by: AAron Klein
With recent polling showing that a significant percentage of Republican voters think President Obama is a Muslim, the question of the president’s faith could arise again as the upcoming election heats up.
A recently released book claimed Obama blamed Fox News for the persistent “rumors” on his faith.
In his new book, “Showdown: The Inside Story of How Obama Fought Back Against Boehner, Cantor, and the Tea Party,” Mother Jones magazine Washington bureau chief David Corn writes “that after the midterm elections, Obama told labor leaders in December 2010 that he held Fox partly responsible for him ‘losing white males.’”
In the book, Corn recounted that he heard Obama saying, “Fed by Fox News, they hear Obama is a Muslim 24/7, and it begins to seep in. … The Republicans have been at this for 40 years. They have new resources, but the strategy is old.”
Indeed, a Public Policy Polling survey recently found that among 506 likely GOP primary voters in Illinois, 39 percent believe that Obama is a Muslim. In Alabama the number was 45 percent; Mississippi had 52 percent classifying Obama as a Muslim, according to the poll.
Black liberation theology
Obama has long denied he was ever a Muslim. Addressing initial claims in 2008, his presidential campaign website from that year stated: “Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised as a Muslim, and is a committed Christian.”
Obama’s closest affiliation with Christianity comes in the form of his attendance, for over 20 years, at Chicago’s Trinity United Church, led by controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright Jr.
The church practices black liberation theology, a race-specific ideology that sees Christianity as a means to “liberate” people of color from alleged subjugation.
WND previously reported how Wright’s church magazine, Trumpet, claimed white Christians are “make pretend” believers and conservative Christians emulate the people who killed Jesus.
Obama appeared three times on the cover of Trumpet and gave numerous interviews to the magazine.
The Chicago church is heavily tied to the Nation of Islam and its leader, Louis Farrakhan.
read more: http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/obamas-muslim-childhood-to-become-campaign-issue/
With recent polling showing that a significant percentage of Republican voters think President Obama is a Muslim, the question of the president’s faith could arise again as the upcoming election heats up.
In his new book, “Showdown: The Inside Story of How Obama Fought Back Against Boehner, Cantor, and the Tea Party,” Mother Jones magazine Washington bureau chief David Corn writes “that after the midterm elections, Obama told labor leaders in December 2010 that he held Fox partly responsible for him ‘losing white males.’”
In the book, Corn recounted that he heard Obama saying, “Fed by Fox News, they hear Obama is a Muslim 24/7, and it begins to seep in. … The Republicans have been at this for 40 years. They have new resources, but the strategy is old.”
Indeed, a Public Policy Polling survey recently found that among 506 likely GOP primary voters in Illinois, 39 percent believe that Obama is a Muslim. In Alabama the number was 45 percent; Mississippi had 52 percent classifying Obama as a Muslim, according to the poll.
Black liberation theology
Obama has long denied he was ever a Muslim. Addressing initial claims in 2008, his presidential campaign website from that year stated: “Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised as a Muslim, and is a committed Christian.”
Obama’s closest affiliation with Christianity comes in the form of his attendance, for over 20 years, at Chicago’s Trinity United Church, led by controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright Jr.
The church practices black liberation theology, a race-specific ideology that sees Christianity as a means to “liberate” people of color from alleged subjugation.
WND previously reported how Wright’s church magazine, Trumpet, claimed white Christians are “make pretend” believers and conservative Christians emulate the people who killed Jesus.
Obama appeared three times on the cover of Trumpet and gave numerous interviews to the magazine.
The Chicago church is heavily tied to the Nation of Islam and its leader, Louis Farrakhan.
read more: http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/obamas-muslim-childhood-to-become-campaign-issue/
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