FW: Just so you know the truth, a not what the spinmeisters have spun...

I don't like these kinds of articles.

 

This piece of writing is a nice piece of propaganda for the uneducated, ignorant American. But to anyone who has a computer, you can go to Snopes.com and find out that most everything in this article is untrue.

 

I think what I disagree with most about this article is not even the factual errors. What I disagree with most is the idea of prejudging someone because of their religion. I don't like the idea that Muslims should not be allowed to hold positions of power in this country simply because they are Muslim. Not every Muslim supports the idea of destroying America.

 

This reminds me of what Catholics used to have to deal with in this country. I'm Catholic, so I'm not down with treating someone that way because of their religion.

 

Now I'm not perfect. I have to admit that the very mention of the word Muslim or Islam does generate some fear in me. It's been drilled into our subconscious that Muslims are violent, Muslims want to kill Americans and anyone else who isn't Muslim. It's the violent Muslims who get press, not the non-violent, everyday Muslim. Just like it's the pedophiliac Catholic priests who get press, not the everyday, charitable Catholic. You don't hear about how, when you go to Catholic school, your religion class tries hard to instill a social conscience in you. All you hear about is that if you're a prepubescent boy, or even postpubescent, you better not set foot in a confessional.

 

I usually just delete this stuff, but I couldn't stand it. I had to write the sender and gently tell them that I'm not down with this sh*t and please don't send articles like this. How could I just read this and let silence indicate agreement? I couldn't.

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Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 7:55 PM
Subject: Just so you know the truth, a not what the spinmeisters have spun...

Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack  Hussein
> Obama Sr. (black muslim) of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya,  and
> Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas. (white atheist ).
> When Obama was two  years old, his parents divorced and his father
> returned to Kenya. His mother  married Lolo Soetoro -- a Muslim -- moving
> to Jakarta with Obama when he was  six years old. Within six months he
> had learned to speak the Indonesian  language Obama spent "two years in a
> Muslim school, then two more in a  Catholic school" in Jakarta. Obama
> takes great care to conceal the fact that  he is a Muslim while admitting
> that he was once a Muslim, mitigating that  damning information by saying
> that, for two years, he also attended a  Catholic school. Obama's father,
> Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was a radical  Muslim who migrated from Kenya
> to Jakarta, Indonesia. He met Obama's mother,  Ann Dunham-a white atheist
> from Wichita, Kansas-at the University of Hawaii  at Manoa. Obama, Sr.
> and Dunham divorced when Barack, Jr. was two. Obama's  spinmeisters are
> now attempting to make it appear that Obama's introduction  to Islam came
> from his father and that influence was temporary at best. In  reality,
> the senior Obama returned to Kenya immediately following the divorce  and
> never again had any direct influence over his son's education.  Dunham
> married another Muslim, Lolo Soetoro who educated his stepson as a  good
> Muslim by enrolling him in one of Jakarta's Wahabbi schools.  Wahabbism
> is the radical teaching that created the Muslim terrorists who are  now
> waging Jihad on the industrialized world. Since it is  politically
> expedient to be a Christian when you are seeking political office  in the
> United States, Obama joined the United Church of Christ to help  purge
> any notion that he is still a Muslim.