Opus 2016-49:  Obama and Islam

Is Obama a Muslim?  As I have stated other places, I don’t think so.  I think Obama’s god is named Barak.  In that he is a typical modern American.

A better question, “Do the Muslims think he is a Muslim?”

In a book called The Obama Nation several details of Obama’s time in Indonesia are discussed.  First, when he attended the Catholic school it is reported that he was registered as a Muslim.  Second, when he attended the state school he participated in activities that were only allowed for Muslims.  People who went to school with him remember him dressing up like a Muslim and praying regularly in the mosque.  This was done without the protective screen that he was only accompanying his father.

In Islam all it takes to be considered a Muslim is to say that you are.  Once that step is taken you are not allowed to recant.  If you back away you are an apostate.  The penalty for apostasy is death. 

So we are left with a mystery.  Even if he did not mean it or recanted, Obama went through actions which made a declaration of being a Muslim.  He is now declaring he is a Christian.  Our choices are two.  Either he is a secret Muslim, which is allowed by the Koran or he is the target of death squads because he is an apostate.

It is a position I would not want to be in.  It is a position I wish my country was not in.

Corsi, Jerome R.  The Obama Nation.  New York:  Threshold Editions, 2008.

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