Jihadi Du Jour: A Muslim For President?

Are Americans ready for a Muslim President? Have you given that possibility any real thought? We now have Rep. Keith Ellison, a freshman Minnesota Democrat, and the first Muslim in congress. I have no idea if he has presidential ambitions, but it's something any politician must think about. Now it is something American people need to think about.

I don't like to deal in rumor and unsubstantiated claims. Having said that, I will mention the following simply for discussion purposes in this post, a 'what if' situation. Layla at The HILL Chronicles , says this to her readers about Barack Obama:

There have been many rumors and much controversy regarding Barack Obama’s past. Namely the fact that he was raised Muslim, but is now a professing Christian. There are some that do not believe he is really a Christian and say once a Muslim always a Muslim. And in the wake of how Rep. Ellison carried on one would be fool hearty not to thoroughly look at Obama with a magnifying glass. You decide. About Obama’s upbringing here is some general information:
Barack Obama was born in 1961 in Hawaii to a white mother from Kansas and black father from Kenya who met while attending the University of Hawaii. His mother Anna, as Obama describes her in his 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, was “a lonely witness for secular humanism, a soldier for New Deal, Peace Corps, position-paper liberalism.”
His father, also named Barack (Swahili for “One who is blessed by God,” and perhaps via Arabic and Semitic roots related to the Hebrew baruch, “blessed”) Obama, left his rural Luo-speaking village and his Muslim father to become an “agnostic” and study economics abroad. His son was two when the elder Barack left the boy and his mother to return to Harvard University and then to Kenya, where he became a globe-traveling economist for the government.

When young Obama was six, his mother married an Indonesian oil manager, a “non-practicing Muslim,” and the family moved to Jakarta, where his half-sister Maya was born. In this exotic Islamic country, wrote Obama’s good friend, the liberal lawyer and best-selling novelist Scott Turow, Barack Obama spent “two years in a Muslim school, then two more in a Catholic school.”

On the other side of the spectrum is Austin Cline that wrote and op-ed called, Barack Obama, Islam, and Rumor-Mongering. In the article Cline quotes Adam Yoshida who states “problems” with Obama:

I think that someone whose name is one letter removed from “Osama” and whose farther was a Moslem will obviously be starting with some serious disadvantages. And, while I’m at it, I’ll also ad that there are (unconfirmed) rumours that Obama himself is secretly a Muslim. Now, I don’t believe them but, if Obama ever runs for President, I won’t mind spreading them.

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Yet Barrak Obama called himself a man of faith in 2004:

“I am a Christian.… So, I have a deep faith. I’m rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.
“That there are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there’s an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived.”

You can "Listen to BlowOUT with Layla on Barack Obama" at The HILL chronicles and you can also read the rest of her article here. This story, if there is one, is hers and I'm sure she will be posting more if more information becomes available.

I think Americans are probably willing to elect a president from any religion, as long as he is the right man/woman for the job ... UNLESS he/she is Muslim. I can't see that happening in my lifetime. Americans are pretty open and accepting, but the potential ramifications of an Islamic president are just too much for us in the near future, or ever as far as I am concerned. Call me Islamophobic if you want.

I welcome your opinions, comments on this subject. Whether you agree with anything in this article or not, discussion on the subject of a Muslim President of the United States is what we need right now. Talk to me

Originally posted at Right Truth