Sen. Barack Obama “is lying” when he insists that he has never prayed in a mosque and was never a Muslim ...
Daniel Pipes, founder of the Middle East Forum think tank, says he fully accepts that Obama is a Christian now. But there is strong evidence that Obama received a Muslim upbringing during his years in Indonesia, Pipes said.
“It’s fine with me that he was a Muslim and a convert to Christianity,” Pipes told Newsmax. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal “is a convert from Hinduism. I have no problem with his conversion. What I have a problem with is that he’s lying” when he says he was never a Muslim.
Newsmax asked whether Pipes is alleging outright that Obama has lied about having a Muslim upbringing.
Pipes’ response: “The evidence suggests to me that he is lying, yes.”
Pipes told Newsmax, “It would start with the fact that his father was a Muslim — granted, not a practicing Muslim, but in the Muslim world, if your father is a Muslim, you’re a Muslim. His father named him Hussein, which is a name only given to Muslim babies. He went with his stepfather to a mosque. They celebrated certain Muslim holidays at the mosque together. He had knowledge of the Koran. He had knowledge of Muslim prayers. You put all this together, he was a Muslim.”
Yep, Hussein is a name never given to non-Muslims. Clearly this dude was an Islamic rabbi when he was named Hussein. But still those nasty violent conspirators plot and plan ...
Pipes said Barker’s story bolsters his position that Obama was raised as a Muslim while he lived in Indonesia. His accounts of Obama’s upbringing have received a “very severe reaction from the left” and threats from some Muslims, he said.
“The Islamists murmur and threaten,” Pipes said, declining to specify the threats he has received.
But despite allegedly receiving death threats, Pipes doesn't seem to have many people taking notice of his Allama Hussein bin Obama childhood experience?
The McCain campaign “has been very cautious about looking into Barack Obama at all,” said Pipes, adding that the GOP has demonstrated a general reluctance to raise questions about Obama’s past.
Daniel Pipes clearly has a point (pfft!). Muslims will all regard Pipes as an apostate.
“There is no doubt: It is a fact in Islam that the religion passes on through the father,” he told Newsmax. “And yet it’s denied as a falsehood by people who know better. They know better. It’s Islam 101.”
Pipes even has one academic supporting his view.
Supporting Pipes on that point is Shireen K. Burki, an adjunct professor of political science at the University of Mary Washington. Burki, who spent her childhood studying Islam at a school in Islamabad, Pakistan, has first-hand experience as the daughter of a Muslim father and a Christian mother.
Heck, Professor Burki surely is an expert. She studied Islam at school. In Islamabad. Now that's what I call expertise of the highest order!
And what do American Muslims think of Allama Obama? The following video shows a former Bush-supporter sharpening his sword and getting ready to put a jihad on Obama, the evil apostate. This video, from the Wahhabist jihadist Islamist extremist teerrorist fundamentalist Islamo-fascist al-Jazeera network, should be a warning to all aspiring ex-Muslim Presidential candidates!!
1 comment:
While Mr. Pipes' comments follow "a" stream of logic that "could" lead one to conclude that Obama was at one point a Muslim, his conclusions are not the only viable, logical conclusions.
Also, as Campbell Brown so eloquently stated, Islam and being Muslim or Arab should not be invoked as a racial smear.
Nevertheless, I would like to address a flaw in Mr. Pipes' logic. My mother is Lutheran and my father is Eastern Orthodox. While both are Christian, the two faiths could not be more different. In many ways they are confessionally opposed to one another. I was baptized and raised Lutheran. However, I attended EO worship services with my father and his family. I even attended EO children bible school. Our family celebrated certain EO holidays, particularly St. Nikolas Day (the patron saint of Serbia). When we visited my paternal grandparents, we celebrated both eastern and western Christmas. Does any of this make me Eastern Orthodox, I think not. Also, my middle name is Petra, a name that has Judaic roots, but that does not mean that I am Jewish.
Also, the idea that only Muslims have knowledge of the Qur'an or Muslim forms of worship is narrow minded at best. No, it is insulting to Muslims and non-Muslims alike. There are so many great sources on the interweb and in print about Islam. All you need is a desire to learn and some elementary research skills.
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