I’m British and as you probably know the BBC is going sickeningly doolally over the man. It is by now classic and a symbol of how far the left has been hijacked by no brain ideologues who just love to shove the p.c. ideology in your face. They did it with Arafat and Barbara Plett a BBC reporter actually wept on camera as she reported the news of his death. So much for licence fee impartiality? My point is that they are now stating categorically that Obama is not a Muslim with no corroboration. In a programme on how the internet is now a prime mover in this election they talk of ‘Republican attack dogs’ (is their bias showing you may well ask) talking of his Islamic background as if the that truth is too much for them to stomach. Obama is not a Muslim is the definitive mantra but he did have a madrassa education, his father is a Muslim and he is pictured in Muslim garb. So according to Islamic law if your Father is one of the faith so are you. That makes him at least an appostate which Al-beeb mendaciously skirts around as if we are all idiots.

Here’s a bit of illumination

http://www.danielpipes.org/article/5286

‘Obama’s mother, divorced from Obama’s father, married a man from Indonesia named Lolo Soetoro, and the family relocated to the country from 1967-71. At first, Obama attended the Catholic school, Fransiskus Assisis, where documents showed he enrolled as a Muslim, the religion of his stepfather. The document required that each student choose one of five state-sanctioned religions when registering – Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic or Protestant.

Asked about this, Obama communications director Robert Gibbs responded by indicating to Pickler that

he wasn’t sure why the document had Obama listed as a Muslim. “Senator Obama has never been a Muslim.”

Two months later, Paul Watson of the Los Angeles Times (available online in a Baltimore Sun reprint) reported that the Obama campaign had retreated from that absolute statement and instead issued a more nuanced one: “Obama has never been a practicing Muslim.” The Times looked into the matter further and learned more about his Indonesian interlude:

His former Roman Catholic and Muslim teachers, along with two people who were identified by Obama’s grade-school teacher as childhood friends, say Obama was registered by his family as a Muslim at both schools he attended. That registration meant that during the third and fourth grades, Obama learned about Islam for two hours each week in religion class.

The childhood friends say Obama sometimes went to Friday prayers at the local mosque. “We prayed but not really seriously, just following actions done by older people in the mosque. But as kids, we loved to meet our friends and went to the mosque together and played,” said Zulfin Adi. … Obama’s younger sister, Maya Soetoro, said in a statement released by the campaign that the family attended the mosque only “for big communal events,” not every Friday.’

So not so clear cut as Al-beeb would have us believe.