By
Bob Unruh
© 2010 WorldNetDaily
An
Egyptian foreign-service official's comment about President Obama is
turning into a sensation among bloggers for its claim that the
American leader claims to be Muslim.
Obama's religiosity has been the subject of
discussion since before he was elected and his Chicago-area pastor,
Rev. Jeremiah Wright, delivered a "God d— America" sermon
that was caught on video.
Obama later claimed to be a Muslim in a television
interview where the interviewer corrected his "misstatement"
and he has referenced the Muslim heritage in America's past several
times.
Now the heat on the issue is being turned up because
of a weeks-old report in
Israel Today.
In the report, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul
Gheit was quoted as saying during an appearance on Nile TV that "the
American president told me in confidence that he is a Muslim."
The White House remained silent on the comment,
declining to respond to a WND request for comment.
But blogger
Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs wrote, "This is akin to an SS
officer getting elected president during WWII. Every country in the
free world must be cognizant of such a catastrophic sea change in the
leadership of the free world (as witnessed by events over the past
year). This changes everything. He took an oath to protect and defend
the Constitution, and yet he has gone around the world promoting
Islam, the Shariah (Islamic law)."
She suggested that the exchange could have happened
early in 2010 when Gheit was in Washington, D.C., to address "Mideast
peace talks."
Obama's comments from before the 2008 election:
The Israel Today report, from late in April, focused
on the "crisis" in relations between Jerusalem and
Washington under Obama.
It quotes sources who called Obama a "strategic
catastrophe" for Israel.
They expressed concern, speaking on condition of
anonymity to the newspaper, that Obama's administration is a serious
threat to the future of Israel.
The report then said Israelis feel Obama is
"appeasing" Muslims at the expense of Israel.
"'The American president told me in confidence
that he is a Muslim,' said Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul
Gheit on Nile TV. That could explain why Obama has instructed that
the term 'Islamic extremism' no longer be used in official government
documents and statements," according to the report.
There was no independent verification of the
statement attributed to Gheit.
But a video has been assembled by a group called Feel
the Change Media highlighting Obama's numerous remarks about Islam:
It has been viewed more than two million times
already.
It was last year when Toby Harden, of the Daily
Telegraph, cited Obama's statement that the U.S. is "one of the
largest Muslim countries in the world."
Obama had said, he quoted, "If you actually took
the number of Muslim Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim
countries in the world."
Obama
also previously said in Turkey that Americans "do not consider
ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation."
That prompted members of Congress to disagree. At
that time a bipartisan group of 25 members of the House of
Representatives submitted H.Res. 397, which calls on Congress to
affirm "the rich spiritual and religious history of our nation's
founding and subsequent history" and to designate the first week
of May as America's Spiritual Heritage Week for "the
appreciation of and education on America's history of religious
faith."
Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., specifically challenged the
president's claims that America is not a Christian nation in a news
conference announcing the bill immediately following a National Day
of Prayer observance.
"The overwhelming evidence suggests that this
nation was born and birthed with Judeo-Christian principles,"
Forbes told reporters, "and I would challenge anybody to tell me
that point in time when we ceased to be so, because it doesn't
exist."
During a June 2007 speech available
on YouTube, Obama stated, "Whatever we once were, we're no
longer a Christian nation. At least not just. We are also a Jewish
nation, a Muslim nation, and a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation,
and a nation of nonbelievers."
In that speech, Obama took aim at the "Christian
Right" for "hijacking" religion and using it to divide
the nation:
"Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped
being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us
apart. It got hijacked. Part of it's because of the so-called leaders
of the Christian Right, who've been all too eager to exploit what
divides us," he said.
Geller suggested perhaps other
evidence should be considered as well, listing how Obama in early
2009 declared the "war on terror" over, suggested
discussions with Hamas and recruited more Muslims for the White House
staff.
He also created the outreach to
the worldwide Muslim community in the State department, announced
cuts in the U.S. nuclear arsenal, offered funding to a Muslim
technology fund, issued a special hajj message, had a "nonreligious"
Christmas, ordered NASA to work with Muslim nations and offered
support for an anti-Israel resolution at the U.N.
"This is one hellacious argument and anyone not
lobotomized by liberalism can see Obama's an agent of Islam inside
the wire," said one participant in Geller's forum page.
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