Malik holds a photo of Obama and him in Muslim dress, reportedly when the two first met in 1985According to Israeli Insider, apparently the Obamas of Kenya have been reading those scurrilous emails to which Barack likes to refer, because they have no doubt — contrary to the claims of the Obama campaign, that the presidential candidate was raised a Muslim. They take that as a given.
As the Jerusalem Post reports, “Barack Obama’s half brother Malik said Thursday that if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background. In an interview with Army Radio he expressed a special salutation from the Obamas of Kenya.”
The Obama brothers’ father, a senior economist for the Kenyan government who studied at Harvard University, died in car crash in 1982. He left six sons and a daughter. All of his children – except Malik — live in Britain or the United States. Malik and Barack met in 1985.
In a remarkable denial issued last November that still stands on the official campaign website, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs issued a statement explaining that “Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised as a Muslim, and is a committed Christian.” Malik Obama, himself a Muslim, had not read the press release.
Melanie Phillips is the most recent commentator to draw attention to the massive body of evidence that leaves no doubt that Barak Hussein Obama was born a Muslim (Islam is patrilineal) and raised a Muslim (so registered in school, acknowledging attending Islamic classes, reported accompanying his step-father to the mosque, and able to recite the Koran in the original Arabic).
My position on this latest revelation from his family is to ask the question of why? He met this half-brother in 1985. How much could he have known about him? Didn’t his father leave his mother? This is nothing but a smear tactic by people who just don’t want to see Obama in the White House. To his brother, stop being a hater and be happy for your half-brother. I am sure that Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and many others will seize upon this information, but so what if he was a Muslim at some point, does that make him a bad person? The man said that he is not and it should be accepted as such. For the record, not every Muslim is a terrorist and it is simply not fair to judge this religion based on what a small percentage has done wrong. The same holds true for all other religions. Just my thought, you be the judge…..
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