Pew poll: 18% think Obama is a Muslim

Yeah, not something to trumpet. I’ll bet half of them think he’s somehow an atheist too.Allahpundit on August 19, 2010 at 9:10 PM

I would say that intellectually he is an atheist and emotionally a Muslim. This is hardly surprising as most people are emotionally attached to the religion they were introduced to at a young age.

None of us knows but it’s understandable that so many think he is a Muslim given his track record and not just including his support for the Victory Mosque on the ashes of the innocents massacred in the name of Islam, but also his refusal to acknowledge Muslim extremism and that he attributed Chinese inventions to Muslims, gave Muslims credit for the work of Irish Monks and outrageously claims that Muslims have always been contributors to American life.

What gets me AP is that you are so certain of something of which you have no knowledge.

Your comment: stupid is the stupidest comment that will appear on this thread.

Basilsbest on August 19, 2010 at 9:45 PM

The 18% figure is depressed by deliberate incompetence from the leftist media and squishiness from self-styled right. How many of you know what I’ve posted below?

http://kerfuffles.blogspot.com/2010/07/obama-odinga-campaign-in-kenya.html

Pres. Obama seems ambivalent about the father he hardly knew, but he has effusively praised Obama Sr.’s academic accomplishments in economics and what he euphemistically calls the “promise” his father had to fulfill to Africa. That “promise” was Marxism – that was Obama Sr.’s ideology.

Odinga’s son, Raila Odinga, is a committed communist – so much so that he named one of his sons after Fidel Castro. … Odinga was also complicit in a plot to overthrow Daniel arap Moi, Kenyatta’s pro-American successor, in a violent coup in 1982 – for which he spent eight years in prison. In the insidious world of African politics, this did not disqualify him for future advancement. Odinga became energy minister in 2001, which enabled him to strike very lucrative personal arrangements with Colonel Gaddafi in Libya and with Sheikh Abdukeder al-Bakari of the Al Bakari oil dynasty in Saudi Arabia. By the way, al-Bakari’s name appears on the “golden chain” list of wealthy donors to Osama bin Laden during the Afghan mujahideen’s jihad against the Soviets. (The list was seized from an al Qaeda safehouse during a 2002 raid in Sarajevo.)

Notwithstanding this history, when Raila Odinga decided to run for president in 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama – who did very little in America during his brief stint in the senate – spent six days in Kenya campaigning for and with Odinga. During their barnstorming, Obama lambasted the incumbent, pro-American government as corrupt and in need of … wait for it … Change.

It later emerged that Odinga had made a deal with Kenya’s Islamist faction (a turbulent minority) to impose sharia law and Islamic courts if he won the election. He lost the election and (surprise!) the Islamists revolted.

This plunged Kenya into chaos, with thousands displaced and many killed. Odinga capitalized on the violence, and on his close relationship with Obama, to extort the Kenyan government into creating a powerful position for him: prime minister, an office no one had held in Kenya since Kenyatta occupied it in the brief transitional phase before he became president of the new republic.

If this had received one tenth of the attention from our incompetent media – left and right – as Palin’s linguistic idiosyncrasies that 18% would triple.

Basilsbest on August 19, 2010 at 10:36 PM