Is Obama a Muslim, a Christian, or an Apostate and Why It Matters

A question has been nagging at me. And while it might seem like a small technicality, the implications are worth considering.

In President Barack Obama’s failed attempt at convincing all Americans that he is a Christian, mostly simply by saying he is one, he has never made “things perfectly clear” as he so often attempts to do.

What would make it appear clearer? Perhaps the statement that might clear it up for more Americans, about 1 in 5 of which believe him to indeed be a Muslim, would be to emphatically state, “I am not nor have I ever been a Muslim”.

This would do two things. First it would possibly convince a few more Americans of his Christianity. Secondly, and possibly more important to Obama, it would alienate the Muslim community who has always expected to receive great benefit from his entering the White House as “their” president.

Should Muslims believe that he is not one of them, his failing attempt to convince them that he wants to improve American-Muslim relations, would completely collapse. He would be seen as an apostate, which in Islam is a sin worthy of death, not a popular role to assume for one who panders to Islam and seeks to be embraced by them.

Obama’s habit of lying on almost every occasion and about almost every issue he touches upon would keep some from believing him even if he renounced Islam. There may be validity in that skepticism because that could also be merely a lie. In the Islamic practice of Taqiyya, or Sacred Deception, a Muslim is not only allowed to but is encouraged to lie and deceive non-Muslims to advances Islam.

Rev. Billy Graham saw many people come to the altar around the world and accept Jesus without laying aside their previously held traditions or former religion. They were taking on another religion but were also holding onto the former ones they believed in. As such, claiming to be a Christian in itself is thin evidence to ones Christianity and even denouncing Islam may not be enough.

So how do we decide? We learned long ago that “we shall know them by their works”. What people do gives us a greater clue as to who they are than what they say. Even a child knows the phrase “action speaks louder than words”. So it seems a valid part of the decision making process to consider the fruit a person produces.

Obama’s continual pandering to Islam and the Muslim community is far out of balance for an American president, not even taking into consideration his “Christian” faith. Three speeches were made to the Muslim community before he felt inclined to speak to the very people who elected him. His first task was to speak to those who helped shaped his Muslim heritage that he boasted of in his speech in Turkey.

If you add to these concerns his Freudian slip while speaking in an interview with George Stephanopoulos where he referred to his “Muslim faith” without batting an eye and his gaff where he spoke of visiting 57 states during his campaign, (the Organization of Islamic States has 57 states), things get muddled.

A look at Obama’s endorsements as he ran for president turns up people like Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam and known Jew-hater. I find it odd that a Muslim with such influence would endorse a man he perceived to be an Israeli-supporting Christian.

Only days after Obama told the world in his Cairo speech that America is no longer a Christian nation, he spoke at Georgetown University where he had a Christian cross and a symbol of Jesus Christ covered with a piece of plywood painted black. Would he have instructed the same be done of the Islamic crescent moon. I doubt it.

In one of his book Obama praised the influence of the Muslim leader Malcolm X, who was very racist in his outlook of America. Obama has shown his own racism when opportunities present itself, the Professor Gates incident being one example. Going to Rev. Wright’s church certainly fed Obama’s racism as he sat under teachings inspired by Black Liberation Theology which promotes racism toward whites.

Why is racism important in this discussion of Obama’s religion? Islam was founded by Muhammad as a religion that he hoped would appeal to the Jewish community. He borrowed from their sacred Scriptures, twisting the stories to fit his own purpose, with the aim of convincing them that he was the last of the prophets in the same line as Adam, Abraham, Moses, David Jesus and others.

This did not work too well because the Jewish stories had been told and retold for centuries and the Jewish people knew Muhammad’s versions were perversions of what they knew to be the truth.

After 13 years of trying to convince them that his religion was in line with their own and that Allah was handing him revelations they should adhere to, he only garnering 150 converts. Having had enough, the Jews of Mecca exiled Muhammad. He traveled north about 100 miles to Medina and after about a year his “revelations” from Allah began to change. Suddenly the Jews, people Muhammad wanted so to be accepted by, became his enemies. He stole their property, beat them and exiled them from their homes.

When he began to deal with the third and last of the three tribes in Medina, he wasn’t satisfied to simply rob them of their possessions, beat them and send them into the desert to find a new home. This time he murdered 800-900 Jewish men and boys and enslaved their women. Since that day, Jews have been hated by Muslims. They are considered to be the offspring of apes and pigs according to the Qur’an. Muhammad himself added they were also rats.

Racism against Jews is ingrained into Islam and it grew into hatred against Christians and all non-Muslims. Only Muslim life is worthy of being seen as sacred by Islam. Racism abounds today in Islam.

How does this tie into Obama and our perception of his faith? When visiting the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was left alone in a room until he would come around to Obama’s point of view concerning Israel. Obama wanted Israel to stop building on their own property and give into Palestinian demands. Obama went to dinner and left the leader of a foreign country in his room as if he was a naughty child. Obama’s racism against Israel stems from his Islamic background and upbringing.

On no occasion has his “Christianity” caused him to act like one but his Muslim heritage seems to be what he relies upon for guidance. Whether Obama is a Muslim or not, perhaps only he and God knows. But if he were indeed a Muslim there is little he would have to change in his life. His visits to the Capitol Hill Islamic prayer meeting where he removes his shoes and prays with his Muslim visitors stands out in stark contrast to his profession of Christianity. His refusal to attend a Christian church with his family any longer smacks in opposition to his claims of Christianity as well.

As Thomas Jefferson truthfully proclaimed, "Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." It also helps us to see who others are at their core as well. Their actions will delineate and define them. If there is anything that speaks louder than Obama's teleprompter-reading rhetoric, it is his actions.

In spite of all we have begun to learn of the racism, bigotry and hatred Islam extends toward all non-Muslims, Obama seems to be in a continual state of praise for the religion. In Cairo he referred to Islam as a 'revealed' religion. This simple use of that one word reveals that Barack Hussein Obama believes that Islam is a faith revealed to the world by God Himself. Who else was it to have been revealed by?

While most in America missed the importance of that statement, I am certain it was not wasted on the Muslim community he addressed because it reaffirmed their belief that their faith was revealed to Muhammad directly from God as they have always claimed. What Christian would have uttered such words. Not even in the desire to be tolerant would any Christian who knows what their Christianity is founded upon would have made such a claim.

Calling the murder of 13 people in the Fort Hood massacre carried out by a devout Muslim calling himself a “Soldier of Allah” is merely an example of “workplace violence” as seen by Obama’s administration. It is further proof of his attempt to either pander to the feelings of Muslims or blatantly seek to advance Islam by white-washing its acts of violence.

Muslim, Christian or apostate? Until Obama shows himself definitively to be one or the other, people will question his faith, and his leadership. Should he indeed be a Muslim at heart, it will certainly affect the way he governs this country. It already has. And that makes this issue bigger than any of us want to admit.