If fraud involves making deceitful pretenses, how’s this?
November 27th 2007 on Barack Obama’s website….
I am not and have never been a Muslim… and … I have never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, I have never prayed in a mosque and I am a committed Christian… and … I have always been a Christian, I’ve never practiced Islam.
Now don’t get me wrong. The particulars below are NOT about what faith Obama professed or was brought up in as a child, or his religion, now or in the past. It is about the worrying fact that he HAS NOT TOLD THE TRUTH about his early background and that this concealment is the issue that should be a matter of public interest along with the padding of his résumé.
There are many discrepancies in the accounts of his early life — including his own accounts — plus his many questionable associations.
He was schooled in Indonesia as a Muslim; he attended the mosque regularly during that period; his friends from that time testify that he was a devout Muslim boy. A former teacher Tine Hahiyary, is on record stating that a young Obama was religious and actively took part in ‘mengaji’ classes which teach how to read the Koran in Arabic.
His half-brother Abongo ‘Roy’ Obama is a Luo activist in Kenya and a militant Muslim who argues that the black man must ‘liberate himself from the poisoning influences of European culture’ and repeatedly urges Barack to embrace his African Muslim heritage.
Nick Kristof wrote in a deeply respectful article in the New York Times. Quote:
He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them. Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as ‘one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.
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Malik, Obama’s tall bespectacled bother: “Obama would be a good President for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background”.
Muamar Qaddafi speaking on Al Jazeera TV last month: There are elections in America now. Along came a citizen of Kenyan African origins. A Muslim, who had studied in an Islamic school in Indonesia. His name is Obama. All the people in the Arab and Islamic world and in Africa applauded this man. They welcomed him and prayed for his success and they may have even been involved in legitimate contribution campaigns to enable him to win the American presidency.
And how about those close to him?
Pastor Jeremiah Wright was himself a Muslim convert to Christianity perhaps explaining his close affinity to the Muslim black power ideologue Louis Farrakhan.
Tony Rezko, a major supporter of Obama and contributor to his cause – was lent millions of dollars by Nadhmi Auchi, who had connections with Saddam Hussein and who was convicted for corruption in France just weeks before Obama’s ‘bone-headed’ land deal.
Rezko also connections with the Nation of Islam. Reszko, born in Syria, was a business associate of Jabir Herbert Muhammad, the son of the founder of the Nation of Islam, (Rezko was bailed from jail by Ali Baghdadi, the ‘Middle East adviser’ to the Nation of Islam).
When coupled with Ms. Rubin’s piece, surely we need to know and understand why Obama has sought to obfuscate his early background; why he has so many indirect associations with radical Islamism; and whether these two questions are in some way related? Anyone who doesn’t think all this cries out for proper investigation is either a fool or a knave.
