Purple Mountain Majesties

Hitting the Books

I do not like it when life throws you a curve...

However, a friend of mine came to my site...read my article and shot me an email. I laugh with my friend in that my blog goes from Disney to Obama! That is funny.

Anyway, in essence, this is the comment: "ok, educate me. I want to make the right decision in 2008. However, I can't find anywhere that Obama is Muslim. But he speaks plain and I understand him."

I thought, "this shouldn't be hard, statements of Obama's Muslim background have been tauted often." So, following my prescription, I Googled him and faced a curve ball of interesting, but splintered, results. As an opportunity to throw mud, the Clintons began a heated attempt to derail the Obama train by investigating his Muslim background as a result of several allegations in 2006. Much of it is founded on vague phrases and slippery considerations in his autobiography. Most of it disputed in snopes.com article.

If you Google "Obama Muslim Background" you will find the top three articles. These would appear to be split and leaning to debunking the idea that he is Muslim. If you Google "Obama Muslim, you get the same three articles, but with an interesting fourth article by Debbie Schlussel. This article is hot enough to have a recent update: 1/30/08. Worthy of reading, this 2008 article gives further creedance to Muslim tendacies in the Obama race. Google "Obama's Nation of Islam"... you get further creedance to this arguement. Much of it supported by his words in his book Audacity. Additionally, it does not help his situation that his church voted Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam (http://www.noi.org/muslim_program.htm) as receiptient of their highest social award (12/07). Click that link and ....

Researching "Obama religion" will get you a few other articles. In each of the instances, somewhere it is mentioned that he is Christian (over 15 years or more) - as if Christian is a majic word too. One article even went a step further and mentions "born again." Another brings up Mormon, as if to throw the pendelum of dispair to the Romney Camp...as if they were short of despair...

However, I must say that in the last hour of hunting and reading, I have not come to a solid conclusion. In fact, it seems that everyone has kinda forgotten about it - even though it was in the news as recently as the end of January. Fox News has all but quit when it seemed they were just lying as bad as the liberal media. CNN went to Indonesia and did not find much, but walked away saying the schools seemed pretty westernized...not so much religious as just a school that is Muslim.

Bottom line...at this time, I am wary. Debbie Schlussel's blog (hyper linked above via title click) definitely has my eye. Further, Obama's own words from Audacity give me rise for concern. I disagree with his statement that: "We are no longer just a Christian nation...We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers[.]"; as I beleive, regardless of what is minority is currently the loudest, our national roots are inarguably Protestant. There are no buts about it...except this one: "but I will have to save this for another day..."

Today, due to tolerance, judicial liberalism and unchecked law writing, general liberal tennants, environmentalism, big money liberalists, foreign slander, greed, immorality and a host of other reasons, America is certainly "less Christian" in actions. This sad reality does not change who we are or how we were built any more than my actions change who I am. However, my actions may solicit a different perspective and without discipline, correction, boundaries, responsibility and self-government I too would become a tolerant mess. And, on this, I would agree with Obama.

To my friend...I say thank you for shooting me an email. Yes, there are nine months to go. Maybe, we will see the truth and we will be able to vote clearly. But, I hope this article gives a bit of insight into the fact that, though my slogan "Socialism, Muslim or Capitalism...You Decide 2008" may not be totally and errefutably right...there is merit. There is something lurking in the shadows and Obama isn't bringing up the lights.

posted by Captain America @ 20:54