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Is BHO a closet Muslim? Some Muslims believe so, as in he Forbes article below.Asma Gull Hasan at Forbes.com confirms that president BHO is a Muslim or at leastsomeone who holds the Islamic ideology close to his heart, I guess if one wishedto equivocate, one could say BHO is a Marxist with Muslim sensitivities…who caresboth wish to destroy America!Certainly one must agree that attending a church for 20 years in which the pastorexhorted his flock too; “god dam America” is not that much different from the hymnsung in every Mosque from Saudi Arabia to Falls Church, VA; “Saturday First,Sunday Next, Death to America”!One realist Muslim ventured that; “Obama worships at a Unitarian Church because itrepresents the middle ground between Christianity and Islam, incorporating thereligious beliefs of the two faiths Obama feels connected to”. How Kafkaesque, butnot unexpected considering president (small p intended) Hussein’s egotisticalnarcissistic personality. ." Obama even told the New York Timesadhan, the Islamiccall to prayer, which the vast majority of Muslims, I would guess, do not knowwell enough to recite. He could recite! Muslims recite the ‘Shahada’(proclamation) one of the five professions of faith said five times a day for onereason only: their belief that the Islamic Umma (brotherhood of Muslims) isparamount, that Islam trumps all other civilizations and governments!And president BHO knows it by heart!RegardsThe UnbelieverLAN ASTASLEM
 
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I will not submit: “To Islam!” CommentaryMy Muslim President ObamaAsma Gull Hasan 02.25.09, 12:00 AM ETI know President Obama is not Muslim, but I am tempted nevertheless to think thathe is, as are most Muslims I know. In a very unscientific oral poll, ranging fromfamily members to Muslim acquaintances, many of us feel, just as African-Americansdid for the non-black but culturally leaning African-American President BillClinton, that we have our first American Muslim president in Barack Hussein Obama.I know it's odd to say this. At first, I thought I was the only Muslim engaging inthis folly, and I am reluctant to express it lest right-wing zealots try to use"Muslim" as a smear and cite my theory as proof of an Islamic traitor in the WhiteHouse or some such nonsense. But, since Election Day, I have been part of more andmore conversations with Muslims in which it was either offhandedly agreed thatObama is Muslim or enthusiastically blurted out. In commenting on our newpresident, "I have to support my fellow Muslim brother," would slip out of mymouth before I had a chance to think twice."Well, I know he's not really Muslim," I would quickly add. But if the person Iwas talking to was Muslim, they would say, "yes he is." They would cite his open
 
nature and habit of reaching out to critics, reminiscent of the Prophet Muhammad'sown approach, and also Obama's middle name, Hussein. Most of the Muslims I know(me included) can't seem to accept that Obama is not Muslim.Of the few Muslims I polled who said that Obama is not Muslim, even they concededthat he had ties to Islam. These realists said that, although not an avowed andpracticing Muslim, Obama's exposure to Islam at a young age (both through hisfather and his stint in Indonesia) has given him a Muslim sensibility. In my book,that makes you a Muslim--maybe not a card-carrying one, but part of the flock forsure. One realist Muslim ventured that Obama worships at a Unitarian Churchbecause it represents the middle ground between Christianity and Islam,incorporating the religious beliefs of the two faiths Obama feels connected to.Unitarianism could be Obama's way of still being a Muslim. (And let's not forgetthat the church Obama worshiped at for so many years had a minister who remindsmost Muslims of their own raving, excitable ministers. Even if Obama really isChristian, he picked the most Muslim-esque minister out of the bunch to guidehim.)The rationalistic, Western side of me knows that Obama has denied being Muslim,that his father was non-practicing, that he doesn't attend a mosque. Many Muslimssimply say back, "my father's not a strict Muslim either, and I haven't been to amosque in years." Obama even told The New York Times he could recite the adhan,the Islamic call to prayer, which the vast majority of Muslims, I would guess, donot know well enough to recite.I think many of us Muslims see Obama as Muslim, or at least of Muslim heritage,because his background epitomizes one of the major Muslim experiences--a diverseupbringing that eludes any easy classification as specifically one religion or oneculture. So many of us Muslims around the world have Islam in common, but analtogether different culture from one another. Many Muslims share a culture with aChristian, Hindu or Buddhist community but not the same religion. When faced withsuch diversity, there are no hard and fast rules for Muslim identity.The Qur'an speaks often of the umma, or the worldwide community of Muslims. In theearly days of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad led the small umma. Every decision,every effort, everything was for the umma--people who were often unrelated byblood but had become related by choice as Muslims. In those early days, manyMuslims had gone against the wishes of their own families in converting to Islam,pitting brother against sister, father against child. Perhaps that's why theconcept of umma became so dear and is still echoed today--in my opinion, echoedmore than that Western favorite jihad--in Muslim homes, whether those homes are inthe United States or in Palestine.Perhaps it is my--and most Muslims'-- loyalty to the umma that is behind ourinsistence on seeing Obama as Muslim. Islam survived and continues to survivebecause Muslims believe we have to respect and take care of each other, as membersof the umma. If we were to start excluding members, or revising our broadguidelines for admittance, the very essence of the community feeling that isimportant in Islam, that gives me and other Muslims comfort everyday, would beundercut. So when Obama says he's not Muslim, my umma mentality says I knowbetter. Once you have a Muslim parent, especially a dad, you're in. Whether youlike it or not, Muslims all over the world see you as one of them.I work with my father, and, once, we were seeking business with a white Americanman who had married a Muslim woman. Noticing how much fond attention my dad paidto this man, I asked him why he liked the man so much. My dad responded that, inhis marriage to a Muslim woman (who wasn't related to us), "He's our brother-in-law!" So if that white, middle-aged man can be my brother-in-law, then Obama can
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