Bill P #fundie unz.com
"I’d again adapt one of Steve’s useful neologisms — Low-Information people believe Obama is a Muslim, and there are a whole lot of Low Information Muslims. There is nothing to indicate Obama was ever a Muslim, at all. The best the allegers can come up with is left-wing boilerplate about “siding with Muslims if typical White bigots attack them”, etc."
In this case, I’d say that what you call “low-information people” have better instincts than you have information.
Islam, like Judaism, is heritable. If a Jewish woman’s child is a Jew, then the child of a Muslim man is a Muslim.
Why is it that everybody called Bobby Fischer a Jew despite his protests that he was not? Because his mother was Jewish. We accept that a Jew can be born a Jew but a Muslim cannot be born a Muslim? Ridiculous. Muslims are pretty specific about this. When taking female captives (only non-Muslims can be enslaved), a Muslim man is instructed not to have sex with them until they have had their period to be sure that he does not raise a heathen child as his own.
According to Muslims, one cannot unbecome a Muslim. One is a Muslim for life. If there is any dispute about this, it is settled with a trial for apostasy. If found guilty, the accused is to be put to death. Better dead than un-Muslimed, you see.
So Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim. To Muslims, there is no question about this. ISIS thinks he is an apostate and openly says so (I suspect this is why Obama honestly doesn’t like them), but a lot of other Muslims probably want to give him the benefit of the doubt, because, well, apostate is kind a harsh label because of that death penalty thing.
Daniel Pipes lays all doubt to rest.
The American idea that people choose their faith some time in early adulthood and can then exchange it at will throughout life is not the global norm. It isn’t even entirely the norm in the US. It’s a kind of mass delusion, really. Americans have this idea that their beliefs and customs came entirely from their own choices and free will, which is impossible and an absurd idea. But it’s a part of our own “religion,” so to speak. So when we argue about whether or not Obama is Muslim, it only displays our own curious creed as the global aberration that it is.