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Last week, we talked about how the right, anxious to smear Barack Obama but unsure how, had come with a variety of uninspiring attacks, including criticizing Obama for having mainstream Democratic beliefs, attending a Christian church that isn’t right-wing enough, and having big ears. They’re hardly the kind of criticisms that will undermine Obama’s popularity.
So, some conservatives have decided to take things up a notch. My friend Michael J.W. Stickings noted, for example, how right-wing blogger Debbie Schlussel chose to go after the Illinois senator.
[W]hile Obama may not identify as a Muslim, that’s not how the Arab and Muslim Streets see it. In Arab culture and under Islamic law, if your father is a Muslim, so are you. And once a Muslim, always a Muslim. You cannot go back. In Islamic eyes, Obama is certainly a Muslim. He may think he’s a Christian, but they do not.
So, even if he identifies strongly as a Christian, and even if he despised the behavior of his father (as Obama said on Oprah); is a man who Muslims think is a Muslim, who feels some sort of psychological need to prove himself to his absent Muslim father, and who is now moving in the direction of his father’s heritage, a man we want as President when we are fighting the war of our lives against Islam? Where will his loyalties be?
Is that even the man we’d want to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency, if Hillary Clinton offers him the Vice Presidential candidacy on her ticket (which he certainly wouldn’t turn down)?
NO WAY, JOSE . . . Or, is that, HUSSEIN?
[snip]
As Michael responded:
He may think he’s a Christian? What is that supposed to mean? That, no matter his beliefs, he isn’t a Christian because his father was Muslim? Schlussel isn’t just a bigot, she’s a fu**ing idiot.
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