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Obama Was
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April 03, 2008 By Aaron Klein Note from Pastor Kevin Lea:
During our Wednesday night studies we have been going verse-by-verse
through the book of Ezekiel.
Ezekiel was a prophet to the nation of What is so amazing about this history is that the Jews were first
humbled by Nebuchadnezzar (King of Babylon) in 605 BC; but instead of
repenting and turning toward God, the Jews instead increased their worship of
Babylonian idols/gods (Ezekiel 8).
America was humbled by Islam on Sept 11, 2001, but instead of
repenting and turning back to our Judea/Christian roots, we have opened the
door to Islam (and other false religions) even further. The first Mosque in
The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of
Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his
enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was
registered as a Muslim at Catholic schools in After attending the The Loatze blog run by an American expatriate in Southeast Asia who visited the Besuki school, noted, "All Indonesian students are required to study religion at school and a young 'Barry Soetoro' being a Muslim would have been required to study Islam daily in school. He would have been taught to read and write Arabic, to recite his prayers properly, to read and recite from the Quran and to study the laws of Islam." Indeed, the Israel Insider online magazine points out in Obama's autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," he acknowledges studying the Quran and describes the public school as "a Muslim school." "In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell mother I made faces during Quranic studies," wrote Obama. The Indonesian media have been flooded with accounts of Obama's childhood Islamic studies, some describing him as a religious Muslim . Speaking to the country's Kaltim Post, Tine Hahiyary, who was principal of Obama's school while he was enrolled there, said she recalls he studied the Quran in Arabic. "At that time, I was not Barry's teacher but he is still in my memory" claimed Tine, who is 80 years old. The Kaltim Post says Obama's teacher, named Hendri, died. "I remember that he studied 'mengaji (recitation of the Quran)," Tine said, according to an English translation by Loatze. Mengaji, or the act of reading the Quran with its correct Arabic punctuation, is usually taught to more religious pupils and is not known as a secular study. Also, Loatze documented the Indonesian daily Banjarmasin Post caught up with Rony Amir, an Obama classmate and Muslim, who describe Obama as "previously quite religious in Islam." "We previously often asked him to the prayer room close to the house. If he was wearing a sarong (waist fabric worn for religious or casual occasions) he looked funny," Amir said. The Los Angeles Times, which sent a reporter to Jakarta, quoted Zulfin Adi, who identified himself as among Obama's closest childhood friends, stating the presidential candidate prayed in a mosque, something Obama's campaign claimed he never did. "We prayed but not really seriously, just following actions done by older people in the mosque. But as kids, we loved to meet our friends and went to the mosque together and played," said Adi. Obama's official campaign site has a page titled "Obama has never been a Muslim, and is a committed Christian." The page states, "Obama never prayed in a mosque. He has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ." But the campaign changed its tune when it issued a slightly different statement to the Times stating Obama "has never been a practicing Muslim." An article last month by the Chicago Tribune seems to dispute Adi's statements to the L.A. Times. The Tribune catches up with Obama's declared childhood friend, who now describes himself as only knowing Obama for a few months in 1970 when his family moved to the neighborhood. Adi said he was unsure about his recollections of Obama But the Tribune found Obama did attend mosque. "Interviews with dozens of former classmates, teachers, neighbors and
friends show that Obama was not a regular practicing Muslim when he was in It quotes the presidential candidate's former neighbors and 3rd grade teacher recalling Obama "occasionally followed his stepfather to the mosque for Friday prayers." Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, notes the Tribune article – cited by liberal blogs as refuting claims Obama is Muslim – actually implies Obama was an irregularly practicing Muslim and twice confirms Obama attended mosque services. In a free-ranging interview with the New York Times, Obama described the Muslim call to prayer as "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.” The Times' Nicholos Kristof wrote Obama recited, "with a first-class [Arabic] accent," the opening lines of the Muslim call to prayer. Israel Insider's Reuven Koret notes the first few lines state: "Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme! Some attention also has been paid to Obama's paternal side of the family.
His father, described in some reports as an atheist, polygamist and
alcoholic, was buried in Obama's brother Roy is described as a practicing Muslim. Writing in a chapter of his book describing his 1992 wedding, the
presidential candidate stated: "The person who made me proudest of all
was Still, Obama says he was raised by his Christian mother and repeatedly has labeled as "smears" several reports attempting to paint him as a Muslim. "Let's make clear what the facts are: I am a Christian. I have been
sworn in with a Bible. I pledge allegiance [to the American flag] and lead
the pledge of allegiance sometimes in the United States Senate when I'm
presiding," he told the Flashback: Obama
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The Dec.
8, 1995, interview by the Chicago Reader came shortly after his
participation in Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's "Million Man
March" in "What I saw was a powerful demonstration of an impulse and need for African-American men to come together to recognize each other and affirm our rightful place in the society," he said in the interview article, titled, "What makes Obama run?" The Democratic senator's controversial pastor and spiritual mentor, Rev.
Jeremiah Wright Jr., traveled with Farrakhan to Obama, as he began campaigning for the Interviewer Hank de Zutter wrote that Obama was "tired of seeing the moral fervor of black folks whipped up – at the speaker's rostrum and from the pulpit – and then allowed to dissipate because there's no agenda, no concrete program for change." Obama has refused to "disown" Wright after a self-described "firestorm" erupted last month when video excerpts of the pastor's fervent anti-America and anti-white declarations from the pulpit were broadcast by Fox News and others. In a
January 2006 sermon, Wright called No John Wayne Obama emphasized in the 1995 interview that black churches are "going it alone," with pastors thinking only about how to build their churches. They have community-service programs, he said, such as food pantries, but "until they come together to build something bigger than an effective church all the community-service programs, all the food pantries they start will barely take care of even a fraction of the community's problems." "In Obama pondered what it would be like if a politician were to "see his job as that of an organizer, as part teacher and part advocate, one who does not sell voters short but who educates them about the real choices before them" Obama said the "right wing, the Christian right" has done a better job of forming grass-roots activist organizations "than the left or progressive forces have." "But it's always easier to organize around intolerance, narrow-mindedness and false nostalgia," he said. "And they also have hijacked the higher moral ground with this language of family values and moral responsibility." Looking back at Obama's high school years at the prestigious He quickly learned that integration was a one-way street, with blacks expected to assimilate into a white world that never gave ground. He participated in bitter bull sessions with his buddies on the theme of "how white folks will do you." The Chicago Reader said Obama had to reconcile those sentiments with the loving support he had at home from his white mother and grandparents and, quoting Obama, dismissed much of his buddies' analysis as "the same sloppy thinking" used by racist whites. But he found the racism of whites to be "particularly stubborn and obnoxious," the Reader's de Zutter wrote. 'Mean, cruel times' In the interview, Obama addressed the "unemployment catastrophe" among black youth, and declared any solution "must arise from us working creatively within a multicultural, interdependent and international economy." While he praised Farrakhan's "Million Man March," he said organizers lacked "a positive agenda, a coherent agenda for change." "Any African-Americans who are only talking about racism as a barrier to our success are seriously misled if they don't also come to grips with the larger economic forces that are creating economic insecurity for all workers – whites, Latinos, and Asians," he said. "We must deal with the forces that are depressing wages, lopping off people's benefits right and left, and creating an earnings gap between CEOs and the lowest-paid worker that has risen in the last 20 years from a ratio of 10 to 1 to one of better than 100 to 1. Clarifying, Obama said he didn't mean to suggest "that the need to look inward emphasized by the march isn't important and that these African-American tribal affinities aren't legitimate." "These are mean, cruel times, exemplified by a 'lock 'em up, take no prisoners' mentality that dominates the Republican-led Congress," he said. "Historically, African-Americans have turned inward and towards black nationalism whenever they have a sense, as we do now, that the mainstream has rebuffed us, and that white Americans couldn't care less about the profound problems African-Americans are facing. "But cursing out white folks is not going to get the job done," he continued. "Anti-Semitic and anti-Asian statements are not going to lift us up. We've got some hard nuts-and-bolts organizing and planning to do. We've got communities to build. |
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