52% of Mississippi Republicans think Barack Obama is Muslim; 45% in Alabama
A new survey was done related to perceptions of Obama’s faith:
By BYRON TAU|
3/12/12 2:26 PM EDT
The incorrect belief that President Obama is Muslim is alive and well among some southern Republican voters, according to a new poll.
According to the latest PPP survey, a full majority — 52 percent — of Mississippi Republicans polled say that Obama is a Muslim, with only 12 percent of voters correctly identifying him as a Christian. Another 36 percent surveyed report that they are unsure about the president’s faith.
In Alabama, PPP finds that 45 percent of GOP voters report that Obama is a Muslim, with 41 percent uncertain. Only 14 percent correctly identify Obama as a Christian. http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/03/doubts-about-obamas-faith-persist-among-gop-faithful-117169.html
I and many others do not consider that Barack Obama is truly a Christian, but that is the faith that he publicly professes to be at times.
Yet, the Muslim charge is not a new one. It came up from time to time when he was running for president in 2008.
Since he did grow up in Muslim Indonesia and had more early Muslim contacts than anyone else ever elected as President of the United States, he would probably have more reasons than most U.S. presidents to have sympathy for Muslim perspectives. Here is some of what Barack Obama’s “Fight the Smears” website quoted about this back in 2008:
Newsweek…Obama’s only personal contact with Islam came as a boy when he moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, with a stepfather who mixed his Islam with Hindu and Animist traditions…
Boston Globe…His Kenyan paternal grandfather and Indonesian stepfather were Muslim…
Thus, while the selected quotes seem to have been intended by Obama supporters to minimize his ties to Islam, Barack Obama had more early ties to Islam than any ever elected to becoming President of the United States. He also repeated his full name, Barack Hussein Obama, the 2 times I heard him on his inauguration as USA president (seemingly emphasizing the common Islamic name “Hussein”) in 2009.
Furthermore, notice the following item:
Barack Obama joined Muslim prayers at school, teacher saysThe Australian – Nov 8, 2010AS a schoolboy in Jakarta, Barack Obama attended Muslim prayer sessions with his classmates against the wishes of his mother. The US President’s former grade three teacher said that Mr Obama – who was known as “Barry” when he attended the Menteng One school in Jakarta – studied the Koran and went to classes on Islam, despite the objections of Ann Dunham, a Catholic. (The Times.
Whether he attended prayer sessions to learn about Islam or to fit in, apparently Barack Obama was more involved in Islam that his mother wanted him to be.
Barack Obama seems to be a supporter of a Constantinian religion (comes out of the Greco-Roman tradition, not the Church of God) which claims Christ. Yet, he does not seem to be highly involved with it. Whether he makes the public appearances in religious settings to give the impression he is Christian or if this is what he believes is not clear to me.
Barack Obama has made public gestures supportive of Islam (like participating in Ramadan-related activities) and the Hindu faith (he admitted carrying one of their monkey-god charms in June 2008 and in November 2010 danced at a Diwali celebration). This suggests that he is neither truly Muslim or Christian as one true to either of those faiths would not carry a pagan deity as a good-luck charm.
Those of us who do take the Bible literally do not understand how one can support abortion on demand, carry idols, etc. then expect others to believe that they are Christian.
I have never believed that Barack Obama was a real Christian and still do not. What he truly feels about Islam and Christianity is unclear to me. He may well decide make various public statements this campaign season to stress his claimed Christian ties, especially if Mitt Romney becomes the Republican nominee.
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