By DemocracyRules
He is a Muslim until such time as he renounces Islam. The logic is compelling. His father was clearly a Muslim. Islam is passed from father to child. Thus, Obama was born a Muslim, and can show no evidence that he ever renounced Islam.
Therefore he is still a Muslim. Attending Church is not proof that a Muslim has become an apostate and converted to Christianity. Islamic law clearly states that a Muslim may take another religion and follow that religion, if by doing so the Muslim is furthering the cause of Islam.
Post- Requonquista Spain had many such Muslims professing to be Christians. That went on for centuries. There is no logical way Obama can claim to be a non-Muslim unless he clearly, publicly, and convincingly renounces Islam forever. He must also confirm unequivocally that he is an Islamic apostate.
Daniel Pipes points out that Obama was born to a Muslim father and in the eyes of the Muslim world he remains a Muslim regardless of what religion he now professes, because he was born to a Muslim father. To them he is NOT an apostate Christian. No major Islamic figure has proposed killing Obama, which is the routine, Koran-mandated punishment of apostates.
A few links, there are many if one searches....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2030913/posts
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/01/obama-islam-and.html%20
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2649
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016142/posts
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=3251
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12918.htm
http://web.israelinsider.com/views/12917.htm
Islamic Law Does Not Apply to Obama — He Is A US Citizen By Birth
While Muslims may believe Obama was "born" a Muslim because his father had been a Muslim before rejecting it in later life, Obama was born in the United States of America where no one is "born" a specific religion. In the United States of America people are allowed to choose whether to have a religion, a founding principle of our country.
Posted by: Jim | June 15, 2008 at 02:50 AM
RE: Islamic Law Does Not Apply to Obama — He Is A US Citizen.
Sorry Jim, re-check your sources. For a Muslim, there is no higher law than Islamic Law. That is why many countries including Saudi Arabia have adopted the Koran as their official constitution. For them, to do otherwise would be blasphemy.
So yes of course Islamic Law applies to Obama irrespective of what country he holds citizenship in.
Pro Patria
Posted by: DemocracyRules | June 15, 2008 at 05:12 PM