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No, but there is nothing wrong with addressing Senator
Barack Hussein Obama
by his full name, 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.
Barack Hussein Obama is in that 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 name of
Mohammed's grandson revered by the Shia Muslim
s today.
Why would Barack Obama decide to retain "Hussein" as his middle name?
Barack Obama
's father and stepfather were both Muslim
s and his
mother is someone who twice chose to marry Muslim men. Barack Hussein Obama spent part of
his childhood in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation and even
attended a Muslim school for a while.
Until recently, 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 and honored Farrakhan with a 2007 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 his recently-distanced pastor, 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 Michelle and Barack Obama and baptized their children.
Until very recently, Barack Obama called him his pastor and mentor.
Barack Hussein Obama chose to retain his Muslim middle name because the Muslim
culture is an integral part of his parentage and upbringing, and honored by his
spiritual mentor. While we don't think
Barack Hussein Obama
is a Muslim, we
cannot exclude the Muslim influences on his life affecting him to be weak or
slow to confront the rising threat from
Islam.
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