A number of things that Barry has said and done in recent weeks have raised a few red flags. Given the overall chain of events, I thought it important to start this article by looking once again into Barry’s Muslim background. In doing so, let me be clear: I’m not Muslim-bashing, nor am I questioning Barry’s faith per se. Rather, I’m questioning his loyalty. And in that respect, I’m ultimately questioning his patriotism. Where exactly, do Barry’s loyalties lie? As you’ll see below, it may not necessarily be with the American people.
Let’s start with a little background first.
Throughout the campaign, Barry took great pains to minimize his Muslim ties (it’s well-known that Barry’s Kenyan grandfather, Kenyan father and Indonesian step-father were all Muslim), but as you’ll see, that heritage is important; much more so than he let on.
A March 2007 article by the LA Times got the ball rolling with the following:
‘To be clear, Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ in Chicago,’ [Robert] Gibbs’ Jan 24 statement said. In a statement to The Los Angeles Times, the campaign offered slightly different wording, saying: ‘Obama has never been a practicing Muslim.’
Later in 2007, while campaigning in Iowa, Barry commented: “The only connection I’ve had to Islam is that my grandfather on my father’s side came from that country. But I’ve never practiced Islam.” Do tell Barry, where is the country of Islam?
During the same interview, Barry continued: “My father was from Kenya, and a lot of people in his village were Muslim. He didn’t practice Islam. Truth is he wasn’t very religious. He met my mother. My mother was a Christian from Kansas.” Obama said, “I’ve always been a Christian.”
Oh really? Well…not quite always.
Just a few days ago, Barry stated: “I was not raised in a particularly religious household…I had a father who was born a Muslim but became an aetheist, grandparents who were non-practicing Methodists and Baptists, and a mother who was skeptical of organized religion.”
According the fightthesmears.org (a website created by Barry’s election campaign): Obama “grew up a skeptic” and “found religion in his mid-20s, after moving to Chicago in the 1980s…and going over to Trinity Church and listening to a sermon called The Audacity of Hope.”
And boy-oh-boy, what a church. In March 2008 it was revealed that, according to “Reverend” Jeremiah Wright, Barry’s pastor for 20 years, blacks should not sing God Bless America, but God Damn America. He also told his congregation that the United States brought the Al Quaeda attacks on itself. When asked about this, Barry said, “I don’t think my church is actually particularly controversial.”
Questions about Barry’s Muslim background – and what that means for America – really got rolling in May 2008 when he mentioned that he’d visited 57 states in his campaign. His supporters simply chalked it up to his being tired. Others pointed it out as an odd Freudian slip potentially referring to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) – an international organization with a permanent delegation to the United Nations. OIC consists of 57 Islamic member states.
A few days later, Shireen K. Burki laid out the importance of Barry’s Muslim ties (and what it would mean to the US) in an article for the Christian Science Monitor:
The fact that Senator Obama – the son of a Muslim father – insists he was never a Muslim before becoming Christian is irrelevant to bin Laden. In bin Laden’s eye, Obama is a murtad fitri, the worst type of apostate…It [apostate] refers to a person born of a Muslim father who renounces his birthright…According to Islamic jurisprudence, children of a Muslim father – even an apparently non-practicing one, such as Obama’s father, and irrespective of the mother’s faith – are automatically Muslims. Most Muslims around the world agree: A child of a Muslim father is a Muslim. Period. Once branded as an apostate, President Obama would face enormous difficulties in the foreign policy realm, especially in the fight against terrorism.
Burki goes on to explain that Barry is “caught between a rock and a hard place. If Barry softens the US strategy against al-Qaeda, his apostasy might be overlooked – but if he doesn’t, he’ll be vilified for reneging on his ‘true identity’.”
Could it be that Barry’s recent actions have nothing to do with trying to instill goodwill between the US and the Islamic community (as the media and Barry’s boyz are trying to spin), but rather, appeasing bin Laden?
In light of the above, consider the following timeline of events:
During a presidential debate in October 2008, Barry said: “We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al-Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.”
In December 2008 Barry announced his intent to make a major foreign policy speech from an Islamic capital during his first 100 days in office.
On January 14, 2009 bin Laden released an audiotape:
If he [Barry] withdraws from the war, it is a military defeat. If he continues, he drowns in an economic crisis…We are on the way to opening new fronts…Continue bleeding them on these two fronts and on the others that are open to you.”
It’s clear that bin Laden gave Barry two choices, with the subtext being: stop the war on terror or be branded an apostate and be forced to fight an escalated war (with some suggesting this will be on US soil) that the US can’t afford financially, politically or socially.
The two fronts bin Laden is leveraging (bleeding the US on) are the war and the current economic crisis. What’s the new front that’s being opened? Barry himself? Keep that in mind because what happened next is truly eye-opening.
That same evening, after the tapes had been released and widely discussed in the press, Barry said in an interview that it was no longer necessary to kill bin Laden – that a tight noose was just as good as capturing or killing him. Well now, that’s a coincidental change of tune – don’t you think?
It gets better.
Just a week later, Barry signs an Executive Order to close Guantanamo prison. You know, the one holding all of the al-Qaeda prisoners of war?
Several days after that, Barry gives his first TV interview as President to an Arabic TV station. This was spun as reaching out to the Muslim world, but make no mistake – many viewed this as a slap in the face of Americans.
As Barry has been so fond of saying, “We are in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.” However, instead of granting his first interview as *cough* “President” to a US news outlet (maybe to reassure the American people that, despite the meltdown of the housing market, record unemployment and a steep recession, everything was going to be ok), he instead decided it was more important to ease the concerns of the Islamic community that the US was going to play nice in the sandbox.
Curious timing, wouldn’t you say? Couldn’t that be Barry’s number two priority? That’s still pretty high on the priority list, don’t you think?
Oh wait, that’s right. Appeasing bin Laden so Barry isn’t called out as an apostate is his number one priority. Some might argue that in doing so, he’s actually protecting the United States. Others could argue that by downplaying his Muslim heritage, just to get elected, he’s put the US in even greater danger.
Just a few day ago it was revealed that “Hail to the Chief” is no longer played before and after Barry’s appearances. (In all fairness, it apparently wasn’t played during Bush’s appearances either). However, what’s gotten some people more than a little riled up is one of the songs that replaced it: Sting’s Desert Rose. Some are picking apart the lyrics to find some hidden meaning (such as the line: I realize nothing’s as it seems), while others point to the song’s Arabic lyrics (which are sung by Cheb Miami), as an affirmation of his Muslim heritage:
Oh night, oh night – it’s been too long – that I’ve been looking for my loved one – you have my life – no one other than you
“But no matter what we choose to believe, let us remember that there is no religion whose central tenet is hate.” True enough Barry, but given the above, is it any wonder that people question your faith? And to that end, one can’t fault those who are questioning your loyalty and patriotism as well.
You know, some might think that the figurine in the photo to the left is a cute collectible commemorating Obama’s bow at the G-20 summit last week, in which he not-so-subtly tells Americans to “
Official caption: “House Republicans surround the President after the meeting. Many of them were seeking his autograph. Every House Republican eventually voted against the bill.”
Official caption: “As Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel talks on his cell phone, the President closes his eyes just as Congress reaches a compromise between the Senate and House versions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.”
Follow along as the premiere season’s supergang of WHAs (White House Adult-wannabes) rely on Hope! Change! (and whatever ugly Chicago-like tactics necessary) in their serious quest to better the lives of Americans everywhere (yes, even the bitter ones), all while adhering to the uplifting, very mature philosophy as espoused by the series lead:
Usurper-in-Chief
Chief of Staff
Speaker of the House
Secretary of the Treasury
Vice President
The Republicans
How is it that Barry became tagged as “The One” anyway? Well, it appears we have Oprah to thank for that. 
On the flip side of the Barry-as-Messiah coin are those who question whether this unfathomable level of adoration means that Barry is the Antichrist.
