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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nicholas Thompson who wrote (126114)	6/10/2008 11:45:06 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 173976

On March 14th, 2007, the Obama Campaign told the LA Times that Obama was not a "practicing Muslim." But Muslims do not see practice as key. For them, that Obama was born to a line of Muslim males makes him born a Muslim. Further, all children born with an Arabic name based on the H-S-N trilateral root can be assumed to be Muslim, so they will understand Obama's full name, Barack Hussein Obama, to proclaim him a born Muslim. Obama's father was a Muslim. Obama's grandfather was a Muslim. Obama's stepfather was a Muslim. Sarah, who Obama calls grandmother is a Muslim. Obama's stepbrothers and stepsisters are Muslims. Obama's sister Maya was quoted by the New York Times as saying, "My whole family was Muslim." For a time, he was educated and lived as a Muslim. Only Obama knows what he is today. But his official website says: "Obama Has Never Been A Muslim, And Is a Committed Christian." This is the basic problem with Obama -- his dissimulation. What follows is what is publicly known about Obama and religion. Riddle me this: What's the difference between Osama ben Laden's religious mentor and Barack Hussein Obama's religious mentor? Ben Laden's religious mentor says "Allah damn America!" 1960 Obama's mother Anna is often reported as being an atheist. Her parents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham, were Baptists. While living in Mercer Island, Washington, during the 1950's, Madelyn and Stanley shed their Methodist and Baptist upbringing and began attending, along with Anna, Sunday services at the East Shore Unitarian Church in nearby Bellevue. Obama Senior was a Muslim, as was his extended family. Although Obama Senior was not a practicing Muslim, he was buried in Muslim rites. 1968 After Anna's divorce from Barack Senior, she marries Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo. Anna will have a daughter with Lolo, named Maya. Soetoro is also a Muslim and promptly moved his new family to Jakarta, Indonesia, the worlds most populous Muslim country. 1971 All Indonesian students are required to study religion at school and a young Barry Soetoro, being a Muslim, would have been required to study Islam daily in school. He would have been taught to read and write Arabic, to recite his prayers properly, to read and recite from the Quran and to study the laws of Islam. In his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," Obama mentions studying the Quran and describes the public school as "a Muslim school." According to Tine Hahiyary, one of Obama's teachers and the principal from 1971 through 1989, Barry actively took part in the Islamic religious lessons during his time at the school. His teacher was named Maimunah and she lived in the Puncak area, the Cianjur Regency. "I remembered that he had studied "mengaji" (recitation of the Quran)" Tine said. Obama himself recalls, "In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell mother I made faces during Koranic studies."