister. (Although Kenya is largely Christian, it has a fast-growing Muslim population that has engaged in a good deal of religious violence and riots against Christians. And Kenyan courts will apply Sharia law, when the participants are Muslim.) Wrote Turow:
Obama’s father died in a traffic accident in Nairobi in 1982, but while Obama was working in Chicago, he met his Kenyan sister, Auma, a linguist educated in Germany who was visiting the United States. When she returned to Kenya in 1986 to teach for a year at the University of Nairobi, Obama finally made the trip to his father’s homeland he had long promised himself. There, he managed to fully embrace a heritage and a family he’d never fully known and come to terms with his father, whom he’d long regarded as an august foreign prince, but now realized was a human being burdened by his own illusions and vulnerabilities.
So, even if he identifies strongly as a Christian, and even if he despised the behavior of his father (as Obama said on Oprah); is a man who Muslims think is a Muslim, who feels some sort of psychological need to prove himself to his absent Muslim father, and who is now moving in the direction of his father’s heritage, a man we want as President when we are fighting the war of our lives against Islam? Where will his loyalties be?
Is that even the man we’d want to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency, if Hillary Clinton offers him the Vice Presidential candidacy on her ticket (which he certainly wouldn’t turn down)?
NO WAY, JOSE . . . Or, is that, HUSSEIN?
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Reply to ‘Dance with Possum’ dated 1/28/2007.
Dear Possum:
Converting from Judaism to Christianity is quite natural, because that is just what Jesus ChristÔø?s teaching is all about. Thus, Christianity can be considered as a perfection of Judaism, at least from the standpoint of Christians, although Jesus is still rejected by Judaism until today. In contrast, Islam is a direct antipode of both Judaism and Christianity. To come to this conclusion, you have to study Islam a little bit further in order to free yourself from prejudice. Although Islam acknowledges Jesus as a prophet, it rejects Him of being son of God and that Jesus died on the cross. In fact, Islam considers Jews as pigs and Christians apes, as recited in a number of verses in the Qur’an, specifically Suras 5:60-65, 2:65 and 7:166.
ObamaÔø?s faith is totally immaterial. It is his lying and concealing his Islamic faith that really matter. We do not reject Keith Ellison for being a first Muslim congressman, since he did not try to conceal his faith, so other congress members exactly know where he stands.
Islam as religion is acceptable, but Islam as ideology is to be rejected, even if it does not directly support terrorists and Islamofascists. This is because Islam not only is a religion but also a law system and a state ideology, both being in direct opposite to our democracy. As such, Islam does not fit into our law system, since – just like Communism – it seeks to destroy our democratic state and replace it by their theocratic state.
You are wrong Mr. Possum Ôø? Our state is NOT based on Christianity, but on REASON, the latter being the fundament of modern democracy. The same thing with European states. To come to this conclusion you should delve a little bit into the history. Medieval Europe was based on the Bible scripture, i.e., by definition a Christian state. This has been radically transformed by the Enlightenment based on reason beginning with the 17th century. While Europe had to overcome a lot of difficulties in their transformation to a democratic state (e.g., the French revolution 1789), our founding fathers were first in establishing a fully functioning state based reason (American revolution 1776) To be noted is here the fact that at least two of our founding fathers, i.e., Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, were strong supporters of the French revolution.
In comparison, the Islamic concept of state is at least 1400 years old and has not changed even a little bit until today. So, according to you, Mr. Possum, we should give this 1400-year old Ôø?wisdomÔø? a chance to govern us all? The truth is, Islam as a pre-medieval ideology is against REASON (i.e., IRRATIONAL) and fundamentally ANTI DEMOCRATIC. So, according to you, Mr. Possum, this irrational Ôø?wisdomÔø? should control our lives?
It is not any faith having a monopoly of wisdom, as you said, but wisdom can be only achieved by reason. History has shown that faith only foments hate and produces war, not wisdom. Reason does not abolish faith, but puts faith in its proper position, i.e., as a personal matter. As such, our reason does not allow any faith to be enforced to any person, as the Islamic religion has been trying 1400 years long. This is the basis for freedom of religion, and also the basis for rejecting Islam as an ideology, philosophy, and/or state law. We can only accept Islam as a religion that is 100% private matter.
May God bless you all.
Momentoftruth on February 2, 2007 at 10:01 am