"By calling him 'Barack Hussein Obama' are you insinuating Barack Obama is Muslim?" There is nothing wrong with calling President Barack Hussein Obama by his full name - "Barack Hussein Obama" - including his middle name, "Hussein", which he retained by choice and which represents Barack Obama's Muslim cultural past and present Muslim influences. Some people are given names that they wish were otherwise, but the vast majority retain them, while a small minority alter them. President Barack Hussein Obama is in that small minority. During his childhood and teenage years, Barack Obama called himself "Barry Hussein Obama", which he changed to "Barack Hussein Obama" in adulthood. That Barack Obama changed "Barry" to "Barack" but chose to retain "Hussein" indicates that he was happy with "Hussein", the Muslim name of Mohammed's grandson revered by the Shia Muslims today. Why would Barack Obama decide to retain "Hussein" as his middle name? Barack Obama's father was Muslim, his stepfather was a Muslim, and his mother is someone who twice chose to marry Muslims. Barack Hussein Obama spent part of his childhood in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation and even attended a Muslim school. Until 2008, Barack Obama was a member of a church pastored by Jeremiah Wright Jr., a "christian" pastor who holds the radical Muslim leader, Louis Farrakhan in high esteem. In 1984, Wright accompanied Farrakhan to visit Libya's Muammar Quadaffi. In 2007, Wright honored Farrakhan with a gala event at his church, conferring upon him the modestly named "Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Lifetime Achievement Trumpeteer" award. How close are Barack Hussein Obama's values to those of his mother, who twice chose Muslim husbands and to those of Wright, who honors a radical Muslim, who by definition denies the deity of Christ? In 2006, Barack Obama told Oprah Winfrey, "When I think about the values I hold most dear, they came from my mother." As for Jeremiah Wright, he married Barack and Michelle Obama and baptized their children. Until Wright became a political liability in 2008, Barack Obama called him his pastor and mentor. President Obama chose to retain his Muslim middle name because Islam is an integral part of his parentage and upbringing, and honored by his spiritual mentor. While we don't think President Obama is a Muslim, we cannot exclude his Islamic heritage affecting him to be weak or slow to confront the rising threat from Islam. Why Christian President More Answers |
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