In recent days I had the question posed to me: “Is Senator Barack Obama secretly a Muslim?”
That question made me ponder. Up until that moment, frankly, I’d never given it much thought because I’ve had little reason to pay attention to Obama. He’s the darling of the Democratic Party, but there are greater fish to fry when you deal with jihad and Islam on a daily basis. That being said, however, I suddenly realized that this matter deserved more attention, because what if — just if — Barack Obama is hiding more than a smoking habit? If there are Muslim teachings and beliefs in his system, suddenly I do need to get involved in the investigation.
And so, here we are. Time to start Google-ing, right?
First things first, I did a search of my own site for references to Obama. I couldn’t recall ever commenting on him before and as it turns out, I haven’t. However, one reference to Barack did come up and that was my posting from 2006: A Listing of the Senators that Betrayed America. It turns out that Senator Obama’s name appears on the list of “Open Borders Supporters”, as I called them; one of too many U.S. Senators that voted Yes on S. 2611 (’Immigration Bill’ or ‘Amnesty for Illegals Bill’, take your pick), passed by a vote of 62 to 36. Thankfully, this bill never got by the House.
I’m not happy with that vote, but I can hardly start critiquing Barack Obama any more harshly than I would John McCain, a Presidential hopeful I once supported, who also signed off on S. 2611. (I am, by the way, no longer a supporter of Senator McCain’s hopes for the Presidency. When given new information, I do indeed change my mind.)
Now, the latest reports out of Hollywood seem to have folks like Steven Spielberg hosting fund raisers for Barack.
I am not surprised by this, but I am always surprised by the lack of insight people show — a smooth-tongued, tall black man gets hailed as the savior of the Democratic Party, but so few are asking pointed questions. I suppose I’ll be one of the few to ask then, because I have no desire to see anyone who even sniffs of Islamic ideology holding a seat in the White House. It’s dangerous enough that we have one Muslim Congressman (Keith Ellison) and one Senator (Obama) that has been taught in a madrassa (an Islamic school), because these things in and of themselves, while outwardly seeming innocuous, are trend-setting, and that ain’t good.
Obama doesn’t drink. That’s a red flag, believe it or not. He does smoke though, as I mentioned before. Oops. Another red flag. Why? Well, alcohol consumption is taboo in Islam, but smoking is anything but: smoking fine, drinking baaaaad. Just coincidence?
But, Obama is a recovering drug user you say? Cut him some slack — of course he won’t drink? Wait a second. What’s that — he used cocaine and marijuana and writes about it freely in his latest book topping bestseller lists with 800,000 copies in print, “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”:
“Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though,” he wrote. “Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. … I got high [to] push questions of who I was out of my mind.”
Not smack (that’s heroine, by the way) though. Wow. I guess we should be thankful that Senator Obama showed some willpower? What a tangent I could go off on here, but I’ll stay focused. Is Barack Obama hiding an Islamic ideology in his closet? He sure seems open and honest about many things most politicians run from doesn’t he?
This could be a plus for Senator Barack Obama. It’s harder to believe he’s hiding some attachment to Quranic teachings when he admits to drug use in his past. And so far, I have not convinced myself that the teachings in a madrassa have had any longterm impact on the Senator. However, let’s be wise enough to own the fact that bold men can make great liars, while some make terrible ones. Is Barack just brutally honest?
“We were always playing on the white man’s court . . . by the white man’s rules,” he writes. “If the principal, or the coach, or a teacher . . . wanted to spit in your face, he could, because he had the power and you didn’t. . . . The only thing you could choose was withdrawal into a smaller and smaller coil of rage.
“And the final irony: should you refuse this defeat and lash out at your captors . . . they would have a name for that too. Paranoid. Militant.”
For a man that’s half-white (his mother and grandparents that raised him in Kansas are white), Barack sure seemed to have an axe or two to grind with the “White Man” as a youth, and that again is — yes, you guessed it — a red flag.
But, to the seeming rescue of Barack, here comes (trumpets please) — CNN. I guess I’m supposed to believe everything they report, right? Well, let’s go beyond that — let’s watch the report that claims to debunk claims that Barack was taught in an Islamic school. “I came here to Barack Obama’s elementary school in Jakarta looking for what some are calling an Islamic madrassa … like the ones that teach hate and violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan,” Vause, the CNN reporter so charmingly coins in, as if the mere idea is audacious. What follows is the video segment and more details from CNN may be found in print here:
“It’s not (an) Islamic school. It’s general,” Winadijanto (the current headmaster) said. “There is a lot of Christians, Buddhists, also Confucian. … So that’s a mixed school.”
A “mixed school” where “most” of the students are Muslim. Hmm. Indeed. Watch the video again and you’ll hear the CNN reporter himself admit to that very quickly. This should be no surprise when one understands that there are more Muslims in Indonesia than there are anywhere else in the world, including the Middle East.
I’ve seen enough. Look, I’ve got nothing personally against Barack Obama, and I don’t have enough evidence yet to be convinced myself, let alone convince others, that Barack is hiding some deep, dark Islamic scheme in his closet. I just don’t really believe that yet. But I do know this much: that he was taught in a predominantly Islamic school in a part of the world that is rife with Islamic violence, and the only reason that Western attire is worn by the teachers there is more a product of Asian Muslim influences and Australia as a neighbor as opposed to the typical Islamic seat-of-power influence that hails from Mecca in the Arab Middle East. If this madrassa had been in Saudi Arabia (or even Virginia for that matter), I’d have some very serious reservations.
But reservations I have, and that’s enough.
The bottom line is this: Barack was influenced by Islamic teachings in his formative years (the Indonesian school in question teaches ages 6 to 12). This is not the chemical mixture for someone that I want to see holding a seat of any type in the White House. Is that clear for everyone? You can make up your own minds, and address the information as presented here in this article and elsewhere as you see fit, but the facts speak loudly to me when it comes to Islam in America, and I am not going to ever vote for Barack Obama.
Hell, if Barack Obama ever becomes President of the United States, then there really is nothing stopping me from attempting that climb someday on my own, and that gives me quite a chuckle. I, for instance, have never used cocaine, and I don’t smoke, but I do drink. A nice juxtaposition to Barack.
Perhaps I’m aiming too low though? In today’s America, my lack of the usual vices of our politicians might even make me a candidate for Sainthood.
I think I’ll stick to blogging the truth for now.
Good luck, Senator Obama. I know that the Democratic Party is grooming you for the Vice Presidential seat next to President Hillary with all this publicity, this article now included, and the idea of that ticket gives me and thousands of others like me chills and nightmares, but if it does come to pass, perhaps this will be exactly what the USA needs to wake her up to just how crazy and dangerous the world has become. I can almost see the Islamists sharpening their axes at the mere prospect of such a pair entering the White House. They will proclaim the intent to lead us to victory over the “radical” Muslims and the “evil terrorists”, while all-the-while giving handouts to all the “moderate” Muslims who want to find more seats in the U.S. Congress and also be sworn in on a Quran (preferably one owned by a Founding Father) and begin to tell the rest of us how to live under Sharia Law like they do so successfully in places like Saudi Arabia.
Hey, I’m just being honest. I’m sure someone as open as Barack can respect that.
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FH,
How much do you want to be that Anonymous won’t read anything you or I suggest?
@Anonymous: People like yourself, that continually act as if it is absolutely American to never see our enemies for what they are, for never having the capacity to use Common Sense or to use the word “No!” in a sentence — you make me fear for the future of our Nation.
Get your head into a book and out of the sand.
Oh, and for Pete’s sake, don’t come here and try to assume what is in an article. Read it thoroughly. I never label Barack Obama, the Presidential Candidate, a Muslim. I discuss what he was by birth and what he will be to most of the world’s thinking and believing Muslims forever more because of that. You cannot change facts by simply wishing them to be so. The man was registered into Indonesian schools as a Muslim.
Barack’s Kenyan father was most likely a Muslim (giving him the very Muslim middle name ‘Hussein’). His Indonesian step-father definitely was a Muslim.
debbieschlussel.com/archives/2006/12/barack_hussein.html
This has nothing to do with race. My blog never discusses race in a negative light. Do not come here and toss that stupidly vile and all-too-easily flung “racist” label at me again. Thank you.
Un-American? Un-American is being ready to sell our nation out because it makes you feel good for the short-term and not understanding the facts and the ramifications of those facts. Un-American is ignoring the Truth when it is presented.
I understand Islam. You do not. Get that straight at least. I would think the focus of this blog would be a big, fat clue, but I have given up being surprised by the dense nature of some commenters that float through here and then never return again — you might actually learn that you have been very, very wrong all the while.
This kind of ignorant racism is exactly what we, as a country, need to steer away from. To say that Obama is a radical Muslim because he has come in contact with Islam (through a step-father at age 6) is completely un-American. This is a country that is supposed to embrace diversity and give equal rights to all. Just because Obama is not white and Christian like every other politician, does not mean he is a terrorist. In fact I would argue that this is a good quality in dealing with international relations, in comparison with President Bush who hardly traveled outside of the country before he became president and did not know the names of half of the world’s leaders.
To suggest that all Muslims are radicals is also un-American and wrong. There are many Muslims living in this world who are just as friendly and rational as the people you go to church with every day. Every religion has extremists, Christianity is no exception. Instead of promoting hatred and racism towards Muslims, we should try to understand them. We should exchange ideas, not as Muslims or Christians or Jews, but as human beings. This kind of attack is no different from the McCarthysim attacks in the 1950’s. As a country and as people, I would like to think that we have progressed from this kind of narrow-minded ignorance.
I don’t know about you Foehammer but I have seen people kept after school for spelling like that. And that was in third grade no less! I suppose they are taking anyone nowadays, I think this explains a lot don’t you?
Hannah and her sisters won’t make it 100 years in freedom. Enjoy it while you have it honey it isn’t gunna last. The fact that some feel they need more civil rights is not our fault most of these people were never civil to begin with so they really have no basis in which to stake a claim. If you cannot make it in America you will not make it anywhere that is a fact. Therefore, who do we follow, born losers? I don’t think so. When your freedom has been taken from you don’t come crying to American men we have real women to concern ourselves with. Don’t bother responding I wont read it any way you are the reason that so many American men don’t want to get involved they refuse to get stuck with stupid.
“WE LIVE IN AMERICA” — Ah, yes, you believe this country makes everything better? Even Islam? The system doesn’t “fix” Islam. I deal in facts that are supported by mountains of evidence.
I am not a Republican or a Democrat. I was no supporter of Romney, though I wasn’t against him.
You make the same tired assumptions about me as so many try to do over and over again when they first come here and choose to ignore reality.
Here is one of my most recent responses. It makes little sense to keep repeating myself.
After you read that response, click on the Multimedia section and open the door to education, and stop commenting in the fashion you just did. That serves nothing but to make my regular readers laugh.
You have no power here because you deal in what you want to believe as opposed to what is fact. If you want real power, start opening books. Borrow a Qur’an from one of your buddies. I bet they’ll even give one for free in hopes of converting you.
Oh Foehammer, I will comply that you have got a dance with the devil. I don’t know why type of people you usually encounter on this blog, but sweetheart, I do not back down. You call me a “patsy” in order to in some way belittle me, but the truth is, you only discredit your argument, because the only way you can get your point across is by attempting to make me feel less than what I am. Good try, but it didnt work. So Foehammer, I must agree, I did not read your argument on Islmaic Apostasy, oh but I have now, and done a bit of research for myself, seeing as how Im quite sure you would only provide sources that would credit your position on this matter. Now lets see, the striking line of the article lies in the first line…..”KABUL, Afghanistan,” are the first two words in this article, oh how they screamed my name Foehammer, probably like you would if you were to go to bed with me, Ha Ha. Seeing as how these first two words indicate the setting of the article, I can only play on the fact that we LIVE IN AMERICA!!!!!!!!!! You know what, Im starting to think that you don’t. Have you ever heard of the term ” relgious syncretism” Mr. Foehammer? I bring up this ideology, because that means that a Muslim can keep his or her religion without commiting apostasy. Isn’t that a funny notion. And trust me Foehammer, I sleep very easily at night, and I love the analogy you gave about people like yourself ever attaining political power, seeing as how, I cant quite understand why you would even try. I do not spread a tainted or distorted picture of Muslims, I think that you have done that enough for the both of us. I cannot seem to understand your rift with Muslims, but from evidence you present, I believe that you are doing the same thing you accused me of. “Simply spreading YOUR tainted and sophistic understanding of Islam by way of a handful of Muslims.” Notice I left out “in America,” because it seems to me that you use the doctrine of Islam in the Middle East to govern your thoughts of what Muslims over here in America believe. Now we come full circle back around to “syncretism”. I am hitting them out of the park tonight. Do I agree with the teachings of Islam? Do I agree “with a culture that would reverse Civil Rights back to the 7th century, one that makes women ashamed of their femininity and become just short of property to their husbands?” The anwser to those questions is HELL NO! But do I agree with the fact that men in America, degrade, defile, and treat women as if they were objects? And if you didn’t notice Mr. Foehammer, the sheer fact that America even needed a Civil Rights movement further indicates that we are not upon this great pedastool that you seem to uphold. The fact that women’s suffrage was not obtained until 1920, and that America cannot for some reason get over the fact that eveyone has differences whether it be race, gender, upbringing, or culture. So ye who is without sin cast the first stone. And you say that I ignored you about the apostasy, you ignored me about the first and last portions of my first response. How about you do a read over and rethink your anwser sweetheart. I swear Forehammer you are quite a treat! I could eat you alive!
Classic Islamist apologist rhetoric, Hannah. Also, quite humorous how comfortable you are trying to tell me what I meant to say, as opposed to what I actually typed. That’s very interesting. I’d think you might work for CAIR if you hadn’t admitted that you were not a Muslim yourself. However, Muslims must just love to parade their ways before you and get your stamp of approval so that they have that much easier a time of indoctrinating the curious because you see no danger in any of it.
Are you familiar with the term “patsy”, Hannah?
I would expel people such as you along with the Muslims if I was in power. Rest easy knowing that men like me have about as much chance of ever attaining political power in the United States now or in the future as a snowball has of surviving for more than a mere second on top of a BBQ pit.
You can’t stomp me on any intellectual subject when it is so painfully clear that you never have come here for answers, but only to spread your tainted and sophistic understanding of Islam by way of a handful of Muslims in America. How absolutely delightful you must be for the Muslims when they discuss you in private. You give them so much hope for their cult here in the United States — yet another woman that is so at ease with a culture that would reverse Civil Rights back to the 7th century, one that makes women ashamed of their femininity and become just short of property to their husbands. Bravo, Miss Hannah.
Should I go on? I mean, really, if you wish to dance with the Devil, you’d better be wearing asbestos slippers, because I bring it hot.
Oh, and BTW, I couldn’t help but notice that you completely ignored my points on Islamic apostasy. Why don’t you go ask your plentiful Muslim neighbors what they think of someone that leaves Islam, and just see if you can smell a lie or two when you get the answers. It would be great practice.
Ok, so you honestly believe that EVERY Muslim believes in the teaching that “every human being was born a Muslim and all are supposed to believe.” It’s funny Foehammer, because even you do not state All, but you try and cover your behind and say MOST. (True sign of an egocentric thinker) I think that notion is absolutely LUDICROUS, whether I am naive to the teachings of Islam or not, which actually I am not because my uncle happens to be a Muslim, and the last time I checked he wasn’t trying to convert me. Again I will say, I encounter 40% of Muslims everyday of my life, and I have never gotten a weird stare, or a threat, or anything of the sort, so Im not sure where you are coming up with this information. These “Muslims” that you constantly speak of, where do they live? Do you mind giving me the address or telephone number of one of them? Quite frankly you are simply a secondhand source and in order for you to convince me of ANYTHING, I am going to need some first hand knowledge that I obtained on my own, because once again the only premise that I can see coming from you is, “believe this about them, simply because they are Muslim.” I am not saying that NO Muslim believes this, but again I will say, last I checked we live in America. I do not live in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, or any place else in the Middle East, so quite frankly I have more important things to be concerned with other than the fact that my Muslim next door neighbor is planning a Jihad attack on me the next morning! Sorry Foehammer, but that is not the real world. And Lastly, I read some of the comments and responses you gave, and it seems to me that I pretty much stomped you on quite a few issues because I got no response to my questions. (thought I might just throw that in there)
Hannah,
I’m confident that you are not aware that in the cult of Islam, most Muslims believe that all human beings are “born Muslim” and that all are supposed to believe, because it is within the Hadiths and the Koran, that no Muslim can willfully leave Islam without that apostasy being a crime punishable by death.
Well-documented example:
Afghan Convert to Christianity Is Released, Officials Say
You worry far too much about what you believe and far too little about what true Muslims believe. They don’t give a damn about the opinion of any infidel and what a scant minority might say to you in earnest hardly equates to what the outcome will be despite a handful of courageous protests from well-meaning, if somewhat less devout Muslims.
This is one of the most common errors I run into by people that are simply unaware of the teachings of Islam.
I never made claim to being a saint — who’d want that sort of pressure? I suppose my attempts at irony go over the head of some people, but I won’t stop being sarcastic anytime soon.
I would first like to start by saying that I respect your opinion, because each and every one of us holds that right. But I do have some problems with some of your issues. I am a die hard Hillary Clinton supporter, and although I am not voting for Barack Obama, it has nothing to do with the fact of whether he might be, was, or is a Muslim, quite frankly I think that is simply non of my business. At last I reacall, the constitution calls for a separation of church and state. No wonder Mike Huckabee isn’t going to win the Republican nomination. But besides that, you are right, there is not enough evidence to prove one way or the other that Barack has Muslim implications in his campagin, but personally, I have a very hard time believing that, seeing as how he is a member of a Christian church, and has professed Christianity, but more importantly, we should be able to recognize him being a Christian from his actions, not simply by his “claiming” to be one. And come one, don’t give yourself the title of sainthood simply because you don;t smoke, and have never used drugs. I’m quite sure you have done your fair share of dirt, just like myself, and every other person that exists in this world. You call his teaching from the madrassa a “chemical mixture,” but can you honestly say that you hold everything you learned from the ages of 6-12 dear to your heart, and you practice it religiously? I think not! Im just being honest. I also have a problem with the response you made to Mazin “Spoken by someone who most likely has never lived in the USA. Let me tell you something — in my neighborhood I live with Americans of all spectrums: Indian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, African, Hispanic, German, Irish, Italian and many more. Hindu, Buddhist, Atheist, Christian, Jew. That’s America, and notice I left out Muslim.” Do you not realize that America is supposed to be a “melting pot.” So if it is righteous and just for all of these different sects of people to make up this “great nation” as you coin it, why is it not ok for Muslims. I don’t know what type of University you attended, or that you even ever attended a University, but at the one I currently attend 40% of its students are Muslim, so you tell me if they “are only hoping that more black Africans die so that more Arabs can take land and wives there and make more Muslims of lighter skin.” That is just ridiculous. That maybe happens over in actual Saudi Arabia, but the last time I checked, I live in America. Im surprised that you would even THINK about casting a vote for Hillary Clinton. What the heck do you think she stands for, trust me, its not casting out every Muslim that lives in the United States, and from the last debate I watched, Hillary Clinton is for amnesty as well, so I think you may want to rethink your vote. I bet you are very pissed that Mit Romney is not still in the race, because I am sure he was your #1 candidate, seeing as how he has his head so far up the Republican Party’s ass that he cant see beyond it and has no clue what the “good of America” constitutes. Lastly, I think that you should quit stereotyping people, and realize that people are people like you and I. Everyone is not out to get America, and I am so tired of people going around claiming that notion. Its STUPID and IGNORANT! If Barack Obama was a dang atheist and he had the best intentions for our nation, I could give a rats behind, it doesnt matter. If the Muslim congressman got elected, trust me anything is possible.