Why do People belive he is a Muslim.
People who hate Obama are more apt to think he's Muslim
A number of people suggested yesterday that the rise in people who think
Obama is a Muslim reflects the fact that people may simply be describing him
this way to express general disapproval or anger over his performance.
Today, Post polling director Jon Cohen does a deep
dive into the numbers and comes up with more evidence supporting this
case.
Cohen points out that two polls released yesterday both found very different
answers to the "Muslim" question. The Time poll found that 24 percent falsely
think he's Muslim, while the Pew poll found that "only" 18 percent believe this?
Why? It's all in the question's wording:
Time pollsters asked, "Do you personally believe that Barack Obama is a
Muslim or a Christian," dangling red meat in front of the president's opponents.The Pew question presented respondents with a more extensive list: "Now,
thinking about Barack Obama's religious beliefs ... Do you happen to know what
Barack Obama's religion is? Is he Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu,
atheist, agnostic, or something else?"When given a stark choice between Muslim and Christian (the Time poll), more
said Obama is a Muslim. When given a broader menu of religious options (the Pew
poll), respondents presmuably were forced to focus harder on the question of
what religion Obama really is. This may be why fewer were willing to slap the
false relgious label on him.Also supporting this view: A larger percentage (44 percent) of those who
disapprove of Obama overall called him a Muslim in the Time poll, where they
were given a stark choice, than in the Pew poll (30 percent), where they were
forced to concentrate harder on the question.So there you have it: The more people dislike Obama, the more apt they are to
label him as a Muslim. One broader point: It's also possible that calling Obama
a Muslim is a general stand in for claiming that he's not legitimately our
president, that he has falsely represented himself to the American people in
some way.As dispproval with Obama's policies rises -- and as Obama sets about trying
to transform America's relationship with the rest of the world -- it's
apparently becoming too painful for a growing number of people to admit that
Americans legitimately chose an African American with a Muslim name as leader of
the free world. The notion that the president got elected by misleading the
American people about his identity in a very fundamental way might be an
increasingly easier thing for many people to accept.
Top Opinion
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riceroni ~ POTC**FUKU2** 2010/08/31 01:59:17
Did you know that during the late 1950s, U.S officials allegedly made contact with a young Iraqi named Saddam Hussein? Hussein then became part of a CIA authorized squad tasked with carrying out the assassination of then Iraqi Prime minister Gen. Abd al-Karim Qasim.
Or that in 1963, the United States backed a coup against the government of Iraq headed by General Qasim, who five years earlier had deposed the Western-allied Iraqi monarchy.
How about in 1968, again with the alleged backing of the CIA, Rahman Arif was overthrown by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr of the Ba'ath Party, bringing Saddam Hussein to the threshold of power. Some believe that Robert Anderson, former secretary of the treasury under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, secretly met with the Ba'ath Party and came to a negotiated agreement according to which both the oil field concessions and sulphur mined in the northern part of the country would go to United States companies if the Ba'ath again took over power.
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Did you know that during the late 1950s, U.S officials allegedly made contact with a young Iraqi named Saddam Hussein? Hussein then became part of a CIA authorized squad tasked with carrying out the assassination of then Iraqi Prime minister Gen. Abd al-Karim Qasim.
Or that in 1963, the United States backed a coup against the government of Iraq headed by General Qasim, who five years earlier had deposed the Western-allied Iraqi monarchy.
How about in 1968, again with the alleged backing of the CIA, Rahman Arif was overthrown by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr of the Ba'ath Party, bringing Saddam Hussein to the threshold of power. Some believe that Robert Anderson, former secretary of the treasury under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, secretly met with the Ba'ath Party and came to a negotiated agreement according to which both the oil field concessions and sulphur mined in the northern part of the country would go to United States companies if the Ba'ath again took over power.
The United States allegedly gave Saddam Hussein the green light for attacking Iran.
Beginning in 1980 during Reagan's presidency, the CIA militarily and monetarily assisted Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War. Indirectly it was doing tremendous damage by providing covert assistance to Saddam Hussein and the Iraqis for their bloody war with Iran.
In mid-1979, about the same time as the Soviet Union deployed troops into Afghanistan, the United States began giving several hundred million dollars a year in aid to the Afghan Mujahideen insurgents fighting the Afghan Marxist government and the Soviet Army in Operation Cyclone. Along with native Afghan Mujahideen were Muslim volunteers from other countries, popularly known as Afghan Arabs. The most famous of the Afghan Arabs was Osama bin Laden, known at the time as a wealthy and pious Saudi who provided his own money and helped raise millions from other wealthy Gulf Arabs.
As the war neared its end, bin Laden organized the al-Qaeda organization to carry on armed jihad in other venues, primarily against the United States — the country that had HELPED FUND the mujahideen against the Soviets.
As for your concern for Israel - they are their own country and it is NOT the job of the US to hold their hand and take their side on every single issue they have with other countries in the middle east. Doing so has only put our own interests and safety in peril. Let them stand on their own. Obama has to try and work on a myriad of issues with many different kinds of leaders in the middle east - some of whom hate us thanks to our always supporting Israel and also for going into their part of the world like bulls in a china shop and starting a war we didn't need to start against a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 nor had any WMD.
You say Obama is being apologetic or showing too much empathy for Muslims - he's trying to get all parties to the table to avoid more bloodshed. It's called diplomacy. That cowboy diplomacy that Bush was so fond of didn't work at all.
After the Bush stated the great big lie that sent USA sons and daughters to a war that should of never happen. The republicans lost votes and the methodologies now are losing many more.
You say you only been studying Islam for less than a few years?
Have you studied Sufism and moderate Islam? If you had you may of help erode the fear 2 blocks away from the 9/11 ground zero.
In the judgment how people will vote due to the stupidity of the hard rights lies and deceit I feel that I am total spot on.
Sharia law is only practice by 300,000 Muslims in the middle east mostly. The 1.25 Billion moderates Muslims mostly in Asia are anti Sharia law. Such as the Sufi Muslims on Manhattan Island, Sufi is an interfaith form of Islamic faith it has been influenced by Hindu and Buddhism.
Suggest you keep on studying and google searching such as "Muslims against Sharia Law" and "Sufism".
As for being any form of expert your certainly not nor am I as I have many more religions to research, it takes a life time.
Suggest you picked on the wrong person and here is a good google search to show you why "Babel fish religion". Thanks for dropping in and please keep on studying. lol
I can not see why a christian priest and a Jewish Rabi would support this Islamic Scholar a local champion of interfaith without logic reason too.
I am very sure that Sufi's would not received money from any terrorist organization knowingly. They are against terrorism and Sharia law.
Remember that there are false claims and the Islamophobia crowd have piled in with many of those claims mainly extremist religious far right bigots. The media has had a hay day, then the truth starts to come out we find people have twisted the word of the cleric. People have had no clue tha Sufism is clearly a moderate Hindu, Budist form of peaceful Islamic leaning. Its an interfaith and not a radical militant religion. These are the guys that are linking to other faiths all over America, Have been doing so for a very long time.
it buggers believe that any body feared Sufism a faith that radicals do not wish to recognize let alone militants. It goes beyond the lack of knowledge of Islam its also a lack of knowledge of the moderate Islamic society and the sour mouth politicians and christian extremist have used that fac...
I can not see why a christian priest and a Jewish Rabi would support this Islamic Scholar a local champion of interfaith without logic reason too.
I am very sure that Sufi's would not received money from any terrorist organization knowingly. They are against terrorism and Sharia law.
Remember that there are false claims and the Islamophobia crowd have piled in with many of those claims mainly extremist religious far right bigots. The media has had a hay day, then the truth starts to come out we find people have twisted the word of the cleric. People have had no clue tha Sufism is clearly a moderate Hindu, Budist form of peaceful Islamic leaning. Its an interfaith and not a radical militant religion. These are the guys that are linking to other faiths all over America, Have been doing so for a very long time.
it buggers believe that any body feared Sufism a faith that radicals do not wish to recognize let alone militants. It goes beyond the lack of knowledge of Islam its also a lack of knowledge of the moderate Islamic society and the sour mouth politicians and christian extremist have used that factor.
Please read
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/0...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I am sorry but I just see a good man in the need of a larger pray room and a culture center with a swimming pool so that women can swim on their own in the Islamic custom.
I find the claims against this man, Sufi community and the Islamophobia disgusting, But that is because I do understand the religion and have done my research.
I will if you don't mind stick with my view on this as I am very sure its the correct and honest truthful view.
I have studied the Morman religion, I was one for a few years got looped in when i was young 15 years old, prior to they got banned for influencing the youth in UK back in the 60s. I like tea and coffee that was one of the problems i had being a Mormon. I actual forgot that part of my Christian life, so thanks for reminding me.
not to mention a lame brained sock puppet.go back to ur drawer,you'v been blocked!
Religious freedom, folks. Basic tenet of that Constitution of that country you love so much......this one...the US.....remember????