"We are entitled therefore to ask whether the Muslim world supports him because it believes he is still a Muslim. We are entitled to ask precisely when he stopped being a Muslim, and why. Another of Obama’s former classmates, Emirsyah Satar, now CEO of Garuda Indonesia, has been quoted as saying:
At that time, he was quite religious in Islam but after marrying Michelle, he changed his religion.
Did Obama embrace Christianity as a tactical manoeuvre to get himself elected? Why indeed has he dissembled about his family background if not for that end?"
It actually gets worse. Phillips' whole article seems to be built on assertions from Little Green Footballs that someone is posting anti-semitic, anti-white, anti-everything-the-rightwing-nutjobs hold sacred comments on Obama's own website!
And what are the chances that those posters and commenters are trolls from somewhere such as, say, Little Green Footballs?
Her case for Obama being a Muslim Manchurian candidate is built entirely on the blogosphere. Anyone with half a brain knows you can't rely on anything you read in a blog. Some are more reliable than others, but it's really a matter of sifting through to get as close as you can to primary sources and erasing as much spin as possible. (Even I, who pride myself on being even-handed, have my own viewpoint, which colors my comments. I admit it, though.)
And the quote from one of "Obama's classmates" turns out to be a "mistranslation" -- from a blog. The man quoted didn't say that.
The whole article is a study in right-wing paranoia.
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