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Date: January 20, 2007 3:05:29 AM PST
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Subject: GOP "Swiftboats" Democrat Barack Osama --er, OBAMA-- as a
"Muslim Terrorist"
BLOG | Posted 01/19/2007 @ 4:37pm
Smearing Barack Obama
Christopher Hayes
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=158928
Today a friend forwarded me an e-mail that a friend of his had
received with the subject "Let Us Remain Alert!" the contents of
which are below:
Probable U. S. presidential candidate, Barack Hussein Obama was
born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a black
Muslim from Nyangoma-Kogel, Kenya and Ann Dunham, a white atheist
from Wichita, Kansas.
Obama's parents met at the University of Hawaii.
When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced. His father
returned to Kenya. His mother then married Lolo Soetoro, a radical
Muslim from Indonesia. When Obama was 6 years old, the family
relocated to Indonesia.
Obama attended a Muslim school in Jakarta. He also spent two years
in a Catholic school.
Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim. He
is quick to point out that, he was once a Muslim, but that he also
attended Catholic school.
Obama's political handlers are attempting to make it appear that
Obama's introduction to Islam came via his father, and that this
influence was temporary at best. In reality, the senior Obama
returned to Kenya soon after the divorce, and never again had any
direct influence over his son's education. Lolo Soetoro, the second
husband of Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, introduced his stepson to
Islam. Osama [sic--yes, they slipped that in there too] was
enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta. Wahabism is the radical
teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now
waging Jihad against the western world.
Since it is politically expedient to be a Christian when seeking
major public office in the United States, Barack Hussein Obama has
joined the United Church of Christ in an attempt to downplay his
Muslim background.
Let us all remain alert concerning Obama's expected presidential
candidacy.
Now I see via Atrios, that Fox News has elevated this smear to
national television. It seems as a child in Indonesia Obama
attended a Muslim school for two years (otherwise known as a
madrassa), so obviously he's a latter-day Manchurian candidate
brainwashed and programmed at the age of 7 to grow up to be a
gifted orator, run for President and immediately replace the
Constitution with Sharia. Seriously. (Incidentally, not that this
really deserves a response, but it wasn't a Wahhabi school.)
On a related note, it's really bothered me that the word "madrassa"
has become synonymous with "terrorist training school." A madrassa
is just a Muslim religious school, like a yeshiva or a Catholic
school. Jeffrey Goldberg had a typically hyperventilating piece
about Wahhabi madrassas in Pakistan a few years back, which I think
was what prompted the madrassa freak-out, but as Peter Bergen and
Swati Pandey pointed out in the Times two years ago, there's
absolutely no correlation between madrassa education and terrorism.
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