"Barack Hussein Obama's present religious identity"

Submitted by Lactantius Jr (United Kingdom), Oct 19, 2008 at 15:48

To Faqi

Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim, says Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, WorldNetDaily dated Sunday 19^th.October 2008 carrying a report titled Mideast leader: Obama a Muslim who studied in Islamic school which can be seen at http://tinyurl.com/6r82ll

Senator Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim of Kenyan origins who studied in Islamic schools, and whose campaign may have been financed by people in the Islamic and African worlds, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said during a recent televised national rally.

"There are elections in America now. Along came a black citizen of Kenyan African origins, a Muslim, who had studied in an Islamic school in Indonesia. His name is Obama," said Gaddafi in little-noticed remarks he made at a rally marking the anniversary of the 1986 U.S. air raid on his country.

The remarks, translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute, MEMRI, were aired on Al Jazeera in June.

The video has been posted on YouTube titled If you think Obama is not Muslim watch this and can be seen here:http://tinyurl.com/6cpa72

Whatever Barack Hussein Obama's present religious identity really is, I think Dr Pipes' saying "In sum, Obama was an irregularly practising Muslim, who rarely, or occasionally, prayed with his stepfather in a mosque," is a very reasonable thing to say.

With kind regards and best wishes

Lactantius Jr

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