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| A Muslim President, After All |
| 2011-10-03 |
| He is losing much of his 2008 base of voters with one notable exception: Muslim-Americans. They remain exceedingly loyal to the president. In fact, their enthusiasm for Obama has swelled. Last month, Pew Research Center released a survey of U.S. Muslims that was almost universally overlooked. It found that Muslims overwhelmingly approve of the way Obama is handling his job as president. Fully three-quarters (76%) favor him, compared with just 46% of the general public. President Bush, in contrast, garnered a lowly 15% approval rating among Muslim-Americans. "Muslim-Americans clearly see a friend in Obama," Pew said in its report. Obama came into office pledging to improve relations with the Muslim world, and he's more than delivered on that promise. Almost two-thirds of U.S. Muslims say Obama is generally friendly toward them, Pew found. Just 4% see him as unfriendly. And many see him as one of their own. One in 10 say they think the president is a Muslim, while a third say they don't know or refused to answer. |
| Posted by:Eohippus Phater7165 |
| #13 Thank you, Eohippus Ohater7165. My education proceeds apace. :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-10-03 19:52 |
| #12 The New Black Panthers are thugs, Anonymoose -- quite fitting for this particular president -- but I'm not aware they were Muslim, unlike the Black Muslim bunch, who are also thugs. The NBP are Muslims. Most members are from the Nation of Islam. It is a gang of racist NoIs who appropriated the Black Panther name. |
| Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 2011-10-03 19:36 |
| #11 Once this presidency is long over, the MSM will admit they knew all along that Bammo was/is Muslim, but that they withheld the information based on the public's inability to handle such things. Just like FDR in his wheelchair, Kennedy and his whores, etc. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2011-10-03 13:52 |
| #10 SteveS. Being Muslim is not something you get at birth, it is an idea. If we were in WWII I would not mind about a German American (both Eisenhower and P51 Mustang's main designer were) or Japanese American president but I would mind about any hint of a president having any fondness at all for the country of his ancestors if this were unfriendly to America let alone at war with it. And that is what, Muslim or not Muslim, Obama has shown both on his book and on his appearance at the Muslim conference. |
| Posted by: JFM 2011-10-03 12:29 |
| #9 The New Black Panthers are thugs, Anonymoose -- quite fitting for this particular president -- but I'm not aware they were Muslim, unlike the Black Muslim bunch, who are also thugs. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-10-03 11:28 |
| #8 However, new photos have emerged showing Obama addressing a New Black Panther rally in Selma. Likewise, the strong suggestion that just two months after the DOJ dismissed voter intimidation charges against members of the NBP, Obama met a NBP leader in the White House. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-10-03 11:21 |
| #7 But he's not Muslim, any more than he's Christian, for all he was baptized and went to the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's Black Theology church every Sunday for all those years. There is no indication that his interest in religion is a anything more than choices to advance his political career. I've read nothing to suggest he worshipped anywhere when he was a school boy, a college student, or as a young community organizer in Chicago. From what I've seen, when he went back to Chicago to become a politician, he had to ask about the church possibilities because had never bothered to find out before. Being the favoured president of the Muslims is not at all the same thing as being a believer. However, I will grant that under Muslim law as the son of a Muslim, and having sometimes joined his stepfather in worship at the village mosque in Indonesia, he is by definition a Muslim, albeit most definitely not a pious one. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-10-03 11:19 |
| #6 And anyone who doesn't like him is a racist Islamophe! |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2011-10-03 11:12 |
| #5 I would not mind if he was a Muslim president, so long as he was also an American president. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2011-10-03 11:00 |
| #4 I'd be interested to see the Muslims polled again after any Palestinian Homeland UN Gambit Veto. Would they excuse Obama or would they turn on him? |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2011-10-03 10:19 |
| #3 TW well said. I agree with what you have said. Either they will vote for him or stay at home. They will never vote Republican. They may not like what has happened but many will vote for him for a variety of reasons. He will always get a pass. Many people vote for their own so that person can get for them at the expense of others. I have seen this before. Many move to DC because they believe this is where you get power for your people. I have been told this directly by blacks,and Iraqi specifically. |
| Posted by: Dale 2011-10-03 10:10 |
| #2 Dale, according to the polls President Obama is losing Black voter approval, too. And people are not opening their wallets like they did last time around, nor are as many opening their wallets. This may well not translate into votes for the Republican candidate, but it will certainly make things more difficult for the Democrats. A quick thought, in a different direction: last time there were an awful lot of small donations from abroad...this time those people out there are feeling both a certain tightness in their own finances and disappointment in what they didn't get for the money last time. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-10-03 09:53 |
| #1 Interesting numbers. So the black vote likes him cause he is black and the Muslim like him because they think he is Muslim. I can hear it now. We haven't given him a chance. Things were bad when he got into office. This is why he can go back to the well time after time and get more money. Don't bother reading the small print. We have got to pass this now to save the world and our country.Now with so many out of work. Should anything happen to the welfare system we will see the devils work of idle hands. Who will they go after?. The ones they have been told are the evil ones. Brainwashed robots controlled by the same people who have caused this mess. We have heard the call to march. The numbers will swell. Most of the people they claim to support will be the worst to suffer. We have seen the pink clouds of the morning.The dark clouds of a storm approach on the horizon. Sailors warning. |
| Posted by: Dale 2011-10-03 08:32 |