According to Barack Obama's autobiography, President Obama's father practiced Islam, his stepfather also practiced Islam, and his mother twice chose to marry Islamic men. President Obama studied at an Islamic school for a year, and his full name - Barack Hussein Obama - includes his middle name which he retained by choice and which honors the revered grandson of Islam's Mohammed. To President Obama, Islam is neither a dangerous nor a distant religion. It is the religion his parents preferred, the religion into which he was born, and the religion in which he spent his childhood. As such, President Obama is likely to under-appreciate the threat from Islam and over-appreciate its insincere overtures, including from Iraq and Afghanistan, and Iran. And even if President Obama never identifies himself with Islam, the image of Islam, thus far closely linked to terrorism, will benefit from the ascendancy to the White House by a man whose fathers were Muslims and who carries an Islamic name. "Hussein" no longer will be remembered as the surname of an Iraqi dictator but the middle name of the 44th U.S. President. And Islam, which denies the deity of Christ and kills Christians in its lands, has become the religion that fathered the President of the United States.
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