Report: AP photo of school register reveals "Barry Soetoro" (Obama) as muslim

[exopolitician]

My mistake, atheist is 10 points below gay in this Gallup poll. They even asked for "well qualified".

Catholic 93%
Black 93%
Jewish 91%
Woman 86%
Hispanic 86%
Mormon 80%
Homosexual 56%
Atheist 46%

*sigh*

[minionofmidas]

OMg, McVain wuz born in Panama. hE muyst be a mexicain.

He also lived in Viet Nam for five years. Anyone who doesn't notice he's a Buddhist Stalinist double agent clearly has had crap dribbled into his eyes.

[J. J.]

As an adult, Obama was not Muslim; as a child he was registered in this Catholic School as a Muslim because his stepfather was a nominal Muslim.  Soetoro actually had liver disease due to his drinking; alcohol is banned outright in Islam.

Obama then to Hawaii, at his own choice, where he attended private schools and was raised by his Unitarian grandmother, a bank vice president.

[elcorazon]

As an adult, Obama was not Muslim; as a child he was registered in this Catholic School as a Muslim because his stepfather was a nominal Muslim.  Soetoro actually had liver disease due to his drinking; alcohol is banned outright in Islam.

Obama then to Hawaii, at his own choice, where he attended private schools and was raised by his Unitarian grandmother, a bank vice president.

I do not understand this post.  please try and write in a manner which is understandable.  Also, what I can glean from seems to be almost wholly irrelevant to this thread. 

Please explain.

[ChrisFromNJ]

More classless smear threads from the far right wing.

You guys should be so proud of yourselves.

[Stranger in a strange land]

This same story broke about a year and a half ago:

http://bsimmons.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/the-obama-muslim-shell-game-catholic-school-docs-show-obama-registered-as-muslim/

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/22/obama.madrassa/

The fact that some Israeli Likudniks are regurgitating it and presenting it as news does not mean it's new information.

Also, I've noticed that in many of the smear e-mails, both Barack Obama Sr. and Lolo Soetoro are referred to as "radical Muslims." While Barack Sr. might have been a Muslim in his youth, he was an atheist by the time he met Stanley Ann Dunham. Moreover, he walked out on the family when Barack Jr. was two years old, so Barack Obama never knew his father and was not raised by him. Islam is not some sort of genetic disease that is inherited.

Lolo Soetoro was also not a radical Muslim. The fact he was willing to marry a white American atheist seems to make this clear by itself. "radical Islam" as we now think of it was rare in Indonesia in the 1960s, and in fact is still relatively rare there today. Generally, Southeast Asian Islam has been far less strict and more open to coexistence with other faiths than Islam in the Arab World. Also, Lolo died of a liver disease caused by his excessive drinking, and alcohol is explicitly forbidden by Islamic law.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Wow that's a balanced source!

You had to register a religion while in Indonesia. So people who don't fit into any of the categories just put down Islam which is basically the default choice. Plus as Obama's father was raised Muslim, he was by strict Islamic standards a Muslim his whole life since Islam says you can't convert away, and his children should be raised as Muslim under such rules as well. So it's the easiest thing to put down here. Doesn't mean he was ever actually a practicing Muslim.

So...why can't he just say that to the American people?

Why lie instead?

[Alcon]

So...why can't he just say that to the American people?

Because the less said with "Obama" and "Muslim" in the same sentence, the better for Obama, obviously.

Why lie instead?

What has he lied about?  Being a Muslim?  Obviously, if he's a Christian he doesn't believe in the Islamic concept of his being "claimed" anyway.  He's not held by the religion's teachings if he isn't a member of that religion.