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Add to FavoritesBarack Hussein Obama was born to Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (a black Muslim) from Kenya, and Ann Dunham from Kansas(a white atheist).
When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced and his father returned to Kenya. His mother married another Muslim man and moved to Jakarta, Indonesia with Obama. In Indonesia, Obama spent a few years in a Muslim religious school and is a learned muslim. Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim while admitting that he was once a Muslim, and playing down the importance of that issue by saying, for two years, he also attended a Catholic school.
During Obama's stay in Jakara, Indonesia, Obama studied in a Wahabi or Wasabi sect's school of Islam. if you looked at most of the 9/11 attackers, they are also followers of Wahabi (or Wasabi... however your pronounce it) sect teachings of Islam. In short, Wahabbism is the radical teaching that created the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad on the industrialized world. Obama's biological father's was a radical Muslim but it was his step-father that was a follower of Wahabi sect and introduced Obama to that radical sect as well.
Barack Hussein Obama has joined the United Church of Christ in an attempt to downplay his Muslim background but if you paid attention to details you would know that he is still a Muslim. The name itself is a Muslim name. All Muslim men, once they join a Islamic school of thought or is initiated into the mosque will be given a Muslim name. Obama in his case was given the Muslim name of "Barack Hussein Obama", pretty much like his father. His name s derived from Ali's son-Hussein Ibn Ali. His grandfather was named 'Hussein.' That is an Arabic-Muslim, not African, name. Barracks comes from Baraka, a Arab-Muslim name meaning "Blessed." Interestedly enough, the Muslim community sees Barack Hussein Obama as a fellow Muslim because his father was a Muslim and his step father as well.
During the DNC Convention in 2004, Obama lied about his father's religious denomination. He said his father was a non-practicing Christian while we know now that his father was really a Muslim. Why would he need to lie? Also, as a side note, his father was really involved in the Mau Mau terrorist movement after the British left Kenya, hence the reason he went back to Kenya.
He's half white but calls himself black. That, in my opinion, is reverse racism as he is implying racial messages by identifying himself as black and then calling for a "change" in the way presidents are elected. During the DNC Convention in 2004, Obama said 'My father ... grew up herding goats.' This statement was also proven to be false as his grand father was a wealthy land owner and his father was a well educated student.
And what about Obama's beloved "Kenyan brothers and sisters?" None of his family was invited to Boston to share his prominence and glory. Are his relatives being kept in the closet? Where are they? More secrecy, more prevarication.
Obama being caught with the turban on is a critical step in exposing where his alliances are. Recently, Obama has been moving more and more towards his father's heritage, and even admitted that in his latest book. Thus he was seen wearing a turban, both to identify with his father's culture and to fit in with his community, where is he seen as a Muslim in Kenya.
Obama, Osama, whats the real difference? Are the American people ready for an elected president who was educated in a Madrassa as a young boy and has not been forthcoming about his Muslim heritage? The fact remains that most of what we know of his history comes from the senator himself and much of his family and history has not been disclosed and remains shrouded in secrecy. If you got nothing to hide, why don't you come out and say it? That is the question Americans are asking Barack Hussein Obama.
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On Monday, February 25th., 2008, the Drudge Report, a web site dedicated to news and gossip, released a photo of Barack Obama, taken in Kenya, Africa, in 2006. In the picture, Mr. Obama is wearing a white turban and is dressed in traditional Muslim garments. They were presented to him by his Kenyan hosts, who encouraged him to try them on. Since his father was Kenyan, it would be understandable if Obama felt an affinity to the land and the people he was visiting on this occasion.
Drudge claimed the photo came to him from staffers in the Clinton campaign. Spokespersons for Hillary Clinton denied any knowledge of the action, and said if it came from any of their number, it was done entirely without Mrs. Clinton's consent or that of any of her senior staff.
Lately there has been speculation that the photo may have come from Republicans, who would like to further divide the two front-running Democratic candidates. A coalition ticket of Obama-Clinton would be almost unbeatable. The leading Republican candidate, John McCain, would surely have an uphill battle against such a dynamic duo.
Regardless of where the photo originated, it is unlikely to exert a negative influence on Obama's chances to attain the Democratic nomination. He is presently leading Mrs. Clinton and polls indicate he is likely to maintain the momentum that has been building in his favor.
Voters realize that every politician visiting a foreign land wears native garb when invited to do so. It is an act of courtesy. Mrs. Clinton herself often donned the traditional costumes of lands she visited when she traveled as First Lady with her husband, President
Bill Clinton.
Very few voters will be adversely influenced by the sight of Obama in a turban. Had it not been for the radical terrorists who planned and carried out the tragedy on 9/11, that photo would already have been lost in the annuls of history. It would have been no more noted than one of an Irishman wearing a shamrock.
Americans frown on dirty politics. If it is proven that the Clinton campaign was responsible for disseminating the photograph, the tactic may well boomerang and drive the final nail into the casket of Hillary's fading presidential aspirations.
On the other hand, if the photo came from the Republicans, it would show the extent of their desperation, and indicate the probable success of a coalition Obama-Clinton ticket. In either case, Barack Obama would only stand to benefit by picture's dissemination.
The majority of the American people are intelligent, tolerant, eager for change in political policy and anxious to see a fresh face in the White House. Barack Obama is the candidate best suited to fulfill these expectations. It will take much more than a two-year-old picture, in which he renders a common courtesy to hosts in a foreign land, to slow the momentum of his successful campaign. His opponents will have to come up with a better ruse than that if they hope to derail his one-way, express trip to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.
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