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The Apostate
Lt. Col. Michael Burkert, Ret.
Prior to Barack Hussein Obama's ascension to the lofty position as head of the democrat party and presumed nominee for president, the issue of his true religious faith and loyalty has been in question. Personally, I could care less as to what Barack Hussein Obama is, was or is not. However, the issue of honesty is always something one looks for in a presidential candidate, unless of course, the candidate is a Liberal-Socialist Democrat.
When such a person emerges in the democrat party, he or she is given a pass by the partisan media. Veracity and character are simply non-issues in either the democrat party, or the mainstream media. The unregulated, partisan media, solidly in the tank for Obama could care less as to his honesty or his loyalty to the nation for that matter. Our mainstream media luminaries are dishonest, disloyal and disingenuous. They support Liberal-Socialists of the same character, or lack of it.
If Barack Hussein Obama is to be elected president, almost immediately there will be massive eruptions of protest, no doubt
violent protest in the Muslim world. Why you ask, would Muslims object to Obama as president? After all, isn't he one of them? In short, yes and no. While Obama was a Muslim, he publicly denies any affiliation at any time, with the Muslim faith. So what is the problem, you ask?
In 1995, I shipped off to the Middle East on orders. It was an accompanied tour and my family was afforded the dubious opportunity to live in the Muslim world for several years. My stepson was 12 years old at the time. Since I was a registered Christian with the Ministry of Justice, by law, my stepson was registered as a Christian. Had I been a registered Muslim, my stepson would have been registered as a Muslim!
The point here is that the religion of the foreign mother is of no consequence in the Muslim world. The status of my wife's religion was never asked. It was assumed, I'm sure, her religion was the same as mine. That's the way it is in the Muslim world. Women are not afforded much in the way of status in the Muslim world, and Obama's mother was no exception.
Islamic law is consistent throughout the Muslim world. Children of a Muslim father, even secular Muslims, those who rarely attend mosque services, rarely keep the Ramadan fast, and the Eid holidays, etc., are automatically Muslims. The child of a Muslim father, is a Muslim. There is no wiggle room here. Koranic law is the law!
Barack Hussein Obama lived in Indonesia as a child. His mother, no doubt, was a convert to Islam, as a Muslim will not marry a non-Muslim, at least not publicly or officially. Obama's mother was married twice to Muslim men. Young Barack Hussein would not have lasted long in a Madrasa, if he weren't a Muslim. Peer pressure alone would have been intolerable, yet young Obama attended the Madrasa for several years. Make no mistake about it; he attended AS A MUSLIM. There would have simply been no other way.
During Obama's childhood in Indonesia , the world's largest Muslim country, he attended an Islamic school, we know as a Madrasa. Young Barack Hussein would have studied the Koran, the Haddith and the Sunna. He would have received indoctrination in the Muslim faith, just like the other boys his age and at his level of schooling. Young Barack Hussein would have participated in the five daily prayers, either in a prayer room at his Madrasa, or at a local mosque.
Obama has attempted to mask his early religious training and affiliation, but anyone who knows anything about the Muslim
religion easily sees through the charade. So what, you say. Why should we care about all of this? The reason is simple. In the
Muslim world, Barack Hussein Obama is an APOSTATE. An apostate is a person who has turned his back on Islam. In short, you can't quit the Islamic faith. It is simply not allowed in Islam!
Of course there are many men and women who do just that. They convert to other faiths for a variety of reasons and for the most part, do so with impunity. However, each and every man or woman who quits Islam and professes belief in another faith, such as Christianity, Judaism or whatever is subject to being killed, in the name of Allah! The Koran demands that an apostate be killed.
Is it of any consequence, you continue to ask, that Obama was once a Muslim, but is now a Christian? Obama is an apostate and it's a very serious issue with 1.4 billion Muslims around the world. Experts on Islam generally agree that someone who is born a Muslim (in effect, someone who had a Muslim father), who later renounces Islam, is considered an apostate, and a vile enemy of Islam. Again, it's Islamic law almost universally.
Should Obama become U.S. commander in chief, there is a strong likelihood that Al-Qaida's media arm, As-Sahab, will exploit Obama's background to argue that an 'apostate' is leading the Global War on Islam and is attacking and killing fellow Muslims. The suggestion that Obama is an 'apostate' leading 'Crusader Forces' will be screamed across the Islamic world and used to galvanize sympathetic Muslims into action. The apostate tag will be a powerful propaganda weapon that Al-Qaida will use to marginalize America 's Middle East allies, causing enormous difficulties in maintaining alliances with moderate Muslim countries in efforts to neutralize Al-Qaida and other radical Muslim elements.
There is no doubt that if Obama is elected President of the United States, he will be renounced by many as an apostate. Somewhere, some Imam, Mullah or Ayatollah will issue a Fatwa condemning Barack Hussein Obama, and essentially in so doing, will issue a death warrant for his murder. Anyone remember Salman Rushdie? All he did was write a book that the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran thought had 'insulted Islam.' Rushdie has been in hiding for years! The Fatwa issued against him cannot be rescinded by anyone other than he who issued it. Since Khomeini is thankfully under the sod, the Fatwa is still valid. Anyone who successfully murders Salman Rushdie is guaranteed paradise and a good place in paradise!
Can a Fatwa be issued against a President Obama? You betcha! As if that isn't bad enough, IF a Fatwa is issued against Obama, no Middle East leader interested in his own skin will dare sit down and speak with him. Not even the Iranian nutjob Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is that stupid! It may come to pass that Obama will have no alternative but to run off to Caracas to see his soulmate Hugo Chavez, or scurry down to Havana to pay homage to the Castro brothers, and kneel at the altar of Che Guevara.
An Obama presidency will be problematic for many reasons, but on the foreign policy side, not even old Joe Biden will be able to save Obama's bacon in the Muslim world. If the American people are so taken with Obama's promise of change, they will be sadly disappointed with Obama and his ineptness.
Obama is not qualified to serve as president. Even HE knows the problems he will face as an apostate in the Muslim world. So, as president, Obama will have only one choice to avoid the difficulties I've articulated above. In order to avoid the tag of
apostate, the probability of immediately being ostracized and shunned in the Muslim world; and to avoid a death threat in the form of a Fatwa, Obama will be forced to declare himself a Muslim.
While it may seem unlikely that Obama will fess-up to his Muslim faith, don't be surprised if shortly following his inauguration, in January 09, he does just that!
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in an interview and said his religion was Islam. It also appears to be true that until Obama joined Wright's church (as recommended for his political aspirations) he did not renounce Islam. I wonder if this is why Farrakhan has supported him (at least in part). Then again, Farrakhan has been welcomed by and welcomed Wright. 
