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August 18, 2010 | 9:41 pm

One in five Americans still believe Obama is Muslim

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

Still?! You’ve got to be kidding me.

That’s right: One in five Americans still believe President Obama is a Muslim. That’s from a Pew Research Center study, via USA Today:

Responses in the poll tended to fall along ideological lines, Pew found. About one-third of self-described conservative Republicans said they believe Obama is a Muslim.

“Those who say he is a Muslim overwhelmingly disapprove of his job performance, while a majority of those who think he is a Christian approve of the job Obama is doing,” said a Pew report about the poll. Pew found that “even among many of his supporters and allies, less than half now say Obama is a Christian.”

Obama has spoken frequently about his Christian faith, including at the annual National Prayer Breakfasts and at a White House event celebrating Easter this year with Christian leaders. He receives a daily devotional prayer sent to his BlackBerry device.

As a candidate, Obama participated in a forum led by prominent Christian pastor Rick Warren, in which he said his “starting point” is “Jesus Christ died for my sins, and that I am redeemed through him.”

And yet people don’t believe. I’m all for being skeptical of politicians’ proclaimed religious beliefs. But this is absurd.

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Shouldn’t be surprised. The perception is built by his actions.

The Muslim world would be happy to see a world w/o Israel and Jews.

The friend of my enemy is my enemy….

Comment by paul jeser on 8/19/10 at 11:04 am

Let’s not mock or underestimate the American people, who occasionally may go astray (e.g. electing Obama), but on the whole, and as a group, are far superior at their evaluation of politicians than the media or academia.  I’m sure they all know that Obama claims to be a Christian - but they’ve looked at him bowing his head to the Saudi king, they’ve heard him lie by claiming the presence of Islam at the beginning of America’s history, they’ve seen him appoint radical Muslim apologists to top positions, they’ve heard him generally pander to the Muslims and denigrate Jews and Christians - so based on his behavior (as opposed to his statements)it is certainly not irrational to guess that in his heart he more identifies with Muslims than Christians.

Comment by george on 8/19/10 at 11:47 am

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Personally I think he is an atheist. But he is certainly culturally a Muslim.

His father was a Muslim and his brothers are Muslim. He was at least brought up in a Muslim country, attended a Muslim school certainly including Koran study, palled around in college with a rich Pakistani Muslim and traveled to Pakistan with him between terms. His first foreign outreach was to Cairo (in a trip that skipped visiting Israel) in which he spread anti-Zionist propaganda. He never goes to Church.

So if people think he is a Muslim, well, either he is one or it’s an easy mistake to make. It matters what he says like anything he says matters.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 8/19/10 at 5:06 pm

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