Malik Obama, Barack Obama's half-brother, today confirmed that Senator Obama was raised Muslim.Not that this is really news. We've already had reports of Obama being raised Muslim (Islam is patrilineal, meaning that since his father was Muslim, Obama was born Muslim), he was registered as Muslim for grade school, where he received Muslim instruction (including learning how to recite the Koran in Arabic), and regularly accompanied his step-father, Lolo Soetoro, to mosque.
Now, my response to Obama being raised a Muslim is basically "So what?" There's no religious test for the presidency - I'd be fine if he were still a Muslim.
But it does bother me that his campaign insists on lying about his background, claiming that "Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised as a Muslim, and is a committed Christian."
Now, why does the campaign insist on lying about this? No doubt because of their low opinion of the American people. To their mind, if the bitter-clingers out there knew that Obama were raised Muslim, the Bible-thumping, gun-toting rednecks who make up the country would be so outraged that Obama's chances of being president would be sunk. Note: I don't actually think this is the case, but Obama's campaign team is a group of elitists who look down their noses at average Americans.
Oh well, I'm sure that in the next day or two, Obama will disown Malik Obama, just like Jeremiah Wright, Jim Johnson, etc., etc. "This is not the half-brother I knew."
Now, my response to Obama being raised a Muslim is basically "So what?" There's no religious test for the presidency - I'd be fine if he were still a Muslim.
But it does bother me that his campaign insists on lying about his background, claiming that "Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised as a Muslim, and is a committed Christian."
Now, why does the campaign insist on lying about this? No doubt because of their low opinion of the American people. To their mind, if the bitter-clingers out there knew that Obama were raised Muslim, the Bible-thumping, gun-toting rednecks who make up the country would be so outraged that Obama's chances of being president would be sunk. Note: I don't actually think this is the case, but Obama's campaign team is a group of elitists who look down their noses at average Americans.
Oh well, I'm sure that in the next day or two, Obama will disown Malik Obama, just like Jeremiah Wright, Jim Johnson, etc., etc. "This is not the half-brother I knew."
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