barrack obama should speak out on
religious intolerance
March 2007
Presidential candidate Barrack Obama is in a unique position. Having been raised in a Muslim family, though he is a Christian today, he is in a position to rail against the intolerance of Islam, which under some guidelines would call him an apostate. Apostates under strict sects of Islam are to be killed. Below are dark highlights from an article appearing in Front Page Magazine by Robert Spencer.
A President with a Muslim twist
- In a statement to The Times on Wednesday, Obama’s campaign offered slightly dissimilar wording on his religious upbringing, saying: “Obama has never been a practicing Muslim. As a child, Obama had spent time in the neighborhood’s Islamic center.”
- His former Roman Catholic and Muslim teachers, along with two people who were identified by Obama’s grade-school teacher as childhood friends, say Obama was registered by his family as a Muslim at both of the schools he attended.
- Obama is on the record as saying: “I think the majority of voters know that I’m a member of the United Church of Christ, and that I take my faith seriously.”
- Obama could possibly be charged with being an apostate from Islam. Therefore, he is afforded a unique chance to speak out about the freedom of conscience and the human rights of those who leave Islam -- for Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, ordered that apostates from Islam be put to death.
- Western Muslims who claim that this is not Islamic law are often hailed as moderates and reformers.
- According to Islamic law an apostate male is not to be put to death if he has not reached puberty (cf. ‘Umdat al-Salik o8.2; Hidayah vol. II p. 246). Some, however, hold that he should be imprisoned until he is of age and then “invited” to accept Islam, but officially the death penalty for youthful apostates is ruled out. How merciful!
- Obama’s candidacy and religious history are more likely to work to the advantage of the Left and the jihadists, even if he flames out a la Howard Dean in 2004. For if the Islamic death penalty for apostasy is even allowed to come up in the mainstream media, smiling Islamic spokesmen will deny that Islam teaches this. They can even be honest and simply affirm that it doesn't apply to Obama at all, since he left Islam while still very young.
- It is most likely that the media and Obama’s campaign will ignore the apostasy law altogether, and tar anyone who brings it up as a “bigot.”
- The propagandists of CAIR, MPAC et al are quite savvy at portraying themselves as victims in response to presentations of uncomfortable aspects of Islam.
- And it is inconceivable that there will be protests in the Islamic world over his apostasy, or calls for his execution. The Cartoon Rage and Pope Rage riots were orchestrated from above.
- Given Obama’s politics, it will not be hard to present him internationally as someone who understands Islam and Muslims, and thus will be able to smooth over the hostility between the Islamic world and the West – our first Muslim President.
- Obama’s Muslim upbringing could become the linchpin of an attempt to present him as the only candidate who can end the war on terror. We can only hope that, if he does become President, he won’t propose to do this only by means of various varieties of appeasement.
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FrontPageMagazine.com | March 19, 2007
Our Take
Barrack Obama needs to leverage his diverse background to speak out on the intolerance of the religion from which he was surrounded as a youth. It is the very religious freedom we have in America that even allows him to make a run for the President. After all, it is clear he might have been killed in an Islam country as an apostate.
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