Barack Obama Sangat Populer di Dunia saat ini, bermuka Islam berhati Yesus !
Indonesia, the world's most populous Islamic-majority country, has seen an
upsurge of Islamic radicalism in the last few years. But during the 1960s, when
Obama lived here, the country was known for a brand of Islam more open to the
nonIslamic world than the austere versions preached in much of the Middle East.
Even in the Mideast, political Islam was far less influential in the 1960s than
it is today.
In his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," Obama briefly mentions Koranic
study and describes his public school, which accepted students of all
religions, as "a Muslim school."
"In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces
during Koranic studies," Obama wrote. "My mother wasn't overly concerned. 'Be
respectful,' she'd say. In the Catholic school, when it came time to pray, I
would close my eyes, then peek around the room. Nothing happened. No angels
descended. Just a parched old nun and 30 brown children, muttering words."
Obama was born in Honolulu. When he was 2, his father, Barack Hussein Obama
Sr., a Kenyan, and his Kansas-born mother, Ann Dunham, separated and later
divorced. Dunham later married Lolo Soetoro, who was a Muslim. In 1967, the
family moved to Jakarta, where Obama lived from ages 6 to 10. People there knew
him as Barry Soetoro.
Adi said he often visited the Soetoro family at their home, a small flat-roofed
bungalow at 16 Haji Ramli St. Today, he runs an Internet cafe and purified
water business from the same small Jakarta house where he grew up near Obama.
Theirs was a middle-class neighborhood, but Haji Ramli Street was a dirt lane
where Obama used to wile away the hours kicking a soccer ball. In the long
rainy season, it turned to thick, mucky soup; Obama and his friends wore
plastic bags over their shoes to walk though it, said Adi, who at 46 is the
same age as Obama.
Neighborhood Muslims worshiped in a nearby house, which has since been replaced
by a larger mosque. Sometimes, when the muezzin sounded the call to prayer,
Lolo and Barry would walk to the makeshift mosque together, Adi said.
"His mother often went to the church, but Barry was Muslim. He went to the
mosque," Adi said. "I remember him wearing a sarong."
In her statement, Obama's sister, who was born after the family moved to
Indonesia, said: "My father saw Islam as a way to connect with the community.
He never went to prayer services except for big communal events. I am
absolutely certain that my father did not go to services every Friday. He was
not religious."
In 1968, Obama began first grade at St. Francis Assisi Foundation School, just
around the corner from his home. Hai Rakyat Indonesia, dukunglah dalam doa
dan pujian :)))
Selma Voting Rights March CommemorationSelma, AL | March 04, 2007. This
young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets and came over to this
country. He met this woman whose great great-great-great-grandfather had owned
slaves; but she had a good idea there was some craziness going on because they
looked at each other and they decided that we know that the world as it has
been it might not be possible for us to get together and have a child. There
was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma,
Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got
together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim
on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home to Selma, Alabama. Thank
God, He's made us in His image and we reject the notion that we will for the
rest of our lives be confined to a station of inferiority, that we can't aspire
to the highest of heights, that our talents can't be
expressed to their fullest. And so because of what they endured, because of
what they marched; they led a people out of bondage.
They took them across the sea that folks thought could not be parted. They
wandered through a desert but always knowing that God was with them and that,
if they maintained that trust in God, that they would be all right. And it's
because they marched that the next generation hasn't been bloodied so much.
Keep in your heart the prayer of that journey, the prayer that God gave to
Joshua. Be strong and have courage in the face of injustice. Be strong and have
courage in the face of prejudice and hatred, in the face of joblessness and
helplessness and hopelessness. Be strong and have courage, brothers and
sisters, those who are gathered here today, in the face of our doubts and
fears, in the face of skepticism, in the face of cynicism, in the face of a
mighty river.
Be strong and have courage and let us cross over that Promised Land together.
Thank you so much everybody.
God bless you Obama and Indonesia !!!
Barack Obama mulai berkampanye dibelahan Negara bagian Amerika Serikat..lht
foto.
Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Barack Obama
greets supporters as he leaves a rally at Rancho Cienega Sports Complex.
(Myung J. Chun / LAT)
Feb 20, 2007
United States Senator Barack Obama is surrounded as he leaves.
(Myung J. Chun / LAT)
Feb 20, 2007
Nita Jones of Inglewood shows her Obama support during the
rally.
(Myung J. Chun / LAT)
Feb 20, 2007
Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Barack Obama
greets supporters during a rally at Rancho Cienega Sports Complex.
(Myung J. Chun / LAT)
Feb 20, 2007
Senator Barack Obama displays his oratory skills in his first
visit to Los Angeles.
(Myung J. Chun / LAT)
Feb 20, 2007
Democratic presidential candidate and United States Senator
Barack Obama makes a stop at a rally at Rancho Cienega Sports Complex in Los
Angeles, reaching out to African-American voters.
(Myung J. Chun / LAT)
Feb 20, 2007
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