Brit Hume Raises the Question of Barack Obama’s Muslim Background
By SusanUnPC on June 17, 2008 at 11:45 AM in Barack Obama, Muslim, Religion, Rev. James Meeks, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Rev. Michael Pfleger, Rev. Otis Moss, black liberation theology
Caption: “Malik holds a photo of Obama and him in Muslim dress, reportedly when the two first met in 1985.” (This image is published at the Israeli Insider and was displayed today by Fox News anchor Brit Hume.)
To be clear: We at No Quarter have no concerns about Barack Obama having had a Muslim background; given the circumstances of his childhood, living with a stepfather in Indonesia who was Muslim as well as having relatives in Africa who are Muslim, it is simply a part of his background, and probably a plus to be exposed to the faith, although he was for the most part rather young to assess it.
Our issue is with Obama’s failure to be frank about his life history and — worst of all — his appearance of running from any past associations with Muslims, as if being evasive would protect him from voter concerns in an age of the Internet and 24/7 news. Instead — by insisting repeatedly that he is solely a “committed Christian” and has “never been a Muslim” — Obama may be insulting Muslims worldwide who are surely puzzled why he hides this past. Further, his obfuscations lose him credibility among voters who seek honesty and forthrightness in their presidential candidates.
Obama seems unable to grasp what most mature people understand: That hiding the simple truth damages one’s reputation far more than the fact that is being hidden.
Today, on his Fox News “Special Report with Brit Hume,” the veteran reporter noted in his daily “Political Grapevine” segment on his weekday program at 6 p.m. ET:
From the Fox News print report:
Throughout his campaign, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has assured his supporters that he is a Christian. He has been battling what his campaign calls an online “smear campaign,” which contends, among other things, that Obama was raised as a Muslim. There is even a statement on his official campaign Web site reading, “Obama has never been a Muslim and is a committed Christian.”
But, Obama’s half-brother is not so sure. Malik Obama tells the Jerusalem Post that if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people — despite his Muslim background.
The article was also accompanied by an image of Malik Obama holding a photo of him and Barack Obama in Muslim dress — reportedly when the two first met in 1985.
See? The facts are not particularly shocking or troubling — at least to me.
But it’s Obama’s fear of acknowledging this part of his life story that most troubles me.
What troubles me are his incessant insistence that he is a “committed Christian” — and constant denials of any associations with Muslims — in desperately trying to cover up this part of his past.
Ironically, his frequent statements about his Christian faith are backfiring — thanks to the innumerable airings of the Jeremiah Wright and Father Pfleger rants.
Now, every single time he mentions he’s a Christian, the very first image that pops into my mind — and surely that of most voters — is Jeremiah Wright’s racist, separationist rants. Or Father Pfleger (who, by the way, is baaaaaack — more about that in an upcoming post).
I doubt Barack Obama will be able to “unring” that bell. Most Americans, once they’ve seen those tapes of the Revs. Jeremiah Wright, Otis Moss, James Meeks or Father Pfleger, will have those WORDs and SIGHTs indelibly imprinted on their brains as associated with Barack Obama.
Flopping Aces blog allowed us to feature their video of Obama’s “Wise Men.” If you missed it, here it is — it’s very well-done:
- From my post, “Judgment of This Unqualified Candidate.”
Thank you for this excellent report.
This is all just distraction from the more crucial (and suppressed) facts about Obama’s deep connections to the Bush Admin. Such revelations would wipe out his progressive base and result in a call for Clinton’s return. That’s why our blogs should be discussing them and not simply react to each Rove coordinated news cycle. Here are the facts and source links I’ve compiled. Plesse use them.
http://www.thecityedition.com/Pages/Archive/Winter08/2008Election.html
Gee, I thought Rove wanted to run against Obama because he thought Americans were so racist that they’d never vote for a black person.
Now Obama’s a secret tool of the GOP? Tinfoil-hat stuff. Gotta love what the fringes of the blogosphere comes up with.
I looked in KY at people who donated to republicans also donated to Obama. Those records are public. Obama had more donatations from Ky than Hillary although she won the state… doesn’t mean much until you notice the same people donated to a republican as well.
This has been my thought all along. “Obama brought to you by the same news stations who brought you the Iraq war”
Mr. Obama has written extensively about the Muslim people in his life. Sheesh!
What a load of crap. This whole post is a ‘concern trollish’ screed.
Larry Johnson is an undercover operative for the Republican Johnny McCain.
Oh for cryin’ out loud, you moron, don’t you think if Larry is working for the republicans he would have waited til after the convention to unload this stuff to ensure that Hillary can’t step back in to the race? Idjit.
Reality-based observation: none of this stuff is even in the ballpark of what it would take to knock Obama out of the nomination.
Larry’s motives? Well, I take him at his word that he does believe that somehow supers might switch to Hillary if enough dirt on Obama comes out.
But Larry’s efforts to dig up dirt have come up short, and he’s made an ass of himself in the process. After that “shocking video” of Michelle Obama never materialized as he promised, no one has any reason to take him seriously again.
That was his shark-jumping moment.
Previous poster is right. Bambi is a lot more on the right side. Personally, I think he’s the Democratic Party’s Dubya.
Bambi, Dubya. Neither one is good for me, my children, or my country.
Larry Johnson is a former CIA liar. He is a pro at it who worked with para-military thugs who were murders. What does that make him?
Smarter than someone who takes Howard Zinn too seriously!
Who are you? Come out of the dark. Zinn has been a WWII veteran who risked his life, changed the face of the way history is taught by making the voice of the common man the centerpiece of history and an important person in the civil rights movement. I’m glad you know about my film.
Just wait: I bet Larry has a shocking video of Obama denying any association with Muslims.
9 AM this Monday, just you wait.
Obama was not only a muslim when he was a child he also spent ages from 2 to 12 of his life in muslim lands among muslims..His entire family on his father’s side are muslims..His friends were almost entirely all muslims from age 2 onward. Quite a few particularily in Hawaii and Calif and n.y… His muslim relationships continued with Farrakan and Rev. Wright who was also once a muslim and many more muslim friends in his adult life…As to why muslim do not object to Obama denoucing Islam it is because they know he is practicing taqiyya.Many muslims recognize Obama as the 12 imam muslim messiah by his name HUSSEIN and his sun rising in the west logo…Too bad so many Christians are not as enlightned.. This 12th imam madhi is the antichrist of Christans.. we will see soon.. They dont call this imam hidden for no reason..
In all fairness how can that outfit be called “muslim” dress? I went to college a few years back with a guy who used to wear the same kind of outfits but he was raised in a Christian african village. Fox News really have to stop these crazy attempts at smearing Obama with the use of “fear” tactics. This is going to back fire on those who want fairness within the democratic party
Fox news was not the author of the story. They simply reported on it. In your infinite knowledge of dress wear, can you find the explanation as to why Mr Obama’s own half brother believes Barack is Muslim?
“Barack’s own half-brother” never met the man until 1984. This is nothing but fear-mongering to manipulate the ignorant.
agreed.
Even if it was Muslim dress, so what does that prove. He was meeting his half brother for the first time in 1984. OB was born in 1961. What Muslim backround could he be referring to. What a bunch of crap.
You don’t think that childhoods are something two half-siblings might discuss when they finally meet?
Sure they would discuss their childhoods. Malik would describe his childhood in Africa and Barack would tell about his white Mother from Kansas.
Who had a child with one Muslim, married another Muslim, and moved her son to a Muslim country.
That mother from Kansas?
Oh yeah, the son whose grandparents were Christian, married a Christian, and raised his children as a Christian. If you knew anything about Islam you would know that for NO REASON, is it acceptable to accept another God other than Allah. If you do so publicly, even if that is what is not in your heart and you are doing it to save yourself, you are must be executed. You cannot be a Muslim and embrace another religion, it is the ultimate insult to God, apostasy. Anyone who thinks he could be a Muslim, or a Islamic sleeper designed to take the White House has NO concept of Islam as a religion.
I wish people would quit calling Trinity a christian church… It is an insult to christian churches!! TUCC is a Black liberation theology church! Black power through jesus!
Of course Brit Hume is going to raise a question about Obama’s “Muslim” background. What else would you expect from a Zionist like Hume?
Excuse me , whose holding the picture? His Muslim brother who seems so proud to show his Muslim brother, Obama.
I’ve seen Obama’s “brother” before. He sent me his picture along with an email saying he was about to inherit $20,000,000 and would share it with me if I sent him a Western Union money order for $500.
How stupid are you No Quarter crackers, anyway?
True, you can’t claim someone is Muslim simply because of the outfits they wear (would make you ‘wonder’ though). But, when a blood relative states he was ‘raised with a Muslim background’ - then that’s kinda hard to dispute. So, are you calling his half-brother a liar?
Why do you Obama cultists REFUSE to listen to anything negative about Obama, esp. things that could be potentially dangerous for this country???
“Why do you Obama cultists REFUSE to listen to anything negative about Obama, esp. things that could be potentially dangerous for this country???”
You’re assuming that people have mistaken you for someone who actually has something intelligent to say.
He was in Africa. This is traditional dress. Those who fear this tradition and say this is dangerous are nothing more than racists. Bret Hume is the lead cracker and the followers are lemmings.
Too bad Obama’s half brother Malik never said that. His words were inaccurately paraphrased, which has been verified by a recordinf of the original interview.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/
It’s too bad that stupid things like this are used to jump on Obama for “insulting Muslims by not admitting he’s a secret Muslim himself”.
you betray your lack of knowledge in using the term “outfit”. Go to the library and look up traditional dress styles for the peoples and tribes in Africa, dumbass.
Glad someone is picking up on his lies!
Just clothes. What about the ‘just words’ from Barry’s bro?
NOBAMA
his half brother said he had a muslim background,
just words
Instead — by insisting repeatedly that he is solely a “committed Christian” and has “never been a Muslim” — Obama may be insulting Muslims worldwide who are surely puzzled why he hides this past.
They’re Muslim, they aren’t dumb. Anyone who would be offended because a presidential nominee denies that he is something that would make it impossible to get elected is stupid. Of course, you don’t actually care about that, you’re just angry about the black man being the nominee.
There is no nominee until the convention.
I don’t care what color he is, or religion, or even sexual preference for that matter. His CONSTANT lies are an issue. His to me obvious criminal involvement with Rezko is an issue. His campaign corrupting the Democratic Primary is an issue.
Those you see following the Obamessiah are not Democrats, though the species may try to look similar. They are in fact nothing but JACKASSES!
P.U.M.A.
LMAO!
It’s amazing how many “vets” you find on the internet. Every right leaning, racist dipshit seems to be one.
If you don`t want to stand behind our troops,you are welcome to stand in front of them.
You’re one useless fuck.
I am not right leaning, racist or mentally challenged as you obviously are. I’m a moderate Democrat and have been one since I came home after Desert Storm. I supported Clinton in 92 and 96, Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004 voting all Democratic down ticket as well. Although in 2004 my Presidential vote probably didn’t count, since I was in Youngstown Ohio where the initial Presidential vote count came up -25,000,000 votes for Kerry. But then you wouldn’t care about that, you Obamatons are all about stealing votes this year.
Those you see following the Obamessiah are not Democrats, though the species may try to look similar. They are in fact nothing but JACKASSES!
P.U.M.A.
Typical Obamabot response….
“You are against Obama because you’re a RACIST!!!!!”
Are you implying that he should lie to people for the sole purpose of getting elected?
That is exactly what is causing the outrage against your candidate. He is portraying himself as something he is not, on many levels.It’s immoral.
Yep. This person is saying Obama is your typical politician who will do and say anything to get elected. It explains all the flip-flops on Iraq, Iran, NAFTA, taxes, the 130 or so “present” votes in Illinois, and all the bodies underneath his bus.
…sooo it’s A-OK to lie!
Suuure, we see your justification there.
Oh, hang it up about the ‘black man’ bullshit. This particular black has mucho, mucho problems unrelated to his race.
What a stupid excuse. You sound like Jessie Jackson Jr. going all schizoid ‘crazy’ when anything is said about ‘the brother’. Pathetic and stupid.
Whatever you have to say doesn’t mean anything when you use a handle like that. Frankly, anyone who uses a handle like that should be banned on the spot. Fortunately for you it isn’t my call. You are; however, one repugnant human being.
you’re just angry about the black man being the nominee.
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Yeah, that’s it! We’re all angry because the black man ‘won’ the nomination. Yep, we’re all racists - we admit it, so now you can stop calling us names - you no longer have any ammunition to use against us since we ‘confessed’. ‘kay?
did you read your own words? Sorry but we are not angry about obambi because he is black, so your race baiting won’t work. Obama is a threat to our country. you’d better deal with this before its too late.
it’s not that fact the he is in muslim dress, or is a muslim or a christan, its that he cannot tell the truth about anything…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNWPHElA7oo
Blah, blah, (insert silly insinuation about Obama here)blah…
Practice saying this with me now: President Obama.
It’s really quite easy. You’ll get it eventually, you’re gonna have 8 years to get it right.
Meanwhile, in the Hillbot bunker…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Ky1_pyn6Q
Counting chickens again? He is not even the nominee yet.
They just realize that right now is the only chance for gloating they’ll ever have. It’s downhill from here on out for Obama, right up to January, when he has to stand sniveling in the cold and watch President McCain be sworn in (unless he makes a run for it to a jurisdiction without extradition to the U.S.).
Maybe he’ll go golfing in the Bahamas?
He will never be my president. And I will do everything in my power that is legal and lawful to prevent him from every walking into the Oval Office, except as a tourist.
hear, hear!
As in “I hope your cell is comfortable, President Obama.”
Lmao.
Race-baiters do not make good Presidents…
Because they’re never elected.
Yeah, right. May we remind you that Al Gore was practicing saying President Gore right up til that Supreme Court thing too….
Al Gore would have won the 2000 election had it not been for the Supreme Court halting the vote counting, Runtymom. Are you proposing a similar outcome in 2008, one in which the Supreme Court in effect takes the election out from under Mr. Obama?
Al Gore undoubtedly empathizes with the “intent to vote” argument that the RBC abided by, having had many of his own “dimpled” votes and “Jews for Buchanan” votes stripped from him. An outstanding endorsement last night.
Couldn’t happen to a better person. Hope to God the Supreme Court has another field day and stops the vote counting in FL and MI (since the DNC couldn’t go that far) and baby jesus Obama loses the election. Oh but wait, he isn’t even going to be close to having enough votes to win the GE because he will have lost to MCCAIN! So your point is????
What troubles me is Obama’s constant lying. Excuse me, that’s not a good quality and not something I accept as good behavior.
Going so far to call others who bring up his background as a LIAR, makes everything he says appear to be false. We have too many examples of his untruthfulness, while calling others that.
Now after spending so much effort to claim anything about calling him a Muslim was a lie, even though he wrote about his classes and that he practiced it, as we see, he now appears to be nothing but a liar and fake. Did he really think he could continue his attack campaigning of calling everyone else a liar to appear he is the only honest one, a good strategy all the way through the General Election?
Naive doesn’t even cut it.
[…] Update (06-17-08): FOX’s Brit Hume reports on this story during Monday’s (6-16) broadcast. (ht/noquarter) […]
Christian Science Monitor had an interesting article about how Muslims might consider him a Muslim and an apostate to boot:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0519/p09s02-coop.html
good to see this get a little more MSM attention. Obama’s “Audacity to Lie” is a major campaign issue. BO you can’t obscure and obfuscate the truth for the next six months! BO we will uncover your lies one after another, and we will not relent. The truth will set us free…
And it’s a l o n g way to the conventions, baby!
Keep those lies, half-truth’s and outright deceptions coming our way and see what happens on Nov. 4th.
Remember when Drudge posted that photo of obama in native garb and the rumor mill tried to blame it on hillary?
I would have expected a mature politician with integrity to say, yes, that’s me, I’m proud of that photo, like many diplomats I was honored to wear native garb. End of discussion. You own it and you control the debate.
Instead Obama whined, Hillary did it! She’s smearing me! Wahhh! So by naming the photo a smear, he gave ammo for any future Republican attacks. He also failed to take responsibility for the photo which was legit and not shameful at all. And he sent the message that his judgement is poor, because he himself said that was a damaging photo. Well, then why did you take it?
As to the Muslim thing, look at how Keith Ellison handled it. Yes I’m a muslim, I’m also a congressman, here’s Thomas Jefferson’s koran. Case closed. There’s no shame there.
Obama makes everything shameful. From being a Muslim, to wearing native garb, to being a “typical white person.” When you act that way, nobody trusts you because you act like you’re hiding something. To make matters worse, the Obama campaign then tries to shame voters into supporting him. You’re racists! You’re bitter! Uh, look in a mirror, Obama.
Remember when Mittary tried to claim that she was dodging sniper fire? That was a hilarious lie!
On a positive note; I heard that the Secret Service has contracted Halliburton to develop a sniper-proof Kevlar pantsuit.
No changing the subject, Yossarian. That’s the Obmites’s favorite trick.
Except it wasn’t a lie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRs_gAL9KAY
Clinton should’ve defended herself, but the Obamatrons were too loud and obnoxious and CBS didn’t want to own up to originating the video that would exonerate her, since they were the ones who fueled the controversy to begin with.
She’s either a shameless liar, or she knowingly took her daughter to a combat zone.
I’m going with the shameless liar. To assume otherwise would mean that I assume that she’s a real POS.
No, she actually knowingly took her daughter to a combat zone. Look how fantastic Chelsea turned out with Bill and Hillary’s parenting. Guess they aren’t such monsters after all.
This is the same inane comment you posted at YouTube. Repeating yourself like your idol Obama does so frequently? And the only POS is the cowardly Obama for lying about Hillary when he doesn’t even have the balls to debate an old vet like McCain, much less visit some on the front lines.
What is Obama going to do to punish his half-brother for straying from the prepared message about religious practices? Wouldn’t it be great if Obama were as honest as Malik? But I guess he just can’t get past all those years of being indoctrinated by crazy preachers and assorted terrorists like Ayers and Dohrn and crooks like Rezko and the Illinois combine).
Now that I think about it, there is one other POS — you. You have now attacked veterans who support Hillary and attacked Hillary for having the guts to travel to the front lines to visit soldiers serving in a combat zone. Real nice coming from someone who has never served at all, except possibly fries at McDonald’s, which is the job you’ll have to go back to after McCain administers that tremendously humiliating and embarrassing ass-kicking to Obama this fall and he has to fire all you bloggers.
Yossarian dear,
You can’t win in November just on Hillary hate.
Best get to work explaining why people SHOULD vote for Obama instead.
So far, you Obamabots are not doing a very good job recruiting voters for your candidate.
But they’re doing a hell of a job getting votes for McCain. Keep up the good work, Yossy!
John House,
Great video find..this should have been rebroadcast during the primary season. What a farce, indeed.
Once again, tangible proof of Senator Clinton’s compassion, knowledge and character.
This video is even better. It shows the MSM for what it truly is. Clinton should have defended herself-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHVEDq6RVXc&feature=related
We won’t click on your videos, Barrtard. You LP nutters are all antisemites and sexists anyway.
Of course, the media knew this footage existed. It chose to attack Hillary instead in the same way it sold the Iraq war to the American public. There was a video, that went viral, though, using that footage of the Tuzla visit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHVEDq6RVXc&feature=related
Yossarian is just a Catch-22 wannabe.
Do you find it so unbelievable that she remembered there being danger while meeting troops as First Lady?
Sweetie, if that’s all you’ve got, you are in sorry shape.
Here’s what PRESIDENT Clinton had to say about it.
“Let me just tell you,” he said, according to CBS News, “the president of Bosnia and General Wesley Clark - who was there making peace where we’d lost three peacekeepers who had to ride on a dangerous mountain road because it was too dangerous to go the regular, safe way - both defended her because they pointed out that when her plane landed in Bosnia, she had to go up to the bulletproof part of the plane, in the front. Everybody else had to put their flak jackets underneath the seat in case they got shot at. And everywhere they went they were covered by Apache helicopters. So they just abbreviated the arrival ceremony.
Comprehension okay? -The bulletproof part of the plane.
What a nut, that Hillary, thinking she needed protection from possible gun fire while being sent to the bulletproof part of the plane.
Now, address Barky’s lack of integrity, please.
Obama’s sister Maya was quoted by the New York Times as saying, “My whole family was Muslim.”
Good site for this topic
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaReligion.htm
So, there we go: 2 credible witnesses saying Obama’s family were Muslim.
His half sister and his half brother.
Are the Obamabots claiming they’re not credible?
His half-sister by his white mother, who raised him until he was 10.
So Barack was a muslim when he was a kid, what’s the big deal? He is a devout and dedicated Christian today. The fact that Barack has a diverse background is a good thing. When did words like “diversity” and “affirmative action” become dirty words for Democrats? Oh right, you guys aren’t Democrats.
Obama is a liar . .. that’s the big deal (I know it doesn’t matter to you because you a bona fide obama cult-member but it does matter to the intelligent normal people out here!
Obama is a liar . .. that’s the big deal (I know it doesn’t matter to you because you are bona fide obama cult-member but it does matter to the intelligent normal people out here!
The big deal is that he lied about it! He is what he calls a Christian now, and that (TUCC) will hurt him even more.
Since when did “diversity” and “affirmative action” become dirty words here? Since when did Democrats start using “diversity” and “affirmative action” to scare people? You people don’t believe in progressive ideals, you don’t belong in our great party.
Diversity is great. I love it. I’m not so willing to be so open-minded that Wright gets to join me on that great diversity bus.
No, in fact, I think hate-mongering is the opposite of divesity thinking.
So is ageism. So everytime I see an Obamabot calling himself Grampa….whatever, I get that twist in my gut.
Diversity IS great.
Obamabots……their sexism and ageism clearly has shown me which is the dark side of this election.
I do stand for diversity and always will.
And that will not be for Obama.
Since when is using the republican bush play book to bully voters progressive? Obama is using and duping you kids and black voters only you’re to blind to realize it. Your loss will hurt a lot when all the truth about Obama hits the MSM …and it will.
Those kids are all Republican kids. They are Arainna with a young face.
I am sure of that.
Any child raised in a Democratic home could not have tolerated spouting the the anti-Hillary crap I saw.
That just isn’t possible.
These are swing voters. They will be Democrats for a Day.
They will NOT work for the down-ticket.
They will NOT even pay attention to the real platform.
They are the worst of Independent voters.
Emotionally immature.
Single-cause voters.
With a computer.
Affirmative Action is banned in California because it’s discriminatory.
Stick that up your progressive ass while considering that Berkeley and San Francisco are also in California. Asshole.