'Obama is a Muslim’ gets a Shiite twist from a former Iraqi lawmaker

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In a video posted to YouTube on Sunday, former Iraqi member of parliament Taha al-Lahibi is shown giving an unusual explanation for why he thinks President Obama is being "more cooperative with Shiite Iranians."

Obama is willing to work with Iran because of the "Shiite background" of his parents, Lahibi reasoned during an interview on an Arabic-language satellite channel. The former lawmaker pointed to the U.S. president's middle name as proof, with Hussein also being the name of Shiite Islam's holiest martyr.

American readers may groan when they hear Obama, a practicing Christian, being accused of a covert Islamic agenda. Even before he was elected, rumors swirled that Obama, whose estranged father has been described as a Muslim who lost his faith, had been educated at a radical Islamic school as a child in Indonesia. Despite frequent debunkings of these conspiracy theories, they persist: In one poll conducted last year, 54 percent of Republicans were found to believe that Obama was a Muslim "deep down."

In the Middle East, the theory takes on another edge. Before the 2008 U.S. presidential election, state-run Iranian newspapers published articles suggesting that the Democratic contender was a Shiite Muslim, despite a distinct lack of proof (Obama's father comes from Kenya, where Sunni Islam is dominant). When Obama won the presidency, there was even some pride in Iraq's Shiite strongholds, such as Baghdad's Sadr City district. "When Obama won," one local told Time magazine in 2008, "it was a big day in Sadr City. Many people felt, Now we have a brother in the White House."

In 2015, with Iranian-backed Shiite militias a powerful force in Iraq's battle against the Sunni Islamic State extremist group and Obama pursuing a nuclear deal with Iran, the rumors may have resurfaced. Lahibi, once a politically mainstream if relatively obscure Sunni lawmaker, has also suggested recently that the Islamic State was "founded by the Syrian regime with the help of Iran and was penetrated by the United States afterwards," according to Iraqi News.

Lahibi's comments do not have widespread support in Iraq. "If nothing else, these latest comments may serve as an indication of how polarized things have become in Iraq since the emergence of ISIS," Reidar Visser, an independent Iraq analyst, said in an e-mail. The Islamic State is also known as ISIS and ISIL.

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["Fred"]

the American people must of been asleep at the wheel when they voted this donkey into office

[stealthwarrior]

I don't need someone to tell me what I already know.

[Texstorm]

Muslim 

[uncirculd]

Still trying to figure out how he got elected to 2nd term.  And why hilarious thinks she is entitled to the office.  Is it already bought and paid for?   Think about all these flooding in our borders, what was the purpose of that?  Elections?   Cause our election fraud is threw the roof.  Time for another party or 5.    I don't pretend to know what those folks on capitol hill are up to, but I assure you, it's NO GOOD for us.

[Boozer]

2nd term,  FREE PHONES,, FREE FOOD, FREE HOUSING, FREE MEDICAL, work NO TAXS , and the list goes on

[gymrat76541]

The headline "Obama is a Muslim" makes is sound like being Muslim is a crime!

 

Who really cares what religion the guy claims! He stinks as a President!

 

 

[bigwave]

"Is it already bought and paid for?"

 

I hope not!

[wbuse984]

Islamo-Manchurian candidate

[springbank]

All I can say to you boneheads is that you better be civil to me when we all meet and I greet you in my full hijab

[caz1104]

I read on the internet that Obama is really of Irish decent...........................so it must be true...............right Maggie?   LOL

[sandfly]

THANKS