Because Barack Obama was Muslim raised and educated, is he really considered a Muslim for life by Muslims?

I read that Barack Hussein Obama was raised in Indonesia and then in Kenya by a Muslim father and educated by Muslims in Muslim schools. I heard that Muslims consider you a Muslim for life when you are born to Muslim parents...is this true?

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1. sigh....did you just wake up out of a coma or what? This drivel has been debunked like a month ago.
2. The school was not Muslim. And Barack was there for only 2 years. The school had Christians, Buddhists, and Jews too. His father was agnostic and didn't have Barack practice any Muslim rituals.
3. Obama was educated in both Muslim and Christian schools. His father became an agnostic after he and Obama's mother met as she was an agnostic I don't really care if Muslims claim him or not. All that matters is what Obama says.
4. So, EZ, if I or anyone else consider you a Buddhist, then our decisions or opinions make you a Buddhist? This is really old. He's Christian. And it wouldn't matter if he were Muslim; being Muslim doesn't make you an Islamofascist. Jeesh, people! Get with it!
5. See ABC 20:20, and CNN anderson 360 breaking news
6. yes..
7. Obama’s parents were not religious. His Kenyan father abandoned the family when he was two years old. From age six to ten Obama lived in Indonesia where, in order to get him the best education possible, his mother sent him first to a school run by Catholics and later to a school run by Muslims. Some of his classmates were Muslim, some were Christian, some were Buddhists, some were Jews, and some were Confucians. Obama never became a Muslim and never practiced Islam. For almost 20 years he has been a member of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. He believes in Jesus Christ and in Christian ethics. He has never had any other religious beliefs. Though it is a non-issue, Muslims do not consider you a Muslim for life if your parents are Muslims. What matters is that you declare that there is no God but Allah. If you don't, you are not a Muslim.
8. If he is, does that make him any worse than your present leaders?
9. Burack Hussein Obama is one scary person!!!
10. Barack Obama is **NOT** A MUSLIM, closet or otherwise, and he never has been a Muslim. He is an evangelical Christian, a member of the United Church of Christ. His father was raised a Muslim, but became an atheist as an adult, before Barack was born. His mother was raised in an American Baptist and Methodist family, but became an agnostic as an adult, before Barack was born. Barack was influenced a great deal by his grandparents' Christianity, but did not become a committed Christian until he was a young recent college graduate working in the Chicago south side. But he is not a Muslim. He was never a Muslim. He never attended a Muslim school, much less a "madrassa" (Muslim religious school), as has been widely reported and repeated in irresponsible media like Fox News. He did attend a predominantly Muslim public school when he lived in Indonesia, but he also attended a Catholic private school during about the same time. He certainly has nothing against Muslims and is reportedly good friends with Keith Ellison, America's first and only Muslim Congressman. But Barack Obama is not and never has been a Muslim. Let me say it again, just in case you missed it... Barack Obama is NOT a Muslim. Barack Obama has NEVER been a Muslim. No one with half a brain, least of all people who DO consider themselves Muslims, considers Barack Obama a Muslim. Read the text of this speech (first link below) where Obama talks extensively about his faith and how it has shaped his politics.
11. WELL BEFORE I ANSWER THAT . .LET'S JUST SAY it's human nature. Here is a good example. The Republicans will spend 10's of millions of dollars for John McCain to win the Presidency, why is that? They might as well just donate that money to charity, or since so many of our Republicans friends are just good Christians, feed the homeless. We all know deep down McCain has "0" chance at being elected to anything, even as dog pound manager for this election cycle, let alone President . .but it's human nature to be unrealistic and remain in denial even though the dye is cast. It's sort of the mentality of Hitler's last days in the bunker.The old bunker mentality in the face of futility, that gets them every time. Get the point? ADM, answer doesn't matter . .YOU LOOSE!