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Nearly 1 in 5 Americans Thinks Obama Is Muslim, Survey Shows

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Anyone who would repeatedly and willingly sit in Jeremiah Wright's church and listen to that spewed gutteral hatred, week after week, could not possibly believe in anything worth believing in.
 
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my bad just saw the other thread. Delete?
 
Erod said:
Anyone who would repeatedly sit in Jeremiah Wright's church and listen to that spewed gutteral hatred willingly, week after week, could not possibly believe in anything worth believing in.
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assuming the hatred was spewed week after week. which we can't.
 
liblady said:
assuming the hatred was spewed week after week. which we can't.
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And assuming Obama really attended that Church week after week, and didn't just go there every once in a while.
 
BCR said:
I didn't realize I'd need statistical data to make this assertion. I thought it would have been obvious to everyone that the majority of these people would be Fundamentalist Christians.
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BCR said:
I don't expect there to be a study of the religious preference of Birthers...
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If only someone would conduct a study that would ask people whether they thought Obama was a Muslim and then cross-reference that by their various affiliations, breaking it down in excruciating detail...

http://people-press.org/reports/pdf/645.pdf
 
Honestly this is the way I look at it, I wouldn't say people are stupid just misinformed no matter what the religion. Look at the guy's name for God sakes. It's very spicy and with just a hint of hummus. If his name was Barry Harold Orville do you think anyone would think he was Muslim at all? While I am just going to make assumptions like the rest of you here is mine: there are two kinds of people that believe he is muslim, the ones that are generally just misinformed and only really follow politics around election time (if that) and then the ones that are informed but are just generally on the fringe.
 
liblady said:
assuming the hatred was spewed week after week. which we can't.
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LOL, you'll defend anything. "God Damn America!!" I guess if you only say it once, it's okay.

I'd bet "Jesus" is a rare topic in that tax-free hate shelter.
 
Erod said:
LOL, you'll defend anything. "God Damn America!!" I guess if you only say it once, it's okay.

I'd bet "Jesus" is a rare topic in that tax-free hate shelter.
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Do you know what an appeal to emotion is?
 
Erod said:
No, please spin your intellectual mastery around this abortion of a man and enlighten me.
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This post made me laugh out loud. Seriously, it's impossible to take this kind of crap seriously. You could have at least called him a nazi communist too so I knew it was sarcasm.
 
liblady said:
white evangelical protestants.....more than any other religious group. no surprise there.
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The split was mostly along ideological grounds, not religious.
 
Erod said:
LOL, you'll defend anything. "God Damn America!!" I guess if you only say it once, it's okay.

I'd bet "Jesus" is a rare topic in that tax-free hate shelter.
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not defending anything. just letting you know that assumptions aren't facts.
 
liblady said:
not defending anything. just letting you know that assumptions aren't facts.
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How much more fact do you need from Wright? He's provided a smorgasbord already.
 
Dr_Patrick said:
The results of this poll are alarming. It's kind of hard to believe that there are that many paranoid and ignorant people in this country. Though, just for the sake of argument...let's say he is Muslim. And...? Who gives a ****?
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If he were (he isn't, but just for argument's sake) he would have been extremely dishonest about it
 
Kernel Sanders said:
If he were (he isn't, but just for argument's sake) he would have been extremely dishonest about it
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I'm not saying that he would or wouldn't. I just don't see what the big deal is.
 
I'l be honest here: I wish Obama would simply *come out* as a Muslim.

Americans will *accept* him and his religion. Conservatives, liberals and independents would readily accept his choice.

But what Americans will NOT accept is a man that grew up Muslim, calls himself a Christian, but lives his spiritual life as an agnostic.

1 in 4 think he's Muslim .... 1 in 10 Democracts think he's Muslim. Can you blame them?

* He bows to the King of Saudi Arabia during his state visit.
* He told the NYT that the sound of the Islamic "call to prayer was the prettiest sound in the world."
* He does not go to church - he has no "home church" in D.C.
* He jettisoned Rev. Wright when Wright's anti-Semitic comments became "politically toxic."
* He calls Christ's Sermon on the Mount, "the most outrageous statement I have ever heard" - angering *millions* of Christians.
* He supports the Ground Zero Mosque.

All that added up = Obama is a Muslim.

The American people are not stupid: they know where Obama's heart is. Its in Mecca.

I have absolutely no problem with that, Barack.

But GET A SET OF BALLS and COME OUT as a Muslim.

Be honest with yourself, your wife, your spiritual life and your God, whoever that may be.
 
GayLibertarian, I'm calling you out, your not for real. You know someone by the name of chickie by chance?
 
JohnWOlin said:
Honestly this is the way I look at it, I wouldn't say people are stupid just misinformed no matter what the religion. Look at the guy's name for God sakes. It's very spicy and with just a hint of hummus. If his name was Barry Harold Orville do you think anyone would think he was Muslim at all? While I am just going to make assumptions like the rest of you here is mine: there are two kinds of people that believe he is muslim, the ones that are generally just misinformed and only really follow politics around election time (if that) and then the ones that are informed but are just generally on the fringe.
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One thing that's being glossed over in the coverage of this is the tendency of people to answer poll questions incorrectly on purpose when they feel strongly about an issue. I'll wager that a nontrivial portion of people who are opposed to Obama and said that they think he's a Muslim said so not because they actually believe he's a muslim, but because they think he's a bad person and want to comment negatively about him. Similarly, if you took a poll asking whether GWB was a christian, I bet that liberals would be more likely than conservatives to say that he's not a christian and is instead something else.
 
Some of you have commented that those who took part in the survey who beleive Obama is a Muslim is bigoted.

Why?

Whats wrong with being a Muslim? If a white, caucasion American believes Obama is a Muslim because of Obama's statements, comments, speeches and support of Islam, so what?

Your being disengenous (s/p) .... so what, if Obama is a Muslim, who gives a s***t.

Thats between Obama and God ... and a hardworking Americans opinion is there own.

 
GayLibertarian said:
I'l be honest here: I wish Obama would simply *come out* as a Muslim.

Americans will *accept* him and his religion. Conservatives, liberals and independents would readily accept his choice.

But what Americans will NOT accept is a man that grew up Muslim, calls himself a Christian, but lives his spiritual life as an agnostic.

1 in 4 think he's Muslim .... 1 in 10 Democracts think he's Muslim. Can you blame them?

* He bows to the King of Saudi Arabia during his state visit.
* He told the NYT that the sound of the Islamic "call to prayer was the prettiest sound in the world."
* He does not go to church - he has no "home church" in D.C.
* He jettisoned Rev. Wright when Wright's anti-Semitic comments became "politically toxic."
* He calls Christ's Sermon on the Mount, "the most outrageous statement I have ever heard" - angering *millions* of Christians.
* He supports the Ground Zero Mosque.

All that added up = Obama is a Muslim.

The American people are not stupid: they know where Obama's heart is. Its in Mecca.

I have absolutely no problem with that, Barack.

But GET A SET OF BALLS and COME OUT as a Muslim.

Be honest with yourself, your wife, your spiritual life and your God, whoever that may be.
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Missed one, but I think you are spot on.



Do I ever expect him to come out of the closet?. No, he is a pathological liar.
 
I would probably bow to the King of Saudi Arabia during his state visit.
I have fond memories of things that I heard when I was a child
I go to church less often than obama.
I would ditch Rev. Wright as well.
That never happened.
I "support" the mosque in the same way obama did.

Well spank my ass and call me Abdullah, I guess I'm a muslim.
 
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