Malik holds a photo of Obama and him in Muslim dress, reportedly when the two first met in 1985
Apparently the Obamas of Kenya have been reading those scurrilous emails to which Barack likes to refer, because they have no doubt -- contrary to the claims of the Obama campaign, that the presidential candidate was raised a Moslem. They take that as a given.
As the Jerusalem Post reports, "Barack Obama's half brother Malik said Thursday that if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background. In an interview with Army Radio he expressed a special salutation from the Obamas of Kenya."
The Obama brothers' father, a senior economist for the Kenyan government who studied at Harvard University, died in car crash in 1982. He left six sons and a daughter. All of his children - except Malik -- live in Britain or the United States. Malik and Barack met in 1985.
In a remarkable denial issued last November that still stands on the official campaign website, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs issued a statement explaining that "Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised as a Muslim, and is a committed Christian."
Apparently Malik Obama, himself a Muslim, had not read the press release.
Melanie Phillips is the most recent commentator to draw attention to the massive body of evidence that leaves no doubt that Barak Hussein Obama was born a Muslim (Islam is patrilineal) and raised a Muslim (so registered in school, acknowledging attending Islamic classes, reported accompanying his step-father to the mosque, and able to recite the Koran in the original Arabic).
Reuven Koret, Aaron Klein and Daniel Pipes have previously pointed to the attempts by Obama and his campaign to conceal the candidate's Muslim background. The well documented evidence draws upon the on-the-ground interviews by researchers in Indonesia and Kenya, published quotations of Obama's childhood friends and his school records, as well as the candidate's own autobiography.
1) who cares?
2) it's possible to enter a Mosque, dress like a Mulsim and learn the Koran without being Muslim
3) tracing religion by family lines is idiotic
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Graffiti outside Latin class.
Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
A juvenal prank.
We had that happen during a baptism once. Turned out the kid's parents had a Moslem ancestor a few generations back. That's what they got for trying to sneak into heaven.
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Graffiti outside Latin class.
Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
A juvenal prank.
Welll....the organization that your membership records are stored with will still claim you as a member and therefore you are counted amoung the Christians still. The only way around it is to have your name removed from their records.
That way, if you are randomly selected for a poll when it comes to atheism compared to theism, the numbers won't be skewed.
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