01-27-2007, 12:48 AM
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Originally Posted by daddyphatsacs
FWIW, most of this muslim [censored] is being cooked up the the right......typical.
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Anyone else see irony in the fact that Fox and NY Post were quick to jump on this story with little (if any) sources, when they lambasted the people who reported on Bush's National Guard story, or Rathergate? You can't have it both ways here fellas........
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A quick search reveals that this story was not broken recently. Obama's Muslim roots were revealed more than two years ago by lefty columnist Andy Martin. Here is Martin recently claiming credit for it (and bashing Obama just a bit in the process).
Two years ago I pointed out that Obama came from a Muslim family and that he misrepresented the impoverished origins of his father. No one wanted to pay attention to the facts or the truth. Except me. On December 5th Sweet wrote that Obama was not hiding his middle name, ?Hussein,? or his father?s religion. Obama may not have hidden it, but the media did. They didn?t want to bore voters with the facts about Mr. Obama.
Much has been made of Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to the U. S. House last month. Obama would be the first lapsed Muslim to run for president.
Of course Obama only plays the ?dad? card when it serves him. No mention of dad?s religion or the Hussein family name when the klieg lights are on. (Ellison, by the way, is a convert to Islam, just as Obama is a convert to Christianity. Or does Obama have his ?white? relatives to thank for that?)
I can't find his original post, but I did find a reproduction of it on Free Republic. They give Martin's e-mail address so maybe if you contact him he will send you the original.
"Fiction: Obama stated in his Convention speech: 'My father ... grew up herding goats.' The 'goat herder' claim has been repeated endlessly. It is a lie. Fact: Obama's grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama was a prominent and wealthy farmer. His son, Obama's father, was a child of privilege, not privation. He was an outstanding student, not a herdsman.
"Fiction: Obama was given an 'African' name. Fact: Obama is a Muslim who has concealed his religion. I am a strong supporter of the Muslim community, and I believe Muslims have been scapegoated. Obama has a great opportunity to be forthright. Instead, he has treated his Muslim heritage as a dark secret. His grandfather was named 'Hussein.' That is an Arabic-Muslim, not African, name. Hussein was a devout Muslim and named his son, Barack Senior, 'Baraka.' Baraka is an Arabic word meaning 'blessed.' Baraka comes out of the Koran and Arabic, not Africa.
"Barack Senior was also a devoted Muslim, and also chose a Muslim name for his son, our own Barack Obama, Junior. Again, his name was an Arabic and Koranic.
Obama has spent a lifetime running from his family heritage and religious heritage. Would his father have given his son a Koranic name if the father was not a devout Muslim? Obama's stepfather was also a Muslim. Obama will be the first Muslim-heritage senator; he should be proud of that fact. There is nothing to be ashamed of in any of the three great Abrahamic religions.
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