So, it turns out that my suspicions were true — once again. I’m starting to really learn to trust my intuition. You see, it seems that Senator Barack Obama’s campaign has switched the language to state that he’s never been a practicing Muslim. But unfortunately for Barack, any practicing Muslim will tell you that there are no ex-Muslims, only unbelievers and that apostacy from Islam is a crime punishable by death.
So, what do we call you next week, Barack? An Apostate from Islam? If we do that, you’re going to need more Secret Service. Or perhaps the President of Iran will want a personal audience so he can try to offer you one more chance.
From Associated Content:
While CNN proved false the claims that Senator Barak Hussein Obama had been raised in a radical Islamic madrassa, today, the LA Times reports that his childhood friends and teachers report that as a boy Obama was registered as a Muslim, studied the Koran in a Muslim school, and prayed at the local mosque.
In a statement to The Times on Wednesday, March 14, the campaign offered this statement: “Obama has never been a practicing Muslim. The statement added that as a child, Obama had spent time in the neighborhood’s Islamic center. This is a departure from the earlier statement made by the Obama campaign on January 24. “To be clear, Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ in Chicago.
In Senator Obama’s two books, “Dreams From My Father” and “The Audacity of Hope,” he wrote that he spent two years in a Muslim school and another two years in a Catholic school while living in Indonesia from age 6 to 10. Islam is Indonesia’s dominant religion. Approximately 88% of the population of Indonesia is Muslim, making it the most populous Muslim-majority nation in the world. Indonesia has seen a dramatic rise in radical Islam in recent years.
Today, the LA Times reports that a childhood friend of Obama’s claims that he did attend Friday prayers at the mosque–
The childhood friends say Obama sometimes went to Friday prayers at the local mosque. “We prayed but not really seriously, just following actions done by older people in the mosque. But as kids, we loved to meet our friends and went to the mosque together and played, said Zulfin Adi, who describes himself as among Obama’s closest childhood friends.
“His mother often went to the church, but Barry was Muslim. He went to the mosque,” Adi said. “I remember him wearing a sarong.
Additionally, the LA Times recounts statements made by Barack Obama’s third- and fourth-grade teacher–
“At that time, Barry was also praying in a Catholic way, but Barry was Muslim,” Dharmawan said in Obama’s old classroom, where she still teaches 39 years later. “He was registered as a Muslim because his father, Lolo Soetoro, was Muslim.”
The Times additionally reports that Obama was a registered Muslim and attended weekly religious instruction on the Koran, the Muslim holy book–
Bugs have eaten Obama’s file in the [middle] school’s archive, said Vice Principal Hardi Priyono. But two of his teachers, former Vice Principal Tine Hahiyari and third-grade teacher Effendi, said they remember clearly that at this school too, he was registered as a Muslim, which determined what class he attended during weekly religion lessons.
In three months Barrack’s campaign has gone from describing the U.S. presidential hopeful as never having been a Muslim and never having been raised as a Muslim to now having never having been a practicing Muslim.
What’s with the semantics? Statements from Obama’s campaign appear to have evolved, to say the least. While Barak’s campaign states that the senator is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ in Chicago, from what friends and teachers say, it appears that for some time as a child, Senator Barack Hussein Obama identified himself as a Muslim, studying the Koran in a Muslim school and praying to Allah on Fridays at the local mosque.
It’s a wonder that more people don’t see that Barack Obama will never be President. So much time and resources wasted to attempt to elect an idea instead of a man, and all because the ignorance with regards to true Islam is so disgustingly rampant in the USA. Oh, well, at least I’m not going to be contributing to Obama’s campaign. I take pride in my frugality.
I am always hearing about the moderate Muslims who never show hate or anger towards other religions blah blah blah. But the fact is if you as a Muslim reject such teachings then you are considered an infidel by many Muslims and are also having to re-read your own Holy Book. There is NO WAY AROUND THIS! Extremism in Islam IS Fundamentalism. To reform Islam (using the Luther form of going back to essential teachings) is to be a terrorist. Islam does not need reform as we understand it in the West concerning “going back to essentials”. Islam needs to change in it’s most basic and foundational teachings. A completely different problem. The terrorists are in essence the reformers boys and girls.
“do you acknowledge that these acts were commited by “Extremists” and thus do not represent the will of all Islamic society?”
No, unless you concider Mohammed an “extremist”
“Third, nothing is absolute. Read up on your history, no one group of people is free of expressions bearing injustice( be it Christians, Muslims, Jews, Romans, Iranians, Americans, Australians, Mongolians, Japanese, Bulgarians, ext.).”
The ‘ol well they did bad things to arguement so that excuses 1400 years of Islamic tyranny.
“First, I have muslim family, and i have read the Qur’an. Not one of the muslim family members that I have met expresses hate or violent exercrations toward democracy, the US, or Christianity.”
well if thats true, then Islam must be a religion of peace.