Cliff Kincaid
Obama's Muslim identity
By Cliff Kincaid
An ordinary citizen who identified President Barack Obama as a Muslim at a Donald Trump town hall meeting in New Hampshire showed that media brainwashing on the subject has been futile. The people understand that Obama asserts he is a Christian, but they just aren't buying it. Obama has done too many things to benefit Muslims to convince people that he is not one of them.
The latest example was extending an invitation to a Muslim student to come to the White House after he was detained for possessing what appeared to be a bomb. It turned out to be a clock that looked like a bomb.
Naturally, the Obama White House treated this as a case of so-called Islamophobia, when pictures of the device demonstrated that care should have been taken and law enforcement should have been called. Obama refuses to identify Islamic terrorism as Islamic terrorism, but is quick to jump to conclusions about the supposedly anti-Islamic character of the American people. This is the mark of someone who is either strongly sympathetic to Islam, or a Muslim himself.
Robert Spencer has written an excellent article about Ahmed Mohamed's suspicious-looking device and uncooperative behavior.
Our media are denouncing Trump for failing to "correct" the citizen who identified Obama as a Muslim. They flatly assert Obama is a Christian. The issue here is not Trump, but Obama.
We have corrected the record many times on this, but it seems that another explanation is warranted. Politicians can say anything about themselves, but it is up to the media to determine if those claims are true.
If Obama and his aides had a habit of telling the truth, the claim about Obama being a Christian might be assumed to be true. But as we have noted in the past, "Unfortunately for Obama and his backers, the same Obama campaign apparatus which claimed that he is a baptized Christian asserted that the mysterious 'Frank' in Obama's book, Dreams from My Father, was just a black civil rights activist. It turned out that 'Frank' was Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist Party member under surveillance by the FBI who served as a mentor for a young Obama in Hawaii."
So what reason is there to believe that Obama is a Christian just because he says so? He doesn't act or talk like a Christian, and he doesn't go to church very often. Instead, he acts and talks like a Muslim. Obama acknowledges in Dreams from My Father that his grandfather was a Muslim (page 104) and that he spent two years in a Muslim school in Indonesia studying the Koran (page 154).
There is no evidence Obama was baptized, in any formal sense, in Jeremiah Wright's church. What's more, there is no evidence that Obama ever specifically rejected Islam. Indeed, Obama could have joined Wright's church in Chicago without disavowing the Muslim faith. Author Edward Klein notes that Wright told him that he "made it comfortable" for Obama to accept Christianity "without having to renounce his Islamic background."
As we noted in a review of Klein's book, Wright was asked if he converted Obama from Islam to Christianity, and Wright said, "That's hard to tell. I think I convinced him that it was okay for him to make a choice in terms of who he believed Jesus is. And I told him it was really okay and not a putdown of the Muslim part of his family or his Muslim friends."
Obama's failure to attend church led us to label him "The Politician Without a Church." We noted that "if Obama claims to be a Christian, and the evidence suggests otherwise, it is a significant story. That's because his alleged Christianity was a factor in his 2008 and 2012 victories."
This is why it's significant that the American people still aren't buying the notion of Obama's alleged Christianity. People have recognized a truth about Obama that the Obama campaign, White House, and the media have tried their best to conceal.
"Trump doesn't challenge anti-Muslim questioner at event" is how CNN framed the controversy over the Trump event in New Hampshire. The questioner asserted that Obama is a Muslim and that Muslims want to kill Americans. Is that anti-Muslim?
The British Guardian ran the headline: "Donald Trump fails to correct questioner who calls Obama Muslim."
CBS News ran the story, "Trump declines to correct man who says Obama is Muslim."
If Obama had demonstrated his Christianity through actions and statements, and if there was indisputable evidence that he was baptized a Christian and rejected Islam, the media might have a point.
In this case, they do not. The behavior of the media is far more objectionable than a simple observation – based on the facts as he perceived them – from an American citizen about the American President.
The record is clear: Obama has lied about his Marxist and Muslim backgrounds. The American people have every right to be suspicious of him.
© Cliff Kincaid
September 19, 2015
An ordinary citizen who identified President Barack Obama as a Muslim at a Donald Trump town hall meeting in New Hampshire showed that media brainwashing on the subject has been futile. The people understand that Obama asserts he is a Christian, but they just aren't buying it. Obama has done too many things to benefit Muslims to convince people that he is not one of them.
The latest example was extending an invitation to a Muslim student to come to the White House after he was detained for possessing what appeared to be a bomb. It turned out to be a clock that looked like a bomb.
Naturally, the Obama White House treated this as a case of so-called Islamophobia, when pictures of the device demonstrated that care should have been taken and law enforcement should have been called. Obama refuses to identify Islamic terrorism as Islamic terrorism, but is quick to jump to conclusions about the supposedly anti-Islamic character of the American people. This is the mark of someone who is either strongly sympathetic to Islam, or a Muslim himself.
Robert Spencer has written an excellent article about Ahmed Mohamed's suspicious-looking device and uncooperative behavior.
Our media are denouncing Trump for failing to "correct" the citizen who identified Obama as a Muslim. They flatly assert Obama is a Christian. The issue here is not Trump, but Obama.
We have corrected the record many times on this, but it seems that another explanation is warranted. Politicians can say anything about themselves, but it is up to the media to determine if those claims are true.
If Obama and his aides had a habit of telling the truth, the claim about Obama being a Christian might be assumed to be true. But as we have noted in the past, "Unfortunately for Obama and his backers, the same Obama campaign apparatus which claimed that he is a baptized Christian asserted that the mysterious 'Frank' in Obama's book, Dreams from My Father, was just a black civil rights activist. It turned out that 'Frank' was Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist Party member under surveillance by the FBI who served as a mentor for a young Obama in Hawaii."
So what reason is there to believe that Obama is a Christian just because he says so? He doesn't act or talk like a Christian, and he doesn't go to church very often. Instead, he acts and talks like a Muslim. Obama acknowledges in Dreams from My Father that his grandfather was a Muslim (page 104) and that he spent two years in a Muslim school in Indonesia studying the Koran (page 154).
There is no evidence Obama was baptized, in any formal sense, in Jeremiah Wright's church. What's more, there is no evidence that Obama ever specifically rejected Islam. Indeed, Obama could have joined Wright's church in Chicago without disavowing the Muslim faith. Author Edward Klein notes that Wright told him that he "made it comfortable" for Obama to accept Christianity "without having to renounce his Islamic background."
As we noted in a review of Klein's book, Wright was asked if he converted Obama from Islam to Christianity, and Wright said, "That's hard to tell. I think I convinced him that it was okay for him to make a choice in terms of who he believed Jesus is. And I told him it was really okay and not a putdown of the Muslim part of his family or his Muslim friends."
Obama's failure to attend church led us to label him "The Politician Without a Church." We noted that "if Obama claims to be a Christian, and the evidence suggests otherwise, it is a significant story. That's because his alleged Christianity was a factor in his 2008 and 2012 victories."
This is why it's significant that the American people still aren't buying the notion of Obama's alleged Christianity. People have recognized a truth about Obama that the Obama campaign, White House, and the media have tried their best to conceal.
"Trump doesn't challenge anti-Muslim questioner at event" is how CNN framed the controversy over the Trump event in New Hampshire. The questioner asserted that Obama is a Muslim and that Muslims want to kill Americans. Is that anti-Muslim?
The British Guardian ran the headline: "Donald Trump fails to correct questioner who calls Obama Muslim."
CBS News ran the story, "Trump declines to correct man who says Obama is Muslim."
If Obama had demonstrated his Christianity through actions and statements, and if there was indisputable evidence that he was baptized a Christian and rejected Islam, the media might have a point.
In this case, they do not. The behavior of the media is far more objectionable than a simple observation – based on the facts as he perceived them – from an American citizen about the American President.
The record is clear: Obama has lied about his Marxist and Muslim backgrounds. The American people have every right to be suspicious of him.
© Cliff Kincaid
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