is barack obama muslim?

Public Comments

1. NO C'MON......
2. no he's not. he's a Christian.
3. No. Please read link below for more details. http://www.barackobama.com/factcheck/2007/11/12/obama_is_a_committed_christian.php
4. Im going to start giving the standard response when a question is asked over and over and OVER.. *drink
5. No, that was just an untruthful smear campaign.
6. This question has been answered over and over on this forum. Which I'm sure you saw when you typed this question in. You could have saved yourself 3 points by just reading the multitude of answers that make it clear that he is not and never has been a muslim. This is propaganda being pushed by the Republican hate and spin machine for mass consumption by the Wal-mart super size crowd.
7. in a perfect world it shouldn't matter. But i don't think he is.
8. Why are you so ignorant?????? He is NOT Muslim.
9. Candidate Information Name: Barack Obama Party: Democrat Residence: Chicago Marital Status: Married (Michelle) (Prev.) Occupation: Attorney, Lecturer Prev. Political Exp.: IL Senate, 1996-2004; US Senate, 2004-present Education: BA Columbia University, 1983; JD Harvard University, 1991 Birthdate: 8/4/1961 Birthplace: Honolulu, HI Religion: United Church of Christ Committee: Obama For America
10. no
11. I read (several different sources) that he was raised Muslim... however, the church he currently attends is not a Muslim church... I think the controversy is whether or not he "switched" religions because that is very uncommon in the Muslim world.
12. No. He's Christian. I think his father was Muslim. But so what if he was? Most Muslims are very good people. My husband, kids, and a lot of our friends are Muslim, and they are some of the nicest, most generous, and most helpful people I know.
13. No. He has never been a Muslim. He never espoused any religious beliefs until he became a Christian late in life. Please, don't drink the conservative Kool Aid - it's pure poison.
14. In his own words: Testifying for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Halleluiegh! Who are we to judge this man's journey to the Lord? And I speak with some experience on this matter. I was not raised in a particularly religious household, as undoubtedly many in the audience were. My father, who returned to Kenya when I was just two, was born Muslim but as an adult became an atheist. My mother, whose parents were non-practicing Baptists and Methodists, was probably one of the most spiritual and kindest people I've ever known, but grew up with a healthy skepticism of organized religion herself. As a consequence, so did I. It wasn't until after college, when I went to Chicago to work as a community organizer for a group of Christian churches, that I confronted my own spiritual dilemma. I was working with churches, and the Christians who I worked with recognized themselves in me. They saw that I knew their Book and that I shared their values and sang their songs. But they sensed that a part of me that remained removed, detached, that I was an observer in their midst. And in time, I came to realize that something was missing as well -- that without a vessel for my beliefs, without a commitment to a particular community of faith, at some level I would always remain apart, and alone. And if it weren't for the particular attributes of the historically black church, I may have accepted this fate. But as the months passed in Chicago, I found myself drawn - not just to work with the church, but to be in the church. For one thing, I believed and still believe in the power of the African-American religious tradition to spur social change, a power made real by some of the leaders here today. Because of its past, the black church understands in an intimate way the Biblical call to feed the hungry and cloth the naked and challenge powers and principalities. And in its historical struggles for freedom and the rights of man, I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death, but rather as an active, palpable agent in the world. As a source of hope. And perhaps it was out of this intimate knowledge of hardship -- the grounding of faith in struggle -- that the church offered me a second insight, one that I think is important to emphasize today. Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts. You need to come to church in the first place precisely because you are first of this world, not apart from it. You need to embrace Christ precisely because you have sins to wash away - because you are human and need an ally in this difficult journey. It was because of these newfound understandings that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity United Church of Christ on 95th Street in the Southside of Chicago one day and affirm my Christian faith. It came about as a choice, and not an epiphany. I didn't fall out in church. The questions I had didn't magically disappear. But kneeling beneath that cross on the South Side, I felt that I heard God's spirit beckoning me. I submitted myself to His will, and dedicated myself to discovering His truth. Amen.
15. How many times more will this question be posted? NO! He is a member of an evangelical christian church. Probably the only thing about him that I DON'T like.
16. No
17. Back in 2000, before the South Carolina primary pitting Bush against McCain, the story was spread that McCain had fathered an illegimate black baby. The truth is that he has an adopted Bangladeshi daugther. Here we go all over again, with Obama and this Muslim nonsense. Some people on the right have no shame.