1 of 4 Americans Believe Obama Is Muslim; Less Than 50% Believe He Is Christian
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, August 19, 2010, 7:27 AM
Oh, come on people…
We’ve all seen sermons by his pastor-mentor:
How can you possibly believe that he is not Christian?
One in four Americans believe Barack Obama is Muslim. Less than half of Americans were persuaded that his attendance at a wack-a-doodle church for 20 years would qualify him as a Christian.
TIME reported:
Opponents of the planned Islamic community center and mosque near Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan have public opinion firmly in their corner. According to a new TIME poll, 61% of respondents oppose the construction of the Park51/Cordoba House project, compared to 26% who support it. More than 70% concur with the premise that proceeding with the plan would be an insult to the victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center…
…Twenty-eight percent of voters do not believe Muslims should be eligible to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court. Nearly one third of the country thinks adherents of Islam should be barred from running for President — slightly higher than the 24% who mistakenly believe that the current occupant of the Oval Office is himself a Muslim. In all, just 47% of respondents believe Obama is a Christian; 24% declined to respond to the question or said they were unsure, and 5% believe he is neither Christian nor Muslim.
Of course, to be fair… Many Muslim leaders believe Obama is a Muslim, too.
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theBuckWheat commented:
I opened news.google.com early this morning to find
this story tops all the news. Surprisingly (or maybe not so surprisingly)
is that in the mind of news editors around the country, this story is more
important than news about the withdrawal of US combat forces from Iraq.
(1,484 stories v 1,176 stories)
Stories like this one and how they are framed by the MSM are more
interesting for what they tell us far more about their worldview and
thinking than for the story they purport to be covering. What could be the
common motivation theme at work in the decision to rank this issue at the
top? I think because it is more of a threat to liberal power than Iraq now
is, and liberalism is all about power.
I also want to point out that the AFP, in covering the story, could not wait
to set the rubes straight in how it started out. In saying that “one in
five Americans mistakenly believe”, are they telling us the poll question
was “Do you mistakenly believe Obama is a Muslim? (Yes/No)”, or are they
saying the question was “Do you believe Obama is a Muslim despite all the
stories we write to assure you he isn’t? (Yes/No)”, or are they saying that
it is sound reporting to poll for opinion and then pronounce that opinion
wrong as the basis for covering the topic? Maybe the question was “Obama a
Muslim? Who are you going to believe, your lying eyes or what the news
media assures your cannot possibly be the case? (Yes/No)”
This story is so revelatory, and what it helps our lying eyes to see more
clearly ain’t pretty.
Granny commented:
The most telling sentence of this wad of clap-trap purporting to be a “scientific survey” is this -
QUOTE … slightly higher than the 24% who mistakenly believe that the current occupant of the Oval Office is himself a Muslim. ENDQUOTE
Note that MISTAKENLY word in there. That one word tells anyone who knows anything at all about constructing surveys & polls that this is nothing more than the bankrupt Times carrying water for The Won.
Mistakenly according to just exactly who, Times?
StandUp4Chuck commented:
I am one of the 25%. Though I believe that number is higher. Regardless if he is one or not, hes still a commie and needs to be impeached now!
srhoades commented:
I think he’s an Obamaslim, he worships himself. Or maybe a Michelleslim, subservient to his wife. Basically he’s a narcissistic eunuch.
Neo commented:
Obama is an agnostic. It’s what his mother taught him.
That whole Trinity Church thing was merely to get a sense of the “Black Experience” and gain some “street cred” .. nothing more.
Neo commented:
Bush went to church periodically. So did Clinton, carrying his Bible.
Is there any record of Obama going to church, temple or any kind of place of worship that wasn’t an “official function” or “campaign event” ?
Neo commented:
It was said that this past Christmas, there wouldn’t have been any celebration at the White House if it hadn’t been for the former White House social secretaries.
Rachelle commented:
You never know what is in the mind of a liar like Pres. Zero, but I suspect he is a Muslim. He was raised as one in his formative years. The degenerate man whom he calls his father was a Muslim. He has slipped up and referred to his Muslim faith once or twice.
On the other hand, 0 seems mostly to worship himself. Who knows with the Great Cipher?
oldguy commented:
Muslim? No; he’s a front-man for “Bloomberg Jews”(tip of the hat for a previous commenter).
Kevin P commented:
Time magazine – irrelevant.
I happened to see a Newsweek sitting in an office yesterday – I was surprised at how SMALL it was! My gosh – I think the old “Highlights” magazine from grade school had more pages!
Kevin P commented:
Come to think of it – might as well just read Karl Marx’s “the Communist Manifesto” – Time, Newseek et. al. simply regurgitate what was written by old Karl Marx.
At least Groucho was funny.
jomojava the infidel commented:
Sultan al-Bama is all about anything totalitarian – whether it is Marxism, socialism, islam….doesn’t matter.
Just vehicles to satisfy the dictatorial desires of his dark heart.
dfbaskwill commented:
“Christian” really has to have a very broad definition to include BHO. And I have quite a liberal view of Christianity. (At least what “liberal” used to mean.)
Andrew commented:
He’s a heathen, like a lot of Democrats in DC.
Opus #6 commented:
Bottom line is, whether he is muslim or not, would not change his behavior in office.
Blue Collar Todd commented:
No Christian would support the things that President Obama advocates like the gay rights agenda. A society that accepts and a State that promotes homosexuality is not going tolerate Christians holding firm to their convictions about the sinfulness of homosexuality. Who is up for some re-education?
Pinkie French commented:
Black Liberation Theology is not Christianity. 20 years of Rev Wright, the mosques he attended in Indonesia…. He is definitely a Marxist. It is also profoundly clear, he has darkness in his heart for the American way of life. HE was taught to be bitter by more then just Rev Write and the Mullahs/Imams… Frank Marshall Davis comes to mind as well.
Badnewzbearz commented:
Count me in the “don’t know” category. I’m not convinced he has a prayer rug in the oval office, but I do think his sympathies lie in that direction, given his background, how he was raised, and things he has done and said since taking office.
I’m sorry, but walking down the aisle one day in Rev. Wright’s liberation theology church just doesn’t convince me he’s a Christian in his heart.
ahem commented:
Would you believe it if you heard it out of his own mouth? http://tinyurl.com/479ekj
Seriously commented:
“incorrectly” or “mistakenly”… they are all putting it in their articles. Isn’t that opinion, not fact?? Not saying that he is muslim, but sure doesn’t act like any Christian that I’ve known.
-Backs the muslim on the ground zero mosque.
-”I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” after 9/11.
-Covers the Christian signs at Notre Dame & Georgetown during his speeches.
-On February 27th, 2007, BO said the Muslim call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth”.
-In an interview with Nicholas Kristof, published in The New York Times, Obama recited the Muslim call to prayer, the Adhan, “with a first-class [Arabic] accent.”
-Obama says, “We are no longer a Christian Nation”
-His first speech as Pres of the USA was to muslims in Caro Egypt. During which he referred four times in his speech to “the Holy Koran.” Non-Muslims generally don’t say holy and koran together.
-”I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed.”
Gee, wonder why his faith is being questioned????
Sheila commented:
Do I believe he has accepted Jesus as his Savior and considers himself part of Christendom? No. Do I think he prays to Mecca five times a day? No. Do his words and actions indicate great hostility to Christian Americans? Most definitely. Do his words and actions indicate a natural sympathy to Muslims? Incontrovertibly. Are his ultimate goals and aims for this country to be more Muslim and less Christian? Absolutely. My, what a simple and logical process of deduction and elimination. Case closed. Tribalism + democracy + stupidity = racist idiocracy. Decline and fall.
newton commented:
I don’t think he’s a Christian. Or a Muslim, for that matter.
He does worship a god, though – himself.
joylily514 commented:
As my husband says, he’s whatever is convenient and expedient.
Joanne commented:
Obama became a muslim at birth; apostates do not cater and appeal to muslim countries and muslims for their approval.
sandy commented:
Sheila — well said. Which other President bowed to Muslim leaders? None. Which President said that Muslims helped found this nation? None. Which President paid for an Imam to travel to the Middle East selling Muslimism on our dime? None that I know of. Which President said that he would meet with Iran’s leader without preconditions when that leader is threatening to blow Israel off the map? Not one. Which President told Israel they better stop building homes in Jerusalem while stating that we can live with a Nuclear iran and so on.
I find it interesting that the 9th Circuit judges declared its not illegal to lie about receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor. Wonder if Holder could use that to say its not illegal to lie about your place of birth when running for the Presidency? Just a thought.
Joanne commented:
You wouldn’t have the Amerian people give their tax dollars to the Palestian people/Hamas to the tune of 900,000,000 U.S. dollars if you weren’t a Muslim.
David Spence commented:
I don’t ever remember Obama attending church since January 2009. He said that he was still looking for a church but it doesn’t seem like he’s ever found one or even looked. 18 months and he plays golf on Sunday morning. He can’t even manage a church photo-op like the Clintons-that’s more than pathetic.
S. Wolf commented:
Oh he is definitely a Mohammedan..
‘Yes, his grandfather was a Muslim, but he converted because Islam better reflected his mercilessness. But no, Barack Sr. was not a Muslim. On one occasion in his 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father, a Chicago barber asks, “Barack, huh. You a Muslim?” Obama replies evasively, “Grandfather was.”
If Obama conceded that his father was a Muslim, he would have had to deny his father to erase his Muslim roots, and that would have worked against Obama’s master narrative.
In reality, Barack Sr. lived his early life as a Muslim. In Dreams, Obama’s half-brother Roy suggests that he died one as well. “The government wanted a Christian burial,” Roy tells Obama. “The family wanted a Muslim burial.”
…
In Indonesia, where Obama lived off and on from ages six to ten, he did register in school as a Muslim and attended prayers services with his Indonesian stepfather, Lolo Soetoro.
“Barry was a Muslim,” his third grade teacher told the Los Angeles Times in 2007, but this was a rare acknowledgement by the media. In general, they approached the subject in damage control mode.
According to Obama, Soetoro practiced a kind of a benign, half-baked hybrid form of Islam. Whether Soetoro ever adopted Obama is a question the media have chosen not to ask.
The fact that Obama was listed on his mother’s 1968 passport renewal application as “Barack Hussein Obama (Soebarkah)”– Soebarkah?–and that Ann Dunham’s 1965 passport application and any that might have preceded it were inexplicably destroyed have done little to still settle legitimate questions about his faith or his origins.
…
In a critical but overlooked scene in Dreams, when Soetoro asks his wife to meet some of “her own people” at the American oil company where he worked, she snaps at him, “They are not my people.”
Mom raised the young Obama to be wary of the “ugly Americans” in their midst. The only thing exceptional about America, she taught him, was Barry Obama himself.
“As the last few weeks have shown, leftists and Muslims share one great transcendent passion, a contempt for traditional America.”’
http://www.cashill.com/natl_general/understanding_obamas.htm
That’s Zero Imam Obama.. the great dissembler.
Chisum commented:
Do you remember when Jim posted this:
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/02/obama-replaces-hail-to-chief-with/
StrngernFiction commented:
Obama is most importantly a ‘rat.
jorgen commented:
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck …
Add to this: when he lived and went to school in Indonesia, he must have been a Muslim. Also, his father is a Muslim, so he is by default a Muslim; so when he says he is a Christian, he is either lying or has done the impossible: left Islam without suffering the consequences of doing so.
dunce commented:
Obama whole persona is a pile of lies. Wrights ‘church’ was and is not christian.Judge him not by what he says but his actions against the judeo christian people and positions.His own book proclaims that in the end his heart belongs to mohamed and marx.
JP commented:
0bama is not a real christian.
He was likely agnostic/atheist when Michelle hauled him to Rev Wright’s Commy emporium and he “found” religion.
What he found was his political veiws tossed in with religion and a way to be “mainstream”.
What brought him to “Jesus” was Marxism with atheism dropped and racial politics as the identity portion to appeal to unlearned and racist black folks. I think he sees religion as an end to a means.
kato commented:
Obama is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated upon this country.
And the fraud was perpetrated with the assistance of an army of liars in the news media.
It’s hilarious that the paper of Walter Duranty, the paper that played down the persecution of Jews in Hitler’s Germany, the paper that published reams of lies about Vietnam, is concerned that citizens are going to the Internet rather than to it for accurate information. Haw haw.
OneSTDV commented:
Obama’s a spiritual agnostic. From Dreams:
“I was unable to answer my daughter about heaven; I wondered if I should have told her the truth – that I was not sure what happens when we die; anymore than I was sure of where the soul resides or what existed before the big bang.”
Trinity Church is for street cred and political purposes.
Arch commented:
No one with the middle name “Hussein” is anything but muslim.
In an interview with Jake Tapper Obama makes this freudian slip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKGdkqfBICw
Obama is a muslim
down with dems commented:
New York Times 5/12/2008
“As the son of the Muslim father, Senator Obama was born a Muslim under Muslim law as it is universally understood. It makes no difference that, as Senator Obama has written, his father said he renounced his religion. Likewise, under Muslim law based on the Koran his mother’s Christian background is irrelevant.”
sandy commented:
Rush said this morning that if Obama admits to being a Muslim then he will be the first Muslim President–what would be wrong with that?
When JFK became the first Catholic President he promised the country that his religion would never get in the way of his governance and it never did. If Obama were to admit that he is a Muslim then he would a lot of answer for with regard to his personal beliefs coloring his leadership. I don’t think Obama wants to answer those questions.
squeaky commented:
Arch
August 19th, 2010 | 11:42 am | #38
not jake tapper but george stephanopoulos.
John commented:
Our founding fathers were deists not theists.
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
Ovomit may or may not be a muslim but he plays an a$$hat on TV.
Arch commented:
Squeaky:
You are absolutely correct, it was george not jake, but Obama still said he was a muslim on tape.
Faye commented:
I would like to see a poll of Muslims answer to this question. Would it only be 1 in 4?
Chrissy B commented:
I just watched Chuck Todd & Brian Williams poop all over themselves by saying that people mistakingly identified Obama as a Muslim. I say if it walks like a Muslim, talks like a Muslim and celebrates like a Muslim, it’s not a Christian. But then Todd & Williams could see Obama on the floor facing east with his rear-end in the air and claim that he’s looking for a contact.
Don Folkemer commented:
C’mon, people. The man has told us repeatedly that he and his family are Christian, so … wait a minute … has anyone ever seen him eat BBQ pork ribs, a pork chop, a BLT? And he has been a one-man PR firm for Islam. YIPES! Bet he couldn’t pass a simple quiz on basic Christian beliefs … Sure didn’t learn any from Rev. J.W.!
Brian commented:
And you will know him by his deeds.
Has anyone ever heard Obama say that the only way to heaven is through Jesus Christ or that he was his personal saviour?
Thou shalt have no other gods before him is one of the commandments.
And while they can respect the beliefs of others, no self-respecting “Christian” thinks that everybody goes to heaven no matter which god they worship.
Unlike most people, I don’t think Obama is a Muslim. I think he’s an atheist shapeshifter who uses the religion of whoever he is teleprompting in front of as a cudgel to beat them into submission to big government. The only god he really believes in.
antisocialist commented:
Unlike most people, I don’t think Obama is a Muslim. I think he’s an atheist shapeshifter who uses the religion of whoever he is teleprompting in front of as a cudgel to beat them into submission to big government. The only god he really believes in.
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That’s pretty much my take on him, too. He’s an atheist, but the only “religion” he was exposed to – even marginally – as a child was Islam. So, that’s where his sensibilities lie. Just as a native English speaker, even after becoming fluent in another language, still thinks in English – The Won “thinks” in Muslim, because that’s what comes most naturally to him.
Brian commented:
He has those Muslim sensibilities but everyone needs to realize – he has refused to pick a church in Washington because it would “inconvenience” people.
He had no problem shutting down Los Angeles this week and inconveniencing those people to attend a fundraiser. His wife has no problem shutting down 100 yards of Spanish beachfront and having the police search everyone for their papers so she can mourn a friend’s dead mother by splashing around in the surf.
Even Obama knows that being an open Atheist would be more detrimental to running for President than being a Marxist community agitator disguising a radical agenda in the smiling rags of Hopenchange.
averagemelon commented:
He is evil.
Evil uses every tool to attain its filthy agenda. Obama is the ultimate atheist spitting on every faith in order to attain ominpotent status on himself.
You will know a tree by the fruit it bears.