Monday, November 8, 2010

Barack Obama Actually a Secret Muslim

This is flowing at Memeorandum.com, which means lots of people are talking about it:

"AS a schoolboy in Jakarta, Barack Obama attended Muslim prayer sessions with his classmates against the wishes of his mother.

The US President's former grade three teacher said that Mr Obama - who was known as 'Barry' when he attended the Menteng One school in Jakarta - studied the Koran and went to classes on Islam, despite the objections of Ann Dunham, a Catholic."


Wait for it...

Mr Obama moved to Indonesia with his mother and Indonesian stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, when he was 6, and lived there for four years.


I have no idea if this stuff is true, but maybe tracking down what people were doing when they were 6 years old is a horrendous way to do our politics.

1 comment:

KhabaLox said...

But Joel, they have proof. The picture accompanying the article clearly shows an adult Obama leaving a mosque in a foreign country. We know it's foreign because his guide is brown.

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