Obama "is a Muslim,"..........

This statement is so not true. This has been going around for so long and is used as a scare tactic to get people to vote for McCain.

Sliming Obama
January 10, 2008
Dueling chain e-mails claim he's a radical Muslim or a 'racist' Christian. Both can't be right. We find both are false.
Summary
If these two nasty e-mail messages are any indication, the 2008 presidential campaign is becoming a very dirty one.

One claims that Obama is "certainly a racist" by virtue of belonging to Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, which it says "will accept only black parishoners" and espouses a commitment to Africa. Actually, a white theology professor says he's been "welcomed enthusiastically" at the church, as have other non-blacks.

Another e-mail claims that Obama "is a Muslim," attended a "Wahabi" school in Indonesia, took his Senate oath on the Koran, refuses to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and is part of an Islamic plot to take over the U.S. Each of these statements is false.

These false appeals to bigotry and fear remind us of the infamous whispering campaign of eight years ago, when anonymous messages just before the South Carolina primary falsely accused Republican candidate John McCain of fathering an illegitimate child by a black woman.

Read more here:
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/sliming_obama.html



Who Is Barack Obama?

Claim: Illinois senator Barack Obama is a "radical Muslim" who "will not recite the Pledge of Allegiance."

Status: False.

Example: [Collected via e-mail, January 2008]

If you do not ever forward anything else, please forward this to all your contacts...this is very scary to think of what lies ahead of us here in our own United States...better heed this and pray about it and share it.

Who is Barack Obama?

Probable U. S. presidential candidate, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a black MUSLIM from Nyangoma-Kogel, Kenya and Ann Dunham, a white ATHEIST from Wichita, Kansas. Obama's parents met at the University of Hawaii.

When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced. His father returned to Kenya . His
mother then married Lolo Soetoro, a RADICAL Muslim from Indonesia. When Obama was 6 years old, the family relocated to Indonesia . Obama attended a MUSLIM school in Jakarta . He also spent two years in a Catholic school.

Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim. He is quick to point out that, "He was once a Muslim, but that he also attended Catholic school." Obama's political handlers are attempting to make it appear that he is not a radical.

Barack Obama has an unusual and interesting background, which the above-quoted piece draws on to paint him as a dangerous, camouflaged radical Muslim. Much of the information presented therein about his background is distorted and exaggerated, however, and no evidence supports a claim that Obama is currently, or ever has been, a Muslim (radical or otherwise).


The truth:


Barack Obama has an unusual and interesting background, which the above-quoted piece draws on to paint him as a dangerous, camouflaged radical Muslim. Much of the information presented therein about his background is distorted and exaggerated, however, and no evidence supports a claim that Obama is currently, or ever has been, a Muslim (radical or otherwise).

Claim: Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a black MUSLIM from Nyangoma-Kogel, Kenya and Ann Dunh am, a white ATHEIST from Wichita, Kansas. Obama's parents met at the University of Hawaii.

Barack Hussein Obama (Senator Obama's father) was born on the shores of Lake Victoria in Alego, Kenya. He met and married an American woman, Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas, while they were both attending the University of Hawaii. Their son, also named Barack Hussein Obama was born on 4 August 1961 at the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Although the elder Obama was raised as a Muslim, no evidence supports the claim that he was ever a "radical Muslim," and Senator Obama's family histories note that his father was an atheist or agnostic (i.e., no longer a practicing Muslim) by the time he married the younger Obama's mother.

Read more here:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp

Barack Obama is NOT a Muslim!

Let this lie die!!!

CNN debunks false report about Obama
POSTED: 2:01 a.m. EST, January 23, 2007

JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- Allegations that Sen. Barack Obama was educated in a radical Muslim school known as a "madrassa" are not accurate, according to CNN reporting.

Insight Magazine, which is owned by the same company as The Washington Times, reported on its Web site last week that associates of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, had unearthed information the Illinois Democrat and likely presidential candidate attended a Muslim religious school known for teaching the most fundamentalist form of Islam.

Obama lived in Indonesia as a child, from 1967 to 1971, with his mother and stepfather and has acknowledged attending a Muslim school, but an aide said it was not a madrassa.

Read more here:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/22/obama.madrassa/

Hillary Clinton brought this up and she lost her bid for president.

What will it take for people to realise it's NOT true?

You would think that they would know that by now.

Heavy sigh.

that's all I hear when I leave the house
I think I'll stop talking to people until after the election

Unfortunately, the people who believe this kind of stuff are ones that will never listen to reason. Never listen to what's actually true.

That is unfortunate

John McCain has been getting upset about his people saying this but I know for a fact they have been saying this all year. Where was McCain all of this time? Is he deaf and blind?

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp

read for yourself

Obama did says that he visited the 57 states, Is he talking about the 57 states of Islam. Hmmmmmmm

And there is my OOOOPS thread, where he was talking to George and said "My Muslim faith"......

Perhaps you should read the link someone posted above?

Who cares what religion he is...

A non radical muslim has roughly the same values as a NON RADICAL christian...

I ain't worried about his religion as much as his NANCY based TAX POLICIES...

He got so many people expecting a hand out...

Shame that so many people are as greedy as the Fat Cat's in the wall and on the Hill.

Promise them money and they forget who has to pay for it...

Reckon our grand children will spit on our graves...?

Hmmm...no empathy or altruism.

anyone who thinks obama is a muslim is an ignorant person.

And sad, my friend.

Anyone who cares what religion another is has a bit of an ignorance problem.

What color is YOUR soul?

I would say uninformed, not ignorant

I would say uninformed, not ignorant

Being ignorant is having the lack of knowledge, education, or awareness.

You know McCain campaigners are working overtime to instill fear into us. It is a war and a terrorist tactic. All the bad news he is spreading, alone should make anyone reconsider voting for him. I don't see Obama going psycho like McCain. He is taking this all in stride and with great character. I personally am for Ron Paul, but I will stand up for Obama because he really is a good human being. But whatever the outcome of this election, I know it is not going to be good. We live in a racist America, who is still not ready for an African American president, no matter how good he may be. I worry about Obama in this respect. There are many members of KKK around and I fear they will harm him. As far as McCain is, he is corrupt and old. If he dies we are left in the hands of Sarah Palin who doesn't know her head from her ass.

I totally agree. When watching the debates, I noticed how Obama always maintained his composure and McCain did not.
Obama handled himself like a Presidential candidate. He still does.

I think it's horrible what is being said at McCain's and Palin's rallys.

Don't get me started about bimbo Palin.

I like your post.