WI: Obama Really Was A Muslim?

Keith Ellison in Minnesota did.

That is possibly the safest D-district in the country. District 5 has been voting Dem since the 50s/60s. Not to mention his section of Minneapolis while overwhelmingly African-American is also increasingly Muslim. Having worked in that neighborhood consistently for the past several years I can say it is almost 100% African-American and probably 30-40% Muslim African-American. Simply said I don't think this applies to the discussion because district 5 is not a good district to use for an example; then again with gerrymandering which district is?

As for Obama; probably not. I am afraid my country is far too bigoted for that.
 
I don't see what his religion is or (in this case) is not has to do with being President. As long as he does what's in America's best interest, what difference does it make. And anybody who would eat up the stuff that Fixed News would excrete over it-- well, they probably wouldn't have voted for him anyway.
 
For a muslim Obama to have a hope of even winning the democratic nomination, you would have to, at the very least, butterfly away 9/11 and all of the radical muslim terrorist incidents, going back to the early 80s. Maybe, if all is nice and mellow between islam, and the western judaeo-christian world, it might be possible, but even then, I doubt it. An earlier poster alluded to Mitt Romney being a mormon. Big strike against him. Many in America think that the mormons are some sort of cult, but at least nobody accuses them of terrorism. And I doubt Romney will ever get the GOP nomination.
Then there is the Jewish question. A moslem POTUS will give Israel a real bad case of the jitters. This will cause America's liberal jewish community much grief, as they desperately want to vote for Obama, but don't want to be disloyal to Israel. Even some African American voters may have problems with his religion. They tend to be devout christians, often fundamentalist at that. As much as they will want to vote for the first black with a real shot at winning, his religion will be a problem for them as well. Most people who don't live in the US don't really understand how a compelling this issue is; about being a born-again christian.
Lastly, Middle America, however you want to define that, just wont be comfortable with the idea. If the nominee were jewish, same thing, and nobody seriously accuses Jews of terrorism either, at least not since the Irgun went away.
 
Just bumping this because I've read up on Obama's childhood.

I don't think he would have made it to the state senate, and he certainly wouldn't have gotten the Black evangelical support that helped smooth over "but he's half-white" concerns early in his career. I personally doubt Obama is very religious at all, and it seems out of character for him to be Muslim since it would hinder his career.
 
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