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‘I Am Not a Muslim’: Obama Woos the Jews

February 27, 2008 - 8:01 am - by Allison Kaplan Sommer
pt bridgeport
2008-02-28 21:00:37

“In fact, he was born Muslim, under Sharia”?

The slightest bit of due diligence would inform you that Obama was born in Hawaii. In your crazy conspiracy-dominated world, no doubt Hawaii has been under Sharia law for the last forty odd years. But in the real world, it hasn’t. In the real world, Obama was never a Muslim. In the real world, for that matter, his father was not a practicing Muslim.

And he was brought up by his secular American mother and his American grandparents. He never had any contact with his father during which your fantasized teaching of “Islamic tenets and rituals” could have taken place.

He doesn’t claim special “inside” understanding. He claims a familiarity with Islamic culture, from having spent a number of his formative years in Indonesia, a secular (read, no Sharia law) society which is majority Muslim. Perhaps you could call that a special “alongside” understanding.

This is all widely available in the public record. You could educate yourself if you cared to. But you obviously prefer feeling superior because you have “educated” yourself from spammed anonymous emails.