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To: LindyBill who wrote (379010)	8/19/2010 1:49:24 PM
From: J.B.C.	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794268

I was a little Jakarta street kid,” he said in a wide-ranging interview in his office [...]. He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them. Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

To: LindyBill who wrote (379010)	8/19/2010 2:00:23 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794268

The question becomes more interesting when you drill down. Is he a Trinitarian? This is not a angels on a pin doctrinal question. You give up the Trinity, there is essentially little of substance difference between Islam and what you have left of Christianity. At least nothing that can't be papered over.