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This election has been one of the most rumor-filled in years. While every candidate has their own laundry lists of rumors and criticisms—like Clinton pimping out Chelsea to the press and McCain not being born on American soil—Obama has been at the center of some strong religious criticisms.
The controversy started when it arose that Obama attended a school in Indonesia. Rumors began to spread that this school was in fact a madrassa—an Islamic religious school. While the rumor was hotly disputed by the Obama campaign, the rumors had already spread, leaving many Americans to thinking that Obama was a closeted Muslim. The confusion only intensified when a photo of Obama in traditional Kenyan dress began circulating. Many saw the outfit as a Muslim outfit and toted it as further proof of Obama’s closeted state. Obama and the Kenyan elder who presented him with the outfit hold that the Kenyan dress is merely cultural, not religious.
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Now why rehash all of this political drama? To show that most Americans have a bias towards other religions. When other politicians dress up, the rumors don’t fly about their religious dedication. Bush isn’t Buddhist, the Clintons are not Muslim , and Laura Bush isn’t Muslim either, yet when we find a way to make it seem like Obama may have some non-Christian underpinnings the whole world will cave in.
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Is this what you want to teach your children? That if you’re not Christian you can’t be President? We say the Holocaust was horrible, but it was just what happened when the people began to believe that one race and religion was superior to the other. Stop the insanity. Stop the hatred. Show that the First Amendment really holds true in the United States.
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