I just read a report claiming that not only was his father muslim but his step father was a radical muslim who raised him to be a muslim while in indoesia...we really don't need someone like that in the Whitehouse...btw his mother was an avowed atheist.
2007-12-05 07:27:29 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Well, that's one way to get this country turned...& why I am not voting for him for anything.
2007-12-05 07:33:21 · answer #1 · answered by fairly smart 7 · 3⤊ 4⤋
It's well documented that Obama has never been a Muslim. In fact he pretty much eschewed all religious faiths until he became a Christian. I find it interesting that those who keep touting this theory never have anything to point to in order to back it up. There hasn't been one person that's come forward and said "Hey, Obama was practicing Islam during this time" or anything like it. Never anyone even claiming to have seen him entering a mosque or expressing Muslim ideas. Not from his childhood, not from his teenage years, not from his college days, or thereafter. Nothing, nada, zip. Just theories made up out of thin air because of his father who was never around, and his stepfather - who, frankly, couldn't be much of a radical Muslim if he married an avowed atheist.
EDIT:
blursd2:
You could not be more misinformed. I challenge you to find ONE statement from Obama where he says he was ever a Muslim. Please stop spreading such deliberate misinformation. Here is something directly from his website:
http://obama.senate.gov/press/070123-debunked_insigh/index.php
"All of the claims about Senator Obama’s faith and education raised in the Insight Magazine story and repeated on Fox News are false. Senator Obama was raised in a secular household in Indonesia by his stepfather and mother. Obama’s stepfather worked for a U.S. oil company, and sent his stepson to two years of Catholic school, as well as two years of public school. As Obama described it, “Without the money to go to the international school that most expatriate children attended, I went to local Indonesian schools and ran the streets with the children of farmers, servants, tailors, and clerks.” [The Audacity of Hope, p. 274]
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. Furthermore, the Indonesian school Obama attended in Jakarta is a public school that is not and never has been a Madrassa.
These malicious, irresponsible charges are precisely the kind of politics the American people have grown tired of, and that Senator Obama is trying to change by focusing on bringing people together to solve our common problems."
2007-12-05 07:36:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Hey Elway ...
Obama went to Islamic schools in Indonesia for however many years (between 6-10 years). He was a Muslim, but converted to Christianity. Saying there is no proof he was a Muslim is just not true ... he has even admitted it.
Personally, I don't care if he used to be a Taoist ... even if he was still a Muslim does that really make a difference? Are we going to make our presidential candidate take a religious litmus test ...? All I need to know is that he will defend the Constitution and not interject his own religious beliefs (whatever they may be) into the office of the President.
Edit: Obama rather touts the fact he USED TO BE Muslim, and converted to Christianity when he is courting the Christian vote. Those are his own words ...
2007-12-05 07:42:17 · answer #3 · answered by blursd2 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
heh, I bet some of his ancestors were slaves as well. Certainly we don't want people like that in the White House. Only purebreed white Christian Americans need apply to be president, yesirree.
2007-12-05 07:52:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He was a Christian before his bid for the presidency. You need to do some research and pay attention so you don't look foolish by asking questions like this.
2007-12-05 07:39:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
A Muslim that goes to a Christian Church....Hmmmm....that would be the worst possible Muslim heresy. Does that honestly make sense to you? Sounds more like the other Democratic candidates are pretty desperate to smear him.
2007-12-05 07:33:24 · answer #6 · answered by kathy_is_a_nurse 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
maximum politicians purely circulate to church to seem to be christian . when you consider that lots of folk settle for Jesus as their savior and stay their lives in accordance to the so talked approximately as scriptures in case you opt for them to vote for you greater desirable get to a church .
2016-10-19 07:12:57 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"we really don't need someone like that in the Whitehouse"
Someone like what? Are we judging candidates now by what their parents did, or supposedly did?
What we don't need is bigotry in the election process.
2007-12-05 07:43:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Would you rather have a minister who believes in the death penalty, how hypocritical is that??? Like Mike Huckabee
2007-12-05 07:32:39 · answer #9 · answered by Ktcyan 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Now thats a cute little conspiracy theory.
Obama also was responsible for 9/11 right?
2007-12-05 07:32:35 · answer #10 · answered by Ricky T 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I imagine there's some element of truth in that. It's very hard to put your early religious training behind you.
2007-12-05 07:39:05 · answer #11 · answered by Sean 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋