Now, I’m all for everybody having their own opinions on something. I’m more for those opinions when they at least have some good research behind them. Do you own research, I say, and then your opinion is educated.
So, it’s a laugh when I see an inane comment at some forum, blog, or other medium of communication. To that extent, I’m an avid reader of Michelle Malkin’s blog, because I like to see a range of opinions from the far left to the far right.
I’ve agreed with Malkin once before, and now I find myself agreeing with her co-blogger, “see-dubya.” See-dubya writes about some research (I guess it’s research) done by one Dr. Danielle Allen on the origin of web-based rumors. They focus on one of her findings, the supposed originator of the “Obama is a Muslim” rumor: a man named Ted Sampley. Here’s the money quote:
For some people, people in the core Sampley target zone, politics can never be bad enough. McCain need not merely be an abrasive centrist who panders to Hispanic race-baiters and despises movement conservatives, he has to be a traitor commie spy. Obama isn’t just a callow far-left machine politician caught up in the cult of his own personality, he has to be Al-Qaeda’s secret sleeper trained from birth.
Note: I’m not necessarily agreeing with see-dubya’s descriptions of the candidates, but he (she?) is spot on with the snark toward Sampley.
While the main post is all right, the couple comments that are there are insane. Now, Malkin tends to attract a pretty far-right crowd, with a few liberals tossed in to the mix. I was going to just post there, but registration seems to be disabled, so I decided to do it here. Below are the dissenting comments as of this entry. Says “malkin_fan”:
And then there’s the doozy from “Gabe”:
I definitely agree with Malkin_Fan. Perhaps so many people believe that Obama is a Muslim because he is a Muslim. . .at least culturally.
In the Israeli Insider article, there are many facts that have never been refuted by the Obama camp. For example, why was he registered as a Muslim in his Indonesian Catholic school?
I teach in a Catholic school in Northern Virginia. Believe me, nearly every teacher has qualms about Barack Hussein Obama and has suspicions that Obama is a closet Muslim. Why? Because we know our Catholic faith and know something is just not right about Obama and his “Christian” faith.
From the Israeli Insider article:
Obama describes his new found “Christian” faith as: (1) Suspicious of dogma (2) Without any monopoly on the truth (3) Nontransferable to others (4) Infused with a big healthy dose of doubt, and (5) Indulgent of and compatible with all other religions.
On February 27th, speaking to Kristof of The New York Times, Barack Hussein Obama said the Muslim call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”
In an interview with Nicholas Kristof, published in The New York Times, Obama recited the Muslim call to prayer, the Adhan, “with a first-class [Arabic] accent.”
Sure seems like a Muslim to me.
Gee Gabe, according to the first paragraph of your quote, Martin Luther must have been a Muslim too. Sticking those 95 theses on the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg; arguing that Catholicism wasn’t the only way; that others should be able to make their own interpretations of the bible and not follow the Pope’s dogma. Definitely a Muslim, that Martin Luther. According to your own argument, Gabe, 800 million Protestants are actually sooper sekrit Muslims.
Not that there’s anything wrong with being a Muslim. If a Muslim was running for President – and it’s not going to happen for a long time given the tolerance level of this country – I wouldn’t think less of it, unless they were proven to support some bad apples. Same would apply to a Christian or any other person of faith running for President. Heck, same test goes for atheists and agnostics, too.
See-dubya has the best reaction toward these comments:
[bangs head on desk]
Amen.
Forget the rumor tha Obama is a Muslim.
He IS a muslim:
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12918.htm