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Title: Obama's childhood records vindicate Corsi book
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URL Source: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=72667
Published: Aug 18, 2008
Author: WND
Post Date: 2008-08-18 12:48:23 by christine
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NEW YORK – An AP photo that recently surfaced showing Barack Obama registered for school as an Indonesian citizen of the Muslim religion provides tangible evidence for some of the claims made by author Jerome Corsi in his best-selling book, "The Obama Nation." "The Associated Press document provides additional evidence suggesting the Obama campaign's insistence that Obama was never trained in Islam and he never lived as a Muslim is not accurate," author and WND staff reporter Jerome R. Corsi said. "Moreover, the document indicated that Obama may have been an Indonesian citizen when he lived there," Corsi continued. "This is an issue the Obama rebuttal fails to address at all, evidently conceding the accuracy of the claim." Corsi discusses these school registration documents on pages 50-52 of "The Obama Nation." The existence of the school registration was first revealed on the Internet by "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" on Jan. 24, 2007. Since then, the issue has been widely discussed, but without the documentary proof the Associated Press photo has now provided. Corsi told WND that until the AP photo surfaced, he did not have in his possession a copy of the original. In the 40-page rebuttal to "The Obama Nation" issued last week by Obama's presidential campaign, the "reality" asserted by the campaign was the school registration only listed the religion of the father, implying the registration established nothing about the religion of Barack Obama, then known as Barry Soetoro. "The Obama rebuttal misses the point in claiming my statements about the school registration are a lie," Corsi said. "It is clearly true that the 'An American Expat in Southeast Asia' blog did state the registration listed Obama as an Indonesian citizen and a Muslim. That is not a lie." "Now that we have the AP photo, we see the blog was correct in describing the registration," Corsi continued. The only issue at dispute is whether the registration establishes Obama to have been a Muslim, or only registered as one because that was the religion of his father. "The most convincing evidence Obama was living in Indonesia as a Muslim, not simply registered as Muslim because his father was Muslim, comes from Obama's experience at the government-run public school at SDN 1 Menteng, Jakarta, not from his time at the Catholic Assisi School in Jakarta," Corsi argued. On pages 59-60 of "The Obama Nation", Corsi cites a Kaltim Post interview with Tine Hahiyary, one of Obama's teachers at the public school. Tine Hahiyary affirmed that Barry Soetoro had been registered as a Muslim and took part actively in the Islamic religious lessons during his time at the school. "I remembered that Barry studied 'mengaji,'" she told reporters. "Mengaji" involves recitation of the Quran. "To put it quite simply, 'mengaji classes' are not something that a non-practicing or so-called moderate Muslim family would ever send their child to," wrote the 'An American Expat in Southeast Asia' blog. "The Obama campaign desperately wants to deny Obama was raised as a Muslim child in the four years he lived in Indonesia from age 6 to 10," Corsi said. "These are formative years in a child's religious education." "What the record clearly shows is not only that Obama received Islamic instruction, at least in the public school he attended," Corsi concluded, "but he received the type of Islamic instruction reserved for Muslim children in a government school system that mandated Islamic instruction at that time for all children attending public school in Indonesia."
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#1. To: christine (#0)
Obama's own comments would tend to give credibility to Corsi's argument. Remember, he said that Wright introduced him to his Christian faith 20 years ago. So...what was he before that? Nothing? Not in Indonesia.... Now comes the fun part. If Obama indeed has ever been a Muslim, he is now an apostate and in some corners of the world, that status of being an apostate Muslim leads to a beheading.
"A leader, for a change." - Jimmy Carter, 1976 campaign slogan. Sound familiar? Here it comes again!
The nasty personality of Michelle Obongo, along with Barack's lunatic fringe friends, vindicates Corsi's book. No wonder it's #1 on both Amazon and tNYTs best seller list. Go Corsi go!
Could this be the infamous TBF? Didn't he work for MCLame at some point in time?
Excellent catch there.
i don't think so.
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Obummer is running from his past just as hard as Bubba Clinton ran from his past in 1992, and the MSM is carrying Hussein Obummers water just as dutifully as they did for Clinton in '92. Maybe he's a converso.
Negro parents, as a rule, seem disposed not only to give larger liberty to their children than they ought, but they give absolute license in too many instances. In illustration of this fact, in cities particularly, children are allowed to go from their homes in the night-time and wander the streets amid their baleful associations until nine, ten, eleven o'clock and longer. And when they return home they do so unattended... This condition does not obtain alone among children of ignorant and poor parentage, but absence of good manners is also often found among children and youths who have had fair common and high school advantages. -- John Henry Smyth, 1902
Makes sense, he changed schools. Not that clear until now. So, question is, will Americans care that from the age of 6 to 10, he recited the Koran and had to pray five times a day, and follow a halal diet.
i finally heard corsi made some pro 911 truth comments on alex's show. maybe he's OK after all?
MY REPLY TO ZEITGEIST: 1John Chapter 2: "21 I write to you not because you do not know the truth but because you do, and because every lie is alien to the truth. 22 Who is the liar? Whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Whoever denies the Father and the Son, this is the antichrist." One question. What the hell does it matter if he was registered as a Muslim and had a Muslim father? After seeing much of the stuff Corsi wrote I now believe he also has been bought out buy Rev. Moon. Claim: Illinois Senator Obama is a "radical Muslim" who "will not recite the Pledge of Allegiance" Status: False www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp On January 17, 2007, the Insight website published an article[4] claiming that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama "was educated in a Madrassa as a young boy," a claim it attributed to "researchers connected to" fellow candidate Hillary Clinton. The claim was repeated by conservative-leaning media personalities such as Rush Limbaugh, Melanie Morgan and John Gibson.[5] CNN then visited the school in Indonesia that Insight claimed was a madrassa. Reporter John Vause stated: "I came here to Barack Obama's elementary school in Jakarta looking for what some have been calling an Islamic madrassa like those that teach violence and hate in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Well, Wolf [Blitzer, CNN anchor], I've been to madrassas in Pakistan, and this school is nothing like that."[6] Insight responded to the CNN report by claiming it ""does not satisfy our standards for aggressive investigative reporting" and that it "needs verification by other news outlets -- such as FOX News -- who will look the facts straight on, without a vested ideological interest in downplaying Obama's Muslim heritage." Insight added: "For the record, Insight never -- not once -- in its article claims that Obama went to a Madrassa. We didn't claim it; Hillary's people did."[7] In a later article claming to be the "[l]ast word" on the issue, however, Insight appeared to accept the veracity of the CNN report.[8] www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Insight_Magazine If you’ve ever wondered how agit-propaganda works, you might take a look at the latest case study from the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s media empire – a bogus story about Barack Obama attending a Muslim “madrassah” when he was six years old, a smear that was then attributed to operatives of Hillary Clinton. The shrewdness of Moon’s Insight magazine story is that it hit two enemies with one anonymously sourced stone, a strategy of slime and divide straight from the textbooks of a spy agency like the CIA. Only in this case, it is not the CIA planting black propaganda in a foreign publication to undermine some U.S. enemy. It is Moon using his media outlets subsidized by his mysterious foreign money to manipulate and distort the U.S. political process, again. The Insight “madrassah” story also turned out to be false. As CNN reported on Jan. 22, the Indonesian school that Obama attended as a child was not a “madrassah” where sometimes extreme forms of Islam are taught, but rather a well-kept public school in an upper-middle-class neighborhood of Jakarta. The boys and girls wear school uniforms and are taught a typical school curriculum today as they were 39 years ago when Obama was a student there, while living with his mother in Indonesia, reported CNN correspondent John Vause, who has had prior experience covering real "madrassahs." While most of the school’s students are Muslim – Indonesia is a Muslim country, after all – Vause reported that the religious views of other students are respected and that Christian children at the school are taught that Jesus is the son of God. Nevertheless, the nasty Insight story is sure to hurt Obama by pushing anti-Islamic hot buttons of many Americans. By citing Clinton operatives as the supposed source of the story, Moon’s publication also played to the negative image of the New York senator as a ruthless politician who would sling mud at an opponent. Moon’s media empire has planted similar stories in other U.S. presidential campaigns, publishing false or exaggerated stories that disparaged Democratic candidates and helped Moon’s political favorites – particularly in the Bush family. In Election 1988, Moon’s Washington Times floated a story that Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis had psychiatric treatment, harming George H.W. Bush’s Democratic opponent; in Election 1992, it bannered an accusation that Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton had worked for the KGB, again aiding the senior George Bush; in Election 2000, when George W. Bush was seeking the White House, the Times pushed allegations that Vice President Al Gore was “delusional”; in Election 2004, to boost the younger George Bush again, it trumpeted attacks on Sen. John Kerry’s patriotism. The Right’s Echo Chamber Once Moon’s media empire surfaced these accusations, they would reverberate through the right-wing echo chamber and often into the mainstream press. Usually, the charges spotlighted a purported flaw so severe – such as mental instability or treason – that the Democrat would be disqualified in the eyes of many voters. Also, since it’s difficult to prove a negative, mainstream news outlets often would treat the charges as a point of legitimate dispute, forcing the Democrat to issue a denial or refuse to comment. Sometimes, TV pundits would add insult to the injury by critiquing how poorly the smeared Democrat countered the attack. Moon’s long record of engaging in this agit-propaganda helps explain his value to the Right and particularly to the Bush family. In turn, the Republicans have protected Moon from government investigations into his questionable sources of money, which finance both his media empire and his allied right-wing political organizations. The Korean cult leader spends more than $100 million a year just to subsidize his flagship newspaper, the Washington Times, according to former Moon insiders. Longtime Washington Times reporter George Archibald recently put Moon’s total investment in the newspaper at over $3 billion since its founding in 1982. Though Moon’s finances remain murky, the evidence is overwhelming that he engages in international money-laundering and has been closely tied to major crime syndicates in Asia and South America. [For details, see Consortiumnews.com’s “The GOP’s $3 Billion Propaganda Organ.”] The latest attack on Obama is framed as a heartfelt desire to test out the credibility of the 45-year-old Illinois senator who identifies himself as a Christian and belongs to a church in Chicago. But Insight magazine – citing supposed opposition research from the Clinton camp – contended that Obama actually was raised as a Muslim and is trying to keep that secret from the American people. “He was a Muslim, but he concealed it,” a source supposedly close to the background investigation told Insight. “The idea is to show Obama as deceptive.” Insight uses no named sources in the article, nor did the magazine check out the facts about the school as CNN did. The article simply relies on its unnamed sources to claim that Obama was indoctrinated at a “madrassa,” a school for religious studies where boys are sometimes taught Islamic extremism such as Saudi-based Wahhabism. “Although the background check has not confirmed that the specific Madrassa Mr. Obama attended was espousing Wahhabism, the sources said his Democratic opponents believe this to be the case – and are seeking to prove it,” Insight magazine claimed. Insight then stated: “The sources said the opponents are searching for evidence that Mr. Obama is still a Muslim or has ties to Islam. Mr. Obama attends services at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago’s South Side. However, he is not known to be a regular parishioner.” [Insight, Jan. 17, 2007] The Fox Effect After Moon’s magazine published the “madrassa” story, it quickly spread to the wider audiences of Rupert Murdoch’s right-wing media outlets. Fox News and the New York Post – both owned by Murdoch – picked up and further disseminated the ugly stories that portrayed Obama as a secret Islamic militant and Clinton as a smear artist. To further the subliminal link between Obama and Islamic terrorism, the New York Post ran its story under the headline “‘Osama’ Mud Flies at Obama,” much as talk show host Rush Limbaugh has reveled in repeating the names “Osama, Obama” again and again – all the better for his weak-minded listeners to connect Obama with Osama bin Laden. Many right-wing pundits also have insisted on using Obama’s middle name, “Hussein” apparently to disqualify Obama by associating him with Saddam Hussein though there is no connection. Hussein is a common and respected name in the Muslim world. Obama received his middle name from his father who came from Kenya as a student. Obama’s mother was the daughter of a Kansas farmer. As the Obama-madrassa article spread through the right-wing media world, Fox News made sure the story was put in the harshest possible light. “Hillary Clinton reported to be already digging up the dirt on Barack Obama,” said John Gibson, anchor of Fox’s “The Big Story.” “The New York senator has reportedly outed Obama’s madrassah past. That’s right, the Clinton team reported to have pulled out all the stops to reveal something Obama would rather you didn’t know – that he was educated in a Muslim madrassah.” For Obama’s part, he wrote in his autobiography that after he had attended a Catholic school for two years, his Indonesian stepfather sent him to a “predominantly Muslim school” in Jakarta when he was six. This inconsequential fact apparently became the basis for Insight’s claim that Obama was indoctrinated at a “madrassa.” “The allegations are completely false,” Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs told the Washington Post. “To publish this sort of trash without any documentation is surprising, but for Fox to repeat something so false, not once, but many times is appallingly irresponsible.” Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson termed the Insight article “an obvious right-wing hit job by a Moonie publication that was designed to attack Senator Clinton and Senator Obama at the same time.” [Washington Post, January 22, 2007] But the troubling back story to this latest smear is the long history of Moon’s publications injecting damaging propaganda against Democratic politicians in ways meant to confuse American voters. Viewed over the past quarter century, Moon’s media empire has the distinct appearance of a well-designed covert operation that uses foreign money, possibly from illicit sources, to influence the U.S. political process in ways beneficial to Moon’s political and financial goals.
So, question is, will Americans care that from the age of 6 to 10, he recited the Koran and had to pray five times a day, and follow a halal diet. (swarthyguy) honestly, i don't think this story has any legs and it's not going to change minds, imo, of those who have made up their minds, for or against obama, either way. i merely posted this as a followup to the previous articles on this story.
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I'm just tired of all the lies and propaganda. In the early 60s I can remember being told by adults that communists or the like would never take over America thru war or revolution... that if it ever happens it will done thru our own political system. I thought they were nuts for saying that. How little did I know.
I'm just tired of all the lies and propaganda. In the early 60s I can remember being told by adults that communists or the like would never take over America thru war or revolution... that if it ever happens it will done thru our own political system. I thought they were nuts for saying that. How little did I know. Don't count on moral coward Jerome Corsi for your unvarnished truth: --- Corsi Cancels Second ‘Political Cesspool’ Appearance Posted in Uncategorized by Mark Potok on August 18, 2008 Right-wing propagandist Jerome Corsi backed out of his scheduled appearance on the white supremacist radio show, “The Political Cesspool,” last night only five minutes before he was supposed to go on, according to the show’s host James Edwards. Just before 5 p.m. CST, Edwards came on the air following a commercial break to announce that Corsi had just E-mailed to cancel his scheduled hour-long interview due to “travel plans that changed.” Edwards sounded skeptical of Corsi’s explanation, and with good reason. Last week Coris was at the center of a media firestorm concerning the multitude of inaccuracies, distortions and outright lies in his new book The Obama Nation, as well his scheduled appearance on last night’s “Cesspool,” which was first reported by Hatewatch on Aug. 13. That night, during his appearance on CNN’s “Larry King Live,” Corsi reiterated his past apologies for a series of bigoted and hateful blog posts he wrote in the years spanning 2001-2004. But if Corsi was trying to salvage his reputation by not appearing on the “Cesspool” last night, he was probably too late. As Hatewatch also first reported last week, Corsi had previously appeared on the racist, anti-Semitic radio show on July 20. His interview was streamed live on the Internet by the white nationalist website Stormfront, which is run by a former Klan leader. Yesterday’s edition of the “Cesspool” was a rough outing for Edwards. Not only did his marquee guest ditch him at the last minute, but also his warm-up act — United Kingdom Independence Party Chairman Nigel Farage, who didn’t answer the phone when Edwards called. Edwards was reduced to dialing up emergency back-up interviewee Sam Dickson, a former Klan lawyer, who delivered a meandering soliloquy about Jewish control of American foreign policy for the bulk of the show. Edwards sounded unusually defensive throughout his most recent broadcast, repeatedly taking issue with the previous week’s widespread characterizations of his show as racist and anti-Semitic. “We’re a mainstream voice for European-Americans,” he said. “We’re the show of record for the paleo-conservative right,” not a bunch of “knuckle-dragging Neanderthals.” “We don’t malign any racial groups on this program,” he said. “We conduct ourselves as gentlemen.” But on Aug. 14, the day after the Corsi furor began dragging his show into the harsh spotlight of mainstream media scrutiny for the first time, Edwards had this to say on the topic of models in the fashion industry: “As everyone knows, white women are by far the most beautiful women. And when it comes to looks, black women are at the bottom of the totem pole. It’s simply an undeniable fact.” How gentlemanly. http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/0...ol-appearance/ SPLC Jew/queer watchdogs weigh in on "hater" James Edwards: http://www.splcenter.org/intel/i...eport/article.jsp?aid=817
Communists (SLP) against racist facists (Stormfront)... what a country America is turning into.
#2. To: All (#0)
#3. To: christine (#0)
"An American Expat in Southeast Asia" on Jan. 24, 2007.
#4. To: rowdee (#3)
Could this be the infamous TBF? Didn't he work for MCLame at some point in time?
#5. To: rowdee (#3)
Didn't he work for MCLame at some point in time?
#6. To: christine, Jethro Tull (#0)
"It is clearly true that the 'An American Expat in Southeast Asia' blog did state the registration listed Obama as an Indonesian citizen and a Muslim. That is not a lie."
“The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people…and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit!” Schweizerische Schutzenseitunt (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#7. To: christine (#0)
"The Associated Press document provides additional evidence suggesting the Obama campaign's insistence that Obama was never trained in Islam and he never lived as a Muslim is not accurate," author and WND staff reporter Jerome R. Corsi said.
#8. To: christine (#0)
(Edited)
Obama's experience at the government-run public school at SDN 1 Menteng, Jakarta, not from his time at the Catholic Assisi School in Jakarta,
#9. To: christine (#0)
"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him"
George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
#10. To: christine (#0)
#11. To: bush_is_a_moonie, swarthyguy (#10)
What the hell does it matter if he was registered as a Muslim and had a Muslim father? (moonie)
#12. To: christine (#11)
#13. To: bush_is_a_moonie (#12)
On 2008-08-18 20:40:29, bush_is_a_moonie wrote:
#14. To: Hypocrisy Cop (#13)
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