reefraff
Active Member
I originally went looking for some crazy right wing blog BS about Obama to make a point about the constant posting of left wing blogger rants as fact here by the Obamites. Tripped over this which I find a little troubling. I place a little more credibility in this man's opinions and research than the Bloggers.
As was reported by the LA Times, Obama occasionally attended mosque in Indonesia with his stepfather and received daily teaching in the Koran in school where he was registered as a Muslim. Obama even mentions the koran study in his book.
What matters about all this is spelled out in the bolded paragraph below. Whether Obama considered himself a Muslim isn't the issue. The wack jobs who fly planes into buildings or blow up buses full of women and children might.
This article includes media matters attempt to discredit the original Times story. Trouble is the story is backed up by other sources. I never really thought the whole went to mosque thing and studying the koran in school was a big deal and in fact a positive. This changes my mind on that.
http://www.irfi.org/articles/article...0islamhtml.htm
“Interviews with dozens of former classmates, teachers, neighbors and friends show that Obama was not a regular practicing Muslim when he was in Indonesia” – implying he was an irregularly practicing Muslim.
· “Obama occasionally followed his stepfather to the mosque for Friday prayers, a few neighbors said” – confirming that he did pray in the mosque.
· “Obama’s 3rd-grade teacher at the Catholic school, who lived near the family [said that] ‘Rarely, Barry went to the mosque with Lolo’” – confirming that Obama attended mosque services.
All this matters, for if Obama once was a Muslim, he is now what Islamic law calls a murtadd (apostate), an ex-Muslim converted to another religion who must be executed. Were he elected president of the United States, this status, clearly, would have large potential implications for his relationship with the Muslim world.
In sum: Obama was an irregularly practicing Muslim who rarely or occasionally prayed with his step-father in a mosque. This precisely substantiates my statement that he “for some years had a reasonably Muslim upbringing under the auspices of his Indonesian step-father."
Therefore, what MMfA calls the “Obama-Muslim falsehood” is in fact confirmed by both articles as truthful and accurate.
Calling this a falsehood is in itself a falsehood."
As was reported by the LA Times, Obama occasionally attended mosque in Indonesia with his stepfather and received daily teaching in the Koran in school where he was registered as a Muslim. Obama even mentions the koran study in his book.
What matters about all this is spelled out in the bolded paragraph below. Whether Obama considered himself a Muslim isn't the issue. The wack jobs who fly planes into buildings or blow up buses full of women and children might.
This article includes media matters attempt to discredit the original Times story. Trouble is the story is backed up by other sources. I never really thought the whole went to mosque thing and studying the koran in school was a big deal and in fact a positive. This changes my mind on that.
http://www.irfi.org/articles/article...0islamhtml.htm
“Interviews with dozens of former classmates, teachers, neighbors and friends show that Obama was not a regular practicing Muslim when he was in Indonesia” – implying he was an irregularly practicing Muslim.
· “Obama occasionally followed his stepfather to the mosque for Friday prayers, a few neighbors said” – confirming that he did pray in the mosque.
· “Obama’s 3rd-grade teacher at the Catholic school, who lived near the family [said that] ‘Rarely, Barry went to the mosque with Lolo’” – confirming that Obama attended mosque services.
All this matters, for if Obama once was a Muslim, he is now what Islamic law calls a murtadd (apostate), an ex-Muslim converted to another religion who must be executed. Were he elected president of the United States, this status, clearly, would have large potential implications for his relationship with the Muslim world.
In sum: Obama was an irregularly practicing Muslim who rarely or occasionally prayed with his step-father in a mosque. This precisely substantiates my statement that he “for some years had a reasonably Muslim upbringing under the auspices of his Indonesian step-father."
Therefore, what MMfA calls the “Obama-Muslim falsehood” is in fact confirmed by both articles as truthful and accurate.
Calling this a falsehood is in itself a falsehood."
