No, I cannot prove that Barack Obama
is a Muslim, but a review of his public life from the days he was campaigning to
be an Illinois Senator through his years as President have raised a lot of
questions, including a notable slip of the tongue during a television interview
when he referred to himself as a Muslim.
During an interview with George
Stephanopoulus, Obama said “John McCain has not talked
about my Muslim faith” and Stephanopoulus, a former member of the Clinton
administration, was quick to suggest to Obama that he meant to say his
“Christian faith.”
Oops.
Not that Obama has made a secret of
the fact that his father was a Muslim or that his step-father was as well. In
his youth when Obama lived in Indonesia he attended a Muslim madras, a school
devoted to the faith. He has referred to the Muslim call to prayer as “one of
the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.” Indeed, he has recited its opening
lines with a perfect Arabic accent saying “Allah is supreme…I witness that there
is no god but Allah…”
Obama surprised a lot of people when
in London on April 9, 2009 he bowed deeply to the Saudi monarch, regarded as the
protector of Mecca and Medina, Islam’s two holy cities. No President had ever
bowed in that manner to a foreign potentate.
Observers have pointed out that his
wife, Michelle, does not accompany him to Muslim nations because Sharia law
would require her to wear a head covering as the wife of a Muslim man in a
Muslim nation. Others have noted that Muslims are forbidden to wear jewelry
during Ramadan and during that Islamic holy month he has never been seen wearing
his wedding ring or watch.
Obama did not travel to Israel during
his first term as President. It was not until March 2013 that he visited Israel
and he has consistently displayed a lack of sympathy, if not enmity, toward
Israel during both terms, opposing the construction of Israeli housing and
suggesting it return to its 1967 borders, echoing the complaints and demands of
Palestinians and others.
It is true that Obama attended a
Chicago church led by Rev. Jeremiah Wright who, in an interview, said that Obama
“was steeped in Islam when he first met him” and that he “made it comfortable “
for Obama to accept Christianity without have to renounce his Islamic
background. When Rev. Wright and his church became controversial in 2008, Obama
publicly left it. Joining the church was, in his words, related to the fact that
he was doing community organizing, often in Chicago churches, thus making a
church membership a useful attribute.
If there is a baptism certificate for
Obama, it remains sealed from public view along with many comparable documents
such as a certified copy of his original birth certificate. The one put forth by
the White House has been debunked as a fraud by many document
experts.
An Associated Press article was
published on June 27, 2004 in the Kenyan Standard Times reporting that
“Kenyan-born U.S. Senate hopeful, Barack Obama, appeared set to take over the
Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on
Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.” During and after the
campaign Obama did not deny having been born in Kenya until August 28, 2006 when
his staff began to say he was born in Hawaii.
Allen
B.West, a former member of Congress and a columnist, has written ”President
Obama just cannot bring himself to say Islamist, jihadist, Islamic terrorism —
nothing. It is still this Obama administration which classifies the Islamic
jihadist attack at Ft. Hood Texas, and the barbaric beheading of an American
woman in Moore Oklahoma, both as “workplace
violence.”
The events in France, the beheadings
of Americans by the Islamic State, and comparable events have begun to arouse
interest and concern over whether the President is in fact a Muslim.
There is an Islamic doctrine known as
“taqiyya” that permits Muslims to deny they are Muslim if it would be dangerous
not to or to knowingly deceive infidels.
Despite the two wars, Iraq and
Afghanistan, in which the U.S. has sacrificed lives and money, Obama has pursued
a policy of withdrawing our military presence, despite the fact that we have
maintained our presence, for example, in South Korea since the 1950s and in
Europe from the end of World War II. The result of the withdrawal from Iraq gave
rise to the Islamic State and it is feared that a similar Taliban insurgency
will begin as Afghanistan is left with too few military assets.
Has it been lost on anyone that
releasing terrorist prisoners, taken on the battlefield, from Guantanamo has
resulted in an estimated third of them returning to the battlefield? He returned
five top terrorist leaders from Afghanistan in return for an American soldier
deemed to have been a deserter. He has made no secret of his desire to close
down the facility.
I hope that future historians don’t
look back at our present time and conclude it was the worst of times to have a
President so ardently devoted to Islam or a legion of other world leaders and
media folk who refuse to identify the enemy as Muslim terrorists.
No other American President has ever
been so partial to Islam and Muslims as Obama and it is not beyond the reach of
logic or the imagination that he too is a Muslim.
© Alan Caruba, 2015
2 comments:
"Not that Obama has made a secret of the fact that his father was a Muslim..."
If that's the case, he's a muslim. No further clarification needed.
I certainly agree that obola is a kenya born muslim.
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