Tyler Handley - October 16th, 2008 in Commentary 0 votes Vote Up! Vote Down!

We all know that you can search for about anything left of the centre or non-religious on Conservapedia and come up with gut-wrenchingly hilarious results.  But with that laughter comes a loss of faith in humanity’s ability to reason clearly.  Usually I just brush off the pain that comes with reading utter stupidity, but this one was too much.

“If elected, Obama would likely become the first Muslim President, and could use the Koran to be sworn into office.[5][6]”

Whoever wrote this article must have been jumping at the gun to get it off their chest that they think Obama is a Muslim.  It comes in the first paragraph.  Usually on a Wiki negative remarks like this are left for the criticism section, and then there’ll be something about how it’s only speculation.  Not Conservapedia.  They’ll throw all honesty and objectivity out the door to accomplish their goal – in this case to slander Obama.

At least they try to back up their claim that Obama is a Muslim with this list of weak evidence:

• Obama’s background and education are Muslim, and fewer than 1% of Muslims convert to Christianity.
• Obama’s middle name means “a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad,” which most Christians would not retain.
• Obama recently referred to his “Muslim faith.”
• Obama uses the Muslim Pakistani pronunciation for “Pakistan” rather than the common American one.
• Obama has written that the autobiography of Malcolm X, the Nation of Islam leader, inspired him in his youth.
• Obama’s claims of conversion to Christianity arose after he became politically ambitious, lacking a date of conversion or baptism.
• On the campaign trail Obama has been reading “The Post-American World” by Fareed Zakaria,which is written from a Muslim point-of-view.
• Contrary to Christianity, the Islamic doctrines of taqiyya and takeyya encourage adherents to deny they are Muslim if it advances the cause of Islam.
• Many of Obama’s statements about religion conflict with Christianity, leading one group to demonstrate with a 7-part video series, “Why Barack Obama is Not a Christian.”
• Obama was thoroughly exposed to Christianity as an adult in Chicago prior to attending law school, yet no one at law school saw him display any interest in converting. Obama unabashedly explained how he became “churched” in a 2007 speech: “It’s around that time [while working as an organizer for the Developing Communities Project (DCP) of the Calumet Community Religious Conference (CCRC) in Chicago] that some pastors I was working with came around and asked if I was a member of a church. ‘If you’re organizing churches,’ they said, ‘it might be helpful if you went to a church once in a while.’ And I thought, ‘I guess that makes sense.’”

As if perpetuating the myth that Obama is a dangerous Muslim isn’t enough, this Conservapedia article goes on to attack another enemy of contemporary conservatism, elitism.

Asked to explain why working-class Democrats do not support him while campaigning for the Pennsylvania primary, Obama replied “it’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”^[26] In response to outrage when his remarks were unexpectedly publicized, Obama replied, I “didn’t say it as well as I should have.”^[27]

It says alot for the status of bigotry, racism, and stupidity of some people in the United States that people would actively contribute filth to such a widely read Wiki.  But hey, a spades a spade – it isn’t called Conservapedia for nothing.  Anything they don’t like they consider anti-American, and they’ll twist facts any which way to fit their perspective.  Just look at the first picture of Obama in this article:

Stupid Conservatives, you think that the reason Obama isn’t holding his hand over his heart for the pledge of allegiance is because he’s not American.
Wrong answer.

The correct answer is….

Muslim’s don’t have hearts.  Jeeeezzzzzzz.  Get it right Consveratives.

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