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Let us all remain alert concerning Obama's expected presidential candidacy.
The Muslims have said they plan on destroying the US from the inside out, what better way to start than at the highest level - through the President of the United States, one of their own!!!!

Please forward to everyone you know. Would you want this man leading our country?...... NOT ME!!!

This claim, and others similar to it, originated with a Jan. 2007 Insight Magazine article – a publication owned by News World Communications, which also owns the conservative Washington Times newspaper:

Insight: Are the American people ready for an elected president who was educated in a Madrassa as a young boy and has not been forthcoming about his Muslim heritage?

This article, citing anonymous sources, claimed that "Mr. Obama, 45, spent at least four years in a so-called madrassa, or Muslim seminary, in Indonesia." But this allegation was quickly shown to be false. Days after the article appeared, CNN sent reporter John Vause to Jakarta, Indonesia, to visit the school. He reported:

CNN: I came here to Barack Obama's elementary school in Jakarta looking for what some are calling an Islamic madrassa ... like the ones that teach hate and violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan. … I've been to those madrassas in Pakistan ... this school is nothing like that.

CNN interviewed the school's deputy headmaster, Hardi Priyono, who said: "This is a public school. We don't focus on religion."

That same day, Obama's Senate office issued a press release saying the claims in the magazine story were false and citing CNN and other reports. Subsequent news stories in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune found no merit in the madrassa claim. Obama's childhood in Indonesia, a country with the world's largest Muslim population, is not something he has attempted to hide. He dedicates pages in his best-selling book "Dreams from My Father" to his life overseas.

This e-mail cobbles together some other false claims that have been circulating for months.

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  • Posted By: devamutaharra @ 01/12/2009 10:15:54 AM

    If a muslim becomes a president of USA,what is the big deal.Is he not a human being or to b a muslim is that shameful.World needs to look into this as the 60 odd muslim countries future is very nasty situation then if we countinue to ignore and look down upon this community.

  • Posted By: centerleft @ 11/28/2008 8:10:15 PM

    Most of the people I work with who buy into such obviously outrageous mudslinging are eager to buy into anything negative - even if it is ridiculous to discredit a black man. I am a white man in a red state that voted for the best qualified individual , who happened to be a thoughtfull , intellectual black American who will put his love for all people and his country ahead of party politics or personal convenience. I have learned a great deal about my country and my fellow countrymen during this election cycle. In the year 2008 , the greatest and most freedom loving nation on earth should not even be having a discussion on race. It should not exist as a question. When we reach that point we can truly say we are great & free for all. The second thing I have learned is that old P.T. Barnum quote that no one ever went broke by underestimating the intelligence of the American public. The Republican party plays extremely well to the fears and ignorance of many average citizens.

  • Posted By: mrsupertramp @ 11/03/2008 8:34:18 PM

    what makes your country great, is that any one can say the most outrageous comments and nobody gives a damm !! god bless america, dr. david burch, london uk

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