[Marxism] Racist, chauvinist campaign against Obama is underway

["Fred Feldman" <ffeldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Smearing Barack Obama
Christopher Hayes
Today a friend forwarded me an e-mail that a friend of his had received with
the subject "Let Us Remain Alert!" the contents of which are below: 


Probable U. S. presidential candidate, Barack Hussein Obama was born in
Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a black Muslim from
Nyangoma-Kogel, Kenya and Ann Dunham, a white atheist from Wichita, Kansas. 

Obama's parents met at the University of Hawaii. 

When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced. His father returned to
Kenya. His mother then married Lolo Soetoro, a radical Muslim from
Indonesia. When Obama was 6 years old, the family relocated to Indonesia. 

Obama attended a Muslim school in Jakarta. He also spent two years in a
Catholic school. 

Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim. He is quick
to point out that, he was once a Muslim, but that he also attended Catholic
school. 

Obama's political handlers are attempting to make it appear that Obama's
introduction to Islam came via his father, and that this influence was
temporary at best. In reality, the senior Obama returned to Kenya soon after
the divorce, and never again had any direct influence over his son's
education. Lolo Soetoro, the second husband of Obama's mother, Ann Dunham,
introduced his stepson to Islam. Osama [sic--yes, they slipped that in there
too] was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta. Wahabism is the radical
teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad
against the western world. 

Since it is politically expedient to be a Christian when seeking major
public office in the United States, Barack Hussein Obama has joined the
United Church of Christ in an attempt to downplay his Muslim background. 

Let us all remain alert concerning Obama's expected presidential candidacy.


Now I see via Atrios, that Fox News has elevated this smear to national
television. It seems as a child in Indonesia Obama attended a Muslim school
for two years (otherwise known as a madrassa), so obviously he's a
latter-day Manchurian candidate brainwashed and programmed at the age of 7
to grow up to be a gifted orator, run for President and immediately replace
the Constitution with Sharia. Seriously. (Incidentally, not that this really
deserves a response, but it wasn't a Wahhabi school.) 

On a related note, it's really bothered me that the word "madrassa" has
become synonymous with "terrorist training school." A madrassa is just a
Muslim religious school, like a yeshiva or a Catholic school. Jeffrey
Goldberg had a typically hyperventilating piece about Wahhabi madrassas in
Pakistan a few years back, which I think was what prompted the madrassa
freak-out, but as Peter Bergen and Swati Pandey pointed out in the Times two
years ago, there's absolutely no correlation between madrassa education and
terrorism.



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