The Obama Connection Conundrum

The latest furor over Senator Barack Hussein Obama isn't, so far, about his relative inexperience in politics by going from 1st term Senator to president. Rather it's Obama's tenuous ties to Islam. But not by the fact that he attended Government Elementary School Number 4 in Indonesia from ages 6 to 8. But the fact that his late father was a Muslim. However, Debbie Schlussel raises some interesting points she discovered in Obama's books that in actuality he could really be a Muslim.

More important, in his own two autobiographies, Obama writes that his teacher at the school sent a note home to his mother that Obama made trouble by making faces while the class was studying the Koran. Uh, sorry, but public schools DO NOT study the Koran. Islamic schools do. And which suras was Obama studying? How about the many suras that preach deception and killing of Infidels? It's doubtful that the school didn't teach those. It's more likely that they did. And which violent Hadiths did the school teach? We'll never know. And Obama won't be trumpeting them.

So Christians and others are welcome at the Muslim school Obama attended. That proves nothing. Everyone (except women) would be welcome in most Islamic schools around the world--a great opportunity to indoctrinate and convert them. How do you think Adam Gadahn a/k/a Azzam Al-Amriki learned about Islam before he became a fully converted, educated Muslim? It wasn't by osmosis.

The beef I have isn't about the school. In Islam, any Muslim male with a wife who have a baby son, the son is considered, I believe, automatically a Muslim. According to ABCNews Barak's late father was a Muslim. If that's the case then Senator Barak is a Muslim, too.

"In Arab culture and under Islamic law, if your father is a Muslim, so are you. And once a Muslim, always a Muslim. You cannot go back. In Islamic eyes, Obama is certainly a Muslim. He may think he's a Christian, but they do not."

What's more telling is Barak's middle name and that's "Hussein." That is an Arabic-Muslim, not African, name. Though Obama claims that he is a Christian with "deep faith rooted in the Christian tradition."

I have a simple solution for Barak Obama.

All he has to do publicly is:

1. Disavow that he is not a Muslim but a Christian first.
2. Not accept Islamic cultural views regarding sons born into Muslim families.
3. Make a claim that Islamic cultural views do not apply to his case.
4. Deny once more just to make clear to the Muslim population that he is not a Muslim.

Do all this and Obama will clear the air and this whole Muslim thing will simply become a non-issue. Just in time for 2008.

Or will it?

Mighty big conundrum there for 2008, Senator Obama Hussein Barak. Lie if you have to.