A new poll has found that many Americans perceive their president as a Muslim, even though he's not. Even more are just plain confused about which religion it is that President Barack Obama observes.
Nearly one-fifth of all respondents -- 18 percent of those polled -- said they believe Obama's religion is Islam, up from 11 percent just one year ago. Almost half of the respondents – 43 percent – said they don't know the president's religion, an increase from 34 percent in 2009. Only 34 percent answered the question correctly, (correctly in who's opinion) saying that the president is a Christian.
Barack Hussein Obama, born to a Kenyan Muslim father (that would be Sunni Muslim for those of you who care to know) and a mother from Kansas, lived in (Sunni) Muslim-majority Indonesia from the age of six to 10, (and was schooled in Islamic teachings for the first 5 years of schooling) with his mother and an Indonesian (Sunni Muslim) stepfather. Early in his presidency, he bowed down to King Abdullah (Sunni Muslim leader) during his first encounter with the Saudi Arabian monarch, a move seen by many as an unspoken Islamic deference to the foreign king's authority.
Only a Sunni Muslim would bow to and kiss the hand of his spiritual leader, the King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. There is no doubt about what "religion" Obama observes!
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